Cardinal Dominik Duka lived as a Dominican priest in the Soviet Union.
He is therefore someone who is well able to speak about some of the growing anti human forces in our Western Society.
He has released a strongly worded statement about the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and about the undercurrents within its thematic explorations.
He compared it to the games in Berlin and in Moscow from the past, for the manner with which Relativists tried to hijack the games for political purposes:
'The trifecta of Olympics 1936 - Berlin, 1980 - Moscow and now Paris 2024 was created. Athletes were used for other purposes: Nazism, Communism and new ideologies that actually tell us that there is no human identity.
He also wrote passionately about the Catholic history of the modern Olympics, associated with his own Dominican Order:
We celebrate the Olympic Games according to the renewal model of 1896. These Olympic Games were started on the plain near Athens in the meadow where Father Henri Didon OP celebrated the Eucharist, that is, the Holy Mass if you like, with the participation of the King of Greece, originally from Bavaria. Why did these two - Coubertin and Didon - connect history with the present of the 19th century? Because as a soldier in the French army, Father Didon discovered that the physical training of French soldiers was minimal. We would say that against the Prussian trained regiments, they were sloppy. And it is he who then introduces English-style sports, physical education, and military education in church schools. This led even the anti-clerical minister of education of France at the time to ask Father Didon to implement this education in state schools. And it all ends with a football match at the Dominican lyceum in Lille, where this lyceum of church schools won. It is Henri Didon OP who is the author of the Olympic motto. It is Henri Didon who actually gave the anthem to the Olympics, which was the anthem of the aforementioned lyceum
He also discusses the Last Supper depiction and, if you read the full article linked below, goes into detail about why it could not have been a depiction of Dionysian celebrations.
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games contained an allusion to Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, which is located in the Dominican monastery in Milan, near the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. However, Leonardo's Milan is also reflected in the story of Napoleon Bonaparte. As part of this opening charade, there was also a celebration of the execution of Marie Antoinette, the daughter of our Queen Marie Therese. Napoleon Bonaparte, walking through the boulevards of Paris, reaches the square where Marie Antoinette is executed and utters the statement: "I will never forget this." Yes, he didn't forget. But why Milan? When Napoleon's troops entered Milan and one part of the Jacobin soldiers took up residence in the aforementioned Dominican monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, where Leonardo's Last Supper painting is in the refectory. He receives a message through the ordinance: "Soldiers throw stones and bottles at the painting of Leonardo." He writes a message on his knee: "I forbid and punish!" And so we can say that Leonardo's Last Supper was not published in disgrace for the first time at the Paris Olympics.
You can read the powerful full article by clicking here.
