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Since the beginning of Lent, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, the men who will elect the next pope, have been passing this memorandum around. Its author goes by the name of Demos, that is “people” in Greek. Given his knowledge, he may be a cardinal.

THE VATICAN TODAY

Commentators of every school, if for different reasons, with the possible exception of Father Spadaro, SJ, agree that this pontificate is a disaster in many or most respects; a catastrophe.

1. The Successor of St. Peter is the rock on which the Church is built, a major source and cause of worldwide unity. Historically (St. Irenaeus), the Pope and the Church of Rome have a unique role in preserving the apostolic tradition, the rule of faith, in ensuring that the Churches continue to teach what Christ and the apostles taught. Previously it was: “Roma locuta. Causa finita est.” Today it is: “Roma loquitur. Confusio augetur.”

• The German synod speaks on homosexuality, women priests, communion for the divorced. The Papacy is silent.
• Cardinal Hollerich rejects the Christian teaching on sexuality. The Papacy is silent. This is doubly significant because the Cardinal is explicitly heretical; he does not use code or hints. If the Cardinal were to continue without Roman correction, this would represent another deeper breakdown of discipline, with few (any?) precedents in history. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith must act and speak.
• The silence is emphasised when contrasted with the active persecution of the Traditionalists and the contemplative convents.

2. The Christo-centricity of teaching is being weakened; Christ is being moved from the centre. Sometimes Rome even seems to be confused about the importance of a strict monotheism, hinting at some wider concept of divinity; not quite pantheism, but like a Hindu panentheism variant.

• Pachamama is idolatrous; perhaps it was not intended as such initially.
• The contemplative nuns are being persecuted and attempts are being made to change the teachings of the charismatics.
• The Christo-centric legacy of St. John Paul II in faith and morals is under systematic attack. Many of the staff of the Roman Institute for the Family have been dismissed; most students have left. The Academy for Life is gravely damaged, e.g., some members recently supported assisted suicide. The Pontifical Academies have members and visiting speakers who support abortion.

3. The lack of respect for the law in the Vatican risks becoming an international scandal. These issues have been crystalized through the present Vatican trial of ten accused of financial malpractices, but the problem is older and wider.

• The Pope has changed the law four times during the trial to help the prosecution.
• Cardinal Becciu has not been treated justly because he was removed from his position and stripped of his cardinalatial dignities without any trial. He did not receive due process. Everyone has a right to due process.
• As the Pope is head of the Vatican state and the source of all legal authority, he has used this power to intervene in legal procedures.
• The Pope sometimes (often) rules by papal decrees (motu proprio) which eliminate the right to appeal of those affected.
• Many staff, often priests, have been summarily dismissed from the Vatican Curia, often without good reason.
• Phone tapping is regularly practised. I am not sure how often it is authorized.
• In the English case against Torzi, the judge criticised the Vatican prosecutors harshly. They are either incompetent and/or were nobbled, prevented from giving the full picture.
• The raid by the Vatican Gendarmeria, led by Dr. Giani in 2017 on the auditor’s (Libero Milone) office on Italian territory was probably illegal and certainly intimidating and violent. It is possible that evidence against Milone was fabricated.

4. The financial situation of the Vatican is grave.

• For the past ten years (at least), there have nearly always been financial deficits. Before COVID, these deficits ranged around €20 million annually. For the last three years, they have been around €30-35 million annually. The problems predate both Pope Francis and Pope Benedict.
• The Vatican is facing a large deficit in the Pensions Fund. Around 2014 the experts from COSEA estimated the deficit would be around € 800 million in 2030. This was before COVID.
• It is estimated that the Vatican has lost € 217 million on the Sloane Avenue property in London. In the 1980’s, the Vatican was forced to pay out $ 230 million after the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. Through inefficiency and corruption during the past 25-30 years, the Vatican has lost at least another € 100 million, and it probably would be much higher (perhaps 150-200 million).
• Despite the Holy Father’s recent decision, the process of investing has not been centralized (as recommended by COSEA in 2014 and attempted by the Secretariat for the Economy in 2015-16) and remains immune to expert advice. For decades, the Vatican has dealt with disreputable financiers avoided by all respectable bankers in Italy.
• The return on the 5261 Vatican properties remains scandalously low. In 2019, the return (before COVID) was nearly $ 4,500 a year. In 2020, it was € 2,900 per property.
• The changing role of Pope Francis in the financial reforms (incomplete but substantial progress as far as reducing crime is concerned, much less successful, except at IOR, in terms of profitability) is a mystery and an enigma.

Initially the Holy Father strongly backed the reforms. He then prevented the centralization of investments, opposed the reforms and most attempts to unveil corruption, and supported (then) Archbishop Becciu, at the centre of Vatican financial establishment. Then in 2020, the Pope turned on Becciu and eventually ten persons were placed on trial and charged. Over the years, few prosecutions were attempted from AIF reports of infringements.

The external auditors Price Waterhouse and Cooper were dismissed and the Auditor General Libero Milone was forced to resign on trumped up charges in 2017. They were coming too close to the corruption in the Secretariat of State.

5. The political influence of Pope Francis and the Vatican is negligible. Intellectually, Papal writings demonstrate a decline from the standard of St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict. Decisions and policies are often “politically correct”, but there have been grave failures to support human rights in Venezuela, Hong Kong, mainland China, and now in the Russian invasion.

There has been no public support for the loyal Catholics in China who have been intermittently persecuted for their loyally to the Papacy for more than 70 years. No public Vatican support for the Catholic community in Ukraine, especially the Greek Catholics.

These issues should be revisited by the next Pope. The Vatican’s political prestige is now at a low ebb.

6. At a different, lower level, the situation of Tridentine traditionalists (Catholic) should be regularised.

At a further and lower level, the celebration of “individual” and small group Masses in the mornings in St. Peter’s Basilica should be permitted once again. At the moment, this great basilica is like a desert in the early morning.

The COVID crisis has covered up the large decline in the number of pilgrims attending Papal audiences and Masses.

The Holy Father has little support among seminarians and young priests and wide-spread disaffiliation exists in the Vatican Curia.

The Next Conclave

1. The College of Cardinals has been weakened by eccentric nominations and has not been reconvened after the rejection of Cardinal Kasper’s views in the 2014 consistory. Many Cardinals are unknown to one another, adding a new dimension of unpredictability to the next conclave.

2. After Vatican II, Catholic authorities often underestimated the hostile power of secularization, the world, flesh, and the devil, especially in the Western world and overestimated the influence and strength of the Catholic Church.

We are weaker than 50 years ago and many factors are beyond our control, in the short term at least, e.g. the decline in the number of believers, the frequency of Mass attendance, the demise or extinction of many religious orders.

3. The Pope does not need to be the world’s best evangelist, nor a political force. The successor of Peter, as head of the College of Bishops, also successors of the Apostles, has a foundational role for unity and doctrine. The new pope must understand that the secret of Christian and Catholic vitality comes from fidelity to the teachings of Christ and Catholic practices. It does not come from adapting to the world or from money.

4. The first tasks of the new pope will be to restore normality, restore doctrinal clarity in faith and morals, restore a proper respect for the law and ensure that the first criterion for the nomination of bishops is acceptance of the apostolic tradition. Theological expertise and learning are an advantage, not a hinderance for all bishops and especially archbishops.

These are necessary foundations for living and preaching the Gospel.

5. If the synodal gatherings continue around the world, they will consume much time and money, probably distracting energy from evangelization and service rather than deepening these essential activities.

If the national or continental synods are given doctrinal authority, we will have a new danger to world-wide Church unity, whereby e.g., the German church holds doctrinal views not shared by other Churches and not compatible with the apostolic tradition.

If there was no Roman correction of such heresy, the Church would be reduced to a loose federation of local Churches, holding different views, probably closer to an Anglican or Protestant model, than an Orthodox model.

An early priority for the next pope must be to remove and prevent such a threatening development, by requiring unity in essentials and not permitting unacceptable doctrinal differences. The morality of homosexual activity will be one such flash point.

6. While the younger clergy and seminarians are almost completely orthodox, sometimes quite conservative, the new Pope will need to be aware of the substantial changes effected on the Church’s leadership since 2013, perhaps especially in South and Central America. There is a new spring in the step of the Protestant liberals in the Catholic Church.

Schism is not likely to occur from the left, who often sit lightly to doctrinal issues. Schism is more likely to come from the right and is always possible when liturgical tensions are inflamed and not dampened.

Unity in the essentials. Diversity in the non-essentials. Charity on all issues.

7. Despite the dangerous decline in the West and the inherent fragility and instability in many places, serious consideration should be given to the feasibility of a visitation on the Jesuit Order. They are in a situation of catastrophic numerical decline from 36,000 members during the Council to less than 16,000 in 2017 (with probably 20-25% above 75 years of age). In some places, there is catastrophic moral decline.

The order is highly centralized, susceptible to reform or damage from the top. The Jesuit charism and contribution have been and are so important to the Church that they should not be allowed to pass away into history undisturbed or become simply an Asian-African community.

8. The disastrous decline in Catholic numbers and Protestant expansion in South America should be addressed. It was scarcely mentioned in the Amazonian Synod.

9. Obviously, a lot of work is needed on the financial reforms in the Vatican, but this should not be the most important criterion in the selection of the next Pope.

The Vatican has no substantial debts but continuing annual deficits will eventually lead to bankruptcy. Obviously, steps will be taken to remedy this, to separate the Vatican from criminal accomplices and balance revenue and expenditure. The Vatican will need to demonstrate competence and integrity to attract substantial donations to help with this problem.

Despite the improved financial procedures and greater clarity, continuing financial pressures represent a major challenge, but they are much less important than the spiritual and doctrinal threats facing the Church, especially in the First World.

Demos

Lent 2022

• http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2022/03/15/a-memorandum-on-the-next-conclave-is-circulating-among-the-cardinals-here-it-is/
• “Roma locuta. Causa finita est.” I.e., Rome has spoken. The case is closed.
• “Roma loquitur. Confusio augetur.” I.e., Rome speaks. Confusion increases.

ABORTION: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1150930005674863 [4:57] to hear Liz Wheeler talk about pro-life arguments to use with non-religious people.

BIDENOMICS: CLICK https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1503087865353453570 [1:22] to hear Pelosi assure us that “Government spending is reducing the national debt.” In other news, maxing out all your credit cards reduces your family’s debt.

• https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/03/14/go-home-nan-youre-drunk-nancy-pelosi-explains-how-gov-has-to-spend-more-to-reduce-the-national-debt-and-omg-lol-watch/
• https://twitchy.com/jacobb-38/2022/03/13/poll-inflation-is-the-most-concerning-issue-to-voters-ahead-of-the-2022-midterm-elections/

CENSORSHIP: Google told Issues & Insights that the article in the graphic was being demonetized, because it supposedly contained “unreliable and harmful information.”

The poll was performed by the highly regarded polling firm, TIPP, which has been the most accurate of all pollsters in every presidential election since it started doing that polling. The article merely reported what the poll found.

• https://issuesinsights.com/2022/03/14/google-attacks-us-for-reporting-on-our-own-poll-calls-it-harmful-lnformation/
• https://issuesinsights.com/2021/12/13/ii-tipp-poll-60-of-republicans-want-trump-to-run-in-2024-while-37-of-democrats-want-biden/

DEFENDING PARENTS: Fourteen Republican attorneys general have sued President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, the U.S. Department of Justice, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, and the U.S. Department of Education for not responding to a FOIA request related to the Department of Justice calling for surveillance of parents expressing opinions at school board meetings and other forums.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/14-ags-sue-biden-administration-over-dojs-call-to-investigate-protesting-parents_4334885.html

DEMOCRATS: In a rare moment of clarity, their midterm campaign chief admitted, “The problem is not the voters… The problem is us. [Voters] think that we’re divisive and too focused on cultural issues. They think that we’re preachy. They think that we act like we know better than parents when it comes to their kids in schools.”

The leadership is apparently not listening. House Democrats, including Pelosi, want FAUXTUS to push failed legislation through via executive order.

• https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/13/democrat-midterm-chief-sean-patrick-maloney-problem/
• https://spectator.org/democrats-urge-biden-to-enact-agenda-by-edict/

FAUXTUS: “The press has set the bar so low for Joe Biden that when he makes a public appearance, it is considered a triumph if he manages to stay upright. No one expects anything he says to be coherent, and blatant disregard of the facts is overlooked.” – John Hinderaker

• https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/it-isnt-just-slow-joe.php

GOP: They didn’t have to wait long. Republican responses:

“Affordable living, strong economy and employment, national security, family and country. Everything DNC doesn’t stand for.”

“Lower taxes. Less government. Individual responsibility as a result of increased liberty.”

“Individual freedoms, free trade, personal responsibility, strong military, stopping government overreach…y’know American stuff.”

“Domestic energy independence, smaller govt, lower taxes, nuclear family unit, God, borders, law and order, prosperous capitalism, to name a few.”

“For starters: school choice, parental power, energy independence, low taxes, the dignity of work, peace through strength, life, equality of opportunity, individual freedom.”

• https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/03/14/ya-know-american-stuff-presidentsilveralert-gets-way-more-than-he-asks-for-when-asking-peeps-to-name-1-thing-republicans-are-for/

LENTEN MEDITATION: Oh Lord, Your will is perfect, always, as You are perfect. Your will tells us that those who curse us You will curse (Gen. 12:3). I thank You, Lord, for cursing them (like it or not, we are to be thankful for His will). Make their curses a thorny wall around them that raps them and makes them helpless against You. In the Name of Lord Jesus, I bind them and cast them at your feet, Lord. You teach us it’s never Your will any perish (second death, cast into the lake of fire), that all men come to repentance and be saved. I ask You to open their hearts to You, to open their eyes to see you, their minds to accept you. Make them a blessing in all the earth. I command all their ungodly protection, all demonic advisors, and all their ungodly wealth to be exposed and destroyed. In the Name of my King and my Lord Jesus, I lift up my hands in praise, Amen.

MANDATES: Two days after Sr. Deirdre Byrne, M.D., filed her lawsuit, D.C. granted her religious exemption. Sr. Dede’s attorney says they’re continuing with the suit, because the exemption may be revoked by the D.C. government at any time.

Byrne is a member and superior of the Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a retired U.S. Army colonel who served overseas as a soldier and missionary, and a medical doctor who is board-certified in both family medicine and general surgery.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/dc-provides-dubious-vaccination-mandate-exemption-to-nun-physician-2-days-after-lawsuit-filed_4331912.html

UKRAINE: Mariupol has had no food supplies, water, power or heat for more than a week. And now Russian forces have bombed a maternity and children’s hospital there, claiming it had been taken over by Ukrainian extremists to use as a base and that no patients or medics were left inside.

But Associated Press journalists documented the attack. They saw the victims and damage first-hand. They shot video and photos of victims fleeing the facility and they interviewed survivors in the hospital where they had been transferred. The mother and unborn baby in the photo above did not survive.

• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10610053/Pregnant-woman-baby-die-Russian-bombing-maternity-ward.html

2A: On Thursday, Alabama’s Gov. Ivey signed a constitutional carry bill into law that allows permitless concealed carry and transporting a handgun in a private vehicle.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/alabama-gov-kay-ivey-signs-bill-to-eliminate-permit-requirement-for-carrying-pistols_4333709.html

DETRANS AWARENESS DAY: Click the link to read tweets, see photos, and follow links.

• https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/03/12/young-people-tell-their-gender-transition-and-de-transition-stories-to-mark-detransawarenessday/

DINESH D’SOUZA: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1015636572637142 [1:37] to hear a pretentious college student call D’Souza a hack, then hear D’Souza’s calm and pointed response.

FAUXTUS: On Thursday, he told the Democratic National Committee that Dems “have a record to be incredibly proud of … a message that resonates: Build a better America. Now we have to do the work. If we don’t do that, don’t do that, it’s going to be a sad, sad two years. Think about Republicans if they controlled the Congress these last two years.”

I do think about that, Joe. Every. Damn. Day.

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=2254239321395031 [7:13] to hear Sen. John Thune lay out the damage Democrats’ so-called leadership has wrought and how their so-called solution is another multi-trillion dollar spending bill.

• https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/597791-biden-warns-democrats-it-will-be-a-sad-two-years-if-republicans-take

J6 COMMITTEE: The Dems’ intentions were clear from the start, when Pelosi only allowed two NoTrumpers to sit on the committee – Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Since then, they’ve done everything possible to find dirt on Republicans, while carefully ignoring their own filth.

On Wednesday, the Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit against Nancy Pelosi, the January 6th Committee, and its Members, to stop the committee from “unlawfully seizing confidential information about the internal activities of the Republican Party and millions of its supporters which is completely unrelated to the attack on the Capitol. Nancy Pelosi and the Committee have weaponized Congress’ investigatory powers by issuing this staggeringly broad subpoena which tramples on core First Amendment rights of the RNC and millions of Americans.”

• https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/pelosi-entire-jan-6-committee-just-hit-constitutional-overreach-lawsuit
• https://gop.com/press-release/rnc-files-lawsuit-against-pelosi-jan-6-committee-and-its-members/

GENDER: CLICK https://rumble.com/vwy1er-psaki-looks-stunned-to-learn-biden-once-supported-actual-anti-gay-school-po.html [:34] to hear Jen Psaki explain how today’s Progressive Left likens not talking about sex, masturbation, and gender confusion with young children to promoting hatred and discrimination.

Gay podcaster Dave Rubin said, “This ‘Don’t Say Gay’ thing — it’s completely ridiculous. The media has lied, as they lie about absolutely everything else.” He invited opponents of the bill to explain why they “want a state employee to talk to a 1st grader about sexuality and then be able to hide that conversation from the child’s parents.”

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=680291883385736 [5:03] to hear Liz Wheeler explain how the Left hates women and children. She quotes Matt Walsh saying, “Transgenderism must be offensive to women in the same way that blackface is offensive to Black people.”

GO TO http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/heap-o-links-page-2-sat-mar-12-2022 to read a pointed letter to Disney from a now-former stock holder in response to Disney’s attempt to strong-arm DeSantis to veto the bill.

But yeah, go ahead and tell us how we’re the ones obsessed with grooming! Even Bill Maher said, “Maybe kids that young shouldn’t be thinking about sex at all.“

• https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/right-wing-lgbt-members-rebuke-left-calling-florida-parental-rights-bill
• https://notthebee.com/article/wapo-columnist-fans-of-floridas-dont-say-gay-bill-have-a-new-favorite-word-grooming-and-i-think-someone-hit-a-nerve
• https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1557/BillText/er/PDF
• https://notthebee.com/article/even-very-liberal-bill-maher-is-agreeing-with-floridas-new-law-that-bars-teachers-from-discussing-sexual-issues-with-5-year-old-students

JUSSIE SMOLLETT: CLICK https://rumble.com/vx23cn-judge-to-jussie-smollett-you-were-actually-throwing-a-national-pity-party-f.html [1:31] to hear what the judge said to him.

LENTEN MEDITATION: “As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus’ thirst. … He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.” – St. Teresa of Calcutta

MEDIA BIAS: CLICK https://twitter.com/LauraLynnTT/status/1502696515546103811 [1:38] cuz whoa. You need to actually hear this!

UKRAINE: [22:51] – Dearest asked our Ukrainian neighbor about the war. She told him that her brother, who had applied for immigration to the U.S. ten years ago and was just recently approved, left the country three days before the invasion. Thank God!

ABORTION: [1:38] – EWTN reports on a pro-abortion protest that disrupted a Mass in San Francisco. One commenter wrote, “It would have been so powerful if the whole congregation stood up and prayed for these broken people.” Exactly. Jesus told us, “Pray for those who persecute you.” – Matt 5:44

BIDENFLATION: Can we please get someone in charge who understands economics?

FASCISM: [13:47] – Remember what happened to Japanese-Americans during World War II? Remember how we all thought that was terrible? Hmm.

FAKEBOOK: [4:48] – Mark Dice lists a bunch of “fun” new facts about how lefty corrupt the Effing Bee is.

FENTANYL: “Because of the proliferation of fentanyl and its role in the overdose epidemic, many people wonder what a lethal dose is. There is no easy answer to this, and one dose that may fatal for one person may not be fatal for another. The bottom line is ANY misuse of fentanyl (knowingly or unknowingly) has the potential to cause a fatal overdose.”

• https://notthebee.com/article/multiple-people-in-cardiac-arrest-in-the-front-yard-a-group-of-6-florida-spring-breakers-overdosed-one-after-the-other-on-cocaine-laced-with-fentanyl
• https://oxfordtreatment.com/substance-abuse/fentanyl/lethal-dose/

FLORIDA: CLICK https://rumble.com/vx1uo5-desantis-goes-full-savage-after-disney-tries-to-pressure-him-on-anti-groome.html [2:12] to hear DeSantis say there is zero chance of “corporations” (i.e., Disney) succeeding at changing his mind about the anti-grooming bill.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/desantis-calls-out-disney-for-opposing-bill-banning-sex-ed-for-young-kids-appeasing-ccp-regime/

GENDER: The high school investigated the cat butt incident. The trans teacher admitted the post was true and the school reprimanded him/her/them for behaving in an unprofessional manner.

CLICK https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1502439600551211011 [:57] to see another trannie who claims he/she/they loves teaching, but just hates going to work because “one driver” (school bus?) “constantly misgenders” him/her/them. Hmm … kinda reminds me of when I was a bus driver and there was another driver who enjoyed making references to my … well, I won’t get explicit. Let’s just say I ignored him, because I loved driving a school bus and he wasn’t worth getting upset about.

• https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-teacher-gay-straight-alliance-cat-butt-vaseline-students
• https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/03/12/libs-of-tik-tok-features-a-teacher-breaking-down-over-being-misgendered/

LENTEN MEDITATION: “Let us set out with trust on our Lenten journey, sustained by fervent prayer, penance and concern for those in need. In particular, may this Lent be a time of ever greater concern for the needs of children, in our own families and in society as a whole: for they are the future of humanity.” – St. John Paul II

PELOSI: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1657010391307000 [5:42] to hear MTG expose the latest dirty trick the DemoRats pulled!

PEOPLE’S CONVOY: On Thursday morning, Ted Cruz talked to participants and went for a ride on one of the trucks.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/sen-ted-cruz-rides-shotgun-in-u-s-trucker-convoys-lead-vehicle-on-washington-beltway/

RUSSIAN OIL: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1017728498951358 [3:14] to hear Dan Bongino talk about when Trump warned the world about depending on Russian oil.

UKRAINE: [5:15] – Our Lady has appeared in Ukraine twice. In 1914, she appeared to 22 people, saying, “There will be a war. Russia will become a godless country. Ukraine, as a nation, will suffer terribly for eighty years – and will have to live through the world wars, but will be free afterwards.”

On April 27, 1987 – exactly one year after the Chernobyl disaster – she appeared again and continued to appear for about four months. Over this time, about 500,000 people witnessed these apparitions, including KGB soldiers. You can click the link to read her messages.

• http://www.divinemysteries.info/our-lady-of-the-ukraine-hrushiv-ukraine-1914-and-1987/

VIRGINIA: CLICK https://twitter.com/lukerosiak/status/1502333629837549568 to see a series of video clips from a fiery Fairfax school board meeting. Part way through, the entire school board fled the room. Parents continued with a dramatic reading from the “Race to the Bottom” that exposes corruption of school boards.

Luke Rosiak, author of the book, reports, “The school board got rid of the entrance exam to its math magnet school because of the CRT conspiracy theory that tests are racist. A judge found they broke the law, but they refused to relent, saying they’d appeal. This morning, they lost again when a judge denied a stay.”

WATCH THIS FIRST: [23:16] – Dr. John Campbell, known in the U.K. for his public support of ivermectin as a medically proven, effective early treatment for Covid-19, analyzed some of the latest document dump concerning the safety and efficacy information that Pfizer provided to the FDA prior to the FDA granting the Pfizer vaxxx emergency approval. He’s really good at clarifying this stuff.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/fda-approved-pfizer-vaccine-despite-42000-adverse-events-in-first-3-months-prominent-uk-doctor-explains/
• https://phmpt.org/pfizers-documents/

WATCH THIS ONE SECOND: [17:09] – Again with Dr. John Campbell, this time looking at the deliberate exaggeration of the COVID-19 death numbers.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-truth-is-coming-out-about-covid-deaths_4309806.html

FEAR MONGERING:In 2019, the U.S. death rate from heart disease was 4.6%. That is 20 times greater than the death rate from COVID-19. Yet all those gummint agencies mandating and lobbying and censoring and suppressing ‘rona information have paid no attention to known heart disease risk factors.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-study-confirms-ivermectin-outperforms-other-options_4324465.html

IVERMECTIN: A recent study found this inexpensive drug to be effective of ten drugs, producing the lowest clinical presentation and hospital admission rates across all variants.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-study-confirms-ivermectin-outperforms-other-options_4324465.html

VAERS: On Friday, the CDC released VAERS data on the experimental gene therapy shots that are inaccurately labeled “vaccines.” Between Dec. 14, 2020, and March 4, 2022, there were 1,168,894 reports of adverse events, including 25,158 deaths and 203,888 serious injuries, across all age groups. Keep in mind that there is no incentive for anyone to submit reports to VAERS, so these numbers represent a FRACTION of the real damage this evil has done.

• https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-cdc-seven-year-old-died-cardiac-arrest-pfizer-shot/

CDC: CLICK https://twitter.com/akheriaty/status/1499938905327476737 [:45] to see a clip from a recent interview in which CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admits, while giggling, that “we had perhaps too little caution and too much optimism” about the vaxxx.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/cdc-head-laughs-about-having-had-too-little-caution-and-too-much-optimism-in-now-failed-covid-vaccines/

MASSATWOSHITS: The Dems running this deep blue state have noticed two things lately. One, they’ve been seriously overcounting ‘rona deaths. And two, the midterms are coming. What a coinkidink!

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/massachusetts-to-reduce-significant-overcount-of-covid-19-deaths_4330491.html

NEW JOISEY: I’ll not belabor the whole safe/effective thing again. I just want to mention my skepticism about the possibility of reinfection, which is based in part on reports I’ve read about people having antibodies from SARS-COV-1 or from previous coronavirus colds having shown themselves to be resistant to COVID-19 in all its variants. Similarly, people who had authentic cases of SARS-COV-2 early on have shown themselves to be resistant to reinfection from variants.

In addition, the COVID-19 tests have been frequently criticized for being too sensitive and showing positive results when the infection is some other virus. This last is backed up by the utterly bizarre “fact” that during the height of the pandemic, somehow or other nobody got the flu!

I strongly suspect that folks who think they’ve gotten the ‘rona twice have actually had at least one bout of flu or possibly a coronavirus cold. FYI: Colds can be caused by any one of about 200 viruses, including rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, adenoviruses and enterviruses.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/parents-should-ask-these-questions-before-giving-their-child-a-covid-19-vaccine-er-doctor_4330453.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold

At the entrance to the Kiev Memorial Park, there is a sculpture of a very thin girl with an extremely sad look, holding several classes of wheat in her hands. Behind her, you can see the Candle of Remembrance monument that marks the Holodomor.

In 1919, Ukraine was pressured into joining the Soviet Union. Ukrainians, who then considered themselves a Central European nation like Poland, not an Eastern European nation like Russia, were trying to restore Ukraine’s independence and resisted.

Not wanting to lose control of Europe’s main source of grain, Stalin stole the land and its produce, leaving the nation that produced the most wheat in Europe without a crumb of bread.

Between 1932-1933, starvation killed between seven and ten million people, more than the Jews during World War II. At the peak of the Holodomor, 24,500 Ukrainians died every day. People were literally starving to death on the streets. Stalin then settled the emptied Ukrainian villages with Russians.

Today, 28 countries around the world classify the Holodomor as a genocide.

• I saw a version of this on FB.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

BORDER: The Democrats’ $1.5 trillion omnibus legislation would provide funding for border security in eight foreign nations—many of whom are U.S. adversaries—while providing no new money for security along the U.S. border.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/omnibus-bill-funds-border-security-for-eight-foreign-nations_4329100.html

COVID-19: During a Zoom session with other doctors, Dr. Joseph Fraiman, an emergency room physician in New Orleans, Louisiana, apologized for criticizing proponents of the Great Barrington Declaration. CLICK https://www.bitchute.com/video/iZzFossdMcoS/ [:23] to hear a video clip. “I’m sorry because I believe now you guys were correct. And you were correct from the beginning. These policies were harmful.”

In other news, United Airlines announced that unvaxxxed workers can return to their positions on March 28. Cuz, you know, case rates are falling. And/or the midterms are coming.

• https://patriotsbeacon.com/another-doctor-just-apologized-for-every-covid-move-he-was-forced-to-make/
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/united-airlines-to-let-workers-who-didnt-get-covid-19-vaccine-return-to-work_4329070.html
• https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/all-the-experts-were-wrong-and-now-they-are-being-forced-to-admit-it/

GENDER: “But most important, by far, is assignment of the organ brain at birth. Many of my progressive friends behave as though this organ should have been a gall bladder. (A gall bladder may reduce the diarrhea flowing from apertures near the brain, such as the mouth.) Following her organ-affirming operation, my friend will be a trans-organ person, more specifically, a person with a gallbladder in her head, or, if the gall bladder was accompanied by stones, as is often the case, she will be a person with rocks in her head.”

Read the rest @ https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/confession_i_was_the_one_assigning_sex_at_birth.html.

JUSSIE SMOLLETT: Last December, a jury found him guilty of five of the six felony disorderly conduct counts he faced, one for each time he was accused of lying to police. On Thursday, he was sentenced him to 30 months of felony probation, including 150 days in the county jail. Smollett was also ordered to pay restitution of $120,106 to the city of Chicago, and a $25,000 fine. The judge denied a request to suspend the sentence, and ordered that Smollett be immediately placed in custody. Smollett continues to insist he’s innocent and shouted repeatedly, “I am not suicidal.”

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/jussie-smollett-sentenced-to-150-days-in-jail-over-lying-about-attack-declares-hes-not-suicidal_4330611.html

LENTEN MEDITATION: [8:08] – Re: walls that have kept us from even communicating – I’m a devout Catholic who was led to a personal relationship with Jesus by a Baptist. I have also taught RCIA (classes for those wishing to enter the RCC, often from other Christian traditions). So I’m very familiar with the similarities and the differences between various Christian denominations.

Back in the late 90s, when I was new to the ‘net, AOL had some Christian chat rooms that I tried visiting under different screen names. If I came in and talked about my Catholic friend who loves Jesus, I could have a great conversation with the others, telling them what “my Catholic friend” said about what “she” believes. BUT if I came in as a Catholic who loves Jesus, I would immediately be bombarded with the usual litany of supposed errors my church teaches, all of which she was teaching from Apostolic times until now.

The best experiences I’ve had with non-Catholic Christians have been when we had time to get to know one another in some non-denominational context. After they got to know me, they’d often get around to asking, “You seem to be a Christian the way I understand Christianity. What’s the deal with [Purgatory, Mary, etc.].” And then I’d get to explain and, universally, the response would be, “I never thought of it that way. I don’t agree, but I see how you can be a Bible-believing Christian and a Catholic at the same time.“

PROJECT VERITAS: [4:38] – The undercover video trended on Twitter, particularly the part when Rosenberg said the FBI was involved on January 6. Twitter suspended the accounts that posted it.

In the second part of the video, Rosenberg mentions the Steele dossier and “the ridiculous pee pee tape that, of course, doesn’t exist.”

When PV confronted Rosenberg with his remarks, he said, “Will I stand by those comments? Absolutely.”

• https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-matthew-rosenberg-overreaction-jan-6-riot
• https://www.projectveritas.com/news/new-york-times-reporter-discusses-cia-nsa-sources-ridiculous-pee-tape-didnt/
• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-york-times-reporter-privately-admits-jan-6-riot-exaggerated-disorganized-fbi-informants-involved/

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: [4:02] – Sister Deirdre Byrne, M.D., is suing the District of Columbia over being denied a religious exemption from the vaxxx mandate. In addition, she has natural immunity.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/army-doctor-who-became-a-nun-sues-washington-dc-over-covid-jab-mandate-for-health-workers/

UKRAINE: [6:55] – LifeSiteNews reporters Tim Jackson and Michael Hogan traveled to the Polish-Ukrainian border to record their stories and encourage the financial and prayerful support for these victims of war.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exclusive-ukraine-lsntv-refugees-poland/

VAXXX: Gregory Poland, MD, director of the Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group in Rochester, Minnesota, was driving back from the hospital after receiving his second COVID shot when he nearly veered out of his lane. “It was like someone suddenly blew a dog whistle in my ear.” Poland says the ongoing ringing in his ears has been relentless and life-altering. He believes there may be hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of fellow sufferers around the world.

In other news, a North Carolina war veteran who was denied a kidney transplant because he had chosen not to take the COVID-19 jab will now receive a kidney at a hospital in Texas where there are no COVID vaccine requirements for transplant patients.

• https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/97592
• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/tx-hospital-approves-kidney-transplant-for-vet-denied-one-for-being-unvaxxed-in-north-carolina/

APPROVALS: A WSJ poll found Republicans are currently up 9 points among Hispanics and up 27 points among Black voters.

• https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/03/11/5-alarm-fire-for-the-democratic-party-wsj-poll-looks-even-worse-for-democrats-with-big-yuge-changes-in-hispanic-and-black-support/
• https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/03/11/just-gut-punching-numbers-for-dems-according-to-latest-wsj-poll-democrats-are-losing-on-nearly-every-issue-but-one-screenshot/

ELITIST HYPOCRISY: As they lecture us to buy electric cars and force us to wear masks on airplanes …

• https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/03/11/sen-marco-rubio-others-take-issue-with-biden-nsc-staffers-ig-post-aboard-venezuela-bound-govt-jet/

FAUXTUS: CLICK https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1502344128050380803 [:09] to hear him do his creepy old man whispering thing about how the stock market is going to blow up. A tweeter reminded us that this is the same guy who said, “You’re not gonna get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”

• https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/03/11/biden-staffer-explains-why-wh-has-been-briefing-tiktok-stars-about-war-in-ukraine/
• https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/03/11/wtf-is-wrong-with-this-guy-biden-acting-tough-while-weirdly-whispering-about-blowing-up-russias-stock-market-is-just-creepy-watch/

FUEL PRICES: I guess “Putin Price Hike” didn’t poll well … so now he’s blaming somebody else for his mess.

• https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/597675-biden-blames-putins-price-hike-for-high-inflation
• https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/03/11/joe-biden-changes-his-story-again-now-says-the-bankers-on-wall-street-are-preventing-domestic-energy-production-video/

VFAUXTUS: When asked, “How long should we be bracing for this historic inflation and some unprecedented gas prices?“, Number Two Clown said, “In terms of the discussions that President Iohannis and I had, they ranged in subject including the issue of the Black Sea and I’ll let him explain in more detail as he would like. Uh, but, we are, again, fully aware and apprised because we are in constant communication with the president with his administration here, about the concerns that they have about the entire region and frankly about the vulnerability. All you have to do is look at the map.” CLICK https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1502301540962476032 [1:04] if you must.

Best comment: “The group project where she thought her partner would do all the work.”

Another gem @ https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1501952043699040256 [:16] that Ian Miles Cheong satirized as, “I’m standing, here, in front of you, at a podium, at an event, reading my notes, looking at you, the audience, who’s also in this room, right here, with me, in this place.”

I’ll spare you the clip for this one: “The UN has set up… a process… by which there will be… a review and inestigations and we will, of course, participate as appropriate and necessary.

“We all watched (shrugs) the televison coverage… of just yesterday. That’s on top of everything else… we know and don’t know yet… based on what we’ve been able to see. And because we’ve seen it or not doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened…

“But just limit it to what we have seen… pregnant women going for healthcare… being injured by… I don’t know, missiles, a bomb? In an unprovoked, unjustified war… where a powerful country is trying to take over… another country. Violate its sovereignty, its integrity, for the sake of what? Nothing that is justified or provoked?

“Absolutely there should be an investigation, and we should all be watching! I have no question the eyes of the world are… on… this war… and what Russia has done in terms of this aggression and these atrocities. I’ve no doubt.”

• https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/03/11/heres-kamala-harris-explaining-how-long-we-should-expect-to-endure-high-inflation-and-gas-prices/
• https://notthebee.com/article/i-have-no-words-for-how-bad-kamala-harris-is-at-her-job-so-ill-let-this-fox-news-reporter-describe-the-awfulness-of-her-press-conference-in-poland

BILL BARR: CLICK https://rumble.com/vwunue-the-real-story-oan-bill-barr-then-and-now-with-jason-miller.html [8:20] to hear an OANN report about RINO Bill. I remember when Trump nominated him, people said he was a “straight shooter.” Yeah, no. He was and is an elitist swamp rat who never stood up for a single thing that mattered when he was Trump’s Attorney General. “He likes his money. He likes the swamp. And he likes cheeseburgers. … He’s just a plus-sized version of James Comey.”

CANADA: Welcome to the New World Order where truth is fungible and morality is whatever advances the Left’s political agenda.

Case in point: When talking about Canadians who peacefully protest his harmful policies, he called them white supremacists and members of a fringe minority with unacceptable views. He said they just take up space and questioned if we should tolerate them.

CLICK https://twitter.com/Harry__Faulkner/status/1501626486419345409 [:52] to hear him blather on about listening to others and trying to understand their point of view … in Europe … YESTERDAY.

• https://westernstandardonline.com/2022/03/watch-canadians-call-trudeaus-talk-of-democracy-hypocritical/

DELTA: CLICK https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1501817700619673602 [2:20] to see a Delta employee demand a passenger reverse his “F*** Biden” hoodie. When he took off his mask to comply, she had him evicted from the airplane for not wearing a mask! It turns out she was totally lying when she said the company had a policy against the slogan on his shirt. It doesn’t have any clothing policies beyond the mask thing. I wonder if she would’ve had a problem if the shirt had said “F*** Trump.”

• https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/03/10/so-racist-right-delta-kicks-black-man-off-flight-over-f-biden-sweater-after-claiming-its-delta-policy-its-not-watch/

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: The Left’s facile “solution” to high gas prices is “just buy electric cars” totally ignores a whole range of economic and environmental issues. Just one of these is the availability and cost of lithium, which is an essential component in EV batteries.

For example, claiming that EVs are supposed more “green” ignores the fact that the world’s limited supply of lithium is buried deep in the earth’s core, where it is difficult to mine. In fact, lithium mining is similar to coal mining, oil drilling, and fracking, all of which the enviro-left consider unacceptable.

In addition, while the price of lithium is currently fairly low, if demand increases, we can expect that to change, possibly by a whole heckuva lot. When the price of lithium goes up, so will the cost of manufacturing lithium-ion batteries and subsequently the purchase price of the vehicles that use them.

• https://www.motorbiscuit.com/will-lithium-run-out/
• https://dragonflyenergy.com/where-does-lithium-come-from/

GAS PRICES: FAUXTUS refers to the high prices at the pump as “Putin’s price hike.” Ron DeSantis has a more accurate name: “Bidenflation.”

CLICK https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1501693602124255237 [2:14] to see a montage of Biden’s hostility to American fossil fuel production.

And just FYI … that oil he magnanimously released from our emergency reserve? Back when oil prices were at rock bottom, because U.S. production was sky high, TRUMP bought it to replace the oil Obama had released and never put back.

• https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/03/10/hale-razor-updates-his-biden-year-in-review-from-two-months-ago-and-woof-we-thought-it-was-bad-then/
• https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/03/10/the-white-house-graciously-sets-out-to-enlighten-us-ignorant-rubes-with-a-lengthy-explainer-on-putins-price-hike/
• https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/03/10/jen-psaki-accidentally-tells-the-truth-in-response-to-question-about-how-joe-biden-and-wh-are-navigating-americans-through-inflation-video/
• https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/03/10/gov-ron-desantis-has-a-much-more-accurate-term-for-what-the-wh-calls-putins-price-hike/
• https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/03/10/cnbcs-rick-santelli-others-hammer-biden-admins-ever-evolving-excuses-as-inflation-hits-4-decade-high/
• https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/03/10/erick-erickson-shares-damning-montage-that-quite-clearly-shows-that-high-gas-prices-are-all-part-of-bidens-plan-video/
• https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/03/09/drew-holden-fact-checks-president-bidens-claim-that-his-policies-arent-holding-back-domestic-energy-production/

LENTEN MEDITATION: “My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice; these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words.” – St. Therese of Lisieux

LOCKDOWNS: A new CDC report highlights the high cost kids paid to keep them “safe” from a virus that poses little risk to them. Pediatric emergency room visits due to mental health conditions skyrocketed during the pandemic. From March 2020 to October 2020, pediatric ER visits for mental health conditions increased 24% among kids ages 5 to 11 and 31% among adolescents ages 12 to 17. Among adolescent females, the number of ER visits for eating disorders doubled.

Even worse, the lockdowns didn’t work. Two new studies conclude that they “had little to no effect on Covid-19 mortality” and “should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”

• https://www.healthline.com/health-news/number-teen-girls-in-the-er-for-eating-disorders-doubled-in-pandemic
• https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-holy-covid-trinity-unravels_4319725.html
• https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf
• http://www.sfu.ca/~allen/LockdownReport.pdf

MASKS: A retrospective study of school children in Catalonia, Spain, from Sept. 13, 2021, to Dec. 22, 2021, showed that kids who were not required to mask had a lower incidence of COVID-19 than did those who were required to mask.

CLICK https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1501627210146324485 [:33] to see what California schools are still doing to children.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/mask-mandates-not-linked-to-lower-covid-19-case-rate-or-transmission-study_4327329.html

NEW YORK: I must’ve missed the memo about how my sucky state legalized recreational marijuana use. But one of my alert readers tipped me off to the Dems’ super duper plan to give cannabis retail license priority to those who have been disproportionately impacted by the enforcement of marijuana prohibition, which includes individuals convicted of a marijuana offense before its legalization on March 31, 2021, and the relatives of convicted individuals (parents, guardians, children, spouses and dependents).

• https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/retail-cannabis-licenses-ny-prior-marijuana-convictions

PEOPLE’S CONVOY: CLICK https://rumble.com/vwvr6s-real-america-dan-ball-w-oans-stefan-kleinhenz-u.s.-trucker-convoy-update-38.html [5:55] for an OANN update.

PEST CONTROL: The EPA has approved the use of genetically engineered Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in certain areas of California and Florida. The Aedes aegypti, whichcarries diseases like dengue fever, yellow fever, and the Zika virus, was first detected in the U.S. in 2013 and has been spreading ever since. The modified mosquitoes are males carrying a gene that is lethal to offspring. It will be great if this works, because chemical pest control harms the pollinators we really need.

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-set-to-be-released-in-california-and-florida_4325836.html

TRANS: Gender activists are deeply anti-woman.

• https://nypost.com/2021/12/18/j-k-rowling-is-woman-of-the-year-feminist-fired-for-trans-view/

UKRAINE: [4:37] – Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church talks about the impact of the war on civilians, thanks those taking in refugees and sending humanitarian aid, and says people have told him they have seen “luminous angels” over the country. He believes Kyiv’s patron, St. Michael the Archangel, as well as the the whole Heavenly Host, fight alongside the Ukrainians.