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On November 1st, 1950, Venerable Pius XII proclaimed the Fourth Marian Dogma “We pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.”

Our Lady has always intervened to support her children throughout the centuries with various manifestations. We remember, for example, the interventions of Lepanto (1571) and Vienna (1683), where she saved European Christianity from Islamic military aggression. For several centuries, this infernal aggression has become more subtle and, we might say, increasingly "ideological." At the end of the Napoleonic adventure, having entered into "modernity", the anti-Christian revolution, while accentuating its violent fight against the Church, developed a whole current of thought that would justify the persecution of Christians and the construction of a society hostile to God and human nature.

Guest article by Elmar Lübbers-Paal kath.net (edited) https://kath.net/news/88005

In the Catholic Church, only an exorcist may perform a "major exorcism" if he receives the order from the diocesan bishop and has previously examined whether the person concerned is suffering from a mental illness. If this ecclesiastical service is performed, it is performed in secret, as it is often met with incomprehension.

The Mishnah or Mishna is the first written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah. Having been collected in the 3rd century A.D. it is the first work of rabbinic literature, written primarily in Hebrew but also partly in Aramaic. The oldest surviving physical fragments of it are from the 6th to 7th centuries. It is viewed as authoritative and binding revelation by most Orthodox Jews and some non-Orthodox Jews.

The bomb that fell the previous day on the Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Gaza (see photo), which knocked down part of the roof and killed three and wounded ten of the 550 worshipers who daily took refuge there, is only the latest sign of a growing wave of rejection of the Christian presence in the Holy Land by a significant segment of Judaism, with its fanatical parties and ministers, its settlers rampaging in the occupied territories, its soldiers intolerant of orders. It is that messianic extremism which Benjamin Netanyahu’s government supports in its acts and which makes any political solution to the war unrealistic, that of two states, Israeli and Palestinian, and that of a single state with two peoples with equal rights.