Family: A Gift from God!

I really do have a life besides this blog and I share some of it on my Grandma blog, The View from Camp Kreitzer.

Never Forget the Murdered Victims of Our Euthanasia Culture

Terri always responded to her mom.

I wrote the piece below in 2003 during the drawn out court battle trying to save Terri Schiavo. Two years later, her family lost the fight and she was starved and dehydrated to death dying on March 31, 2005. Her murder followed that of Hugh Finn and many others sacrificed on Moloch's altar. They have been joined since then by tens of thousands of others only a few of whom make the news like baby Alfie Evans. 

Bobby Schindler, Terri's brother, has an article here in memory of his sister. Let us never forget and let us never stop fighting for the right to life of the innocent from the first day of conception until natural death. Our Lady of Life, pray for us.

Déjà vu: Hugh Finn & Terri Schiavo

Fr. Arrupe and Rev. Henry Kane: Birds of a Feather!

Is it just me? Or does the destroyer of the Jesuit order, Fr. Pedro Arrupe, remind you of the villain in the Poltergeist series, Reverend Henry Kane? Arrupe is renowned for relaxing the "rigidity" of the order. And now there's talk of canonizing the man. God help us when single-handed faith-wrecking machines are considered fit models for the faithful!

Fr. Pedro Arrupe, wrecker of the Jesuits

Rev. Henry Kane, the devil's right-hand man

 

Going Out Like a Lion: The Predictable Repeated Attacks on the SSPX by Church Militant!

Surprise! Surprise! Church Militant is coming out with another hit piece on the SSPX. It's become their M.O. so no one should be surprised. I know nothing at this point about the piece except that I watched the promo. It's scheduled to air on March 31st and crackerjack investigator, Christine Niles, introduces it with the title "Black Trads Matter." Note the snide ridicule. Always, always, those of us devoted to the traditional Latin Mass are described and dismissed as "trads." That is a typical propaganda tool and one of Alinsky's rules for radicals. You freeze the opponent and then ridicule him. It's a tactic well known throughout history. Think of the terms kike, mackeral-eater, spic, cracker, nigger, gook, cockroach, etc. ad nauseum. CM is expert at that particular propaganda tool when it comes to labelling orthodox Catholics who attend the Latin Mass. Check out this brief description from Propaganda 101:

Sooner or Later the Truth Comes Out: COVID Deaths were Exaggerated for Political Purposes....

....And now they are being corrected also for political purposes. As Dr. Mercola points out, "Democrats know they cannot win in the midterms unless they declare victory over COVID-19."

Yup! Read the abstract and then the whole article. We've been played from the beginning, folks. Liberalism is the real plague and it continues among us. 

Abstract from Dr. Mercola's website:

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and individual states are now backtracking on their COVID death statistics, showing those of us who claimed deaths were being overcounted were right all along.

Bad News and Good News: Although Learning about Bad News is Ultimately Good News!

Good news? Bad news? Give it all to the Lord in prayer!
All God's creatures remind us how much we need prayer!

First the bad news - although when bad news is exposed it's good news for those searching for the truth:

 BOMBSHELL REPORT: Hunter Biden Emails Show He Secured Funds for Biolabs in Ukraine

•  Here are the details, and remember also that then-Vice President Joe Biden was in charge of relations with Ukraine at the time all of this was happening:

Thoughts on Turning 75! The Diamond Year!

celebrating with six of my granddaughters and my daughter, the photographer

Today is my birthday. My parents named me Mary after Our Lady's feast day yesterday for which I'm deeply thankful. And now, here I am, celebrating my birthday for the 76th time as I journey on toward the final goal. What comes to mind as I reflect on the past, the present, and the future?

Archbishop Vigano Responds to Weigel the Warmonger

Following up on my post about George Weigel's ugly attack on Archbishop Vigano, I offer this response to Weigel from the archbishop himself. As usual Archbishop Vigano is the voice of reason answering the spurious below-the-belt assaults from two men he apparently considered friends. Betrayal and again, betrayal! What an appropriate time for that to take place, eh? Jesus was betrayed and betrayed and betrayed! How painful it is when "friends" are the source of stab wounds. "Et tu, Roberto? Et tu, George?"

I'm printing the archbishop's response in full with my comments in red. Pray for Holy Mother Church. She has so few defenders these days. I have never liked neo-conservative warmonger George Weigel and never trusted him, but I did respect Roberto de Mattei and appreciated his book, Apologia for Tradition.

THE UNCROSSABLE RED LINE: Viganò Responds to George Weigel at First Things 

Written by  Carlo Maria Viganò

Guest Post: Fascism and the "Progressive" Left by Fr. William Aitcheson

Today's "progressives" embrace the same old fascism of Hitler and Mussolini!

Editor's Note: Because Fr. Aitcheson is addressing so many historical issues with which many of us are unfamiliar, I'm adding some additional information in red. To understand current events, it helps to know the history that precedes them. The present moment doesn't occur in isolation from the past, and what happens today affects tomorrow as Susan pointed out so eloquently in yesterday's post. Study history because it repeats itself and, as George Santayana so famously said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." He also said, "A country without a memory is a country of madmen." Aren't we living that reality today?

Ukraine's President Zelensky Plays the Piano With His Penis

I have no words of wisdom here except that this is what the pathetic world of politics has come to, so if you don't mind, I'll just call him President Piano Playing Penis, or PPPP or 4P. 

Anastasia Romanov, Sr Lucy, Franco, Putin and the Consecration

My question is this: Who will be appointed to tell us if the Consecration that Francis is going to do on March 25 was accepted by Heaven? When John Paul II did the Consecration on March 25, 1984, Sister Lucy said on November 8, 1989, that the Consecration had been accepted by Heaven, yet no one but the Blue Army believed her. Please don't say that the answer to my question will be what happens with Russia afterwards, because spectacular things happened to Russia after the 1984 Consecration including the breakup of the Soviet Union and the fall of Communism in 1989. Additionally nuclear war was averted (that same nuclear war that the current leftist global elites, Obama, Soros, Biden, Trudeau, Macron, Klaus Schwab, Hilary Clinton, Zelensky, etc., seem to so eagerly want now) but no one wanted to believe any of that had anything to do with the 1984 Consecration.

This is a story about the world not believing what is before everyone's eyes. The following 4 people on the world stage were disbelieved by the powers that be. What would have happened if they had been believed? 

I - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna (Romanov) of Russia - June 1, 1901 - February 12, 1984

Everyone knows the story of the Communist left murdering the Romanov family in the basement of the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia, on July 17, 1918, one year after Our Lady of Fatima appeared to Lucy dos Santos and Francisco and Jacinta Marto. The world wants to believe the narrative that all of Russia's royal family died that night, their bodies tossed down a mine shaft and burned to ash.

An Interesting Post from Mundabor on "Ukraine: Seven Lies Exposed"

You don't have to be pro-Putin to realize we are getting plenty of propaganda from both sides. Hello! That's what happens in war. Both sides want to make demons out of the enemy and justify any atrocity committed against them. Can we have a little balance? I think the invasion was morally unjustifiable. At the same time, being invaded doesn't make a leader either a hero or a saint. Zelensky is neither. As a matter of fact, I think he is a creation of the elites like AOC, a puppet for the globalists. They don't care about either the people of Ukraine or the people of Russia. They care about money and power. Check out Mundabor's blog. I'm running the first two lies and linking to his blog for the rest.

Ukraine: Seven Lies Exposed

Time Out for a Sweet Reminder -- Rejoice and Bee Happy!

Jesus ran out of his shoes seeking
consolation from Mary as He
saw the instruments of the passion.

St. Paul tells us to "Rejoice in the Lord always." So even in these troubled times, we can turn our minds and hearts to Jesus and rejoice in His love for us. And what a great God who gives us a tender Mother to whom we can always run for consolation, just like Jesus did! 

Being the first day of spring, my thoughts are engaged with Spring "work." Among the most exciting projects to me is going to the bee yard and checking on the girls.

All three hives made it through the winter and we expect to multiply three into six. We did our first inspection about two weeks ago and all was well in the three little kingdoms which are filled with busy bees already bringing in pollen and nectar. You can read about it if you're interested at my grandma blog.

We've been beekeeping now for eight years and it's been quite an adventure. We expanded to six hives at one point and were knocked back by a bear visitation during holy week which forced us to spend Holy Thursday putting up an electric fence. Once a bear finds the "candy store," he'll always be back for more. So up went the fence. 

Truth: It's In the Cryptic Quote from Sir Robert Peel

I'm not familiar with British politics, but, after working out a cryptic quote today by Sir Robert Peel, I looked up his biography. Peel founded the Metropolitan police force in London in 1829 when he was Home Secretary because the crime rate in the city was out of control. His philosophy was that the police were the public and the public were the police. In other words, the citizens have a duty to protect their own communities. The "peelers" or "bobbies" were paid about the same as day laborers to emphasize they were not above ordinary citizens. (I don't think it takes much imagination to figure out what Peel would have thought about Antifa and Black Lives Matter thugs.)

Sodomites, Lezzies and Trannies - Stop Sinning to Stop Wars

Disobedience to God and His Commandments results in wars as punishment and chastisement to sinful man. Today mankind is so thoroughly disobedient that attraction to the opposite sex is not spoken of by the woke elite, and actually saying that marriage is between a man and a woman is forbidden. 

Therefore, here I am once again, telling the truth as only a non-woke person can, so sodomites, lesbians and trannies of all kinds, listen up. Notice in each video below the high amount of attraction and chemistry between the man and the woman. While Antonio Banderas and his dancing partner (from the movie Take the Lead) have a sort of steamy attraction and look as if they'll jump into bed directly after tangoing, Prince Charming and Cinderella's attraction for each other is more innocent yet no less passionate. That's the way it's supposed to be. Attraction to the opposite sex. Man, woman. Male, female.

Why on earth I or anyone else have to spell out that opposite sexes are supposed to be attracted to one another boggles the mind. Therefore, do your part for world peace and to stop wars by doing what God intended you to do from the beginning when He made Adam and Eve. Stop sinning to stop wars.

Sorry, George, You Got it Wrong and Archbishop Vigano Got It Right!

The wise and wonderful Weigel!

The other day George Weigel wrote an attack piece on Archbishop Vigano that included a number of bullet points about the "manifestly false claims" Vigano made in his recent letter about the war in Ukraine. Weigel labeled Vigano a conspiracy nut comparable to Col. Grace-Groundling Marchpole, a character in an Evelyn Waugh novel. 

Ah...ridicule...it's an effective strategy as Saul Alinsky pointed out in his Rules for Radicals. Even I use it occasionally when things are too ridiculous to treat seriously and the ponderously pontificating need a little prick to their puffed up pomposity. (I know, I know ridiculous alliteration!)

To the Globalist Elite Masters of War

By replacing the images of Republicans in this video with the current Democrat and EU Puppetmasters - (Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Trudeau, Macron, Klaus Schwab, George Soros, Hilary Clinton, Ursula von der Leyen, and Zelensky their Puppet - every single one of them Globalist elites) we'll better understand who the warmongers are screeching for WWIII. Liberal hippies of the past pretended to be peaceful, They're now the same liberals planning WWIII where millions of people will be slaughtered. 

Meanwhile keep in mind that it's against Ukraine's law for Russian citizens in the Russian half of Ukraine (territories east of the Dnieper River) to speak their native language. Also know that 8 years ago the Ukrainian government cemented up the freshwater canal leading down to the Crimea so that the Russian people there were rationed water, crops could not be grown and the land was dried and cracked. In addition, for years Azov regiments - Ukraine's far right neo-Nazi troops - have been waging war against Russians in Eastern Ukraine, killing as many as 14,000 Russian men women and children.

Eric Sammons Gives a Balanced View of What We're Seeing in Ukraine! "Be Willing to Question the Dominant Narrative!"

Note his commentary that if you say anything against the "dominant narrative" you get attacked with vicious rhetoric. It happened with COVID and it's happening now with the war in the Ukraine. If you dare to challenge "any point of the narrative" you "must be on the other side." you must be in Putin's pocket. You can be 100% against the invasion, it doesn't matter. If you dare to deviate 1% from the dominant narrative, you're evil.

We are living the curse of "interesting times."

I don't consider the war in Ukraine "interesting," but horrifying so I'm not going to talk about it except to say, people need to stop listening to the simplistic pap of CNN, MSNBC, and the blathering idiots on The View. I suspect those folks haven't cracked a book since they used Cliff Notes in college and term paper websites for their essays and theses. Have they read the Pandora Papers about Zelensky's offshore stash, one of the things his predecessor was booted for? Do they know anything about the U.S. involvement in the 2014 coup in Ukraine that threw out a DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED president and replaced him with someone more agreeable to U.S. interests? Hey, Uncle Joe needed the buddy system so Hunter could cash in on his Ukraine connections. But...I said I wasn't going to talk about the war, so I'll switch to a very interesting item. 

Sandro Magister of L’Espresso, a well-known Vatican reporter just released an anonymous memo, under the name "Demos" - Greek for people, that may have been written by a Cardinal. Or, considering the plural nature of the name, perhaps by several insiders. The memo addresses the catastrophic situation at the Vatican and the next conclave which is likely to take place in the next few years. I'm publishing the entire memo with highlighted sections and my comments. As I said, it's interesting. 

Tucker was Brilliant Last Night! Are You a Traitor, a Russian Agent Who Belongs in the Gulag?

Don't you dare to question the war machine or you are a traitor who belongs in jail! Join the "insurrectionists" who were welcomed into the Capitol on January 6th and then nailed for being there, some not even inside the building! Whatever happened to the right to a speedy trial?

 

What's Happening in Ukraine? Read and Watch!

Editor's Comment: I received an email from a friend accompanied by an interesting video describing the Russian strategy and plan in the Ukraine. I also read the comments on YouTube about the video and found this one particularly insightful. Let's face it. We are being deluged with propaganda from both sides. That's what happens in war. But when one side is being portrayed as a monster and the other as an angel, you can be sure you aren't getting the entire story.

"There is nothing heroic about arming the citizenry in the first day of war after your air defenses have been destroyed. There is nothing heroic about tolerating the installation of heavy weaponry inside cities where civilians are still present. There is nothing heroic about prolonging the war knowing full well that a no-fly zone will never happen, no other nation will send their military and you must then rely on international volunteer while 60,000 your troops are apparently surrounded and you are facing the biggest military defeat in one area. The only heroic thing to do is surrender to save lives of your people and negotiate terms for peace. Zelensky refuses to do this and so Zelensky is no hero to me."

To fight a losing battle while the people's casualties rise is not courageous; it's stupid, arrogant, and irresponsible. Read my friend's email and watch the video. What do you think?

The E-mail ----

Thought for the Second Week of Lent: On Spiritual Combat

Most of us are probably focused these days on the physical combat between Russia and Ukraine, especially with the war hawks squawking for escalation! But for our personal lives, it is more useful to focus on our own interior spiritual combat. Outside of prayer and fasting, we can do little to influence a war going on thousands of miles away, but we must engage in a spiritual war that takes place immediately and daily in our own lives. The book, Spiritual Combat by Dom Lorenzo Scupoli provides the strategy to win the victory against ourselves and the persistent temptations that plague us and it is an appropriate season to engage in that personal war. So let me share a few words of wisdom from this good priest:

If you ever fear that your will should fall before the lower appetite, or other enemies that attempt to overcome it; if you perceive that your courage and determination are failing, hold your ground -- do not retreat from the field. You must regard the victory as your own as long as you are not completely overcome. (Chapter 14)

We Know Our Government Lied About COVID. Are They Lying About the Bio-Weapon Labs in Ukraine?

Glenn Greenwald has always impressed me as fair. You can depend on him to look at both sides of an issue. So when he discusses whether the U.S. has bioweapons labs in Ukraine, he's worth listening to. In the first 20 minutes you see government rep, Victoria Nuland, admit to a Senate panel that the labs exist and that the U.S. is very concerned that the agents in these labs might be captured by the Russians. Marco Rubio, a neo-con hawk, helps spin her admission into one more attack on the Russians. In the past few days government sources are falling over themselves claiming that the U.S. is doing no research on bioweapons. Do you believe them? The entire video is fascinating especially the discussion about the 2001 anthrax attacks. The strain of anthrax used eventually was found to have originated not in Iraq, the government's cover story, but at Fort Detrick in Maryland. So when you hear all the denials about the U.S. not engaging in any work on biological weapons -- well --- take their denials with a grain of salt.

A Lenten Thought for Saturday from the Gospel of St. John and Fairy Tales

I'm reading the gospels during Lent in no particular order. I started with Luke and began St. John yesterday. Actually, St. John is always a good gospel to start with since, like any good book, his opening sentence reads, "In the beginning...." That reminds me of fairy tales. You know, "Once upon a time...." Since fairy tales present moral truths in an endearing way, I can readily see them as companions to the gospels, especially when you are teaching moral truths to children.

The kind sister shared her lunch with an old woman in the forest.

Guest Post: Ukraine 2022 -- Fatima, Austria’s neutrality, prayer and fasting

Editor's Comment: Remember Mary's peace plan. Pray the rosary for peace as she asked at Fatima.  The war in Ukraine will end through Mary's intercession, but we need to do our part. What man cannot accomplish through armed conflict, Mary can accomplish through our prayers joined with her intercession. O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee. Our Lady, Queen of Peace, pray for our poor world.

By Robert G. Marshall 

( bio - articles - email ) | Mar 09, 2022

The Cold War “neutral” status of Austria effected by a 1955 treaty should offer hope that the war between Ukraine and Russia could similarly be resolved.

In 1938, before World War II began, Nazi Germany had fully annexed Austria, and later forced Austrian troops to fight beside Germans. At the war’s end in 1945, Austria and Germany were occupied by armies of the four victorious governments with the administrators of the victors running everything.

Zelensky, the Spike-Heeled Dancing President of the Ukraine

Zelensky's high heeled dance video was a parody of Kazaky's 2011 Love video from The Hill Chronicles album. Nevertheless I prefer that spike heels be on the feet of his First lady, not wearing them himself. Basically what Zelensky's fans are saying is that they think a comedian makes a fine President. I'm thinking that Zelensky is now contacting George Soros, Obama and Klaus Schwab on a daily basis to find out what his next dance move will be. (I will not post Kazaky's video since it's in English and the lyrics are obscene.) 

Aside note: Mariupol maternity hospital was empty when bombed. It had been used as a base by Azov extremists who had kicked all the patients, nurses and service personnel out.

Five R's for Lent -- Remember, Reflect, Repent, Return, Rejoice - And Some Other R Words for Good Measure!

Prodigal son among the swine by
Albrecht Durer (1496)

During my Lenten reading the past few days, I keep meeting five R words: remember, reflect, repent, return, and rejoice. The first is remember and we hear it from the very first day of Lent in the Ash Wednesday admonition. "Remember, man, that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return." A sobering thought upon which we do well to reflect, the second R word. Holy Mother Church, on the first Sunday of Lent, also urges us to remember the devil's temptations of the Holy One of God and to reflect on them. Jesus goes out to the desert and He responds (another R word) to each temptation with a remembrance from Old Testament scripture. Remember, Satan, "It is written, man does not live by bread alone!...You shall not put the Lord your God to the test!....You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve!" Jesus looks at us from the cross and tells us to remember and reflect upon the word of God whenever we are tempted. The Word has power over evil that we can hardly imagine. And so during this time of Lent, let us remember to read  (another R word) and reflect upon holy scripture every day.

Guest Post: Pachamama, the Pope, and Persecution by Fr. Bill Aitcheson

Editor's comment: I can never forget Pope Francis welcoming the Pachamama idol to the Vatican garden on October 4, 2019.  The procession of swaying, rattle-shaking shamans and their companions danced around a blanket with the image of Mother Earth covered with idolatrous symbols. Anyone watching the event couldn't help but be "rattled" and ask, "What the hell?" (literally!) Adding to my sorrow is that it happened on Larry's and my 50th wedding anniversary. What an anniversary present! Since then the pope has dropped one bomb after another on faithful Catholics who love tradition and want to do nothing more than to worship as did so many of the saints who've gone before us. We cringe as Francis introduces more and more bizarre and evil novelties into the Church, not to mention filling the hierarchy with men made in his own deceitful and scandalous image. Pray for Holy Mother Church. Save us, Lord Jesus from the dragon and his servants!

PACHAMAMA, THE POPE, AND PERSECUTION

by Fr. Bill Aitcheson

"Let no man deceive you by any means, for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshiped so that he sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God." (2 Thess 2:3-4)

Church Militant's Misogynists: Dave Gordon and Joe Gallagher - Part 1

 

In my first post on the Resistance podcast by Dave Gordon and Joe Gallagher where they attacked the pro-life movement, I addressed their rabid vitriol against former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson. But condemning Abby was only the preamble to their misogynistic rant, one that reveals their lack of respect for women and our place in God's plan. [N.B. These two guys sound very much alike, so, in transcribing the podcast, I wasn't always certain who was speaking. Since their brains are cloned it probably doesn't matter, but I may have mis-labeled some of the conversation attributing it to the wrong speaker.]

Pray the Rosary: To Protect Your Family, Your Parish, Your Community, and the World!

I received the email below the other day from a friend after meeting him by chance at a local restaurant. We had taken our granddaughter out for lunch after she played one of Bianca's suitors in The Taming of the Shrew at Chelsea Academy. As we were leaving, he came in with some others. We had passed a group at the park next to the restaurant praying the rosary with a large statue of Our Lady of Fatima and a banner proclaiming her. Wonderful! I asked if he had been with the group since I know he's a mover and shaker when it comes to organizing public prayer. Anyway, He said, no, they had been attending a funeral. 

At any rate he invited me to join some of these events. They take place in Front Royal which is about forty minutes form our home in Woodstock, but I hope to join them on days I'll be up there. With the cost of gas, we'll be trying to consolidate errands and activities and limit our traveling. If you live in the Front Royal area, though, consider joining some of these prayer events. We certainly need prayer protection these days. And if you don't live in Front Royal, you can still join. Think of it as distance praying. We are all united when we pray Mary's rosary!

Our Lady, Queen of the Holy Rosary, pray for us. 

Our Lady, Queen of Peace, pray for us.

February 26 

Dear Mary Ann,

I Didn't Think Church Militant Could Go Any Lower -- And Then They Attacked the Pro-Life Movement!

Church Militant reached a new low when they let two sanctimonious, self-righteous boys (Dave Gordon and Joe Gallagher) do a Resistance podcast titled, Why the Pro-Life Movement is so Pathetic. They illustrated pathetic all right -- just how pathetic Church Militant (CM) and their phony "resistance" movement is. They proceeded to trash the pro-life movement as a whole, with particular vitriol leveled at the March for Life (MfL)! 

India Refuses to let Pfizer Jab their People Because of Converns about Adverse Side Effects

2022 is the "winter of death" for U.K. folks who listened to the "scientists"
recommending the immunity-killing death jab! 

Vaccines have been used in the third world to sterilize women. That's a fact! Tetanus shots in Kenya were laced with the pregnancy hormone, HCG, human chorionic gonadotropin, causing women to develop antibodies that later attacked their babies. Result? Chronic miscarriage. The Catholic bishops of Kenya blew the whistle in 2014. Of course, the authorities denied it, but similar things were happening in Peru and the Philippines. And we all know about the Tuskegee experiments. People of color have reason to distrust the eugenic medics who think there are too many of "those" people! The capacity for evil by  "scientists" cut in the mold of Dr. Mengele seems limitless. But some countries are wising up. Unfortunately, the U.S. is not among them. We are already seeing an unprecedented increase in deaths from all causes which makes perfect sense if you're destroying your natural immunity.  But, hey, if you want to believe it's all just a coincidence, go ahead and get the third, fourth, or tenth "booster." Your choice. 

12 years ago Hollywood loved Vladimir Putin

Here he is singing Blueberry Hill. I see Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner and some other movie stars I don't recognize because they all look the same since plastic surgery obliterated their God-given features into Barbies and Kens. 

 

Kids Under Twelve Who Get the Jab are More Likely to Get COVID!

Tell me again why you think getting your kids vaccinated is a good idea? Resending URGENT: mRNA shots raise the risk of Covid infection in children under 12 Alex Berenson 17 hr ago 550 356 (Resending to all because it was only delivered to paid subscribers and it is too important for everyone not to see immediately.) Six weeks after becoming “fully vaccinated,” kids under 12 are 40 percent MORE likely to be infected [with] Covid than those who never received mRNA shots, a huge New York state database shows.

Guest Post on Ash Wednesday: PROACTIVE REPENTANCE by Fr. Tom Collins

Return of the Prodigal Son 
by Pompeo Batoni 1708-1787

Editor's comment: I'm always pleased when Fr. Collins sends me one of his wise and insightful articles. This one seems especially appropriate as we begin Lent. Growth in the spiritual life begins with acknowledging our sinfulness and repenting. A relationship, damaged by sin, requires repair and that can only happen if we acknowledge our responsibility and seek forgiveness. The Father of the prodigal son stood in the doorway looking down the road, and he waited. It took the son's recognition of his own sinfulness and his return in repentance before forgiveness and restoration could happen. So let us begin Lent on our knees, confessing our sins, doing penance, and making a firm purpose of amendment. With the help of God's grace, all things are possible, including changing our stubborn and rebellious hearts. My Jesus, help me to make a good Lent drawing closer to your Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Amen.

And then there's Anastasia Tiurina, 7 years old from Moscow, Russia

9 years old

An open letter to Michael Voris

Michael and the never ending battle

Dear Michael Voris,

I'm here to help you out in what seems to be a dilemma for you. I have the answer to Church Militant's problem. Whether or not you'll listen is up to you.

A) Recognize the problem

Church Militant's problem is that it's fighting a losing battle. You're constantly playing ecclesial Whac-A-Mole. No sooner does Church Militant whack down one priest, bishop or cardinal for sodomy, stealing or some other equally nefarious thing, than another worse problem jumps up and you then have to whack that problem down. It's never ending and will never be controlled. It's impossible because you're fighting against the Modernism that Vatican II placed within Christ's Church. It's everywhere in every crook and corner of every diocese in every parish in the entire world.