The Apostate German Church

Cardinal Woelki, is the Archbishop of Cologne, Germany.  A country racked by rioting almost to the point of civil war.  The Muslim masses are rioting, raping, murdering lone Germans and burning their camps.  The Germans are rioting, beating the tar out of any Muslim they find in retaliation.  The German government is trapped between the opinion of its people and the politics of the world and wealth they are being given to host these immigrants.  Chancellor Merkel has got to be feeling the stress!

And Woelki gives a speech, yards from where hundreds of German girls were raped by the Muslims on New Years Eve and calls for tolerance for these immigrants.

And in a twisted allegory, Woelki compares Jesus call for us to care for one another, to that of the refugees plight.

There is an argument there.  If you spiritualize Jesus' teachings, we are to care for the world, but that was never said nor asked by Jesus.  We are to care for one another, even the dogs of the faith, remembering that they are our brothers and sisters.  We are to house, feed, clothe, and witness to them.  Jesus never asked a Jew to do that for a Roman or a Scythian .....  Interesting.

That is the difference between knowing your Scripture and seeing it twisted for an end goal.

End goal?

Yeah, you had better believe he and/or Cologne are being subsidized by the UNHCR - the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which oversees the rescue and settlement in host countries of refugees.  And these days no one is going to take 10,000 refugees without some Deutsche Marks attached to the deal ....  Which by the way, more than likely came from your tax money paid to your government.

What follows is a translation of the address, read it - consider how reasonable it sounds - then put it into context and see how damning this propaganda piece really is.

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Transcript:

00:02		In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
00:09		Amen. May peace be with you. — And with your Spirit.
00:19		Dear sisters, dear brothers, I wholeheartedly welcome you
00:23		to the celebration of our Feast of Corpus Christi here in the Roncalli Square.
00:30		A boat, a refugee boat from the Mediterranean sea.
00:37		What business is that supposed to have with Corpus Christi?
00:41		Both, monstrance and this boat, they have carried Christ.
00:51		The monstrance carried Christ in the form of the Eucharist bread.
00:59		The boat carried Christ in the form of the poor.
01:05		That is why it is dear to me that this boat today is our altar.
01:11		This boat, with hundreds of refugees, with women and children, and elderly people,
01:19		that was drifting in the Mediterranean sea, until it was detected, and the people were saved.
01:25		“Did you recognize me?”, Christ will ask us one day.
01:30		“Did you recognize me in the form of the transformed bread;
01:35		did you recognize me when I was a refugee and came to your country?”
01:50		Dear sisters, dear brothers.
01:55		Nothing unusual for a town by the Rhine, such a ship.
02:02		For 737 years now in our town the feast of Corpus Christi has been observed with special festivity.
02:14		In this long history, the procession of 1945 is unforgotten,
02:25		Which paraded through the ruins of our inner city, almost completely destroyed by war.
02:32		Trusting that God’s love outlasts all vicissitudes of history, and human distress,
02:41		the citizens of Cologne back then professed their belief in the steady presence of Jesus Christ
02:50		in the sacrament of the Holy Communion.
02:54		The misery and the loss of loved ones were impossible to overlook.
03:00		The consequences of the catastrophe of the Nazi dictatorship were impossible to overlook,
03:06		and with it the consequences of the war.
03:10		In this hour such, or similar, catastrophes take place.
03:19		These days it is easier for us than back then, after the war, to distance ourselves.
03:28		Today, one can simply close the newspaper.
03:35		One can simply skip over reading certain things.
03:39		One can switch off the TV, not open the social media.
03:46		See nothing, hear nothing, say nothing.
03:52		Therefore, dear sisters and brothers, we must be careful at our Feast of Corpus Christi today
04:00		at the gold, the beauty, and the dignity of the monstrance,
04:06		not to close our eyes to what it is truly about.
04:12		So when we carry the Lord through the streets of the city now,
04:16		then, dear sisters and brothers, we must — in the monstrance,
04:22		in the Eucharistic form of the bread —
04:26		recognize and heed his maltreated body, his maltreated face, his wounds,
04:36		in the faces and in the bodies of the people of today.
04:44		And we must act accordingly!
04:47		We will not let ourselves be prohibited from speaking!
04:50		It is nearly a year ago that on this wonderful square, in the shadow of our cathedral,
04:57		in pouring rain, we remembered with 23,000 bell tolls the dead
05:04		who have since the year 2000 lost their lives on their flight across the Mediterranean Sea.
05:12		3,327 deaths have since been added to that, according to the refugee relief organization UNHCR.
05:25		Drowned and murdered.
05:28		Whose hopes, whose sorrow, whose dreams and grief,
05:33		whose families and stories God alone knows.
05:39		The waves of the Mediterranean Sea have closed over them.
05:43		3,327 people have perished in boats like this!
05:54		The pictures that you can now see in newspapers and on TV,
06:00		overcrowded and keeling over, they strike right into the center of the heart.
06:06		They must strike the heart
06:09		of European society, dedicated to peace and human rights.
06:17		The people who were in this boat, hardly conceivable, a hundred of them,
06:27		who set out across the sea, they were found and saved, a coincidence, a blessing.
06:39		This boat becomes our altar today.
06:44		The altar is an allegory, a symbol, of the Lord himself.
06:51		He is right there in this boat!
06:54		In this boat that trafficked people, young and old, women and men, across the Mediterranean sea.
07:01		So when, in a few moments, we carry the body of the Lord, that was sacrificed on the cross,
07:08		in the monstrance through the streets of our town,
07:12		then it is the same body
07:17		that we meet in the streets, in the poor, in the torrents of the sea,
07:24		in the unaccompanied minor refugees,
07:27		in the terminally ill, in the traumatised children from regions of civil war,
07:35		in their desperate mothers, and abducted fathers,
07:39		in every woman, in every man, in every child that hopes for a future.
07:46		Their cry for justice, their cry for dignity, their cry for freedom.
07:55		It is God’s cry!
07:58		Let us hear it!
08:01		Because, dear sisters and brothers, whoever lets people drown in the Mediterranean sea, lets God drown.
08:09		A hundred times, a thousand times!
08:12		Whoever tortures people to death in camps, tortures God to death!
08:17		A thousand and a many thousand times!
08:21		Every death, a death of God!
08:25		That is why one day, Christ will ask us:
08:28		“Did you recognize me? Did you truly recognize me?
08:33		In the body of the transformed bread.”
08:37		“Did you recognize me? Truly recognize me? When I was a refugee and came to your town, your country.”
08:45		“Did you recognize me? Truly recognize me? When I needed your help as I was drowning in the sea.”
08:53		And, dear sisters and dear brothers, when we do this, then the Evangel will become alive, today.
09:02		And what happened back then, happens today, too:
09:07		“They all ate and were satisfied.”
09:12		Amen.