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ARIZONA: A star witness of Kari Lake’s has testified shared that a very large portion of the Maricopa County ballots were printed on the wrong size paper which jammed the tabulating machines on Election Day.

• https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/right-willful-incompetence-crooked-maricopa-election-ballots-printed-wrong-sized-paper/

CATHOLIC: [9:45] – Please offer up your prayers, rosaries, etc. for this brave and holy priest. I have no doubt that he has been assaulted in this most egregious way purely out of politics. There’s a petition on his behalf at the LifeSiteNews link below.

Speaking of which, I had a pro-Bergoglio priest tell me, in all seriousness, that reading LifeSiteNews was putting my eternal soul in jeopardy, because, according to him, criticizing the pontiff is a mortal sin. Ah, no. Saint Catherine of Siena was quite vocal about her pontiff’s failings and she’s not only been canonized, but also named a Doctor of the Church! She also appears to have been active in the politics of the time, so … hmmm.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/say-no-to-pope-francis-removing-pro-life-hero-fr-frank-pavone-from-priesthood/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Siena

JUNK SCIENCE: [4:12] – A recent study, conducted by the Commonwealth Fund, claims that in U.S. states where abortion have been restricted or banned, women and infants mortality rates have gone up. Michael New, Assistant Professor of Social Research at Catholic University of America and National Review Contributor, explains why the study is “junk study” and why the opposite is true.

HE PERSISTED: Two of the 50 something public (PUBLIC) libraries that host Drag Queen Story Hours, but refused Kirk Cameron space for a faith-based story hour, have reversed their decisions.

“I hope they realized that their position of denying me a story hour reading was not only unfair and illegal, but that we would all be better off if we listened to each other’s perspectives,” he said.

• https://www.dailywire.com/news/libraries-cave-after-refusing-faith-based-story-hour-kirk-cameron-celebrates

MARY’S MIDWIFE: Aleteia writes, “Luke tells us plainly, ‘And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem … And while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered’ (Luke 2: 4-6).” IOW, it is likely that Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem ahead of the birth and had ample time to prepare for her delivery. I’m relieved to know this, since I have often imagined how horrible it would have been to endure labor contractions while riding a donkey!

Another thing I’m relieved to learn is that Joseph likely had time to seek out a local midwife. In The Protoevangelium of James, a non-canonical text that dates from about AD145, Joseph seeks out and finds a midwife who delivers the baby, puts Him to Mary’s breast, then marvels at the miracle of a virgin giving birth. Aleteia also notes, “Ancient Orthodox and Byzantine icons recall this truth and often feature Mary’s midwife in the corner of the icon, bathing the newborn Christ child.”

• https://aleteia.org/2017/12/22/the-forgotten-story-of-marys-midwife/
• https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0847.htm
• https://aleteia.org/2022/12/22/tomb-of-marys-midwife-will-soon-open-to-public/

REPARATIONS: “People of African slave descent shouldn’t really point at historical UK. They should better start with today’s current problem – according to the Global Slavery Index, at least 40 million people are still slaves these days, and (oops) modern slavery is worst in Africa, followed by the Asia and the Pacific region. Just saying…..” – John Nash

• https://countrysquire.co.uk/2022/12/23/deeply-regrettable/
• H/t thanks to Bob for posting while I was doing Grammy Time 🙂

RINOS: While we Americans are busy with the holidays, our sleazebag politicians are busy spending our future earnings. Michael Knowles notes that the spending bill is longer than The Iliad, The Divine Comedy, and The Holy Bible combined. To see the names of the RINOs who voted in favor of MORE debt for us and a ton of $ for the vicious Dems to continue persecuting J6 prisoners, click the Geller Report link.

• https://gellerreport.com/2022/12/sleazebag-gop.html/
• https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/20/omnibus-bill-gives-doj-212-1m-increased-budget-prosecute-january-6-prisoners/

GRAMMY NOTES: Hello again! The Texans and Nonno have left for the Italian clans’ traditional Christmas tortellini making, (more) presents, and tons of food with multiple aunties, uncles, and cousins. Exhausted but happy Happy HAPPPY Grammy is getting much needed rest.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Sfdj8U8Vke4 … still wet from birth! ❤

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_sp2YKq9MGA … what she said!

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OYiLTPeuKGg …. and him too!

PHOTO: I kept tropical fish for about 30 years, until I couldn’t manage the upkeep any more. My 90-gallon show tank has been sitting empty in the living room for a long time. Over the week-end, I had a massive brainstorm to clean it out and put the Three Kings in there. They’re GORGEOUS ceramic pieces, about 12″ tall, that I won at a Christmas raffle back in the 90s. They instantly became my favorite holiday decor. I’m seriously thinking about making some kind of thematic back drop for them and letting them live in there full time where they’re safe, visible, and making the tank pretty instead of the giant eyesore it’s been since the last fish died.

On to a special edition of Grammy Notes! My cup is runnething over, because the Texans are in town for almost a whole week! Their PN nicknames shalt henceforth be Prince, Princess (aka, our second born), Jay (m. aged 9), May (f. aged 7), and Rey (f. aged 4). Here are my Precious Memories from Monday, December 19, 2022.

The day started off with a smelly towels crisis at their hotel that was averted by Nonno bearing gifts of scent-free terry cloth (but no gold or myrrh).

Master Chef Prince rose to the challenges posed by an unfamiliar kitchen with no grill (imagine!), a mother-in-law with allergies, and not enough butter. (Who runs out of butter?!) But He Overcame and produced a YUGE brunch worthy of royalty … two kinds of sausage, eggs short ordered to one’s desire, grated cheese, sauteed honey-fermented-garlic, buckwheat pancakes with real maple syrup, and a giant bowl of the most scrumptious mix of black, red and blue berries.

The day passed quickly with a flurry of activities, broken by “Kids, we all need to go OUTSIDE FOR SNOW PLAY” while Grammy grabbed a much-needed nap. I have no idea what all Nonno was up to, but I suspect it was a similar blur of high quality time involving games, books, eating and talking. Somehow or other, in the midst, the kitchen got cleaned and Prince went shopping (again), then cooked (again), and served dinner … melt-in-your-mouth steak cooked (again without a grill).

Sharp-eye Rey discovered my Corduroy book and stuffy combo, so we read together and learned what happens when the letter h gets paired with c, t, and s, what “aw“ (as in, “That’s so cute!”) sounds like and how it’s different from “oh” (as in, “I am so surprised!”), and how “I have” and “I’ve” mean the same thing. We also practiced the differences in tongue and lips between bee and dee and talked about how knowing those can help a girl remember how to make the B, D, b, and d letters.

I was thrilled to continue the crochet lessons with Jay and May that were begun during their last visit, back before the plandemic. Their supplies and projects have been waiting for them in my old camera case under the glass table in the living room. Both of them made MAJOR strides in learning the tricky, but critical pinch/pinch/pinch method for keeping perfect tension and stitch size. May struggled with her much smaller hands. I told her what a “learning curve” is and why it takes a lot of stick-to-it-iveness to do crochet, because there is so much to learn all at once right in the beginning.

Both of them managed to produce quite a few perfect single crochet stitches all on their own! Jay also mastered single crochet turns; he is determined to finish a wash cloth to take home. May, who is working on a little hat, inadvertently learned about increasing and decreasing, but we talked about the math and she decided to leave one of each in that row, since the total came out the same. Both of them were intrigued to realize I had crocheted the bowl cozies we use in the microwave. Jay asked how they work, since they’re not done in straight rows like their projects. So I demonstrated the magic circle, which garnered me some wide eyes. LOL

We started the Big Doll House Seek and Find with the living room, emptying all the movable pieces on to the table and exploring everything until each child had found all the items on the list. Jay objected somewhat when I pointed something out to Rey. I said, “She’s the littlest, so she gets a handicap. Do you know what that means?” Eye roll: “Yeah.” 🙂 Then littlest Rey caught something the rest of us had missed. Namely, that the teensy weensy “candy canes in a glass jar” are really peppermint sticks, not candy canes. A few things came unglued here and there, but Grammy was chill and just glued them back on. Good for Grammy!

May and Rey spent quite a lot of quiet time alone in my office, experimenting with my art supplies, after which we had lessons in “Why we never, ever leave the brushes IN the water“, after which we learned how to properly wash and dry paint brushes! We also learned why the colored pencils are stored point up while the colored markers go point down. (Princess: “Does this mean I won’t find markers on the floor with the caps off ever again?” LOL She wishes.) May really, Really, REALLY enjoyed my electric eraser, so I plugged it in to recharge while demonstrating to her how to use the big brush to sweep all the eraser crumbs into the trash. Later, I showed Jay how to replace the eraser she’d used up.

Jay reminded me how to play Mancala; we ended 1-1. Then, I finally got to fulfill a years-long Grammy dream of teaching him how to play Backgammon … not just the rules, but also the strategy. We ended that 1-1 also. I saw some people playing Othello and Uno and I don’t know what else. The kids had NO trouble remember where the toys live, but were bug-eyed that they have expanded beyond the white shelves and now also fill the cupboard under the fish tank! Jay spent a lot of time playing war games with LEGO minifigs and asking me who I thought would win. Rey had a lot of fun with the castle, the school bus, and the little people. The kids all live in the castle, but I don’t know if Batman ever found the school or if he just drove around randomly looking for it while the unbelted children rioted in the back of the bus. 🙂

Prince and I got some quality time to talk. Princess and I mostly cleaned together, but hopefully we can have a good girly talk catch up before they leave. I’m holding up well so far and Princess is very concerned about making that last. Daisey is struggling with the commotion; she’s had two potty accidents and requested some time outs in her crate. I asked the kids to mostly leave her alone, because she’s an old lady now and has some health issues. May said, “Thirteen isn’t old!” I said, “It is in doggy years!” I realize some toy poodles live a lot longer, but Daisey isn’t going to be one of them. She’s let them pet her a few times and Jay has given her her heart meds twice. They taste wonderful and he wants her to like him. 🙂 I think they also took her for a walk with Nonno while I was napping.

The only down side of the day was that, we were having so much fun that nobody thought to take any photos! This morning, I puttered around, cleaning the kitchen and making stew out of some of the left-overs, then came here to rest with all y’alls before the gang arrives for the afternoon and evening. Please pray for my health and energy to hold out until Friday. This time together is so very precious!

On this, the fourth Sunday of Advent, when the Gospel reading proclaims the holy significance of unborn life, the Catholic News Agency (CNA) reports that the Vatican is planning to deprive our most prominent pro-life Catholic priest of his faculties.

According to CNA, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, sent a letter on Dec. 13, 2022 to all the U.S. Bishops informing them that Father Frank Pavone has been laicized by the Vatican, with “no possibility of appeal.”

Father Pavone says he has not been notified about the Vatican’s judgment and, as I understand it, the laicization is not complete until he has both been notified and acknowledged it. He says that CNA’s inquiry was “the very first communication that came to me about this.”

I am in tears as I write this. Father Frank Pavone is a deeply devout Catholic priest and probably the staunchest support of unborn life in the world. So let me just say with maximum disgust and disbelief, “yeah, right” to the claim in the Nuncio’s letter that he is guilty of “blasphemous communications on social media” and “persistent disobedience of the lawful instructions of his diocesan bishop.” His alleged crimes are not specified.

Pavone wrote about his battles with certain bishops (see pdf linked below) that he has “suffered from an abuse of authority from a number of bishops, who have lied to me and about me, have tried to block my work and take over my board, have launched fake ‘investigations,’ and have constantly changed the goal posts in their expectations and requirements of me and my ministry. I have had to repeatedly defend my rights using the processes that Church law provides.”

But he says that, on five occasions, he has met with Pope Francis, who “encouraged me in my work. He notes that “multiple occasions the Vatican has removed obstacles that certain bishops have put in place, but it’s a constant battle.” If the Vatican has now sided with pro-abort bishops , then it’s a very new development.

Fr. Francis Hoffman explains at Simply Catholic, “Once a priest, always a priest: the Sacrament of Holy Orders imprints an indelible character on the soul of the priest that empowers him to confect the sacraments. However, if a priest has been laicized, which is to say, returned to the lay state, he may no longer dress as a priest or function as a priest. He is not allowed to celebrate the sacraments, but he would be allowed to receive the sacraments.

“If he were to come across a person in danger of death, he would still have the power to forgive sins through sacramental absolution, and in such a case he would be allowed to do so.

“Laicization can be either voluntary as a favor, or involuntary as a punishment. In either case, the man is no longer allowed to carry out the sacramental duties of an ordained cleric with that one exception: in danger of death he can hear a person’s confession (see Canons 976, 986.2, 1335).

“Finally, it is possible for a laicized priest to be restored to holy orders, but only by express rescript from the pope (see Canon 293).”

Father Frank Pavone is National Director of Priests for Life, President of the National Pro-life Religious Council, and Pastoral Director for both Rachel’s Vineyard and the Silent No More Awareness Campaign. He travels throughout the country, to an average of four states every week, preaching and teaching against abortion. These are lay organizations, so even if this laicization occurs, he will be free to continue with all aspects of his ministry, apart from celebrating Mass and other Sacraments.

You can follow him on Twitter @frfrankpavone.

• https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253106/vatican-dismisses-father-frank-pavone-from-priesthood
• https://www.simplycatholic.com/what-is-a-laicized-priest/
• https://www.frfrankpavone.com/pdf/ComboSummarypdf.pdf
• https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/vatican-dismisses-outspoken-founder-priests-life-father-frank-pavone-priesthood/
• https://www.priestsforlife.org/
• http://www.nprcouncil.org/
• https://www.rachelsvineyard.org/
• https://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/

GRAMMY NOTES: Speaking of “most important work” … I’ve got grandkids coming today!!!! They’re staying FIVE days!!! We haven’t seen them IRL since before the plandemic, so I expect much “YOU GOT SO BIG!” astonishment.

2A: Shortly after meeting with anti-gun activists, the CDC removed defensive gun use stats from its website.

• https://thereload.com/emails-cdc-removed-defensive-gun-use-stats-after-gun-control-advocates-pressured-officials-in-private-meeting/
• https://notthebee.com/article/emails-show-that-the-cdc-secretly-met-with-anti-gun-activists-before-quietly-removing-self-defense-statistics-from-its-gun-violence-reports

CANADA: [6:31] – The number of comments from Canadians on this video is really sad. It’s no joke. The nationalized health care (like Obamacare!) end up just like Sarah Palin said it would. Bean counting death panels. Best comment: “If only the Canadian politicians would line up for this amazing offer.”

CHIEF TWIT: “Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary. Between January 2020 and November 2022, there were over 150 emails between the FBI and former Twitter Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth. … A surprisingly high number are requests by the FBI for Twitter to take action on election misinformation, even involving joke tweets from low-follower accounts.”

• https://notthebee.com/article/i-know-youre-oversaturated-with-this-twitter-files-stuff-but-a-new-drop-happened-and-its-important-so-heres-the-essentials
• https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857534737072128

GOOD SAMARITANS: The Boston Globe awarded the citizens of Martha’s Vineyard the title of “Bostonians of the Year” for stepping up to feed and house 49 Venezuelans for 48 hours … before shipping them off to a military base.

• https://www.dailywire.com/news/bostonians-of-the-year-marthas-vineyard-residents-win-prize-for-dealing-with-illegal-aliens-for-48-hours

HOODIE BOY: The New York Slime included John Fetterman on their list of the 93 “Most Stylish people of the Year.”

• https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/fetterman-new-york-times-most-stylish/2022/12/12/id/1100189/

JAY LENO: [9:24] – Wow. I’m not a big fan of stand-up comedy, so never paid much attention to Jay Leno. I’m so touched by his story.

NATURAL IMMUNITY: Also in the comments – “Prolonged mask use which raised cortisol levels is a perfect combo for weakening one’s immune system.” “Also compromised immune systems from the gene serum.”

VAXXX: Omicron subvariants BQ and XBB accounted for nearly 73% of new COVID-19 infections last week. A new study shows the updated booster shots and monoclonal antibodies mostly ignore them.

• https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-12-15/study-bq-xbb-are-most-resistant-coronavirus-variants-to-date
• https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0092-8674%2822%2901531-8

Close out Advent by saying these prayers every day from Dec. 16 – 24 (or 17 – 25). St. Padre Pio said that Christmastime is “particularly suitable for asking for graces.” So, skip writing to Santa and tell God what you most want for Christmas. But remember: God always listens to and answers prayers, but He does not always answer with yes. Sometimes He says no or not yet. However, I have it on good authority that when we pray for virtues, He always answers yes.

Novena to the Infant Jesus of Prague

O Jesus, Who has said, “Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened,” through the intercession of Mary, Your Most Holy Mother, I knock, I seek, I ask that my prayer be granted.

(Make your request)

O Jesus, Who has said, “All that you ask of the Father in My Name, He will grant you,” through the intercession of Mary Your Most Holy Mother, I humbly and urgently ask your Father in your name that my prayer will be granted.

(Make your request)

O Jesus, Who has said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away but My word shall not pass away,” through the intercession of Mary Your Most Holy Mother, I feel confident that my prayer will be granted.

(Make your request)

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

Divine Infant Jesus, I know You love me and would never leave me. I thank You for Your close Presence in my life.

Miraculous Infant, I believe in Your promise of peace, blessings, and freedom from want. I place every need and care in Your hands.

Lord Jesus, may I always trust in Your generous mercy and love. I want to honor and praise You, now and forever. Amen.

• https://catholicexchange.com/close-out-advent-with-the-infant-of-prague-christmas-novena/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_Jesus_of_Prague
• Photos by Jorge Royan and René Fluger.

CATHOLIC: The Calgary Catholic School District’s (CCSD) public website states that, “Even though there is continuous pressure in society to separate the secular and the religious (Church and State), as Catholics we are called by baptism to live our faith every moment of every day.”

But they fired a substitute teacher for honestly answering a student’s question about what the Catholic Church teaches about the subject of the lesson. The letter he got is linked below; I grabbed a screenshot of part of it for the graphic above.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-school-district-to-fired-substitute-teacher-you-are-not-called-upon-to-evangelize-our-students/
• https://www.lifesitenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Dan-Penna-Jan-11-22.pdf

CHIEF TWIT: Musk suspended a bunch of high profile jerknalist accounts for violating Twitter’s new doxxing rule that prohibits doxxing (revealing online) “real-time location info of anyone. … Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn’t a safety problem, so is ok.” Those suspended included Keith Olbermann and reporters for CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.

• https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-bans-the-twitter-accounts-of-multiple-major-left-wing-media-figures

COVID-19: In Santa Clara County, the ‘rona jab was supposedly ten times as effective as it was anywhere else. Except … whoops … they lied. Imagine that. ::smh::

• https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/santa-clara-countys-fake-covid-statistics

GRAMMY NOTES: [:40] – I just love giraffes!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/384655927184295/ and pray along.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/384655927184295/ and vote “Keep your mouth shut!”

AOC: [2:22] – Her new documentary just hit theaters … and BOMBED with total opening week-end box office = $9,667, or about $81 per theater. Critics gave it 83%; viewers gave it 11%. Ten seconds of the trailer was all I could handle. I would seriously pay to NOT be forced to watch the whole movie!

• https://hannity.com/media-room/aocs-big-ol-bomb-climate-documentary-featuring-aoc-flops-at-the-box-office/

BORDER: Further proof that the border disaster is deliberate. FAUXTUS is suing Arizona for trying to protect its citizens with a makeshift border wall made from shipping containers and razor wire.

• https://notthebee.com/article/the-biden-admin-is-suing-arizona-because-of-their-makeshift-border-wall
• https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-sues-arizona-creation-shipping-container-border-wall-stop-illegal-immigration

CATHOLIC: N.b., the video mostly repeats a 30 second clip taken in 1998. Unless you want to see it over and over and over, there’s no reason to watch the whole 3 minutes. [3:19] – On December 8, 1991 in Betania, Venezuela, a consecrated host began to bleed during a Mass for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.

Scientists studied the host and found that, like the blood on the Shroud of Turin and in the Eucharist Miracle of Lanciano, the blood is AB positive, the universal receptor. For transfusions, a person with AB+ blood can receive donations of any blood type. I think it is so beautiful that Our Lord has this blood type, since He took on everybody’s blood debt on the cross.

The miraculous host is reserved in a convent in Los Teques for pilgrims to see. After 24 years, the blood on the host is still fresh.

• https://aleteia.org/2019/06/17/this-eucharistic-host-was-filmed-bleeding-and-pulsating-like-a-heart-on-fire/amp/

CHIEF TWIT: After firing 2/3 of the bloated staff, Elon Musk is now auctioning off hundreds of high end and unnecessary pieces of equipment, including a half-dozen restaurant-quality espresso machines. It still boggles my mind that Twitter stock holders allowed the previous CEO to continue in his position when the company rapidly went from making big bucks to losing huge bucks under his leadership.

• https://notthebee.com/article/since-elons-takeover-twitters-offices-are-putting-espresso-machines-lounge-chairs-grills-griddles-pizza-ovens-and-more-up-for-auction

FACEBOOK: I just got a friend request from someone who is already a friend. I’ve mistakenly responded “confirm” to two of these, without checking that I was already friends with those people. It resulted in DMing about free money or something. Now I’m wondering if responding to the first one opened my friends up to being copied. Point being … if you get a friend request, CHECK your friends first.

PRIORITIES: Trannies are currently the Left’s “Most Favored Minority.” A born-female lesbian is facing up to three years in prison on criminal hate speech charges in Norway for saying, “It’s just as impossible for men to become a lesbian as it is for men to become pregnant. Men are men regardless of their sexual fetishes.”

• https://www.foxnews.com/media/norwegian-filmmaker-faces-3-years-prison-saying-men-cannot-lesbians

S&G: The slippery slope is real. We are now nearing the bottom of it.

CLICK https://twitter.com/CatchUpNetwork/status/1603402284918267905 [:14] to hear California Democratic Rep. Katie Porter say that groomer and pedophile are identities, not criminal perversions.

In Ohio, a middle school teacher who refused refused to use students’ “preferred pronouns” was forced to resign. She is suing. I hope she wins, but I’m not holding my breath.

In Ireland, a high school teacher was suspended for the same “offense.” When he showed up to work anyway, the school had him arrested. He’s spending Christmas behind bars.

• https://notthebee.com/article/california-democratic-rep-katie-porter-says-pedophilia-is-an-identity
• https://notthebee.com/article/middle-school-teacher-forced-to-resign-after-refusing-to-call-students-by-their-preferred-pronouns
• https://notthebee.com/article/christian-teacher-who-was-imprisoned-following-his-refusal-to-use-the-wrong-pronouns-to-spend-christmas-behind-bars

VAXXX: A recent study in The Journal of Medical Ethics shows that university booster mandates are unethical because the ‘rona boosters are at least 18 times more dangerous for young people (18-29) than catching the virus.

In Florida, Gov. DeSantis has announced he is impaneling a statewide grand jury to investigate “any and all wrongdoing in Florida with respect to Covid-19 vaccines.”

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/covid-boosters-18-times-more-dangerous-for-young-people-than-the-virus-itself-study-finds/
• https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2022/12/05/jme-2022-108449
• https://notthebee.com/article/ron-desantis-announces-statewide-grand-jury-to-investigate-vaccine-injuries

WHO: Jeremy Farrar is about to become the World Health Organization’s chief scientist. Farrar helped Fauci organize the Global Elite’s push back against the Wuhan lab leak theory. He is pro-abortion and reportedly quit the United Kingdom’s Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies because it would not embrace his über strict lockdown plan.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/fauci-ally-who-dismissed-covid-lab-leak-theory-named-world-health-orgs-new-chief-scientist/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Farrar

Today is the Feast of St. John of the Cross, the spiritual giant who wrote about the “Dark Night of the Soul.” The video is long, but I think it’s one of the best talks Father Chris has done. He explains what St. John meant and what it means for each of us who seek to grow in holiness and love for God.

CHIEF TWIT: The fifth batch of “Twitter Files” details Twitter employees’ thoughts on the day the platform decided to permanently suspend then-President Trump. The team struggled to find even one tweet to justify such a ban, until they thought to seek out “coded” language … but only if you interpreted his use of the phrase “American Patriots” to refer to the rioters!

Weiss tweeted, “Twitter deals with other heads of state and political leaders, including in Iran, Nigeria, and Ethiopia.” Then she listed these (and other) examples of tweets that were deleted for “glorifying violence,” but whose accounts were not banned.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister: “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.”

Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria, about pro-Biafra groups: “Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war will treat them in the language they understand.”

The worst example of all is this one, by Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that Twitter didn’t even delete:

“#Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated: it is possible and it will happen.”

• https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1602364197194432515
• https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/elon-musk-twitter-files-fauci-dorsey

COVID-19: Two of the top banned-for-truth-telling doctors are back on Twitter. The following is from Dr. Malone’s substack (link below) – “As we approach 2023, you are now completing and have survived the third year of the largest, most globally coordinated psychological warfare operation in the history of mankind. During this period, on a daily basis, you have experienced the US Government and many western nations deploying highly refined, military-grade fifth generation warfare technologies against their own citizens. For those who have avoided the jabs which are neither safe nor effective, you deserve a medal for your ability to see through the fog of information warfare. Those, like me, who trusted the FDA and took the initial jabs only to suffer the adverse effects of same, perhaps a purple heart for being wounded in battle. For the millions of battlefield dead, the excess mortality documented by Ed Dowd and so many others, a moment of silent mourning is in order.”

P.S. If you see me wearing a mask inside my car, please don’t make sheep sounds at me! I’m hypersensitive to chemicals and have been masking since the ’80s.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/christmas-gift-from-elon-musk-drs-robert-malone-peter-mccullough-reinstated-on-twitter/
• https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD
• https://twitter.com/P_McCulloughMD
• https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/welcome-to-fifth-gen-information?r=ta0o1

FAUCI: CLICK https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1602682413741903873 [:08] to hear him say something utterly ridiculous. The damn thing is zoonotic, it’s infected a major percentage of humans, and it’s not going away. IOW, it’s endemic now, not pandemic. Even the ChiComs have given up trying to eradicate it.

• https://notthebee.com/article/fauci-today-were-still-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic

INCITING VIOLENCE: CLICK https://rumble.com/v20hezw-rep.-nancy-mace-grilling-a-witness-over-posts-calling-for-violence-against-.html [4:25] to hear Rep. Nancy Mace (SC-1) ask transgender civil rights attorney and transgender rights activist Alexandra Caraballo, “Do you believe that rhetoric targeting officials with violence for carrying out their constitutional cuties is a threat to democracy?” Caraballo says, “Yes.”

• https://notthebee.com/article/this-congresswoman-just-pulverized-this-trans-activist-in-a-congressional-hearing-on-extremism-by-reading-the-activists-own-tweets
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Mace
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandra_Caraballo

LET THE PERSECUTION BEGIN: “Biden signs bill to codify gay ‘marriage’ with activist drag queen in attendance … The president claimed the controversial legislation will ‘strike a blow against hate in all its forms.'”

CLICK https://rumble.com/v20m03m-hannity-to-show-how-biden-respects-marriage-he-invited-drag-queens-to-the-w.html [1:56] to see Hannity’s report.

The misnamed “Respect for Marriage Act” was designed to give Leftists another legal tool to use to persecute Bible believers. I expect lawsuits to be filed momentarily.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/biden-signs-bill-to-codify-gay-marriage-with-activist-drag-queen-in-attendance/
• https://catholicvote.org/biden-invites-story-hour-drag-queen-activist-to-marriage-act-signing/
• https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/12/13/biden-signs-radical-respect-for-marriage-act-into-law/

RAAACISM: Dr. Ben Carson was born into poverty and raised by an illiterate single mother. He went from inner-city Detroit public schools to Yale University to University of Michigan Medical School. He became one of the most influential and skilled pediatric neurosurgeons in the world and taught neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

He received more than 60 honorary doctorate degrees and numerous national merit citations. In 2001, both CNN and Time named him one of the nation’s 20 foremost physicians and scientists. The Library of Congress named him as one of 89 “Living Legends” on its 200th anniversary. In 2008, Carson was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. In 2010, he was elected into the National Academy of Medicine. He has written or co-written six bestselling books, and in 2009 he was featured in the TV film Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, starring Cuba Gooding Jr.

This week, the Detroit Public Schools voted to change the name of Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine to Crockett Midtown High School of Science and Medicine. Sadly, 80% of the students, alumni, staff, parents, and community surveyed favored removing Carson’s name, because he served four years as President Trump’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The new honoree, Dr. Ethelene Crockett, was the first African American woman in Michigan to become board certified in obstetrics and gynecology. In 1972 she led the fight to liberalize Michigan’s abortion laws, which obviously makes her a way better physician mentor for people of color than some stinky old Republican.

• https://twitchy.com/artistangie-313138/2022/12/14/detroit-school-board-so-woke-they-voted-to-remove-dr-ben-carsons-name-from-a-pubic-high-school/
• https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/detroit-school-board-votes-to-remove-dr-ben-carsons-name-from-public-high-cancel-culture-political-correctness-wokeness-department-of-housing-and-urban-development-hud-detroit-public-schools-education-school-michigan-dr-ben-carson-high-school-trump
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson
• https://www.bridgemi.com/talent-education/detroit-renames-school-honoring-ben-carson-removing-honor-trump-appointee
• https://miwf.org/timeline/ethelene-crockett/

VAXXX: Another b.s. study is making the rounds, trying to show that being unvaxxxed makes you a road menace because “individual adults who tend to resist public health recommendations might also neglect basic road safety guidelines.”

Oh. Riiiiiiiiiiight. My very careful investigation into the actual science means I am a scofflaw who routinely runs red lights. Or something. Sorry, pal, but that theory doesn’t fly. I used to drive a school bus, which means I passed all the much more stringent road safety tests to obtain a Class 2 license. And I only ever got one traffic ticket in my whole life and that was from a cop who was being a jerk. I successfully fought it in court. Seeing the look the judge gave that cop was worth taking it to court! Well, that and not getting a ding on my license that could’ve cost me my job!

Igor Chudov parses the absurdities buried in the “studies” bogus methodology (link below).

• https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/the-unvaccinated-had-more-car-crashes

VIRGINIA: On Monday, two top officials of the Loudoun County public school district were indicted for their roles in covering up the bathroom rape of a female student by a skirt-wearing male student.

• https://notthebee.com/article/two-loudoun-county-school-officials-were-just-criminally-indicted-for-last-years-rape-coverup
• https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-superintendent-spokesman-criminally-indicted-in-rape-coverup
• https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-school-board-sues-to-shut-down-grand-jury-investigating-rape-cover-up
• https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/12/loudoun-county-school-superintendent-fired-and-indicted-over-handling-of-sex-assaults/

We’re familiar with the 1531 apparitions and image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico that led to the mass conversion of the Aztecs. But did you know that, when that happened, there was already a famous shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Spain?

The shrine at the 14^th c. Royal Monastery in Guadalupe, Extremadura, houses a two foot tall cedar statue reputed to have been carved by St. Luke the Evangelist. In the sixth century, Pope Saint Gregory I gave it to Saint Leander, Bishop of Seville. Saint Leander is famous for having converted the Arian king’s son, Saint Hermenegild, to Catholicism. There will be more about Hermenegild later.

In 712, when the Moors conquered Seville, a group of priests took the statue with them when they fled the Muslim persecution. Its whereabouts were then lost to history until the Virgin Mary appeared in the early 14^th century and instructed priests where to dig. After they discovered the statue, along with its provenance, they built a shrine at the spot to house and display it for pilgrims. The statue is usually clothed in elaborate, costly robes deemed suitable for the Queen of Heaven.

Pilgrims began arriving in 1326; soon after, copies of the statue were being venerated in satellite chapels. Our Lady of Guadalupe became one of the rallying points for Catholic Spaniards in their reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula. And it was at the monastery that the monarchs Isabelle I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon signed documents that authorized the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492. Upon his return, Columbus went back to the monastery to give thanks to God, who had granted him a safe voyage through the intercession of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

The apparitions and miraculous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico happened in 1531, just four decades after Columbus landed in the New World and the Spanish monarchs began sending soldiers and missionaries over. The missionaries weren’t getting very far with the Aztecs, but after the Blessed Mother intervened, they converted by the millions, ending the daily human slaughter that had marked their brutal religion.

Jump forward another forty years to October 7, 1571, and the famous Naval Battle at Lepanto that marked the end of Muslim aggression into Europe. The Protestant Reformation was making inroads in drawing Catholics away from the faith, but in the Mediterranean areas that were most immediately threatened by the Muslims, the populace was still very Catholic.

For months prior to the day of the battle, Pius V had urged Catholics to say the daily rosary for victory over the Muslims and many of the sailors prayed the Rosary the night before the battle. Is it any wonder that October 7 is now celebrated as the Feast of Mary, Queen of Victory and Queen of the Most Holy Rosary? And get this … before the battle, the commander of the Catholic fleet prayed for victory before an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe that he kept in his cabin!

But wait. We haven’t gone full circle quite yet. Remember St. Hermenegild, on whose behalf Pope Saint Gregory I gave St. Luke’s carving of Our Lady to Saint Leander, Bishop of Seville? The story behind that is that Hermenegild’s father, King Leovigild, was so furious about his son’s rejection of the Arian heresy that he had his son imprisoned, threatening to execute him if he refused to receive communion from an Arian bishop. Hermenegild held firm to his new faith, refused the heretical host, and was killed, thus becoming a Eucharistic Martyr. His death date – April 13^th – is a feast day of special importance on the Spanish Catholic liturgical calendar.

Catholicism teaches that Jesus is both fully human and fully divine. The way I think about is this: If you mix a cup of red paint with a cup of yellow paint, you get two cups of orange paint. But with Jesus, the cup of red paint (representing His humanity) and the cup of yellow paint (representing His divinity) mix to create one cup of paint that is completely red and completely yellow. It’s a mystery, one that people who prefer the transcendent God fit into a box small enough for their puny human brains to understand are always trying (with Satan’s help) to simplify.

Heresies about Jesus’ human/divine nature tend to go one of two ways. Like the Arians, some of them hold that Jesus was just a man, albeit a very special man. The others say that he was only divine and that his humanity was an illusion. Both errors are still kicking around today with one notable example being Islam. Like St. Hermenegild’s father, Muslims believe that Jesus was nothing more than a very holy man. So now you see how we truly have come full circle!

But wait, there’s more! The Blessed Mother promised that, within 12 months after God sends the Warning (aka, Illumination of Conscience), He will perform a great miracle at Garabandal, Spain, which will be accompanied by many healings and followed by a permanent sign. Conchita, one of the seers, has said that this miracle will happen between the 8^th and 16^th of April, May, or June, on a Thursday (that is not Holy Thursday), and on a feast day of a Eucharistic Martyr.

If you don’t remember the details of the Marian apparitions at Garabandal, Spain, go read https://polination.wordpress.com/2022/07/23/garabandal/.

If you don’t remember the details of the Warning/Illumination of Conscience, go read https://polination.wordpress.com/2022/06/16/get-yourselves-prayed-up-people/.

Then, go back and reread this post and marvel at God’s amazing plan!

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe_in_Extremadura
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery_of_Saint_Mary_of_Guadalupe
• https://www.tfp.org/our-lady-of-guadalupe-spain/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander_of_Seville
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Hermenegild – April 13 feast day
• https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/arian-heresy-10816
• https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-contributions/the-amazing-truth-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe.html
• https://aleteia.org/2021/10/13/how-our-lady-of-guadalupe-was-present-at-the-battle-of-lepanto/
• https://www.zwemercenter.com/guide/jesus-in-islam/
• https://www.garabandal.us/prph_great_miracle

BORDER: Mexican police escorted nearly 20 buses full of migrants into Ciudad Juarez where they were able to cross the river into El Paso. The destruction of the United States of America continues apace.

• https://notthebee.com/article/the-largest-group-weve-ever-seen

CANADA: Canada’s “dead people are cheaper” euthanasia program should terrify everyone. Last year Canadian doctors offed more than 10,000 people, a third more than the previous year. And it’s going to go up even more as they further loosen the definition of who is eligible.

In other news, Trudeau is intent on eliminating tax-free status for non-profits that try to help pregnant women avoid abortion. During the plandemic, Trudeau sponsored some of the world’s most draconian regulations, allegedly to save lives. If you’re thinking none of this makes sense, welcome to the New World Order.

• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11507875/America-afraid-Canada-euthanizing-10-000-citizens-year-TOM-LEONARD.html
• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-govt-doubles-down-on-removing-charitable-tax-status-of-pro-life-pregnancy-centers/

IDENTITY BINGO: Pedophiles have climbed to #1 on the Leftist’s list of preferred minorities. Back in September, Venmo and PayPal banned Gays Against Groomers for allegedly violating their user agreements. Now, Printful has refused to print t-shirts and caps for the group, because it’s “homophobic and promotes transphobic misinformation that harms LGBTQ+ communities.”

• https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/09/21/paypal-venmo-and-google-punish-gays-against-groomers-for-what-exactly-defending-children-from-predators/
• https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/12/12/custom-printer-has-decided-to-deny-service-to-gays-against-groomers-saying-theyre-anti-lgbtq/
• https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs

MASKS: CLICK https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1602334387030196224 [:07] to see how unserious world leaders were about the plandemic.

PRISONER SWAP: On Sunday, Trump revealed that he not only turned down Russia’s proposed one-on-one swap of former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, but also that “I wouldn’t have made the deal for a hundred people in exchange for someone that has killed untold numbers of people with his arms deals.”

In 2012, Bout was sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to a Colombian terrorist group committed to killing Americans. Last week, Biden swapped him for an American basketball player who was sentenced to nine years in prison by a Russian court for having a cannabis product in her luggage when she landed in Moscow.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/trump-says-he-rejected-deal-swapping-merchant-of-death-for-former-marine-paul-whelan_4918132.html

PRONOUNS: I recently attempted to read an article in which the author used the subject’s they/them pronouns. It was beyond confusing. I kept having to go back and reread to figure out if this “they” was referring to the singular subject of the piece or to a plurality of individuals.

There’s a good thread about this at Twitchy, if you’re interested.

• https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/12/12/med-student-drowns-out-the-pronoun-mockery-by-showing-off-he-him-pronoun-pin-hes-worn-since-day-1-of-med-school/

RAAACISM: WaPo got roasted for an opinion piece that was not only racist, but also inaccurate. My favorite tweet response was from Ivan – “@washingtonpost to follow your great journalism here, can you now ask the .@NBA why they don’t have more representation of the following: #Jewish #latinos #hispanics #Philippines #MiddleEastern #CentralAmerica #SouthAmerica #Caribbean #India #Asia.”

• https://notthebee.com/article/wapo-tried-to-criticize-argentina-for-not-obsessing-over-skin-color-enough-and-got-absolutely-blasted-in-the-comments

SERVICE: Lefties have spent years trying to drive Christians out of business for refusing to celebrate same-sex marriages. Now a Virginia restaurant has refused to host a pre-reserved event, because the staff got their panties in a bunch when they found out the scheduled organization opposes abortion and supports traditional marriage.

• https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-group-denied-service-at-virginia-restaurant.html

YOEL ROTH: Yoel Roth’s bio says, “I care about building technology that’s resilient to threats and helps people and communities connect safely and authentically.” At pre-Elon Twitter, Roth was Global Head of Safety & Integrity where he was instrumental in censoring President Trump, quashing the Hunter Biden laptop story that broke just weeks before the 2020 election, and, oh yeah, doing diddly to stop child pornography.

Yesterday, we learned one other thing about Yoel Roth. He’s a porn-loving pervert who maintained a now-scrubbed “secret dirty Twitter account” (his words) called @otterrific. One especially disturbing old tweet said, “Musclebear with beard: hot. Musclebear with beard holding a child: inexplicably hotter.” (N.b., a “musclebear” is a hairy muscular man.) There are more, but I’ll spare you. I guess we know now why we weren’t allowed to say “groomer” with getting banned/suspended.

• https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/12/12/former-head-of-twitter-trust-safety-yoel-roth-had-a-secret-dirty-account-and-yikes-thread/
• https://nypost.com/2022/11/30/twitters-ex-safety-chief-admits-censoring-posts-hunter-biden-scoop-was-a-mistake/
• https://twitter.com/LeftismForU/status/1601742688092852225