Now We Have A New Set Of Commandments!

A few years back the pope announced his intentions to edit the Lord's Prayer - you know, the one that Our Lord Himself dictated to us.  See here and here.  At the same time he attempted to change Church teaching in regards to the death penalty.  Please note that I said "attempted" for no one, not even a pope, can turn established Church teaching on its ear.  There is Traditionis Custodes, the attempt to quash the Mass of the Ages.

Well, now we have a new papal target - the 10 Commandments!  The pope has done that by issuing a parallel set of "commandments", that he calls "the nine commandments for a just economy".  You can read the list.  It's a hybrid of a hippie-pot-smoking daze-dreaming session from the 1960s, smatterings of Rules for Radicals (courtesy of Saul Alinsky) and a "social justice warrior" bucket list.

The list is a hoot!  A brief glimpse into some of these might be in order, but brief lest I write a whole tome.

• "big finance forgive the debt of small countries".  So who determines who is who?  More importantly, the ones who extended credit, in most cases citizens of other countries, would be robbed by this measure
• "arms manufacturers stop all production"  News flash!  As long as sin is present in the world and evil people prey upon the innocent, there had better be sufficient arms available for good people to halt the evil
• Numbers 6 and 8 are so transparent in their intentions that they are hilarious.  The pope has shown himself to be rather thin-skinned, as most progressives are.  They want truth stifled at all costs, and that's precisely the point of those two blurbs

Most importantly, the TFP folks who posted this article are quite right.  The pope completely omits the First Greatest Commandment, that is, to love God with our entire beings.  That comes even before love of neighbor.  Yet in all that blather, not one mention is even made of God.  Just whose vicar is the pope anyway?  Inquiring minds would like to know.

Zzzzzzz! Nighty-Night!

The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2021, also known as COP26, is in its final days.  It started on October 31 in Glasgow, Scotland, attended by all sorts of dignitaries from the far corners of the earth.  How did these dignitaries arrive at this conference that has as one of its aims the reduction of carbon footprints?  Why, they flew in on private jets, of course!  But not to worry!  I'm sure that these heads of state will simply extort the price of carbon offsets from their beleaguered citizenries!

Many of these dignitaries have been known to wax lyrical about peace.  Well, quite a few of them had moments of peace as they listened to speakers drone on about warn the world of climate change.  Observe these dedicated leaders as they enjoy moments of peace and deep meditation!  Why not?  Our tax dollars are paying for this!

Truth be told, if I had to listen to those gasbags yap and yammer about envirowhacko junk-science as though it was the greatest thing since life's bread, I'd be making some serious zzz's myself.  But on the other hand, I don't buy into any of that drivel - certainly not to the degree that I'd ascribe to environmentalism the status of a de facto religion.

If I find soundtracks from this conference, I might post them - in case you have trouble falling asleep!  Nighty-night!

Virginia Voters Deliver Set-Back To Culture of Death

Pictures of a yard sign have been surfacing on social media; one is to the right.  This one has been debunked as a hoax, but from the clip below, we see that it might as well be true. (Note to self: if ever I run for public office, make sure I don't tick off parent-voters by telling them they have no say regarding their children's education.)

As the whole nation knows by now, Terry McAuliffe, Democrat party hack and a pro-abortion faux-katholyc, has been defeated by Republican Glenn Youngkin in the race for Virginia governor.  This is the first time in 12 years that a Republican took the helm in VA.  Moreover, the Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General will now be Republicans, also, and the VA House has reverted to GOP control.  This upset victory for decent people is seen on both sides as a rebuke of the Biden administration and its incessant bungling.

I must admit that I thought it was a long shot, with all the cheating that happened last year.  But enough good people had enough.  No doubt the situation with the Loudon County School Board woke some people up.  That effect was felt not only in VA but all over the country.

Most of all, I think that the prayers of Christians, particularly the Rosary prayed by Catholics, played a pivotal role this past Tuesday night.  However, this has to be only the beginning.  We need to redouble our efforts to see reform not only on the political front, but in our everyday lives.  To paraphrase St Teresa of Avila (with some minor editing) vote as if it all depended on your vote and pray as it all depends on God.

The Pope Openly Promotes Communist Organizations

Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute released today a video that he produced, detailing how the Vatican, with the pope's participation, gave a platform to several avowed communist entities.  Recall that previous pontiffs condemned socialism and communism in no uncertain terms.  Please watch the video. 

One thing I must emphasize are Hichborn's closing remarks.  The message of Our Lady of Fatima must be heeded and obeyed at all costs.  This coming weekend is both First Friday and First Saturday.  Let's make sure that we pray our Rosaries daily.

 

Pro-Abortion GW Students Throw Tantrums At The Truth

The young men of the TFP Student Action have once again taken the truth of baby-slaughter and God's commandments to a college campus.  Last week they were at George Washington University in Washington DC.  Either these students are complete products of public school education and/or their consciences are seared by personal participation in baby murder, for their tantrums and profanity-laden snit-fits are a pitiful sight to behold.  One gal said she worked at a mill and another said she belonged to a satanic temple (giving unwitting testimony as to abortion's demonic origins).   The truth, proclaimed completely and properly, will either be embraced or rejected.  Sadly the bulk of these youngsters chose the latter.

The examples of these TFP men are to be emulated.

SOAR Goes Sour Again

Canon 212 alerted me to this latest faux pas of SOAR - that is, Support Our Aging Religious.  Truth be told, their progressive escapades predate this present pontificate, but they certainly do share many of Pope Francis' mindsets.  Perhaps that is why the Archdiocese of Washington has been the location of their headquarters.

SOAR rewards this???

They intend to once again sully the name of St Katharine Drexel by bestowing the award bearing her name to Dr. Fauci, that menace to people and puppies everywhere.  This is not the first time.  Previous unworthy recipients include Carolyn Woo and Cokie/Steve Roberts.  Details are found in my previous posts.

Also found in those posts is the disgusting treatment meted out to me and my fellow sidewalk counselors as they denied us their assistance at the Silver Spring Planned Parenthood many years ago.  At that time, SOAR and Planned Parenthood were located in the same office building, with SOAR being directly above them.  SOAR refused to grant us access to the building, this denying us opportunities to save babies.

This award ceremony, to happen Nov 5, is a "virtual event" so it will not be possible to picket the thing.  Please keep these things in mind, should SOAR solicit donations from you.

Of Puppies And Covid-Cootie-Jabs

News came out two days ago about the NIH, under direction of Dr. Fauci, conducting barbaric experiments using puppies as victims.  The puppies' vocal cords were cut so that the federally-funded ghouls would not have to listen to the puppies' pained yelps.  Their heads were locked inside cages and sand flies were set loose so that they could eat the puppies' heads, killing the pups in a most gruesome way.   From the House a bipartisan letter was issued demanding answers.

People of all stripes are waxing horrified and indignant over this discovery, as well they should.  HOWEVER, Fauci has been doing the exact same thing to a large part of the American populace - that is, to those who slavishly went along with the mask mandates and clarion calls to accept injections of all sorts of vile goop into our bodies on the pretext of saving us from the Wuhan virus.  Many of us will not be his submissive little dupes.

I'll be blunt.  Fauci and his sycophants are playing the sadistic tyrants to the hilt.  Too many, because they are naive, brainwashed by liberal ideologies, or cowards, are playing the submissive little lab mice and just going along with him.  At least the puppies had to have their vocal cords removed lest they protest.  But the sheeple voluntarily muzzle themselves out of servile fear.  Heck they even try to muzzle those of us who won't surrender our bodily autonomy and moral convictions to cootie-jab tyrants.

Perhaps the news about the puppies will wake some folks up as to how too many people are blithely allowing themselves to be exploited by Fauci et al.

Pope Francis Appoints Jeffrey Sachs To Pontifical Academy Of Social Sciences

Readers of this blog will recall that I've written much about Jeffrey Sachs.  He is a population control proponent who has openly advocated for contraception and abortion as means of "reaching a level and sustainable population".   Because (not "despite" but "because") of that, he has been quite a fixture about the Vatican these past several years, having weighed in on Laudato Si, possibly Amoris Laetitia and various synod reports.  In short, his pernicious and spiritually deadly musings have been promulgated by the Vatican.

Sachs, with Jewish roots, has never announced any conversion to Catholicism although he claims Catholic social teaching has influenced him.  Of course that influence is of the progressive "social justice warrior" variety that is merely a facade for all things atheist and socialist, as evinced by his advocacy of baby-slaughter and his silence regarding human rights abuses in Red China.

I suppose all this, in the eyes of this current pope, makes Sachs a prime candidate for a position in the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.  That's right!  A non-Christian pro-abort is now occupying an official position within a Vatican organization. 

Please pray your Rosaries and please prepare to resist this pope when what he says or does runs counter to the Faith and Christian morality.

Bread And Circus As The Third Commandment Is Broken

Some know that I've been attending Traditional Latin Mass at St. Alphonsus Ligouri Shrine in downtown Baltimore.  To do so from Montgomery County, I need to take I-95 into the city.  Today and last week, the minute I got onto 95, the traffic thickened up and worsened as I approached I-395 towards Howard St.  From there I could see the M&T Stadium and noticed the activity therein, not to mention the hoards of pedestrians, many clad in purple (the Ravens' color), swarming all over the streets heading towards the stadium.

Now consider that it's Sunday morning, when most Christian churches are holding various services, including Mass.  It's painfully obvious that those hundreds of people that I saw didn't give a hoot about keeping holy the Lord's Day, else they'd be at church instead of hoofing it to a stadium for a football game.  The three words going through my mind as I parked my car were "bread and circus".

If we wanted to know any reason why we are under God's judgment as a civilization right now, that is a clear reason.  No doubt this scenario was repeated many times today across the country.  I'm not saying anything is wrong with sports per se, but when they are put before one's duties to God, sports is made into a de facto idol.

As I was leaving Mass, I chatted with another Mass-goer about this matter.  We both agreed that the world would be in much better shape if these people could evince the same dedication to God as they obviously do to football.

When Poisoning The People Means Padding Some Pockets

If anyone thought that our "elected" officials are full of altruistic goodness and who only want what's best for us as they blatantly try to force us to take vials of goop into our veins, think again!  It seems that quite a few of them stand to gain by literally spreading the poison around.  Talk about insider trading! 

Now a million dollar question is, what do our prelates stand to gain by trying to gult-trip us into cannibalizing the cells of tiny murdered babies?  Please don't be deluded into believing that their motives are as pure as driven snow!