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Midterms Update

APPROVALS: Former President Trump has been out of public office for 14 months … and he’s still more popular than all of the top people in the federal government, including President Biden, Vice President Harris, Speaker of the House Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Schumer, House Minority Leader McCarthy, and Senate Minority Leader McConnell.

CHAOS: Dennis Prager says that “extreme secularism” is behind the policies that sacrificed the well-being of children on the “altar of safety. … If they win, you will have totalitarianism because people cannot live in chaos, so they will seek strong rulers to tell them what to do. And the proof is that they sought it during COVID.”

DEMS: You can smell their midterm desperation. Democratic Party activists in Wisconsin have filed a suit in federal court arguing that Sen. Ron Johnson, two-term Rep. Tom Tiffany, and freshman Rep. Scott Fitzgerald should be barred from running for office again.

Their “crime”? Speaking out on 2020 election irregularities and allegedly attempting to manipulate the congressional certification of the presidential election results. Johnson called the lawsuit “total nonsense”, noting that a similar one was dismissed by a court last week.

In other news, the Dem-majority House of Representatives in D.C. (which recently shelved a Republican attempt to reopen the XL pipeline) passed a major piece of civil rights legislation this week when they passed, in a vote of 235-189 along party lines, the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act, which, if enacted, would prohibit “discrimination based on an individual’s texture or style of hair.” The bill now goes to the Senate.

HUNTER: Well, well … the jerknalists who still style themselves as working for “the paper of record” have finally admitted (in paragraph 23 of an article on page 20) that Hunter Biden’s laptop and corruption investigations are real.

“Twitter suspended a major newspaper’s account for a story everyone is now forced to acknowledge was true. That’s fine, right? We’ll just be moving on?” –Karol Markowicz

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/Newwww-For-Us-111684338086085/videos/535876451436381 [8:32] to hear Fox’s Jesse Watters’ report. “Of course Joe knew the whole time the laptop was real.”

CLICK https://rumble.com/vxpu7l-ny-times-admits-hunter-bidens-laptop-is-real.html [3:28] to hear Fox’s Tucker Carlson’s report.

CLICK https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1320621896480636929 [1:10] to see a clip from a Trump interview. Ted Cruz tweeted, “EVERY WORD Trump said to her has proven true. Will 60 Minutes issue an apology? Will they explain why they refuse to be actual journalists?”

Click the last link below to access an October 2020 by Richard Grenell about a Senate report that detailed how Hunter’s profiteering during the Obama-Biden administration was even worse than we tinfoil hatted GOPers thought.

MASKS: On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted 57-40 to express formal disapproval of the Biden administration’s continued mandate to wear masks on planes and public transportation.

Definitely CLICK https://twitter.com/RnEmergency/status/1504642979222499347 [1:54] to see the best anti-mask video ever.

PELOSI: CLICK https://rumble.com/vxp9oz-the-world-is-laughing-at-us-australian-reporter-rips-incoherent-pelosi.html [2:21] to hear Aussie reporters mock the incoherent Nancy, who they note is second in line after Kamala Harris.

PENNSYLVANIA: CLICK https://rumble.com/vxp4v3-the-real-deal-black-anti-woke-woman-takes-pennsylvania-by-storm-in-us-senat.html [5:27] to see and hear the conservative Black woman who wants to be the Republican nominee in the upcoming Senate race.

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BLM: A Black Lives Matter activist in Boston and her husband have been charged with 18 counts of fraud and conspiracy by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. According to court documents, the couple used tens of thousands of dollars meant for charitable efforts such as feeding needy children to pay for a vacation to Columbia, Maryland; groceries; Uber rides; car rentals; meals at restaurants; gas; auto insurance; purchases from retailers such as Old Navy; nail salons; hotel rooms; parking fees; and Walmart purchases.

ENERGY: House Democrats mothballed a Republican attempt to restart the Keystone XL Pipeline project, which would go a long way towards freeing us from Russian oil.

FAUCI: CLICK https://rumble.com/vxkyf9-rand-paul-reveals-what-he-has-in-store-for-fauci-boom.html [1:35] to hear Rand Paul talk about how he plans to defrock St. Anthony.

FAUXTUS: CLICK https://rumble.com/vxibwr-biden-says-first-ladys-husband-has-covid-not-realizing-thatd-be-him.html [:39] to hear another edition of “If Trump had said it.”

J6: For the second time in eight days, U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols has dismissed a felony obstruction charge. In five other recent Jan. 6 cases, Judges Amit P. Mehta, Timothy J. Kelly, Dabney L. Friedrich, Randall D. Moss, and James E. Boasberg rejected motions to dismiss that charge. I smell appeals coming.

LENTEN MEDITATION: “For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” – Hebrews 10:30-31

MEDIA BIAS: The Left Stream Media is such a pathetic joke. Today’s “WTH” moment came when I read about USA Today’s “Women of the Year” which includes … you guessed it … a man. I looked through the other honorees, who all appear to be actual female type women … you know, the kind with XX chromosomes and uteruses and stuff. However, the one I was most interested in was the Virginia honoree, who was NOT Winsome Sears.

Surprise, surprise, also NOT. Sears is the first woman of color and first Jamaican-born American citizen to be elected to statewide office in Virginia, but she’s … you know … a REPUBLICAN. So, unlike “Rachel” Levine, “not a real woman.” Instead, USA Today chose Lashrecse Aird as Virginia’s honoree. Aird was a Democratic representative for Petersburg for three terms, but was defeated when she ran for a fourth term in 2021.

NYC: CLICK https://rumble.com/vxl8eh-heres-how-idiotic-it-is-sen-cruz-brilliantly-mocks-new-yorks-covid-restrict.html [1:30] to hear Ted Cruz slam the stoopid ‘rona rules in the Rotten Apple.

NYS: Comproller DiNapoli’s new 58-page audit report says then-Gov’ Cuomo’s Dept. of Health deliberately undercounted ‘rona nursing home deaths by as much as 50% to protect Cuomo’s rep as the national COVID Hero. What Cuomo really was is the Grim Reaper. Despite knowing the virus was especially lethal to old folks and the state had multiple, unused resources (like the Navy hospital ship), Cuomo ordered nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients. The fact that some of them had kept the virus out and/or had no means to quarantine new patients didn’t matter. The state also helpfully sent body bags along with the infected patients, which nursing homes quickly filled with the dead.

PELOSI: CLICK https://rumble.com/vxhknx-allegedly-sober-nancy-pelosi-attempts-to-explain-geopolitics.html [1:48] to hear the woman who is two heartbeats away from the Oval Office.

SEX TOYS: Bladder stones are hard masses of minerals that can grow around foreign object lodged in the bladder. After doctors performed surgery to remove this massive one, they cracked it open to find a glass tumbler the patient had shoved up her urethra years before.

TEACHER’S UNION: For the second time this week, Weingarten sent out (then deleted) a factually incorrect tweet about Ukraine. In the first one, she had the Ukrainian flag upside down.

From 1991 to 1997, Weingarten taught Law, Ethical Issues in Medicine, AP Political Science, and US History and Government at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn.

UK: A report released by the UK government has confirmed that 9 out of every 10 deaths related to COVID-19 are found in those who are fully vaccinated.

VAXXX: Last November, Lt. Col. Theresa Long, MD, testified under the Whistleblower’s Protection Act to her deep concerns for the safety of military personnel forced to take the experimental mRNA gene therapy shots that are wrongly called “vaccines.” [14:57] – On March 10, Long testified in federal court that she and two other flight surgeons discovered certain disorders had spiked after the mandate went into effect, including miscarriages and cancers which had increased by 300%. Neurological problems had increased by 1,000%. Dr. Long also testified that the night before she was schedule to appear, she was contacted by high level officer who told her not to discuss these findings in court.

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CALIFORNICATION: West Hollywood has allocated $300,000 in taxpayer money to fund a pilot guaranteed, $1,000/month income program that will run from April 2022 to September 2023. Applicants must reside in the City of West Hollywood, be 50 years or older, identify as LGBTQIA, and have an individual income of $41,400 or less.

CATHOLIC: This is worth the time, esp. if you’re Catholic and concerned about the state of the RCC in these hand basket times. – CLICK https://rumble.com/vx5uhn-obedience-to-god-not-man-fr.-james-altman.html [1:05:07] to hear Fr. James Altman give a talk entitled, “Obedience to God, Not Man.” I’m thinking Fr. Altman’s bishop made a tactical error when he fired him from his pastorate. He’s got so much more time now to speak out about the corruption in the RCC.

During the last ten minutes, he talks about the connection between Pope Francis (Jorge Bergoglio) and long-time sexual abuser of men and boys, now former Cardinal McCarrick. I didn’t know any of this stuff. It’s really damning. But it just affirms my suspicion that Bergoglio is a homosexual who, for many years, actively committed mortal sins. He’s pretty old now, but who knows … maybe those fires still burn. [See the section below, especially the Veritas Vincit article.]

UPDATE on McCreepick – He has been charged! The crime occurred in Massachusetts, where he wasn’t a state resident when the alleged abuse took place. The statute of limitations stopped when he went home. He’s pleaded not guilty and the judge has ruled his archdiocese be held accountable. There are other news stories at NY Post … if you’ve got the stomach for them. I want to cry just looking at the headlines. Click the bottom link.

EDUCATION: “Nothing speaks to our national decline quite like the country’s highest-ranking education advocate sporting a sign with an upside-down Ukrainian flag.” – Lafayette Lee

That’s a printed sign. Looks like somebody at the AFL-CIO got it wrong and these two brainiacs didn’t catch it until after they sent out the tweet … which has since been deleted. I’m guessing all those signs are probably being reprinted as well.

FYI: The flag’s orientation is easy to remember if you know that sunflowers are the national flower. Sky on top. Flowers on bottom.

EU: The pandemic is over and the vaxxx has been proven to be unsafe and ineffective. So the jackboots running the EU have decided not to cancel the passports, but to extend them until the middle of NEXT year!

“This really is total, unadulterated bullsh*t. The Council of Europe has agreed to extend the Covid digital pass until June 2023. The Orwellian twist is that it is in the name of ‘free movement’.” – David Quinn

JAPAN: [1:03] – Japan has had 16 earthquakes in the past week, with 6 of them happening within 24 hours. The biggest was 7.3.

LENTEN MEDITATION: “You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.” -St. Teresa of Avila

MANDATES: In the article linked here, David Brown argues that fighting vaxxx mandates with piecemeal arguments about effectiveness or safety or aborted fetal cells or natural immunity is a mistake. “We are free, or we are not. Science is not the arbiter of that freedom.”

After quoting Article 1 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights states that “all humans are born free and equal in dignity and rights”, Dr. Brown asserts, “In consequence, freedom cannot be conditional on medical status or choice of medical procedure. If we are born free, we do not acquire freedom through compliance.”

POPE FRANCIS: The pontiff recently removed a Puerto Rican bishop from office and replaced him with a 79-year-old retiree, because the bishop had publicly supported people who conscientiously objected to the COVID-19 vaccine.

The same pontiff has not even criticized two German bishops who had public denounced traditional RCC teaching on homosexuality. Last month, one of them said the teaching was “no longer correct”; the other said two weeks ago that same-sex relationships are not sinful.

The graphic refers to things Francis has said and written that seem to contradict RCC doctrine regarding salvation and damnation. See the Veritas Vincit link below. (FYI: veritas vincit is Latin for truth conquers.)

I think it is important to stress that Pope Francis has taught nothing ex cathedra, that is, from the chair (of Peter). These are the only papal teachings that are infallible. The rest of what spews out of his mouth and pen are ranked according to a hierarchy of truths that range from “Catholics should seriously consider this” to “some reporter says he said this.”

TEXAS: CLICK https://rumble.com/vxh4y3-texas-is-building-the-border-wall-biden-refuses-to.html [3:14] to hear an update about the border wall and the latest schmuck move by the LOSER in the WH.

VFAUXTUS: An MSNBC analyst said of Harris’ performance in Europe, “Yet another piece of her lived experience that she really brings to this role as Vice President in this moment of crisis, and that is her role as prosecutor, right? This is somebody who is used to kind of taking on bad guys for a living. And so, her really putting her finger in the chest of Vladimir Putin and saying that there will be consequences.“

And back in the real world, President Zelensky’s former spokeswoman tweeted that it would be a “tragedy” if Harris ever became president.

GRAMMY NOTES: When your grandkids’ school is visited by leprechauns. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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A Random Act of Kindness

“Dear teenage boy at the skate park:

You’re probably about 15 years old, so I don’t expect you to be very mature or for you to want a little girl on your skate ramp for that matter.

What you don’t know is that my daughter has been wanting to skateboard for months. I actually had to convince her that skateboarding wasn’t just for boys.

So when we walked up to the skate park and saw that it was full of teenage boys, she immediately wanted to turn around and go home.

I secretly wanted to go too because I didn’t want to have to put on my mom voice and exchange words with you.

I also didn’t want my daughter to feel like she had to be scared of anyone, or that she wasn’t entitled to that skate park just as much as you were.

So when she said, “Mom, it’s full of older boys,” I calmly said, “So what, they don’t own the skate park.”

She proceeded to go down the ramp in spite of you and your friends flying past her and grinding rails beside her.

She only had two or three runs in before you approached her and said “Hey, excuse me…”

I immediately prepared to deliver my “She’s allowed to use this park just as much as you guys” speech when I heard you say, “Your feet are wrong. Can I help you?”

You proceeded to spend almost an hour with my daughter showing her how to balance and steer, and she listened to you – a feat not attained by most adults.

You held her hand and helped her get up when she fell down and I even heard you tell her to stay away from the rails so that she wouldn’t get hurt.

I want you to know that I am proud that you are part of my community, and I want to thank you for being kind to my daughter.

She left the skate park with a sense of pride and with the confidence that she can do anything, because of you.”

  • I saw this on Facebook.

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BORDER: Remember the crisis at our southern border? Nobody’s had time to talk about it lately, what with the world going to hell in a hand basket, but just FYI, it’s getting worse.

FUEL: And just like that, we would find out how many of those 81 million Biden voters didn’t exist.

JIM JORDAN: [12:02] – I haven’t been able to find anything in the news or at Jordan’s website about when this happened.

LENTEN MEDITATION: “You don’t know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, ‘Lord, I don’t know how to pray!’ you can be sure you’ve already begun.” – St. Josemaría Escrivá

MEDIA BIAS: Former Fox News anchor in Phoenix, Kari Lake is now the Republican candidate for governor of Arizona. Trump-hating jerknalist Liam Bartlett interviewed her in February for “60 Minutes Australia.” His bias and attempts to get damaging sound bites got so bad that she walked out.

CLICK https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1501639310386237443 [1:00] to see the clip shown in the graphic above. It reminds me of the chicken and broccoli casserole leftovers I inadvertently pushed to the back of the fridge and forgot about.

Then CLICK https://rumble.com/vulytk-kari-lake-vs-lunatic-journalist-at-60-minutes-australia.html [25:13] to see Lake’s own video of the FULL interview.

MEXICO: The Diocese of Culiacán has announced that all of the Catholic politicians who voted in favor of legalizing abortion up to 13 weeks will not be able to receive the Eucharist or be godparents.

In a statement, Father Miguel Ángel Soto Gaxiola, director of the Culiacán Commission for Life, Family, Youth and Laity, officially announced that Catholic lawmakers who voted in favor of abortion that the decision to deny them Communion is “the recognition of the objectively unworthy state of a person to receive the Body of Christ.”

PUERTO RICO: Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres, who has led the Diocese of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, for over ten years, has been removed by Pope Francis for allowing conscientious objections to COVID-19 vaccine shots.

The Pontiff has made it clear that he considers taking the shots a moral imperative, despite the fact that they were developed and tested with aborted fetal cells and have proven themselves to be unsafe and ineffective.

Sources say that Pope Francis had at least two secret meetings in 2021 with the CEO of Pfizer, the manufacturer of the vaxxx that Francis mandated for all Vatican employees.

Priests, parishioners, and Catholic and other Christian leaders have rallied behind Bishop Torres. Last Wednesday, there was a vigil where the faithful prayed the Rosary and sang hymns, while carrying signs thanking him for his leadership.

SEATTLE: Citing an increase in violent crime, Amazon announced it is moving roughly 1,800 employees are assigned to a building in a better neighborhood.

TREASON: Watch this one – CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=389444022993403 [18:08] to hear Tucker Carlson’s report on the Left’s current anti-Republican talking point. “Here you have a rich consultant who hates America — someone who has never served in the military — accusing Tulsi Gabbard, who’s been in the Army for nearly two decades, of treason. By the way that’s a death penalty offense.”

CLICK https://bongino.com/ep-1725-the-real-reason-theyre-attacking-tucker-and-tulsi [56:39] to hear Dan Bongino reveal the disturbing reason the media/liberal symbiote is attacking Tucker and Tulsi.

Check out the links below for more lefty lunacy.

UKRAINE: On Monday, Fox News photojournalist, Pierre Zakrzewski, was killed in Ukraine. Correspondent Benjamin Hall, who was with him in the vehicle, was injured and remains hospitalized after the incident. It’s not clear who fired on their vehicle.

VFAUXTUS: CLICK https://twitter.com/sparkyandtaz/status/1503210559898066954 [:57] to see a Kamala impersonator nail the person who is a heartbeat away from the Oval Office.

CLICK https://twitter.com/jessicahodlr/status/1503556754168242186 [1:41] to see the woman who is two heartbeats away from the Oval Office.

GRAMMY NOTES: Bootz is SIX years old! He had an awesome birthday!

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A Memorandum on the Next Conclave

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.”

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.

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.

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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.

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

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.

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.”

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.“

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!

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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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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COVID-19 Update

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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