Issue not being climate change, right? But what we can do about it.

“It will change,” Trump told 60 Minutes, without saying how.

No, main thing being it’s an ebb and flow thing, with long history of change dating long prior to industrialization.

So it’s a distraction. And howlers use it as one to get us not thinking about magnificent Trumpian achievements in U.S. economy. Tsk, tsk.

via The Independent

. . . recreating All-Hallow’s (Saints) Eve’ning, (from which Hallows Even and finally Halloween. Not a defiance exactly, but quite an alternative commemoration.

The House of Studies celebrates a Vigil of All Saints on October 31st of each year. One of the community’s more popular events, the vigil celebrates our friendship the saints in glory.

The liturgy includes the chanting of psalms, readings from the lives of the saints, preaching from one of the friars, and a candlelight procession around the priory cloister. Arrive early to ensure a seat in the chapel. Click here for recent media coverage of the vigil.

Hanging out with the saints, night before their big day, collectively speaking.

via Annual Events – Priory of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies

Heard lovingly once, now maybe not so much.

She came forward, and she was heard.  And now, she’s done.

I’m good with that [says Legal Insurrection blogger], but I suspect we’ll be hearing very soon that we can’t accept Ford’s decision.  After all, everyone has to believe and support the “survivor” . . . until they say or do something rational, like give up on a lost battle.

Time, as the George Soros people said post-Clinton. to move on.

via Ford calls it quits on Kavanaugh: Wants no prosecution, no investigation, no impeachment

Keep your eye on him. He didn’t grow up under his man Peron for nothing.

More here: Is the Youth Synod’s Final Document Already Written? – Crisis Magazine

He can’t run groundouts. He would offend his ego, and that must not happen. He’s gotta be he, you know. Wants us to give him a pass. No, thanks.

via Chicago Tribune

Forget the national conference as mover and shaker of reform, he told National Catholic Reporter.

In discussing the need for individual Catholic prelates to cede authority to allow for the creation of a new national investigative body, Cupich acknowledged that the national bishops’ conference does not have the power to institute such a body on its own.

“The bishops’ conference can’t do it,” he said. “It has to either come from Rome or [the] individual bishop.”

This is crazy. He talks as  Pope Francis hadn’t squelched the national conference when their leaders came and asked for a national investigation. Instead, he Ignores it.

He also ignores his being the head of an archdiocese for which he can establish an archdiocesan investigation himself, giving an example to his fellow bishops. What’s he waiting for?

via National Catholic Reporter

Hey, the touchy-feely, sloppy thinking, non-thinking, feeling-its-way to truth and goodness is on painful display at a holy gathering of holy bishops of the once-claiming-to-be the one true church but now trying to change how some young people think and solidify others in their already touchy-feely sloppy thinking etc.

What a show, which you can watch right here but shouldn’t if you have nervous stomachs: Leading Pro-Life Campaigner: Synod political mess of leftist talking points

The case against Pope Francis: National Review

The British monk-blogger cites U.S. bishops as a collective blot on the ecclesiastical landscape for their see-no-evil record in regards to McCarrick et al. but feels obliged to add:

After all, in England we had a similar case, that of Bishop [Kieran] Conry and his long-standing relationship with a mistress.

It was very well known in ecclesiastical circles, even from his days in Rome apparently. Yet he was promoted anyway.

Did any bishop protest at the time? The Conry case has one essential difference: his sin was with a woman, so a collective sigh of relief that it was not a minor encouraged silence.

Nor with a seminarian or other adult male, right? And in both cases ignored by the Vatican, and even some popes.

And unmentioned by the monk blogger. Bishop C.’s liaison was with a married woman and came after another six years earlier.

As Mehitabel the alley cat moaned repeatedly to his friend the cockroach, “Wotthehell, wotthehell, Archy?”

via Dominus mihi adjutor – A monk’s-eye view of things