Church books outrageous preacher

Now, Harald Glööckler (52), Germany's eccentric fashion designer, takes the kingdom of God. And fills up churches.

With his business partner and life partner.

On Wednesday, "**** ***, Brain", the new book by Harald Glööckler (Plassen Verlag) appears. It lists the success tips of the fashion creator. On the last pages, Harald Glööckler tells how he came to his new vocation - as a preacher!

"After I designed a  covering for a new Luther Bible on behalf of the German Bible Society on the occasion of the 500th anniversary, there was a preaching request from the Protestant church community of Niederhöchstadt," says Harald Glööckler.

Cathcon:incredibly this featured a picture not of Our Lord and Saviour but the artist!

"I was booked as a preacher for a 'GoSpecial' service. I preached in a cinema in front of 700 people. "The" Go Special "services are actually aimed at church critics, but Harald Glööckler fascinated them all.

(Cathcon: GoSpecial services are billed as "somewhat different" church services.  Some take place in Catholic Churches and are often Masses.)

Before his first appearance the fashion designer had a lot of jitters. "I just thought, 'What have you done to me now?'" Glööckler smirks, remembering his first visit to the church in his first sermon.

Glööckler: "I looked at the ceiling and thought: 'A chandelier would be nice in itself, and a few pretty pictures would have been used in other places.' I thought the whole thing had already been redesigned, a bit of pomp on display is already nice. '

He does not think much of church regalia, which is somehow uncool. Glööckler: "I was told that this Luther removed the pomp from the churches, and I thought, 'What nonsense!' And then that Jesus always hung on the cross. And I thought, 'This is terrible! Why not show Jesus as He blesses someone or with a halo? You do not even have a picture of a dead man in the coffin at home. '"

The fashion designer finished his first sermon with a flaming appeal: "We do not need a church that makes us small and tells us what we can not do," preached Harald Glööckler. "We need a church that supports us when we stumble, which catches us when we fall!"

The attending 700 spectators were enthusiastic, a few weeks later Glööckler preached in a cinema hall in Mannheim in front of 400 people.

"His sermon was good and deep. For the church and the kingdom of God, people like Harald Glööckler are a benefit, "praises Pastor Carsten Böhm (41) from the Protestant church community of Niederhöchstadt.

He sees, as a result of a campaign with celebrities such as Harald Glööckler with his brisk special worship services, a wave of church entry. Böhm: "Through our 'Go Special' worship services, countless people have come to faith and to our church."

In the meantime, the requests for Harald Glööckler, who now does not have to stop his sermons in the cinema, are increasingly coming from churches. In November, he reads the Christmas story in churches in Frankfurt and Saarbrücken and interprets them with his words. There is even a preaching request from Catholic Regensburg.

His new mission fascinates the fashion designer and releases new energies. "I will expand my preaching activity", says Harald Glööckler. "If the ARD (a national broadcaster) agrees, I also could takeover the Word for Sunday!

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Nasty satirical attack on Pope Benedict and President Trump on official Catholic website

This from the official Catholic website in Germany.  

Attention, dear readers: If you thought "to crush someone with his love,"it is only a metaphor, then you have been deceived. In Belgium, the Brothers of Charity (Broeders van Liefde) now put these words into practice. Whether the next is to be taken down with a pillow - and thus close to the wording of the metaphor - or yet medically, is not known. But active euthanasia "for mentally ill in the non-terminal stage" the Brothers basically do not want to rule out . In itself a good idea for the benefit of mankind: But how do you persuade Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un to go on a joint visit to Belgium?  (Cathcon: how on earth does this guy think this is funny?)

Also dead - please be strong now, dear children and young ones - is probably St. Nicholas. Archaeologists have found a sarcophagus in the southern Turkish town of Demre under an ancient church , which might contain the remains of the Bishop of Myra. This is doubly bad: not only are the Muslims now stealing one of our favorite saints. More importantly, who will fill the boots in front of the German doors on the 6th of December (Cathcon: Feast of St Nicholas) ? If we do not want to import this terrible American (Santa Claus, not Trump), then only one thing remains: Alexander Gauland (Cathcon: leader of the Alternative for Germany), take over and save the Christian West!

Creepy stories for Gänswein and the kids

Our Church can no longer to be saved. At least if you believe the emeritus Pope (Cathcon: I never use the term emeritus but it is in the text). He actually wanted to withdraw from the public after his resignation, but this has probably been forgotten one or the other time. This can happen in old age. The latest chapter of his incomplete retreat is "Benedict: Episode XVI - The Dark Menace" (Cathon: more litteral translation of the German title for Star War I: The Phantom Menace)  and has now appeared in the Russian, unabridged original version. In this, the ex-pontifex does not think abuses, secularization, or the like are responsible for the present crisis of the Church, but the "darkening of God in the liturgy . " Perhaps, however, it is only the dim light and the poor light conditions in the chapel of Mater Ecclesia,

 Archbishop Georg Gänswein takes on the strain of the whole thing slowly. As a secretary of the old and new pope, he somehow sits between the sacred chairs and must constantly listen to the patter of the two older gentlemen: "It used to be better, Georg," is the memory from one side. "We need a poor church for the poor, George," fantasides the other side. The consequence: hearing loss, hospital stay and then prescribed rest . At the bed of the patient, Benedict tells him stories. Creepy stories from the current crisis of the church - in Russian.

According to book author Paul Maar,  German children's rooms will become creepy. The "Sams" (Cathcon: a children's book) -finder recommends parents to read children from the Bible . Not only the soft-washed stuff from the New Testament, but the full program; for example the story of David and Goliath, to encourage the children. We support this - and we are also delivering a nice good-night reading for the little ones from the Old Testament: "[20] And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings: [21] The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die," (Deuteronomy 21,20f)

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Cathcon:  Donald Trump in 2013 on Twitter, "The Pope should not have resigned—he should have lived it out," Trump tweeted. "It hurts him, it hurts the church."

On Pope Francis
The new Pope is a humble man, very much like me, which probably explains why I like him so much!

Pity the Church has incubated such malice since he became Pope.  It is a displacement activity for preaching the Cross and Him Crucified.

This website already has form, previously attacking the Church in Africa.

Guitar Mass to end all guitar Masses

Catholic Youth in Salzburg

Stealth priestess leads Corpus Christi procession in Austria

Lest we forget, the great Linz Corpus Christi Scandal.

38% of mosques in Vienna actively work against integration

Above all Turkish mosque associations are negatively cited.

About 38% of mosques in Vienna are active against integration. The Austrian Integration Fund (OIF) announced this on Monday. This is reported by the "Krone" newspaper. 16 mosques in the federal capital were examined more closely in order to examine their role in the integration process. It was found that more than one-third of the mosque associations even actively worked against the integration of Muslims into society. 

From the investigations of the historian and Islam expert Heiko Heinisch, it is clear that especially Turkish mosque associations were negative here. In the affected mosques a decided depreciation of Western society takes place. According to this worldview, faith is not subordinated to the democratic constitutional state - the Koran is clearly above the state rules and laws.

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Number of extremists triples in the last five years in Germany's populous state

Number of Salafists again rises in North Rhine Westphalia

240 Dangerous - 780 violence-oriented

The number of radical Salafists in North Rhine-Westphalia has risen to 3,000 activists. At the same time, the those associated with this Islamist ideology is becoming increasingly violent, younger and female, explained NRW interior minister Herbert Reul (CDU) on Thursday at the presentation of the current constitutional protection report in Düsseldorf. Thus, the number of Salafists has tripled in the last five years in the most populous state in Germany.

Of the 3,000 supporters, 780 are considered to be violent in the opinion of the security authorities. 240 of these persons are classified as so-called "vulnerable", to whom attacks are also attributed. It was especially oppressive that the Salafist scene on the Rhine and Ruhr belonged to 450 women and almost a hundred minors, Reul explained. Since 2012, NRW 250 salafists have been deployed in war zones, of which 70 are women. On a return, these people were often "highly traumatized and radicalized," Reul said.

Internet for recruitment

As a result of their increased surveillance, the Salafists, who are not centrally organized, have increasingly shifted their radicalization from the public sphere into private rooms, isolated online forums, and encrypted messenger services. The terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), which is linked to ideology, mainly uses the Internet to spread its jihadist propaganda and to attract potential assassins. According to the findings of the security authorities, Jihadist attacks in Germany should always be reckoned with, said the Interior Minister.

Radicals often act without knowledge of the mosque communities

Last year the security authorities in NRW, according to official data from the population, have reached about 2,000 referals for Salafist activities. In 2013 there were only 700 such referals. Of the 850 mosques around the country, currently 90 prayer houses are currently in the sights of the constitutional protection authorities because of Islamic activities. The radicals often acted without the knowledge and willingness of local mosque communities, Burkhard Freier, the head of the NRW constitutional protection authorities. A year ago only 30 mosques were under surveillance in NRW.

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