CHILDREN’S Health Defense Fund reports:

The Florida Health Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating the death of a Florida doctor who died Jan. 3 from a rare autoimmune disorder he developed on Dec. 21, three days after receiving Pfizer’s COVID vaccine.

As The Defender reported last week, Heidi Neckelmann, the wife of Dr. Gregory Michael, said that in her mind, her 56-year-old husband’s death was “100% linked” to the vaccine.

Now, at least one doctor has come forward publicly to say he also believes the vaccine caused Michael to develop acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), the disorder that killed him.

According to the New York Times:

“Dr. Jerry L. Spivak, an expert on blood disorders at Johns Hopkins University, who was not involved in Dr. Michael’s care, said that based on Ms. Neckelmann’s description, ‘I think it is a medical certainty that the vaccine was related.’ (more…)

ALAN writes:

So evil, so ugly, and so drenched in depravity had life become in this nation and in my city, St. Louis, last year that I was scarcely aware that Christmas had come and gone. Memories of Christmases Past did not even begin to occur to me until the year had ended.

I composed these words at six o’clock on the night of January 1st as I listened to Christmas carols sung by the Robert Shaw Chorale and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Only then did my memory turn to the happiest Christmases I ever knew, those between 1949 and 1970, and to the few people to whom I owed all gratitude for those things: Principally, my mother and grandparents. (more…)

Sick of Politics
by Anonymous

See Part One of this essay here.

What Should Be Our Attitude toward Politics and Politicians?

The way in which we should approach politics and look upon politicians is a mixture of the positive and the negative. We must be led by true and correct principles and not feelings, nor partisan attachments, nor family history, nor any other subjective criteria. Here are some principles that are worth noting and remembering:

► ALL POWER COMES FROM GOD―Our Lord Himself tells us that all political power ultimately comes from God―He says to Pontius Pilate, both informing him and warning him: “Thou shouldst not have any power against Me, unless it were given thee from above!” (John 19:11).

The Old Testament says the same thing: “[God] taketh away kingdoms and establisheth them! … The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men; and He will give it to whomsoever it shall please Him, and He will appoint the basest man over it” (Daniel 2:21; 4:14). (more…)

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FROM “The Sixth Day within the Octave of the Epiphany” by Dom Prosper Gueranger:

But these three gifts which so sublimely express the three characters of the Man-God are fraught with instruction for us. They signify three great virtues which the divine infant found in the souls of the Magi, and to which He added increase by His grace. Gold signifies charity, which unites us to God; frankincense, prayer, which brings God into man’s heart, and myrrh self-abnegation, suffering and mortification by which we are delivered from the slavery of corrupt nature. Find a heart that loves God, that raises herself up to Him by prayer, that understands and relishes the power of the cross — and you have in that heart the worthiest offering which can be made to God, and one which He always accepts. (more…)

  PEOPLE are demonstrating against Corona Tyranny every day in Europe, but you will not hear about it on the news. "This weekly street walking protest take place in a small town near Nuremberg Germany. "Protests like this are NEVER shown by media. "They walk for the silent voices of the majority that suffers. "The brutal insensitivity is fantastic. "They call for justice and a halt to the madness. "This segment is apart of a full length documentary, Planet Lockdown, and is being released in advance of the film for those that wish to learn more about the world and where we are."  

Winter Watch examines Talmudic rhetorical strategies, sometimes known as "pilpul." Jews are not by any means the only ones who employ these debate tactics, but they are exceptionally skilled at it.  

https://twitter.com/itstime2rise/status/1348368523052019712?s=20 YOU won't find this anywhere in the news. See more videos of protests throughout Europe here.  

  THIS video was made in 2014, but it is even more relevant today. Nonlinear warfare employs confusion and contradiction to destabilize political opposition.  

A Sermon on the Feast of the Holy Family,* Jan. 10, 2021
Heaven, or Hell on Earth?

Everyone needs a place to call home and a family to love. Everyone looks for his place in the world, something to hold on to, something to give meaning to his life, especially in times of trouble and insecurity. At such times we need to turn to God. God is always there. But in fact, most human beings are homeless persons, in the sense that they do not know God.  They are desperately seeking, because in not knowing God they have lost the very meaning and purpose of their existence. They are sheep without a shepherd, because they do not know their true Shepherd, Jesus Christ.

Our true home is with God, as the psalms declare:

“How lovely is your dwelling place, O lord of hosts! My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest in which she puts her young – your altars, O lord of hosts, my king and my God! Happy are they who dwell in your house!” (Ps.83:2-5).

The Holy Family – Jesus, Mary, and Joseph – help us to understand our destiny, which is Heaven, where we shall know God and love God forever. The essence of Heaven is knowing God as He is, which the Church calls the Beatific Vision.

“Beloved,” says St. John, “now we are called the children of God; and it has not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that, when he appears, we shall be like to him, for we shall see him just as he is” (1Jn.3:2).

Those who knew Jesus Christ, His Holy Mother Mary and St. Joseph, were close to Heaven without knowing it, since the Holy Family was Heaven on earth. But in this world there is always a certain distance, even in the closest of relationships. It will not be so in Heaven. In Heaven, besides knowing God, we shall also know and love everyone else there. Our closeness to them on the spiritual plane will be far greater than anything that we could possibly know on earth.

To be without God is the greatest of human tragedies. The essence of Hell is separation from God. Hell is homelessness, loneliness, hopelessness. Having lost God, and everyone else as a result, one has no place, no home, for all eternity. (more…)

IS WOMAN MAN’S EQUAL?

By Florence Goff Schwarz

Can she cull from the forest and mines and shape

A ship that will stand the gale?

Or fashion a monster of steel and steam

To writhe o’er the polished rail?

Can she conquer the forces of earth and air

To bend to her own sweet will?

Or current the water to furnish power

for the wheels of a giant mill?

Can she burrow the earth for a great subway?

Or chain up the lightning’s bars?

Or harness a jumble of wheels and wings

And soar to the distant stars?

Can she dig and delve while her brow reeks sweat

In the bowels of a fetid mine?

Can she face the powder and the shot and ball

Of the enemy’s firing line? (more…)

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