"There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church, which is, of course, quite a different thing." -Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Placating terrorists, meeting with dictators, compassion for murderers... but no humanity for the unborn... incredible.
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The weekly Wprost, out tomorrow, shows a politburo document, signed by Mikhail Gorbachev, which appears to warrant a KGB contract killing on John Paul II.
So claims Polish journalist John O. Kohler in a book, also released tomorrow, Chodzi o papieża. Szpiedzy w watykanie - (About the Pope: Spies in the Vatican). The politburo document says: "Use all available possibilities to prevent a new political trend, initiated by the Polish pope…"
The document, which dates back to November 1979, - one year after Karol Wojtyla became pope - is signed by eight top Party officials including Konstantin Rusakov, who coordinated action with the Polish communist party, and Mikhail Gorbachev.
In Rome, Pope John Paul II survived four bullets on May 13, 1981 shot by Turk Mehmet Ali Hagca.
“If this information is true, Gorbachov should be brought to account,” said Zbigniew Chlebowski, head of the ruling Civic Platform’s parliamentary party.
Re: Gorbachev signed JP II KGB death warrant I don't think this is really a surprise. The suspicion all along was that it was a KGB op run through eastern European intelligence agencies. This is just the first confirmation that the warrant actually came from Gorbachev, et. al..
Re: Gorbachev signed JP II KGB death warrant Michael - I believe that I read on the CWN website a few weeks back that Gorbachev visited the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi and admitted that he was now a Christian. Did anyone else read this? I was rather amazed by the article.
Rome, Oct 2, 2008 / 03:29 pm (CNA).- The German weekly Der Spiegel has published a report indicating that Communist Germany’s Ministry for State Security (Stasi) unleashed “one of the largest campaigns of misinformation in its history” in order to deflect investigations into the attempt on the life of John Paul II in 1981 towards Turkish extremists.
According to the ANSA news agency, the article features new documents discovered in German state archives that reveal that the Stasi “tried to help the Bulgarian secret service. The organization enrolled a young Turkish citizen, Ismet Erguen, who began her mission in Berlin in February of 1982.”
“The documents show Erguen was involved until 1989, although today she denies ever having been an agent of the Stasi,” the news report indicated.
“The head of the foreign information sector of the Stasi, Markus Wolf, who died in 2006 at the age of 83, received a request for help from the Bulgarians in 1981 after the arrest of Ali Agca, as they were concerned that the Western media were focusing on a supposed Soviet-Bulgarian link in the assassination attempt.”
Der Spiegel claims that “the purpose was to divert suspicion towards the Gray Wolves, an extreme right-wing Turkish group.”
Wolf was satisfied with Erguen’s work because even today, “a legend exists according to which it was the Gray Wolves that gave orders to Agca,” the newspaper reports.
Re: Gorbachev signed JP II KGB death warrant I read something today, somewhere, forget where for certain, that it has now come out that the former East German Secret Police cooperated with the former Bulgarian Secret Police re: the attempt on John Paul's life.
Re: Gorbachev signed JP II KGB death warrant Actually, I just checked the CWN website. I believe I saw it there, as I had checked their site yesterday.