FROM an article at Winter Watch, (not a Catholic website):

The Inquisition kept voluminous records of proceedings and on those it was keeping an eye. These records have been the subject of deep research in recent decades. Although the Inquisition had a chilling effect, in most parts of Spain — and especially small towns and rural areas — it had almost no authority or clout. The inquisitors would reluctantly roll into these towns once in a blue moon, but the local priests would not cooperate and would instruct their parishioners to speak no evil about their neighbors, cautioning even against gossip.

Juan Antonio Llorente (1756–1823), a fierce enemy of the Inquisition, whose “Critical History of the Inquisition” of 1817–1819 remains the most famous early work estimated the number of executions carried out during the whole of the period that the Spanish Inquisition existed, from 1483 until its abolition by Napoleon, at 31,912.

Recent scholars, such as Henry Kamen [“The Spanish Inquisition” 2014] conclude: “We can in all probability accept the estimate, made on the basis of available documentation, that a maximum of three thousand persons may have suffered death during the entire history of the tribunal” (p. 253).

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“[Q]uietness is absolutely necessary for spiritual growth under ordinary circumstances. There are sometimes brief tempests in the interior when we grow, like children in an illness. But these are eccentric phenomena. It is plain that quietness must be the prevailing atmosphere of an ascetic. We must be quiet in order to pray. Mortification must be quiet, or else it will be merely vehement nature, growing in fury as it grows in pain. Confidence in God must be quiet. The very word itself is full of the sound of rest. (more…)

ONE OF the biggest threats to the institution of homemaking is the woman who does all things for all people, who never says no, never leaves time for her own interests and pursuits; answers every call for help with fundraising, and leaves herself open by her excessive selflessness and pride in her conscientiousness to sieges of resentment and bitterness.

Feminism gained tremendous momentum from women like this.

When Betty Friedan told them they had no identity of their own and suffered from the “problem with no name,” they responded with a shock of recognition. Instead of seeking to balance their lives, they became revolutionaries.

Domesticity should not come with self-obliteration. The happiest housewives are those who build a zone of separateness and independence within themselves and reserve time to cultivate their own interests and talents. It’s okay to say no. A person who does not have a paying job is not required to make up for those who do by performing all the volunteer work.

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“WHEN we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.”

— St. Teresa of Avila

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PEOPLE unfamiliar with journalism at all — or who are themselves deceivers — might think figures like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are real journalists.

They are not. They are both talented actors and agents, hired to push agendas and read scripts.

Tucker, who loves to wear his Kabbalah bracelet and sometimes just can’t keep up the act — such as the moment he broke out in duping-delight hilarity when he compared Charlie Kirk to Jesus Christ — has openly admitted to being a liar and you can see his public admission, as well as a very good example of his lying, in the first few minutes of the above clip, thanks to ‘Call for an Uprising.’

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 BOTH parties are working together to bring digital ID and a world of total control. No news story equals this.    

ZENO writes:

I don’t much follow news from the “fashion industry”, but from those videos I can gather it is even worse than I thought.

I have no idea what the models have in their mouths, and the children’s orchestra playing dissonant tunes is odd (why children?).

Of course many of the androgynous models are black or non-white, providing more multicultural propaganda, and even the children’s orchestra seems to be almost half black (unrealistically, I would say — I assume most children that still study classical music today are Asians).

This video is from yet another show at the Paris Fashion Week, from a brand that advertises itself with a very literal name.

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“… AT the time of Trump’s inauguration, around 13,000 people were being deported each month; now, the figure is approaching 30,000, after nine months of sustained increases. In total, according to official ICE data, 168,841 people were deported between January and August. This is still far from ‘the largest deportation in history,’ and even from the more realistic goal of one million deportations in 2025.

“Although the Trump administration has cited higher figures without providing evidence, its data includes all people who have voluntarily left the country in response to the immigration climate created by the president, including people with green cards. Still, the total number of deportations, whether ordinary or ‘self-deportations,’ as the administration has chosen to call them, is still far from ‘the highest in history.’

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PEGGY HALL has done outstanding work on the alleged “assassination” of Charlie Kirk.

She has avoided all the wild theories out there, such as the talk of leaked texts and miraculous communications with a deceased Kirk by the actress and controlled opposition figure Candace Owens. Hall understands that all the evidence points to the likelihood that Charlie is not dead.

Today, she speculates at to why Kirk would stage his own death. She writes:

A stumbling block for some people is grappling with the question: “But Why Would They Do This?” I gave several answers and explanations in my video here where I answer that very concern.

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PARIS FASHION Week celebrates ugliness, deformity, and androgyny. It takes place in the soulless Tower of Babel.

Its conscious assault on survival instincts leaves both male and female chillingly debased. The human being is stripped of his context, left in a void of sexual anomie and racial annihilation. The exultant victor parades its slaves before the whole world, in the defeated capital of high culture and refinement.

“The idea is to introduce concepts of inversion and disease until it becomes normal.

“This isn’t avant-garde. It’s mental programming…. It’s cultural suicide disguised as cool rebellion. … to create a sterile humanity, a pathologized masculinity that no longer builds, no longer reproduces and is ready to merge with the machine.” Source (Hey, sir, it’s not just the CIA.)

This isn’t about changing tastes. It’s genocide through subversion.

The end result is a world in which those who most understand beauty, and who make it, are erased.

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JANICE writes:

Of all the evidence I’ve seen that points to the Kirk “assassination” as a great, big disinformation project, I thought this video was the most unimpeachable. No one who watches it can deny that Turning Point was built on the character of a shady, two-faced false Christian.

Kirk’s use of “reason” to persuade young people to conservatism included ad-hominem attacks along with other logical fallacies.
Well-meaning though poorly instructed teens have no chance against glib-tongued personalities masquerading as the soul of common sense. It’s Orwellian. It’s disgusting. It’s the whole purpose.

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“LEADING the charge is Clock Tower X LLC, a digital firm run by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale. Under a $6 million deal running through 2025, Clock Tower X has pledged to flood Gen Z-dominated platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram with pro-Israel content — creating up to 5,000 pieces of content per month, according to filings.

“The campaign’s stated aim is to combat antisemitism, but the materials will be heavily focused on justifying Israel’s actions in Gaza and reframing narratives around the October 7 Hamas attacks. The firm is also tasked with developing tools to manipulate how AI platforms, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, frame discussions around the conflict — through search engine optimization (SEO) strategies and tailored content meant to influence AI training datasets.

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“NAKED KIDS have been a staple of delight for centuries for both parents and onlookers,

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CHARLIE Kirk and the TP USA movement from the very beginning sought to normalize homosexuality in mainstream American conservatism.

See the astounding clip in a video talk given by Matt Trewellha at Sons of Liberty Media. Starting at minute 11:53, watch how Kirk bullied an interlocutor at one his cult gatherings. The student objected to the inclusion of open homosexuals in his movement. Kirk shouted at the young student that if he did not support open homosexuality he was “not a Trump supporter,” as if not being a Trump supporter was the ultimate Christian heresy.

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