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I'm a 60 something wife, mom and grandmom who is homebound/disabled by severe hypersensitivity to chemicals. I fill my days with learning, loving and art. My favorite values are truth, generosity and gratitude.

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CATHOLIC: Only three angels are named in Holy Scripture – Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. In general, we are not privileged to know the names of any others, including our guardian angels. We can pray to angels for their intercession, but we have no right to assign names to them.

COMMITTEES: I heard one commentator say the GOP is not, but should be treating Dems the way they treated Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. That is, removing them from House committee assignments for petty little gripes, such as posting tweets Dems disapproved of.

What Speaker McCarthy is actually doing is removing people who, if the Dems had had an ounce of integrity or love for this country, would have been removed long ago. Schiff has repeatedly leaked classified information and spent years abusing his authority as chair of the Intelligence Committee to target the Dems’ #1 political opponent with malicious lies.

As for Swalwell, he should have been booted off Intelligence the minute it was learned he’d been having an affair with a Chinese spy. As McCarthy pointed out, “Eric Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the public sector. Why would we ever give him a security clearance in the secrets to America?

As for Omar being on the Foreign Affairs Committee … puh-leeze. She has long been a vocal hater of our nation. How she can even take the oath of office with a straight face is beyond me. But she may end up keeping her seat. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., is one of a handful of Republican who oppose McCarthy’s efforts to remove her. Their votes may be enough for her to stay on. Her reasoning is …

There’s a First Amendment in this country. We don’t have to agree with everything that members say. I think we have to be very careful about what we are as a constitutional republic. I am not a fan of Ilhan Omar. She’s an anti-Semite. She’s a bigot. She’s a racist. She’s a socialist. But that doesn’t mean that we cancel people in this country. Republicans don’t stand for cancelculture. And that’s essentially what this is.

Wow. What. An. Idiot. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs deals with national security; war powers; treaties, executive agreements, and military deployments abroad; foreign assistance; arms control; international economic policy; and other matters vital to our national security.

Freedom of speech” is not, Not, NOT at issue here. Fitness for office IS. Someone like Ilhan Omar, who loathes and despises most of what the United States of America is all about, shouldn’t be in the House of Representatives, much less on the Foreign Affairs Committee!

EXCESS DEATHS: [16:21] – Dr. John Campbell reports on the post-vaxxx increase in excess deaths over pre-COVID-19 rates in thirty countries. As he points out, the most vulnerable died during the pandemic which is over. Other things being equal, we should be seeing a decrease, not an increase in death rates when compared to pre-pandemic rates.

LITANY OF HUMILITY: I recently discovered the “Litany of Humility” (linked below) and find it to be a powerful spiritual tool. I thought I’d share it with y’all today, because the Verse of the Day widget is: “Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, ‘Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.’” –  Mark 9:35.

PELOSI: Shame on NBC for punishing their reporter who told the truth [2:37].

PROJECT VERITAS: Witness the power of Big Pharma … YouTube caved to pressure from the COVID-ELITES and removed the PV undercover video in which an exec said they are manipulating the virus on purpose. (Pfizer says they don’t.) The video is still available @ https://www.projectveritas.com/ AND @ https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1619128293684580352 AND @ https://rumble.com/v274lsi-pfizer-exposed-for-exploring-mutating-covid-19-virus-for-new-vaccines-via-d.html.

RAAACISM: Nobody is condoning what these guys did, but rioting and blaming it on racism and “white supremacy” is absurd.

VAXXX: The UK health has published a new risk-benefit analysis for the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 “vaccines.” As the report notes, “Rational policy formation should consider potential harms alongside potential benefits.”

RISK = Pfizer (10.1 per 10,000), Moderna (15.1 per 10,000)

BENEFIT = Pfizer (2.3 per 10,000), Moderna (6.4 per 10,000)

The RISK is of suffering a serious adverse event; the BENEFIT is the reduction of hospitalization for the virus. The way I read these numbers, the risk far exceeds the benefit.

GRAMMY NOTES: Dearest bought me a tablet for Valentine’s Day! I’ve been wanting one for my painting … so I can display a photo at the exact size I want and easily trace the important bits. I’ve been using my upright desk monitor … “such a crick in the neck!” LOL Please pray it outgasses quickly!! We tried to find a used one, but after two failed attempts to meet my persnickety requirements, he shopped for new found just what I wanted for $89. Gonna mask up and take it out of the box later today. <3<3<3

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8MBXzAyO1W0 for a quick dose of cuteness.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OYvaKCc3BuE for an awesome tape hack.

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AP: The Associated Press has long touted its style sheet as the go-to guide for grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, abbreviations, acronyms, and much more.

Lately, though, it’s gone woke and its latest pronouncement is that using the is dehumanizing. Therefore, thou shalt no longer refer to groups as the mentally ill, the developmentally disabled, the French, etc., but as “people with …” or whatever.

Elon Musk asked them just one question. “So then why do you call yourself The Associated Press?

Another tweeter suggested we should call them, “Associated People Suffering from Journalistic Tendencies.”

ATTACK VIDEO: [6:07] – This footage proves untrue some of the things people have said, e.g. that DePape was in his underwear; he is fully clothed. Also, that he and Paul faked the break in; he definitely broke in. However, I still wonder why Pelosi himself didn’t have better security on his home. The guy is mega rich and the husband of a powerful political figure. You’d think, at the very least, he’d have a bodyguard or something.

Also, I watched the wind up repeatedly and Piro has it partially wrong; at the beginning, both DePape and Pelosi have hold of the hammer, then DePape grabs Pelosi’s wrist, wrenches the hammer out of Pelosi’s hand, then winds up and attacks.

The odd things I noticed were that DePape arrived with enough gear to go on an extended camping trip (?) and that Pelosi’s demeanor when the cops arrive was peculiar. Never mind that he was holding a glass of something … what was he even doing in the foyer with a man who had literally just smashed his way into his home?! Me, I’d be hiding and keeping 911 apprised of what the intruder was doing until the cops had removed him.

TED BUNDY: [2:10] – In 1978, Ted Bundy went on a rampage killing girls. Father Calloway tells the story of the woman he was not permitted to kill. I recently listened to a profoundly ignorant ex-Catholic pronounce on all the (faulty) reasons he left the RCC. One of them was, “The rosary is useless.” ::snort:: Tell that to Ted Bundy.

TRANS: Use their pronouns OR ELSE! Also, bake their cakes OR ELSE! Despite Christian baker Jack Phillips having taken his no-gay-wedding-cake case to the Supreme Court and won, the Wrongs have targeted him again, this time for refusing to bake a cake celebrating the gender transition of an attorney. And golly gee whiz, the order came in on the very day that SCOTUS announced it would hear his gay wedding cake case. Imagine that. Keep in mind that Jack’s shop is in Denver, Colorado; there actually are other bakeries there.

GRAMMY NOTES: Please pray for my brother. I just learned he is having health problems that are probably related to his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. I am grateful to know that his daughter, who is a nurse, is able to check on him daily.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N05PYkn8f5Q for more R*CKST*R.

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ADAM SCHIFF: CLICK https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1618335125707829248 [:39] to hear Mike Pompeo explain why Adam Schiff should not be allowed anywhere near the Intelligence Committee. The Daily Wire reported that former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has also accused Schiff of regularly leaking classified information.

CALIFORNICATION: A federal judge has ruled in favor of seven doctors who filed lawsuits against Gov. Newsom and other officials regarding the state’s COVID-19 misinformation law. The doctors say the law prevents them from providing information to their patients and has been used to intimidate and punish physicians who disagreed with prevailing views on COVID-19. The court’s injunction prevents the state from enforcing the law.

CRICKETS: I love escargot and frog’s legs. I’ve also eaten raccoon, camel, alligator, lamb lung, cow tongue, and something brain. I didn’t enjoy them all, but hey … bring on the bugs. I’ll give them a try.

ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE: Dontcha just love it that the group that helped fund the pandemic is called “EcoHealth”? I mean … the whole point of their push to kill off humans is to Save The Planet! So I’m sure it makes a TON of sense that the Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded them another $3 million for “REDUCING THE THREAT OF VIRAL SPILLOVER FROM WILDLIFE IN THE PHILIPPINES.” I gotta wonder, given their record, if this isn’t going to go into harvesting viruses from the wildlife in the Philippines and weaponizing them.

JUSTICE: Charnelle Bjelkengren is currently a judge for the Spokane County superior court in Washington. Biden not only nominated her for a district bench seat, but said he “proudly” stands by his choice despite her pathetic responses to Senator Kennedy.

CLICK https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1618648781180010498 [1:20] to hear how, during her congressional hearing, she was not able to identify articles of the Constitution or define “purposivism.”

Purposivism is the philosophy of interpreting a law according to its spirit, even when a judge’s purposive judgment contradicts the text of the law. The opposite is textualism, which is the philosophy of adhering to the law’s enacted text, when it is clear. 

LIFE: On Monday, Father Fidelis Moscinski, 52, a priest of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, was found guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act by blocking the entrance to a New York Planned Parenthood facility in order to save the lives of unborn babies. He is one of 26 pro-life Americans targeted by the Biden Justice Department under the FACE Act in the last year.

By contrast, only two people have even been charged in connection with any of the 199 pro-abortion attacks on Catholic churches and Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRC). A top Department of Justice (DOJ) official who is responsible for overseeing the prosecution of these two individuals has a history of disparaging PRCs as “fake clinics” that “target women of color.” So, yeah, not at all like Planned Parenthood …

PROJECT VERITAS: When James O’Keefe attempted to interview Jordon Trishton Walker, he went nuts! PV says Walker is Pfizer’s Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations – mRNA Scientific Planner. If you have not seen the original undercover video in which he says Pfizer is deliberately mutating the ‘rona virus, it is posted at the PV link below. [9:58] – Comments on this video include,

  1. Narcissists are experts in turning themselves into the victim after being exposed for their sins.”
  2. He knows he is so guilty, he is under a rock. The fact he resorted to FLIPPING OUT is telling. Nothing stopped him from politely declining to talk and calmly walking away. Kudos to James for staying calm despite what is going on.
  3. He said something like, ‘I can’t trust anyone after this…’ We all feel the same way after hearing about what Pfizer is doing to the public. The entire industry and our government have taken advantage of public trust. We need full transparency.”

SPAIN: On Wednesday, a machete-wielding man attacked people at two different churches – San Isidro and Nuestra Senora de La Palma – in downtown Algeciras. The attacker has been arrested and the incident is being investigated as terrorism. One of the victims, a sacristan, has died. One of the injured, a priest who was stabbed in the neck, is in serious condition. Local media said the perp is Moroccan and that witnesses heard him shout “Allahu akbar” and “Death to Christians” as he attacked.

TRANS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/58GICVIM-tE to hear a real woman calmly explain everything that is wrong with the current cultural insistence that one’s perverse identity trumps all.

UK: [7:54] – The NHS is ending ‘rona booster jabs for healthy people under 50. Most children are already unable to get them.

VAXXX: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nH1c6yIbUS4 to hear an OB/GYN talk facts about the evil that was done to unborn babies.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y6br7M1puJE and LOL.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62IIjEf17g for more R*CKST*R.

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BURBERRY: The classic raincoat brand has gone woke. Dunno what about a girl’s mutilated breasts should make me want to buy a raincoat …

Also this – “New study finds that suicides in a cohort of transitioning youths receiving gender-affirming care were were 37 times as high as the background population rate for same-age Americans.” My alert readers will remember that I covered the suicide issue before. Pro-trans doctors scare parents by citing a study that found more gender-questioning youths thought about suicide than their gender-comfortable peers. BUT … what they do not tell parents is that more transitioned youths actually attempt or succeed at committing suicide than their non-transitioned peers.

JEFFREY EPSTEIN: [14:58] – Tucker analyzes Jeffrey Epstein’s death.

Comments on the video: “I worked in a maximum-security prison for 5 years! If you have somebody in ad seg under suicide watch, they are checked every 15 minutes. This is logged in the shift report! Anytime anybody walks down that tier it is logged whether it be a guard a medic or the Warden! I can assure you the Staff in a max prison do not fall asleep! I have never even heard of camera failures at a max prison since everything is redundant! There are cameras everywhere that are monitored by the control center! If all those cameras went down at once, there would have been a SWAT team response immediately! On top of that the tier is walked every 30 minutes! Draw your conclusion from that!” – Jim Brock

I’m a nurse and anyone even in our county jails in FL, are required to have a nurse & CO sit at their cell for the entire shift. It’s 100% a cover up.” – Salty Pug

I’m a CO in the PA DOC and we do rounds every 15 minutes on top of the inmates being supervised 24/7 on camera. This would never happen for some Joe schmo inmate let alone Epstein.” – RjfiestaST

Kinda reminds me of how those Roman soldiers guarding Jesus’ tomb were so sound asleep that Jesus’ followers were able to push aside the huge, sealed stone and make off with the body.” – CtH

NYC: A demon now stands proudly atop the courthouse of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court alongside famous law makers. The sculptor calls it “NOW” and says it’s meant to channel Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her fight to keep abortion legal. The only good thing in this story is that the statue will be moved to Houston in June.

Best comments: “It looks demonic. Horned, unclothed, neither human nor animal; no arms to praise, instruct, protect, hold or nurture, and emerging not from humanity or from the Divine but from mindless nature. The worship of death produces ugliness and the worship of ugliness produces death.” – Tea Party Barbie

If you gaze upon RBG Medusa atop the New York Courthouse, your uterus turns to stone.” – Ben Shapiro

PROJECT VERITAS: [9:58] – A new undercover video reveals how very evil Pfizer really is.

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End Times News

According to the Garabandal seer, Conchita, the death of Pope Benedict XVI marks “the beginning of the end of times.” The death of Pope Benedict XVI also demonstrates that Fr. Michel Rodrigue is a false prophet.

On January 3, 2019, Fr. Michel Rodrigue said God told him, “Pope Francis will die as a martyr. Then the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI will appear, who still wears his papal ring. He will try to summon a council to save the Church. I saw him weak and fragile, held on both sides by two Swiss Guards. I saw him suddenly fleeing Rome due to the all-around devastation. He is hiding but he will be found afterward and I also saw his martyrdom.”

Clearly, that’s not going to happen! Apparently the dates of other prophecies he’s made have also come and gone. Sadly some still seem to believe in him though, for a devout Catholic, it should be a Big Red Flag that both of his bishops have publicly denounced him. One of them also noted that he had “renounced his pastoral charge as pastor of the three parishes that I had entrusted to him.

I read the account by Theodore Sagezza (see the fromrome link below) of a visit to a “refuge” that Fr. Rodrigue says St. Michael the Archangel told him to establish. The description of the very isolated and off-grid compound with locked gates and overworked volunteers wasting resources due to repeated prophecies that don’t come to pass fairly reeks of cult.

There are a lot of disturbing aspects in the account, but to me the worst was that, inside the chapel “there was a big framed portrait of Fr. Michel Rodrigue.” That just is not done in Catholic churches! The only time I’ve ever seen anything remotely close is at my parish where the long-dead founder’s picture is in the parish hall. But we’ve had many, many priests come and go since then; not one of them has a photo.

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“Look, My daughter, at My Heart, surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce Me at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude.” – Our Lady to Lucia at Fatima

One of the elements of the First Saturdays devotions is to make reparation for the insults and offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I would like to encourage us all to do something special to console her for the specific insults in this month’s Vanity Fair magazine.

CREEPING COMMUNISM: CLICK https://rumble.com/v26yy08-every-american-needs-to-see-tuckers-warning-on-creeping-communism-in-u.s..html [9:35] to hear Tucker talk about how many of our freedoms have been chipped away by the Left.

DISABILITY: Between the summers of 2021 and 2022, disability claims in the UK doubled. In the U.S. the number was lower at 30%, but still staggering.

In other news, the FDA is now recommending annual ‘rona jab boosters for everyone. FYI: The majority of the FDA’s funding comes from Big Pharma.

FAA: First they mandated the ‘rona jab for all pilots. Now, they’ve made the acceptable range for EKG results for pilot physicals 50% less stringent.

GEORGE SOROS: CLICK https://rumble.com/v26yu0c-report-soros-spends-40-million-backing-75-far-left-das.html [3:58] to hear how much of the creeping communism is due to this billionaire and former Nazi.

LIBS OF TIKTOK: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XypSrN4BJwI to hear what a nice guy Ron DeSantis is.

MALTA: A former homosexual has been threatened with jail time and a stiff fine for testifying to how he walked away from homosexuality following his conversion to Christ.

NEW SOUTH WALES: Below are the numbers of people admitted to New South Wales hospitals or ICUs during the last two weeks of 2022 by vaxxx status:

No dose (zero)

One dose (eleven)

Two doses (235)

Three doses (405)

Four doses (868)

Inexplicably, the government insists IN THE SAME REPORT that “COVID-19 vaccines are very effective in preventing the severe impacts of infections with the virus” and “people who are not vaccinated remain more likely to suffer severe COVID-19.”

S&G: What strikes me as really strange about this is that when I was in school, the female bathrooms and locker rooms did not have these products. If you didn’t bring it or find a gf to rescue you, you had to go to the nurse’s office … which nobody wanted to do. Ever. (She was really grumpy.)

VAXXX: The FDA is now recommending an annual ‘rona jab for everyone. FYI: Forty-six percent of the FDA’s funding comes from the pharmaceutical giants it is supposed to be regulating.

GRAMMY NOTES: I know somebody who lived in Beijing in the early 1980s. He said that, at least in the cities, every woman had someone assigned to keep track of her menstrual cycle. If she failed to start bleeding in a timely way and was not scheduled for her one baby, the government took her in to get her womb vacuumed out.

From what I’ve read from following pro-life news for decades is that, in the country, women weren’t forcibly aborted until they were visibly pregnant with an illegal baby. And if they managed to give birth, the baby was euthanized with an injection of iodine into its brain.

The one exception was if the first child was disabled. Since Chinese culture favors males, the incidence of girl babies who were left to die in dumpsters, abandoned at orphanages, or had their hands cut off was very high. The only person I know who adopted a Chinese boy was Jim Caviezel and that is only because the kid had a brain tumor, so the parents dumped him.

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DEAR LORD: Help us today to flex our soul muscles. Show us the way to the kind of gracious strength that muscles through the tough stuff without breaking down or breaking others. Help us to bend like the willow while holding our roots fast. And when we fall, pick us up off the floor with a gentle lift of Your Spirit and a kiss to heal our boo-boos. Amen.

2023: CLICK https://twitter.com/DannyDutch/status/1617145282721992706 [:06] to see what happened at a zoo in China during the ceremony celebrating the hand off from the Year of the Tiger to the Year of the Rabbit (January 22nd, 2023 thru February 9th, 2024). Could this be another sign from God? My alert readers will remember my ponderings about a Catholic priest’s vision about the End Times beginning in 2023 and ending in 2029 and how this coincides with the Jewish calendar.

BORDER: During FY2021, 566 illegal migrants died at or near the border. During FY2022, that number jumped to 880. These are the highest numbers since data became available in 1998.

DOCUMENTS: The tweet is not accurate. Biden’s lawyer said the DOJ took “six items consisting of documents with classification markings.” Six “items” is not six “documents.” In fact, it could be six bankers’ boxes full of classified documents.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: M&Ms tried to make their candies “relevant” and got roundly mocked for it. Oh, and also sales dropped. Skittles responded to the announcement (graphic) with, “Our thoughts go out to the spokescandies.

MONTEREY PARK: Saturday’s shooter has been found dead from an alleged self-inflicted gunshot wound after being cornered by authorities on Sunday.

RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA! – On Saturday afternoon, former FBI agent Charles McGonigal was arrested over his alleged ties to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. During his tenure as head of counterintelligence in the New York Field Office, McGonical was part of the Trump-Russia investigation. BTW, this is true, not the Babylon Bee.

TRANS: [11:31] – The article he cites is linked below. Comment on the video: “As a surgeon, if 55% of my patients experienced complications after surgery I would be appalled and embarrassed. Any “surgeon “ who continues to mutilate these mentally ill people for money are evil to the core. What normal doctor would do this? First do no harm. If you can’t abide by that, leave the profession and go sell used cars. If the public only knew how corrupt many in medicine are.

I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of ANY profession where people get to keep their jobs while 50% of their clients are unhappy with their performance.

VFAUXTUS: Over the weekend, Kammy delivered a speech bemoaning the overturning of Roe v. Wade. During her remarks, she quoted the Declaration of Independence with one glaring omission.

A promise we made in the Declaration of Independence that we are each endowed with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

She then followed up by denying the Creator’s role, saying, “Be clear. These rights were not bestowed upon us.  They belong to us as Americans.”

GRAMMY NOTES: Bunny belongs to an American Heritage Girls troop, which announced yesterday that they are having a father-daughter dance on Papa Buzz’s birthday (mid-February). Except said parental unit is deployed! :-(““ Soooooooo, Mama Buzz asked us, we all prayed about it, and Dearest hit the internet, cheap airline ticket sites and found a SPECTACULAR price on a DIRECT flight!!! WE ARE SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qnwrNfV47sU for some ballet wow!

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uJYu5kUsOLo for more R*CKST*R.

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COVID-19 Update

In 2022, 34 healthy volunteers had the ‘rona virus shoved up their noses. Despite all the doomsday coming from the global elite, only half of them developed even mild symptoms. The other half didn’t get infected at all.

Good nutrition, exercise, and rest are all important in developing and maintaining a strong immune system. Another key factor is promoting positive emotions, thoughts, and actions.

  • A 2009 study found that people who scored high on “purpose in life” were 43% less likely to die than those who scored low.
  • A 2013 study found that people who pursued noble goals had much better immune systems than did those who pursued personal pleasure.
  • A 2015 study found that honest people had healthier immune systems than dishonest people.

Hmm … it’s kinda like following God’s will is good for your health. Imagine that!

An FDA document reports that, of 71 children who were injected with a Moderna bivalent booster,

  • 30% vomited and developed fever;
  • 14% got sick enough that they couldn’t go to school;
  • 2% got so sick they required acute medical care.

Dr. Peter McCullough writes, “Vaccines should have acceptable safety profiles with <5% having any significant short-term symptoms, be safe over the long term, provide at least 50% protection against a disease, inhibit transmission, and last at least a year. Faulty vaccines that underperform or make our kids sick should be rejected by parents and removed from the market to protect public safety.”

I would add, “Experimental genetic serums with unknown long-term effects should be avoided by everyone.”

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Pelosi Exorcism

The New York Times reported that Alexandra Pelosi said, “I think that [the attack on Paul] weighed really heavy on her soul. I think she felt really guilty. I think that really broke her. Over Thanksgiving, she had priests coming, trying to have an exorcism of the house and having prayer services.

The following day, FOX and Friends Weekend reported that San Francisco Archdiocese reported being unaware of any exorcism at the Pelosi home.

Since everyone is jumping to “Pelosi lied” conclusions, I’d like to clarify this issue. Any Catholic priest can bless a house – i.e., sprinkle holy water around while saying a house blessing with or without deliverance prayers. We had it done fairly recently at Casa Hyphen.

Because this is within a priest’s normal faculties, the local bishop doesn’t need to know about it. It’s only the formal Rite of Exorcism that requires a trained priest who has been designated by his bishop for such work. However, a formal exorcism would not be done simply because somebody asked for it. It’s a deadly serious process that requires a long preliminary process of investigation, interviews, and discernment prayer.

It’s likely that what the NYT said Alexandra said is correct, but she clearly doesn’t understand the nuances of RCC protocols. I had the same conundrum when a relative told me her “probably won’t last through the night” premie triplets were given the Sacraments of Baptism and of Anointing of the Sick (after which they made an astonishing recovery and are now healthy 30+ somethings).

My pastor explained that the babies were certainly baptized, but that the priest would have done Prayers for the Sick, not the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick, because the latter includes and require the Sacrament of Reconciliation, which babies clearly can not and do not need to do.

So, like Alexandra, that mom hadn’t lied to me. She had just misunderstood exactly what the priest had done.

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Blasphemy and Our Lady of Sorrows

The Madonna cover (below) appears to be based on this statue of Our Lady of Sorrows. It is reproduced frequently on the internet and is even for sale in some places, but I was not able to find any attribution for where the statue actually is or who made it.

Our Lady of Sorrows is a Catholic devotion dating back many hundreds of years. In images, Mary is portrayed sorrowful and in tears, with swords piercing her heart. Meditations and prayers focus on the seven great sorrows she experienced during her life on Earth:

  1. The prophecy of Simeon (Luke 2);
  2. The flight into Egypt (Matthew 2);
  3. The loss of the child Jesus when he stayed behind (Luke 2);
  4. Her meeting Jesus as he carried His cross (not explicitly found in Scripture, but depicted in the fourth Station of the Cross);
  5. The Crucifixion of Jesus (Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23, John 19);
  6. The removal of Jesus from the cross (Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23, and John 19); and
  7. The burial of Jesus (Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23, and John 19).

The Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is celebrated on September 15.

Madonna has been known for sacrilegiously appropriating Catholic themes since the beginning of her career. In her latest, she stars in an unspeakably blasphemous photo shoot for Vanity Fair: The Icon Issue portrayed as the Blessed Virgin Mary dressed up as Our Lady of Sorrows on the cover. Inside, she appears as Jesus in the Last Supper, where she is flanked by nearly-nude female “apostles” at a Roman orgy type dining table, one of whom is obscenely posed.

When asked about religion, she said, “Religion is respecting other religions. Religion is not joining an exclusive or extremist group.” She said she cultivates “spiritual practices. Practices that apply to me and don’t have to apply to everyone. And I think everyone should do that because I find it important to pray and have a connection with the soul, with the spiritual force, call it what you will.

Satan. I call it Satan.

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