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MEMORIAL DAY: Army Princess says, “We have a tradition. Each year, we visit the cemetery near our home and put flowers on the graves of veterans buried there and we say a family prayer for the souls of all our departed service members. Cemetery is pretty cool – there are veterans in there from Texas revolution, Civil War, WWI and II, Korea and Vietnam.”

JUDGE JEANINE: [7:41] – Remembering the fallen and detailing it’s past time to re-open.

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This is what Catholics believe about intercession.

We do not worship Mary. – We love Mary. We honor Mary. We respect Mary. We learn from Mary. We take joy in Mary. And we ask for her powerful intercession.

We do not worship the saints. – We love the saints. We honor saints. We respect the saints. We learn from saints. We take joy in saints. And we ask for their powerful intercession.

Just as other Christian believers ask for the intercession of their friends on earth – we ask for the intercession of our friends in Heaven. Simple as that.

So next time, instead of saying, “Catholics worship Mary” try saying “I don’t understand Catholic theology.” We are one body in Christ and there is so much we could learn from each other if we stopped assuming the worst about each other.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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THEOLOGY OF HOME: “Home isn’t something you buy. It’s something you build, slowly, over time, not simply by sheltering in place, but by living deeply in place, one dinner at a time, one baby at a time, one kiss at a time, one prayer at a time.” – Emily Stimpson Chapman

• https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/becoming-home-the-beauty-of-living-in-and-cultivating-the-heart-of-your-abo

TIME TO REOPEN: [18:39] – Prager U’s William Witt interviews a psychiatrist about the mental health crisis that the lockdown has caused. Substance abuse, overdoses, domestic violence, and child abuse are all on the rise. The Department of Health & Human Services estimates “deaths of despair” could reach as high as 150,000.

In some places, the number of deaths by suicide have exceeded the number of deaths from the coronavirus. Dr. Michael deBoisblanc of John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, told ABC 7 news that he has seen a “year’s worth of suicides” in the last four weeks alone.

• https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/california-doctors-say-theyve-seen-more-deaths-from-suicide-than-coronavirus-since-lockdowns

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During an appearance on the Fox News show “Fox & Friends First,” Wilkie was asked about media reports claiming that taking the drug can kill patients instead of effecting a cure.

“Well I think it’s nonsense,” Wilkie said. “And I’ll echo what the president said the other day. I think it’s more aimed at President Trump than it is against the science because as we speak, Dr. Fauci and his institute are conducting very detailed clinical trials if this and I would also underline the fact that it is the 128th most-used drug in this country.”

Wilkie slammed a study he said “the press has been touting” as showing that the drug could be dangerous. “Researchers took and used VA numbers — didn’t even look at underlying medical conditions — and really misrepresented what was going on at VA.”

“We used it with veterans who were in the last hours of life in the hopes that it would prolong that life and we will continue to do that under FDA guidelines, which we have been following religiously,” he said.

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Click to hear Tucker talk about Joe Biden’s recent comment that, if you’re on the fence about voting for him over President Donald Trump, “You ain’t black.”

Yesterday, Jerome Hudson, author of 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know, posted a scathing commentary on the incident. Continue reading →

WORSHIP: [1:57] – “Some governors have deemed liquor stores and abortion clinics as essential, but have left out churches and other houses of worship. It’s not right.

I call upon governors to allow our churches and places of worship to open right now. If there’s any question, they’re gonna have to call me, but they’re not gonna be successful in that call. These are places that hold our society together and keep our people united.

“The ministers, pastors, rabbis, imams, and other faith leaders will make sure that their congregations are safe as they gather and pray. I know them well. They love their congregations. They love their people. They don’t want anything bad to happen to them or to anybody else.

“The governors need to do the right thing and allow these very important essential places of faith to open right now, for this weekend. If they don’t do it, I will override the governors. In America, we need more prayer, not less.” – President Trump

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-deems-churches-essential-demands-governors-allow-them-to-reopen-immediately

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32 minutes and following: Discussion of Judge Sullivan refusing to dismiss the Flynn case, the Writ of Mandamus that Powell filed, and the speedy response filed by the Appeals Court.

• https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/05/21/federal-appeals-court-orders-michael-flynn-judge-to-respond-to-petition-within-10-n2569280

According to an Associated Press report, more than 4,300 recovering coronavirus patients were sent to New York’s already vulnerable nursing homes under a controversial state directive that many are saying led to countless unnecessary deaths.

Democrat Governor Cuomo continues to defend the directive this week, saying he didn’t believe it contributed to the more than 5,800 nursing and adult care facility deaths in New York — more than in any other state — and that homes should have spoken up if it was a problem.

Yeah, no. This problem originally became public because one frustrated administrator told the press that they had tried to refuse patients, but were told they’d lose their state funding if they did so. Another went public with the news that he had begged to be allowed to send his suspected virus patients to Javits or the USNS Comfort. He was told no. Those beds were only for “hospital overflow.” (Each facility had about 800 empty beds.)

“It infected a great number of people in nursing homes who had no business getting infected, including short-term residents who were there for rehabilitation after surgeries,” said John Dalli, a New York attorney who specializes in nursing home cases. Continue reading →

OBAMAGATE: Margot Smith points out at The Federalist that the recently declassified paragraph in Susan Rice’s Jan. 20, 2017 email proves several things.

1. That the FBI had no valid investigative purpose for its ambush interview of Michael Flynn on January 24, 2017. (This is the interview during which he allegedly lied.)
2. That Comey was not proceeding “by the book” in national security matters.
3. That Obama knew about and condoned the withholding of information from the incoming administration.

Lee Smith writes at Tablet that, just two days after Donald Trump upset Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States, President Obama told Trump NOT to hire Michael Flynn. Obama told an aide that he was bewildered by this. Of all the things an out-going president could choose to talk about, why did he pick that? Continue reading →

Today is Ascension Thursday. “He ascended into Heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.”

This seems like an appropriate time to review six things Catholics need to take a lot more seriously than we generally do these days. These five are already part of explicit Catholic teaching.

1. The authority of the literal sense of Scripture: While it is true that Catholics recognize allegorical, moral, and anagogical meanings can be found in Scripture, the Catechism makes clear, “all other senses of Sacred Scripture are based on the literal.” (CCC 116)

2. The reality of sin and hell: Catholic doctrine definitely includes literal teachings about sin, judgement, repentance, God’s wrath, demons, and eternal damnation in hell.

3. The absolute unicity of Jesus for salvation: It is the express teaching of Jesus himself and of the Catholic Church that Jesus is the only way to God. No exceptions.

4. The future Second Coming of Christ: The Catechism teaches that “since the Ascension, Christ’s coming in glory has been imminent” and “could be accomplished at any moment.” (CCC 673) Following Scripture, the Catechism also says that “before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers,” and that “God’s triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world.” (CCC, 675, 677)

5. A willingness to be fools for Christ: We tend to be a lot more worried about looking stupid to the world than about being 100% faithful to God. Let us listen to St. Paul’s exhortation to the church in Corinth: “Where is the one who is wise? […] Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? […] For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. […] But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise.”(1 Corinthians 1.20-27)

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