A faithful Catholic, operating according to God’s will and his plan, is always and everywhere, an awesome power for good
April 30, is the the Feast of St. Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Church, defender of the Papacy.
(Courtesy of Ann Barnhardt’s website) here’s a small sampling of Saint Catherine’s great work:
Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.
Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’t look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.
You must believe in truth, that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
“Playbook” of Ballot Traffickers In Arizona explains how Presidential Election was stolen
Guillermina Fuentes was indicted for obtaining and voting on another person’s early ballot and forging signatures on early ballot affidavits. Alma Yadira Juarez was one of her mules.
This case of voter fraud proves that there is a coordinated criminal operation and that systematic voter fraud is real. “That’s how big this case is. Because it’s not just the voter fraud, it’s how it’s done,” said David Lara.
In the interview with Lara, he detailed his findings on the Yuma County ballot trafficking ring and the challenges he faced from RINO Republicans, including John McCain. Lara has been investigating this issue for over 20 years!
The RINOs allowed the 2020 election to be stolen and tried to thwart America First Republicans from investigating the fraud.
Lara also explains how RINO-funded nonprofits helped to traffick ballots.
What business does Warren Buffet, a non-Catholic billionaire, have funding an anti-Catholic hate group?
Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the world’s top 10 wealthiest men, gives $2 million per year to Catholics for Choice through his foundation, and has given them over $50 million since 2000.
Catholics for Choice, as CatholicVote’s exclusive report details, is a pro-abortion extremist group with a long history of acts of hatred and sacrilege against the Catholic Church. It has worked for decades to tear down Church leadership, spread discord among Catholics, and expand abortion in heavily-Catholic countries in Central America and Africa. Catholics for Choice’s longtime president, Frances Kissling, explicitly stated that her goal was to “overthrow” the Catholic Church.
If it looks like a duck …
Knoxville Bishop Rick Stika, 64, dismissed as “boundary issues” allegations that Wojciech Sobczuk, a former Knoxville seminarian, made homosexual advances towards colleagues.
Sobczuk has been staying in Stika’s house and has received thousands of dollars of diocesan money (PillarCatholic.com, April 28). He was dismissed from the Polish Jesuits amid allegations of homosexual misconduct but became a Knoxville seminarian in 2018 where he was again dismissed in March 2021.
While being a seminarian, Sobczuk invited another seminarian in 2020 for five-days to Knoxville seminary. This seminarian claims Sobczuk sent him sexually graphic Snapchat and text messages and repeatedly groped him. At one night, Sobczuk pushed him onto a couch, pinned him down and held him for a minute until the other could fight him off.
Biden’s new “Disinformation Governance Board” would make “Big Brother” proud
WASHINGTON (AP) …The board will be led by disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz, who has researched Russian misinformation tactics and online harassment.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden, a Democrat, repeatedly said he would push tech companies, including Facebook, to crack down harder on misinformation and conspiracy theories that have overwhelmed social media and its users.
Dozens of Republican lawmakers and pundits took to social media on Wednesday to widely criticize the new board and call for it to be disbanded.
“Rather than police our border, Homeland Security has decided to make policing Americans’ speech its top priority,” a tweet from Missouri’s U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley read, in part. “They’re creating a Disinformation Board.”
Congresswoman Greene “unloads” on corrupt Catholic Bishops, stands up to Catholic League Bill Donohue’s criticism
Complete transcript:
MARJORIE GREENE
Representing the 14th District of Georgia
WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene issued the following statement:
“Today, the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue accused me of slandering Catholics and Catholicism in an interview I gave to Michael Voris at Church Militant. Nothing could be further from the truth, and he must apologize promptly and publicly for these words.
Donohue should have called my office, or had a staffer check Google, before firing off a hysterical-sounding statement. He doesn’t know this, but I am a cradle Catholic. I was born into the church, raised in it and I was married in the Church.
With great sorrow, and unwavering faith in Jesus Christ, I stopped attending Catholic Mass when I became a mother, because I realized that I could not trust the Church leadership to protect my children from pedophiles, and that they harbored monsters even in their own ranks.
It’s the church leadership I was referring to when I invoked the Devil. The bishops know that, but had their loyal lapdog pretend I was being disrespectful about the faith. Just so we’re clear, bishops, when I said “controlled by Satan,” I wasn’t talking about the Catholic Church. I was talking about you.
The Catholic Church must throw out these monsters instead of lecturing the people its own bishops have driven away.
I refuse to use kinder, gentler language as Bill Donohue might prefer when I talk about his disgusting and corrupt friends, who have made him rich with the donations from ordinary churchgoing Catholics.
I love God and I love Jesus Christ. Is the same true of the scheming bureaucrats in miters who preach the gospel while turning a blind eye to the abuse of innocents? That’s for God to determine—and punish. But I can tell you that it’s the bishops‘ wickedness that has driven me away from the Church, and I make no apologies for saying so.
America’s Catholic bishops are some of the worst in the world. They have lied, deceived and committed despicable criminal acts for decades, driving millions out of the Church, causing children to kill themselves, emotionally crippling others and sentencing countless victims to lives of deep mental pain.
The tragedy is that America is full of pious, churchgoing Catholics and kind, brilliant priests. There are even a few good bishops. The faithful deserve better pastoral leadership, and bishops who don’t smear and punish good priests for being “too Catholic.”
Parents have no way to tell the good from the bad under the current leadership: We are left to wonder whether our parish priest is one of the predators too.
The bishops are also busy destroying our nation using taxpayer money to advocate for the illegal invasion across our borders. They dare to dress up Democrat vandalism and lawlessness as somehow “religious,” which perhaps explains their distaste for me. What more can we expect from criminals and abusers living unaccountable lives of luxury funded by the rest of us, draped in fine linens while choirboys are raped.
I myself, baptized and married in the Catholic Church, left because I would not submit the spiritual and physical livelihood of my children to these monsters. Bill Donohue, by contrast, makes a million dollars a year, partly from sending out emails to defend corrupt bishops. He has done nothing in his long career to reform the appalling state of the clergy.
If you think I’m exaggerating, Donohue breezily claimed on television recently that the abuse crisis in the church was “over,” relying on data provided by the same bishops who rake in taxpayer money in the name of our Heavenly Father yet have still, somehow, bankrupted the Church, and who spend donations on lawsuits to silence their victims.
Forgive me if I decline to take lectures from the man bishops send out to do their dirty work when their delicate feelings are hurt. I stand by my statement, and I will continue to pray for the urgently needed reforms of, and repairs to, the Bride of Christ.
Until the people running the Catholic Church stop abusing children and stop covering up the abuse of children, I will continue to hold them to account. And I’ll keep naming and shaming the craven enablers who write their press releases, too. I know they’ve made you rich, Bill, but before you meet Almighty God, you might want to consider new clients.”
What constitutes “grooming”?
Grooming is a complicated system of behavior. What is it? Most basically, to groom is to prepare or train someone else for a particular activity. In the current political context, “grooming” certainly — and accurately — connotes sexually inappropriate ends, especially as its most recent usage was entirely swept up in the #MeToo movement. Even as grooming discourse reached its apparent zenith a few years ago, rape was not always the intended or actual end of the story. Rather, it was understood that to be a groomer was to actively participate in the broader system of manipulation. Ghislaine Maxwell and similar “recruiters” may not have been doing the raping, but they were all certainly engaged in grooming.
Bad News for “Jabbers”: New study summarizes the current literature on mRNA and its effects on the molecular biology within human cells (and it’s not good)
mRNA vaccines promote sustained synthesis of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.
The spike protein is neurotoxic, and it impairs DNA repair mechanisms.
Suppression of type I interferon responses results in impaired innate immunity.
The mRNA vaccines potentially cause increased risk to infectious diseases and cancer.
Codon optimization results in G-rich mRNA that has unpredictable complex effects.
Time to go “Old Testament” on Wokeness, LBGTQ…XYZ and Big Media
The Bible uses the term “latter times” as it refers to worldwide changes that affect the culture, ideologies, politics and just about every major part of everyday life. As in the famous boiling frog apologue, it seems that the changes come a little at a time, almost imperceptibly to set themselves into the culture almost stealthily and un-noticed.
But the result is always the same – death and destruction.
This is what the bible calls the doctrine of devils. Don’t be confused by the apparently religious terminology, the word doctrine simply means, teaching.
Everything we teach our children is at the lowest common denominator, a doctrine. How much of that doctrine came from the minds of hateful devils who unlike Divinity have no love at all for mankind?
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.” (1 Tim 4:1)
Examples of the incognito infusion of the doctrines of devils is popping up everywhere. Like the Paul Baird Middle School in Massachusetts where teachers told students not to tell parents about their transitions and plans to reset their own gender.
A “lose-lose” proposition for the Catholic Church
No one should have any illusions about what kind of societal forces are arrayed against the Church—they are very real, and very threatening.
Many Catholics of a traditional bent, myself among them, sometimes chafe at the way “mainstream” Catholics have been unwilling to take a more critical look at Vatican II and the reforms that followed the council.
Indeed, I have to say I agree with the leaders of the German Synodal Way that Vatican II, at least in a practical sense, has failed, and the Church should not repudiate it so much as cease to treat it as a “super dogma,” as Joseph Ratzinger once put it. But until something else can, in practice, keep the Church from dissolving into schism, such criticism will remain on the fringes of ecclesial life.
Who Moved The Stone? by Frank Morison
This study is in some ways so unusual and provocative that the writer thinks it desirable to state here very briefly how the book came to take its present form.
In one sense it could have taken no other, for it is essentially a confession, the inner story of a man who originally set out to write one kind of book and found himself compelled by the sheer force of circumstances to write another.
It is not that the facts themselves altered, for they are recorded imperishably in the monuments and in the pages of human history. But the interpretation to be put upon the facts underwent a change. Somehow the perspective shifted –not suddenly, as in a flash of insight or inspiration, but slowly, almost imperceptibly, by the very stubbornness of the facts themselves.
The book as it was originally planned was left high and dry, like those Thames barges when the great river goes out to meet the incoming sea. The writer discovered one day that not only could he no longer write the book as he had once conceived it, but that he would not if he could…
“Gender Inclusive” Holy Thursday Footwashing: No need to ask “What Would Jesus Do?” when we can simply read the Gospel to see what Jesus actually did.
… according to the Church’s rubrics, only the feet of males are to be washed. The question, then, concerns why the rubrics for the ritual command that viri selecti—“chosen males”—have their feet washed, and not women.
Basis for Holy Orders
The answer is that the footwashing scene in the Gospel of John is not only meant to be an example of humble service, but primarily a record of the institution of the Christian priesthood and thus the Scriptural root of the sacrament of holy orders.
… What is often overlooked is that the apostles are a special class unto themselves. They are not just disciples like all Christians are disciples; they are unique. Jesus chooses twelve of them for a reason, to suggest that the Church they will lead will continue the redemptive work of Israel’s twelve tribes in the world. In Catholic (and Orthodox) understanding, the disciples are the first priests and bishops, and thus what Jesus says to them and does with them may not be of direct exemplary relevance for all Christians. For instance, when Jesus gives Peter alone the keys to the kingdom in Matthew 16, it does not mean that every Christian has the keys to the kingdom and the power to bind and loose.
Something more than mere exemplarism is going on in John 13. Jesus’ washing of the disciples’ feet has sacerdotal significance; Jesus institutes the priesthood.
… Fr. Jerome Neyrey, SJ, longtime professor of New Testament at Notre Dame, demonstrated that the footwashing scene in John 13 is a “status transformation ritual” in which the disciples are made priests of the new covenant.
Read more from The Catholic World Report
Editor’s note: Since females can never become priests, washing women’s feet during the Holy Thursday liturgy is (conceptually) just as ridiculous, false, unnatural and probably even more offensive to God, than “trans” men claiming to be women and “trans” women claiming to be men.
Both serve to deny God’s truth and instead, serve to cleverly twist that divine truth into a lie.
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