The good and the bad, emphasis on Trib and Sun-Times
Vaccine passports do little to stop coronavirus transmission at festivals, but should still be considered anyway to increase vaccine uptake in young people, scientists advising the Government have said. It’s the first time advisers have admitted the vaccines do not prevent transmission but have argued the illiberal policy should be adopted purely to coerce people to do something for their own benefit. The Telegraph has the story.
So. Cat’s out of bag. The little foolers.
It’s here, from the church’s web site:
. . . for the foreseeable future, the Canons Regular will continue to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass both according to the 1962 Missal and according to the 2002 Missal. We will continue to pray ad orientem. We will continue to praise God and lift souls aided by our renowned Sacred Music program. And we will continue to cultivate a culture of beauty in the Archdiocese of Chicago and beyond. Cantius will remain Cantius as best it can, and we [the Canons Regular] are committed to continuing our ministry with you to restore the sacred in all things.
All things considered, so far, so pretty good.
Month-old story, but still belonging in the I-may-vomit file.
The overall risk of children dying or becoming seriously ill from COVID-19 is extremely low, and yet the president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life is lobbying for child vaccination, recently claiming that it is essential to ending the pandemic and “protects children from any, even if less frequent, serious consequence of COVID-19.”
These pontifical academy fellows don’t know nothin’.
How to look ridiculous in a flash. I refer to the Mighty Mac authorities, who shoveled 46 years of exemplary work down the toilet in a flash. Cancelled!
Highly recommended, with exceptions.
Every patriot in America needs to read this book to see how the sausage is made, unless you are prone to self-harm or cardiac arrest, because it is that frustrating at times.
There were several instances when I had to pause and gather myself, because I was getting so worked up. It’s an excellent read, but it’s also not for the faint of heart.
It’s a challenge. Be calm, or as calm as possible.
“Denis Crouan, the French founder and president (since 1988 or so) of the organization Pro liturgia, which promotes “the Mass as Vatican II truly intended it”, with Latin, chant, ad orientem, etc.,” sounds off:
Asking present-day clergy to respect the liturgy of the Church is a waste of time: with an obstinacy often coupled with a profound lack of culture, those who occupy the places from which they are supposed to teach, go before, and lead the faithful – at all levels in the Church, from the pope to the simple parish priest – seem to want to systematically sabotage divine worship in a way that remains completely incomprehensible.
The pope?
That Pope Bergoglio is more interested in Luther and Pachamama than in the doctrine and morals of the Church is his choice: a choice that everyone is entitled to consider regrettable and more than…
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Let’s face it: Privilege is so enjoyable the beneficiaries are mostly seen as undeserving, spoiled lightweights. By the underprivileged, that is.
Envy has always been around, as has the urge to take away the wealth from those not seen as having earned it.
After the defeat of communism, socialism has become the goal, and a war is being waged against the affluent led by the American mainstream media and academia.
In this, hacks and academics are aided and abetted by Silicon Valley freaks who pose as humanity’s saviors, not among those reaping the benefits of economic inequality.
So here we are. Now what?
By limiting his choice to a Black woman, President Biden has disqualified every non-Black woman and man in America. There are a considerable number of highly qualified Black women, and I would applaud the nomination of any one of them. But that is not the issue. The issue is exclusion.
Biden should ask for a list. He
. . . should then select his nominee from that list. In doing so, he might follow the example of President Herbert Hoover, who asked his Attorney General to prepare a list of nominees to replace the great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Historians recount that Hoover showed the list to Republican Senator William Borah. Benjamin Cardozo’s name was at the bottom, along with the three reasons he should not be nominated, despite his great distinction:
“Cardozo [sic] – Jew, Democrat, New York.” Borah glanced at it. . . and told Hoover, “Your list is alright, but you handed it to me upside down . . .” and reportedly told Hoover, “Anyone who raises the question of race is unfit to advise you concerning so important a matter.”
Cardozo was nominated and confirmed.
Irrelevant, the senator said. Except politically, he might have added . . .
From the doggedly persistent onetime NYT reporter Alex Berenson putting it to the WaPo writer who blithely, blithely dismisses as “misinformation” his hard-news reporting on the trouble with vaxxing as publicly reported by three countries, not the U.S.
Here’s what (the Twitter-banned) Berenson said about it:
Vaccine failure in two charts and two graphs from four countries
Alex Berenson 19 hr ago
530 I could make the long case about original antigenic sin, falling antibodies, the issues around cellular immunity, myocarditis, and all the rest.
But I’m just going to offer these four images because they speak more clearly than anything I could say.
Scotland, Britain, Israel, and Denmark are four of the world’s most highly vaccinated countries. They all have 90 percent adult Covid vaccination rates and 60 percent adult boosters. Yet the vast majority of deaths are occurring in vaccinated people; serious cases are soaring; and…
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In Blighty, where things are looking up.
Winter deaths are usually running high at this point in January, but this year is different.According to the latest figures from the ONS, released today, in the week ending January 14th there were 6.1% fewer deaths than the five-year average in England and Wales (872 fewer deaths).
Note that the five-year average the ONS uses doesn’t include 2020 or 2021, only the historically low-mortality years 2015-19, so this is an extremely low figure indeed.
The recession (of our emergency) cometh?
Blithe Spirit 
