FROM NPR (2012): Ron Silver, the owner of Bubby's restaurant in Brooklyn, recently put a word on his menu you don't often see anymore: lard. The white, creamy, processed fat from a pig. And he didn't use the word just once. For a one-night-only "Lard Exoneration Dinner", Silver served up lard fried potatoes. And root vegetables, baked in lard. Fried chicken, fried in lard. Roasted fennel glazed with lard sugar and sea salt. Pies, with lard inside and out. All from lard he made himself in the kitchen. "It seems funny," Silver says, "but for thousands of years this was the thing that people cooked with. A century ago, lard was in every American pantry and fryer. These days, lard is an insult. "The word lard has become this generally derogatory term associated with fat and disgustingness," says Dan Pashman who hosts a food podcast called The Sporkful. "Think about Lard-ass, the character from the movie Stand By Me. I mean, he didn't want to be called Lard-ass." How did this delicious, all-natural fat from a pig become an insult? Who killed lard? Lard didn't just fall out of favor. It was pushed. It was a casualty of a battle between giant business and corporate interests. Read more. See also How Crisco Toppled Lard  

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IT ONLY takes a few externals — traditional vestments and a public prayer or two in Latin — for crowds to hail the new leader of the Vatican II church as a break from more than 60 years of apostasy and sacrilege. So weak are would-be Catholics in their knowledge of the faith.

In a world dominated by material values, they are as blind as the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem and the mob at the foot of the crucifix. They will have their earthly kingdom no matter what, even if it means denying their Redeemer and his message. It doesn’t matter whether they are “conservative” or liberal, “traditionalist” or open fans. They are joined together in an up-swelling of public fantasy and escapism. They resort to Catholic-appearing sacramentals as if magic objects that make the faith itself unnecessary. But the unchangeable doctrines and dogmas defined over the course of almost 2,000 years are necessary. The faith is more than wishful thinking and religious impulses. The faith is more than individual desires and attachment to business as usual. The supernatural has never ceased to be at odds with our fallen nature.

Leo 14, the latest pretender to the papacy, does not profess the Catholic faith, however much he embraces aspects of it. His ordination as a Vatican II cleric was a public profession of a different faith. He likes that belief system. He wants that belief system. He freely embraces that belief system, a system of contradictions which proclaims universal salvation and a dogma-less, humanistic, One World religion that encompasses all faiths, even Traditional Catholicism. It’s a syncretistic, polytheistic, existentialist, pagan religion that denies objective truth and divine attributes that can be known with certainty by the human intellect. The perfect counterpart to secular globalism and the all-encompassing State, it is another stage in the Protestant Revolt, which held that the Church was wrong in the past and Christ’s promises had failed it. Hence its easy irreverence and its blasphemous public apologies for the corporate actions of Christ’s Mystical Body.

What does all this betrayal mean for us, for all the confused lay believers, since Christ has promised to be with his Church until the end of time?

Could it mean, we must love the faith more? Could it mean, we must accommodate our desires, our religious feelings, our personal preferences and frustrated expectations to supernatural reality?

Christ’s promises cannot be fulfilled by adhering to false shepherds, by wanting that earthly kingdom as the Jews wanted theirs. (more…)

"THE Spiritual Kingship of Christ, participated in by the Pope and the Bishops of the Catholic Church, being no longer acknowledged, authority over spiritual affairs passed to the Temporal Rulers… As there was no Infallible Guardian of order above the Temporal Rulers, the way was paved for the abuses of State Absolutism… The principle of private judgment prepared the way for the opposite extreme error of 'holy rebellion' and the 'right' of people to overthrow authority whenever it displeases them. The doctrine, that all men are equal in the Mystical Body and are their own priests, sowed the seeds of that spirit, which was given a body in the naturalistic Masonic society, when the advance of time had brought about the decay of belief in the supernatural life." --- Rev. Denis Fahey, CSs.P., The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World, 1938.  

“TO have a good will is to have something far more valuable than all earthly kingdoms and pleasures; to lack it is to lack something that only the will itself can give, something that is better than all the goods that are not in our power. Some people consider themselves utterly miserable if they do not achieve a splendid reputation, great wealth, and various goods of the body. But don’t you consider them utterly miserable, even if they have all these things, when they cleave to things that they can quite easily lose, things that they do not have simply in virtue of willing them, while they lack a good will, which is incomparably better than those things and yet, even though it is such a great good, can be theirs if only they will to have it?”

— St. Augustine, On the Free Choice of the Will (more…)

"THERE can be nothing more dangerous than those heretics who admit nearly the whole cycle of doctrine, and yet by one word, as with a drop of poison, infect the real and simple faith taught by our Lord and handed down by Apostolic tradition." --- Pope Leo XIII (Satis Cognitum)  

"NO sin in the world grips the soul as the accursed sodomy; this sin has always been detested by all those who live according to God. Deviant passion is close to madness; this vice disturbs the intellect . . . this is the greatest sin." --- St. Bernardine of Siena Source (Note: The Church has never taught that sodomy is the greatest of sins, but a "sin crying out for vengeance.")  

On May 27, 2021, the Kamloops Indian Band announced “the confirmation of the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School”, asserting that some of these children “were as young as three years old”. This resulted in a national outpouring of grief, and Canadian flags were flown at half-mast across the country. Dozens of churches were burned or vandalized and Canadians were convinced that this was evidence that Canada had committed genocide against the indigenous population. Canadian politicians defended the arson as “understandable”. (more…)

IN RESPONSE to interrogation by a listener, Gerry Matatics explains in this talk last night why the Vatican II Church is not the Catholic Church, why Robert Francis Prevost's ordination is gravely doubtful, and why he is  is not a valid bishop or pope. No formal trial for heresy is needed for lay Catholics to recognize and act upon these facts. Starting at minute 38:00, a roughly hour-long discussion takes place.  

“FROM Russia with Love” examines interesting connections between neo-Soviet Communism and figures on the American Alt-Right.

“If you’ve heard of them, they’re controlled opposition.” (more…)

“…[THE] Nottoway Resort, the largest remaining antebellum plantation in the U.S., went up in flames. The 64-room mansion was built between 1857 and 1859 for its wealthy owner John Hampden Randolph, who enslaved 150+ people to work his sugar cane farm. As news and images of the blaze went viral, reactions were starkly divided. While some lamented the loss, others cheered with cries of ‘Good riddance!’ and ‘Burn, baby, burn!'” (Source)

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“They came with trash bags, with trucks,” she said. “They weren’t here to help, they were here to take.” Nash said once nearby business owners left the scene, groups of people began pulling metal siding off buildings and hauling away stolen goods, including hair products, nail polish, and even full-size safes. Some were armed. Some brought children. “This wasn’t an opportunity to take. It was an opportunity to give,” she said. “We had people still trapped in buildings, and others handing out bags to loot.” She called the police multiple times. Officers responded, but the looters always returned. She says the hardest part was seeing how quickly the devastation turned into exploitation. Source  

"HUMILIATION is the road to humility, as is patience that to peace, and study to knowledge. If you desire the virtue of humility, do not refuse the road of humiliation, for you cannot be brought to humility without suffering shame." -- St. Bernard  

FROM Holy Family Publications on Novus Ordo clerics (including “Pope” Leo XIV) and Traditional Movement clergy who do not possess jurisdiction in the Catholic Church:

Do you agree that the Apostolic See is the sole source of legitimate power?

Do you agree that unless a bishop received a papal mandate and jurisdiction through a vicar of Jesus Christ, he does not have legitimate power?

Dom Guéranger continues to teach by providing these quotes from some saints and other learned men: “She (the Catholic Church) says to us, by Tertullian: ‘Christ gave the keys to Peter, and through him to the Church.’”

“By St. Optatus of Milevis: ‘For the sake of Unity, Peter was made the first among all the apostles, and he alone received the keys, that he might give them to the rest.’”

“By St. Gregory of Nyssa: ‘It is through Peter that Christ gave to bishops the keys of their heavenly prerogative.’”

“By St. Leo the Great: ‘If Our Lord willed that there should be something common to Peter and the rest of the princes of His Church, it was only on this condition, that whatsoever He gave to the rest, He gave it to them through Peter.’”

Dom Guéranger here provides the unanimous teaching of Catholic tradition: (more…)

"MISSIONARIES and travellers report that human flesh was offered for sale at markets 'in many parts of Nigeria'. According to clergyman and archdeacon George Basden, who spent more than 30 years in the country, in some southern regions, it had a well-established market price and was sold much like any other commodity; it usually came from war captives, kidnapped strangers, and purchased or bartered slaves.While travelling near Onitsha around the year 1900, Basden found out that his servants and carriers had all repeatedly eaten human flesh. Once they were sure that he bore them no ill will, they talked freely about the custom, including their preferred body parts. He noted that they were 'quite good-natured folk', with one of them later becoming 'a much-respected evangelist'." --- "Cannibalism in Africa," Wikipedia  

FROM Negros in Negroland, a compilation by Hinton Rowan Helper (1868, 278 pages)

“It is plain, from all history, that two abominable practices, – the one the eating of men, the other of sacrificing them to the devil, -prevailed all over Africa. The India trade, as we have seen in very early ages, first established the buying and selling of slaves; since that time, the eating of men, or sacrificing them, has so greatly decreased on the eastern side of the peninsula, that now we scarcely hear of an instance of either of these that can be properly vouched.

On the western part, towards the Atlantic Ocean, where the sale of slaves began a considerable time later, after the discovery of America and the West Indies, both of these horrid practices are general.” — Bruce’s Africa, Vol. I., page 393 (more…)