LAWLESS PAPISTS ON ARSON RAMPAGE

ORANGE HALLS SET ABLAZE

• July 1 - Killygullib Orange Hall
• July 11 - Aghalee Orange Hall (6 Protestants in the Hall almost burned to death)
• July 11 - Ligoniel Orange Hall
• July 13 - Breakley Orange Hall
• July 15 - Brackney Orange Hall
• July 19 - Ligoniel Orange Hall
• August 14 - Carnlough Orange Hall

IN a demonstration of love and tolerance, which is supposed to characterize the "NEW PLURALIST ULSTER", lawless papists have engaged in a rampage of arson and intimidation, burning Orange Halls across Ulster, as well as attacking Protestant homes in the West Circular, Sandy Row, Carlisle Circus, Limestone and Whitewell areas of Belfast.

PROTESTANTS AWAKE

Rome is a persecuting system and when they think they have
Protestants on the run - they will show no mercy.

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PEOPLE are coming into Ireland to monitor the behaviour of the Protestant religious orders during July. What good does this do?

Well, you can take an example from the courts. For years the courts could behave as the judges wished. But then lawyers and human rights workers arrived from different parts of Ireland, from the United States and European countries. They attended the courts and suddenly the judges realised they were being watched.

One might say that would do little good, but judges depend on public opinion for their livelihood and if they are ambitious but discredited they can look forward to a pension and little else. Being watched was an excellent cure for some of the arrogance in courts here. Not a cure for injustice, but a cure for the arrogance with which it was administered.

So we can expect that foreign observers will make a difference in the behaviour of the religious orders during these infamous festivals. Their presence may well reduce the level of abuse, fouling of people's gardens, drunkenness etc with which these religious festivals are celebrated. But there is a down side. If as a result of being watched the behaviour of the Orangemen and women is reasonably respectable then they will be able to say they were not responsible for abusiveness; the people responsible are thugs and louts who attach themselves to their religious ceremonials in the same way they attach themselves to English soccer teams.

We are not to blame, they will say. And their church leaders will say tht same. And their politicians who owe their places to the religious orders. And the workers who benefited from their membership of the lodge.

And the Secretary of State who knows what side to butter up to. They will all say the same, the orangeists are innocent.

Well then, they say, let's keep the thugs away and if we do that we are entitled then to march up and down the Garvaghy Road and the Ormeau Road and in and out of Clonard Gardens and backwards and sideways afterwards.

You can see the argument they are developing.

They agree to switch off the louts and everyone else must then agree to let them march where they like. No, not so, not so. Not so at all. Our basic problem with these parades is not their semi-detached thugs, it is their fully attached Orangemen. Long before the louts made themselves available to football matches and Orange parades it was the 'respectable' Orangemen who made the ferocious speeches at the Field, it was the drawing room loyalists who incited their supporters to hatred, it was the loyalist academics and property owners who supplied the respectability and money, and often, contributed the venom as well. So let us not be led into believing that if the Orange religious people get rid of their louts all will be well.

All will not be well, because the people really responsible are still there. They may have banished what they arrogantly call 'the lager louts' but the sherry louts are still there doing what they always did, inciting their followers to uphold their domination for them.

Let us say it again - what cannot be cured by negotiation must be curbed by law. We should, from now on be making effective laws to curb the excesses of these fundamentalists.

Dialogue is good but it is not the only way to solve the problem of Orange religious violence. We need not keep on saying the only solution is through dialogue. The only solution is through law.

When we made it harder for banks, building societies, commercial firms, civil service departments, to discriminate, did we do that through dialogue with them? No, the dialogue did not work. No, we did it by demanding law. What we got was weak law. But we then saw that even weak laws could help curb the worst excesses of the most greedy. They don't ask people to cure over-drinking by dialogue, no not at all, they make draconian laws. They don't say they will be content to dialogue with you to get you to pay taxes and television licenses. Oh no, they make laws and there is no dialogue about it.

And having done that they then come along to people whose houses are attacked, whose persons are insulted, whose children are frightened, whose dignity is assailed and they say, "Oh, the only way to cure all this is through dialogue!" Nonsense.

Now that we have some respectable and intellectually capable people in the administration here, while we wish good luck to whoever is patient enough to dialogue let us at the same time demand new law.

Law which will curb not just the 'thugs' but also the 'respectable' as they go about their appalling business of insulting and annoying us from the comfort of their quiet drawing rooms and secret lodges.

Reproduced from Andersonstown News

SO NOW WE KNOW
Just as Protestantism was "Curbed" by The Stake, The Rack and The Tortures of the Inquisition - No wonder Rome boasts "Semper Eadem" - Always the Same!

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THE Roman Catholic hierarchy in the USA and Great Britain is accepting, with increasing favour, the "Alpha" evangelism course. 50 parishes in Baltimore have used its curriculum. "Alpha for Catholics" North American coordinator said "while Alpha is not a full presentation of the RC faith, there is hardly anything in the 14 videos that Catholics would find objectionable." Fundamentalist Digest editor Dr. Don Jasmin notes: "Alpha is 'pseudo' evangelism using some Biblical terminology but deleting/subtly changing imperative Bible truths regarding Salvation."

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PORTO Seguro, Brazil - The Catholic Church apologised to the Indians and Blacks of Brazil for "sins and errors" by its clergy and faithful over the past 500 years.

The apology preceded a Mass before about 15,000 people on the beach where Franciscan Friar Henrique de Coimbra celebrated the first Mass in Brazil on April 26, 1500. Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano represented Pope John Paul II.

About 50 Pataxo Indians in feather head-dresses and red-and-black body paint stretched out a large black banner. A Pataxo named Matalaue, 24, climbed the altar and said "Apologies are not enough. We want respect."

Milwaukee Journal-Sentenal, April 27, 2000

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FACE THE FLAG (Writeback, July 1) contends that the tricolour is a source of embarrassment to Nationalists due to the fact that it has orange in it. He states: "Nationalists have a very difficult decision to make: either they welcome Orangeism or they ditch the Tricolour." The colours of the flag are actually green white and gold - the white and gold components being the papal colours. The flag was intended at the time of inception to symbolise the link between Church and State. As a democratic nationalist I have no problem in changing the flag since a people are defined by their beliefs, morals and character, not by the arbitrary colours on a piece of cloth, therefore I do not feel the need to wave flags, mark territory or provoke my neighbours with out-dated tribal displays.

FACE THE FUTURE Carryduff, Co. Down.

The above interesting letter appeared in the Belfast Telegraph, July 18th, 2000

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WHILST a Church of Ireland Minister speaks in St. Malachy's R.C. Church in the 'Markets', and a Methodist speaks at the Mariolatrous Clonard Novena - despite John Wesley's Denunciations of Popery - The Roman Church still clings to its doctrine of transubstantiation and parades its 'Reserved Sacrament' through the streets of West Belfast. Rome never changes. When will Protestants realise that Ecumenism is treason to the Reformation and all the Martyrs died for.

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CROWDS flocked to the tiny West Cork, village of Ballinspittle amid claims its famous statue of the Virgin Mary is moving again.

Locals say the statue's mouth has been moving in time with prayers being said at the grotto. While some locals maintain that the statue never stopped "shimmering" or moving since it hit world headlines in the mid 1980s, reports flooded into local radio stations that the Ballinspittle grotto is again the site of a religious phenomenon.

One Cork city woman, Kathleen Murphy insisted she saw the statue's mouth move in time with the Rosary as she prayed there.

"I checked all around to make sure someone wasn't fooling with me but there was no one near the statue," she said.

Cork radio station 96FM was flooded with calls from people insisting they saw the statue move during recent prayer gatherings at the Ballinspittle grotto.

However, the Church's official position was that nothing different from previous years had occurred.

A Diocese of Cork & Ross spokesman, said the Church had not heard of any significant new developments at the grotto.

"At this stage we certainly haven't heard anything different," he added.

The Diocese has annually received reports about the grotto since the first reports in 1984/85. Ballinspittle and Mount Melleray in County Waterford remain the two most prominent grottoes in the moving statue phenomenon.

We trust it can get up more speed than the last one which
Pastor Robert Draper smashed

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A RETIRED priest from Northern Ireland has been charged with sexually abusing a mentally disabled boy in a public toilet in New York, it has emerged.

Former parish priest Fr. Andrew Millar, 69, was allegedly trying to sexually assault the boy at Tobay Beach in Long Island, Nassau police said.

The boy was with his family enjoying a day at the beach when he went to the toilets alone. Inside, he was confronted by the priest.

His father went to investigate after the boy took a long time to return, only, to discover the elderly priest inside the bathroom. The boy's father and a passerby caught Millar as he tried to flee the toilets.

A Nassau County detective said: "When he got inside he found his son and the suspect in a stall."

Millar, who retired last year, was released on $15,000 bail after being arraigned on third degree sodomy charges. The District Attorney's office said if convicted he faces four years in jail.

Ordained in Co Antrim in 1958, Millar moved in 1964 to the US where he served parishes in Nassau and Suffolk County near New York City.

He is now waiting to enter a mental and psychiatric evaluation unit.

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THE new archbishop of Westminster insisted that he had not acted irresponsibly after it was revealed he had allowed a paedophile to work as a priest.

Archbishop Cormac Murphy O'Connor defended his decision to allow Father Michael Hill to work as a chaplain despite warnings about him from parents.

In 1985, the archbishop who was then bishop of Arundel in West Sussex - allowed the priest back to work after earlier revoking his licence to work in a parish. In 1997, Fr. Hill was jailed for five years for ten sex attacks on altar boys and other children.

The Rt Rev Murphy O'Connor said yesterday: "It is true to say that if the strict procedures for child protection that are now in place had been in operation in 1985, then (Fr. Hill's) situation would have been handled differently. I maintain that with the facts then known to me, the decisions made at that time in his regard were not irresponsible."

The archbishop has now agreed that boys abused by the priest should receive compensation, though the Church will not discuss how much. The diocese of Arundel and Brighton issued a statement which said: " In 1983, after concerns had been raised with diocesan clergy and Bishop Murphy O'Connor, Fr. Michael Hill was removed from his parish in Heathfield (in East Sussex) for professional assessment and later therapy."

"In the light of advice received, following that treatment, Bishop Murphy O'Connor withdrew Fr. Hill's licence to work in a parish. In 1985, based on the professional advice which had been given and which had included as one option that Fr. Hill work in a limited pastoral capacity he was then offered an industrial chaplaincy."

"The diocese of Arundel and Brighton has paid compensation to certain individuals who were victims of Fr. Michael Hill, who was convicted in 1997 of offences relating to the abuse of young persons in the diocese."

The diocesan trustees concluded the settlement of a compensation claim on a voluntary basis so as to save the claimants having to undergo the ordeal of giving evidence before a civil court. It should be noted that a voluntary agreement is not an admission of liability on the part of the diocese or the then bishop. The names of the individuals and the details of the settlement agreed with them will remain confidential.

"The diocesan trustees also wish to convey to the individuals concerned and their families their deepest sympathy for what they had to endure as a result of Fr. Hill's offences."

Hill was made chaplain at Gatwick airport, where he would have less contact with children. But he abused a boy with learning difficulties he met at the chapel, after the boy missed a flight.

Read Revelation 17:5 and Ist Timothy 4:3