Anti-Catholic students protest at university chapel in Madrid

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Anti-Catholic students protest at university chapel in Madrid
Madrid, Spain, Mar 11, 2011 / 08:01 pm (CNA).- Some 70 college students stormed into the chapel of Madrid’s Complutense University on March 10, shouting insults against the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI and priests.

Several females from the group stood on the altar, undressed from the waist up.

Another female student who was in the chapel praying at the time told the Spanish daily ABC that two of the young women on the altar “boasted about their homosexual tendencies.”
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:eek: I do not think I would have been able to turn the other cheek if I were there. :mad::mad::mad:
 
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I’m glad that the university will work to track down the individuals involved, but I wonder if iit involved an official student group? Why did the group decide to go on the rampage on that particular day?
 
I think the choice of day has no relevance to this group. It seems to be that it is a heightened anti-Catholic campaign on the run up to the Holy Father’s visit in Spain for World Youth Day.
 
Invite them back again and again and again. The next time give them a bible. Then the next time give them a rosary. Keep doing this to them. God brought them their for a reason. This is just another way to look at it. Although, I think it is reprehensible what they did. These people are just so filled with anger and hatred. What is motivating this within them?
 
Sparticus said:
Invite them back again and again and again. The next time give them a bible. Then the next time give them a rosary. Keep doing this to them. God brought them their for a reason. This is just another way to look at it. Although, I think it is reprehensible what they did. These people are just so filled with anger and hatred. What is motivating this within them?
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I don’t know if I would give them a bible or a rosary as they might burn the bible or desecrate a rosary.
 
From what I can glean from the Spanish press, it appears there was a campus wide protest against the Catholic Church that day, organized in part in reaction to conference on women held two days earlier (which was International Women’s Day.) The students who invaded the chapel were members of two different organizations: Contrapoder (Counterweight, a political organization which is " anticapitalist, autonomous, feminist, environmental, democratic, communist and libertarian") and Erre que te Erre (an LGBT group). Both organizations are official student groups, but in a joint statement both deny organizing the invasion of the chapel. However, they express support for the “theatrical” and non-violent demonstration within the chapel.

The disruption in the chapel seems to be part of a nation wide series of student protests and vandalism against the Catholic Church in the run up to World Youth Day (to be held in Madrid this summer.) For example, at universities in Barcelona constant protests made entering the school chapel physically difficult and in one case, the chapel simply suspended Mass for a period of time.
 
Sparticus said:
Invite them back again and again and again. The next time give them a bible. Then the next time give them a rosary. Keep doing this to them. God brought them their for a reason. This is just another way to look at it. Although, I think it is reprehensible what they did. These people are just so filled with anger and hatred. What is motivating this within them?
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Satan.

God may have created them, but it’s the Devil who brought them there to commit these blasphemies.

We are obligated to love and respect them, but we’re also obligated to defend the faith. Jesus preached tolerance of man and his weaknesses, not of evil.
 
bearer said:
Satan.

God may have created them, but it’s the Devil who brought them there to commit these blasphemies.

We are obligated to love and respect them, but we’re also obligated to defend the faith. Jesus preached tolerance of man and his weaknesses, not of evil.
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We are, indeed, called to love them. But respect is earned. The students certainly have not earned respect.
 
mary_bobo said:
We are, indeed, called to love them. But respect is earned. The students certainly have not earned respect.
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Well, I meant respect them as human beings, God’s creation. I would not respect their sinful ways. Love the sinner, hate the sin, as they say.
 
Dang I cant even imagine what I would do if I was there. I would like to think zeal would not overcome me but that is just so insane. Satan is definitely active there in those young women. Lord have Mercy

St. Micheal protect us.
 
Dale_M said:
From what I can glean from the Spanish press, it appears there was a campus wide protest against the Catholic Church that day, organized in part in reaction to conference on women held two days earlier (which was International Women’s Day.) The students who invaded the chapel were members of two different organizations: Contrapoder (Counterweight, a political organization which is " anticapitalist, autonomous, feminist, environmental, democratic, communist and libertarian") and Erre que te Erre (an LGBT group). Both organizations are official student groups, but in a joint statement both deny organizing the invasion of the chapel. However, they express support for the “theatrical” and non-violent demonstration within the chapel.

The disruption in the chapel seems to be part of a nation wide series of student protests and vandalism against the Catholic Church in the run up to World Youth Day (to be held in Madrid this summer.) For example, at universities in Barcelona constant protests made entering the school chapel physically difficult and in one case, the chapel simply suspended Mass for a period of time.
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Thanks, Dale. I just hope these groups would not try to push it too far on WYD. They might just get thumped.
 
So we have a group of radical- militant feminist, communist, environmentalist, libertarian, homosexual terrorists invade, desecrate and profane a Roman Catholic Church, before witnesses, and yet no arrests were made? Where were the Satanists? Did they have the day off?

This newly shown bravado of these radicalized opponents of the church should give us all pause. This desecration is a vandalism, a physical form of violence against that which represents the sacred, and it begins with the edifice, then it moves inside the church itself, and ultimately it lashes out at the very flesh and blood that gives those structures true life. Soon, all of this madness will inevitably lead to bloodshed.

I am the father of two daughters, six and four years old, and this escalating situation gives me pause. Someone, please, inform me how to be charitable to people such as these? It is my duty to protect my family. How am I to respond when a mob storms a church that I am attending with my wife and my children? Nothing has prepared me for times such as these. When does the desecrator become the murderer, and how can a father allow his children to stand at the intersection of that unpredictable, and deadly, transition?

History has shown us that complacency with these sorts of phenomena often leads to terrible consequences. I fear for where all of this is leading, and I pray that the Angels of God’s mercy stand with the Roman Catholic Church. And yes, I will pray for our enemies, but it won’t be easy…it never is.
 
Bunch of idiots.

Sorry, such news occurs too frequent for me to abide these kind of behaviors from these kind of people that I cannot be charitable toward them.
 
1holycatholic said:
You could visit them in prison and give them a Bible and a Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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I did see a news article which indicated the students could potentially serve prison time. However, I am not sure the government would want to push that matter. Anti-Catholicism seems to be on the rise in Spain.

Some of the slogans shouted by the students seem to have currency in Spain. An two year old thread here at CAF mentions graffiti sprayed on churches in Spain, and they were the same phrases shouted onThursday, for example: “Arderéis como en el 36” (you will burn like in 1936, in reference to the burning of churches in the republican side of Spain during the Spanish Civil War.)
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=5509989

It would be good to stay aware of what is happening in Spain.
 
Dale_M said:
I did see a news article which indicated the students could potentially serve prison time. However, I am not sure the government would want to push that matter. Anti-Catholicism seems to be on the rise in Spain.

Some of the slogans shouted by the students seem to have currency in Spain. An two year old thread here at CAF mentions graffiti sprayed on churches in Spain, and they were the same phrases shouted onThursday, for example: “Arderéis como en el 36” (you will burn like in 1936, in reference to the burning of churches in the republican side of Spain during the Spanish Civil War.)
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=5509989

It would be good to stay aware of what is happening in Spain.
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Yes. It would do well to be aware of the rabid LGBT network and expose the sham behind their campaign. The political tensions of 1936 are not present in Spain in 2011.
 
bearer said:
Satan.

God may have created them, but it’s the Devil who brought them there to commit these blasphemies.

We are obligated to love and respect them, but we’re also obligated to defend the faith. Jesus preached tolerance of man and his weaknesses, not of evil.
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I completely agree with you. Someone in another thread posted that the Devil is not talked about enough these days, and I do believe it was he that motivated these kids to do what they did, and what they did was dripping with Satan and all his trademarks; violence when they pushed the chaplain (thank God thats all they did), shouting, agression and rude and inapropriately sexual behaviour. You shouldnt expose yourself anywhere thats public but there’s something thats just so evil about doing it in a church building.

I fully applaud the good Catholic student who stated, "Nobody will silence us by acting with hostility, mockery, intimidation or any other illegitimate pressure that offends the religions sensibilities of everyone.” Good for her. May God forgive me for being a worse person than she is because if I’d been there I think I would have went up to the alter where the half naked girls stood and shoved them right off.
 
Dale_M said:
Some of the slogans shouted by the students seem to have currency in Spain. An two year old thread here at CAF mentions graffiti sprayed on churches in Spain, and they were the same phrases shouted onThursday, for example: “Arderéis como en el 36” (you will burn like in 1936, in reference to the burning of churches in the republican side of Spain during the Spanish Civil War.)
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=5509989
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They must’ve forgotten their history. The Republicans lost that one in the end, and badly…not to mention that the Church survived.
 
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