Aurel Perca, the archbishop of Bucharest, noted the “attacks against Europe’s Christian values” in his sermon at a ceremonial mass in Budapest’s Saint Stephen’s Basilica, on the day of the basilica’s name-giver and Hungary’s national holiday on Tuesday.
The archbishop said “Christian culture, which has facilitated welfare and development both for individuals and society, seems to teeter.”
“We are witnessing great battles waged against the Church and God, as if they wanted to wipe out the traces of a Christian Europe,” he said. “As long as some seek to see a Europe without God and Christian values Europe is in jeopardy,” he added.
Orbán’s secretary calls on Hungarians ‘to insist on Christian foundations’
Hungarians “must insist on the Christian foundations of their statehood” and seek alliance with communities that “have the courage to speak up against the desctructive and violent frenzy mocking Christian teaching”, Miklós Soltész, state secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office, told a Saint Stephen’s Day celebration in Szekler Land, in Romania, on Tuesday.
Referring to the remonstrances of Stephen I, Hungary’s sainted king, to his son, Soltész said “it is important to welcome and take care of strangers but only as long as it does not jeopardise the Christian faith, the nation, and the homeland.” He also suggested that law was crucial but it should not be used “to tie up” countries or “to destroy the moral foundations of the created world”.
Soltész lambasted the European Union for what he saw as misinterpreting Christian teachings “for ideological and economic reasons” and for “abusing the patience and good nature of Christians to make them accept its destructive, pro-war ideology”.
The state secretary said it had been a major mistake by Europe’s Christian community “to accept the French Revolution’s ideals of separating church and state”. “We have allowed for the destruction of Judeo-Christian teachings, the foundations of Europe,” he insisted.
“We should bravely confess that we are proud that King Saint Stephen built the Hungarian state on solid foundations a thousand years ago and made Hungary a part of a Christian Europe,” Soltész said.
Culture minister marks national holiday at Esztergom
Balázs Hankó, the minister of culture and innovation, marked the August 20 national holiday at Esztergom, north of Budapest, on Tuesday.
Hankó said the holiday was that of a thousand years of Hungarian statehood, “which reminds us that we Hungarians can decide for ourselves which values to retain even without advice from so called friends.” Those values are “ones shaping and reinforcing the nation”, he added.
The Hungarian nation “does not need to be given directions … we know who we are, where we come from and where our place is in the world: we are at home in Europe,” the minister said.
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This idiot archbishop qualifies helping strangers by giving governments a free pass by allowing them to paint them as a threat to Christian values. He talks out of both sides of his mouth. He then uses Russian disinformation by painting the EU as “pro-war”. Did he say anything about Russia’s invasion. Does he deny Ukrainians the right to defend themselves and does he deny others the right to assist in Ukraine’s defence. This archbishop is quite deceptive. He is using Christianity to push his political agenda and it’s not good .
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Hungary’s success with Judeo-Christian principles ensures the country’s success. Heathens in America rob stores, murder and rape women. Had they lived by the 10 Commandment, the criminals would behave better. Heathens have no standards or a behavior code.
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As a Catholic, it is hard for me to look at men like this archbishop with anything but sadness. He is stuck in the middle ages. He is fanning the flames of a war against Muslims, and he is towing the line of his political masters, much like Patriarch Kirill of Moscow. They are Caesar’s men, not men of God, or devout to the teachings of Jesus. It’s pretty disgusting.