Pope Leo Channels Pope Francis and the Communists on Laudato Si

When I watched the pope bless the block of ice (3:18) I couldn't help feeling like it was a skit from Saturday Night Live. He should be as good to the ICE agents and bless them instead of casting aspersions on the U.S. for their "inhuman treatment of immigrants." What "treatment" is he talking about? - giving illegals $1000 and a free plane ride home if they turn themselves in. The Vatican has walls and laws protecting the Vatican state. Do they "welcome the stranger" coming in with criminal intent?

Sunday Meditation: Love is not rude!

Regular readers know that I like the Epoch Times -- a lot! The June 17-24 issue had a great article on The Steep Price of Declining Civility. I think most would agree that we see that almost every day, the behavior on social media being a good example. Rudeness is just the tip of the iceberg, though. The riots in our cities, school shootings, assassinations of political figures -- they all show the "steep price" of a culture entering chaos!

Sunday Meditation: I Choose Happiness and Gratitude!

If you're a regular reader, you know how much I like The Epoch Times. I think it's the best and most reliable newspaper on the market. I particularly like the Life and Tradition section. Two articles from the Jan 29-Feb 4th issue were not only worth reading, but worth passing on.

The first was "The Key to a Happy Life: Gratitude very quickly leads to joy." It began with the story of man with a medical condition that required a long stay in a nursing facility. When he was shown to his tiny, rather drab and cheerless room, very like a monk's cell, he didn't succumb to gloom but turned to the nurse and said, "I love it!" He chose happiness.

 The other article was Why We Still Need Mister Rogers. I think Fred Rogers was one of the happiest men to ever live. I have his quote about kindness (above) hanging in our family room, a gift from one of our children. Change the word "success" to "happiness" and you have an important part of the equation: gratitude + kindness = happiness!

Sunday Meditation: Love Does Not Keep a Record of Wrongs!

I'm still meditating on 1 Corinthians 13. One of the elements that especially challenges me is, "Love does not keep a record of wrongs." It's easier to forgive than to forget.  And how often past memories invade the present and tempt one to rehash a wrong, fan it into flames, and form it into a grudge as weighty as the Washington Monument. 

I recently read an article in The Epoch Times, The Garden of Eden and Our Regression by James Sale. What a powerful piece! Sale begins with this:

Sunday Meditation: Turning Catastrophes in our Lives into Eucatastrophes

                                                                                               

Those who visit here regularly know that I'm a big fan of the Epoch Times. I especially appreciate their Life and Tradition section and always read it carefully. I often clip articles for a grandchild or a friend to tuck into a letter. So much joy overflows those pages and I learn a lot as well.

A few days ago I was catching up on back issues and found a wonderful quote from an article by Jeff Minick who lives in my own neck of the woods. One day I'd love to meet him. The article was titled The Boons and Blessings of Eucatastrophe.

If you're like me, you've never heard that word before. It was invented by J.R.R. Tolkien and described in his essay On Fairy Stories. Tolkien defined eucatastrophe as "the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous 'turn.'" He called the Resurrection the greatest eucatastrophe possible!

What happens when universities abandon the pursuit of truth and instead....

...are "securing brutalism in the world that they were founded to oppose?"

It's a question raised by Jeffrey Tucker in an article in the Epoch Times titled, What Happened to Intellectual Life? In view of the investment parents make in the higher education of their children, it's an important question and Tucker's analysis is spot on.

Thought for the Day from C.S. Lewis and The Last Battle

As regular readers know, I read the Epoch Times and love it! My favorite section is Life and Culture. This week Marlena Figge has a wonderful article on the C.S. Lewis' series, the Chronicles of Narnia focusing on the final book, The Last Battle. Some readers may be a little confused because she discusses the books, not according to their publication order, but their chronological order. Like the Star Wars series, Lewis began in the middle with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, when the four children of the Pevensie family were evacuated from London and went to live with a professor in the country. One rainy day playing hide and seek, the youngest, Lucy, hides in an old wardrobe, an entrance into the wintry world of Narnia where she meets Tumnus, the faun, and begins an incredible adventure with her siblings.

Expose the Coordinated Effort to Mutilate Kids! They're All In!

Trailer for Gender Transformation: the Untold Realities

The Epoch Times has a documentary unveiling the deliberate, coordinated effort to seduce and mutilate kids with the siren song of "gender fluidity." They're all in: the education establishment, the media, the politicians, the corporate CEOs, the Hospitals and unethical psychiatrists and medical doctors. They're all in! 

Nobel Scientist is a "Climate Change Denialist!"

Pictures like this are part of the fear-mongering to hype the hysteria.

The latest hand-wringing terror talk is in progress. The U.N. head, António Guterres, recently stated, "The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.” And, of course, mankind is to blame and if we don't take immediate action the end is near. (Source) Gosh, how many times have we heard that?

The Lunacy of Liberal Logic or Dead Babies Don't Wear Diapers!

Years ago, Pampers was promoting Planned Parenthood. "What a head-scratcher," I thought! How stupid can a business be? Dead babies don't wear diapers. 

It's Time for Businesses to Just Do Business and Stop Bullying Employees!

Does your workplace look like this?

Are you sick of getting woke politics at work or play? Do you resent paying $100+ for 
concert tickets and getting a lecture from the "entertainers?" That's what happened to my daughter and granddaughter at a Dixie Chicks conference. They walked out! Entertainers who blindside their audiences by injecting their personal political views are arrogant and insulting. If you're a political comedian go for it. If you're a singer or actor, shut up and entertain!

On to the workplace. 

Does your company expect you to adopt gender ideology or embrace child-killing or the border invasion to be the right kind of employee? Do they expect you to use woke pronouns at work or talk about "pregnant people" like USA Today who demoted David Mastion after he tweeted: "People who are pregnant are also women?" He quit!

Pandemic Panic? Take a deep breath and trust in God.

Editor's note: Below is the lead article from the Les Femmes newsletter's Spring Issue in 2020. It remains true as Joe Biden and Dr. Fauci continue to call for stupid measures like wearing masks outside and while exercising. It's like these snake oil salesmen want people to be sick and die. They have suppressed the best early treatments and their media accomplices have deplatformed board certified physicians who only want to help their patients. As many as 25% of Covid deaths were absolutely unnecessary. And many of those who survive the illness will face on-going medical problems post Covid because of the medical malpractice and negligence of those who suppressed the truth to promote the "vaccine" regimen. The Epoch Times has a great article on early treatment of Covid. The doctor interviewed was dumped by Twitter for telling people what every doctor knows. "that treating a viral illness within the first few days of symptoms can prevent it from establishing an infection." It's time to stop the panic and boost your immune system.

Pandemic Panic? Take a deep breath and trust in God.

by Mary Ann Kreitzer

Check Out the Epoch Times! See What It's Like to Read a Paper that Treats News Like News!

I love the Epoch Times so I'm giving them a plug. Almost every issue I cut out one or two articles to send to family and friends. It might be the article about how gratitude is good for you, or the one about Christopher Columbus or another historical figure. Sometimes it's an expose like the one about how the Chinese Communist Party is killing patients for their organs. 

I love the puzzle page for myself and cut out the kids' page to send to my grandchildren. 

Really! Take advantage of their trial period and check it out for yourself. I never enjoy my morning coffee so much as when I'm reading the Epoch Times. And they don't have to pay me to say that!

 

The Wages of Pandemic Panic Are Death! And That's a Fact.

Be scared, be very scared or
 the pandemic will get you!

I recently subscribed to the Epoch Times. I'm a puzzle lover and it has a great puzzle page, but that's not why I subscribed.

After watching some of their ads and checking out their website I decided it was a paper worth reading (unlike the Washington Post, the New York Times, and, sadly, even the Wall Street Journal).

Here's an article I read this morning from the May 21st issue that puts the "pandemic panic" in perspective.

With Pandemic, Societal Hallucination Yields Real Misery

I'm not sure you can read the article without a subscription so I'll provide some highlights. First this: