Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) goes after organizations, such as police departments, and schools, such as athletic teams, that permit public prayer. The non-profit claims police and schools violate the Constitution's 1st Amendment. FFRF must be the stupidest group around. Their title reveals their true aim.
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by Stephen Crane High Five Poker is a table game. It is like a combination of Three Card Poker and Pai Gow Poker. It uses a 53-card deck, where the 53rd card is a Joker and can be used to make a Straight, Flush, Straight Flush, or Royal Flush; otherwise, it acts as a fifth Ace. One small detail: when I enter the cold, my skin reddens. Characters
This story is the 64th. There are 50 poems in the Reading List. All the entries are classics, and many are narrated.
The Third Commandment requires Catholics (everyone) to attend Mass on Sunday and on Holy Days of Obligation, and failure to attend is a mortal sin that condemns one to Hell. One cannot evade the Commandment. Peter Kwasniewski is known here in Sacramento. My journey to the Latin Mass occurred a little later than his. He answers the question, "When can I skip Mass?" a pressing question Latin Mass goers face. I do not suffer from scrupulosity. However, blogging on a Sunday could be servile work. My hope is that TLM Catholics avoid nitpicking each other. I'm glad you are there.
Iwo Jima Date of video: March 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima: Feb 19, 1945 – Mar 26, 1945 Five Marines receive communion from a Catholic chaplain in an open field. Four Marines come out of a small cave in the hillside to receive communion. Homeschooling has the advantage. Here are the areas of math that interested me: numbers; basic math like word problems; algebra; and applied geometry. I would have been interested in some calculus if it were astronomy. An example would be trajectories, but that was not offered.
He pursues his interests. See Fratelli tutti, which is Bergoglio’s encyclical. In it, he quotes Gabriel Marcel, an existentialist. Kirkegaard was an existentialist, and others like Marcel relied heavily on his understanding of Christianity. Here I had help from Wikipedia, and I quote. Kierkegaard addressed themes such as authenticity, anxiety, love, and the irrationality and subjectivity of faith, rejecting efforts to contain God in an objective, logical system. To Kierkegaard, the focus of theology was on the individual grappling with subjective truth rather than a set of objective claims – a point he demonstrated by often writing under pseudonyms that had different points of view. He contended that each person must make independent choices, which then constitute his or her existence. Each person suffers from the anguish of indecision (whether knowingly or unknowingly) until committing to a way to live. [Oh, ok, somehow anguish ends?] Kierkegaard posited three stages of human existence: the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious, the latter coming after what is often called the leap of faith.[citation needed] Kierkegaard argued that the universe is fundamentally paradoxical, and that its greatest paradox is the transcendent union of God and humans in the person of Jesus Christ. He also posited having a personal relationship with God that supersedes all prescribed moralities, social structures, and communal norms, since he asserted that following social conventions is essentially a personal aesthetic choice made by individuals.[citation needed] [summary ended]
I just finished tutoring Altan, 15. He is perceptive and intuitive and recognizes truth. Young people give me hope.
The politician has scheduled a “climate summit” for May 15 to 17.
During a speech, Bergoglio highlighted the contrast in emissions between wealthier and poorer nations. He said that individuals in the United States have a higher carbon footprint compared to those in China and significantly more than the poorest countries. The Pillar (pillarcatholic.com) challenged some of his claims. It noted that per capita emissions in the U.S. are less than 1.5 times those of China. Additionally, it highlighted that China’s total emissions more than double those of the United States. The magazine fact-checked him. Again, this man shows how much he hates the USA. He enjoys all the perks of office. Gas powers his pope mobiles. He flies on jets. In the Middle Eastern hellhole, our military protects the American economy and the world's economies for the benefit of all.
There were two fronts in WWII, but I say that our first target had to be Nazi Germany. Our greatest ally was Great Britain, and Churchill feared an invasion. My father and his sister were sent to Europe. Their brother was killed at Pearl Harbor.
Michael S. Rose is the author of Goodbye, Good Men, referenced in Paul VI & Paul. Rose's speech was posted five years ago. Book TV attracted many viewers like me, so how did I miss the exposé? The only psychology textbook I read was in college. I'll stick to fiction. From 2005 to 2021 Rose served as Book Editor and Associate Editor for the New Oxford Review. He taught literature, composition, journalism, and rhetoric at college and high school levels. He is Headmaster and Superintendent of Cincinnati Classical Academy.
I have a friend, 24, considering the diocesan priesthood or religious life. He has two very good diocesan priests advising him. One is a vocations director, and the other says the Latin Mass. I read a report that Bishop Strickland, exiled but not canceled, tweeted a mistake he made. He said that he was not so strong as he should have been in resisting Francis.
Strickland is the first bishop to make such an admission. I'd invite him to the fantasy nation I dreamt up yesterday. The word nation derives from the Latin verb nasci, meaning to be born. From that we get Nativity.
My fantasy nation would be
Hungarian diplomat Eduard Hapsburg, aka Archduke Eduard of Austria, might be the right man to solicit. He is also a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, the former ruling family of Austria-Hungary. We would counsel him. The nation would be organized around the monastery and from there the educational system would emanate. We would have a modern hospital and police force. We would eschew all other alliances and produce our own products for export, which would then provide exchange for imports. Taxes would be enough and no more to pay for the hospital, a bank, a court, and police. Settlers would provide other community needs, such as roads, fire, water, and reclamation, and, like Yellowstone, there would be no fences, necessitating firearms, and people would be free to leave. There would be no need for a constitution as our school would give its students Pope Leo XIII's encyclical on the relationship between government and Church, Immortale Dei. Where? 'One Step Beyond' St. Marys, KS. How many synods have there been? 19 How many have there been recently? 16 In the modern era, the first took place in 1967, established by Paul 6, the purpose of which was to continue the “collaborative spirit” of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) by gathering bishops from around the world to discuss a topic chosen by the leader. The 2023-2024 Synod on Synodality is the 16th. Sixteen out of 19 have occurred since 1967. Do you need me to repeat that? The Organization Credit goes to Marc Barnes. He titles his article dated March 24, 2017, "An Idiotic Hierarchy." He mocks with one equilateral triangle, a one-sided pyramid. If I link the article, the temple police will be after him. area = √3/4 x a² (a is the length of the side, all sides being a)
Encyclical Oct 3, 2020
Title translated: all brothers Selected quotes from Wikipedia [Islam] In the encyclical, Pope Francis states that his February 2019 meeting in Abu Dhabi with Grand Imam of al-Azhar, during which they signed the Document on Human Fraternity, was an inspiration for the document. [Existentialism] The notion of “neighbour” elaborated in the document is partly inspired by the interpretation of Paul Ricoeur, whom the pope quotes twice in the encyclical; the pope also quotes one of Ricoeur’s thought leaders, Christian existentialist philosopher Gabriel Marcel. [Fernandez] Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez participated in the encyclical’s redaction. [Death Penalty/Life Imprisonment] Pope Francis repeats that the death penalty is “inadmissible” and that “there can be no stepping back from this position”. He also expresses opposition to life imprisonment, which he calls a “secret death penalty”. [War] Francis says that wars can no longer be considered justifiable, as the risks of war exceed any supposed benefits. He believes that “it is very difficult nowadays to invoke the rational criteria elaborated in earlier centuries to speak of the possibility of a just war.” [Just War] Francis adds that Augustine of Hippo, “who forged a concept of ‘just war’ that we no longer uphold in our own day, also said that ‘it is a higher glory still to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.’” [Freemasons] Through its communication organ El Oriente, the Grand Lodge of Spain praises the encyclical, saying that it shows “how far the current Catholic Church is from its former position.” The Grand Orient of Italy wrote in its official magazine Erasmo to praise the encyclical, saying the “idea of universal brotherhood as a bond that unites all human beings, regardless of their faith, ideology, color, skin, social background, language, culture and nation” expressed in the Fratelli tutti are “close to the ideals that have been the very foundations of Freemasonry from the very beginning.” He wants to change the Church into a global brotherhood in his own image. When will he become a father again, taking care of us? Never. Boy Scouts of America is changing its name to Scouting America. The organization founded in 1910 saw its membership fall from two million in 2019 to well under one million in 2021. The reason Latin Mass churches have many more altar boys than New Order churches is because a distinction between boys and girls is maintained and the latter let girls become altar boys. Adults, including teachers, want to manipulate children, turn them into robots, and replicate themselves, and that is fatal. My students are autonomous boys.
I present a radio play from 1950, "Mars Is Heaven," by science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. If you can get past Richfield Oil commercials (sponsor), the story is actually pretty good. His name: John Black. Reality is altered. Was Paul VI (1897-1978) blackmailed? Now I know who started retiring priests.
Conformity is the process whereby people change their beliefs, attitudes, actions, or perceptions to more closely match those held by groups to which they belong or want to belong or by groups whose approval they desire.
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Detective Sergeant Matthew Scutti testifies at the trial of a man accused of killing his six-year-old son. Scutti describes the autopsy pictures taken by the officers. Only one picture of the body is shown, but his testimony is graphic. I want you to see what actually happens. I was called once to testify in my capacity as a patrol officer. On the morning I arrived, the assistant DA told me a plea deal had been reached, so I was released. I served on four juries and was dismissed once during voir dire, probably because of my background. The killing occurred in April 2021; the trial is now. Justice is slow. May 6, 2024 “...As we discuss the dangers of false authority and misplaced obedience, it is important to note that the laity in the Church do not exist for the sake of the clergy in the Church. The clergy exist to provide the sacraments necessary for salvation to the laity. The paramount concern of all clergy should always, ALWAYS, be the salvation of the souls entrusted to them...” https://cforc.com/2024/05/bishop-joseph-stricklands-letter-just-following-orders/ Strickland elevates me. Jesuits Reese and Francis exist to bring us the sacraments, not publicly admonish the faithful, and they are most certainly not saints to be listened to or emulated. I'm not speaking of dissenters when I say that I have high regard for nonconformist priests. Christ, the reigning example, rebuffed the Pharisees and civil authority. Therefore, rebuffing authority when it grasps falsehoods is legitimate. I'd like the TLM community to be nonconformist. Nonconformity is an interior disposition, having nothing to do with how you comb your hair but everything to do with good manners. I see only one man with a hand on the altar, and it's his right hand. A priest can say Mass by himself with Christ when no one else is present. Check out the Council of Trent documents in the previous post. Concelebration, a fallacious, 1960s interlude, is not the same as priest, deacon, and subdeacon. I talk like I'm an expert. Not so. A lot of this comes out of reading and observing. artist: Fra Angelico
“Since my critics often accuse me of heresy, before I go further, let me affirm that I believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. I just don’t believe in transubstantiation because I don’t believe in prime matter, substantial forms and accidents that are part of Aristotelian metaphysics.” Thomas J. Reese, SJ “The Eucharist is about More than the Real Presence”, National Catholic Reporter, Jan. 31, 2023.
Reese makes a variety of other outrageous assertions in the article. Outside the confessional, who is he to tell me what to believe or how to live? With the exception of the Francis addition declaring capital punishment immoral, the catechism is my guide. The Baltimore is the easiest. Reese was in formation when he was teaching at my high school. He was a wimp, and some boys flocked around him. My rank was 33rd of 250. Nevertheless, my wits let me know when a trickster came into view. Now I know he is anathema. In the New Testament an anathema is a person or thing condemned by God. 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. 9 As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema. Reese went on to say: “Thomas Aquinas used Aristotelianism, the avant-garde philosophy of his time, to explain the Eucharist to his generation. What worked in the 13th century will not work today. If he were alive today, he would not use Aristotelianism because nobody grasps it in the 21st century.” What an unbelievably condescending thing to say to us, but his aim is not to talk down to us. The political animal based in D.C. wants to keep the perks of an easy life. Council of Trent “If anyone denies that in the sacrament of the most holy Eucharist there are truly, really, and substantially contained the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore the whole Christ, but shall say that He is in it as by a sign or figure, or force, let him be anathema. “If anyone says that in the sacred and holy sacrament of the Eucharist there remains the substance of bread and wine together with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denies that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the body, and of the entire substance of the wine into the blood, the species of the bread and wine only remaining, a change which the Catholic Church most fittingly calls transubstantiation: let him be anathema. (Council of Trent, Session 13, Chapter 4 and Canons 1 and 2; Denz. 877, 883-884.) https://novusordowatch.org/2023/02/jesuit-tom-reese-denies-transubstantiation/ Reese asserted in the same rag (National Catholic Reporter) that climate change is the "No. 1 pro-life issue" facing the Catholic Church today. Council of Trent documents: www.papalencyclicals.net/councils/trent/twenty-second-session.htm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francisco_Ribalta_001.jpg
Title: Christ Embracing St. Bernard Artist: Francesc Ribalta 1565-1628 Date: between 1625 and 1627 Collection: Museo del Prado Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist., (1090-1153) was an abbot, mystic, and co-founder with Hugues de Payens of the Knights Templar, and reformed the Benedictines through a nascent Cistercian Order. We need a Bernard or Hugues to step into the fray. Which Lara will give birth to our Superman? Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained recognition as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. Esotericism is the belief that religious texts contain hidden meanings that are only available to the adept. The words in red show that Steiner was an outright fraudster. Malachi Martin SJ (1921-1999) was an Irish-born American Catholic priest, biblical archaeologist, exorcist, paleographer, professor, and writer on the Catholic Church. He was one of ten children, five girls and five boys. Four of the five boys became priests. About Siri (1906-1989) Martin said, according to Wikipedia -
Siri at Vat II Anyway, whether you believe what is said, all the destruction began then. John XXIII's prayer for world peace sounds exactly like the current pope. He engages in political stunts...how about praying for Catholics? After all, they are in your care.
St. Bernard School, Paris In April 2020, the congregation of SSPX Saint-Nicolas defied social distancing regulations then in force by holding an Easter Vigil. A live stream on YouTube showed the priest and deacons in close contact, without wearing masks, and Holy Communion was given with bare hands. About 40 people were in attendance. The priest was warned, booked, and given a €135 fine, since proven to be the correct response by a Catholic church to the tyranny of perversion. For all the cretins out there, tutoring was suspended for six months, but when it resumed, my students and I did not wear masks, and we were just fine. The last song they sing is Latin and French. Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, Benedicta tu. We had a children's Mass at 9am Sunday, St. Anne, SF, with the pre-modernist PBVM nuns, 15-20 (photo is Epiphany School, SF). To give you some idea of the difference between then and now, I walked to St. Anne by myself, and a family in the parish owned a grocery store, three blocks from our home. The Barulich family delivered groceries to the nuns every week for free. Carrying no pocketbook, they boarded public transportation for free. |
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