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Immoral Bishops & Refurbished Weapons
Propaganda Parade
Many of us saw the parade in China in the beginning of September. It was an occasion to bring together all communist leaders and show that they are united, in spite of the myth that China and Russia have opposed agendas.
I was wondering whether those spectacular missiles shown in the parade were for real or just façade weapons to impress the Chinese people and the West.
When I read the article attached I could see that most of those missiles were just old stuff with some few improvements. It shows that the main goal was to impress rather than exhibit real power.
I hope you will enjoy reading it as I did.
Regards,
P.J.
The Sept. 3 parade was clearly meant to convey China's growing military strength and technological ambition.
John S. Van Oudenaren and Peter W. Singer
September 24, 2025 - For China’s People’s Liberation Army [PLA], massive parades like the recent celebration of the 80th anniversary of victory in World War II are more than propaganda set pieces. Military leaders use them to show their Party superiors that the force is progressing towards its modernization goals, including being ready to fight jointly and to defeat any potential adversary – particularly “the strong adversary,” i.e., the United States. And as PLA texts attest, parades are opportunities to unveil new systems intended to deepen nuclear and conventional deterrence.
The hours-long showcase on Sept. 3 offered glimpses of new weapons – especially missiles – and hints about China’s progress on key military technologies. These are valuable because the PLA operates in an opaque manner, and because its equipment and weapons, with some notable exceptions, have seldom been tested on the battlefield. But analysts must proceed cautiously: the parade was at heart a carefully calibrated influence operation. As one U.S. military analyst recently noted, the military equipment that the PLA displayed “was exactly what they wanted the world and the U.S. military to see.”
So what should we make of five PLA missile systems that made their public debut on Sept. 3? Are they mere showpieces – “old wine in a new bottle,” as the Chinese idiom goes – or are they showstoppers that should give U.S. military planners pause?
DF-61 ICBM: Showpiece (mostly). Little is known about this massive, road-mobile, solid-fueled ballistic missile beyond its reported range of over 12,000 kilometers and alleged payload of up to ten multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles. But several analysts suspect it may be an incrementally updated version of the DF-41 road-mobile ICBM that appeared in the 2019 parade and is now operated by the PLA Rocket Force. The missiles are similar in design and use the same transporter-erector-launcher. Both systems are made by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, an enormous state-owned aerospace enterprise that is the country’s sole ICBM manufacturer.
In the parade, the DF-61 rolled among other strategic weapons, which further suggests that it is simply a better version of the nuclear DF-41. And yet: the possibility exists that its placement was deception. It is conceivable that the weapon is a new conventional ICBM – and a significant boost to the PLA’s long-range tactical striking power.
DF-5C ICBM: Showpiece. Bringing up the rear of the parade’s missile column was the DF-5C, an upgraded variant of the four-decade-old DF-5, the PLA’s oldest active ICBM. The arrival of the C variant adds range and warheads to China’s array of liquid-fueled, silo-based missiles. But its technology is not new, having been first tested in 2017; and its predecessor DF-5B could also carry MIRVs to any target in the United States.
In the parade, the DF-5B followed the DF-31BJ, an improved version of the DF-31AG solid-fueled ICBM that first appeared in 2017. The prominence of these two silo-based missiles at the end of the line is a reminder that even as the PLA adds road-mobile ICBMs and works to consolidate a nuclear triad with better sea- and air-launched nuclear missiles, its expanding network of ICBM silos remains another key element of deterrence.
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Posted September 30, 2025
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If you read this report about the retreat of the Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP) a dissident group that rejects transubstantiation, it is no surprise they accept illicit sexual behavior.
What is more concerning to Catholics is the fact that Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky (an actual AUSCP member) were both in attendance at the conference and said nothing to correct his errors.
T.H.
(LifeSiteNews) - A leaked audio recording of a heretical clergy group’s annual meeting reveals that its retreat leader, a theology professor, downplayed or heretically denied the gravity of an array of serious sins, including masturbation, fornication, and receiving Holy Communion while in grave sin.
The Lepanto Institute recently shared audio clips from the 2025 annual meeting of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP), a dissident group that was refused participation in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Eucharistic Congress last year due to its rejection of transubstantiation.
Father Ronald Rolheiser, the retreat leader of the priests’ conference, openly condoned grave sin in a variety of ways, the leaked audio shows, amplifying concerns about the extent to which other priests are dismissing realities of grave sin in the U.S.
Further concerns are raised by the fact that Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the AUSCP’s Episcopal Counselor, and Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, an AUSCP member, were both in attendance at the conference and said nothing to correct his errors.
During a discussion on masturbation, Fr. Rolheiser dismissed the teaching of the Catholic Church that the act is gravely disordered, instead framing it as merely falling short of an ideal. He recalled his former seminary professor’s view that the matter is not so much one of sin but of “at what level do you want to carry your soul?”
“I like that, rather than what’s right or what’s wrong,” Fr. Rolheiser remarked during the priests’ retreat.
Shockingly, one priest at the retreat can be heard in the recording not only admitting to masturbating but sacrilegiously describing it as a “prayer.”
When a self-described “gay” priest during the retreat claimed that “ignoring sexual desire” can lead people to “act out,” including through violence and perhaps even mass shootings, Fr. Rolheiser affirmed this idea, which suggests that sexual self-mastery is a negative “repression.”
“Sometimes masturbation’s the better option,” Fr. Rolheiser said in reference to the idea that sexual “repression” can lead to violence.
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