AMAZING Polly and Mike King are still pushing the QAnon narrative. Truly disgraceful. By the way, if there is anyone out there reading this who was snookered by the Q phenomenon, please understand that the most important thing you can do right now is not be hard on yourself. Learn from it. Move on. Use it. We've all been deceived at one point or another. Don't let yourself be demoralized. You didn't lie; they did.  

"LOOK, then, O Soldier of Christ! upon us, and pity us as thou did thy brethren, who once faltered in the combat. Alas! We let everything frighten and discourage us; and oftentimes we are enemies of the Cross, even while professing that we love it. We too easily forget that we cannot be companions of the martyrs unless our hearts have the generosity of the martyrs. We are cowardly in our contest with the world and its pomps; with the evil propensities of our nature, and the tyranny of our senses—and thus we fall. And when we have made an easy peace with God, and sealed it with the sacrament of his love, we behave as though we had now nothing more to do than to go on quietly to heaven, without further trials or self-imposed sacrifices. Rouse us, great Saint! from these illusions, and waken us from our listless life. Our love of God is asleep, and all must needs go wrong. "Preserve us from the contagion of bad example, and of those worldly maxims which gain currency even with Christian minds, because Christian lips call them rules of Christian prudence. Pray for us, that we may be ardent in the pursuit of our sanctification, watchful over our inclinations, zealous for the salvation of others, lovers of the Cross, and detached from earthly things. Oh! by the arrows which pierced thee, we beseech thee shield us from those hidden…

AMERICA at large doesn't know how dangerous this man is, but Pennsylvanians do. Dr. Richard Levine, aka "Rachel" Levine, has been picked by Joe Biden to be his assistant secretary of health. Levine is currently Health Secretary of Pennsylvania. He may be one of the most hated bureaucrats in America. He has caused unnecessary deaths, untold suffering and economic devastation. To top it off, Levine, who adamantly insists he is a woman, wants laws to silence anyone challenging his sort of mental condition. That's why, of course, he has been chosen. When it comes to a virus that has never been isolated and purified in a lab or shown to be contagious by healthy people, the "science doesn't lie." When it comes to a universal fact recognized by all of humanity, it does. Can you imagine a health secretary who doesn't acknowledge the basics of biology? Sadly, you can. In other words, he's a perfect fit for the Biden regime. Levine played, and continues to play, open favoritism towards major corporations and big business. He allowed a large amusement park, Hershey Park, to open at 50 percent capacity while smaller fairs and businesses were shut down. He continues to persecute restaurants. He is famous for having taken his mother out of a nursing home right before he ordered sick hospital patients to be returned to nursing homes, where they caused illness and strained available resources. He's a COVID crook who…

(CONTAINS vulgar language.) THIS could have been staged too, of course. But still what he says is true.  

"FOR to enter by this door of humility, thou must be earnest to embrace tribulations, and esteem them as thy sisters, and wish to be despised by all men, and that none do comfort thee but God. Let this be thy settled persuasion, that only God is thy whole joy, and that all other things be but thorns to thee. And think thou to thyself, that if thou wert led to some place, where thou shouldst receive some disgrace and affront, yet thou wouldst go willingly and with joy, being sure that God is with thee. And fix thyself firmly to wish and desire no other honour than to do that that is for His honour and glory, and to suffer for love of Him. Thou must also force thyself to be glad when any one wrongeth thee with injurious words, and despiseth or rebuketh thee; for, under this rugged bark is a hidden treasure. Tribulation taken in patience is a purging herb, that scoureth out the dregs of our imperfections and offences. Moreover, to suffer with Christ crucified is the only true glory; but to follow one’s own will and desires, endeth in perdition." --- Father John de Bovilla, The Quiet of the Soul (Thomas Richardson and Sons, London; 1852)  

CHILDREN’S Health Defense Fund reports:

The Florida Health Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating the death of a Florida doctor who died Jan. 3 from a rare autoimmune disorder he developed on Dec. 21, three days after receiving Pfizer’s COVID vaccine.

As The Defender reported last week, Heidi Neckelmann, the wife of Dr. Gregory Michael, said that in her mind, her 56-year-old husband’s death was “100% linked” to the vaccine.

Now, at least one doctor has come forward publicly to say he also believes the vaccine caused Michael to develop acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), the disorder that killed him.

According to the New York Times:

“Dr. Jerry L. Spivak, an expert on blood disorders at Johns Hopkins University, who was not involved in Dr. Michael’s care, said that based on Ms. Neckelmann’s description, ‘I think it is a medical certainty that the vaccine was related.’ (more…)

ALAN writes:

So evil, so ugly, and so drenched in depravity had life become in this nation and in my city, St. Louis, last year that I was scarcely aware that Christmas had come and gone. Memories of Christmases Past did not even begin to occur to me until the year had ended.

I composed these words at six o’clock on the night of January 1st as I listened to Christmas carols sung by the Robert Shaw Chorale and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Only then did my memory turn to the happiest Christmases I ever knew, those between 1949 and 1970, and to the few people to whom I owed all gratitude for those things: Principally, my mother and grandparents. (more…)

Sick of Politics
by Anonymous

See Part One of this essay here.

What Should Be Our Attitude toward Politics and Politicians?

The way in which we should approach politics and look upon politicians is a mixture of the positive and the negative. We must be led by true and correct principles and not feelings, nor partisan attachments, nor family history, nor any other subjective criteria. Here are some principles that are worth noting and remembering:

► ALL POWER COMES FROM GOD―Our Lord Himself tells us that all political power ultimately comes from God―He says to Pontius Pilate, both informing him and warning him: “Thou shouldst not have any power against Me, unless it were given thee from above!” (John 19:11).

The Old Testament says the same thing: “[God] taketh away kingdoms and establisheth them! … The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men; and He will give it to whomsoever it shall please Him, and He will appoint the basest man over it” (Daniel 2:21; 4:14). (more…)