“Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.” Proverbs 21:9.

As a pastor, I have encountered many men whose lives are made to be a form of living hell because of their wives. These men usually handle it in different ways.

Some become absolute shells of men, who, though they would get some measure of respect in their profession, anyone who sees them around their wife immediately recognises who rules the roost, and they can see the visible signs of it in the man’s hunched shoulders.

Think Richard, in Keeping Up Appearances.

Some men react badly to a badly behaving wife and seek to tyrannise their wives. These men can become abusive in direct response to years of sexual, emotional and relational coercion, and something snaps inside of them.

Some men adjust their understanding of masculinity. They rationalise it by concluding that their wife is an “alpha” and they are just happy to be married, and they give off a modicum of being content in the situation. These women write their husbands emails of complaint, and make the decisions for him, and he is content to let it happen. His wife, or more often he, will generally tell people that he is the head, but she is the neck. Every now and then you will see a shadow in this man’s eye of pain at the level of disrespect he experiences on a daily basis.

Another subset of this previous group is men who are so lazy, emotionally, relationally, and in various other ways, that they actually do genuinely enjoy that their wife is the leader. It is easier. They have less conflict, because he simply concedes, “Yes, dear.” He probably even believes that men who say he should lead are at best closet misogynists, and he will avidly advocate his situation to anyone who asks. “We are a team,” he says, knowing full well that his wife is the Captain and the Referee.

To summarise, I have encountered more men who are dominated by their wives than men who are abusive. And I expect the numbers are far more weighted in that direction than we realise, because women are far more likely to talk about their situations than men are, and there is very little, if any, stigma for a woman to share about an abusive husband. Even in our claimed egalitarian age, it is still quite shameful for a man to admit to not being the man of his house. So many men suffer in silence and are often shut up when they try to speak.

What I want to do in this piece is address how to avoid falling into such a situation. I want to give some practical advice to men about how to stop their wife from becoming a difficult woman. It is my contention that in the right context, most women can become a difficult woman. But it is not my contention that this is necessarily the man’s fault. Women have agency, and this is often ignored by people who discuss these issues. However, that does not mean there are not things that a man can do to change that likelihood, and balance things in favour of a submissive and comparatively godly wife.

As for men whose wives have already completely subjected them? Well, perhaps they can implement some of this as well. But their job is harder, much harder. Lifelong relational patterns are hard to break out of; they do not develop overnight, nor come out of nowhere. Not every man is a leader, and not every man has the ability to change his environment. A leopard cannot change its spots, right? But God can do miracles. We live in light of these two realities. Just recognise that men in both of these situations are going to have to prepare themselves for conflict. Both, because it will happen, and secondly, because you don’t want to go too far. There are plenty of men who have gone too far in seeking to rein in a domineering woman, and they have suffered the loss of any moral authority as a result. So, be wise, gentlemen.

I want to begin with something Paul says in Titus. He gives this advice to the younger church leader,

“But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: 2 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience; 3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. 6 Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded,…” (Titus 2:1-6).

This is advice for a church leader on what he is to teach about the character of various groups within society. There are some great principles for us to draw from here in beginning this discussion.

Firstly, men, if you want to avoid your wife becoming the difficult woman, you need to recognise how much almost every woman in this society has been robbed of the kind of environment they needed to become the kind of wives that Paul envisions in this passage. For one, whether they were raised in the Church or not, they have almost certainly been raised to either not know what this passage says, or, in the case of many Christians, to actively reject it, and call some of its elements outdated and sexist. Hence, from a very early age, the vast majority of women have been raised, either explicitly or implicitly, to rebel against being the submissive woman.

The vitriol I have heard in the mouths of some women about that term “submission” is incredible. I can bring to mind various examples, but I was once sitting at a conference lunch table just listening to the conversation around me, and the way one of the women just spat out how much she hated teaching that women should submit to husbands was quite telling. Especially considering it had nothing to do with any of the conference talks. I had no idea how the topic came up. She is only one example. I have seen this countless times.

Men, look at this: “3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behaviour, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things…” You need to recognise that most older women who surrounded your potential wife or wife as they developed into a woman did not fall into any of these categories. Women like Paul describes do exist. I know plenty, but you have to look for them. In fact, our culture kind of likes to brag about women not being reverent. It rewards women who slander either their competition or even the men in their life, for at least sympathy from their friends, or worse, to gain his possessions. The wine-bibbing older woman is a staple represented in film and media. And “teachers of good things…” What have the vast majority of women been given over to teaching, since feminism became the dominant ideology, not just of our women, but of society in general?

So, you need to start from this basis: the woman in your life, who you want to marry, or are married to, has been terribly robbed by a culture that had no intention of teaching her how to be a good wife. In fact, the term “the good wife” has become a derogatory term in our modern culture.

So successful has been the Luciferian-inspired feminist movement that even many Christians think of the biblical wife as a lesser thing. You need to start from this basis. Just assume that, to some degree, your wife’s social context, her education, likely her family environment, and more, are antagonistic in some way towards her being the kind of wife you might have expected.

What Paul advises is that the older women need to be “reverent” and “teachers of good things…” He is not contradicting his teaching in other letters where he says that men should direct the teaching in the church, because he goes on to explain what he means: “4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,…” In other words, Paul is saying that the older women need to be respectfully focused on teaching the younger women to fulfil their role. How the church needs this today, in increasing measure.

Hence, men, now that you have recognised that your wife has been robbed of the kind of encouragement and upbringing that most women of previous generations got, you need to find a church environment where she is going to be surrounded by older women who will teach her these things. If, and these women do exist, she learnt this from her mother and her mother is still a part of her life, then that is a boon to you. That is something to celebrate. Feminism has not achieved full acceptance in every household; hence there are oases in this cultural desert. But still, you need to be intentional about this.

You need to recognise that the divorce rate in the churches being roughly similar to the divorce rate in the culture is not an accident. It comes about in large part because most Christians simply do not have a Christian worldview. I cannot get this across to you strongly enough; you need to know this: the men I know who are going through either the destruction of their marriage or their marriage turning into a sexless wasteland all have something in common: they usually stopped going to church, meaning that their wife’s social context got shrunk down to her co-workers and other secular contexts. And many of them were part of churches where the women were dominant over the men, and hence their church context was not very different to secular contexts anyway.

A lot of men think they don’t need church. And, there are probably a small minority of Christian couples out there who are in this situation who can keep a relatively good marriage, while living an unbalanced Christian lifestyle; for it is impossible to be a healthy Christian and ignore the one-another passages in the Bible, that assume we are living in the context of the fellowship of believers. But the overwhelming observational evidence points to the opposite effect. Men, you might not feel the need for church. Your desire for interaction with other people, with whom you disagree on a host of things, will likely go down as you age. But if your wife is disconnected from an environment where other women are going to teach her how to better love and respect you, then you will suffer for it. Many men overlook this, and they suffer as a result.

Similarly, if you are in a church environment which encourages your wife to live like the world, it will have a similar effect. I have lost count of the number of men who have told me that their wife’s divorced friends have ruined their own marriage. This is a well-known phenomenon. The reason that divorce statistics are as high in the church as outside is simply that many Christians ignore what the Bible says about marriage and think that flying a Jesus bumper sticker on their car will make all the difference. But it won’t. Christianity is not the religion of lucky charms. As much as this kind of thinking often seeps back in. Exceptional men might be able to make up the difference themselves; the average Christian man needs this environment for his wife to aid him and his wife in their marriage.

You need to be intentional about spending serious amounts of time with other families who take what Paul says to Titus seriously. And, if the pastor’s wife, or elder’s wives, scorn what the scriptures say here, then you can be certain that your chances of facing a world of hurt in marriage will increase. Hence, to avoid having a difficult wife, find a church gathering where the older women “admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,…” It is more important than cool music. It is more important than a cool youth program. It is more important than many of the surface things people look for in the church. And those surface things can exist within a church that does this well, but they do not necessarily go together.

You might find it strange that Titus has to “teach or admonish” the older women to love their husbands. But just consider how many women will kill their children in the womb given the chance? Now consider how many women will kick out the father of their children if given the chance? Here are just two indications that Paul, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, understood that loving her children and husband is something that a lot of women need coaching and teaching in. Just as many men need to be trained to love their wives. Paul also shows us that it is older women who will be the primary teachers in this role, not their husbands. It is natural for women to seek the counsel of other, wiser, older women. If your wife is surrounded by bad women, then you will suffer. You will both suffer.

This goes just as much for her being chaste and discreet. There is a bit of a misunderstanding in our culture that men are more obsessed with sex than women. Two things show this is not the case: (1) Go to the beach and look at how most women will dress if social pressure or character does not restrain them, and (2) Look at how women’s soft, and not so soft, porn dominates that reading market. Women and men are both created to be and are sexual creatures. If your wife does not have good influences in this regard, there is a strong possibility she will put herself on display for other men. This culture has trained her to do it.

If a husband has an attractive and desirable wife, which all men want, other men will be interested in her. There is nothing you can do about that. But you can challenge her for flirting with them. But even better if she has responsible, attractive and reverent older women to challenge her in this regard for you.

A lot of women want to be good wives, but as women are highly social creatures that are very impressionable by their environment, they can come under terrible influences from their friends. Be thoughtful about this. Her flirtatious, vivacious personality might have drawn you to her, but if this is not properly turned into discretion in your marriage, you might find yourself in for real trouble. There are countless men who do not give two hoots that she is your wife. She needs direction from wiser women on this as well.

And, of course, this last one is rejected by most Christians: “good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.” I could tell you stories of even pastors’ wives who scorn this one. I could tell you accounts of older men and women who think this is too limiting for their grand-daughters or daughters. But I don’t have to. You know this one is under attack from society and the church. Some consider it sexist, out-of-date advice; others consider it an unachievable goal that pastors should be embarrassed to hold to, because it is out of reach to most working people today. Others just don’t care what the Bible says, whether Christian or not, and still others would like to follow this command but don’t know how.

If your wife is in an environment where the women scorn this verse, remind yourself that she and her friends were robbed of the culture that trained women to do this well, and acknowledge how she and you are being robbed, at the present moment, by our culture. Titus would not have to tell older women to teach this to younger women if it just came by nature. It doesn’t, at least not all of it. Humans have some level of inborn instinct, but most of what we learn has to be taught, and it can be untaught between the generations.

The culture of women being culture-bearers in the home has been effectively cut off. Even many women who would like to do this find themselves struggling to find other women to partner in doing it with them, because all their friends work during the day. Many of them are having to learn the skills of being productive in the home from scratch.

Even simple things like nutritious, affordable meals are a skill many women are re-learning. If you just ask your wife to be a homemaker, which is her role and you both believe it is, but you leave her to figure out all this on her own, then you might find her getting frustrated and restless in the home, and this has caused many problems for families and husbands. Even the desire to do things God’s way can go wrong without good discipleship.

I find it interesting how many women who do homeschooling, for instance, want to join co-ops of other women to help their kids learn in community. I thought it was supposed to be about schooling in the home? Often, these groups fracture because you have highly independent-minded people seeking to come together for a joint effort, a bit like Baptist church plants.

But the reason they do this is because of the strong desire for the women’s village that most women grew up in, throughout history. Our society has stripped that away from most women, and so doing things God’s way can be a lot harder. Just like it is harder for a man to keep a pure mind when half the women around him dress like they are selling themselves…which in many ways they are.

You need to actively make sure you are reinforcing these standards in your home, but that you are in an environment where others will reinforce them for you. And, by the grace of God, your wife will develop into the kind of woman who can help train other women in this. Which is why it is important to note that Paul says this to young men, “6 Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded…” It is a very brief statement, compared to what he says for the young women. But consider what he is saying.

Many young men do not approach life in a serious way. In fact, many men take some time to develop into their masculine role of providers and guardians of their home. This is why car insurance is more expensive for young men, well into their 20’s. But the sooner you learn to approach these things seriously and diligently, the better off you will be.

But this also helps a man with his wife. Because his wife is much more likely to take him seriously if he takes himself seriously. She is also much more likely to take him seriously if other men, and other women, take him seriously. Men who cut their family and their wives off from a good church often get themselves in trouble in this area. Women like to see their men flourish amongst other men.

A lot of men think all they need to do is their job and centre their life around their wife. But these men show they have no understanding of feminine nature. Women want to see their husband measure up well against other men. If he doesn’t, this diminishes her view of him, and he is more likely to find he has a difficult wife. This one happens so often. Sure, there are exceptions; they can be found in the comments sections of discussions like this across the world. But don’t think you are so special as to be among the exceptions; you likely won’t be.

Take yourself seriously, take your faith seriously, take your wife’s social environment seriously. Many men think more of the social environment of their kids than their wife, and that is their biggest mistake. They often don’t even realise it is a mistake until their kids are out of the home and the wife has gone off to discover herself, because her reading club or co-workers convinced her to, that it is her right.

A lot more could be said about this issue. Men, you have been failed by our culture too, in many ways. Especially in the area of learning how to steward a wife. Most people are never taught this, and the most they learn is from their home environment, which can be hit and miss. And in a culture of broken homes is much more miss than hit.

I just want to briefly mention one more area before I conclude: sex.

Solomon says this,

“Drink water from your own cistern, And running water from your own well. 16 Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets? 17 Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth. 19 As a loving deer and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And always be enraptured with her love. 20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?” (Prov. 5:15-20).

Many men think that the key to pleasing their wife is being subservient to her. But it is not. I believe women are partially hardwired to joyfully follow a good man if she is trained by other women to do this well. I say partially because the fall has corrupted men and women. I think if a man follows the principles in this article that come from Scripture, his wife is more likely to want to follow him, and they are more likely to forge together well.

But don’t neglect sex in this equation, either. God has conditioned us to desire sex, enjoy sex and even regularly crave sex, both men and women – unless, of course, something has gone terribly wrong, which can happen in this world. If you build a healthy physical craving for each other, by stewarding this well early in your marriage, it will help bond you both together. Some men ruin this with porn, or he or his wife puts on weight, or the wife’s desire is ruined by antidepressants, or some other issues can get in the way. But if you are diligent in being “enraptured” in each other’s love, you will likely still have conflict, but you will come back together as one.

This area is overlooked as a powerful remedy to conflict. A woman who sexually desires her husband is much more willing to want to follow him. She might get things wrong. You might get things wrong. But work, intentionally, to stir up this desire. It will help you more than you know.

If this tap has run dry in your marriage, you will already know how it draws a chasm between both of you. This means you will have to work harder to get back to where you should be. But I think these principles can set you on the right track to getting back to a good place.

Of course, you can seek to do the right things, and your marriage can still fail. We live on the wrong side of paradise, so things can still go wrong. I do not believe that because a woman turns bad it is guaranteed to be her husband’s fault. It can be. But it could also be that you married a bad one. They exist too. But generally speaking, there are good and wise things a man can do to help his marriage have a better chance of success, and telling him to be more of a domesticated and neutered servant, based on a demented understanding of “laying down his life”, is the wrong advice.

Palestinian and Arab minority parties in Israel are gearing up for "the mother of all elections" this fall, as they try to oust a right-wing government they say is racist and a threat to their safety. Their biggest challenge may be divisions amongst themselves, however.

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The National Guard was just the beginning.

One year after President Trump deployed military troops to the nation’s capital, we find ourselves navigating a posse comitatus presidency in which the visual trappings of martial law are the norm, not the exception.

When Trump declared a supposed “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C., called in the National Guard, unleashed federal law enforcement throughout the city and temporarily seized control of the Metropolitan Police Department, we warned that the police state had found a new playbook: martial law, one city at a time.

The emergency is long over.

The troops never left.

Now the Pentagon says the National Guard deployment can remain in Washington until January 20, 2029 — the final day of Trump’s presidency — unless Trump himself decides to terminate it sooner.

That is not an emergency response.

That is a standing military presence.

The government expects American taxpayers to spend another $1.4 billion maintaining it.

What began in August 2025 as an extraordinary response to a supposedly “extraordinary” crime crisis has become part of the architecture of everyday government.

Thousands of military personnel have remained deployed in the capital. Armed Guard members patrol streets, Metro stations, parks and tourist attractions. They have supported arrest operations. They have responded to medical calls. They have shoveled snow. They have removed trash and weeds and participated in “beautification” projects.

During the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations, their numbers swelled to roughly 5,000.

Now the Trump administration is making plans to build “apartment-style lodging units” for the troops stationed in DC at a cost of $292 million to the taxpayer.

That is in addition to the $1 billion Trump wants for White House security upgrades, including a new ballroom topped by a proposed “droneport” that he has envisioned as a rooftop staging ground for military trucks, personnel and battlefield weaponry.

The symbolism is hard to miss.

This is how emergency power grabs become entrenched and permanent.

We do not have to speculate about where this leads.

We have already begun to see it.

When Trump federalized California National Guard troops and deployed Marines to Los Angeles during protests against immigration raids in 2025, a federal judge subsequently ruled that the administration had violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using military personnel to carry out civilian law-enforcement functions.

In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer warned that the administration appeared intent on creating something the Constitution was never meant to tolerate: a national police force with the president effectively serving as its chief.

That description increasingly fits the Trump presidency.

Trump is not merely claiming authority as commander-in-chief over America’s military. He is increasingly behaving as though being commander-in-chief makes him commander-in-chief of the American people.

It is a profound, constitutional difference.

A president governs citizens. A commander commands troops. A police chief directs law enforcement. A king commands subjects.

The danger begins when one man starts behaving as though all four offices belong to him.

Trump has increasingly embraced his own digital version of that authoritarian theater.

Just days ago, he circulated an AI-generated image depicting himself in an elaborate military uniform alongside Generals George S. Patton and Douglas MacArthur, laden with decorations and medals he never earned for military service he never performed.

It would be tempting to dismiss such images as narcissistic internet trolling.

That would be a mistake.

This is how Trump sees presidential power: as authoritarian power backed by military force.

The National Guard deployment in Washington is the physical embodiment of that worldview.

Armed soldiers are stationed around the monuments. They guard the perimeter of the Reflecting Pool. They patrol the National Mall. They appear at Metro stations, tourist sites and public parks.

Their presence is no longer presented as extraordinary. That is precisely the problem.

A free people should never become accustomed to soldiers policing their streets. Once that sight becomes ordinary, the constitutional barrier separating military power from civilian government has already begun to collapse.

And Washington is the ideal laboratory as a testing ground.

What can be normalized in the capital today can be demanded elsewhere tomorrow.

Indeed, we have already seen repeated attempts to expand the model beyond Washington: federalized National Guard troops in Los Angeles, attempted Guard deployments elsewhere, federal agents sent into cities, immigration enforcement increasingly carried out with military equipment and rhetoric, and presidential threats to “liberate” jurisdictions whose elected leaders resist federal policy.

Not every deployment has survived judicial scrutiny.

That is encouraging, but the real danger is larger than whether any particular deployment is eventually blocked by a court. The danger is that the country is being conditioned to accept the premise behind all of them: that whenever the president declares a city dangerous, disorderly, disobedient or insufficiently cooperative, military force is an appropriate instrument of domestic government.

That premise should frighten conservatives and liberals alike.

This is not fundamentally a question of whether you trust Donald Trump. It is whether you trust any president with a standing military force at his disposal for domestic political purposes.

The Constitution was not written on the assumption that good people would always hold power. It was written because power attracts abuse.

Every authority surrendered to Trump becomes an authority available to his successors. Every emergency power normalized now becomes part of the presidential toolbox later. Every constitutional boundary ignored because the “right” president is violating it becomes one less boundary available when the “wrong” president takes office.

This is how republics lose their safeguards: One deployment. One emergency. One executive order. One city. One exception at a time.

As we have warned repeatedly in Battlefield America: The War on the American People and its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, that is how constitutional lines disappear — not because someone formally erases them, but because enough people stop noticing when they are crossed.

The Founders feared standing armies because they understood that military power and political liberty exist in constant tension.

The Posse Comitatus Act reflects that same hard-earned wisdom.

Soldiers defend the country. Police enforce the law. Presidents execute the laws within constitutional limits.

Citizens are not troops. Cities are not battlefields. Political opponents are not enemy combatants. And the president is not the American people’s commander-in-chief. He is commander-in-chief of the armed forces.

That distinction may be one of the few things standing between a constitutional republic and a police state presidency.

We had better remember it before the exception becomes the rule — and the troops never go home.

Source: https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_posse_comitatus_presidency_trumps_standing_army_on_american_streets

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Uma colisão rodoviária envolvendo cinco veículos provocou, ao final da manhã deste domingo, 16 de agosto, seis feridos ligeiros na Estrada Nacional 246 (EN246), ao quilómetro 42,691, na zona de Mosteiros, concelho de Arronches, distrito de Portalegre.

O alerta para a ocorrência foi dado pelas 11h49. Das seis vítimas assistidas no local pelos meios de socorro, cinco acabaram por ser transportadas para a unidade hospitalar da região, segundo o Corpo de Bombeiros de Arronches.

Nas operações de socorro e assistência no teatro de operações estiveram empenhados diversos meios:

Corpo de Bombeiros de Arronches:
– 3 Ambulâncias de Socorro (ABSC)
– 1 Veículo Ligeiro de Combate a Incêndios (VLCI) com valência de desencarceramento
– 1 Veículo de Comando (VCOT)
– 12 operacionais, incluindo 2 elementos de comando

Outras entidades e forças de segurança:
– Bombeiros Voluntários de Portalegre (1 ambulância)
– INEM (2 Viaturas Médicas de Emergência e Reanimação – VMER)
– Serviço Municipal de Proteção Civil de Arronches
– Autoridade Nacional de Emergência e Proteção Civil (ANEPC)
– Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR)

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Vila Real de Santo António (VRSA) não é uma localidade comum, pois nasceu em 1774 de um plano geométrico quase obsessivo do Marquês de Pombal.

O seu principal objetivo era marcar a fronteira portuguesa frente à Espanha. E rapidamente! Daí que VRSA tenha demorado apenas cerca de… dois anos a ser construída.

No século XVIII, a unidade de medida padrão para desenhar ruas e edifícios era o palmo de craveira, que equivalia a exatamente 22 centímetros.

Como o Iluminismo exigia uma simetria perfeita, o coração de VRSA reflete essa regra ao milímetro, sendo que cada um dos lados da atual Praça do Marquês de Pombal mede rigorosamente 330 palmos, o que dá cerca de 72,6 metros.

Isso permitiu que toda a malha urbana passasse do papel à realidade num tempo recorde, num feito de engenharia militar e planeamento sem precedentes para a época.

A nível geográfico, este concelho possui uma curiosa característica.

Conta com três freguesias, mas a de Vila Nova de Cacela está fisicamente isolada das restantes.

Isto significa que para ir de Monte Gordo ou da sede do concelho até Cacela é obrigatório atravessar a freguesia de Altura, que pertence ao concelho vizinho de Castro Marim, funcionando como uma verdadeira “ilha” territorial.

Outro elemento curioso é o facto de, embora ostentando a designação de Vila, VRSA é, na verdade, uma cidade, tendo obtido esse estatuto em 11de março de 1988.

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A heavy downpour hit the region of eastern Mani in southern Peloponnese on Saturday turning roads into rushing torrents of mud, causing incalculable damage to properties, vehicles and infrastructure One woman was hit by a lighting while she was driving her car. She has been transported to a hospital for treatment, her life is reportedly […]

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Two people have died and at least nine suffered burn injuries during the wildfire that broke on the island of Salamina close to Athens in the early afternoon on Sunday, August 16, 2016. The fire allegedly broke out in two fronts in Peristeria and Selinia within 15 minutes. According to initial information, the first fire […]

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droni britannici colpiscono in profondità nel territorio russo per la prima volta — The Sunday Times

• L’Ucraina ha utilizzato per la prima volta droni prodotti in Gran Bretagna per attacchi sul territorio russo. I bersagli erano raffinerie di petrolio a Volgograd e Yaroslavl.
• Il Sunday Times definisce questo un “nuovo stadio nella partnership militare” tra Londra e Kiev.
• Una fonte di alto livello del Ministero della Difesa britannico ha dichiarato che, con questi attacchi, Londra sta dimostrando a Mosca e ai suoi alleati di non essere più “preoccupata” da una possibile reazione russa.

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Agroindustriale e ingegneria sociale. Qual è il rapporto fra crisi agricola, geopolitica del cibo e sovranità alimentare? Cosa hanno prodotto le proteste dei trattori all’accordo UE-Mercosur? E’ l’ora di passare dalle denunce contro i soliti ignoti all’avvio di percorsi alternativi che possano guardare ai cambiamenti geopolitici nel cosiddetto sud globale. Ne parliamo con Mario Apicella, agronomo, cantautore e militante. Intervista a cura di Jeff Hoffman

Affrontiamo insieme:

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Uma pessoa morreu e cinco ficaram gravemente feridas na sequência do despiste de um automóvel em Cebolais de Baixo, no concelho de Castelo Branco, segundo a Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR).

A vítima mortal é uma jovem de 25 anos. Os cinco feridos graves têm idades compreendidas entre os 18 e os 30 anos.

O alerta para a ocorrência foi dado às 7h26. Para o local do acidente foram mobilizados 26 operacionais apoiados por meios dos Bombeiros, do Instituto Nacional de Emergência Médica (INEM) e da Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR).

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O conteúdo Acidente grave em Cebolais de Baixo faz um morto e cinco feridos graves aparece primeiro em OS MONHACAS.

Mons. Athanasius Schneider, durante un’intervista dello scorso 6 marzo 2016 (il cui testo completo in italiano è su Chiesa e postconcilio), ha parlato anche del Cammino Neocatecumenale.

Original English text: here on Rorate Caeli blog.

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Il Cammino Neocatecumenale è una comunità Protestante-Ebraica

Mr. Fülep: mentre la tradizione viene perseguitata, ci sono certi nuovi movimenti moderni che vengono invece sostenuti parecchio. Uno di questi è la comunità di Kiko. Quale è la sua opinione sul Cammino Neocatecumenale?[11]

Mons. Schneider: si tratta di un fenomeno molto triste e complesso. Per dirla apertamente: è un cavallo di Troia nella Chiesa. Li conosco molto bene perché per loro sono stato delegato apostolico per parecchi anni in Kazakhstan, a Karagandà. Ed ho assistito alle loro Messe e ai loro incontri, e ho letto gli scritti di Kiko, il loro fondatore, per cui li conosco bene. Parlando apertamente, senza diplomazia, dico che il Neocatecumenato è una comunità Protestante-Ebraica[12] all’interno della Chiesa, che di cattolico ha solo la decorazione. L’aspetto più pericoloso riguarda l’Eucarestia, poiché l’Eucarestia è il cuore della Chiesa. Quando il cuore è in pessimo stato, l’intero corpo è in un pessimo stato. Per il Neocatecumenato, l’Eucarestia è principalmente un banchetto fraterno. Quest’attitudine è Protestante, tipicamente Luterana.[13] I neocatecumenali rigettano il concetto e l’insegnamento che l’Eucarestia sia un vero sacrificio. Addirittura affermano che l’insegnamento tradizionale, e il credere che l’Eucarestia sia un sacrificio, sarebbe qualcosa di non cristiano ma pagàno.[14] Questo è completamente assurdo, questo è tipicamente Luterano e Protestante. Durante le loro liturgie eucaristiche trattano il Santissimo Sacramento in una maniera talmente banale, che certe volte è orribile.[15] Si siedono mentre ricevono la Santa Comunione, e disperdono frammenti perché non se ne curano, e dopo la Comunione ballano anziché pregare e adorare Gesù in silenzio. È questo che è realmente mondano, pagàno, naturalistico.

Mr. Fülep: il problema potrebbe non essere solo pratico…

Mons. Schneider: il secondo pericolo è la loro ideologia. L’idea principale del Neocatecumenato, stando al loro fondatore Kiko Argüello, è la seguente: la Chiesa avrebbe avuto una vita ideale solo fino all’epoca di Costantino, nel quarto secolo – solo questa sarebbe stata la vera Chiesa. E con Costantino la Chiesa avrebbe cominciato a degenerare: degenerazione dottrinale, liturgica e morale.[16] E la Chiesa avrebbe raggiunto il peggio di questa degenerazione dottrinale e liturgica nei decreti del Concilio di Trento. In realtà è vero l’esatto contrario di tale opinione: il Concilio di Trento è stato uno dei più alti momenti della storia della Chiesa proprio a causa della chiarezza dottrinale e disciplinare. Secondo Kiko, l’epoca oscura della Chiesa sarebbe durata dal quarto secolo fino al Concilio Vaticano II. Sarebbe stato solo grazie al Vaticano II che la luce sarebbe giunta nella Chiesa. Questa è un’eresia perché vorrebbe insinuare che lo Spirito Santo avrebbe abbandonato la Chiesa. Ed è davvero settario e molto in linea con Martin Lutero, il quale disse che fino a lui stesso la Chiesa era nell’oscurità e che solo attraverso lui stesso la luce sarebbe tornata nella Chiesa. La posizione di Kiko è fondamentalmente uguale, solo che Kiko postula l’epoca oscura della Chiesa da Costantino al Vaticano II. Così i neocatecumenali fraintendono il Concilio Vaticano II. Dicono di essere apostoli del Vaticano II, per giustificare tutte le loro pratiche eretiche e gli insegnamenti eretici. Questo è un grave abuso.

Mr. Fülep: com’è possibile che questa comunità sia stata ufficialmente ammessa dalla Chiesa?

Mons. Schneider: questa è un’altra tragedia. Hanno costituito una potente lobby in Vaticano da almeno trent’anni. E c’è un altro inganno: in molti eventi ostentano ai vescovi parecchi frutti di conversione e molte vocazioni. Molti vescovi sono resi ciechi da tali “frutti”, e non notano gli errori e non li esaminano. I neocatecumenali hanno famiglie con molti figli, ed hanno un alto livello morale nella vita familiare. Questo è certamente un buon risultato, ma c’è anche la pratica esagerata di imporre alle famiglie di avere quanti più figli è possibile. Questo non è salutare. Loro affermano di accettare la Humanae Vitae,[17] e questo è certamente un bene. Ma in fin dei conti è certamente un’illusione, perché ci sono anche moltissimi gruppi Protestanti nel mondo di oggi con un alto livello morale, che hanno anche un gran numero di figli, e che vanno a protestare contro l’ideologia gender e l’omosessualità, e che pure accettano la Humanae Vitae. Per me, perciò, non è un criterio decisivo di verità! Esistono un sacco di comunità Protestanti che convertono tanti peccatori, gente che viveva nei vizi come alcolismo e droga. Per cui i frutti di conversione non li ritengo un criterio decisivo e non inviterei questi buoni gruppi Protestanti a fare apostolato nella mia diocesi. Cosa che è invece l’illusione di tanti vescovi, che sono ammaliati dai cosiddetti frutti.

Mr. Fülep: quanto alla dottrina, quale è la pietra d’inciampo?

Mons. Schneider: è la dottrina sull’Eucarestia. È quella il cuore. È un errore guardare prima ai frutti e poi non preoccuparsi della dottrina e della liturgia. Sono sicuro che verrà il tempo in cui la Chiesa oggettivamente esaminerà questa organizzazione in profondità, senza la pressione delle lobby del Cammino Neocatecumenale, e i loro errori dottrinali e liturgici verranno davvero alla luce.

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Note – di Dániel Fülep

[11] Il Cammino Neocatecumenale (talvolta detto “neocatecumenato”) è un’organizzazione dedita alla formazione religiosa dei fedeli. È stato fondato a Madrid nel 1964 da Kiko Argüello and Carmen Hernández.

[12] Le comunità neocatecumenali mescolano nella liturgia della Chiesa elementi Protestanti ed Ebraici.

[13] Il movimento neocatecumenale per lungo tempo ha desiderato ricevere dalla Congregazione per il Culto Divino e la Disciplina dei Sacramenti l’approvazione dei propri abusi liturgici. Ma in seguito a consultazioni con la Congregazione, fu il Pontificio Consiglio per i Laici ad approvare prima lo Statuto e poi il Direttorio Catechetico e le pratiche non liturgiche. Il decreto del 20 gennaio 2012, infatti, non ha nulla a che vedere con le “innovazioni” liturgiche del Cammino Neocatecumenale, che dovrebbero essere immediatamente terminate perché sono contro le leggi universali della Chiesa e contro la pratica della Chiesa.

“Prima Comunione” neocatecumenale: l’Eucarestia trattata come se fosse uno snack

[14] Il Concilio di Trento (1545–1563) dichiarò come dogma di fede, in opposizione alla concezione Protestante, che il Sacrificio della Santa Messa comprende un elemento propiziatorio (Enchiridion Symbolorum Denzinger-Schönmetzer, nr. 1743, 1753, cioè la sess. XXII, in particolare il cap. II). Il sacrificio è stato ordinato da Cristo stesso. Non è semplicemente commemorazione, glorificazione e rendimento di grazie, ma un vero sacrificio propiziatorio per i vivi e per i defunti. Tuttavia il fatto che la Messa è un vero sacrificio non significa che deve essere ripetuto esattamente il sacrificio di Cristo: la Chiesa non trasforma il sacrificio di Cristo in un sacrificio umano pagano. Il sacrificio della Santa Messa non è la replica del sacrificio della Croce, ma è l’unico sacrificio di Cristo reso presente sotto i segni sacramentali. In questo senso è “commemorazione”, in cui la realtà del sacramento stesso è presente (DS 1740). Cristo è lo stesso sacerdote nella Santa Messa così come sulla croce (DS 1743).

[15] La liturgia del Cammino Neocatecumenale non segue l’Ordinamento Generale del Messale Romano, né le altre norme liturgiche, ma contiene delle proprie “innovazioni”. La pratica liturgica del Cammino è zeppa di abusi: infatti il Vaticano ha richiamato il movimento neocatecumenale su problemi quali le omelie dei laici durante la Messa, il ballo dei fedeli durante la liturgia, il fatto di star seduti durante la ricezione della Santa Comunione, il passarsi di mano in mano un enorme calice col sangue di Cristo… Le norme sulla musica sacra vengono totalmente ignorate. Un altro problema è che il Cammino separa i fedeli dalla parrocchia e dalla Chiesa: la Santa Messa domenicale, già piena di abusi, viene celebrata di sabato sera come “messa privata” della comunità neocatecumenale, tipicamente non in chiesa ma in un posto profano, come le salette comunitarie.

[16] Il 13 giugno 313 Costantino promulgò l’Editto di Milano che terminò le persecuzioni dei cristiani e riconobbe il cristianesimo come una religione lecita nell’impero romano. Nel 315 terminò anche l’uso delle esecuzioni mediante crocifissione, e garantì alla Chiesa tutti i privilegi di cui già godevano le religioni pagane. Nel 321 Costantino dichiarò festivo il giorno della domenica. In qualità di monarca assoluto, permise lo stabilirsi di una base istituzionale per la Chiesa in tutto l’impero a partire dal 324: la struttura istituzionale della Chiesa e il suo rafforzarsi nel campo sociale e politico, così come l’alleanza fra trono e altare, vennero considerati dai Protestanti come una vittoria del paganesimo.

[17] La Humanae vitae è un’enciclica di Paolo VI promulgata il 25 giugno 1968 in cui viene riaffermato l’insegnamento tradizionale della Chiesa Cattolica riguardo l’amore coniugale, la paternità responsabile e il rifiuto di pressoché tutte le forme di controllo delle nascite.

L'articolo Il Cammino Neocatecumenale, cavallo di Troia nella Chiesa proviene da Blondet & Friends.

O átrio do Cineteatro Jaime Pinto acolhe durante o mês de agosto a exposição “Inspirações”, uma mostra que reúne os trabalhos desenvolvidos pelos jovens que integram o Espaço Inclusão, resposta social promovida em parceria pelo Município de São Brás de Alportel e pela Santa Casa da Misericórdia de São Brás de Alportel, integrada atualmente no âmbito do CLDS 5G – Contratos Locais de Desenvolvimento Social (5.ª Geração), projeto desenvolvido no concelho sob coordenação da Sta Casa da Misericórdia. 

Inaugurada no dia 5 de agosto, a exposição convida a descobrir o resultado de um ano de aprendizagens, dedicação e crescimento pessoal, tendo como inspiração obras de grandes nomes da arte. A mostra reúne obras da autoria de Anna Byelik, Antony Barbosa, Daniel Dourado, Fábio Aleixo, Joana Lázaro, João Rosa, José Eduardo Coelho, Sandra Rosa e Tiago Beirão, participantes do Espaço Inclusão, evidenciando o talento, a criatividade e a expressão artística de cada um.

Mais do que uma exposição, “Inspirações” é um testemunho do trabalho desenvolvido ao longo do ano, promovendo a inclusão, a valorização das capacidades individuais e a participação ativa através da arte.

A exposição pode ser visitada até 31 de agosto, no átrio do Cineteatro Jaime Pinto.

A Administração Central do Sistema de Saúde, a Unidade Local de Saúde do Algarve, a Associação de Municípios Loulé/Faro e as duas autarquias assinaram esta manhã uma adenda ao Acordo Estratégico do Hospital Central do Algarve, celebrado no início do ano, com vista a assegurar as acessibilidades e infraestruturas exteriores do futuro equipamento.

Este momento, presidido pela Ministra da Saúde, Ana Paula Martins, formaliza o empenho direto dos dois Municípios na viabilização desta infraestrutura há muito aguardada na região e que se prevê esteja concluída em 2031. 

Num financiamento conjunto de 1 milhão de euros, repartido em partes iguais, pretende-se não só garantir os acessos ao Hospital e áreas de estacionamento, mas também assegurar a implementação das redes de água e esgotos, gás, eletricidade, comunicações e iluminação pública. 

Adicionalmente, foram investidos perto de 10 milhões de euros na aquisição dos terrenos no Parque das Cidades onde o hospital será edificado, estando ainda prevista a compra de mais alguns terrenos num valor que poderá rondar os 2 milhões de euros.

Enquanto porta-vozes de uma região, Telmo Pinto e António Pina destacaram a relevância deste Hospital para o Algarve e transmitiram um forte sentido de urgência para que o processo avance sem novos adiamentos.

“Um Serviço Nacional de Saúde forte e robusto é aquele que responde às necessidades reais de todas as regiões, e o Algarve, que tanto contribui para o Produto Interno Bruto deste país, que acolhe milhões de visitantes todos os anos, não pode continuar a ser a única região do país sem um Hospital Central”, afirmou o autarca de Loulé.

O edil farense, por seu turno, lembrou que os Municípios de Faro e Loulé têm vindo a ser chamados para contribuir “mais do que os outros” para este esforço, o que “não significa que os louletanos ou os farenses tenham direito a mais saúde que todos os algarvios”.

No dia em que foi dado mais um passo para esta aspiração dos algarvios, a ministra da Saúde recordou que este é um projeto com mais de 23 anos. “O Algarve, durante muito tempo, era um código postal menos presente na agenda política na área da saúde. É inadiável que o Hospital e outros processos, como garantir a cobertura nos cuidados de saúde primários em toda a região, se desenvolvam”, disse.

A responsável da pasta lembrou que o trabalho dos municípios é determinante para atrair e fixar profissionais de saúde na região e lembrou que este futuro Hospital será um dos mais relevantes do SNS pela “componente científica e de desenvolvimento em termos do cluster da saúde”. Numa região universitária, com cursos ligados à área da saúde, este Hospital trará “uma perspetiva de desenvolvimento nacional e internacional”, frisou Ana Paula Martins.

Num dia importante para a região, Tiago Botelho, presidente da ULS, anunciou que terminou há dias o concurso para escolher a entidade que vai fazer o projeto e a construção e manutenção do Hospital. O responsável agradeceu o empenho das autarquias na “repartição de responsabilidades e encontro desta solução”. “Cada dia estamos mais perto, com passos concretos, de termos um novo hospital. Os algarvios merecem, os profissionais de saúde precisam de instalações à altura dessa excelência”, afirmou.

Recorde-se que este novo compromisso com um projeto de âmbito regional soma-se ao esforço financeiro que a Câmara Municipal de Loulé tem realizado na área da saúde. Nos últimos anos, o concelho investiu mais de 17,5 milhões de euros na modernização de infraestruturas locais, como o Centro de Saúde Universitário, o edifício do INEM e a requalificação de centros de saúde (Loulé, Quarteira, Almancil ou Tôr). 

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