The Reverend Emma Percy

Not the Reverend Betsy Buttox

"God is my Mum - or something!"

What is the point of Bishops who only intermittently talk sense?

The following are reprints from "Aleteia", and www.chiesa, two websites. They concern the verbal outpourings of a Bishop Fisichella. As regards the Catholic's duty of obedience to a Bishop, his nonsense puts such a Catholic, assuming he is of adequate intelligence in an awkward position. When the Bishop, whover he is, talks sense, sense dictates that we agree with him. When he talks Fisichellian rubbish, he is not to be listened to. 

That being true, who needs Bishops who only intermittently talk sense?

THE BOMBSHELL ARTICLE (from ww.chiesa)


Fisichella's article was entitled "On the side of the Brazilian girl," and took a position on the case of a Brazilian girl who was already fertile at the age of nine, was raped repeatedly by her young stepfather, became pregnant with twins, and was given an abortion in the fourth month of gestation.

Her case, Fisichella writes, "made the pages of the newspapers only because the archbishop of Olinda and Recife was quick to declare the excommunication of the doctors who helped her to interrupt the pregnancy." Instead, "before thinking of excommunication," the girl "should first of all have been defended, embraced, comforted" with that "humanity of which we churchmen should be expert proclaimers and teachers." But "that's not what happened."

And he continued:

"Because of her extremely young age and precarious health conditions, the life [of the girl] was in serious danger from her pregnancy. What should be done in these cases? It is a difficult decision for the doctor, and for the moral law itself. Decisions like these [...] have to be made every day [...] and the doctor's conscience is left alone to decide what is the best thing to do."

At the end of the article, Fisichella addressed the girl directly: "We are on your side. [...] There are others who deserve excommunication and our forgiveness, not those who allowed you to live."


THE RESPONSE OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF RECIFE


The article immediately prompted contrary reactions: on the one hand, the applause of those who support free access to abortion, and on the other, the objections of those who defend the life of every unborn child, without exceptions.

The archdiocese of Olinda and Recife, directly impacted by the remarks, reacted on March 16 with a set of "Clarifications" that ended as follows, referring to Archbishop Fisichella:

"The author believed he could speak about a situation he did not know, and, what is worse, he did not even take the trouble of first speaking to his brother in the episcopate, and, for his imprudent attitude, he is causing great scandal among the Catholic faithful in Brazil."

"L'Osservatore Romano" published nothing of this response from the Brazilian archdiocese, nor any of the similar reactions.

A few weeks later, in an interview with Jeanne Smits of the French newspaper "Présent," the archbishop of Olinda and Recife, José Cardoso Sobrinho, again asserted his right to reply, to no effect:

"It seems to me important that L’Osservatore Romano should publish my response. This is what we are trying to obtain, as we have been from the start. We sent the archdiocese’s response to Mgr Fisichella’s article to Rome. It’s a natural right to be allowed to respond if someone has been publishing false information, for who knows which motive: the readers of the Osservatore should also be in a position to know the other point of view."

In the same interview, Archbishop Cardoso recalled that he had received many expressions of solidarity from a great number of bishops in Brazil and all over the world. He reiterated that the girl's life had not been in danger at all, and that in any case the Church's teaching has never allowed abortion in such cases. He emphasized that the doctors who gave the girl an abortion showed no signs of being stricken by any reservations of conscience: they were militantly pro-abortion, and said they were "proud" of what they had done.


THE PROTESTS GATHER STEAM, BUT THE VATICAN DOESN'T BUDGE


In addition to the protest of the archbishop of Olinda and Recife, the Vatican has received many other protests and requests for correction. Some of them have been made public by their respective authors. One of these is Professor Joseph Seifert, founder and rector of the International Academy of Philosophy in Liechtenstein and a member of the pontifical academy for life,  headed by Fisichella:

"I feel it to be my duty to express my ardent hope that the highest teaching authorities of the Church may express quickly and clearly the authentic Church teaching on the intrinsic evil of any abortion and correct publicly and unambiguously the mentioned statements."

Others have cited an unequivocal passage from the famous speech by Pius XII to obstetrical nurses in 1951: "to save the life of the mother is a very noble act; but the direct killing of the child as a means to such an end is illicit."

But so far, none of this has appeared in "L'Osservatore Romano." The newspaper of the Holy See has touched upon the issue just once in passing, on April 4, in the account of a meeting held in Rome by the Catholic union of the Italian press, on the topic: "Conscience on the front page."

The participants at the meeting included Archbishop Fisichella  and a famous secular journalist, Lucia Annunziata, a former president of the Italian state television network. At one point - the writer for the Vatican newspaper reported - Lucia Annunziata credited the Church with "a transparency never seen before," and gave the following as proof:

"I am referring to the pope's letter to the bishops of the entire world, and, for example, to the statement by Archbishop Fisichella himself on the matter of the Brazilian girl, published by L'Osservatore Romano."

After this, silence again fell over the case at the Vatican. In Rome, the only voice to be raised in support of the archbishop of Olinda and Recife - but before the disputed article was published - has been that of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the congregation for bishops.

Not even the congregation for the doctrine of the faith has been called to make a statement on Fisichella's article, neither before nor after its publication, although this is the practice in such delicate matters. The decision to publish it, like that of responding to the reactions with silence, has been the exclusive domain of the secretariat of state.Regarding what constitutes “physical violence” against the Pope, Archbishop Fisichella told journalists at Friday’s briefing: “I would say that we need to understand well ‘physical violence,’ because sometimes words, too, are rocks and stones, and therefore I believe some of these sins, too, are far more widespread than we might think.”

From Aleteia

The President of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, said the upcoming Jubilee of Mercy is needed even more after the terrorist attacks in Paris.

In an interview with the Italian magazine, Famiglia Cristiana, Archbishop Fisichella said all three monotheistic religions agree that God is merciful.

“It is one more reason to work together - and to help each other in this task -  to explain to the world that religions do not exist to be imprisoned by hate, but they are to spread compassion, and to work against fear as a way of life in all nations,” he said. 

(Tell that to your local ayatollah)

The arrogance of the neighbourhood lout and bully who, returning home after conviction, is always eying his wife and neighbours and fingering his belt.

Imagine a hulking brute with a long criminal record for rape, murder, robbery, looting, and sadistic torture. Largely owing to the moral and physical exhaustion of his victims and right-thinking opponents he escaped execution and after a short period of inconvenience, is now back at home, living in some comfort and luxury.

To expiate his guilty past he now indiscriminately invites dangerous strangers into his house.

Not content with that, he threatens his former victims that if they do not follow his example, be will force them to.

Am I the only person outside central or eastern Europe who finds utterly abominable this German arrogance, the arrogance of the lout and wife-beater who, returning home after conviction, is always eying his wife and neighbours and fingering his belt?

gesine schwan, arogancka

Kolejny lewak niemiecki chce siłą uczyć Polaków solidarności

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Była pełnomocnik rządu RFN ds. relacji z Polską prof. Gesine Schwan, to kolejny niemiecki polityk, który chce nauczyć Polaków solidarności - na siłę! Jeśli Polska nie okaże europejskiej - czyli multikulti- solidarności z imigrantami, powinna ponieść konsekwencje finansowe.

Pani prof. Schwan w wywiadzie dla niemieckich gazet: „Mitteldeutsche Zeitung”, „Berliner Zeitung” i „Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger” powiedziała o nowym polskim rządzie i jego kursie ws imigrantów:  - Trzeba teraz odczekać, jak daleko się w tym posunie, gdyż społeczeństwo, z którym ma do czynienia, nie na wszystko mu pozwoli. Poza tym już w pierwszej kadencji swoich rządów PiS poniosła klęskę z powodu wewnętrznych konfliktów.

I dalej, profesor uważa, że aktualna ekipa rządowa sama się zdemontuje, gdyż to rząd narodowo-konserwatywny, czyli według pani profesor byt nieeuropejski. I uważa, ze w naszym kraju - choć też i na Węgrzech czy Słowacji - panuje duch "nacjonalizmu i faszyzmu", który objawia się w kryzysowych sytuacjach. A takie ma miejsce ws uchodźców. I nie należy tego oczywiście tolerować: -Jednakże Niemcy jako najsilniejsza potęga w Europie mogłyby mieć więcej autorytetu, gdyby pod rządami Angeli Merkel nie dbały zawsze o własne krótkoterminowe interesy. Dlatego wg Schwan Europa nie może tolerować narodowo-konserwatywnych rządów. Trzeba je skutecznie zwalczyć, czyli nałożyć kary finansowe: - Jeśli ktoś, tak jak Polska, w kwestii uchodźców odmawia z gruntu solidarności, należy mu też ograniczyć określone środki pomocowe. We wszystkich tych krajach mamy do czynienia z wydarzeniami historycznymi, które wzmacniają rolę ofiary oraz usprawiedliwiają najwyraźniej egoizm.

Jak widać niemieccy lewacy za wszelką cenę chcą podkopać polską tożsamość, strasząc nas karami finansowymi. Jak nie przyjmiemy absurdalnych wyroków ws imigrantów jakie wychodzą z lewacckich teorii, powinniśmy zostać ukarani. Widać rownież jak wielka bojaźń zapanowała w sercach i umysłach pro-komunistycznych i pro-bolszewickich lewaków, w momencie gdy w Polsce został wybrany rząd i prezydent, którzy mocno zakorzenieni są w polskiej tradycji i religijności. Przyjdzie nam jeszcze spotkać się z niejednym oszalałym atakiem lewactwa.

REKLAMA

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The Justice of God is beautiful, adorable, and perfect.

I believe that the Justice of God is beautiful, adorable, and perfect.

As St Thomas Aquinas states, "In order that nothing may be wanting to the felicity of the blessed spirits in Heaven, a perfect view is granted to them of the tortures of the damned"   

I too hope to witness their punishment, with my celestial popcorn (on a return-ticket day pass!)

W Zułowie urodziny marszałka Piłsudskiego Dzieje.pl

Litwa: W Zułowie urodziny marszałka Piłsudskiego

Józef Piłsudski. Źródło: CAW

Z okazji 148. rocznicy urodzin marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego w sobotę w kościele w Powiewiórce, gdzie marszałek był chrzczony, została odprawiona msza święta. Następnie zostały złożone kwiaty w Zułowie, rodzimej miejscowości marszałka.

Było też „urodzinowe przyjęcie” przy ognisku z kiełbaskami, kaszą polową, pieśniami patriotycznymi.

„Przyjazd do Zułowa w dniu urodzin marszałka to nie tylko nasz obowiązek. Będąc tu odczuwamy radość i dumę z tego, iż nasza ziemia wydała tak wielkich ludzi, a my jesteśmy spadkobiercami ważnej części historii naszego narodu” - powiedział PAP prezes Związku Polaków na Litwie (ZPL), poseł Michał Mackiewicz.

Związek Polaków na Litwie od ponad 10 lat organizuje uroczystości w rocznicę urodzin Józefa Piłsudskiego; w tegorocznych udział wzięli Polacy z Wilna, Kowna, pobliskich Święcian, młodzież zrzeszona w ZPL, harcerze, przedstawiciele polskiej palcówki dyplomatycznej na Litwie, a tak pojedynczy goście z Polski, przedstawiciele Związku Piłsudczyków i Rodziny Ponarskiej.

Odległy od Wilna o 60 km Zułów był majątkiem ziemskim obejmującym 11 tys. ha, należącym do rodziny Piłsudskich. W 1874 r., gdy przyszły marszałek, zwany w dzieciństwie Ziukiem, miał siedem lat, dwór i zabudowania gospodarcze strawił potężny pożar.

„Przyjazd do Zułowa w dniu urodzin marszałka to nie tylko nasz obowiązek. Będąc tu odczuwamy radość i dumę z tego, iż nasza ziemia wydała tak wielkich ludzi, a my jesteśmy spadkobiercami ważnej części historii naszego narodu” - powiedział PAP prezes Związku Polaków na Litwie (ZPL), poseł Michał Mackiewicz.

Piłsudscy zamieszkali w ocalałej oficynie, ale wkrótce przenieśli się do Wilna. Zułów wydzierżawiono i w końcu sprzedano. Nowi właściciele nie odbudowali dworu, fundamenty porastały chwastami i krzakami. Taki stan utrzymywał się do 1936 roku, gdy Zarząd Główny Związku Rezerwistów Rzeczypospolitej postanowił odkupić z rąk prywatnych teren po spalonym dworze wraz z otoczeniem i zachować go jako "rezerwat, jako drogą każdemu sercu polskiemu pamiątkę miejsca, gdzie urodził się i pierwsze lata dzieciństwa spędził Wielki Marszałek Polski Józef Piłsudski". Rozpoczęto budowę kompozycji pomnikowej, przygotowanej przez architekta Romualda Gutta w 1937 roku. Prace przerwała wojna.

W czasach radzieckich w miejscu dawnego majątku wzniesiono duży zespół zabudowań sowchozowych: fermy, obory, stodoły. Po odzyskaniu przez Litwę niepodległości w 1991 roku wszystko niszczało. Przed dziesięcioma laty z inicjatywy Związku Polaków na Litwie w Zułowie rozpoczęto odbudowę przedwojennej kompozycji. Z czasów przedwojennych przetrwał tu jedynie dąb posadzony 10 października 1937 roku przez prezydenta Ignacego Mościckiego i marszałkową Aleksandrę Piłsudską. Związek Polaków na Litwie uznał godne upamiętnienie miejsca urodzin Piłsudskiego za sprawę honoru. Organizacja nabyła w Zułowie ponad czterohektarową działkę, na której rośnie wspomniany dąb i gdzie stał dwór rodziny Piłsudskich. Rozpoczęto prace przy odbudowie kompozycji pomnikowej. Miejsce to już pełni rolę swoistego sanktuarium Polaków z Wileńszczyzny, ważnego dla kształtowania ich tożsamości narodowej i podtrzymywania więzi z Macierzą.

Uroczystości w Zułowie z inicjatywy ZPL tradycyjnie odbywają się trzy razy do roku: w maju, łącząc Dzień Polonii i Polaków na Granicą obchodzony 2 maja, święto Konstytucji 3 Maja i rocznicę śmierci marszałka przypadającą na 12 maja, następnie 15 sierpnia z okazji Dnia Wojska Polskiego i 5 grudnia w rocznicę urodzin Józefa Piłsudskiego.

Z Wilna Aleksandra Akińczo (PAP)

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That No One be Unremembered and Nothing Be Forgotten

German Photographs of their murder of Polish citizens in the Palmiry Forest, Near Warsaw.

A death notice issued to the family of a murdered Pole

R.I.P.

Palmiry Massacre, Palmiry Forest, Warswa, Poland

Empty trucks returning from Palmiry Forest, their passengers dead and buried
R.I.P.

Waiting to be shot 
R.I.P.

Led to the slaughter
R.I.P.

Led to the slaughter
R.I.P.

Blindfolded before  being murdered

R.I.P.

Arrival at execution site in Palmiry Forest 
R.I.P.

Avenge, O Lord, Thy slaughtered Saints!

(John Milton)

Out of the depths I have cried to Thee O Lord! Lord, hear my voice. Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. 
If Thou, O Lord! wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it? For with Thee there is mercy: and by reason of Thy law I have waited for Thee, O Lord!
My soul hath relied on His word: my soul hath hoped in the Lord. From the morning watch even until night:
let Israel hope in the Lord. For with the Lord there is mercy; and with Him plentiful Redemption. And He will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord! And let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace.
Amen.

Ugh!

There are certain words and phrases which I avoid using because of the people - politicians, social workers, journalists, who have used them: 'named for' instead of 'named after', 'convinced him to do something' instead of 'persuaded him to', 'unacceptable' instead of 'wrong' or 'evil', 'culture' instead of 'religion' or 'superstition'. I also eschew  'homophobia', islamophobia' and other loaded words.

A bit like a warm lavatory seat.

Get with it people, this is Frankenchurch!

Let's face it, acoording to our current Pope's various obiter dicta, Saints Paul, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas More, Edmund Campion, and others too many to name were all fundamentalists. St Charles Lwanga and Companions were simply judgmental 'homophobes'.

Get with it people, this is Frankenchurch!

Let's face it, judging by our current Pope's various blatherings, Saints Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas, Thomas More, Thomas Campion, and many others were all fundamentalists, and the Ugandan Martyrs all 'homophobes'. 

Get with it, people, this is Frankenchurch!

Another Day's Work for Felix Landau, German Officer at Drohobych, now Ukraine. That nothing be forgotten.

From Landau's diary:

"At 6 a.m., I am suddenly wakened from a deep sleep. Fall in line for an execution. Alright, I'll play the role of the executioner and after that the gravedigger. Why not? It is strange. A man who loves to fight has to shoot up defenseless people. 23 are supposed to be shot. Among them are the two women I already mentioned. They even refuse to drink a glass of water. I'm told to be one of the sharpshooters. I'm supposed to shoot any prisoners who attempt to escape. We drive along the road for a few kilometers. We then go to the right, into the forest. We are only 6 men at the moment, and we are looking for a suitable place to shoot and bury them. After a few minutes, we found a spot. The condemned line up with shovels to dig their own graves. Two of them are crying. The others are amazingly courageous... The condemned are divided into three shifts, since we don't have enough shovels here. It's strange, but I don't feel anything inside me. No sympathy - nothing - that's how it is - so everything's okay for me... The hole slowly gets bigger. Two have collapsed from crying. I always let them dig longer, so they don't think too much. While they're working they are actually calmer. All their valuables, like watches and money, are place in a pile. The two women are taken to the one end of the ditch after everyone has been taken to a clearing nearby. Six men have been chosen to do the shooting.

3 men are to aim at the heart and 3 at the skull. I take the heart. The shots ring out, and brain matter is sprayed everywhere. That's too much: two shots at the skull. The skull is literally ripped away. Almost all of them drop to the ground without a sound. But with two of them it doesn't work. They cry and whine for a long time. The next to the last group has to throw those who have already been shot into the mass grave. Then they have to line up themselves, and they fall in all alone. The last two have to stand right on the edge, so they fall in correctly. Some of the dead bodies are resituated with the rake, and then we begin to do our work as gravediggers. I'm dead tired by the time I get back, and we have to start our work. We have to clean up everything in the building."

Bruno Schulz, one of the millions slaughtered by the master-race within my lifetime.

Everything here is from Wikipedia, and I have left the links intact. 

I am about to start reading Bruno Schulz's extant works. 

Let nothing be forgotten.

Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942) was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher born to Jewish parents.^[1] He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. In 1938, he was awarded the Polish Academy of Literature's prestigious Golden Laurel award. Several of Schulz's works have been lost in the Holocaust, including short stories from the early 1940s and his final, unfinished novel The Messiah. Schulz was shot and killed by a German Nazi in 1942 while walking back home toward Drohobycz Ghetto with a loaf of bread.

In June 1941, Felix Landau volunteered for Einsatzkommando service. He began his diary in July 1941, interspersing sentimental letters to his fiancée with detailed records of his participation in atrocities of what later came to be known as the Holocaust. He describes "shooting exercises" and "wild actions", shooting sprees wherein he and his men would pick off random Jews who worked nearby or passed by on the street. In one such event in November 1942, Landau killed the personal dentist of a fellow officer, Karl Günther. In revenge, Günther caught up with Bruno Schulz, then under the protection of Landau, and shot him twice in the head. According to Schulz's friend Izydor Friedman, who witnessed the death, this happened at the corner of Czacki and Mickiewicz Streets. Later, Günther told Landau: "You killed my Jew - I killed yours."

At the end of 1941, he lived with Gertrude in an aristocratic villa. He divorced his first wife in 1942 and married Gertrude in 1943 (divorced in 1946). Until May 1943, Landau was in charge of organizing Jewish labor.

After World War II

In 1946, a former worker recognized him in Linz. Landau was arrested by the Americans but escaped from Glasenbach prison camp in August 1947. Under the name of Rudolf Jaschke he started an interior decorating company in Bavaria.^[3]

In 1959, Landau was arrested and accused of the massacres. He was condemned to life imprisonment in 1962 at the Stuttgart Assize Court. 

In 1973 he was pardoned. ^[4]

Quotes from this degenerate's diary[edit]

• Lwow - 5 July 1941... There were hundreds of Jews walking along the street with blood pouring down their faces, holes in their heads, their hands broken and their eyes hanging out of their sockets. They were covered in blood. Some were carrying others who had collapsed. We went to the citadel; there we saw things that few people have ever seen. At the entrance to the citadel there were soldiers standing guard. They were holding clubs as thick as a man's wrist and were lashing out and hitting anyone who crossed their path. The Jews were pouring out of the entrance. There were rows of Jews lying one on top of the other like pigs, whimpering horribly. The Jews kept streaming out of the citadel completely covered in blood. We stopped and tried to see who was in charge of the Kommando. Nobody. Someone had let the Jews go. They were just being hit out of rage and hatred...

• Drohobycz - 12 July 1941... At 6:00 in the morning I was suddenly awoken from a deep sleep. Report for an execution. Fine, so I'll just play executioner and then gravedigger, why not?... Twenty-three had to be shot, amongst them ... two women ... We had to find a suitable spot to shoot and bury them. After a few minutes we found a place. The death candidates assembled with shovels to dig their own graves. Two of them were weeping. The others certainly have incredible courage... Strange, I am completely unmoved. No pity, nothing. That's the way it is and then it's all over... Valuables, watches and money are put into a pile... The two women are lined up at one end of the grave ready to be shot first... As the women walked to the grave they were completely composed. They turned around. Six of us had to shoot them. The job was assigned thus: three at the heart, three at the head. I took the heart. The shots were fired and the brains whizzed through the air. Two in the head is too much. They almost tear it off...
• Jump up

Sacked priest launches assault on Catholic Church

Sacked priest launches assault on Catholic Church

28 October 2015 16:18 by Harpic Kleens

A priest who was dismissed by the Vatican for announcing he was an open coprophagite and bringing his styrculaneous lunch to a press conference on the eve of the Synod of the Family has launched a scathing attack on the Catholic Church in a letter to Pope Francis.

Mgr Pollo Salmomella, 43, told Francis that the Catholic Church is “full of coprophagites” despite being “frequently violently hygienic” and he called on "all cardinals, bishops and priests [to] have the courage to abandon this insensitive, unfair and brutal Church".

In the letter released to the BBC in which he also thanks Pope Francis for some of his positive words and gestures towards strange people he wrote that he can no longer bear the "hygienic hate of the Church, the exclusion, the marginalisation and the stigmatisation of people like me", whose "human rights are denied" by the Church.

Różyczka (Little Rose) Goździewska, 8 years old nurse of the Warsaw Uprising in English i też po Polsku

"Różyczka (Little Rose) Goździewska, 8 years old nurse of the Warsaw Uprising. She helped to save the lives of many people. She survived the war and died in France in 1989 at the age of 53"

Photo: Eugeniusz Lokajski (1909 - 1944 killed in Warsaw Uprising), Poland under German occupation, Warszawa (Warsaw), 1944

Eugeniusz Zenon Lokajski was a Polish athlete, gymnast and photographer. He is notable as the Polish Champion  in javelin throw and the creator of more than 1000 photos documenting the Warsaw Uprising.

70 years ago today germany suspended combat operations in other districts, and all forces were directed to Czerniaków. Czerniaków endured strong artillery fire and aerial bombardment. In the district numerous fires broke out. Germany was pursuing a massive attack on all sections. There is  ongoing heavy fighting on Port Czerniaków, the huge building of social insurance Street. Czerniakowska building In Gasworks Street. People and buildings of the former hospital of St. Lazarus at the Principe.

germany occupied the western part of the street. Łazienkowska and part of the slope from the street. Frascati to Principe. In Polish hands remains the only institution in YMCA building at ul. Konopnickiej.

During the night of 12th September 13, two couriers crossed to the right bank of the Vistula. They will be adopted by General Michael Rola-Żymierskiegi and will march with Konstanty Rokossovsky (Red Army).

In the photo: Rose Goździewska - the girl who helped in the Koszka field hospital in the building at Moniuszko 11 (photo: Eugene Lokajski).

Niemcy wstrzymują działania bojowe w innych dzielnicach, wszystkie siły kierując na Czerniaków. Trwa silny ostrzał artyleryjski i bombardowanie lotnicze Czerniakowa. W dzielnicy wybuchają liczne pożary. Niemcy prowadzą zmasowane natarcie na wszystkich odcinkach. Toczą się ciężkie walki o Port Czerniakowski, potężny gmach ZUS przy ul. Czerniakowskiej, budynek Gazowni przy ul. Ludnej oraz zabudowania dawnego szpitala św. Łazarza przy Książęcej.

Niemcy zajmują zachodnią część ul. Łazienkowskiej oraz część skarpy od ul. Frascati do Książęcej. W polskich rękach pozostaje jedynie placówka w gmachu YMCA przy ul. Konopnickiej.

Nocą z 12 na 13 września dwie łączniczki przepływają na prawy brzeg Wisły. Zostają przyjęte przez gen. Michała Rolę – Żymierskiego i marsz. Konstantego Rokossowskiego.

Na zdjęciu: Różyczka Goździewska - dziewczynka, która pomagała w szpitalu polowym kompanii "Koszta" w kamienicy przy Moniuszki 11 (foto: Eugeniusz Lokajski).

. 63 days of glory's photo.

Gotta hand it to ya, Vince, you're a credit to modern Britain.

Loyal Address to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of Her becoming the longest reigning Monarch in British History 

Your Majesty, It is an honour and a pleasure to express the great loyalty and gratitude felt by the Catholic community of England and Wales for the outstanding and unstinting service you give to our nation and to people throughout the world. We express these sentiments with particular warmth and admiration as you celebrate the occasion of surpassing the length of reign of any other British Monarch. Along with Catholics across the world, and especially in the Commonwealth, we join our prayers of thanksgiving to those of other Christians for the many blessings of your reign. Your vocation as our Queen has been unstinting over these years. The burden of high office fell upon your shoulders at a young age, and yet through the many and varied circumstances of your Reign, you have held integrity of service as a high standard and as an exemplar for other heads of state and leaders of nations. We give thanks too for the constant support that Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has shown you in your time as our Queen; his role as Prince Consort being a source of strength and stay. We thank you too, for your steadfast insistence on the great importance of our Christian faith, given in both word and example, alongside your appreciation of the contribution made by other religions in our rich and diverse society today. Our hope is that, enriched by the presence of many beliefs and cultures, our country will always maintain respect for our Christian heritage and the sure foundations that it provides for a flourishing of true human fulfilment. The Gospel of Jesus, which we seek to serve, is a challenge to our society to think more deeply about the sanctity of life, the constant need for forgiveness and reconciliation, and the faithfulness required in love and the selfsacrifice which brings true satisfaction Your Majesty, it is my privilege to assure you of our prayers for you, now and in the future and, most especially, on the day when you become our longest reigning Monarch. All the Catholic communities in England and Wales have been asked to offer special prayers for you and your family on this most special of days. May Almighty God bless Your Majesty, preserve you in health of mind and body, and grant you every grace and blessing, now and in the years to come.

 Vincent Cardinal Nichols

Good old Vince, eh? Always the great bandwagoner!

How does the presence of 'many beliefs', of people who are not Catholic or even Christian, enrich our culture?

Were the little girls from children's homes 'enriched' by drugs and rape?

Got to give it to you, Vince, you're a credit to modern Britain.

Thought for the Day.

If or when they come to 'euthanase' me, I hope I shall have the strength to 'kakothanase' them.