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PURPOSE

The purpose of this News Commentary Section is to assist the faithful in recognizing the signs and lies of These End Times. Somehow, many self appointed Shepherds of These Times are trying to convince the faithful that the Apocalypse will be, using street slang, "a piece of cake" for them and "hell" for all others. They are led to believe that if they "do this" and "do that" they do not have a thing to worry about (of course, so long as that between the "do this" and the "do that" they send in a donation).

Others lead the faithful to believe that "All Is Well" and will continue to be, of course, as long as those donations keep coming in...

Wrong! For either case scenario to be true, the Old and New Testament has to be invalid. Logically, if the Holy Scriptures are invalid there is no use for "Shepherds", is there? So what is their function besides collecting money?

Spending it, of course!

Now, let us focus on the real world and the news about its crumbling structures, philosophies and half-baked theories. With the assistance of the Holy Spirit of God, Who cannot be falsified, the disoriented faithful will be able to understand what is truly taking place and why.



November 30th


NEWS - Vatican Returns Saints' Relics to Orthodox Church - Published: November 27, 2004

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of Greek Orthodox faithful welcomed the return on Saturday of the remains of two saints 800 years after Crusaders snatched the relics from Constantinople in a gesture by the Vatican to mend ties between the churches.

At a service earlier in the day in Rome, Pope John Paul renewed calls for unity between the Eastern and Western branches of Christianity that split in the Great Schism of 1054.

"We see in the transfer of these sacred relics a blessed chance to purify our wounded memories, to affirm our path toward reconciliation," the
84-year-old Polish Pontiff said.

Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians, stood beside the Pope in Rome before accompanying the relics to Istanbul. "This gesture differentiates (the Roman Catholic Church) from the deed of their predecessors eight centuries ago, who accepted the spiritual and material treasures that had been taken from our city and our Church," the Turkish-born patriarch said in Istanbul.


The M+G+R Foundation Comments

May Jesus Be Praised!

This is an act of the true, free and un-manipulated John Paul II. It is indeed a miracle that he was able to achieve this in spite of his "masters".

We entreat one and all to keep H.H. John Paul II in your prayers so that he may be able to push through, against all odds, whatever God Wills he does before he is recalled to the Father.



November 26th


NEWS - 2 Top Officials Are Reported to Quit C.I.A. - November 25, 2004

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 - Two more senior officials of the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine service are stepping down, intelligence officials said Wednesday, in the latest sign of upheaval in the agency under its new chief, Porter J. Goss.

Last week, President Bush directed Mr. Goss to draw up detailed plans in 90 days for a major overhaul of the agency, to address shortcomings that have become evident with intelligence failures related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and prewar assessments of Iraq.


The M+G+R Foundation Comments

It seems that the "Family Problems" continue to snow-ball. Although this may appear to be a relatively minor issue in comparison to what is happening in the world at large - do not be misled by appearances. May those who have ears, "Hear!" and those who have eyes, "See!"



November 23rd


NEWS - H.H. John Paul II to Bury Schism With Saints' Bones

MOSCOW - FOR 800 years the bones of two of the Orthodox Church's most famous saints have been held at the Vatican, a symbol of the deepest division in Christianity. Now the remains of St. John Chrysostom and St. Gregory Nazianzen are to be returned to Istanbul where they were stolen by drunken soldiers attached to the Fourth Crusade who sacked Constantinople in 1204.

In 1204, Constantinople, then ruled by the last of the Roman emperors and a universally respected and fabulously wealthy Orthodox Patriarch, was sacked by Venetians and a heavily armed rabble from France, Germany, Italy and England belonging to the army of the Fourth Crusade. That army set up a Latin kingdom that ruled Constantinople for 57 years.

After the fall of Constantinople in 1204, soldiers plundered the city's treasury, palaces and churches. They attacked Orthodox priests, accusing them of heresy and sometimes witchcraft.

They raped women and children and removed vast quantities of gold and silver from palaces and churches, taking sacred vases and priceless works of art back with them to Venice and Rome.

The mosaic floors of the world's most magnificent cathedral, the Haghia Sophia, or Church of the Holy Wisdom, were polluted with blood, filth and animal excrement.

At one point drunken crusaders encouraged a prostitute to sit on the Patriarch's golden throne where she sang obscene songs and carried out lewd dances and sex acts.

"With one consent," wrote the historian Nicetas Choniates (1155-1215), "all the most heinous sins and crimes were committed by all with equal zeal."

At a historic reconciliation ceremony at the Vatican next weekend, Pope John Paul II plans to open up a new age of inter-denominational Christian co-operation when he hands back the bones.


The M+G+R Foundation Comments

These news should make all Christians - most specially the self-righteous variety - very humble before God because the "skeletons" in this particular "closet" will be present at the time of the Final Judgment.

miguel de Portugal witnessed much of the physical damage to Churches in Constantinople and other parts of the Byzantine Empire described in the quoted article. He also stood where the Christians in Constantinople were slaughtered by the thousands by those encouraged by the Roman Catholic Administration - specifically Pope Innocent III.

On the other hand, miguel de Portugal also witnessed with what care the Muslims of the Ottoman Empire covered up the religious images so that they could use the Christian Churches as their own Holy Temples. They did not destroy nor desecrate. Because of this, m de P was - and the world today is - able to personally view many truly magnificent Byzantine icons/mosaics and relics which had been carefully covered by the Muslims with white-wash/plaster or otherwise protected and which were brought to light, unharmed, when the Ottoman Empire gave way to current day Turkey - a secular Republic.

This is why we must be very, very careful not to fall into fanaticism. Today muslim fanatics are no worse than the Roman Catholic fanatics who razed the Catholic Byzantine Church and in later centuries Muslim Holy Temples.

We praise God that the forces of good prevailed this time in The Vatican and this open acknowledgment and "fence mending" is taking place. Without a doubt, this will reduce the suffering that awaits the Roman Catholic Church; however, it is so late that few will be able to notice the magnitude of the reduction.

We pray to God for the conversion of Christian fanatics - most specially within the Roman Catholic Church and its internal and very well disguised sects - and entreat Him to completely neutralize those who will not convert, so that their actions do not stain the Holy Name of Christianity any further. A name, and a symbol (the cross) who many now view as symbols of hatred as the result of these acknowledged actions and many others still hidden in the dark - but which God will throw at the face of the "Holy, High and Mighty" at the time of the Final Judgment... or before, as He did with the widespread and covered up sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.

Remember, He said:


Commentary: Capernaum's transgression was unbelief, lack of faith in Jesus Christ, and the disobedience of His teachings. In spite of the mighty works which Jesus Christ did in Capernaum they refused to believe in Him; just like most of the Church Administrators. If they did truly believed in Our Lord and Savior, the world would not be the sewer that it is today.



November 18th - Dedication of the Basilica of the Apostles Peter and Paul


NEWS - Russia to Develop and Deploy in Short Order Unequal Nuclear Weaponry

MOSCOW - Russia is developing a new nuclear missile system unlike any weapon held by other countries, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday, a move that could serve as a signal to the United States as Washington pushes forward with a missile defense system.

Putin gave no details about the system or why Russia was pursuing it, and it was unclear whether the Kremlin's cash-strapped armed forces could even afford an expensive new weapon.

"We are not only conducting research and successful tests on state-of-the-art nuclear missile systems, but I am convinced that these systems will appear in the near future," Putin said. "Moreover, they will be systems, weapons that not a single other nuclear power has, or will have, in the near future."

"We'll continue our efforts to build our armed forces and its nuclear component," he said.


The M+G+R Foundation Comments

Everyone seems to be cooperating well in the fulfillment of the Will of God at the End of These Times.



November 16th


NEWS - Silenced priest warns of gay crisis - November 15, 2004

Starting today, 290 of the nation's Catholic bishops will meet at the Capitol Hyatt for their yearly business meeting and to tie up loose ends on the massive sexual-abuse crisis that has shaken the U.S. Catholic Church to its core in the past two years.

Although it's been less than a year since the church revealed that there were 10,667 cases of abuse committed by 4,392 priests in a 50-year period, the message at the meeting will be that the crisis is under control.

But it's far from over, says a local Catholic priest who says the true source of the crisis is a priesthood that is "honeycombed" with homosexual clerics, especially in the Diocese of Arlington.

However, attempts by the Rev. James Haley, 48, to persuade his bishop of the problem have backfired. After hearing from the priest about numerous instances of homosexual activity among diocesan clergy, Arlington Bishop Paul Loverde ordered the priest silenced Oct. 23, 2001. This "precept of silence" -- usually only employed during church trial proceedings -- is rarely used to silence a whistleblower.

Father Haley says his only crime is his insistence that homosexual priests, not solely pedophiles, are at the root of the sexual-abuse crisis. The Catholic priesthood is demoralized, he says, by groups of homosexual clerics who control who gets admitted to seminary, which men get nominated for bishop and which priests get the plum parishes.

Based on his 17 years in the priesthood, he estimates that 60 percent of the Diocese of Arlington's 127 diocesan priests are homosexuals, which is high compared with national estimates of 30 percent to 50 percent from other authorities on the priesthood.

As his prospects of returning to life as a parish priest dwindle, he has amassed reams of tapes, videos, photographs, e-mail messages and 1,200 pages of documents for a tell-all book on homosexuality and the priesthood. "I am astounded the bishops will protect these guys, promote them, even make them bishops," he say.


The M+G+R Foundation Comments

While Catholic U.S. voters were recently spiritually intimidated by certain clerics of the U.S. Roman Catholic Church, thus, influencing their votes through spiritual coercion - key members of said organization (*) were obviously busy in their continuing effort to demolish the little Faith left.

That does not surprise us - They are at the service of satan and such behavior is precisely what we do expect. What saddens us is that the Faithful continue to fall like fools (but not "fools for Christ") for "every trick satan pulls out of his bag" without realizing that their own souls are at stake. This is why Denial should be upgraded to the category of "mortal sin".

There are many, many Fr. Haleys around and we must lend them our prayerful support, while, with the same unrelenting intensity, and after praying for their conversion, we should take every action possible to expose and denounce the likes of Bishop Loverde who are nothing more than agents of satan bent of destroying whatever is left of the Catholic Faith. For those like Bishop Loverde we have coined a new label: "Spiritual Bastards" , that is, their Father is not the One Who should have been. They, of their own free will, have rejected the Father Who beget them and assumed the father of lies, satan, as their own.

What has gone wrong? The "...salt lost its taste... It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out d trampled underfoot." [Matthew 5:13]
However!, do not confuse the Roman Catholic Administration and some of its clerics with the Holy Roman Catholic Faith. Through the Grace of God said Faith has reached us with its seasoning power at full strength and must be preserved at all costs from "corruption by association".
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(*) The Church "as is" does not even merit the label of "Institution"



November 12th


NEWS - "Memory and Identity," which is due to be published early next year, is the ailing 84-year-old pontiff's latest and perhaps last book intended for a mass circulation audience. ...the pope, who lived through both Nazism and Communism in his native Poland, reflects on the meaning of evil in life and in history.

"To me it was quite clear that Communism would last much longer than Nazism had done. For how long? It was hard to predict," he writes.

"There was a sense that this evil was in some way necessary for the world and for mankind. It can happen, in fact, that in certain particular human situations, evil is revealed as somehow useful inasmuch as it creates opportunities for good."


The M+G+R Foundation Comments

We do not believe that this new book was indeed "written" by H.H. John Paul II, just like we believe, and have proven, that "Crossing the Threshold of Hope" was not written by him either.

His alleged statement in the new book: "There was a sense that this evil was in some way necessary for the world and for mankind. It can happen, in fact, that in certain particular human situations, evil is revealed as somehow useful inasmuch as it creates opportunities for good." is scandalous at best... unless... we take it as a God induced acknowledgment of the reality that the Roman Church refused to obey Heaven and take the appropriate action to prevent Russia from spreading its errors throughout the world.

Being that "Pain is the Megaphone that God uses to help the deaf hear", then yes, said evil was necessary to make the Church pay attention to God. Unfortunately, it is obvious that the Church, in spite of being directly responsible for more than 150 million deaths and untold suffering, continues to be completely blind AND deaf to the the Guidance of the Holy Spirit of God.

This time, however, as we have announced elsewhere, what represents the Church of Rome, will be left in the condition its precursor - the Temple of Jerusalem - was left. Just as Our Lord Jesus Christ announced - Not one stone of it was left upon another.

In the Name of God - we assure you - the Church of Rome will finally learn; then it will be resurrected - Pure and Holy as Our Lord intended it to be. Thanks be to God!



November 6th - Our Lady of All Graces


On November 4, 2004 we read:


On November 5, 2004 we read:



The M+G+R Foundation Comments

Reminding our readers that we are a-political, unless the politicians start claiming that they are "acting in the Name of God", we wish to shed some light for those God has intended it, upon the aptly labeled by some segments of the world media, "Apocalyptic Elections" that just took place in the U.S. We also remind the reader that we have generously come to the defense of George W. Bush, the person occupying the Office of the Presidency of the United States of America - the undisputed "bottom-lne" best, albeit not perfect, country in the world. May God Bless America!

As a brief backdrop - for those who are capable of understanding it: Someone had to betray Jesus so that He would be apprehended and crucified. That does not mean that Judas Iscariot was serving God. God allowed Judas to gravely sin and betray His Son and, through His Absolute Supremacy, utilized such grave sin as part of the redemption of mankind. Naturally, Judas thought that he was serving God and so did the Temple Masters ("The Vatican" of those days) when they manipulated Pontius Pilate into approving the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

To the point - What happened in the U.S. Presidential elections? Who won - "Good?" or "Evil?" One ask one group, and they will say: "Good" ; One ask the other group, and they will say: "Evil"

What does miguel de Portugal say about it? The answer is quite simple if the reader is capable of answering "Who was the winner when Jesus Christ was betrayed?"

Therefore - We will briefly explain what happened and why, so that those who are capable of seeing it can understand the future events as they fade into history.

What happened? - The time before the already fixed End of These Times is rapidly approaching. As Gorbachev aptly recognized, the Presidency of William J. Clinton delayed the establishment of the New World Order by ten years - a gift of God to humanity - since those will be ten less years of the suffering and confusion that will ba made manifest with the "Kick-Off" [Step No. 1] of the Sequence of Events Leading to the End of These Times.

If Mr. Kerry would have been elected, his Clinton-like dialoguing manner and policies would have further delayed the manifestation in Time of Step No. 1. This was a physical impossibility. The ten years spoken of by Gorbachev was the maximun possible delay at this late a time in history.

On the other hand, the policies of Mr. Bush's Administration will rapidly drive the world to the manifestation of Step No. 1, and then, at a very rapid pace humanity will reach Step No. 17. The words of Mr. bin Ladin's last public announcement (see below posting) and the recent China-Russia-Iran oil mega-alliances will assist the reader in understanding why.

Therefore, we shall let the self appointed ego driven, but little, human "Judges" rule on whether "Good" or "Evil" won in the last U.S. Presidential Elections. We, once more, defer such right to Whom it truly belongs and Whom we strive to serve: God.



October 31st - Eve of All Saints Day


NEWS - Bin Ladin muscles into US election race




The M+G+R Foundation Comments

Our comments may be found in a NOTE added to our document entitled Understanding Divine Designs and His Mercy





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