Good-Bye Salon and Good Riddance!

The San Francisco based liberal left media outlet, Salon, has gone belly up after 31 years. Get out the champagne and celebrate. Media bias websites rated them from medium left to far left. They promoted abortion, illustrated Trump derangement syndrome on steroids, and did everything possible to support homosexuality and the transgender agenda. Let's hope their demise is just the beginning for "progressive" media outlets that lie and distort everything good, true, and beautiful and advance the evil and demonic. May all the other progressive media groups like them suffer the same fate. Good-bye and good riddance!

They Can't Be Serious: Bernardin for Canonization?

Fr. David Nix recently had dinner with the Bernardin/Russell victim of the satanic event in Greenville, S.C. in 1957. If you've never heard of it, the event included the rape of a young girl and the sacrilegious use of a consecrated host. Malachi Martin fictionalized the rape in his novel, Windswept House. 

Reading the testimony of "Agnes" I shared her horror over what Bishop John Russell did to her. He celebrated the sacrament of confirmation for her. A few years later when he became the Bishop of Richmond, I too was confirmed by his unholy hands. Thank God the Church teaches that even gravely sinful priests confect the sacraments if they intend to do what the Church intends. I hope Bishop Russell did.

We need the Blessed Mother and the Truth More Now Than Ever!

Yes, Mary is our twelve star general and she terrifies the devil. She will destroy the evil empire America has become. Let us pray that she does it the way she did it in Mexico at Guadalupe. We haven't yet seen the triumph of her Immaculate Heart, but one thing we can be sure of -- it's coming. In the meantime, we need to continue to increase our faith and hope in God and our charity toward our neighbor. Draw close to Mary who tells us to do whatever her Son tells us. We can't go wrong when we stay close to Mary.

January 6 Revisited to Respond to a Rant from a Troll

I don't normally post attacks I get from trolls. They usually go straight into the trash bin. The woman who wrote the one I'm going to discuss in this post has stalked my blog for years. Like a moth to a flame, she can't seem to stay away. I can't think of one time she has had anything charitable to say. I certainly didn't get any comment from her after discussing my husband's stroke. Maybe she didn't read that one. Her hate is almost palpable. She used to post on a blog of her own which is pretty much defunct. In fact, she used that platform to attack me by name. Her message is boringly repetitive:  

The Plea Bargain of Dr. Simone Gold

I mentioned Simone Gold yesterday in the post on Fr. Gordon MacRae and came across an interesting interview with Jordan Peterson which is well worth watching. It shows exactly how evil the January six aftermath was and how the left used felony threats to get people to plea bargain down to misdemeanors. The liberals in power wanted to be able to say, "They admitted guilt." And then, of course, they had the mock Congressional hearings to "prove" it was an "insurrection." Meanwhile, the real insurrections happening in our cities are called "mostly peaceful" by the drive-by media as buildings burn in the background and rioters attack police, loot businesses, and vandalize government buildings.

When Lawyers Use Plea Deals to Pervert Justice: It's Long Past Time to Free Fr. Gordon MacRae!

The persecution of the Jan sixers should have taught us all a profound lesson. Plea deals are sometimes acts of manipulation to pervert justice. How many citizens were welcomed into the Capitol and then the fact that they entered the building became "proof" that they were guilty of insurrection? I think of Dr. Simone Gold who had a permit for an event on the East side of the Capitol where a stage was set up. Others including newly elected members of congress were also scheduled to speak. They were not allowed. Dr. Gold was swept into an open door by the crowd and began to give her presentation in the rotunda. What exactly was she guilty of? Nothing criminal that's for sure! Nevertheless she was threatened with a felony conviction with 20 years of prison time. So what did she do? She pled guilty to a trumped up misdemeanor charge and spent several months in a maximum security prison. 

So What Now After the Disastrous Midterms?

Patrick Delaney on Facebook posted this picture without explaining what he meant by it. I certainly don't think he was saying the Democrats are demons and the Republicans are angels. My assessment is that the Democrat party is demonic and the Republicans are demonic-lite. Our salvation will not be found in politics!

The Day After the Bloodbath: Watch for a Cold Winter, but don't Despair!

In the 1980s there was a movie called The Day After that showed the world shrouded in nuclear winter after an atomic war. I expected the midterm bloodbath and it got me thinking about that old movie. We may not be in a literal winter this morning, but the world has grown a little colder and a little uglier. The results here in Virginia were disastrous for those who love God and respect and follow His laws, particularly because of the three amendments to the state constitution.

The times are bad, so strive for holiness!

I frequently remind myself of a quote that's attributed to either St. Thomas Aquinas or St. Thomas More:

"The times are never so bad that a good man cannot live in them." 

Remembering and Praying for Some Dear Priests on This All Souls Day

A priest friend and former pastor, Fr. Richard Ley, often said that there is no one deader than a dead priest. His point was that they have no immediate family and that often they are easily forgotten. What a terrible thought that our spiritual fathers who have done so much for us could be forgotten! I think of all the priests who've blessed my life and pray that I will never be so lacking in gratitude that I forget them. Today I am praying the rosary for all the dear priests who impacted my life who are now standing before the Judgment Seat of God. I hope they are all in heaven. I pray for them in case they still suffer in Purgatory. They live in my heart, and deserve to be remembered with deep gratitude.