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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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May 20, 2020 NY Post Editorial:

Susan Rice’s memo about a high-level Jan. 5, 2017, meeting plainly aimed to protect the then-national security adviser’s boss, President Barack Obama — but it’s backfiring spectacularly.

Rice sent the Jan. 20, 12:15 p.m., note (recently declassified) to herself at literally the last minute: President Trump was sworn in at noon that day; her administration was headed out the door.

Oh, and Rice’s lawyer says she drafted it “upon the advice of the White House Counsel’s Office,” Fox News reports.

The point? Ostensibly, to memorialize the meeting with her, Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, FBI boss James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, following a briefing on Russian hacking.

Obama, the memo claims, stressed that “every aspect of this issue” be handled “by the book” and then “reiterated” that law enforcement proceed “by the book.” Comey “affirmed” he’s “proceeding ‘by the book.’  ” That’s right: She used the term three times. Continue reading →

Jesus told his disciples that, in the End Times, “Many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.” – Matt 24:10-11

There are an untold number of false prophets running around these days. Some, like Jim Jones, have even convinced their followers to commit suicide. They all preach a gospel that isn’t found in the Bible.

Read the Bible. Make sure you’re worshiping the true Jesus.

• https://churchpop.com/2016/04/09/do-you-worship-real-jesus/

FLOODING: Michiganians need our prayers [2:40].

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Yesterday, John Solomon reported that District Court Judge S. V. Vovk (Kiev, Ukraine) has ordered that the previously identified “unnamed American citizen” in Viktor Shokin’s case will now be designated as “citizen of the United States of America Joseph Biden, former U.S. Vice President.”

Shokin’s case began last February, when the court ordered the Prosecutor General’s Office and the State Bureau of Investigations to investigate Shokin’s claim that he was forced to resign in spring 2016 because then-VP Biden had pressured his government to get rid of him.

In the one minute 2018 video above, Joe Biden bragged at a Council on Foreign Relations event that he had succeeded in getting Shokin removed by threatening to withhold $1 Billion in loan guarantees the Ukrainians desperately needed.

“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.” Continue reading →

COVID-19: C-SPAN May 18, 2020 [7:09] – During a press conference, the president talked about hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).

“You’d be surprised at how many people are taking it — and especially the frontline workers, before you catch it — the frontline workers, many, many are taking it.“

“I happen to be taking it,” he continued, saying that he began taking HCQ “a couple of weeks ago.” He took one dose of azrithromycin at first then HCQ and zinc daily since.

The president said, “I think it’s good, I’ve heard a lot of good stories. And if it’s not good, I’ll tell you right. I’m not going to get hurt by it. It’s been around for 40 years for malaria, for lupus, for other things.“

President Trump went on to say that “a lot of doctors take it” and told the story of a New York physician who wrote him a letter saying that he has prescribed the drug to hundreds of patients along with zinc and azrithromycin and “I haven’t lost one” to the coronavirus. Continue reading →

PRESIDENTIAL APPROVALS: Trump has a higher approval rating now than either of his predecessors did at the same points in their first terms. Continue reading →

PSA: Be careful!

(Does anyone know what “not bfr” might mean?)

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I’ve been listening to and reading a lot of stuff about the Flynn case and I think I have all these points correct.

Very early in the Trump administration, the FBI sent 2 agents to talk to Michael Flynn about a December phone conversation Flynn had had with the Russian ambassador.

This conversation was perfectly proper for the incoming National Security Adviser.

In a 2018 interview, James Comey bragged about how he had figured the Trump administration hadn’t gotten their act together enough to know that nobody should agree to an interview without a White House attorney present.

So they called Flynn and told him they wanted a friendly chat and he said sure. Before going over, they discussed how to give him the mandatory warning about not lying without making him suspicious about their intentions (which were bad). Continue reading →