Posted on 04/26/2013 5:23:12 PM PDT by Morgana
BRUSSELS, April 23, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an astonshing display of gentleness in the face of a vile attack, the head of the Catholic Church in Belgium, Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard, remained calmly seated with eyes closed in prayer Tuesday as four topless women attacked him with shouts and curses and doused him with water.
It’s not the first time the bishop has been attacked for standing up for the Church’s teachings on homosexuality and expressing his concern for those who live the homosexual lifestyle.
The incident took place at the ULB University in Brussels where the archbishop was participating in a debate on blasphemy laws.
The four women, representing the pro-abortion and homosexual group FEMEN, took to the stage where they disrobed to reveal black-painted slogans on their bare chests and backs, such as ‘my body my rules,’ and 'anus dei is coming.' They also held signs reading ‘stop homophobia’. The women doused the archbishop with water from bottles formed in the image of the Virgin Mary.
(More photos here. Warning: uncensored)
For most of the attack, which lasted a number of minutes before the women could be forced off stage, Archbishop Leonard sat drenched with water with eyes closed in prayer. After the ordeal, the archbishop kissed the image of the Virgin Mary on one of the water bottles that was used in the attack. Le Soir reports that one of the interveners said of the archbishop: “He was very calm and maintained a position of prayer. I have to believe he was praying for us.” Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard kisses one of the bottles that was used to douse him with water by the gay activists. The bottles were in the shape of the Virgin Mary.
According to FEMEN, Tuesday’s attack was spurred by an interview three weeks ago where Archbishop Leonard said that when speaking to Christians who are inclined to homosexuality he suggests celibacy, as is required for all single persons.
Already in 2007, as Bishop of Namur, Archbishop Leonard was accused of an offence against the Belgian anti-racism act for calling homosexual acts “abnormal”. In 2008 he was cleared of homophobia charges after appearing in court.
In 2010, as the new archbishop of Brussels, the archbishop was targeted by homosexualist groups, and condemned by the country’s prime minister, after he said that AIDS is a consequence of risky sexual behavior, including homosexual sexual activity.
Also in 2010 he was attacked at his Cathedral by a man who shoved a cherry pie in the archbishop’s face. Again in 2011, homosexual activists at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve near Brussels threw a custard pie in the archbishop’s face.
Archbishop Leonard has been a great supporter for the pro-life movement in Belgium, speaking at their inaugural March for Life in 2010.
Haha, I saw that guy. Nice work! He’s like the Catholic Liam Neeson.
Thanks for posting. This is horrible. This should be on FRs frontpage.
“If you are persecuted, remember that I was persecuted before you.”
Good grief - I’d close my eyes too!!
There is that age kids go through where they think that they are smarter than everyone else. They take off their clothes and become real pains in the ass.
Hahaha... Well, regardless of gender, they don’t need to strike. Just throw a big tarp over them and haul them away.
I agree. :-)
yep, another example of “...not like the movies.”
yep, another example of “...not like the movies.”
My quandary wasn't so much whether to post it ... it was whether to strike out their breasts, or their faces.
The breasts are just breasts, nothing wrong with that. But those faces!?! Horrible....
How many laws were broken here? Don’t they have laws in Belgium against defiling a regligious house? They must have but I guess they now consider that archaic. What about disturbing a religious meeting? What about disturbing the peace? What about assault? What about disturbing the peace? Don’t they have laws in Belgium and why doesn’t the church demand that their rights be protected? Turn the other cheek isn’t working here. The demon left want us to silently give up any legal rights we may have in our respective countries. We didn’t have rights when the Romans threw us to the lions, but now we do have rights and we must demand them while we still have them. Do not go gentle into that good night.
Oh, by the way ISN’T THIS A HATE CRIME!!
Note that all of these she-wolves are uglier than sin. I’d keep my eyes closed just to keep the vision of their sour puss countenances away from my poor eyes.
Protestant says, well done sir, just the right response in my opinion.
(except the kissing Mary part. . .) - but so pleased to see his godly behavior during the assault.
And it was a sexual assault.
She shaves her head, but not her underarms...On another note, I’m all for these women protesting rape, sharia and forced marriage, but it seems they only go for soft targets.
I go back and forth on that, but am tending toward agreement.
What can’t be denied is that those who support liberalism back themselves into a corner with logical fallacies and then end up attacking their opponents, who are trouncing them with logic, fact, and history, with either logical fallacies or, as we see in this story, with physical violence.
sent somewhere...
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