℣. The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary, ℟. And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.
Hail Mary, full of grace; the Lord is with thee:
Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
℣. Behold the handmaid of the Lord. ℟. Be it done unto me according to thy word.
Hail Mary, full of grace; the Lord is with thee:
Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
℣. And the Word was made flesh. ℟. And dwelt among us.(more…)
CHILDREN'S TV indoctrinates Western children in globalism and the eradication of their culture: [I]n the most unlikely change of all, Thomas [the Tank Engine] will leave his home on the Island of Sodor for adventures abroad, in episodes that support the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. Mattel, the US toy giant that owns the rights to Thomas the Tank Engine, has collaborated with the UN on storylines featuring five of the goals: quality education, gender equality, sustainable cities and communities, responsible consumption and production, and life on land. Aside from political indoctrination, children's TV is so hyper and ugly it creates restlessness and boredom.
WHERE are the feminists marching on Hollywood to protest sexual abuse of women in the industry? They are nowhere.
Here is a good overview by The Washington Post of the career of producer Harvey Weinstein, with its longstanding pattern of sexual assault, as first reported by The New York Times. America’s feminist-in-chief Hillary Clinton had a longstanding friendship with him.
The content of Hollywood movies has degraded women and turned them into sex objects more than the patriarchal past ever did. So has the actual production. Hollywood is misogynist — and that is true despite all the power and glory of female stars.
For the most part, I agree with the items on Mike King’s list. One could add to them. But his argument still falls short.
Where the brainy liberal chatterboxes show their true stupidity is in the way they lead their personal lives.
Example: I know a bright, well-educated young attorney in India. A die-hard feminist who sincerely believes that marriage is a conspiracy cooked up by the patriarchy to oppress women. She has parlayed this belief into a make-believe career: writing for women’s magazines, publishing short stories, giving speeches.
The only thing that makes it possible for her to support herself doing this is that she is 27 years old and still lives at home. Her parents have started nagging her to get married and move out, which she really resents. Even though she has a nice young fellow with a good job, who is kind and attentive, who loves her and is interested in marriage.
She sincerely believes that people should get over their antiquated beliefs, such as the expectation that a woman should get married. (more…)
It’s one thing to destroy the childhoods of millions of girls in the West by turning them into angry misfits and pawns of greedy financiers, it’s another to destroy the childhoods of girls all over the world.
If you don’t hate these people, you are not alive. (more…)
I AM WRITING briefly today to ask readers to pray for my mother, Katharine Quinn, who is gravely ill and in intensive care in the hospital. Please pray for her comfort and her eternal happiness.
I will return to my post here shortly — in fighting form, as ever. Everything that happens — and I mean, everything — only motivates me more in this great struggle.
Thank you for your prayers for my dear mother.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death. Amen.(more…)
The Center for Community Change’s largest contribution was $3,000,000 from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, which was initially created by Will Kellogg, the food manufacturer and founder of Kellogg Company. The Ford Foundation, which was first created by the founders of the Ford Motor Company, added a $2,350,000 donation. The Open Society Foundation, a foundation run by liberal billionaire mega-donor George Soros, gave $1,750,000 to the Center for Community Change.
Other donors to the organization include the California Endowment, which gave $524,500; the Marquerite Casey Foundation, which gave $515,000; Fidelity Charitable Gift, which donated $505,100; and the National Immigration Law Center, which gave $316,000. (more…)
ELLEN BROWN, author of Web of Debt, argues that with advanced technology taking over more and more jobs, a Universal Basic Income (UBI) would prevent economic melt-down and be cheaper than the current welfare system:
In a stagnant economy, a UBI can create the demand needed to clear the shelves of unsold products and drive new productivity. Robots do not buy food, clothing, or electronic gadgets. Demand must come from consumers, and for that they need money to spend. As robots increasingly take over human jobs, the choices will be a UBI or to let half the population starve. A UBI is not “welfare” but is simply a dividend paid for living in the 21st century, when automation has freed us to enjoy some leisure and engage in more meaningful pursuits. (more…)
ERIC writes: I will match Seattle's public "art" with the worst of them. The former Experience Music Project, now the Museum of Popular Culture, is a monstrosity all it's own. It looks like a giant glob of metallic snot. I went to a function in this building and felt so ill at ease I had to leave. Our downtown library is also a disaster: Here's more:
This is the most absurd mass shooting story ever. If Stephen Paddock killed 59 and wounded 527, that’s 586 “hits.” If he was firing a weapon “full auto” he would be very lucky to get a “hit” for every five rounds fired. More likely one hit in 20 rounds fired. Using five, I get 2,930 rounds fired. Supposedly, 223 and 308 rounds were fired. For simplicity sake, let’s assume they were all 223 rounds fired from 30-round magazines, I find Paddock had to change magazines 97 times. All this in 10 minutes? He changed magazines 9.7 times per minute? Could an Army Ranger or Green Beret do that?
How many magazines did the Las Vegas (LV) police find in the hotel room? Remember, the magazines had to have been loaded BEFORE the shooting began. How many spent shell casings did the LV police find?
St. Thérèse, born in 1873 France, lived only to the age of 24, and the last years of her life were spent in a cloistered convent, but she has nevertheless had a powerful influence on millions of people.
Her spiritual doctrine is so simple that, at first glance, it seems like nothing. Only on close examination does one find its profundity.
Thérèse, charmingly known as the Little Flower, believed the path to heaven lay in recognizing one’s littleness and doing everything, the smallest action — especially those which are painful or annoying — out of love for God. Not everyone is called to heroism, but all of us are called to endurance and confidence. The small matters of life can be transformed into acts of love. These have eternal ramifications for ourselves and others. Thérèse offers an antidote to the quest for man-centered utopia and the drugs of contemporary psychology, which she turns completely on its head, directing human actions upward and leaving nothing, no suffering, that is without great purpose and resolution.
Here on the feast day of this remarkable woman is food for thought from her letters and her book Story of a Soul:
“‘Remaining little’ means—to recognise one’s nothingness, to await everything from the Goodness of God, to avoid being too much troubled at our faults; finally, not to worry over amassing spiritual riches, not to be solicitous about anything. Even amongst the poor, while a child is still small, he is given what is necessary; but, once he is grown up, his father will no longer feed him, and tells him to seek work and support himself. Well, it was to avoid hearing this, that I have never wished to grow up, for I feel incapable of earning my livelihood, which is Life Eternal!”
…
By telling us that a single hair can work this wonder, He shows us that the smallest actions done for His Love are those which charm His Heart. If it were necessary to do great things, we should be deserving of pity, but we are happy beyond measure, because Jesus lets Himself be led captive by the smallest action. . . .
I have definitely schooled readers of this site in the art of manipulated news enough for them to reject, or be extremely skeptical of, reports that 58 people were killed, and some 200 wounded, Sunday night at a country music concert in Sin City, capital of organized crime and the perfect setting for another criminal and treasonous mass hoax. We cannot know all that transpired, but we can know that this is extremely fishy. Trump has paid his dues and now it is time for the deception artists in the government, police and controlled media to let loose, as they did under Obama.
How can we tell that this was another orchestrated effort to create mass fear, panic and distraction? Let’s list a few reasons:
*** The absolute implausibility of anyone quickly killing that many people from the 32nd floor. Most experienced soldiers, acting alone, could not have that kind of instant kill rate, let alone a 64-year-old retired accountant at such a distance. [Update: See this report on the physical impossibility of it. Were there multiple gunmen?] In order to kill someone instantly with a gun, in this day of advanced medicine, you have to hit him right in the head or the chest.
*** The implausibility of the scenes depicted on camera, which show no real carnage, no real gunshot wounds and just lots of people running and screaming. Do you have any idea what a scene in which 58 people have been shot dead and 200 wounded looks like? Sorry to be specific, but there would be blood, intestines, and brains everywhere, not dribbles of what appeared to be red tempura paint. I await that evidence, and suspend final judgment until it appears, as sad as it would be. The grisly scene, featuring heads blown apart and chest cavities ripped open, would have been captured by dozens of smart phones. Real life is not a movie. (more…)
BISHOPS of the Vatican II Church corrupt Scripture to justify unlimited illegal immigration. Interestingly, they have a huge financial incentive to support open borders. See more at One Peter Five.
Comments Off on U.S. Bishops and Ilegal Immigration
While statues of great men are torn down across the West, our cities are littered with meaningless, soulless and ugly so called 'Public Art.' -- Architectural Revival
