“THE name of liberty … seems condemned to be ill understood in all its applications. In the religious, moral, social, and political order, it is enveloped in such obscurity, that we can perceive the many efforts which have been made to darken and misrepresent it. Cicero gives an admirable definition of liberty when he says, that it consists in being the slave of law. In the same way it may be said, that the liberty of the intellect consists in being the slave of truth; and the liberty of the will in being the slave of virtue; if you change this, you destroy liberty. If you take away the law, you admit force; if you take away the truth, you admit error; if you take away virtue, you admit vice. If you venture to exempt the world from the external law, from that law which embraces man and society, which extends to all orders, which is the divine wisdom applied to reasonable creatures; if you venture to seek for an imaginary liberty out of that immense circle, you destroy all; there remains in society nothing but the empire of brute force, and in man that of the passions; with tyranny, and consequently slavery.

— Jaime Luciano Balmes, Protestantism and Catholicity: Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization of Europe (Library of Alexandria. Kindle Edition; Location 6071)

ALAN writes:

A year ago I could not have dreamed I would write what follows, but here it is.

Part of the fallout from the COVID Scare and the Totalitarian Lockdown are friendships destroyed and civil relations ended among family members.

One of my former friends and I have not spoken since last summer and I doubt we shall ever do so again, because he is a green light in response to virtually all official claims made about both and I am a red light.

But the following is about a different friend. Read More »

BACK IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS, people were arrested if they walked into banks wearing face masks.

In the bad new days, they’re arrested if they walk into banks without face masks.

Here’s some commentary on the woman in Galveston who was tackled by a police officer and suffered a broken foot because she would not wear a face mask while trying to make a withdrawal at a Bank of America branch.

The woman was polite, posed no threat to anyone and could have been taken aside and served. Instead, she was treated like a dangerous, gun-wielding criminal — another case of Covid Cruelty.

                                Christ Carrying the Cross, Martin Schongauer (1475-1480)

FROM St. Thomas Aquinas’s Meditations for Lent:

Christ assumed human nature in order to restore fallen humanity. He had therefore to suffer and to do, according to human nature, the things which could serve as a remedy against the sin of the fall.

Man’s sin consists in this that he so cleaves to bodily goods that he neglects what is good spiritually. It was therefore necessary for the Son of God to show this in the humanity He had taken, through all He did and suffered, so that men should repute temporal things, whether good or evil, as nothing, for otherwise, hindered by an exaggerated affection for them, they would be less devoted to spiritual things. Read More »

AN amazing development:

Prosecutors in Italy have launched a manslaughter investigation after a music teacher there died hours after getting the controversial AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

Sandro Tognatti, 57, got jabbed in his hometown of Biella on Saturday afternoon and went to bed that night with a high fever, his wife, Simona Riussi, told Italian media.

She called an ambulance the next morning but the clarinetist could not be saved, she said.

Prosecutors in the northern Italian region of Piedmont opened the probe into his death later that day, according to the Italian wire service Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA).

They also seized nearly 400,000 shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine from the same batch.

The Centers for Disease Control have received reports of almost 1,400 people (1,394 to be exact) who died shortly after getting Covid vaccines in this country. That’s according to the Vaccine Adverse Event database. The number is likely much higher; the system for reporting is weak and entirely voluntary. And yet no prosecutor has, as far as we know, investigated any of these deaths.

Any other drug would have been pulled from use by now, especially one that has  not received full authorization by the Food and Drug Administration. (The swine flu vaccine was pulled after less than 100 people came down with neurological paralysis.) Not only have these drugs not been pulled, but the president himself has threatened those who won’t submit to them.

Wow, you have to be a real conspiracy denier not to see something amiss with this.

“OUR souls are the temple of God, created and sanctified by God to the end that he might dwell there. He would have nothing to be in them which is unworthy of their destination. This is the Season for self-examination; and if we have found that any passions are profaning the sanctuary of our souls, let us dismiss them; let us beseech our Lord to drive them out by the scourge of his justice, for we, perhaps, might be too lenient with these sacrilegious intruders. The day of pardon is close at hand; let us make ourselves worthy to receive it.”

— Dom Prosper Guéranger, Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent; The Liturgical Year 

S.B. writes:

Did you watch the president’s speech last night? (If you can call him president, I mean.) It was a total push for ALL Americans to be vaccinated.  A total psy-op, like it’s your duty to get this injection, and if you want things to go back to normal, you will do it for the sake of your fellow Americans. “I need you” to be on board with this, etc…. I can see where this is going: scapegoating of the “vaccine deniers.”  We will be pushed out of society.

My cousin in Washington state got vaccinated, age 65, supposedly so he could travel again and see his grandchildren.  Hospitalized this week, and organs shut down, he is now in hospice. and not expected to live long … Others I know have gotten it, but not experienced the same severe reaction. Read More »

ALAN writes:

More than thirty years ago I worked in an antiquarian bookshop in St. Louis. By no means was it a “respectable” job. But by no means was I a respectable person. Since 1966, I had been an outlier, a dissident, a misfit who wanted no part of the speed and frenzy of modern life.

The bookshop occupied an old building five stories high. There were thousands of books on all floors, but only the first two floors were open to customers. There were hundreds of old magazines, bound journals, phonograph records, sheet music, postcards, comic books, and ephemera.

At one time the building was a Drug House. Or so it said in advertisements for the pharmacists who worked there. In later years, it was occupied by shoe companies and costumers.

The building next door had once been the Loew’s State Theater, a movie palace with carpeted staircases.  In its early years, a parrot and a macaw greeted visitors as they walked into the lobby.  It was aglow with moviegoers and excitement on the night in 1944 when the motion picture “Meet Me in St. Louis” was shown there for the first time anywhere.

The bookshop was the oldest and largest in St. Louis, dating from the 1930s.  An acquaintance once said to me, “I’ve heard good things and bad things about that place.” I said to him:  Both are true.  Read More »

AT the Gare du Nord in Paris on March 4, 2021.
 

THE OTHER DAY I went for a walk in the late-winter sunshine on a day mellow with melting snow and almost invisibly budding trees, in a neighborhood of old, Victorian houses beautifully and expensively maintained.

On a side street, I saw a little girl of about three years old.

She was walking with her mother and baby brother. The young mother looked me full in the face and smiled. I think she was so serene and happy to be out with her two children on a nice day that she forgot she was supposed to be worried and anxious when another person approached.

One could not help but be deeply uplifted by the sight of her.

Her baby was quiet in his carrier and her adorable daughter, with an absurd, wobbly puffball on her hat and fuzzy mittens, was still so new to walking that she was clearly proud of it. Her beaming smile and knowing side glance said, “And you thought I could only be carried!” Her little boots clomped on the sidewalk with each step.

They stopped at a child-sized basketball net in a driveway. A man of about 40 years old came out of the house to pick up the trash cans on the curb.

“Hey, Darby!” he shouted to the little girl. “How are you doing with your slam-dunks?” Read More »

DR. SAM BAILEY, who runs a popular Youtube channel, joins those who say the existence of the COVID-19 virus has not been proven in a lab. Listen to her explanation at 14:14 in this video.

The scam behind this artificial pandemic is obviously colossally greater if there is no new, scientifically-verified, distinct virus. I have offered conflicting views on this important issue. I apologize if this is confusing to readers.

Bailey and researchers working with her have contacted scientists who claim to have isolated the virus and they have admitted, she said, they did not purify their samples. “None of the authors [contacted] claimed that they had a purified sample.” Also, none have claimed a $250,000 prize for anyone who has isolated it.

Given that the disease does not meet rigorous lab standards, treatments cannot be generalized either, Bailey said, even though some treatments have been helpful in individual cases of recent respiratory disease.

Dr. Pam Popper, who is opposed to the lockdowns, emphatically insists that the virus has been purified and isolated. She is dismissive of those who say it hasn’t been, accusing them of gullibility. Journalist Jon Rappoport and physician Tom Cowan are also among those who say it has not been proven scientifically.

Journalist David Crowe of The Infectious Myth wrote at length on the issue last year before he died suddenly of cancer. He left a long manuscript on his studies of COVID-19, in which he wrote: Read More »

BEAUTIFUL. Just beautiful.

Parents encouraging kids to burn masks on Idaho Capitol steps pic.twitter.com/VOYfOYqwwt

— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) March 6, 2021

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THREE DOCTORS challenge the major tenets of modern virology, the foundation of our ongoing medical tyranny. As Dr. Andrew Kauffman points out, if the dogmas of germ theory are true they will withstand this critique. If they are not true, they must be abandoned no matter how profitable them may be.
 

MASS RALLIES against COVID restrictions continue throughout Europe, but they are rarely reported in the mainstream news. Youtube channels that post videos of these rallies have been taken down.

Listen to a speech at a rally in Cork, Ireland yesterday here.

Nikolai Ge, What is truth?, 1890

Believing as the Church Believes
by Anonymous

“Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it” (Lk.11:28). Like the Blessed Virgin Mary, who conceived the Word of God in her heart before she conceived Him in her womb, we must hear the word of God and believe. Jesus, exasperated by the lack of belief of His hearers, once compared them to children sitting in the market place, shouting to one another: “We have piped to you and you have not danced; we have sung dirges and you have not mourned” (Mt.11:16,17). Created by God as rational beings, their minds were too clouded by sin and the errors of the times to recognize the Messiah when they saw Him.

Just as it is reasonable to believe in God, it is reasonable to BELIEVE God when He speaks. It is reasonable to believe what God has revealed. The Catholic Religion is the most reasonable of all religions. In fact, it is the ONLY reasonable religion, the only religion based on the truth of God’s revealed word. Hearing God’s word means belonging to the Catholic Church, the Ark of Salvation. The Church expresses this doctrine in the formula, Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, “Outside the Church there is no salvation.”** Read More »

WAS Donald Trump’s presidential persona consciously modeled after the loud-mouth Alex Jones? Seems like it.

This 2018 article by Timothy Fitzpatrick is still a fascinating read:

If the Trump persona truly is based on the Alex Jones persona, perhaps we can make a prediction of where Trump’s presidency will go. Right now, Alex Jones, as a character, appears to be on the decline. The truly awakened individuals that once followed him are long gone and now all he has left are mindless “red-pilled” idiots, of mostly millennial, hillbilly, and pothead extraction. His out-of-control behaviour is, perhaps, doing the most damage to his status and reputation. The publicity of his custody-trial with ex-wife Violet revealed a lot about the artificiality of his public character. He is currently married to what appears to be a former hooker. His strange relationship with Hollywood sleaze Charlie Sheen went public a few years ago, and now his former employers are bringing to light even more darker truths of the Alex Jones character. In essence, he is self-destructing. Could Donald Trump follow a similar path? Many think he already is. Both Jones and Trump share the pathology of narcissism, which makes them their own worst enemies—and at the complete mercy of their handlers. Read More »

 

 
DR. Ben Tapper’s speech before the Omaha City Council last August is still timely.

They don’t care about your health.

(Note: If you get a warning message, please ignore it. There is no danger.)