@PhilLawler
I don't know if I should be impressed that this Diogenes piece is still relevant, or incredibly sad that's there are still prelates like this fictional one.
In your charity, please say a prayer for my mother Rose who died this day 14 years ago.
Here she is with me the day of my ordination, less than 3 months prior to her death.
O GOD, who hast commanded us to honor our father and mother: in Thy mercy have pity on the soul of my
🚨Anti-Catholic group of trans “activists” stage a mockery of the Christian faith INSIDE St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC:
The mob staged a supposed funeral service for Cecilia Gentili, a transgender, atheist prostitute during who they eulogized as: "This whore. This great whore.
On this day, 98 years ago, May 27th, 1906. The 16 Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne were canonized by St. Pius X.
They were executed by the Comittee of Public Safety during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.
As they neared the guillotine, they sang the Te Deum.
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Heard from a nurse friend that the hospital she works at is full, that they've opened the flex unit, and that the patients are super sick.
In 2020 we pretended that this never ever happens unless an apocalyptic plague is in progress.
Those who are honest call it "Winter."
@goddeketal
1.) No perceived benefit at age 40
2.) Bizarre cult like behavior of people wanting it for no reason.
3.) Observed side effects causing young people to take sick days. (Not staying in arm)
4.) Blatant lying, gaslighting, and propaganda.
CNN “expert” using an article from March of 2022 to spread misinformation about Sweden. This is why the US got it so wrong. People like Reiner lied (and continue to lie) to keep the light on them and the media propped them up as “experts”. Shameful stuff!
@KeithOlbermann
@RepBrianMast
As a product of 12 years of Catholic education despite growing up poor, I'm grateful the world has good people in it who disagree with people like you.
@budweiserusa
Real Americans know the difference between men and women.
Also, Real Americans don't fire every hard working employee of Latrobe Brewing Company, move operations to New Jersey, and then mock Latrobe by still referencing it on the bottle.
Initial lockdowns led to indefinite lockdowns with no exit strategy.
Indefinite lockdowns led to cruel and inhuman mask mandates.
Mandating a useless harmful medical device led to mandating a useless and harmful gene therapy product.
All while children were harmed, the poor
Fascinating how few really want to hear that the March 2020 lockdowns kicked off this disaster. And this is not because it is not true. It's because so many were silent or went along. It's too hard a truth.
@jeffreyatucker
For 10 years I've been pondering this passage.
The thoughts of many hearts have been revealed. Many whom we thought were solid revealed their traitorous motives. Others who we thought were merely mistaken showed their true darkness. And yet others who once appeared as enemies
If you couldn't tell how wicked what happened in early 2020 was, you need to have serious reflection as to why you don't have a functioning conscience:
"Under the guise of executive powers reserved for short-term disasters such as hurricanes, leaders across the West have done
Three years ago this happened.
The tyrants in our midst clearly thought that freedom was theirs to give and to take away, and not an inalienable right endowed by the Creator.
There is no Covid exception to "Love your neighbor as yourself."
If you treat other humans like disgusting vectors of disease then you don't love God..
(3 years ago on my Facebook)
@FredSimonTLM
Every human person not currently in Heaven will let us down.
Never put too much faith in any of us fellow inpatients in the hospital.
Just said a prayer for you!
@rweingarten
@DeAngelisCorey
Plans? You just reopen.
So easy. So simple.
The "plans" were an excuse to stay closed and get money.
Catholic schools were just fine.
The poison of leftism is that it imagines that an oppressor/oppressed relationship (whether real or imagined it doesn't matter) justifies the unjustifiable.
Rioting, looting, the murder of Innocents. These are always evil and only bad people do these things.
The circumstances
It occurs to me that a thread bringing together all of my writing on Corona hysteria might be useful:
1. Already in April of 2020 I applied the basics of Catholic Social Teaching to argue that the indefinite lockdowns we were subjected to were immoral:
WATCH: Asked why CUA students have no access to TLM on campus, +Wilton Gregory says “Tradition dies a slow, sometimes bloody death”, acts like Summorum PontifIcum never happened, & adds that
#PopeFrancis
“is right to say (through
#TraditionisCustodes
) deal with the priests.”(1/4)
Three years ago I posted to Facebook:
A reminder that if you are/were in favor of ruining everyone's lives and livelihoods over a cold virus.
YOU are precisely the problem.
It's SO EASY to not want to deprive men of their natural law rights.
"Because I got scared" is
This is so fundamentally dishonest.
Every bit of public health logic says you ONLY close schools for extremely short periods of time when absenteeism makes opening impossible.
Just like the pagans of old, the Covidians sacrificed children for the stupid beliefs of adults.
The pandemic school closure debate is now often framed as being solely about the kids. However, it's important to acknowledge that in 2020, the focus was mostly about using the kids as guinea pigs (ie subjecting them to a new virus) to achieve herd
immunity + faster reopening.👇🏽
As I sit here awaiting my new driver's license I sincerely ask:
How the heck did anyone trust the government to save them from cold and flu season?
They can't even take new photos efficiently...
"Stay home, stay safe" is not virtue.
It's the mantra of the wealthy and content that are completely fine destroying lives and civilization so that they "feel" safe.
It's the mantra of a coward.
Cowards are evil people.
(My Facebook post 3 years ago today)
Four years ago, most all governments in the Christian world East and West canceled public celebrations of Easter, the day set aside to celebrate the Son of God's triumph of life over death. Nothing like this has happened in 2K years. It was a very bad omen.
@CTmagazine
"Calls for general amnesty or accusations that those of us who got things right only did so through luck are lame attempts at self-absolution. To apply the logic of the confessional: there can be no reconciliation without contrition and firm purpose of amendment."
@CburyCathedral
So, do you all intentionally try to anger God or no longer believe he exists?
It's so hard to keep up with how depraved things are over there...
@jeffreyatucker
The establishment cares only about power and money and has been merely role playing to that end.
Their avarice is never satisfied, thus causing their true natures to be seeable as they overplay their leverage.
The greater the resistance, the more they shall resort to tyranny
Why would fact checkers correct something that is true?
If you are unvaccinated, it's about 3 times more likely you get covid & if you don't get it, you can't spread it.
@jeffreyatucker
I never imagined, while pondering the historical failures of countries to avoid the siren song of tyranny, that the fear of catching cooties would unleash the demons of cruelty and cowardice in our own time.
My latest for
@brownstoneinst
.
In particular, a nod to
@jordanbpeterson
,
@RobertKennedyJr
,
@TuckerCarlson
, and most importantly St. Catherine of Siena:
"Be silent no more! Cry out with one hundred thousand tongues. I see that, because of this silence, the world is in ruins,
Attacking a fellow Catholic as a suspected sedevacantist because he doesn't talk about the current pope enough is a type of vile that I'm not sure we have a word for.
The closest parallel I can think of is Spain during the Inquisition, where not doing your laundry on Saturday as
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or abilities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." -William Penn
"A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we do evil, that good may come of it...To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals." - William Penn
@JohnBeaudoinSr
@EthicalSkeptic
As an undergraduate in Economics (and Mathematics), one class in Econometrics was sufficient for me to know that you can intentionally deceive using the tools at your disposal and how to detect rudimentary attempts at such deception.
The median age of death of about 80 "from
34. In a surreal exchange, Jim Baker, at the time Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel, asks why telling people to not be afraid wasn’t a violation of Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation policy.
How does a life strategy of fear and "stay safe and stay home" end?
"...out of fear I went off and buried your talent in the ground."
"His master said to him in reply, 'You wicked, lazy servant!... And throw this useless servant into the darkness outside,
where there will be
@canonlaw
@dlongenecker1
I have a theory that, beginning with the Reformation, the West has had a series of hysterical reactions that all avoid the root problem:
Lack of faith, hope, and charity, especially among the clergy.
I would be happy to explain to
@CardinalDolan
why you obviously refuse to succumb to mass hysteria.
It was really, really easy to just act normally. You just obey the Master.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan: '... I find myself undertaking an examination of conscience: did we as a Church, here in the US, go too far in obeying all the restrictions imposed during the COVID pandemic, resulting in a lack of pastoral care for those sick?'
@wil_da_beast630
Wearing the academic garb is an interesting flex.
If you changed certain variables, it would be an unacceptable claim of privilege and supremacy.
And yet...