A post I made on another forum as my thoughts went rampageing.  Thought I would add it here.

Well let's get it in first and foremost, I'm politically incorrect with my topic subject. But you know what I say sod them. I don't care what who all says, what this time of year is time for reflection and a time to look back on the last, well more than 2000 years now, and to look forward to the year in front.

Well now that's out of the way i'll continue. I've got a feeling this is going to turn more into a blog than an actual topic starter, but the fact is I thought it would get more views here. So I would get the oppurtunity to wish more of you a happy Christmas.

Well as i said in the first paragraph I feel this is a time for reflection. For me that would be a time to look back on what has happened in the last year. Personally I have ended up moving back in with my parents. Not the greatest of achievements for someone of my age but something that couldnt be avioded. On the up side thou I have been truely blessed with the joy of having a new daughter, who as we speak is more and likely tormenting her mother a few miles away from where I am writing this from. Also I have had the oppurtunity to develop and help bring guidence once more onto my two older children. Those who really know me will know how this tore me apart when this oppurtunity was taken away from for the later part of last year. But this really is another story.

So the personal reflection out of the way I look on forward and wonder what 2007 is really going to bring me. I hope and all I can do is wish myself and now my three children good health, and that they progress and become brighter as their years progress into next year. So to which I think about it with the ongoing acsess as long as it is provided and maintained that 2007 will be a good year.

With me still or have I sent you to sleep ?

No then good. Because this is where I really go onto the sites actual meaing and content about my wishes for 2007.

2006 as such from a Loyalist point of view to me has been a mixed barell. It has been one where from looking at a far as I have done, I can see a bridges being built over. I can see where previously I would of thought of diffrences, would not be crossed to people coming together and working as one. The old saying that seems to stand on dry breath at times within Loyalist circles because it is said that often but not comadeired to United we stand , Divided we fall comes to mind once more. But on the flip side. It is a year where a lot of the time, I seem to be hearing the same old story. That the elected politicans of Northern Ireland seem to be doin g is not listening to the commen voice , of their voters. This is somethign that must be repremanded and worked out as soon as possible. Becuase from where I sit and see it from, the politicans of Northern Ireland are moving in a direction that their people do not want to go.

So takeing things forward, 2007. I hope to all it is a good year. I hope to all it brings them what they wish for. As a Loyalist I hope these bridges ( which i can see happening) continue to be worked across. I hope that for once their may quite possibly be a commen voice. A voice that will speak for all Loyalists. That will bring to the forefront exactly what most of us are thinking. I hope this is a voice of the commen man, of the person who works all day, that slaves against the tyrant of the government and comes across the other side feeling that he can lift his head high.

In 2007 what I hope to see is a change, that the Loyalist voice can be brought to the front of mainstream politics, it can be listened to. Continueing I see it being left behind, now not only in Northern Ireland but also Scotland. It seems to be that we as such are chaseing our tails, shouting as loud as we can. All that is heard thou is a small majority. A little cry from in a basement as if someone doesnt want to be their. This needs to change and we need to voice our concerns no matter how large or how small. 2007 needs to be the year that Loyalism comes to the forefront once more.

For now I will go quiet, because really all I wanted to do was give a little happy note, on a period that i see as being dark, as the greatest hour. Whether it be the 1st July 1916, or the worst days of the toubles. Loyalism is in a grave danager and for this it needs to grab the future by the neck and shake it a little and wake up.

But like I said to end on a happ note. Well I hope I have not bored you with my thoughts as we get ready to celebrate the birth of Christ once more, and the beginning of a New Year, and hopefully a new dawn.

So to all on Calton may I say a very politically incorrect

HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A MERRY NEW YEAR

In Memory of the Brave

I really don't care if I get a blacklash for this blog at all.  Because I have decided to dedicate it to the Ulster Volunteer Force and in particular those man that gave the ultimate sacrifice.  As such this will be a memorial.  I shrine as such to the gallent men who took up arms to defend Ulster against it's greatest foe.  The foreign Republican IRA.  They were shot and bombed but still carried on.  Takeing to the streets to defend their lives and their homes.  The showed that no matter how much armed Republican might came forward that the true sons of Ulster would not lie down and let them be forced into a United 'undemocratic' Ireland. 

The mear fact is that the UVF was created due to the rise in Republican attacks.  Due to the Republican surge in armed conflict.  The people of Ulster had no options but to counter it with their own arms.  If their had been no IRA their would have been no UVF.  But for the lives that were given we give thanks, because quite cleary with out these brave men the IRA would not of been defeated.  Yes the UVF hit back and took the fight to the IRA.  Which led to their eventual unconditional surrender.  For this Ulster will always be grateful. 

Our Fallen Volunteers

The Battlion of the Dead

A Coy 1st BATT:
Billy Aitken, Bobby "Basher" Bates, Billy Boomer ,
George Brown, Alec Cowell, Davy Hamilton,
Hugh Harris, Tucker Keenan, Noel Kinner,
Charlie Logan, Frenchie Marchant, Bo McClelland,
Herbie McCollum, Lenny Murphy, Tommy West .

B Coy 1st BATT:
Jamesie Boreland, Trevor King, Brian Robinson,
Bobby Spence.

C Coy 1st BATT:
Tommy Chapman, Billy Hanna, Robert MacIntyre,
Jim McGregor, Robert Wadsworth.

D Coy 1st BATT:
John Bingham, Tommy Stewart, Roy Suitors.

East Belfast:
Robert Bennett, Joe Cordner, Joe Long,
Robert "Squeak" Seymour.

South Belfast:
John Hanna, Ken Lenaghan, Davy McNaught,
Willy Millar.

3rd BATT Tigers Bay:
Colin Caldwell, Jackie Evans, Jackie Irvine,
Joe Shaw.

South Down:
Tommy McDowell, Charlie Watson.

North Down:
Billy Lightbody.

Larne:
Andy Cairns, Sinclair Johnson.

East Antrim:
Tommy Mawhinney, George Sloan.

Mid-Ulster:
Harris Boyle, Derek McFarland, J Neill,
Wesley Somerville.

Londonderry:
Mark Dodds, Geoffrey Freeman, Aubrey Reid,
Davy Swanson.

4th Battalion Liverpool
Lee Irwin, John Webster.

Red Hand Commando:
Stevie McCrea, John McKeague, Sammy Mehaffey,
Sammy Neill, Billy Strain.

Who am I

I am scared to leave the house, I live my life as a hermit.  I am don't know when it will happen again.  Scared that I may be shot at, I may be bombed.  Forceing myself to leave the house to take the children to school.  The cupboards are bare, as I don't want to go to the shops. I'm scarred I won't come home in one peace.  I try and force, my children and family my friends to never go outside because they may never come back.  Never able to speak to them again.  I have already lost to much. 

These men have so much to answer for.  My life is ruined.  I am a nervous wreck and it is all their fault.  They want to force me from my home, my street, the very place that I feel proud to say I belong likfe my parents and their parents and so on before me.  Home I can call it home is beyond me, after coming under so many attacks as they constantly try and entice me out.  Petrol Bombs, Gunshot, Stone Throwing - I know it all.

Some friends have stayed, some friends have gone.  They say they don't care so why should we.  They say our government, the people we feel belong to have sold us out, would rather be rid of us.  How can you blame for thinking this when, they see all the good things going down to the others, and we have nothing.  Our houses are falling down.  Our schools, are overcrowded.  Shops all boarded up.  Who can blame for thinking it. 

We have some hope, a little maybe.  Some men, will fight back, take it back to the others.  They shouldn't need to thou.  The army is here, our police should do this job.  But they don't.  So these brave young men, risk and some give their lives for our defense, against the others. 

But I will stay no matter what, no matter what has happened now, no matter what will happen in the future, I am here to stay in my home, my land.  I have no where else to go.  I know nothing more.  I feel proud to be here, the place is rotten with blood.  The blood of my people that they have given before so that I can be here.  I must not let their memory die in vain, and be forgotten.  I am here forever.

Welcome to the life of a Loyal Ulster Protestant. 

Cross Referencing

In the last few days I have been asking myself, 'Can you feel proud to be Scottish and British at the same time?'  A question I have asked myself a few times but never really gone into deep thought on the matter.  Then once more the debate about the song, 'O Flower of Scotland' hit Loyalist forums and my mind started to wander again.  So instead of re-reading Harry Potter again, I decided to put my thoughts onto paper on the train home from work. The results are as follows. 

I was brought up as a Scot first and foremost as a child.  My parents moving back from Zambia to make sure I was born in Scotland.  It's these sort of things that make you feel proud, all it is, is a nationality but one that was chosen to be bestowed on me.  Moving to England just after my six birthday I wasn't thou, given the opportunity to a full Scottish upbringing, but knew that is what I was.  Frequent trips back home would never allow me to forget this.  My parents also never forgot that I knew where I came from.  How could they as I kicked and screamed, pleaded not to make that dreaded trip back down the road. 

I was brought up on stories of Culloden, the Massacre of Glencoe, and Bannockburn.  Songs such as 'Scotland will flourish', and 'Come O'er the Stream Charlie'.  With one of my grandparents having the same surname as the Young Pretender's supposed wife it was hard not to fantasise on the subject.  Yes, daydream I did and yes at this early young age it was of a free independent Scotland.  Naïve as I was at the time to the greater picture, all I would think of was if Culloden had been on ground that supported the Highlander's charge how things would have been different.

Yes at an early age I would of hard not to be classed as anything but a Scottish Nationalist.  I would here words such as Referendum and know their was only on place I would put my x when I was old enough. 

So why now am I am I am where did it change.  What were the influences?  I have to sit and wonder ho it all began.  To be truthful it is hard to pinpoint exactly.  Did it begin as I got more involved with looking at my football team (Glasgow Rangers) with its history stooped in Protestantism and Brtishness?  Was it just as I grew older I started to see the bigger picture?  For example my want to serve in the forces, the British not Scottish forces.  Also around this time my early teens, I began to gain an understandment of the difference in my Presbyterian upbringing and the Roman Catholic Church.  The bigger picture was once more starting to upon up so much more in my thoughts.  A slight interest in politics and really for the first time in my life but defiantly not the last, Northern Ireland started to have influences on my thoughts. 

I began to read a lot about what had happened and at first mainly the last 30 years (taking I am talking about 1992).  I saw an invader in part of my country, the UK.  I looked at it and thought of it at first as the same as when Edward tried to take control of Scotland by force.  The Scots, moved against that, and it made me feel proud to be Scottish, and now the people of Northern Ireland had given me something proud to fell British about. 

That I believe is about as accurate as can get about how I crossed.  From their basically I have read and listened to people and now will throw in my own tu'pence.  I believe in the Union of the countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.  Believe in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and see my early errors of wanting the Jacobite uprisings to succeed.

So now to my first question – Scottish, British – British, Scottish.  My answer is both.  Because now I understand the greater picture.  I am proud when I look back at all Scotland did and gave in the past.  I watch my countries sporting teams take the field and get the hairs on the back of my neck standing up.  I see the St Andrews Cross and I feel honoured for it to be my flag as a Scotsman.  But to quote the song that got me thinking on this once more, 'those days are past now, and in the past they must remain.' You see that is it to me, Scotland how very dear to me it is, is not a singularity anymore and hasn't been for many a year.  The greater picture now is the UK.  I feel proud to feel British when I see the Union Flag flying all around the world.  I feel proud to be British when I think of the British soldiers that gave the ultimate sacrifice, so that I could have the freedom of speech to write this.  No matter whether they are from England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. 

So I am proud to be both, Scottish and British and yes it can be done.     

O Billy, they have taken you away,
And all we wanted was for you to stay,
Those rebels they know they will pay,
Because that day they took you away.

O Billy, it was a cold winters morning,
You left your dear old Ulster mourning,
Our hearts they felt like they were stopping,
All day on that cold December morning.

O Billy, they shot and they got at you,
In that van what were you to do,
Loyalty was all that you knew,
For this they wanted to get at you.

O Billy, will time heal Ulster's pain,
It seems to be they have all forgotten your name,
Everyone they seem to have gone tame,
And Ulster will always feel your pain.

O Billy, always a hero in our minds,
And the truth it will come out in time,
Ulster it will always need more of your kind,
Your sacrifice will always be in our minds.

Maybe this should go in music but the actual point I want to make can be seen as a political one so here it is. 

As a Scot I am sick of people that continually go on about the above song and call it a Jacobite dirge.  How can it be, the song is wrote about a period 400 years before the Jacobite uprisings.  Logical answer is it has nothing to do with it. 

The song itself depics, the Battle of Bannockburn in the 1300 hundreds, when  Robert the Bruce defeated the English king and basically freed Scotland as such.  Although people see it as an anti English song, once more I disagree.  It is a song where Scot's can feel proud of their forebarers that repealed against a foriegn invader. 

The very fact that Scotland and England were seperate identities at the time goes volumes to saying it has nothing to do with anti-Unionism, as their was no Union then.  The Song is about Scotland having and remembering it's identity.  The lines, 'Those days are past now, and in the past they must remain'  speak volumes, on how the song is showing that as Scots we are proud of what we have done, in the past, but those days have gone, and now the union is here, and it must remain. 

And for anyone not knowing what I am going on about here's the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2R1TMNxPj8

Billy Wright was murdered in the Maze Prison in December 1997
The public inquiry into the murder of LVF leader Billy Wright in the Maze Prison has begun in Belfast.
The first stage of the inquiry, which will last one week, is concerned solely with the recovery of certain documents.

The Wright family's legal team has been seeking a number of specific documents from the Maze prison from the time of the murder in December 1997.

It has been reported in the media that some documents have gone missing from the Northern Ireland Prison Service.

Derek Bachelor QC, who is senior counsel for the inquiry, said the aims of the week were to ascertain what documents were no longer available from the prison service and also to establish if the destruction of any documents was recorded.

The inquiry will hear evidence from 17 witnesses during the course of the week, some of whom will only be identifed by a letter of the alphabet.

It will then adjourn and resume again in the spring of next year sitting at Banbridge courthouse.

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Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on

the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences

by Dr. Martin Luther (1517)

Published in:

Works of Martin Luther:
Adolph Spaeth, L.D. Reed, Henry Eyster Jacobs, et Al., Trans. & Eds.
(Philadelphia: A. J. Holman Company, 1915), Vol.1, pp. 29-38
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Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, the following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg, under the presidency of the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and of Sacred Theology, and Lecturer in Ordinary on the same at that place. Wherefore he requests that those who are unable to be present and debate orally with us, may do so by letter.

In the Name our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

1. Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, when He said Poenitentiam agite [repent], willed that the whole life of believers should be repentance.

2. This word cannot be understood to mean sacramental penance, i.e., confession and satisfaction, which is administered by the priests.

3. Yet it means not inward repentance only; nay, there is no inward repentance which does not outwardly work divers mortifications of the flesh.

4. The penalty [of sin], therefore, continues so long as hatred of self continues; for this is the true inward repentance, and continues until our entrance into the kingdom of heaven.

5. The pope does not intend to remit, and cannot remit any penalties other than those which he has imposed either by his own authority or by that of the Canons.

6. The pope cannot remit any guilt, except by declaring that it has been remitted by God and by assenting to God's remission; though, to be sure, he may grant remission in cases reserved to his judgment. If his right to grant remission in such cases were despised, the guilt would remain entirely unforgiven.

7. God remits guilt to no one whom He does not, at the same time, humble in all things and bring into subjection to His vicar, the priest.

8. The penitential canons are imposed only on the living, and, according to them, nothing should be imposed on the dying.

9. Therefore the Holy Spirit in the pope is kind to us, because in his decrees he always makes exception of the article of death and of necessity.

10. Ignorant and wicked are the doings of those priests who, in the case of the dying, reserve canonical penances for purgatory.

11. This changing of the canonical penalty to the penalty of purgatory is quite evidently one of the tares that were sown while the bishops slept.

12. In former times the canonical penalties were imposed not after, but before absolution, as tests of true contrition.

13. The dying are freed by death from all penalties; they are already dead to canonical rules, and have a right to be released from them.

14. The imperfect health [of soul], that is to say, the imperfect love, of the dying brings with it, of necessity, great fear; and the smaller the love, the greater is the fear.

15. This fear and horror is sufficient of itself alone (to say nothing of other things) to constitute the penalty of purgatory, since it is very near to the horror of despair.

16. Hell, purgatory, and heaven seem to differ as do despair, almost-despair, and the assurance of safety.

17. With souls in purgatory it seems necessary that horror should grow less and love increase.

18. It seems unproved, either by reason or Scripture, that they are outside the state of merit, that is to say, of increasing love.

19. Again, it seems unproved that they, or at least that all of them, are certain or assured of their own blessedness, though we may be quite certain of it.

20. Therefore by "full remission of all penalties" the pope means not actually "of all," but only of those imposed by himself.

21. Therefore those preachers of indulgences are in error, who say that by the pope's indulgences a man is freed from every penalty, and saved;

22. Whereas he remits to souls in purgatory no penalty which, according to the canons, they would have had to pay in this life.

23. If it is at all possible to grant to any one the remission of all penalties whatsoever, it is certain that this remission can be granted only to the most perfect, that is, to the very fewest.

24. It must needs be, therefore, that the greater part of the people are deceived by that indiscriminate and highsounding promise of release from penalty.

25. The power which the pope has, in a general way, over purgatory, is just like the power which any bishop or curate has, in a special way, within his own diocese or parish.

26. The pope does well when he grants remission to souls [in purgatory], not by the power of the keys (which he does not possess), but by way of intercession.

27. They preach man who say that so soon as the penny jingles into the money-box, the soul flies out [of purgatory].

28. It is certain that when the penny jingles into the money-box, gain and avarice can be increased, but the result of the intercession of the Church is in the power of God alone.

29. Who knows whether all the souls in purgatory wish to be bought out of it, as in the legend of Sts. Severinus and Paschal.

30. No one is sure that his own contrition is sincere; much less that he has attained full remission.

31. Rare as is the man that is truly penitent, so rare is also the man who truly buys indulgences, i.e., such men are most rare.

32. They will be condemned eternally, together with their teachers, who believe themselves sure of their salvation because they have letters of pardon.

33. Men must be on their guard against those who say that the pope's pardons are that inestimable gift of God by which man is reconciled to Him;

34. For these "graces of pardon" concern only the penalties of sacramental satisfaction, and these are appointed by man.

35. They preach no Christian doctrine who teach that contrition is not necessary in those who intend to buy souls out of purgatory or to buy confessionalia.

36. Every truly repentant Christian has a right to full remission of penalty and guilt, even without letters of pardon.

37. Every true Christian, whether living or dead, has part in all the blessings of Christ and the Church; and this is granted him by God, even without letters of pardon.

38. Nevertheless, the remission and participation [in the blessings of the Church] which are granted by the pope are in no way to be despised, for they are, as I have said, the declaration of divine remission.

39. It is most difficult, even for the very keenest theologians, at one and the same time to commend to the people the abundance of pardons and [the need of] true contrition.

40. True contrition seeks and loves penalties, but liberal pardons only relax penalties and cause them to be hated, or at least, furnish an occasion [for hating them].

41. Apostolic pardons are to be preached with caution, lest the people may falsely think them preferable to other good works of love.

42. Christians are to be taught that the pope does not intend the buying of pardons to be compared in any way to works of mercy.

43. Christians are to be taught that he who gives to the poor or lends to the needy does a better work than buying pardons;

44. Because love grows by works of love, and man becomes better; but by pardons man does not grow better, only more free from penalty.

45. Christians are to be taught that he who sees a man in need, and passes him by, and gives [his money] for pardons, purchases not the indulgences of the pope, but the indignation of God.

46. Christians are to be taught that unless they have more than they need, they are bound to keep back what is necessary for their own families, and by no means to squander it on pardons.

47. Christians are to be taught that the buying of pardons is a matter of free will, and not of commandment.

48. Christians are to be taught that the pope, in granting pardons, needs, and therefore desires, their devout prayer for him more than the money they bring.

49. Christians are to be taught that the pope's pardons are useful, if they do not put their trust in them; but altogether harmful, if through them they lose their fear of God.

50. Christians are to be taught that if the pope knew the exactions of the pardon-preachers, he would rather that St. Peter's church should go to ashes, than that it should be built up with the skin, flesh and bones of his sheep.

51. Christians are to be taught that it would be the pope's wish, as it is his duty, to give of his own money to very many of those from whom certain hawkers of pardons cajole money, even though the church of St. Peter might have to be sold.

52. The assurance of salvation by letters of pardon is vain, even though the commissary, nay, even though the pope himself, were to stake his soul upon it.

53. They are enemies of Christ and of the pope, who bid the Word of God be altogether silent in some Churches, in order that pardons may be preached in others.

54. Injury is done the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or a longer time is spent on pardons than on this Word.

55. It must be the intention of the pope that if pardons, which are a very small thing, are celebrated with one bell, with single processions and ceremonies, then the Gospel, which is the very greatest thing, should be preached with a hundred bells, a hundred processions, a hundred ceremonies.

56. The "treasures of the Church," out of which the pope grants indulgences, are not sufficiently named or known among the people of Christ.

57. That they are not temporal treasures is certainly evident, for many of the vendors do not pour out such treasures so easily, but only gather them.

58. Nor are they the merits of Christ and the Saints, for even without the pope, these always work grace for the inner man, and the cross, death, and hell for the outward man.

59. St. Lawrence said that the treasures of the Church were the Church's poor, but he spoke according to the usage of the word in his own time.

60. Without rashness we say that the keys of the Church, given by Christ's merit, are that treasure;

61. For it is clear that for the remission of penalties and of reserved cases, the power of the pope is of itself sufficient.

62. The true treasure of the Church is the Most Holy Gospel of the glory and the grace of God.

63. But this treasure is naturally most odious, for it makes the first to be last.

64. On the other hand, the treasure of indulgences is naturally most acceptable, for it makes the last to be first.

65. Therefore the treasures of the Gospel are nets with which they formerly were wont to fish for men of riches.

66. The treasures of the indulgences are nets with which they now fish for the riches of men.

67. The indulgences which the preachers cry as the "greatest graces" are known to be truly such, in so far as they promote gain.

68. Yet they are in truth the very smallest graces compared with the grace of God and the piety of the Cross.

69. Bishops and curates are bound to admit the commissaries of apostolic pardons, with all reverence.

70. But still more are they bound to strain all their eyes and attend with all their ears, lest these men preach their own dreams instead of the commission of the pope.

71. He who speaks against the truth of apostolic pardons, let him be anathema and accursed!

72. But he who guards against the lust and license of the pardon-preachers, let him be blessed!

73. The pope justly thunders against those who, by any art, contrive the injury of the traffic in pardons.

74. But much more does he intend to thunder against those who use the pretext of pardons to contrive the injury of holy love and truth.

75. To think the papal pardons so great that they could absolve a man even if he had committed an impossible sin and violated the Mother of God -- this is madness.

76. We say, on the contrary, that the papal pardons are not able to remove the very least of venial sins, so far as its guilt is concerned.

77. It is said that even St. Peter, if he were now Pope, could not bestow greater graces; this is blasphemy against St. Peter and against the pope.

78. We say, on the contrary, that even the present pope, and any pope at all, has greater graces at his disposal; to wit, the Gospel, powers, gifts of healing, etc., as it is written in I. Corinthians xii.

79. To say that the cross, emblazoned with the papal arms, which is set up [by the preachers of indulgences], is of equal worth with the Cross of Christ, is blasphemy.

80. The bishops, curates and theologians who allow such talk to be spread among the people, will have an account to render.

81. This unbridled preaching of pardons makes it no easy matter, even for learned men, to rescue the reverence due to the pope from slander, or even from the shrewd questionings of the laity.

82. To wit: -- "Why does not the pope empty purgatory, for the sake of holy love and of the dire need of the souls that are there, if he redeems an infinite number of souls for the sake of miserable money with which to build a Church? The former reasons would be most just; the latter is most trivial."

83. Again: -- "Why are mortuary and anniversary masses for the dead continued, and why does he not return or permit the withdrawal of the endowments founded on their behalf, since it is wrong to pray for the redeemed?"

84. Again: -- "What is this new piety of God and the pope, that for money they allow a man who is impious and their enemy to buy out of purgatory the pious soul of a friend of God, and do not rather, because of that pious and beloved soul's own need, free it for pure love's sake?"

85. Again: -- "Why are the penitential canons long since in actual fact and through disuse abrogated and dead, now satisfied by the granting of indulgences, as though they were still alive and in force?"

86. Again: -- "Why does not the pope, whose wealth is to-day greater than the riches of the richest, build just this one church of St. Peter with his own money, rather than with the money of poor believers?"

87. Again: -- "What is it that the pope remits, and what participation does he grant to those who, by perfect contrition, have a right to full remission and participation?"

88. Again: -- "What greater blessing could come to the Church than if the pope were to do a hundred times a day what he now does once, and bestow on every believer these remissions and participations?"

89. "Since the pope, by his pardons, seeks the salvation of souls rather than money, why does he suspend the indulgences and pardons granted heretofore, since these have equal efficacy?" the Church and the pope to the ridicule of their enemies, and to make Christians unhappy.

91. If, therefore, pardons were preached according to the spirit and mind of the pope, all these doubts would be readily resolved; nay, they would not exist.

92. Away, then, with all those prophets who say to the people of Christ, "Peace, peace," and there is no peace!

93. Blessed be all those prophets who say to the people of Christ, "Cross, cross," and there is no cross!

94. Christians are to be exhorted that they be diligent in following Christ, their Head, through penalties, deaths, and hell;

95. And thus be confident of entering into heaven rather through many tribulations, than through the assurance of peace.

Below is a news report today, taken from a forum, that unfortunally didnt give the source

Anonymity plea for Wright inquiry

Security force witnesses in a Northern Ireland inquiry into the prison murder of Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright have applied for anonymity


The Wright Inquiry confirmed today that it was considering a number of applications, thought to involve prison officers.

Wright, 37, was shot dead by three Irish National Liberation Army prisoners in the Maze Prison near Belfast on December 27, 1997.

The Government has ordered a public inquiry into his death.

A spokeswoman for the Inquiry said: "The panel has not taken its decision yet. It relates to witnesses. It would be unfair to individuals to identify them at this stage."

The three-strong inquiry team headed by Lord MacLean will hear evidence into whether there were any wrongful acts or omissions by prison authorities or other Government bodies.

Questions were raised by the dead man`s family about how the republican killers managed to obtain a weapon and access the prison yard where Wright was in a van on his way to a visit.

Prison officers are expected to argue that their lives would be endangered if they were identified during public proceedings but human rights group British Irish Rights Watch wants to ensure no blanket anonymity granted.

Director Jane Winter said: "They need to decide if the risk to the person being named outweighs the public interest in knowing who they are.

"The more senior they are, we say, the less easy it should be to use anonymity and many of these people, we believe, have already been named in the inquest.

"We need to know under whose watch the killing of Billy Wright happened."

The leading loyalist`s father, David, has taken a judicial review of the decision to convert legislation underpinning the inquiry to the Inquiries Act 2005 which allows Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain power to keep evidence secret.

The Hamill Inquiry has refused anonymity for officers, a view challenged earlier this year in the High Court.

Finlay Spratt, chairman of the Prison Officers` Association, said welfare of his members had to be paramount.

"If a prison officer asks for anonymity then I believe that should be granted because people are still concerned about their safety," he added.

"It would be fair to say that these were serving prison officers and quite a lot of them are retired now.

"They lived through 30 years of the Troubles and had to protect their families and we are not convinced that the attacks from paramilitaries are over."

Unfortunally it seems to be that because it is of a Loyalist Prisoner, someone who was proud to be British.  Someone who had defended his land, where the security forces had failed and was willing to die in this defense.  Their seems to be a cover up of the true facts.

These prison officers have questions that need to be answered.  Only they have the answer.  They are as such part of a murder investigation, this murder took place in one of HMP.  Is this a cover up?

Is their something that the British Government do not want us to know?  Why is the inquiry being pushed further and further back? 

If this was a Republican criminal prisoner that had been murdered, their would of been a multimillion inquiry taken place the very same day. 

Is their one rule for one and one rule for another. 

The people have the right to know, the family have the right to know.  Ulster has the right to know exactly how one of it's true sons died that day. 

Justice for Billy Wright