TWENTY-SEVEN years ago, Fr. Gordon J. MacRae was sentenced in New Hampshire to 67 years in prison for what he has always maintained is a completely false charge of sexual assault. He could have spent two years in jail under a plea bargain, which was offered him more than once, but he refused to plead guilty, firmly maintaining his innocence. At his website, Beyond These Stone Walls, Fr. MacRae reflects from his prison cell on this week's feast of St. Michael the Archangel: Our troubles and struggles in this world are not always simple anxieties over material discomforts, painful relationships, or the tragedies that occur in our lives. They are also manifestations of spiritual battle, and should be seen and resisted as such. People of deep faith recognize the spiritual battles within themselves and their environments, and rely on faith and spiritual allies to defend against them. Fr. MacRae is one of hundreds of Catholic priests, both dead and alive, who have been falsely accused or convicted of sexual crimes, turning their lives into a daily nightmare. According to the FBI agent supervisor who reviewed Fr. MacRae's case, “In my three years of investigation of this case, I have found no evidence that MacRae committed these crimes, or any crimes.” The Wall Street Journal concluded he was wrongfully convicted: “Those aware of the facts of this case find it hard to believe that any court today would ignore the perversion of…

THEY MAY be a last line of protection against medical tyranny. Some sheriffs say they will never arrest citizens who decline inoculation.  

  

[Part One of this essay can be found here.]

ALAN writes:

I remember listening on peaceful Sunday afternoons to baseball announcer Jack Buck on KMOX Radio broadcasts of Cardinals’ doubleheaders…..and standing at our kitchen sink early one evening while listening to Jack Buck interview retired Cardinals’ pitcher Lindy McDaniel, another of my boyhood baseball heroes whose baseball cards my classmates and I carried in our pockets in those golden summers of 1958-’59.

Two blocks from where we lived was a building that Bohemians built in 1903 as a gymnastic and cultural club.  They were there until 1956, at which time it became a VFW Post.

I remember walking countless times to and across a pedestrian walkway above Highway 55 to a bus stop on Broadway in the years when I worked downtown.  Behind me as I stood there waiting for my bus were two houses that dated from the 1850s and overlooked the Mississippi River.  In the early 1900s, passenger trains stopped behind one of those houses.  The trains and the houses are long gone.

As I walked up the steps leading to the walkway, I walked past an ordinary house that was always occupied and in good condition.

In some years I would get home from my job at or around midnight.  Then I would read the two daily newspapers, and perhaps a book or magazine, and fall asleep around 3 a.m. to the wonderful voice of John McCormick on KMOX Radio.  I remember reading Arthur Koestler’s book The Ghost in the Machine in that setting in 1968.

I remember walking along the streets around our house many times late at night with no need whatever for concern about safety.  That began to change in the late 1980s and reached bottom when the liars and frauds who call themselves “The Law” did nothing to stop thugs and parasites from converting that neighborhood and others around it into combat zones.

I remember Elisabeth’s thoughtfulness in visiting my mother in the last years of her life, and in exchanging cards and notes with me for years afterward.  Her mother lived the last years in her long life in a nursing home overlooking the river, the same location where my grandfather died in 1969.

When we were in grade school, my classmate Tony and his family lived two blocks from Pennsylvania Avenue.  (They were from Germany, too.)  But in the middle of those years, their house was demolished when the highway was built through that area.

St. Hedwig’s Catholic Church was built for Polish Catholics.  Baseball’s Hall of Fame sportswriter Bob Broeg was born in the kitchen of a house just down the street from the church and school.  The school closed in 1970, the church closed in 2005, and the parish was dissolved after 101 years.  Here is a picture of the St. Hedwig class of 1962:

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NEW YORK state faces a pending nursing shortage because some 70,000 medical workers have not complied with mandatory inoculation. Postal workers are not required to receive one of the injections. The solution is obvious. Postal workers must work in hospitals. We know the health authorities care for us and they can make this happen.  

THIS fascinating documentary presents some of the extensive evidence that the European peoples are the Lost Tribes of ancient Israel. Video can be found here if it is not working.  

"IF ONE were to ask a group of American school children today what image springs to mind when they hear the word 'German,' you would most likely hear the following adjectives: fat, mean, violent, arrogant, ugly, loud, aggressive..or all of the above. It would be obvious that there is an aversion and negative response to the very word. If one were to ask who Schiller or Goethe were, you would probably either be met with a blank stare or be told that they were 'Nazi generals.' "The German people in our modern media have been alternately portrayed as silly, clumsy, beer-bellied fools or mad scientists and evil warlords. They vie with Arabs for first place as the Saturday cartoon version of the arch enemy of mankind.. their “guttural” accent alone enough to trigger fear and loathing. This conditioning started long before the National Socialists, however. It began almost a century ago and only took a few months to engineer. It is difficult to believe that there was actually a time when the German popular image was not only otherwise, but completely the opposite. It was very good and very old, going back, as we have seen, to the American Revolution. "In the United States, Germans were the majority of immigrants for decades and they formed a huge part of the population. A German presence went back to the earliest days of the nation when most early German immigrants lived in…

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Warning for the sensitive: A few images of dead animals.

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FOR 20 years, the website Tradition in Action** has insisted Americans are living through a holy war with Islam similar to the Crusades. The opening salvo of this war, according to TIA, was the alleged attack by Muslims on the World Trade Center in 2001.

TIA argued for war with Iraq both before and afterward. (See here, here, here, here, and here.)

On the 20th anniversary of 9/11 last week, the ostensibly Catholic website was unchanged in its position: The 9/11 attack was the work of nineteen Muslims with box cutters in hijacked planes. Pete Riehm wrote:

It has been twenty years since the cowardly sneak attacks on 9/11, 2001. Americans were shocked when Islamist terrorists crashed airliners full of innocent passengers into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon – and incredibly, some unknown heroes forced the terrorists’ evil designs down into a remote field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. About 3,000 people were murdered that day on American soil. It was horrific!

The United States vowed to defeat this vile enemy and root out all the terrorists around the globe who mean us harm. Much American blood and treasure has been shed the past two decades, and we have been largely successful in the primary objective of preventing any large-scale attacks on our homeland.

I do not mean to suggest that Islam is not truly dangerous, but this description is disturbingly cartoonish, especially at this late date. (more…)

"Local Detroit TV Asks for Stories of Unvaxxed Dying from COVID – Gets over 180K Responses of Vaccine Injured and Dead Instead" Read more here.