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Fr. George Zabelka
Don’t miss the latest CAM podcast: Episode 50!
I know, I know — it’s almost three hours long! But it is the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and this episode provides a great “behind the scenes” oral history that you won’t hear elsewhere; not to mention it acts as a great testimony to the way God works in human lives and human history, carrying out his plans in ways we can’t even see or could ever possibly plan.
God had a plan for George’s life. Find out more about:
- What he did as a Catholic chaplain in 1945 at Tinian Island
- Why he “blessed the bombs” of the 509th composite group, the group that dropped the atomic bombs on Japan
- How belligerent Fr. Zabelka was when he first showed up at Fr. McCarthy’s retreats in the mid-70s. (“Are you telling me Jesus wouldn’t enjoy a good boxing match?!”)
- His eventual conversion.
- How his story came to be known around the world, despite Catholic media having no interest in it whatsoever.
- How his story helped to spark the movement on the part of the U.S. bishops that eventually led to the writing and publishing of their 1983 pastoral “The Challenge of Peace” (which was a really big deal back in its day)
- Why Zabelka is “considered a saint” in some circles of Japanese Christianity
To me, the story of George is unimaginably important. The story of why there are hardly any Catholics who know about George is equally important. It’s a great story, one about conversation, repentance, peace. Why were so few media outlets in the United States, both American and Catholic, so disinterested in telling it?
Don’t forget to watch the documentary about George as well, “The Reluctant Prophet”:
Fr George Zabelka, The Reluctant Prophet from GNV Team on Vimeo.
Pop Quiz!
Have you been listening to the podcast? If so, then maybe you can tell me what’s going on here, and how this thread on Twitter pretty much summarizes everything that we’ve been talking about on the podcast, especially with Fr. McCarthy, for the last year!
Women and the Draft
Don’t miss this episode of the CAM podcast with lots of good information on what is going on with women and military conscription.
You can go here to send a quick letter to your representative.
Finally, a new song by our friend, co-author of The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton, Dave Martin!
“Out of Shadows” (documentary)
An important new documentary. I did some commentary on it on the podcast, also.
The Nonviolent Eucharist
Here are some supplemental materials that go with the podcast, Episode 38: The Nonviolent Eucharist with Fr. McCarthy. Please share with your priest or bishop.
************************************************************************READ FIRST: The Nonviolent Eucharist: A Pastoral Approach, by Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
What would Christianity or the Church mean for the Christian if Jesus’ Way or teachings were made subject to, or were measured for correctness by whether Plato, Hugh Hefner, or the local emperor happen to agree with them? Since for the Christian Jesus is the Word of God, the Son of God, the Son of Man, the Self-revelation of God: “The one who sees me sees the Father” (JN 14:9), since for the Christian He is “the Way and the Truth and the Life” (JN 14:6), it is senseless to maintain that the Christian life can ultimately be modeled on anyone or anything except Jesus. Even the saints must be measured against Jesus and His teachings to determine what in their lives is worthy of Christian honor and what is not.
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READ SECOND: The Nonviolent Eucharist: A Scholarly Approach
The Nonviolent Love of Jesus for both friends and enemies is historically at the heart of His passion and death. It must therefore be communicated as being ineradicably at the heart of the Eucharist…The passion narrative is about the Lamb of God, who goes to His death rejecting violence, loving enemies, returning good for evil, praying for His persecutors-yet conquers and reigns eternal…The sacrifice of Christ is not about salvation through mere physiological pain. It is about salvation through the Nonviolent Suffering Love of Jesus toward all and for all, even lethal enemies. It is about revealing the true nature of Divine love, the true and authentic Face of God. As the United States Catholic Bishops teach in their Pastoral, The Challenge of Peace (1983):
In all of his suffering, as in all of his life and ministry, Jesus refused to defend himself with force or with violence. He endured violence and cruelty so that Gods love might be fully manifest and the world might be reconciled to the One from whom it had become estranged.
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These resources can also be found at the following websites:
https://www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org/resources/the-nonviolent-eucharist
http://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org/?s=nonviolent+eucharist
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“Today’s clergy, by contrast …
use their waning authority to cheer for the very state programs and warmed-over distributism which renders them irrelevant to official secularism.” That is the summary by Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute, founded by Lew Rockwell, of the views of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, about the current church.
It is so fitting with what Ellen and Doug have posted recently about the churches closing for Coronavirus, and aligns with the recent episodes of the podcast, where both http://thecatholiccostofwar.org/ and http://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org/ have pointed out the Bishops haven’t changed their stripes, giving into the State both for war and for the “War Against COVID-19”.
My own Bishop doesn’t believe the Faithful and Staff are capable of keeping the Churches cleaner than Lowe’s or Kroger. “O you of little faith.” Bishop Doherty is relying on the “experts”, including a politically-appointed OB-GYN.
These are the same “experts” who claim the flu is super-deadly, yet potentially lie about that!
The CDC has been saying a significant number of people die from the flu. It turns out the number is combined for influenza and pneumonia. See Table 10 for 2017:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_09-508.pdf
See it for 2004:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr55/nvsr55_19.pdf
I initially thought if the hospitals have handled 25-50,000 flu deaths for years, this would also be manageable. I believe they stopped separating flu and pneumonia in Table 10 in 2008. Yet, we still get this yesterday:
https://mobile.twitter.com/CDCFlu/status/1243613266460520452
Please pray for my neighbor, my age (early 40s) and in good shape, who is recovering after having to be ventilated from suffering with this. We don’t know the extent and danger of this, but the Bishops rely on those who lied us into numerous wars and lie about the “common” flu. No wonder Hoppe observes they are irrelevant.
Jose Antonio Gutierrez
I found out that one of the soldiers whose name appears in Mark Scibilia-Carver’s “Scroll of Remembrance,” whose name I happened to mention on Episode 34 of the podcast today, is actually the subject of a documentary made in 2006 called The Short Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez.
Don’t miss today’s episode of the podcast on this the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It was the most difficult episode of the podcast that I’ve done, and I had a hard time just getting through it, and honestly I have no idea if we handled such a difficult issue completely correctly. But we did our best, and our goal, our hope was that by publicizing his website, www.thecatholiccostofwar.org, and the Scroll of the Remembrance, we can remember the cost of these wars and the precious lives that have been lost and continue to be lost today, which go far, far beyond just the Catholics of course, and far, far beyond just the Americans, too.
The killing continues in Iraq. This popped up on my Twitter just a few days ago.
Wars of the Papal State
In this week’s podcast, Episode 25, Fr. McCarthy and I discuss the article published a few weeks ago in America magazine called: “The Teaching of the Catholic Church is Clear: We Are Against War.”
Um, really?
There is much to say about that, but for starters, here is a list of wars waged by the papal state from 1563 – 1871.
Wars of the Papal State, until 1563
Go to narrative history of the Papal State: 1447-1471 . 1471-1503 . 1503-1534 . 1534-1566
1482-1484 War of Ferrara
1485-1486 Florentine War of Pope Sixtus IV.
1494-1495 Neapolitan War 1494-1495
1499-1504 Franco-Aragonese War over Naples
1508-1509 War of the League of Cambrai
1510-1516 War of the Holy League
1527 Sacco di Roma
1556-1557 Carafa War, 1556-1557
Wars of the Papal State 1563-1808
Go to narrative history of the Papal State 1566-1590 . 1590-1618 . 1618-1660 . 1660-1700 . 1700-1730 . 1730-1758 . 1758-1789 . 1789-1799 . 1799-1809
1571 Naval Battle of Lepanto (fending off the Ottoman Threat)
1641-1644 War over Parma
1660-1664 Franco-Papal War
1707-1709 Austro-Papal War (War of Spanish Succession 1701-1714)
1791 French occupation of Avignon and the Venaissin
1792-1797 First War of the Coalition, parts of Papal State occupied by the French
1797-1798 Revolution and French Occupation
1798 Neapolitan Invasion of the Papal State
1799-1802 Second War of the Coalition
1808-1809 Franco-Italian annexation of the Papal State
Wars of the Papal State 1808-1870
Go to narrative history of the Papal State 1809-1815 . 1815-1830 . 1830-1849 . 1849-1860 . 1860-1871.
1831 Revolution
1832-1839 Austrian Occupation of Bologna, French Occupation of Ancona
Rebellion of Savigno/Imola (Legione Italica)
1843 Austrian Occupation of Bologna, French Occupation of Ancona
Rebellion of Savigno/Imola (Legione Italica)
1845 Revolt of Rimini
1848-1849 Revolution
1860-1861 Garibaldi’s Expedition against Sicily
1867 Invasion of Italian patriots
1870-1871 Franco-German War