The anecdote on Bishop John Shojiro Ito’s meeting with the then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger concerning the Akita apparitions while the latter was still Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith had a compelling message, in itself. Bishop Ito, Bishop of Niigata was the one who pronounced that the apparitions were worthy of belief and was seeking for higher approval from the Congregation. Even as he was just approaching, the future Pope Benedict XVI had to stop him curtly because he said there was no need any more to discuss the matter concerning the Akita apparitions. Even before he could protest being stopped however, the Cardinal told him that the apparitions were already approved because the messages from Akita were essentially the same as those of Fatima.

"In Athens, Socrates was a victim of a pure democracy, a passive submission to a pagan authority; In Russia, the family of Czar Nicholas II, was a victim of pure communism, an explosive subjugation from a godless revolution. Which is a better ideology? Any political entity would fail the people it serves when it is without God. And yet, perhaps one would ask, why in Jerusalem, under the Roman puppet kingdom of the Herod Agrippa, Jesus Christ was crucified or why in the Hejaz, in the Arab wasteland of the Nomads; Mohamed, the greatest prophet of Allah and his band were killing tribesmen; both in the name of God."

Ricardo B de los Santos
Principal, SAID, -July,1984
“Leadership Training”, LPMHS

Among the most amazing miracles associated with Jesus is His multiplication of loaves of bread and fish. Among Islamic scholars, Mohammed seemed to have replicated this in the battle of the trench during the siege of Medina. However Islamic accounts are usually confabulated and are partially covert, akin to the works of a magician unlike those of Jesus which are done openly; sometimes, in witness of thousands, and this is no exception. These miracles seemed to have happened, at least, twice according to the accounts made by the evangelists St. Matthew and St. Mark.

It could have started with just a certain unwillingness to obey a pastoral instruction. One which tried to protect them from undue influence of evil but ignored for devotional friendship which was unknowingly unreciprocated to be equal. And one for a feeling of oppression and indignity to lack of privacy at the moment of distress. And lastly, to a feeling of indignity too, when one replaced by another due to sloth and lack of action due to preconceived personal conditions.

According to one of my brothers Jorge Bergoglio or Pope Francis qualifies being Petrus Romanus using two gauges: one, being the official Vatican count of only 110 good popes from the time of Pope Celestine when St. Malachi has supposedly written his “prophecies” and two, Conchita Gonzales’ count of only three more popes after John XXIII died.

Almost every Catholic who practices their religion knows about St. Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans who was instrumental in making the French dauphin King of France despite the neglect shown her from the time of her capture to her trials as a witch and inevitable martyrdom. She in fact, before her calling by numerous saints from heaven suffered from deafness and was a simple shepherdess of a flock, a far cry from being a commander of a liberationary host during the hundred years war between France and England.

A brother wrote very briefly on this Marian shrine and I felt I need to learn more about it and so here I am writing for others so that they will not feel the way I felt when I first learned about it.

In the IT parlance, 5G or fifth generation communication technology in the fastest and most modern means. It is what we needed today not for the sake of the world wide web and its modernistic features or for any caprice or dominion of a super developed country. However, this is not the reason why we need it, actually even a 3G feature will suffice, for what must be conveyed, or the content is what is most relevant to our need. It is the message that is loud and clear, the warning in 3G.