German Priest Stands Up Against New World Order "Migration"...
He’s a refreshing antidote to Cardinal Rainer “Man in the Boat” Woelki, the Archbishop of Cologne (for the most recent antics of Cardinal Woelki, see this post and video from last month).
I didn’t get any information about Fr. Pietrek beyond what’s in the transcript. However, based on some careful searching on the Internet, I’m certain that he’s Father Winfried Pietrek, born in 1932 in Breslau (now the Polish city of Wrocław). The sermon below appears to have been given in December of 2014, when he was 82.
Considering the current condition of the Catholic Church under Francis, Fr. Pietrek might be accurately described as a dissident priest.
Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
00:00 | Let’s imagine, someone owns a house. | |
00:05 | And has a family. He has empty apartments in that house. | |
00:10 | He would like to lease them. Is he going to take a tenant | |
00:15 | with whom he has to worry that they… might debauch | |
00:20 | his children? Everyone would say: No. | |
00:25 | It’s his decision. At present | |
00:30 | Germany is facing this decision. | |
00:36 | Catholic social teaching demands that we also… take a position towards | |
00:41 | such difficult problems. Politicians, | |
00:46 | also Church people told us, you have | |
00:51 | to take more people, take in, no matter who they are, | |
00:56 | whoever it is, he is referred to the words of the Holy Scripture | |
01:01 | for example: do good to those who hate you, | |
01:07 | pray for those who persecute you. | |
01:12 | … today’s Gospel on the enemies | |
01:17 | of Saint Stephen, who even while dying had said: | |
01:22 | “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” | |
01:27 | Following Jesus’ example he said this, Jesus explained on the cross: | |
01:32 | Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. | |
01:37 | What should we think about it? | |
01:42 | How far should “Love thy neighbor” go? There is a discussion about it, | |
01:48 | many Germans are even so scared that they gather outside | |
01:53 | in thousands or tens of thousands, because they | |
01:58 | don’t want our county Islamized. | |
02:03 | In 2013 we took in | |
02:08 | eleven thousand asylum seekers | |
02:13 | from Syria. | |
02:18 | Of them 70% — so about eight thousand — were | |
02:23 | Muslims; the others were mostly Christian. | |
02:29 | Surely, we have | |
02:34 | towards them, the homeless, the driven-out, | |
02:39 | from whom everything was taken away, a big moral obligation | |
02:44 | of brotherly love. It can lead up to | |
02:47 | the limitation of the individual. | |
02:54 | For example, in the refugees’ neighboring countries | |
03:00 | villages have been built, | |
03:05 | towns, which were financially | |
03:10 | supported by us. We have, however, not only a right | |
03:15 | but also an obligation, and I say it here also, if | |
03:20 | I have to contradict some bishops, who aren’t infallible concerning this question: | |
03:25 | We have the right and the obligation | |
03:30 | to defend our Faith, our | |
03:33 | predominantly Christian culture. We… | |
03:41 | — the limits are flexible for sure, the line has to be drawn by the experts, | |
03:46 | and politicians — but we have a right | |
03:51 | to defend ourselves against foreign infiltration, and we rightly demand | |
03:56 | from all politicians, and this has to be said openly by the Church as well: | |
04:01 | Since we are in the majority a Christian country | |
04:07 | we demand that we take in Christian refugees before any others. | |
04:12 | Paul writes: “[We should] do good to everyone”, | |
04:17 | but “especially to those in the family of faith” [Galatians 6:2-17]. | |
04:22 | Also to protect one’s own faith, which is totally clear that | |
04:27 | an Islamized Germany will lose in large part. | |
04:32 | Many who don’t really know the faith, who don’t really exercise it, | |
04:38 | would become weak and they would give up their own faith. It’s the duty of the shepherd | |
04:48 | to warn about it. My mother left | |
04:53 | me as a leading thought for my later | |
04:58 | life the sentence: | |
05:03 | What use for the sheep is a shepherd who is a sheep? | |
05:09 | We have to — in the love of our neighbor — | |
05:14 | go to the extreme we know the Sermon on the Mount, we know that | |
05:23 | Jesus voluntarily calls us to voluntarily be ready for the extreme, | |
05:29 | to sacrifice everything, even our life, our belongings out of love for our enemies | |
05:39 | or also for our opponent. | |
05:44 | But since we know that Islam is violent, | |
05:50 | that it cannot change the Quran and doesn’t want to change it, | |
05:55 | precisely because it CANNOT change it, and because | |
06:00 | wild conquest belongs to Islam, we have — as our ancestors | |
06:05 | did, before Loreto, twice before Vienna, | |
06:10 | during the defence against Muslim attack against Rome, | |
06:15 | during the attacks on the entire Mediterranean Sea, | |
06:18 | where over the centuries hundreds of thousands of Christians | |
06:26 | fell into slavery, like the Christians who | |
06:31 | were conquered in Spain, that three quarters | |
06:36 | of a millennium: for 750 years it was occupied by Muslims, | |
06:41 | so that even today every fourth word in Spanish has an Arabic influence — | |
06:46 | So we have, as Christians, namely out of love | |
06:51 | for the Savior, the duty to preserve our faith | |
06:57 | and to preserve also the faith that was entrusted to us. | |
07:02 | So, in the name of Catholic social teaching, I would like to openly | |
07:07 | put to our politicians the demand that | |
07:12 | they take in Christians, but where non-Christians | |
07:17 | are concerned, finance shelters for them in other countries. | |
07:22 | And when the politicians don’t do it, | |
07:27 | then I encourage all the Christians not to be impressed by the warnings, | |
07:30 | also by those put forward by bishops, | |
07:38 | and go to the great rallies [PEGIDA]. It’s totally clear that | |
07:43 | among them radicals are also mixed with normal protesters, people | |
07:48 | who look for a fight. So it can always… the press will always | |
07:53 | be able to destroy separate groups, but | |
07:58 | we love our Catholic Faith. It is sad | |
08:03 | that we — in the Muslim world up until now — | |
08:06 | are able to proselytize so little. | |
08:14 | An old missionary in India, who recently passed away, | |
08:19 | told me that during his life he baptized about | |
08:24 | four to five thousand Indians — especially the natives [in India]. | |
08:29 | Always when he built a church — first a school | |
08:34 | then a church — and a tiny village around it, he transferred it | |
08:39 | to a younger missionary and he would then move on with a couple of families. | |
08:45 | He told me at this occasion, that in his life in India he | |
08:50 | was able to baptize only a handful of Muslims, because they were scared | |
08:55 | of being rejected or killed by their families. | |
09:00 | We cannot close our eyes before the fact | |
09:05 | that the love of one’s neighbor has to be exercised towards everybody, | |
09:10 | but it starts in one’s own homeland, | |
09:15 | in one’s family and towards those of the same faith. Everything else is | |
09:20 | MISUNDERSTOOD LOVE OF NEIGHBOR! | |
09:26 | And so we want to pray to Saint Stephen, | |
09:31 | the martyr for the love of neighbor, | |
09:36 | that the Catholic Church in Germany wakes up, | |
09:41 | that it recognizes what the REAL LOVE OF NEIGHBOR IS! | |
09:44 | We have to preserve the tradition of our fathers, not only in the liturgy, | |
09:47 | but also in the practical behavior of Catholic social teaching, | |
09:56 | the way it was taught to us for hundreds of years, also in the defense against Islam: | |
10:01 | We love an individual Muslim: he is also our brother; we pray | |
10:07 | that he might be saved for eternity, but we also | |
10:12 | have to tell him what Jesus shared with us: that | |
10:17 | we can only be saved through Jesus, through the birth | |
10:22 | of the divine child at Christmas and our devotion to His cross. | |
10:27 | So the strength of the mission — also of | |
10:32 | the Catholics in Germany — has to return. Amen. | |
10:37 | In the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit | |
10:42 | Amen. |