Enough already.
Category: Blithe Spirit
The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
Conservatives reject Biden claim that Obama had not a ‘single whisper of scandal’
A list:
- Operation Fast & Furious
- Benghazi
- IRS targeting conservative 501(c)3 nonprofits
- Ignoring Hezbollah drug-running
- Trading five Taliban prisoners for Army deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
- Secret VA waiting lists
- Mass domestic spying by the NSA
- DOJ investigation of journalists
- Mocking Mitt Romney for sounding the alarm on Russia
- Calling ISIS the “JV Team”
- Iran Deal “echo chamber”
- Possible FISA abuse at DOJ/FBI
More than a few and more than whispers.
Building the City of God AND Man – Francis and the Idolatry of Migrants
Penetrating analysis, how Francis does have a way with words.
. . . [he] misuses Catholicism as a prop to promote his leftist political agenda. He takes the spiritual and reduces it to the mundane; he takes what are essentially supernatural truths pertaining chiefly to men’s salvation and refocuses them on natural objects. This way the Gospel is perverted because turned away from its proper end. At the same time, Francis appears to be preaching the truth because he ostensibly gets his doctrine from the Gospel text. Such a tactic is as successful as it is deceptive. [boldface mine.]
You will probably want to keep in mind that the writer is a sedevacantist, one who considers the papal chair empty and has been empty for several papacies. You also will want to pay attention to his analysis, prescending, as the philosophers say, from his sedevacantism.
More more more, of course, at the above-linked site.
Meryl Streep: ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Label Hurts Boys, ‘Women Can Be F*cking Toxic Too’
Barr Speaks Out On Mueller: ‘He Could’ve Reached a Decision’ on Trump and Obstruction in Russia Probe
What we have here is a sober citizen trying to inject common sense and clear thinking into the national discussion.
Wish him well, folks, and pay attention.
Dershowitz: I Was Wrong About Mueller, Who Just Shamefully Proved His Partisan Agenda
The devastating case against Congr. Ilhan Omar
Safe-seat holder for overwhelmingly Somali electorate has a checkered past.
When caught stealing etc., she shouts bigotry.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg knocks Clarence Thomas in dissent: A woman seeking abortion is not a ‘mother’ – Washington Times
He got under her skin with that one, breaking the rule (?) that says no by-the-way take-for-granted opinions in your opinion, which seems to me would be unduly restrictive.
Anyhow, she might have overlooked it. Not commented on it, that is, especially in this pure gummint-knows-best vein, as opposed to ages of solid truth in packaging.
Infuriating, when you get down to it, horrifying insight into a statist mentality.
A veteran religious sister reviews her conundrum: the law or love is the question
A Catholic prep school will carry announcements of alumnae “same-sex unions” in its alumnae magazine. Four alumnae object, quoting the community’s mother superior explaining her decision.
As a professed Sister of the Visitation for 67 years, I have devoted my life in service to the Catholic Church. The Church is clear in its teaching on same-sex marriages. But, it is equally clear in its teaching that we are all children of God, that we each have dignity and are worthy of respect and love. I have been blessed to live my vocation here at Visitation, where I have welcomed and come to know, respect, and love thousands of unique, intelligent, passionate, and faithful women, each made in the image and likeness of God.
As I have prayed over this contradiction, I keep returning to this choice: we can focus on Church teaching on gay marriage or we can focus on Church teaching on the Gospel commandment of love. We know from history – including very recent history – that the Church, in its humanity, makes mistakes. Yet, through the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit, it learns and grows. And so, we choose the Gospel commandment of love.
The letter-writers take her on.
She is so sloppy in her thinking.
Advice to the priest in favor of mass-time reverence as opposed to helter-skelter celebration . . .
Includes reference to what Vatican 2 didn’t do but many think it did . . .
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
From the always helpful Fr. Hunwicke:
26 May 2019
How to move on within the Novus Ordo [post-Vatican 2
mass]An admirable priest called Fr Harrison has recently asked orthodox Catholics [Romans wanting the best for themselves and the world] to revisit the Novus Ordo.
I offer some thoughts about what those who share Father’s instincts might do so as to go just a little way to meet Traddy [tradition-leaning] worshipers.
Some ‘stages’.
(1) Use only the First Eucharistic Prayer. Always. Even with the kiddies. Do this as your first matter of first principle. Even if you’re trinating [celebrating, saying mass three times in a day]. The provision of alternatives [take your pick of canons, central
part of the mass] was the main error of … NOT Vatican II, where no such move was even hinted at, but of the corrupt use of their influence by those who subsequently…
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