OKAY, the man is terrific at times. See more here. Still I can't support him.

  APPROXIMATELY 30 percent of Down Syndrome children are now aborted. Christian LeVangle is not one of them. He now works at a hotel and his mother says any burdens he brought were blessings.

  FOR Communists, the ends justify the means.

YOU probably won’t see Obama weeping over the death of 20-year-old Sara Mutschlechner, a student at the University of North Texas who was gunned down while driving home from a New Year’s Eve party last week. It doesn’t fit the script of the angry white gunman, which is central to the “gun control” scenario:

Sara Mutschlechner was driving along North Elm Street around 2 a.m. Friday when a black Toyota or Lexus SUV pulled up next to her. Words were exchanged and someone in the SUV opened fire, police said. (more…)

  PRESIDENT Obama shed tears during yet another speech calling for "gun control" today. Ostensibly the tears were for the children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. We should be the ones who are crying. There is a great deal of disturbing evidence of fraud at Sandy Hook. (See the book, Nobody Died at Sandy Hook, but skip the introduction which creates confusion by going into unrelated events.) Sandy Hook was very likely a criminal act of treason, a federal psy-op intended exactly for the purpose Obama is using it: To take away the guns of Americans so that when the crisis comes, they will not rebel. The need to move on gun control is urgent. Every single day more Americans are waking up to the truth --- to the truth of our corrupt monetary system, to the truth of 9/11, to the truth of false flag shootings and to the truth that America has ceased to be a democracy in any meaningful sense. Obama and America's real rulers are getting desperate. The Internet is a serious threat to them. They cannot control the flow of information. The main purpose of today's speech appears to have been to let America know that the president is prepared to take executive action and to act without Congressional approval. "Congress still needs to act," Obama said. "The folks in this room will not rest until Congress does. Because once Congress gets on board with common-sense gun safety measures,…

FOR $5, you can purchase and download this lecture by John F. McManus of the John Birch Society (his religious name is Br. John Berchmans) about the Federal Reserve system and its effects on the family. Inflation caused by the debt-based, profit-making racket known as the Federal Reserve has made it hard and often impossible for families to survive on one income. The Federal Reserve Bank is not federal, has no reserves and is not a bank. McManus explains how it violates the Constitution.

A MASSIVE tome responding to the sedevacantism thesis will be released this month by Angelus Press. Novus Ordo Watch  has a new webpage devoted to the book's claims. Stay tuned. But let's face it. How many people are going to read a 700-page blockbuster on this issue? Ten or fifteen? This mountain of words will almost certainly lead to more irrational fears of sedevacantism. Without even reading it, many will conclude, "If two smart men could write that many pages against it, it must be wrong." And others will simply be exhausted by the challenge. In other words, the existence of so much published verbiage will be proof enough that sedevacantism is false. The refusal to argue against sedevacantism simply and briefly (maybe 150-200 pages) is a sign of rhetorical weakness. In contrast, sedevacantism can be explained in far less than a million words. In order to be Catholic, one must accept every article of the Faith. A non-Catholic cannot be head of the Catholic Church.  There you go. It's that easy. The consequences are not easy, but the argument is.

  WE KNOW the pseudo-pontiff approves of drag queens so it's no surprise that a girl was one of the Three Kings in his Mess yesterday. Actually Benedict XVI, the supposed conservative, did the same thing. In the Vatican II Church, boys must always be accompanied by girls and all traditional male roles must be subverted. See more at Call Me Jorge, which posts these New World Order Magi:    

  THE NEW YORK Public Library furthers the education of its visitors. (Warning: Momentary indecency.) "The New York Public Library’s erotica collection (yes, it has one) includes seedy Times Square ephemera, early transgender magazines and copies of Playboy."

MIKE KING writes at The Anti-New York Times:

Throughout a very windy New Year’s Eve, a gigantic fire raged throughout the middle and upper floors of [a] 63-story luxury hotel in Dubai. The images of the skyscraper torch are truly stunning. But unlike the 110 stories-tall World Trade Center # 1 (said by the government’s “experts” to have been pancaked and pulverized due to “fire melting/buckling steel”) — and unlike the 110 stories-tall World Trade Center # 2 (said by the government’s “experts” to have been pancaked and pulverized due to “fire melting/buckling steel”) — and unlike the 47 stories-tall World Trade Center # 7 (said by the government’s “experts” to have been pancaked and pulverized due to “fire melting/buckling steel”) — the basic structure of the ‘Address Downtown Dubai’ Hotel remained intact.

It’s a miracle!

But the Dubai Hotel, although suffering a much bigger (and we do mean MUCH bigger) fire than any of the three World Trade Center Buildings, remained standing as strong as ever and ready for restoration. If the 9/11 Omission Report is to be believed, this was not supposed to happen. As Dr. Albert D. Pastore sarcastically observed in his 2003 epic, ‘Stranger Than Fiction: An Independent Investigation of 9/11 and the War on Terrorism’ (here) :

“Now that we know that all one has to do to bring a skyscraper straight down is set a fuel fire in it, the well trained experts who work for demolition companies should all be out of a job by now.”

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WHEN I first came to the difficult conclusion more than two years ago that Jorge Bergoglio, aka “Pope” Francis, could not logically be a true pope of the Catholic Church, however much he may embrace some of the Faith, I experienced interesting reactions from readers.

Several told me that I must not endorse the position of “sedevacantism” publicly. If I wanted to retain any respectability, I should keep quiet. Sedevacantism (“sede” is seat, “vacante” is empty) is the view that the papal throne is formally vacant, and has been vacant since 1958, due to the public heresies of the Vatican II popes. It is a common sense position really, not some hard-to-grasp intellectual theory, though it is based on deeper theological considerations. It makes just as much sense to have a non-Catholic as head of the Catholic Church as it would to elect Putin as president of the United States. It is a position fully in conformity with Catholic doctrine, upheld by numerous statements by theologians, canon lawyers and even popes who have rejected the idea that popes or other bishops can be heretics. It is fully in conformity with Catholic doctrine despite grave misconceptions by some that it amounts to rejecting the papacy or that it means the gates of hell have prevailed against the Church in violation of God’s promises in Matthew 16:18 (see the recent post at Novus Ordo Watch on the “gates of hell” argument) or that it means that the sedevacantist upholds himself as a figure of authority when in fact he upholds all the true popes and the Magisterium.

Many people are scandalized by the very word “sedevacantism,” perhaps partly because it has a scary and foreign sound. Some treat the sedevacantist as a borderline lunatic, a brawler crashing down pews, a proud rebel who thinks he’s better than others, an apostate who has left the Church and joined something akin to a voodoo cult. That’s why some readers, who ironically were sedevacantists themselves, warned me to keep my views secret.

What a liar I would be if I did that.

Some Catholic readers stormed off and said insulting things. One was told by a priest that she must never read my blog again. I was scolded for going too far, as if one could go too far in criticizing an imposter in the position of Christ’s vicar on earth. Though the typical sedevacantist does not reject a single dogma of the Church and in fact upholds the papacy, these people were convinced that the position of sedevacantism was not worth considering, even in these dire times, after decades in which the practice of the Catholic Faith has literally imploded in America and Europe and turned into a Protestant cult characterized by buildings as stripped of images of saints and the Virgin as Quaker meeting houses and ski lodges.

This kind of fear and loathing toward sedevacantism amounts to irrational behavior. It’s one thing to think through the arguments, to read and study the issue, to debate and even reject it. It’s another to engage in bullying ostracism.

After all, it is the Vatican II Church that embraces voodoo (more here), eh? Not sedevacantists.

The truth is, the anti-sedevacantist who knows the basics — the doctrines contained in a simple pre-Vatican II catechism such as the Penny Catechism or the Baltimore Catechism — lives with contradiction.

He sees all kinds of blatant heresies coming out of Rome. He sees the strangest of all things: the supposed Catholic Church spreading anti-Catholicism. He stands by as the “pope” publicly blasphemes Christ (more here and here); publicly blasphemes the Mother of God (here and here); embraces Catholic divorce; publicly endorses homosexuality (see here, here, here, here and here); publicly endorses transsexuality; publicly endorses women known for their indecent, pornographic dress (see here and here); affirms Muslims in their unbelief and praises their holy days; insults devout Catholics again and again; insults the Church (more here and here), insults Catholic parents, calling their children “rabbits”; endorses pantheism; turns St. Peter’s Basilica over to a spectacle of environmentalist idolatry put together by anti-Catholic corporations; rejects the ceremonials (more here and here) of the papacy; prays towards Mecca; denies the dogma of Hell; denies the differences between Catholics and Protestants; praises the atheistic, One World government of the UN; pays homage to a Marxist dictator; approves of the destruction of national sovereignty through mass migration; teaches that the Jewish covenant is not over, thereby either consciously or not attempting to eradicate the Catholic Faith off the face of the earth and cruelly leaving the Jews as perpetual outsiders to God’s promises of salvation — you get the idea. This is just a brief catalogue of what the Argentine Apostate has done and what the anti-sedevacantist must incorporate into his view of the papacy presumably without coming smack up against contradiction, which would be contrary to God. Mystery we can have. Not contradiction. Sedevacantism is partly mysterious, but it does not embrace contradiction.

The anti-sedevacantist is divided against himself. If he is at all aware of the things Jorge Bergoglio has said, written and done, he is unable to show the obedience and reverence to him that all Catholics owe to a pope. The anti-sedevacantist often spreads the dangerous idea that Catholics can cut themselves off from the papacy or fight the pope as if he was the chief enemy on earth. The anti-sedevacantist is unable to answer the common sense inquiry of an innocent would-be convert who says, “But the pope doesn’t believe that. And if the pope doesn’t believe that, I don’t have to either,” without denying the indefectability of the Church. He has in effect barricaded himself within contradiction.

All this is by way of introduction to this excellent video by Fr. Anthony Cekada, a tireless apologist for sedevacantism. Fr. Cekada addresses the fears of traditionalists toward sedevacantism and he sums it all up clearly.

The video was posted at Novus Ordo Watch, the outstanding website selflessly run by volunteers who have kept a running log of the defections of the Argentine Bomber and the other Vatican II “popes,” and offered ongoing intellectual defense of sedevacantism.

Let the battle rage! Bring it on! May God forgive me for not waking up sooner. The sedevacantist will uphold the papacy. He will refuse to fight the pope. But he will never shrink from fighting an antipope.

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I WISH you a Happy New Year, dear reader. The Christmas season continues with the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ today. God humbled himself by submitting to this ancient rite of the Israelites, a figure of baptism.

We now learn that He came, not to manifest His power and majesty, but to be made like unto us in all things, as far as it was possible for one who was the Eternal Son of God. We begin to appreciate that He is flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone.

More reflections on the Circumcision of Christ can be found here and here. May this time of wonder and anticipation strengthen you. We are surrounded by the miracle of God’s love even in this troubled world.

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  MIKE KING at The Anti-New York Times theorizes that at least 80 percent of top political figures meet the clinical definition of the psychopath, and I heartily agree: My case for an 80% psychopathy rate was based upon a very simple analogy to professional basket players. Sometimes, the most effective philosophy is the simplest; like Aesop's Fable for example. My basketball player analogy worked so well on [a friend], that I decided to submit an expanded version of this concept to my loyal readers. You see, most of us "normal people" are able to contain our dark sides; being more 'good' than we are 'bad'. Then there is another group of people who are generally more bad than good, yet not totally evil either. Those are the people we talk about as, "He's a real such and such, but he does have a good side to him."These types can still be salvaged, or at least contained." Then there is the true psychopath; a heartless, soulless, shameless devil who will smile in your face, charm you and flatter you as he (or she) sticks the knife in your back. He is often charismatic, likable and energetic. He lies effortlessly. He will draw anyone into his orbit that can serve to further his ambitions, or fuel his ego with "narcissistic supply". He manipulates. He cheats. He sucks the lifeblood out of you and then, when you are no longer of any value to him, he will discard you like a used up…

A READER writes:

I just want to say how disappointed I am when I read the usual putdowns of Donald Trump. If he wasn’t exactly like he is, the media would never report on him. The things he says, they are forced to report. He cannot be ignored. It is absurd that anyone says the media loves him. Yeah, they are crazy about him. As Phyllis Schlafly says, he is the last hope for America. I love the way he talks, it is honest and true. Si si, no no. Loud and clear. He will make America great again – he is the only one not bought and controlled. As for Ted Cruz, no way. I will suggest a website that says it all: The Last Refuge. (more…)

  HERE is a short video about one of the most beautiful and well-known carols.

THE 16th-century carol is sung here by The Sixteen. A description of the carol and another recording can be found here:

The “Coventry Carol” is a Christmas carol dating from the 16th century. The carol was performed in Coventry in England as part of a mystery play called The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors. The play depicts the Christmas story from chapter two in the Gospel of Matthew. The carol refers to the Massacre of the Innocents, in which Herod ordered all male infants under the age of two in Bethlehem to be killed. The lyrics of this haunting carol represent a mother’s lament for her doomed child. (more…)

I MAKE no claim to understand fully this complex subject, but a reader highly recommends Vaccine Truth, a website run by Wendy Callahan, who writes:

Since the beginning of time, a mother’s primary role has been to protect her young. It’s a role that most mothers take very seriously. When the medical community introduced vaccines to protect children from the ravages of disease, it was only natural for mothers to want their children protected. It wasn’t until my son started having seizures seven days after his MMR, DTaP, HiB, and Pneumococcal vaccination at fifteen months, that I started researching the wisdom of this practice. Like most of us I thought vaccines were harmless, tested for safety, and a necessity. Since he had just been vaccinated, I had my “What you need to know” fact sheet that had been given to me by my pediatrician. (more…)