Believing as the Church Believes
by Anonymous

“Blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it” (Lk.11:28). Like the Blessed Virgin Mary, who conceived the Word of God in her heart before she conceived Him in her womb, we must hear the word of God and believe. Jesus, exasperated by the lack of belief of His hearers, once compared them to children sitting in the market place, shouting to one another: “We have piped to you and you have not danced; we have sung dirges and you have not mourned” (Mt.11:16,17). Created by God as rational beings, their minds were too clouded by sin and the errors of the times to recognize the Messiah when they saw Him.

Just as it is reasonable to believe in God, it is reasonable to BELIEVE God when He speaks. It is reasonable to believe what God has revealed. The Catholic Religion is the most reasonable of all religions. In fact, it is the ONLY reasonable religion, the only religion based on the truth of God’s revealed word. Hearing God’s word means belonging to the Catholic Church, the Ark of Salvation. The Church expresses this doctrine in the formula, Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, “Outside the Church there is no salvation.”** (more…)

WAS Donald Trump’s presidential persona consciously modeled after the loud-mouth Alex Jones? Seems like it.

This 2018 article by Timothy Fitzpatrick is still a fascinating read:

If the Trump persona truly is based on the Alex Jones persona, perhaps we can make a prediction of where Trump’s presidency will go. Right now, Alex Jones, as a character, appears to be on the decline. The truly awakened individuals that once followed him are long gone and now all he has left are mindless “red-pilled” idiots, of mostly millennial, hillbilly, and pothead extraction. His out-of-control behaviour is, perhaps, doing the most damage to his status and reputation. The publicity of his custody-trial with ex-wife Violet revealed a lot about the artificiality of his public character. He is currently married to what appears to be a former hooker. His strange relationship with Hollywood sleaze Charlie Sheen went public a few years ago, and now his former employers are bringing to light even more darker truths of the Alex Jones character. In essence, he is self-destructing. Could Donald Trump follow a similar path? Many think he already is. Both Jones and Trump share the pathology of narcissism, which makes them their own worst enemies—and at the complete mercy of their handlers. (more…)

    DR. Ben Tapper's speech before the Omaha City Council last August is still timely. They don't care about your health. (Note: If you get a warning message, please ignore it. There is no danger.)  

"SUFFERING, no matter how small, has its own work. I pray that mine will perform its work within me, and that the time I have left in this life will be well used as a result of the inevitability of suffering. "The rain in these mountains has stopped for now, and the air is clear and cold and peaceful. Spring is less than three weeks away, and I am straddling the two seasons, enjoying the things of winter and yet looking forward to a loosening of my joints and a new perfume in the air when the green things begin to lift towards the heavens again. All around me, the trees and bulbs are pushing and jostling and insistent in their cellulose way. And in the background, men work their evil deeds and tell their blatant lies. It is a wondrous time to be alive right now." -- S.K. Orr at Steeple Tea  

JEWISH Fragility refers to feelings of discomfort a Jewish person experiences when they witness discussions around race and theology.  This may trigger anger, fear, guilt,  and violence.  Some Jews may become insecure when other people groups claim privileges that Jew[ish] people enjoy. If a Jewish person  becomes defensive, a non-Jew may feel obligated to comfort the Jew.  For example, some Christians comfort Jews by telling them they are “God’s children,” while some Europeans speak words establishing racial self-hatred.   These non-Jews seek to unburden themselves from socially constructed sin accusations (racism or anti-semitism). Manifestations of Jewish fragility commonly include accusing others of what they do themselves. These include, but are not limited to: Inventing a social sin that only applies to non-Jews (anti-semitism). The privilege of their own racial homeland while accusing others of a social sin (racism)  for seeking the same privilege. Establishing organizations promoting the interests of their own race while denying that privilege to others, specifically Whites. Violence toward those who do not submit to religious, historical, and cultural narratives promoted by the Jews. One manifestation of Jewish fragility was the reaction to Jesus Christ, who verbally chastised them for  hypocrisy. As a result, the Jews used their power and influence (Jewish privilege) to have him executed. Fritz Berggren, PhD 28 February 2021  

MEDITATING upon the gruesome and bloody crucifixion of Jesus is too much for most people. Why? The Rev. Frederick William Faber offered one reason: It is the excessive love of the Incarnation and the Passion which makes men find it hard to believe those mysteries. We confess it seems to us that he who, on reflection, can receive and embrace those two propositions, that God loves us, and that God desires our love, can find nothing difficult hereafter in the wonders of theology. Another feature of this love is that it is eternal which is in itself an inexplicable mystery. As there never was a moment when God was not in all the plenitude of His self-sufficient majesty, so there never was a moment when He did not love us. He loved us not only in the gross as His creatures, not only as atoms in a mass, as units in a multitude, all grouped together, and not taken singly; but He loved us individually. He loved us with all those distinctions and individualities which make us ourselves, and prevent our being any but ourselves. [Thoughts on Great Mysteries, selected from the works of Frederick William Faber; Suttaby & Co.: London; 1884.] People who see in a crucifix only morbid and unpleasant reminders of the finality of life and who think those who meditate devoutly upon the crucifix are psychologically unbalanced are people who don't see the love. They do not…

A MOTHER reads the Gay BC's with her bright little boy.  

"So great is God's love for us and His grace towards us, that He does more for us than we can believe or understand." --- St. Thomas Aquinas  

ARE YOU concerned that women’s sports are going to be increasingly opened up to men?

No? I didn’t think so. Me neither.

Now that Biden has signed, and the House has passed, the Equality Act — it’s an equality act — more female sports teams may be forced to accept “transgendered” males.

We’re supposed to be up in arms about this, right? But I say, “Hooray!” As a friend said yesterday, “Bring it on!”

Girls in sports are already pretending to be boys. Women basketball players, skiers, runners, boxers, tennis players, etc., are already pretending to be men. Immodest dress, beefy muscles under skimpy tank tops and shorts, aggressive play, the obsession with athletics —  it’s all designed to exalt masculine behavior for girls. So it makes perfect sense that real men would join in.

If “equality” makes it difficult for girls to compete, if they lose out to boys, they can only blame the cold-hearted principles at work.

Female sports today are pagan spectacles at war with femininity. So it’s okay with me if they include men. (more…)

"EVERY child born into this world is given a body and soul. This soul, for which the body was created, and which will rise with it at the last day, be judged with it for the acts done in life, and be happy or unhappy with it for all eternity, is, in consequence of the "fall," turned away from God, and the body, no longer acting in obedience to right reason, seeks its own gratification, like any irrational animal. Religion (from religio) is the means provided by a merciful God to reunite the chain broken by the sin of our first parents, and bridge over the chasm opened between man and his divine destiny. To give this knowledge of religion is the principal purpose of education. Without this it is mere natural instruction, but no education at all. It would be worse than giving, as we say, 'the play of Hamlet with the part of the Prince of Denmark left out.' "Religion, then, forms the spirit and essence of all true education. As leaven must be diffused throughout the entire mass in order to produce its effects, so religion must be thoroughly diffused throughout the child's entire education, in order to be solid and effective . Not a moment of the hours of school should be left without religious influence. It is the constant breathing of the air that preserves our bodily life, and it is the constant dwelling in a…

  A LOOK at a couple of the elderly people who faced grueling loneliness in facilities during the past year while denied visits from their relatives. It is sad that as a society we depend so much on these institutions.