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"It must be said that the soul is in the embryo; the nutritive soul from the beginning, then the sensitive, lastly the intellectual soul." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) Summa Theologica, 118:2:RO2
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5/20/2019 0 Comments May 20th, 2019After volunteering to exchange his life for the life of another priest, Father Antoni Dubas was immediately arrested during the Intelligenzaktion, the German Socialist action to kill Polish Catholic intellectuals.
On the night of December 1, 1939, Father Dubas and 28 others were transported to Wola Łącka, where their hands were bound with barbed wire before Gestapo executed them, each with a bullet to the back of the head. Some had their heads smashed in with gun butts before all were dumped in a mass grave. VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 5/20/2019 0 Comments May 20th, 2019From the Angelic Doctor...
"The evil of sin consists in turning away from the divine goodness, by which God wills all things." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 5/19/2019 0 Comments May 19th, 2019Interned after the start of World War II, Catholic Bishop Konstantyn Dominik was ordered by the German Socialist Gestapo to sign the Deutsche Volksliste, basically agreeing to be German. Even though interrogated many times and given the ultimatum that he either sign or else, he refused and died, on March 7, 1942, in captivity, never signing the Deutsche Volksliste.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 5/19/2019 0 Comments May 19th, 2019From the Angelic Doctor...
"Things evil in themselves are ordered to some good end...Evil is not of itself ordered to good, but accidentally." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 5/18/2019 0 Comments May 18th, 2019German Socialist Gestapo arrested Father Eugeniusz Dębicki. Shipped to Auschwitz, he suffered torture, yet he died fulfilling God's Second Commandment: Love thy neighbor as thyself, for in his last moments, in his agony, he gave aid the best he could to another dying prisoner, on March 21, 1942.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 5/18/2019 0 Comments May 18th, 2019From the Angelic Doctor...
"In willing justice He wills punishment; and in willing the preservation of the natural order, He wills some things to be naturally corrupted." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 5/17/2019 0 Comments May 17th, 2019Arrested by the German Socialist Gestapo because he was a Catholic priest, Father Wincenty Celiński was shipped to Auschwitz death camp, where he was beaten and starved until his death, on February 25, 1942.
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"The evil of natural defect, or of punishment, He does will, by willing the good to which such evils are attached." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 5/16/2019 0 Comments May 16th, 2019A doctor of canon law, Father Wincenty Bialik was a target of the German Socialist Gestapo who arrested him because he was a Polish Catholic priest and intellectual. Shipped to Dachau death camp, Father Bialik perished from starvation, exposure and exhaustion, on August 19, 1942.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 5/16/2019 0 Comments May 16th, 2019From the Angelic Doctor...
"He in no way wills the evil of sin, which is the privation of right order toward the divine good." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 5/15/2019 0 Comments May 15th, 2019Imprisoned by German Socialists in Poznań concentration camp, Father Nikodem Lubomir Cieszyński was forced by the Gestapo to clean the blood from the guillotine, after his Catholic friends were beheaded. In prison, he perished from torture, on September 23, 1942.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 5/15/2019 0 Comments May 15th, 2019From the Angelic Doctor...
"The evil that accompanies one good, is the privation of another good." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 5/14/2019 0 Comments May 14th, 2019On the second day of the Warsaw Uprising, August 2, 1944, German Socialist soldiers swarmed the Warsaw monastery, on Rakowiecka Street. Father Klemens Bobritzki and other monks of the Jesuit House were in the basement when they were killed by a barrage of grenades and machine-gun fire.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 5/14/2019 0 Comments May 14th, 2019From the Angelic Doctor...
"Evil may be sought accidentally, so far as it accompanies a good." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 5/13/2019 0 Comments May 13th, 2019Summoned to the Pelplin Seminary by the German Socialist Gestapo, Father Juliusz Bartkowski arrived and was immediately arrested along with 18 canons and transported to Tczew, where he and 15 of the canons were executed in the dark of night in a military barracks, October 30, 1939.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 5/13/2019 0 Comments May 13th, 2019From the Angelic Doctor...
"From defect of active power in the seed it may happen that a child is born unlike its father in accidental points." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 5/11/2019 0 Comments May 11th, 2019Caught in the Intelligenzaktion, the German Socialist operation to exterminate Polish intellectuals, Father Józef Codro was executed in a massacre by Gestapo in Paterek, on November 11, 1939, only weeks after the invasion of Poland and the beginning of World War II.
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"The effect of a first cause is contingent on account of the secondary cause, from the fact that the effect of the first cause is hindered by a deficiency in the second cause." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 5/10/2019 0 Comments May 10th, 20195/10/2019 0 Comments May 10th, 2019From the Angelic Doctor...
"The will of God, as it is the first and universal cause, does not exclude intermediate causes that have power to produce certain effects." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 5/9/2019 0 Comments May 09th, 2019To alert fellow monks of the German Socialists burning the community buildings, Monk Jakub "Ignatius" Bazyluk climbed the bell tower of Saint Onufry Monastery, in Jabłeczna. Gestapo followed him and tortured the monk to death, on August 9, 1942.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 5/9/2019 0 Comments May 09th, 2019From the Angelic Doctor...
"A first cause can be hindered in its effect by deficiency in the secondary cause." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 5/8/2019 0 Comments May 08th, 20195/8/2019 0 Comments May 08th, 2019From the Angelic Doctor...
"All that can have the nature of being and truth virtually exists in God...God knows all truth; but does not will all good, except in so far as He wills Himself, in Whom all good virtually exists." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) |
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