Barcelona Cathedral Interior – St. Thecla – 1486

FROM the life of St. Thecla, (Feast day, Sept. 23) Butler’s Lives of the Saints:

“SHE was exposed naked in the amphitheatre, but clothed with her innocence; and this ignominy enhanced her glory and her crown. Her heart was undaunted, her holy soul exulted and triumphed with joy in the midst of lions, pards, and tigers: and she waited with a holy impatience the onset of those furious beasts, whose roarings filled even the spectators with terror. But the lions on a sudden forgetting their natural ferocity, and the rage of their hunger, walked gently up to the holy virgin, and laying themselves down at her feet, licked them as if it had been respectfully to kiss them: and, at length, notwithstanding all the keepers could do to excite and provoke them, they meekly retired like lambs, without hurting the servant of Christ.”

“We must live in the habitual practice of frequently denying our inclinations, and mortifying the senses. If we give our appetites full liberty in things that are not forbidden, they will quickly master us, and crave gratifications that are unlawful, with too great violence to be restrained by us. We shall not lose courage at the name of penance and mortification, as many are apt to do, if we look up at our eternal reward, and if we have before our eyes the austerities which the most tender virgins joyfully embraced for the sake of virtue.”

THOMAS DROLESKEY at Christ or Chaos reviews the long career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was not qualified to be a Supreme Court justice, he points out, not because she was lacking in intelligence or because she made no just decisions or because she had no personal strengths but because she did not accept the moral law — something which cannot be changed by any human being.

Dr. Droleskey writes:

The greatest tragedy involving Ruth Bader Ginsburg is that she died outside the bosom of Holy Mother Church after a six decade long career in behalf of one false principle after another, including using the courts as instruments to advance what are grave moral evils in the objective order of things. Truth does not depend upon human acceptance for its binding force or validity and it matters not that large majorities of people may reject its validity or that only a handful of people accept it. Truth is. Truth exists. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a modern woman, a veritable Eve in judicial robes who long ago succumbed to the allure of the adversary through her false religion, Talmudism, to believe in one subjectivist, relativist, positivist fable after another.  Truth to her was whatever she believed it to be. Read More »

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FROM The Hill:

During a press conference Monday at the White House, the president pledged that a vaccine for the coronavirus would be available in “record time,” and swiped at [Kamala] Harris in particular over the remarks, calling her “the most liberal person in Congress.” Read More »

CLOSE to 400 doctors and over a thousand other health professionals signed an open letter to the government and media challenging the official narrative of Covid-19.

The letter is reproduced at The American Institute for Economic Research and Tradition in Action.

Note: I do not agree with the doctors that the original lockdown was warranted. Warning and informing the public? Yes. Quarantining healthy people? No, that is unprecedented overreach.

THE absurdities are getting absurder.

JAKE Gardner was attacked on May 30 by rioters who were smashing his bar in Omaha, according to news accounts and video evidence. He was knocked to the ground, got in a scuffle with one looter, 22-year-old James Scurlock, as he was trying to get up, and the shot Scurlock. He was cleared of charges by the Omaha prosecutor, who was then pressured to turn the case over to a special federal attorney. Gardner, an Iraq War veteran, reportedly ended his life while awaiting arrest on manslaughter charges. (It is possible it was not suicide.) Thousands of people had labeled him a “white supremacist.”

Preventing people from defending themselves is a form of murder.

Update:

According to Gateway Pundit, Gardner had been harassed for years, apparently simply for supporting Trump and speaking out against transgender bathrooms after a woman was assaulted by a man (or “trans woman”) in one of his bar’s restrooms. Few apparently stood up to defend him: Read More »

“The show of their countenance hath answered them,” Isaiah 3-9

THE FEMALE sex is in deep mourning. Or so we are told.

The murderous hag, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, supposedly the epitome of what women aspire to be, has died after years of appearing on death’s door. She was 87.

The Supreme Court is a decadent institution with a penchant for inverting the natural order of the world with desiccated abstractions. Supreme Court justices are the high priests of the American, Masonic civil religion. Their job is to wipe out the sacred and leave ordinary people to deal with the messy ramifications of their legal jousting and with the sheer ugliness of it all. They often favor big business over the little guy. They do this in rulings from their pompously pillared temple in Washington, D.C. Ginsburg stands out for her role as non-stop activist on the dark-robed Bench of Beezlebub.

“When I’m sometimes asked ‘When will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]?’ and I say ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.”

Her idea of equality was often not very equal.

“Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation,” she said.

She denied any natural basis for longstanding sex roles and therefore denied that equality is a very complicated matter.  After all men supporting women with their lifelong wage labor was indeed taking “responsibility of bringing up the next generation.”

In Gonzales v. Carhart, Ginsburg vehemently opposed a ban on “partial-birth abortion,” saying of the practice “this way of protecting women recalls ancient notions about women’s place in society and under the constitution ideas that have long since been discredited.”

It also recalls ancient notions of murder.

She absolutely loved it when men and women committed themselves to lifelong sterility. Men “marrying” men and women “marrying women,” was one of her primary causes and all of the anti-justices, she was the most activist on the issue. Her role was decisive in many court decisions.

“When oral argument for Obergefell v. Hodges were heard in the Supreme Court, the attorney for the state of Michigan argued that marriage was defined as one man and one woman and had been for thousands of years. Ginsburg replied:

“We have changed our idea about marriage is the point that I made earlier. Marriage today is not what it was under the common law tradition, under the civil law tradition. Marriage was a relationship of a dominant male to a subordinate female.” (Source)

She was a master at distorting the truth with these flat-out false assertions. Male privileges in law and custom were often meant to make up for the many privileges of women, such as the right to almost every dollar men made in work digging ditches, fixing plumbing and building highways, to mention a few of the menial occupations of men.

She made the world safer for women in combat. In United States v. Virginia, 1996, she “wrote the majority opinion that would serve as a milestone moment for women’s rights and university admission policies. The case challenged a policy by the Virginia Military Institute that barred women from being admitted to the institution. Although the state of Virginia said it would create a separate educational program for women for the military institute, Ginsberg [sic] questioned its merits, writing that ‘Women seeking and fit for a VMI-quality education cannot be offered anything less, under the Commonwealth’s obligation to afford them genuinely equal protection.’ (Source)

She thus prepared the way for removal of the men-only draft.

Women were queens long before they were Supreme Court justices. Modern revolutionaries like Ginsburg did not invent the idea of women having power or doing things other than the dishes. But they want not womanly power, they want masculine power and the sexes to be both androgynes, the complementarities and mysterious attractions that go with their differences distorted.

Ginsburg, we are told again and again, was razor-sharp brilliant.

Really?

When in Obergefell, one attorney argued that marriage was fundamentally about procreation. Ginsburg responded:

“Suppose a couple, a 70-year-old couple, comes in and they want to get married? You don’t have to ask them any questions, you know they are not going to have any children.”

She wasn’t smart enough to know that it is the cultural institution of marriage that is fundamentally about procreation? Elderly couples don’t threaten that. Men “marrying” men do.

I think she was smart enough to know that. This wasn’t brilliance so much as manipulation.

She worked to make both men and woman as materialistic, divided and non-procreative as possible, which suits the needs of … powerful people. Think of her as a warrior. The goal is to prevent the enemy from procreating. She only lacked a spear, a breastplate and visible bloodstains. She battled to undermine the greatest power women had, as makers of home and culture, and the immense privileges civilization had granted them. She would never have made a contented domestic matriarch and the Christian world had produced so many beautiful (and I don’t mean physically beautiful necessarily) examples of the type.

Has God found our legal superstar to be as witty and wise as the media is telling us she was?

Let’s just say, she fought for rights for everybody — except for Him.

Even a smart judge is not always wise. Read More »

 

MY deepest sympathy and prayers for all those affected by the raging fires in the West. So many have suffered devastating losses. I can only imagine how awful it must be to lose everything in a fire.

Many suspect, due to the anomalous nature of the destruction, with houses incinerated while the trees all around remain standing and with other strange details, that these fires are not wild at all. Many suspect at least some of the fires were no more caused by “climate change,” as we are being constantly told, than the riots and plandemic were. Are they a continuation of the ongoing Bolshevik Revolution and the implementation of U.N. Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030? I guess you have to be a real nut to believe that.

Here, in this video, is some food for thought. (His comment about the Vatican is clueless.) The footage and photos of the damage are mind-blowing.

“IF you desire that God should hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you desire that God should relieve your wants, relieve those of the indigent, without waiting for them to importune you; especially anticipate the necessities of those who are ashamed to beg; to make these ask an alms, is to make them to buy it.”

— St. Thomas of Villanova

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ALAN writes from St. Louis:

“What Americans are getting from Washington these days is less Big Brother than Big Mother–the new Momism of a federal government which thinks it has a duty to protect every man, woman, and child from everything….

“Even as government has failed utterly to accomplish its central mission–to protect society from crime and violence–it is meddling in all sorts of private matters that are none of its business…..”

Patrick Buchanan wrote those words in 1975 [“The new ‘Momism’ of Washington”, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 27, 1975, p. 8A].

What he described is called Anarcho-Tyranny. His words have even greater force today because the practitioners of Anarcho-Tyranny now include governors and mayors.

A few weeks ago, a longtime friend and I were talking about the horrors in the USA today. She and her family came to the USA from Hungary in 1957 after Communists began shooting their critics in late 1956. Read More »