Absolutely delighted for St Johnstone, who recorded one of the finest aggregate results by a Scottish club in European football in the last 30 years. My brother was speaking to a Saints player this week, who told him the successful strategy and drive came from chairman, Steve Brown, a fact which Hibernian would do well to ponder today.
Malmo’s 0-7 victory at Easter Road yesterday was chastening ahead of our game against fellow Swedes, Elfsborg on Wednesday. Celtic are in a remarkably strong position now, having produced excellent on and off-field results for the first time in the modern era, but those seven goals last night (not to mention the multitudes we shipped preseason) are a cautionary tale. It’s also worth remembering that Rangers decline into liquidation was precipitated by Champions League elimination at the hands of Swedish opposition two years ago (“Larsson has scored”). Wednesday presents a huge challenge.
As soon as I heard the stadium announcement on Tuesday I knew there was trouble in store from Uefa. The second pyro punishment will lead to a heavier fine. Celtic’s statement yesterday advised of matters of concern to Glasgow City Council Safety Advisory Group, who issue stadium safety licence, regarding a whole range of issues (overcrowding, lateral movement, moshing, body surfing). What to say about 131 broken seats? Ouch.
The club and Green Brigade (whose members occupy only a part of section 111) have met and we carry on as normal for now. Question is, can either control everyone in the section? I hope so but it’s a big ask. All it takes is one off-message person keen to ‘stick it to the man’, and there’s a long season ahead. Place your bets, folks.
Our thoughts are with Paul Lennon and the Thai Tims after the news that one of the boys who sang on the Celtic videos died in a road accident while another is critically ill.
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Auldheid @ 23.05
”The biggest risk to getting hands on real dosh is CL money was Rangers,”
Well I personally think that certain referees and certain office holders at the SFA may well have posed a much bigger risk at times. And don’t get me started on journalists and EBT’s and dual contracts.
Just an observation, thank god for Celtic_First, a poster who does not feel the need to grandstand or be provocatively contentious but with class defends the strengths of his faith and his convictions and wears his heart on his sleeve regardless of cheap disdains.
Also, thank god for NegAnon2, I might not agree with everything he posts but I do agree with more than less. His contributions, if you can rise above your bile level, makes you think and question, or at least they do with me.
Celtic is going to have to do something with all that lollie otherwise they are going to set a Scottish record for paying tax in one financial year. Either that or big divi’s will be posted.
Fred C. Dobbs
01:52 on 27 July, 2013
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ,
Irvine :O(………….
September :O)…
Will be in touch.
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It will be good to have a few jars with your fine self in September, if 16 roads is over, I’m going to relive my youth again and go Clubbing, your more than welcome to get down with whatever Underground sound is manifesting in Glesgae, I’m sure that will be after Bar67 though. ;)
I’m Unlikely to get in though, although 16 Roads has a good chance as he isn’t that olde looking. ;)
And here is a track that will bring the normality back.
Just How Long
has the Institute for Noetic Sciences been influencing, well the influenzAble?
Those brainy fellas over at TSFM believe that its all going to come crashing down and MOST of the story will be exposed but it will be enough for most of us its been like the longest Christmas. I’m so glad I’ve been content these last couple of years. Its a like a new world. A better place. I wonder well…
Oooft..
After my disappointment at last weeks showing in ksc we had a charity night for the bhoys who drive cancer patients to and from hospital. . What a night. ..
KTF
The only time I post is when I’ve had a dub, had a dub, had a dubonnet.
A Stor Mo Chroi
I agree, Celtic First is a brilliant poster on here.
I’ve not read all of the exchanges last night but Abortion, IMO, is Murder, the populace has been mass programmed to accept all these things, aye if you have no real Faith.
I call it a sort of Esoteric Paganism Sweeping the World. It is not in your face Murder like the Mayans were committing and many other cultures prior to Jesus Christ, it is a lot more subtle, a lot more deceptive and well, now that I’m rambling, I really share peoples skepticism about the Celtic PLC, despite us being the best at what we are doing, just like you acknowledged about NA2 was saying.
I’m not a fan of the Catholic Church anymore but I know there are so many God Fearing people like me, still, despite the best efforts of Lucifer to take total control, that means that ‘Angel’ for that is what he technically is, and a lot more advanced than any Human, and all those people I know are Catholics, well there are a couple of Protestants.
Christianity is under attack, it disnæ matter if you are a Catholic or a Proddy.
And that is all that she Scribed, or even Scribd, or worse scribbed oot.
CharlotteFakes.csc
Celtic FC – Part one STILIYAN Petrov, part two coming tomorrow.
X-OR Gates
Sweet Mel,
Planned PaReNtHoOdS.
Lets Abort.
I wonder if Mikhael Gorby has any links to Mel, he liked to Kill the Ole Babies, according to the Windswept House, a Catholic, Jesuit Priest production (incidentally Malachi fell down the stairs and Died). I think he has his own foundation now as well…. Has his beautiful Wife got one as well.
A song for the disturbed – Take a wee Breather
X-NOR Gates
Thats better, or is it?
Technology and the ‘Singularities’ artificial offspring will possibly be the army of the AntiChrist at the ole Battle of Megiddo. Not a lot new under the Sun.
Take the Skull out of the Green Brigade Banner
Apols for length of the documentary.
The Celtic Song
Borrowed from the BBC:
In the corner of a stained-glass window in a small Essex church is an inscription asking for people to pray for one of its former priests. It describes how he “earnestly devoted his last moments to the religious consolation of his fellow passengers”.
Father Thomas Byles, rector at St Helen’s Roman Catholic church in Chipping Ongar for eight years, was among the 1,500 people to perish aboard the SS Titanic on 15 April 1912. This small memorial means his actions, which were praised by Pope Pius X, will never be forgotten by the parish he once served.
‘Spiritual sustenance’
Father Byles, originally from Staffordshire, was ordained as a priest in 1902 and came to the Catholic Parish of Ongar and Doddinghurst three years later. According to the current priest at St Andrew’s church, Father Andrew Hurley, he was “much loved and appreciated by the people of the parish”. Such was their affection, when Father Byles was invited to officiate at his brother’s wedding in New York, parishioners helped pay for his trip on the liner.
Father Hurley explained how Father Byles had said Mass for second-class passengers on the morning of the disaster. In it he talked about the “spiritual lifeboats that take us to God”. Following the iceberg strike on 14 April, eyewitness accounts told how Father Byles refused several offers to board a lifeboat. Instead, he remained on board to help others to lifeboats, take confessions, offer absolution and pray with those still on board as the ship went down.
His body was never recovered.
‘Gentle pastor’
Father Hurley said: “He had the opportunity to take a lifeboat and come to safety.
“But he stayed with the people, prayed with them, gave them spiritual sustenance.
“After it was all over, his family came over and went to see the Pope [Pius X], who apparently said he was a martyr.”
In the ship’s final moments Father Thomas Byles prayed with the 100 plus passengers trapped at the stern – Protestants, Catholics and Jews knelt in the rising waters as he gave absolution to all.
Borrowed from Father William Doyle SJ
One of the most moving tributes to Fr Doyle came in a letter to the “Glasgow Weekly News” from a Belfast Presbyterian soldier who wrote that:
“Father Doyle was a good deal among us. We couldn’t possibly agree with his religious opinions, but we simply worshipped him for other things. He didn’t know the meaning of fear and he didn’t know what bigotry was. He was as ready to risk his life to take a drop of water to a wounded Ulsterman as to assist men of his own faith and regiment. If he risked his life in looking after Ulster Protestant soldiers once he did it a hundred times in the last few days. … The Ulstermen felt his loss more keenly than anybody. …
A Stor Mo Chroi
04:14 on
27 July, 2013
You come up with some real gems.
Dear, dear, dear….
Neganon 2 – Sydney Tim – A gallant effort to shed some realistic light on the Celtic of today but, yer both gonnae huv tae realize that – the majority on CQN are – brainwashed happy-clapping sheep – who will not see the light until the huns are back in the League stickin the knives in oor backs to ease their sense of vitimisation. imo
Auldheid – Your stuff reminds me of the reasons why I stopped reading the Celtic View 25 years ago.
Barcabhoy – When is the ‘nuclear’ stuff gonnae drop ? And why don’t you and Phil Mac star digging up Kerrydale Street and see if yeez can find oot where awe Cellic’s money is going ?
The Celtic bored have known for over a year now that GH would be leaving. So, now that he’s gone their gonnae start scrambling aboot looking for a replacement. And there was me thinking that the bored was choking wi business visionaries ? Aye right.
Getting less convinced wi Neil’s words as the days go by. It’s all startin tae look as though the much hated Craig Burley was right efter awe when he said that Neil was PL’s puppet. I mean I still canny get ma heid roon what he meant when he said that our top player – Vic67 – who, imo, is / was our best CH and MF – should go to Southampton as that would be the right club for him to go to ?!?!? FMM
I mean a club who only recently came out of administration would be the right club for Glasgow Celtic’s best player to go to ? Nah, the mair ah say it – the sorer mah heid gits.
Ian ‘snake-eyes’ Bankier was on the telly the other night talking about the GB and, the gist that I goat from him was that he widny know a Celtic supporter if wan came up and booted his erse. imo
For what it’s worth – I think that there’s a conspiracy going on from the ‘sleekit’ bored against the GB – plants throwing things oan the pitch etc…betraying a confidential meeting by revealing the minutes to the SMSM ? Hmmm
“It appears that Celtic Football Club are far
more eager to publicly attack Celtic fans
than they are to defend them.”
The words of the GB.
Loads of Celtic fans talk about the corruption in Scottish football but, I think that they would do themselves a favor if they started shining their torches of truth on their ain doorstep. It’s easy for me to say but – I wouldn’t trust the Celtic bored as far as I could throw them !!!
Back to the darkened room – CSC
Hail Hail – Off oot.
Fr. Emil Kapaun: The Good Thief
By Lawrence P. Grayson
On Easter morning, March 25, 1951, the Catholic priest mounted the steps of a partially destroyed church, and turned to face his congregation, some 60 men – gaunt, foul-smelling, in tattered clothing.
Fr. Emil Kapaun raised a small, homemade, wooden cross to begin a prayer service, led the men in the Rosary, heard the confessions of the Catholics, and performed a Baptism. Then, he wept because there was no bread or wine to consecrate so that the men could receive the Eucharist.
The U.S. Army chaplain, with a patch covering his injured eye and supported by a crudely-made cane, may have been broken in body, but was strong in spirit.
The following Sunday, Fr. Kapaun collapsed. His condition was serious – a blood clot, severe vein inflammation, malnutrition – but the Chinese guards in the North Korean prison camp would allow no medical treatment, not even painkillers. After languishing for several weeks, he died on May 23 and was buried in a mass grave.
Emil Kapaun was born on April 16, 1916 to a poor, but faith-filled farm family on the prairies of eastern Kansas. Life was hard and even children had to learn to be resourceful as mechanics and carpenters and to care for the animals during bitter winters and brutally hot summers. With a strong desire to become a priest, he attended Benedictine Conception Abbey to complete high school and college, continued his studies at Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis, and was ordained in 1940.
Heroic Chaplain
When the United States entered World War II, he asked to become a military chaplain. His bishop initially refused, but later relented. Fr. Kapaun enlisted in 1944 in the Army, served for two years in Burma and India, then returned to civilian life. Two years later, he reenlisted and was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division in Japan.
In June 1950, a North Korean army crossed the 38th parallel, and advanced quickly toward Seoul, South Korea. The U.S. intervened militarily, with the 1st Cavalry Division executing an amphibious landing to block the advancing army. The enemy onslaught was severe and the U.S. units soon were in retreat. Fighting was intense. Fr. Kapaun, with his soldier-parishioners in danger, was tireless. He moved among the GIs, ignoring enemy fire, comforting the wounded, administering the last rites, burying the dead, and offering Mass whenever and wherever he could. On one occasion, he went in front of the U.S. lines, in spite of intense fire, to rescue a wounded soldier.
By August, the U.S. troops had been pushed to the southern end of Korea, near the port of Pusan. Then, on September 15, 1950, the war took a radical turn when U.S. troops landed at Inchon behind the invading army. The North Korean forces fled northward, with the Americans in pursuit. Within a few weeks, the 1st Cavalry Division had crossed the 38th parallel. Unknown to them, China, which had secretly moved a huge army into North Korea, was about to enter the war.
Fearless in Danger
The night of November 1 was quiet. Fr. Kapaun’s battalion, having suffered some 400 casualties among its roster of 700 soldiers, was placed in a reserve position. Chinese troops, however, had infiltrated to within a short distance of them. Suddenly, just before midnight, there was a cacophony of bugles, horns and whistles, as the enemy attacked from all sides.
Fr. Kapaun scrambled among foxholes, sharing a prayer with one soldier, saying a comforting word to another. He assembled many wounded in an abandoned log dugout. All the next day, he scanned the battlefield and, some 15 times, when he spotted a wounded soldier would crawl out and drag the man back to the battalion’s position. By day’s end, the defensive perimeter was drawn so tightly that the log hut and the wounded it contained were outside of it. As evening came and another attack was imminent, the chaplain left the main force for the shelter so that he could be with the wounded. It was soon overrun, and Fr. Kapaun pleaded for the safety of the injured. Approximately three-quarters of the men in the battalion had been killed or captured.
Admirable Self-Sacrifice
Hundreds of U.S. prisoners were marched northward over snow-covered crests. Whenever the column paused, Fr. Kapaun hurried up and down the line, encouraging the men to pray, exhorting them not to give up. When a man had to be carried or be left to die, Fr. Kapaun, although suffering from frostbite himself, set the example by helping to carry a makeshift stretcher. Finally, they reached their destination, a frigid, mountainous area near the Chinese border. The poorly dressed prisoners were given so little to eat that they were starving to death.
For the men to survive they would have to steal food from their captors. So, praying to St. Dismas, the “Good Thief,” Fr. Kapaun would sneak out of his hut in the middle of the night, often coming back with a sack of grain, potatoes or corn. He volunteered for details to gather wood because the route passed the compound where the enlisted men were kept, and he could encourage them with a prayer, and sometimes slip out of line to visit the sick and wounded. He also undertook tasks that repulsed others, such as cleaning latrines and washing the soiled clothing of men with dysentery.
Unwavering Faith
Fr. Kapaun’s faith never wavered. While he was willing to forgive the failings of prisoners toward their captors, he allowed no leeway in regard to the doctrines of the Church. He continually reminded prisoners to pray, assuring them that in spite of their difficulties, Our Lord would take care of them. As a result of his example, some 15 of his fellow prisoners converted to the Catholic Faith.
Fr. Kapaun’s practice of sharing his meager rations with others who were weaker, lowered his resistance to disease, and eventually to his death. For his heroic behavior, he received many posthumous honors, including the Distinguished Service Cross and Legion of Merit, had buildings, chapels, a high school, and several Knights of Columbus councils named in his honor, and is currently being considered for the Medal of Honor. In 1993, the Pope declared Fr. Kapaun a “Servant of God,” and his cause for canonization is pending.
The Story of Father Damien – The Leper Priest.
The First Martyr of the Mafia – Blessed Giuseppe Puglisi
Father Giuseppe Puglisi of Sicily, who was killed by Mafia hitmen in 1993, was beatified May 25.
by ANDREA GAGLIARDUCCI 05/27/2013
PALERMO, Italy — No one expected the murder of Father Giuseppi “Pino” Puglisi, the Sicilian priest killed in 1993 by Mafia hitmen. So said three Sicilian bishops, who shared part of their life with the blessed, as they recalled his life and his surprising death during the week before their friend’s beatification.
The beatification of Father Puglisi took place May 25 in the Sicilian city of Palermo, Italy. The event, which drew a crowd of more than 80,000 people, according to Vatican Radio, comes only 20 years after the priest’s death. Cardinal Paolo Romeo, the current archbishop of Palermo presided over the beatification Mass.
Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi, archbishop emeritus of Palermo, who brought forward Father Pulgisi’s cause in 1999, was the representative of Pope Francis at the beatification ceremony. The new blessed’s feast day is Oct. 21. He is being called “the first martyr of the Mafia.”
Father Puglisi was killed by a gunshot in front of his parish church on Sept. 15, 1993. Almost five years later, four Mafia members received life sentences for participating in the murder. The two Mafia bosses who ordered his execution, Filippo and Guiseppe Graviano, were also sentenced to life in prison for their role in the crime.
In a May 23 interview with the Register, Bishop Salvatore Cuttitta, auxiliary archbishop of Palermo, described the impending beatification as an emotional time for him. He was one of Father Puglisi’s altar boys in the 1970s, when the priest was in the small Sicilian town of Godrano.
“Father Puglisi had the great ability to spend his time with us kids, making special the ordinary places of our lives. He fascinated us, projected us outside the borders of our small town; he revolutionized the way people of Godrano lived interpersonal relations,” recounted Bishop Cuttitta.
A Town Transformed
Yet the priest’s time in Godrano was not always easy.
Archbishop Salvatore Di Cristina, archbishop emeritus of Monreale, another town in the Palermo province, explained, “When Father Puglisi arrived in Godrano, the town was in the midst of a blood feud, something deeper than a simple Mafia war.”
He described the situation in an interview with the Register. The church was often empty; families did not trust one another; the people of Godrano submitted to an unofficial curfew to prevent the risks of violence, he said.
Father Puglisi and then-Father Di Cristina were good friends, according to the archbishop. “We had been ordained together, and we attended to seminary together. So I often went to Godrano to give my support,” he recalled.
“Over time, things changed there. Father Puglisi won over the kids of the town, and after the kids, he won over the families. After his departure, Godrano was completely transformed,” said the archbishop emeritus.
The peculiarity of his pastoral action baffled some people, who “would define him as a social-action priest or some kind of ‘anti-Mafia’ professional.” But, according to Archbishop Di Cristina, he was neither: “He just deeply lived his vocation.”
Archbishop Michele Pennisi, who is the current archbishop of Monreale and who formerly was rector of the major seminary in Sicily, agreed with his predecessor’s view of Father Puglisi. He recalled in an interview with the Register that, while he was rector, he used to have dinner once a week with Father Puglisi, who at the time was responsible for vocations of the region.
“Father Puglisi thought that pastoral work for vocations was central and insisted a lot on it,” said Archbishop Pennisi.
Assignment to Palermo
In 1990, Father Puglisi was assigned as parish priest in Brancaccio, a block in Palermo dominated by the Gravianos Mafia family. He spent his time touring the block in his car, a red Fiat Uno, and he gathered a lot of kids around him. His actions were considered a breach in the Mafia mentality. But he continued in his mission, which, for him, was simply being a priest — a pastor to his flock.
“Father Puglisi was not a typical anti-Mafia priest. He did not organize rallies or make public condemnation of Mafia,” said Archbishop Pennisi. “Mafia does not see that kind of priest as dangerous.”
But for the Mafia, Father Puglisi was dangerous, the archbishop explained, “because he educated young people, and youth did not align to Mafia rules anymore because they found a brand-new world.”
Father Puglisi was threatened several times by the Mafia. “After his passing, we found out that Mafia called him during the night. He got several warnings from them,” said Archbishop Di Cristina.
But Father Puglisi kept everything in his heart. According to his friends, none of them knew he was in danger.
On Sept. 15, 1993, Father Puglisi was killed at the doorway of his home. “I was waiting for you,” he said to his killers.
He may have been ready, but none of his friends expected it.
Bishop Cuttitta recalled, “When the news reached me, I was confused. I did not think it could be possible.”
Silent Martyr
The killing of Father Puglisi came at the climax of the conflict between the Mafia and the Italian state. In 1992, prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino — who made several strikes in the government’s fight with the Mafia — had been killed. In 1993, after John Paul II’s off-the-cuff speech against the Mafia during a pastoral trip to Agrigento in Sicily, two bombs were place outside the Roman churches of Sts. John Lateran and George in Velabro.
Yet Father Puglisi was one of those silent martyrs that change history. In the homily during his beatification ceremony, Cardinal Romeo proclaimed, “The Church recognizes in his life, sealed by martyrdom out of hatred for the faith, a model for imitation.”
In the years following Father Puglisi’s death, there was a change in the way the Church in Sicily reacted to the Mafia.
Bishop Cuttitta said, “Until 30 years ago, the Church had a sort of confused approach to the Mafia issues. After [Father Puglisi’s] murder, bishops made a public condemnation of the Mafia, and they maintained that whoever is part of this criminal organization cannot consider himself a Christian.”
Father Pennisi recalled that after “scrolling the prosecutor’s questionings to Puglisi’s killers, it emerges that Father Pino was not dangerous for the good he did, but because his job undermined the power of the Mafia.”
Bishop Cuttitta concluded, “Father Puglisi had been killed because he promoted the Gospel with his life.”
Cardinal Romeo said in his homily, in front of tens of thousands of people gathered from all over Sicily, “The more we look at Father Puglisi’s face, the more we feel that his smile brings joy to all of us. Father Pino still smiles and instills in us communion with God and saints.”
Said Cardinal Romeo, “The Gospel reminds us that the grain must die to harvest new life. Puglisi taught young people how to make life-giving choices. This implies commitment and sacrifice in order to gain true joy.”
‘Luminous Testimony’
After he recited the Angelus on Sunday, May 26, Pope Francis noted that Father Puglisi had been beatified in Palermo on Saturday.
“Don Puglisi was an exemplary priest, devoted especially to youth ministry,” the Pope told the crowd in St. Peter’s Square. “He was teaching children according to the Gospel and taking them out of the Mob, and so they tried to defeat him and killed him. In reality, though, it is he who won, with Christ risen.”
These gangs “cause so much pain to men, women and even to children,” he said, mentioning prostitution as one type of slavery or social pressure used by the mafia.
Pope Francis urged the faithful in the square to “pray for these gangsters, so that they convert.”
Said the Holy Father about Blessed Giuseppe Puglisi, “We praise God for his luminous testimony, and we treasure his example!”
I still think Obama is Muslamic, let me be clear……
I cannae judge anyone, well unless they are operating a very open and obvious murderous policy, the MEL drive, well.
It is aSign of the Times.
I could throw out the OBVIOUS Obama video where he comments about his Muslim Faith….. Why????? the originals urnae there any mair, surprised?
I should document Everything.
everything noo
If I could find it!!!!!
Tom I now think, as Kojo mentions dangerous Terri the Tory, you are a person who wants INFORMATION oot in the Public domain.
An unsung hero.
Did you know that out of the four U.S. military chaplains who were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor from World War II through Vietnam, 100% of them were Catholic priests — and one has a cause for sainthood pending?
Borrowed from V for Victorythis is the story of two of them:
Fr. Angelo J. Liteky, Captain, U.S. Army, received the Medal of Honor for his valor in the Vietnam War.
Citation
Chaplain Liteky distinguished himself by exceptional heroism while serving with Company A, 4th Battalion, 12th Infantry, 199th Light Infantry Brigade. He was participating in a search and destroy operation when Company A came under intense fire from a battalion size enemy force. Momentarily stunned from the immediate encounter that ensued, the men hugged the ground for cover. Observing 2 wounded men, Chaplain Liteky moved to within 15 meters of an enemy machine gun position to reach them, placing himself between the enemy and the wounded men. When there was a brief respite in the fighting, he managed to drag them to the relative safety of the landing zone. Inspired by his courageous actions, the company rallied and began placing a heavy volume of fire upon the enemy’s positions. In a magnificent display of courage and leadership, Chaplain Liteky began moving upright through the enemy fire, administering last rites to the dying and evacuating the wounded. Noticing another trapped and seriously wounded man, Chaplain Liteky crawled to his aid. Realizing that the wounded man was too heavy to carry, he rolled on his back, placed the man on his chest and through sheer determination and fortitude crawled back to the landing zone using his elbows and heels to push himself along. pausing for breath momentarily, he returned to the action and came upon a man entangled in the dense, thorny underbrush. Once more intense enemy fire was directed at him, but Chaplain Liteky stood his ground and calmly broke the vines and carried the man to the landing zone for evacuation. On several occasions when the landing zone was under small arms and rocket fire, Chaplain Liteky stood up in the face of hostile fire and personally directed the medivac helicopters into and out of the area. With the wounded safely evacuated, Chaplain Liteky returned to the perimeter, constantly encouraging and inspiring the men. Upon the unit’s relief on the morning of 7 December 1967, it was discovered that despite painful wounds in the neck and foot, Chaplain Liteky had personally carried over 20 men to the landing zone for evacuation during the savage fighting. Through his indomitable inspiration and heroic actions, Chaplain Liteky saved the lives of a number of his comrades and enabled the company to repulse the enemy. Chaplain Liteky’s actions reflect great credit upon himself and were in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Army.
Unfortunately, Fr. Liteky went on to renounce not only his Congressional Medal of Honor, but the priesthood. He married a former nun (not known if he was properly laicized) and now devotes his energies to protesting American foreign policy. He needs a lot of prayers.
Fr. Charles Joseph Watters, Major, U.S. Army, was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his valor during the Vietnam War.
Citation
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Chaplain Watters distinguished himself during an assault in the vicinity of Dak To. Chaplain Watters was moving with one of the companies when it engaged a heavily armed enemy battalion. As the battle raged and the casualties mounted, Chaplain Watters, with complete disregard for his safety, rushed forward to the line of contact. Unarmed and completely exposed, he moved among, as well as in front of the advancing troops, giving aid to the wounded, assisting in their evacuation, giving words of encouragement, and administering the last rites to the dying. When a wounded paratrooper was standing in shock in front of the assaulting forces, Chaplain Watters ran forward, picked the man up on his shoulders and carried him to safety. As the troopers battled to the first enemy entrenchment, Chaplain Watters ran through the intense enemy fire to the front of the entrenchment to aid a fallen comrade. A short time later, the paratroopers pulled back in preparation for a second assault. Chaplain Watters exposed himself to both friendly and enemy fire between the 2 forces in order to recover 2 wounded soldiers. Later, when the battalion was forced to pull back into a perimeter, Chaplain Watters noticed that several wounded soldiers were Lying outside the newly formed perimeter. Without hesitation and ignoring attempts to restrain him, Chaplain Watters left the perimeter three times in the face of small arms, automatic weapons, and mortar fire to carry and to assist the injured troopers to safety. Satisfied that all of the wounded were inside the perimeter, he began aiding the medics–applying field bandages to open wounds, obtaining and serving food and water, giving spiritual and mental strength and comfort. During his ministering, he moved out to the perimeter from position to position redistributing food and water, and tending to the needs of his men. Chaplain Watters was giving aid to the wounded when he himself was mortally wounded. Chaplain Watters’ unyielding perseverance and selfless devotion to his comrades was in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Army.
Kev I find it amazing that the happy clappers think its the norm for a player to be sold and our manager not to get all the funds to replace him
Regarding green brigade. It does not matter if they were all made up of preists and nuns. They dared to put up a banner a few years ago criticising PL. when that was done the writing was on the wall
Ps is there a special CQN software that Paul 67 has developed that when one page has more than 70% of fans asking the correct questions during a transfer window. We get a new article
Nothing comes before Peter Lawell and his bonus. Nothing
macjay:
If your post is in reference to Father William Doyle S.J. I can recommend two books that are worth reading:
Father William Doyle S.J. by Alfred O’Rahilly
Ireland’s Unknown Soldiers by Terence Denman.
Next time you’re up in Brisbane I’ll lend them to you if you like.
Celtic won’t splash cash for Gary Hooper replacement
Published: 27 July 2013
Gary Hooper, who has waved farewell to Celtic, was their top scorer for three seasons running. Picture: SNS
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By GAVIN McCAFFERTY
CELTIC manager Neil Lennon has ruled out a big-money replacement for Gary Hooper as he vowed not to upset the club’s wage structure.
Lennon hailed Hooper as Celtic’s best striker since Henrik Larsson after the Englishman returned south to sign for Norwich yesterday. Like Larsson, who scored 242 goals for Celtic after signing from Feyenoord for £650,000, Hooper more than justified his price tag.
The 25-year-old netted 82 goals in three years following his £2.4 million move from Scunthorpe before earning Celtic more than double their initial outlay. And it is that imaginative and potentially lucrative signing policy that Celtic will continue to deploy, despite bringing in almost £18m in the past few weeks.
Victor Wanyama’s signing was even more profitable with his initial fee of £900,000 dwarfed by the £12.5m it took for the club to sell him to Southampton two years later. But the re-sale value is only one consideration when Celtic enter the transfer market as Lennon does not want to bring in a player on much higher wages than those who took the club to the last 16 of the Champions League last season.
Lennon, who has brought in Virgil van Dijk, Amido Balde and free agent Steven Mouyokolo for a total of about £5m, said: “We’re looking and looking, it’s not as easy as everyone thinks. Yes, we have brought in a lot of money but we have to safeguard the future of the club as well. We have to be mindful of that when we go into negotiations with players. Some of the prices are too much, some of the wages are too much and sometimes players are happy where they are. We are trying to push the button on one or two players. We have already brought three in but obviously attacking areas are a priority.”
Lennon gave little away on whether he would return for Wolves striker Kevin Doyle following a failed attempt to sign the Irishman in January. He confirmed that he had watched Evian striker Saber Khelifa and that the Tunisian was an option, but added that he had a “list as long as your arm”.
With the second of three potential Champions League qualifiers beginning next week against Swedish side Elfsborg, Lennon would naturally like a forward in quickly to boost his team’s options of reaching the group stages. But he said: “Listen, we have been trying to get a striker in for three or four months. It’s not as easily achieved as some people think.
“I don’t think we are going to spend six or seven million pounds on a player – I’m not going to break a spirit and wage structure here because once you start doing that, I’ll be getting a lot of knocks on the door.
All from poor Neil
There you go bhoys. We will go with what we have and the money banked will make sure zero debt is maintained
Petec:
I am not a bible thumper, far from it, but I hate to see the Catholic Church being repeatedly denounced on here without any attempt at balance.
There are bad people in every demographic, there are bad people in every walk of life. There are bad people within the Catholic Church. I could post hours and hours of verifiable facts of child abuse by people from all sorts of quarters other than the Catholic Church, but to be honest it sickens me, all the cover-ups, not just the Catholic ones, all of them sicken me, but I’d rather not post such disturbing content on here.
Oh! and I almost forgot, the vast, vast majority of those who wear the Catholic cloth are good men and women. Amongst all the hatred directed against the Catholic Church that wee fact seems to be overlooked the most. Now and again a wee reminder is due.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon,
Hail Hail m8, ye know I am right beside ye, left beside ye as well in case anyone gets all sevcovian or totally stupid.
Celtic is the Name, Football excellence is Celtics game.
God Bless you macjay1.
The team that is coming through from the schooled and trained year is amazing, I mean seriously guid, they play Barca fitba. I am hopin, I am ayeways hopin. ;)))
McGregor, George, Watt and Forrest…;()
McGregor, George, Watt and Forrest…;()
I have seen how Brilliant Aidan is at an online game, and @ such a young Age.
He plays crap a lot of Times compared to his peak Gamjng.
Tjeres an old fella, I still think a loat aboot and even Pray to God Aboot.
McClaffertyism
Dylan wull be thrilling, his wee Sister Blister, the World is her Oyster…..
masty is neil lennon
16:09 on 26 July, 2013
if you listen to all the CHARLOTTE RECORDINGS one thing for me that stands out is whytes voice always seem to be the loudest and most audable, making me think he is closest to the mike and therefore the person doing the recording and in turn leaking all this stuff, is this what makes charlotte so fearless when threatened by the bizzies?
Masty, Still reading back….way back, so apologies if this comment has already been made, but….
Whyte’s voice did indeed seem to be loudest in these recordings. I have never doubted he was doing the recording ever since I listened to him farewelling his “friends” after yet another meeting and then heading into the nearest toilet and regaling us with his very own micturation process.
Nice one Craig! Couldn’t find the Off switch while your hands were otherwise occupied? Methinks he is indeed the leaker….in more senses than one.
I will be putting on my usual BET for Arsenal to win the EPL.
Arsenal are the most deserving, IMO.
Never follow ma wee tips, they are Dippily deep
Borrowed from the Jewish Virtual Library
Father Pierre-Marie Benoît was a French national who until 1940 lived in the Capuchin monastery in Rome. When war between France and Italy was clearly inevitable, he returned to his homeland and moved into the Capuchin monastery in Marseilles. The Jewish laws enacted by the Vichy government set in motion a tumultuous and active chapter in Father Benoît’s life. Out of a profound commitment to humanitarian values, Father Benoît pledged himself to protecting Jewish refugees.
Utilizing his ties with passeurs (border guides), the French underground, and other religious organizations-Protestant, Greek Orthodox, and Jewish-Father Benoît procured false papers and hiding places and smuggled some refugees into Spain or Switzerland. His reputation as a man who spared no effort to save Jews spread far and wide. The waiting room in his monastery teemed with people at all times, and the printing press in the monastery’s basement printed thousands of false baptismal certificates for distribution to Jews.
When, in November 1942, southern France was occupied and the Swiss and Spanish borders became harder to cross, Father Benoît began to organize the transfer of Jews to the Italian occupation zone. He met in Nice with Guido Lospinoso, the Italian commissioner of Jewish affairs, whom Mussolini had sent at the Germans’ insistence. Father Benoît persuaded Lospinoso to refrain from action against the 30,000 Jews who lived in Nice and the vicinity (the original purpose of his trip).
In April 1943, he met with Pope Pius XII and presented a plan to transfer Jews in Nice to North Africa via Italy. This plan was foiled when the Germans occupied northern Italy and the Italian-occupied zone of France. When the Gestapo discovered Father Benoît’s activities, he was forced to move to Rome.
Although he himself was now a refugee, he persevered in his rescue efforts with even greater fervor. Father Benoît was elected to the board of Delasem (Delegazione Assistenza Emigranti Ebrei), the main Jewish welfare organization in Italy and when the Jewish president was arrested, Father Benoît was named the acting president. The organization’s meetings were held at the Capuchin college in Rome. Father Benoît contacted the Swiss, Romanian, Hungarian, and Spanish embassies, and obtained important asylum documents which enabled Jews to circulate freely under false names. Father Benoît also extracted numerous ration cards from the police on the pretext that they were meant for non-Jewish refugees.
Very many Jews owe their lives to Father Benoît and regard him as the man who saved them from the crematoria. When Rome was liberated in June 1944, the Jewish community held an official synagogue ceremony in honor of Father Benoît and showered him with praise. Years later, U. S. President Lyndon Johnson delivered a moving speech in which he said that Father Benoît’s wonderful actions should inspire the American people in the protection and preservation of the rights of citizens, irrespective of race, color or religion.
On April 26, 1966, Yad Vashem recognized Father Pierre-Marie Benoît as Righteous among the Nations.
I have still the Green Brigade statement. And I will shortly….
But before I do…. Must say I love the GB. They are the last bastion of many things that should be held sacred, and relate to identity. Identity, a rapidly declining commodity unfortunately…
Bangers?
The GB has a lot to be angry and demonstrative about…
But bangers are a no go.
The GB Elders should be more than capable of explaining this one to their peers.
Gonnae no dae that….
Yes. There is a cultural/ political/ community war going on with Global Capital and corporationsand its logical agenda, one attempting ( & succeeding) in changing our perceptions and that of our children…
But GB FFS… Box Clever
Choose your Battles Wisely.
I have still not read the Green Brigade statement….
It should read.
As ever, beware the Jews who urnae the Jews, Revelation Scoby Doo.
Israel is the Apple of Gods eye……..
Critical thinkers of the World start Shoplifting and Untie thier laces…..
Borrowed from Yad Vashem
The Assisi Network – The Righteous Among The Nations
Monsignor Giuseppe Placido Nicolini
Father Aldo Brunacci
Father Rufino Niccaci
Luigi Brizi and his son Trento
Assisi is the home of Francesco di Bernardone – St. Francis of Assisi – the founder of the Roman Catholics’ Franciscan and St. Clare (Poor Clares) Orders. As such it is a most meaningful place for Roman Catholics. No Jewish community was ever known to exist in Assisi. Paradoxically however, the only time in history when there is record of Jews living in Assisi is during the Holocaust, when the town and its churches, monasteries and convents became a safe haven for several hundred Jews.
Shortly after the German occupation, when the man-hunt for Jews began, the Bishop of Asssisi, Monsignor Giuseppe Placido Nicolini, ordered Father Aldo Brunacci to head the rescue operation of Jews and to arrange sheltering places in some 26 monasteries and convents. The Bishop went as far as to authorize the hiding of Jews in such places that were regularly closed to outsiders by the monastic regulations of the “clausura”. The Committee of Assistance Monsignor Niclolini had put in place and presided over transformed Assisi into a shelter for many Jews; others who were passing through the town were provided with false papers enabling them to survive in other places.
After the war Father Brunacci described the Bishop’s resolution in face of danger:
“I will never forget how insistent those threats were, yet how determined the Bishop remained. He would not let anyone intimidate him from performing what he, as a pastor, was required to do. I recall very well the strength Monsignor Nicolini showed in the face of repeated alarms of the ‘big shots’ who felt it was their duty to suggest prudence and moderation. There are times in everyone’s life in which it is easy to confuse prudence with a calm life; there are times when heroism is required. Monsignor Nicolini took the path of heroism.”
Father Aldo Brunacci, the canon of the Cathedral of San Rufino, served as the head of the Assisi network. One of the survivors, Mira Baruch was often invited to Brunacci’s library, where he also taught her Latin. On 17 May 1944, one month before Assisi was liberated, the police came to arrest Father Brunacci. He asked the policemen to wait outside while he got his breviary. When he opened the door he found the Jewish family of Viterbi waiting for him – they no longer felt safe in the place where they were staying and came for help. Brunacci was able to warn them before he joined the policemen outside. He was tried by the court and was released by intervention of the Vatican.
Father Rufino Niccaci, the Father Guardian of the St. Damiano Monastery, played an important role in the network. He arranged false papers and found hiding places in the monasteries and convents, disguising the Jews as monks and nuns.
The network not only secured the Jews’ lives, but also made great efforts to supply the Jews with some of their religious needs. As religious people they had great respect for the religion of others. After the war Brunacci described how Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement and the highest holiday in the Jewish calendar – was celebrated in Assisi in 1943, and how in one of the convents the nuns prepared the meal for the end of the fast.
Not only people of the church participated in this collective effort. Luigi Brizi owned a small souvenir shop in Assisi that operated a small printing press. Brizi and his son became members of the Assisi rescue network and risked their lives by printing false papers for the persecuted Jews. Luigi’s son, Trento, went on bicycle to Foligno, 20 kilometers from Assisi, to a friend who was an expert in etching and who was able to produce seals in order to stamp the false documents.
The Viterbi Family were one of the families that were able to live openly because false papers that were prepared for them by Brizi. In the forged papers they were registered as residents of the town of Lecce. The forger had chosen that town because it had already been liberated by the Americans, thus preventing any possibility of checking the validity of the documents. Despite the fact that the family had arrived in a place where they were assisted and protected, and despite the false papers they had, the fear of being hunted down and caught never left them. Grazia Viterbi – or Graziella Vitelli as she was called in her false papers – wanted to make sure that they would pass interrogation if caught. She went to the Assisi library and took notes about Lecce in order to familiarize herself with the place, so that on the off chance of accidentally meeting someone from that town, she would be able to talk about the place.
Looking back on that period after the war, Brunacci remarked:
“In all about 200 Jews had been entrusted to us by Divine Providence with God’s help and through the intercession of St. Francis. Not one of them fell into the hands of their persecutors…. Jews and Christians venerate the same book, the Bible, whose opening chapter reminds us that we were created in God’s image and likeness. God is our father and we are all brothers and sisters.”
Father Rufino Nicacci was recognized as Righteous Among the nations in 1976.
Monsignor Giuseppe Placido Nicolinie and Father Aldo Brunacci were recognized as Righteous among the Nations in 1977.
Luigi Brizi and his son Trento were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1997.
A Stor Mo Chroi
05:01 on
27 July, 2013
macjay:
Actually was in ref. to Father Byles.
Thanks for your kind offer.
You put me to shame in the reading dept.
Start a book,never seem to finish it. :-(
Cheers
Borrowed from The College of the Holy Cross
On 3 May 1987 at Munich, Pope John Paul II beatified the Jesuit Rupert Mayer (1876-1945), a third hero of the Nazi era . Having been ordained a priest on 2 May 1899, he entered the Society of Jesus on 1 October 1900. A courageous chaplain in World War I, he had earned the Iron Cross in 1915.
Early in his career as director of seven thousand sodalists in Munich, Father Mayer pointed out that one could not be a Catholic and a Nazi. His preaching irked the Nazis so much that they sought to silence him by ordering him, on 16 May 1937, to cease speaking in public. However, this was not enough since the priest continued to preach in St. Michael’s, his church in downtown Munich. Like Father Kolbe and Father Brandsma, Father Mayer was so powerful a voice for the Catholic church in its resistance to the Nazis that the latter had to move against him. He was arrested on June 5th and given a suspended sentence until 5 January 1938. But he was forced to serve this sentence after he had spoken out against the Nazis attempts to defame his character. Out of prison the following May, he was accused of cooperating with opponents of the regime and deported to a camp near Berlin later that year.
By August of 1940, it was clear to the Nazis that Father Mayer’s stay at the Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen camp had affected his health considerably. Rather than let him die a martyr, they decided to confine him to a monastery in the Bavarian Alps. Such isolation in the Benedictine Abbey at Ettal took its toll on the priest. Following his release at the end of the war, the Jesuit was stricken with a fatal heart attack on November 1st of that year.
Although Pope John II, by raising Brandsma, Kolbe and Mayer to the altar, has focused on the Catholic priests who suffered during the Nazi persecutions, he had not neglected the Catholic nuns who were victims of the Nazis. The story of at least 400 of these victims is told by Benedicta Maria Kempner in her work Nonnen unter dem Hakenkreuz (Wuerzburg, 1979). And the present pope honored them when, on I May 1987 at Cologne, he beatified Edith Stein (1891-1942), a Carmelite nun who had taken the name of Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. In an article in 1998, Alessandra Stanley spoke of “the tens of thousands of Catholic priests and nuns killed by the Nazis.”
“The Nazis rightly recognized,” writes (p. 162) John M. Lenz, author of Christ in Dachau (Vienna, 1960), “from the start that the convents of women religious were dangerous ‘cells of resistance’ against their own godless ideology. ” Though they sought to win over the nuns by all sorts of means, they failed to do so with the contemplative nuns, the nursing nuns and teaching nuns. Like the many priests who perished under the Nazi terror, there were nuns who distinguished themselves by resisting the attempts to destroy the church.
For example, how many people know that Edith Stein was one of a number of nuns who were executed on the same day at Auschwitz? They were among the many who were deported shortly after the Dutch bishops had protested, on 26 July 1942, against the Nazi treatment of the Jews. Their protest was read in the Catholic churches of Holland and resulted in harsh reprisals against Jews, like Edith Stein and her companions.
Edith Stein was the youngest of eleven children of an Orthodox Jewish family in what is now Wroclaw, Poland. Having won her doctorate in 1916 under Edmund Hursserl, the renowned phenomenologist of the University of Goettingen and of the University of Freiburg, she had resolved her doubts about religion and converted to Catholicism, with her baptism on I January 1922. Later, after teaching in a school at Speyer operated by the Dominican nuns (1922-31), she entered the Carmelite Order on 15 October 1933 and took her final vows on 21 April 1938. By December of that year, the Nazis had been in power for more than five years when it was decided to transfer Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross from the Carmelite convent in Cologne, Germany, to the safety of the Carmel in Echt, Holland. There Edith remained in prayer and study until the afternoon of her arrest by the Nazis on 2 August 1942.
Among the others arrested that same day were Edith’s sister, Rosa Stein (1883-1942), the porter at the Carmelite convent in Echt. “Come Rosa,” declared Edith as they were being taken away from the convent to the prison at Westerbork. “We’re going for our people. ” Such courage distinguished Edith as a philosopher and as a feminist at least since 1925 when the Jesuit Erich Przywara began advising her in the study of St. Thomas Aquinas.
The Stein sisters were not the only blood relatives who were victims of the Holocaust since there were three Trappist nuns from the Loeb family. One was Luise Loeb (1911-1942) and her twin sister Theodora Loeb (1911-1942). Their older sister, Lina Loeb (1908-1942), Sister M. Hedwig, was gassed the same day as were their three Trappist brothers: Father Nivardus (Ernst) and Father Ignatius (Georg) and Brother Linus (Robert). All were the children of a Jewish father and a Dutch Catholic mother [according to Willem de Bakker, 10/27/01, both Jenney van Gelder and Ludwig Loeb were Jews who converted to Catholicism before they were married in October 1906: “Loeb later became a mining engineer and emigrated to the Dutch East Indies where five of the eight children were born.”].
That same 9 August 1942, moreover, there were other Catholic nuns of Jewish descent who were sent to the gas chambers. Dr. Ruth Kantorowicz (1901-1942), a friend of Edith Stein, was with the Ursulines at Venelo, Holland when she was arrested. Annemarie Louise Goldschmidt (1922-1942) and Elfriede Karoline Goldschmidt (1923-1942), two other blood sisters, suffered the same fate. So too did Luise Loewenfels (1915-1942), Sister Maria Aloysia, who had been taken from St. Joseph’s Convent in Geleen, Holland, and imprisoned at Westerbork. Among the others were Lisamarie Meirowsky (1904-1942), a Dominican who was known as Sister Magdalena, and Elsa Sara Michaelis (1889-1942), a native of Berlin who had taken the name of Sister Mirjam
macjay1:
I’ve got one set aside for you about the torture of Russian POW’s in England.
A Stor Mo Chroi
05:55 on
27 July, 2013
Indeed.
& Highly Relevant.
If only more appreciated it…..
The Present is the here, the now, through which all Future plunges into the Past….
To Paraphrase JJ …..
Roll On the NFL tightrope…
Please…
macjay you should google – The Story of the Four Immortal Chaplains
(One Catholic, two Protestant and one Jew)
petec
05:21 on
27 July, 2013
G`day,old son.
Thanks for your good wishes.
Great to hear how Aiden is doing.
Parenthood is such a gift.( not referring to earlier discussion!)
My boy returned home last night from a month in Europe.
Managed to take in the game in Berlin and met up with lots of Jock Tims of his own age.
He absolutely loved it.Learned a few of the current chants and,amazingly, met a stack of German Celtic supporters.
Dyed in the wool Tim now.Education complete!
Hail Hail
Sydneytim, kevjungle
Agree on signings. It was known for months Vic and Hoops would be leaving. To be scrambling around now for a striker is amateurish to see the least. Pedro runs Celtic from top to bottom , however here he has been asleep at the wheel. This failure so far could cost us CL fitba and £20M. Lenny has no clout to influence PL and is a bigger puppet than Strachan.
Pedro will have a sizeable bonus again this year and probably next year with the rollover effect ( over £ 1M ) , so he knows the importance of having the players in place for CL qualification. Not to have signed a striker so far is bordering on criminal.
On the GB I wouldn’t criticise the club. Flares and smoke bombs have no place at Celtic park or elsewhere. It’s damaging the reputation of the club especially in the eyes of UEFA. If the GB cannot stop infiltrators letting off the flares then it’s time to wrap it up. Pity as it will leave the atmosphere at CP like a morgue…..altho with no CL fitba Pedro may have achieved that all by himself.
what a Track
Debt Mongrels?
The Olde School, when is the end of this latent nonsense? :D
The Dots, the links are dotted, always (thankfully Sam and his Sun sees them all clearly), well the important replies…..
Hashi end of days link … (the dots are clear this Time ;))