JAMES FETZER reports on Wordpress's deletion of several blogs, including Fellowship of the Minds, that challenged the official version of the alleged Sandy Hook massacre. This action by Wordpress is an implicit admission that at least some of what these blogs were reporting is true.

PROTESTANTS have disagreed about many things, but they have joined together in deriding voluntary celibacy and the unmarried state. Dr. Marian Horvat writes: By closing the convents and insisting that every woman should marry, Protestantism also stripped the high respect and honor the Catholic Church had always given to virgins. Some of this Protestant spirit certainly seeped into the American culture, from the Colonial Period to our times. Following the English Protestant tradition, the lay celibate – women in particular – became an object of scorn. Single women, even Catholics who voluntarily chose to remain celibate to dedicate themselves more fully to acts of charity, family duties  and prayer, have been labeled "spinsters" or frustrated "old maids." An example of this negative image of unmarried women: the unpopped kernels in a pot of popcorn are called "old maids," worthless kernels that fail to reach their full and proper end. This is an abhorrent position, opposed to the doctrine of the Catholic Church and denigrating to the women who choose to be celibate. I believe many women with vocations to the lay celibate life choose to marry just to avoid these offensive labels.

  "SOMETIMES we doubt; often enough we have failed to be faithful to grace; and so we think ourselves unworthy to receive God’s help. But that is precisely why God has given us our heavenly Mother, to whom He turned over the whole order of His mercy, as though He wished to protect us from His justice. A way has been pointed out to us; and so long as we walk therein we can always obtain God’s grace. Never must we say that henceforth grace is beyond our reach. Even if we have serious sins on our conscience, we can rise again. All we need is to turn to the Immaculata. So, let the sinner who has fallen come to her in full confidence. Don’t concentrate your thoughts only on yourself. Saint Paul said: I can do all things in Him Who strengthens me, and in the same way we can say, 'I can do all things, thanks to her who gives me strength.'" ---- Fr. Maximilian Kolbe

MUHAMMAD ALI speaks the unthinkable. (more…)

HERE IS a compelling Twitter thread on the disturbing QAnon phenomenon. (more…)

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DEAR READER: I have been away from blogging due to my son’s wedding this past weekend — a very happy occasion. I am slowly getting back in action. Here’s just a little something for you. (more…)

  WOMAN'S WORK --- Fay Inchfawn Always one more meal to get; one more train which must be met; one more hopeless sock to mend; one more invalid to tend; one more salve for one more knee, one more visitor to tea; one more future bruised and scarred; one more drop of spikenard; one more problem, one more doubt; one more mood to be smoothed out; one more smile and one more kiss-- Ah, but ministry like this will outlast the radiant sun. Woman's work is never done. (Posted in honor of my mother, who died last year. Her birthday is today.)

ALAN writes:

By the year 2003, an old friend and I had reached an age where we looked backward more than forward.  We spent many hours riding through south St. Louis neighborhoods to see what remained from the streets, parks, schools, churches, theaters, buildings, and houses that he recalled from his boyhood and that I recalled from mine.

A letter I found by chance in a St. Louis newspaper from 1999 fitted perfectly into that frame of mind.  It was written by a widow named Ann McGauly, who was looking back to her childhood in the 1920s in the 800 block of South Second Street, a short distance from downtown.

While reading her letter, I felt a certain kinship with that woman and a desire to visit that area.  So my friend and I went there one day in July 2003.  It looked very different from how she remembered it.  She remembered a boarding house, two grocery stores, a corner saloon, a stable for horses, people who worked in the huge buildings of a woodenware company, and the freight trains that ran on the street where she and her two sisters and their parents lived. (more…)

SOME VERY evil deeds have been perpetrated since the modernist sect subverted the true Catholic Church and took over its worship, doctrine and buildings. But none may be more wicked than the parading of an impostor Sister Lucy.

Lúcia dos Santos was one of the famous Fatima children to whom Our Lady appeared in 1917 in Portugal and issued her prophetic warnings, predicting World War II, Soviet Communism and a “third secret.” The visions were followed by the Miracle of the Sun witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people. The two younger children, Jacinta and Francisco, died before they reached adulthood, but Lúcia survived for many decades.

But formal face recognition studies have reportedly determined that the woman the Vatican claimed was “Sister Lucy” from 1968 until her reported death in 2005 was not in fact her. Public release of the full report is pending, but it was long obvious from informal studies that the two Lucys were not the same person. “The Two Sister Lucys: Photos and Facts” by Marian Horvat reveals the details.

What motives would the Vatican have for placing an impostor before the world? A pretender would help disguise the fact of more pervasive fraud:

Folks, if the Modernists are willing to go to such lengths to give credence to their Vatican II religion and keep it going, is it really so hard to believe that they’ve been presenting impostor “Popes” as well? (Source)

Many believe the famous Third Secret of Fatima revealed apostasy and betrayal at the top.

Our Lady showed us the individual who I describe as the ‘holy Father’ in front of a multitude that was cheering him.

But there was a difference from a true holy Father, his devilish gaze, this one had the gaze of evil.

Then, after some moments we saw the same Pope entering a Church, but this Church was the Church of hell; there is no way to describe the ugliness of that place. It looked like a gray cement fortress with broken angles and windows similar to eyes; it had a beak in the roof of the building.

All of this is of no moment to the vast majority of people in the modern world, who either do not know of or do not believe in the miraculous occurrences of Fatima. But their naiveté does not change reality. This news could rock the world. (more…)

'THE Transfiguration also tells us something about our Resurrection: Our flesh will be resurrected with the glorious characteristics of impassibility, lightness, subtlety and radiance, like the resurrected body of Christ. That is, the body can no longer suffer: 'God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and death shall be no more, nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any more,' (7) says the Apocalypse. The glorious bodies will be able to move anywhere at will: to enter a closed room with its doors locked, as Christ entered the Cenacle on the day of the Resurrection, (8) and they will possess the greatest beauty. But, for now we are still in the battle and we have to continue to act. We cannot pretend to make three huts and sit down to rest just to contemplate God and enjoy His presence. Certainly we must contemplate Christ, but we must continue to act: That is why we always have to descend from the mountain." -- Fr. Paulo Alvarez  

AN 11-year-old boy was shot to death last week by an Israeli sniper. He is one of 154 unarmed people, including children, women, medics and journalists, who have been killed while taking part in what is known as the "Great March of Return." More than 16,000 have been wounded, many seriously. [View a list of all the people killed in the general conflict -- both Palestinians and Israelis -- since 2000 here.] In related news, 17-year-old Ahed al-Tamimi has been released from prison in Israel. She spent eight months in jail for slapping an Israeli soldier after her cousin was shot in the head. Your foreign aid at work --- to the tune of $10 million a day.

ON November 27, 1095 at Clermont in France, Pope Urban II launched the first crusade to reclaim the Holy Land from the Turks with this rousing sermon. Jerusalem was captured by the Catholic forces four years later. He died the year before this victory. (This version is attributed to Robert the Monk.)

Oh, race of Franks, race from across the mountains, race chosen and beloved by God as shines forth in very many of your works set apart from all nations by the situation of your country, as well as by your Catholic faith and the honor of the Holy Church! To you our discourse is addressed and for you our exhortation is intended. We wish you to know what a grievous cause has led us to Your country, what peril threatening you and all the faithful has brought us.

From the confines of Jerusalem and the city of Constantinople a horrible tale has gone forth and very frequently has been brought to our ears, namely, that a race from the kingdom of the Persians, an accursed race, a race utterly alienated from God, a generation forsooth which has not directed its heart and has not entrusted its spirit to God, has invaded the lands of those Christians and has depopulated them by the sword, pillage and fire; it has led away a part of the captives into its own country, and a part it has destroyed by cruel tortures; it has either entirely destroyed the churches of God or appropriated them for the rites of its own religion. They destroy the altars, after having defiled them with their uncleanness. (more…)

  DR. MARIAN HORVAT offers some good suggestions for finding or making women's clothing.

JON writes:

I have been reading your blog for a few months, and have been enjoying it, though I am Reformed and not Catholic.

I watched the Perestroika Deception video and your other link on the Russia deception was quite taken aback at the suggestions that communism is still in power in Russia and other countries. It honestly makes my head spin, and will at least make me read critically.

I am wondering how you would see the rise of populism in Europe and the increased Christian rhetoric from countries like Poland and Hungary. Would you see these as real and encouraging developments that we can take heart from? (more…)

KYLE writes:

In studying the origins of modern Zionism I came across this account in Theodor Herzl’s collected diaries, which can be viewed in full at Archive.org. The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl chronicles the life of Herzl, the “father of modern political Zionism”, and his efforts to establish the state of Israel with the assistance of banking luminaries like the Rothschild family and Jacob Schiff. Reading these diaries is essential to understanding the state of modern geopolitics and the Zionist lobbies expansive influence today.

In 1904, Herzl, with the aid of Austrian papal portraitist, Berthold Dominik Lippay, set up a meeting with Pope Pius X at the Vatican where he’d attempt to cajole the Supreme Pontiff into bestowing his blessing upon the Zionist cause. Instead, Herzl encountered a cordial, but resilient force of nature that deflected the political activists every attempt to justify a state of Israel in Palestine with the approval of papal authority. The diary entry provides a glimpse into the now alien theology of the Catholic Church of the early-twentieth century and a weary but faithful Pope, who, living up to his legendary matter-of-fact farm boy persona, made it clear that unless the Jewish people accepted Jesus Christ, the Church would continue to deny a Zionist Israel. Below is Herzl’s entry for the audience with Pius X. (more…)

  The Motorist's Prayer Lord grant me a steady hand and watchful eye That no man may be hurt when I pass by Thou givest life; I pray no act of mine May take away, or mar, this act of Thine. Save those, dear Lord, who bear me company, From shock and pain, and all calamity. Teach me to use my car for others’ need, Nor miss through love of speed The beauty of this world; that so I may With joy and courtesy go on my way. --- Source