St. Thomas a Becket, Bishop and Martyr

"In the Name of Jesus and the protection of the Church, I am ready to embrace death."

Pope Benedict XVI might not have long to live

News has come from Rome that Pope Benedict XVI doesn't look like he has long to live.

Some more information here: Benedict XVI’s Health Deteriorates| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com)

St. Joseph, patron of happy deaths, intercede for our Pope.

Feast of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist

Today is the feast of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist. He needs no introduction. Out of all the evangelists, he is my favorite.

Fr. Leonard Goffine (1648 - 1719), in his Devout Meditations, has the following summary of the Beloved Disciple:

John, the brother of St. James the Greater, was a son of Zebedee, a fisherman of Galilee, and of Salome, a cousin of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Matt. iv. 21). He was the youngest of the apostles, and with Peter and James, was the most trusted of the disciples of Jesus, by Whom he was tenderly loved, on which account he is called the Disciple of Love. Of this Jesus gave the most convincing evidence when, at the Last Supper, He allowed that disciple to lean upon His breast, and when, from the cross, He committed to the care of John His own Mother. After the ascension John preached the Gospel in Palestine; afterwards went to Asia Minor, fixed his residence in Ephesus, and established many churches there. He was, with the other apostles, taken prisoner and scourged by the Jews, and in the year 95, under the Emperor Domitian, before the Latin Gate, at Rome, was thrown into a vessel of boiling oil. Having endured this torture without injury, he was then banished to the island of Patmos, where, by command of the Lord, he wrote the Apocalypse, or Revelation, concerning the fortunes of the Church. On returning from his banishment, he again governed the churches of Asia Minor as chief pastor, as he had done before, and, at the age of nearly one hundred years, died at Ephesus a peaceful and natural death.

Fr. Goffine also has the following to say about St. John and purity:

'He that loves wisdom,' saith the Holy Ghost, 'will obtain it, for it will not enter into a malicious soul, nor dwell in a body subject to sins' (Wis. i. 4). St. John was from his childhood an angel of purity, on which account he was particularly beloved by Jesus, and endowed by the Holy Ghost with such wisdom and knowledge that, as St. Augustine has remarked, he begin his gospel in a manner more lofty and sublime than the other three evangelists. For while they walk with the God-man upon earth, speaking comparatively little of His divinity, St. John, as if despising the world, soars beyond the vault of heaven, above the host of angels, and comes to Him by Whom all things are made, saying, "In the beginning was the Word." At the Last Supper he was permitted to lean on the bosom of Jesus, but what he there drank in secretly he imparted openly. Apply thyself, therefore, to purity of heart, and thou shalt be like St. John, a beloved disciple of Jesus, and shalt be filled with heavenly wisdom.

Ora pro nobis, Sante Johannes!

Feast of St. Thomas, Apostle and Martyr

Today is the feast of St. Thomas, Apostle and Martyr. He is commonly referred to as "Doubting Thomas," from the account in John 20:24-29. The account John gives is marvelous, and invites plenty of reflection. Before the "reforms" of 1969, the Church encouraged Her Faithful to silently say what Thomas said when he realized he had touched the Word Made Flesh - "My Lord and my God!" - at the Major Elevations at Mass. This is a practice that has fallen to the wayside, and is worthy of revival in one's life.

However, it would be an injustice to focus on Thomas' doubt. (In our day and age, sadly, this is often the case.) After the Upper Room, St. Thomas went on to be an Apostle and Martyr in the truest sense of the words. Here is what Fr. Leonard Goffine (1649 - 1719) wrote about the Saint for December 21st:

Thomas, also called Didymus, or the twin, was a fisherman of Galilee. After having been received among the apostles he accompanied Jesus in all His journeys, and uniformly showed docility, zeal, and love towards Him, particularly on the occasion of His going to Bethany to raise Lazarus from the dead. For when the apostles were afraid to go thither, because the Jews desired to kill Jesus, Thomas, full of courage, said, "Let us also go, that we may die with Him" (John xi.16). His faith, indeed, wavered for a moment in regard to the resurrection of Christ; but no sooner had Christ satisfied him thereof by showing His wounds, than he cried out with firm faith, "My Lord and my God." St. Gregory thereupon says, "God overruled the doubting of Thomas to our good, since that very doubt has profited us more than the ready belief of the other disciples, inasmuch as thereby Christ was induced to give so much clearer proofs of His resurrection, in order to confirm us in the belief of it." Thomas showed the firmness of his faith by the innumerable labors which he undertook, and by the sufferings that he endured for Christ. He traversed the most extensive and remote countries, and preached Jesus to the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Hyrcanians, Bactrians, and other barbarous and wicked nations, enduring in the course of his labors, with astonishing firmness, the greatest sufferings for the honor of God and the salvation of men. Finally he came to India, when, in the city of Calamina, or Meliapor, he underwent a glorious martyrdom, being pierced through with lances, by order of the idolatrous priests, as he was praying at the foot of the cross. So much did the apostle do to repair a single fault; but we, who every day commit so many - what do we do to repair them? 

The Feast of St. Thomas supersedes all but the Sundays in Advent.

Ora pro nobis, Sancte Thoma!

On the case of Father Frank Pavone

A couple of blogs on our "recommended readers" sidebar have commented on the ongoing action currently taken against US-based Priests for Life founder Fr. Frank Pavone. It is enough that I am willing to break my silence on the matter.

I am uncomfortable with the amount of speculation going on with the case. Certainly one can form a sentiment if it was right or not, but only a sentiment. The facts are important here, and we should go to the facts and draw our own conclusions from there, rather than speculating. I have been around the block enough to realize that unmeasured speculations can come back against us, so I will not offer any of my own.

The best I can do is to recommend this article by the Pillar, which was given to me by a dear friend.

Priest for life? A Frank Pavone explainer (pillarcatholic.com)

As always, one is free to draw their own conclusions.

Precious Blood of Our Lord, wash our sins away. 

Words matter. Actions, too.

This was in the sidebar of a blog I visit regularly. The title caught my eye.

Happily not in Communion with Francis - AKA Catholic

I don't know much of Mr. Verrecchio's tacit beef with Mr. Sammons and Dr. Kwasniewski in this piece. I don't know if what he implies about them is correct. Thus, I will leave that where it is.

However, Mr. Verrecchio's base point - that the words we speak and the actions we perpetrate matter - is correct. Words do matter. Actions do matter. Both need to be taken into consideration when we think about someone and a quality of theirs. This is something the Church has held for centuries, drawing from Our Lord's interactions with the people of the Gospels, His Parables, and the vagaries of human nature. An example is helpful. Let's say one of my close friends says he really likes the colour yellow. He frequently says yellow is his favourite colour. However, whenever I am in his presence, which is often, I cannot help but notice that he does not wear much yellow. Green, yes. But very rarely yellow. Therefore, I am right to think that he does not like yellow as much as he says he does. Green is likely his favorite colour. What he said does not mesh with what he acts as.

Bringing this back to the Church, the words we say about the reality around us, and how we act in relation to those words, does matter. They matter a great deal, perhaps more than we realize. If, to use Mr. Verrecchio's impetus as an example, we say we are in communion with Francis as Pope, do our actions afterwards confirm our words or betray them? I leave that to you to answer. We can use this process towards anything, Church-related or not.

May you have a blessed Advent.

St. Raphael

Tom Rosica implicated in more plagiarism; Vox Cantoris vindicated once again

 

Late last night, news broke over the transom that Fr. Tom J. Rosica, plagiarist extraordinaire, was implicated in an astonishing act of plagiarism. We say astonishing because we had expected Rosica to have broken that nasty habit when he was exposed for the world to see in 2019. But, as the saying goes, old habits die hard.

Vox Cantoris, whom Rosica tried to sue in 2015, has the details.

For what it is worth, it is sad to see Tom engaging in more plagiarism. Theft is an ugly habit to have, and leaves a nasty mark on the soul. At the same time, it is good to see Vox's warnings and exposure regarding this man be vindicated. Vox was the first to sound the alarm about Rosica's plagiarizing ways, long before the lawsuit. We understand that this is a fact seldom acknowledged in mainstream Catholic media, and we hope this is rectified soon. 

In the meantime, please offer works of charity for the conversion of Rosica's soul and his return to Christ - as well as for the healing of the wounds caused by his actions, particularly those perpetrated on Vox and Fox Cantoris. 

God reward you for your kindness and generosity.

Magnificat

The twelve TCDSB Trustees you need to support

 

Toronto Catholic Witness received the following via e-mail from a Campaign Life Coalition supporter. Please support your local school Trustee however you can in the upcoming Municipal Election. While we admit it won't solve everything right away, we are of the view it will be a small step in the right direction. A slow cure is better than a fast one. Thank you for your kindness and generosity. 

CLC is endorsing a full slate of trustee candidates running in all 12 Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) Wards in the October 24th Municipal Elections!

Some of these 12 candidates are incumbent trustees who are seeking re-election.

Others are new candidates vying to replace morally corrupted trustees who have run the TCDSB into the ground by embracing the anti-Christian LGBTQ+ agenda.

Below is a listing of all 12 of these courageous, faithful Catholic trustee candidates. Please find the one who is running in your Ward and get involved by supporting their campaign!

NOTE: If you currently direct your taxes to the separate school system, you can vote directly for the candidate running in your Ward.

If you designate your taxes to the public secular system, you can still take lawn signs, volunteer, and make donations to these candidates, and promote them to your Catholic friends in their respective Wards.

Public school ratepayers just won't be able to vote for these candidates at election time.

Support our TCDSB Trustee Candidates

Note: For Interac e-Transfer donations, include your full address for accounting purposes.

	TCDSB WARD 01 Support ROBERT PELLA 1. Take a Lawn Sign: Click here 2. Volunteer: Click here  3. Donate: Send an Interac e-Transfer to robertpella@hotmail.com or mail cheque, payable to "Robert Pella Campaign", to: 906 - 61 Markbrook Lane, Toronto, ON  M9V 5E7
	TCDSB WARD 02 Support GABRIELLA MAZARAKIS 1. Take a Lawn Sign: Click here 2. Volunteer: Click here 3. Donate: On her website, or Send an Interac e-Transfer to gabriella4ward2@gmail.com, or on gofundme, or mail cheque, payable to "Gabriella Mazarakis", to: 25 Neiltree Court, Toronto, ON  M9C 5C3
	TCDSB WARD 03 Support GREGORY RODRIGUEZ 1. Take a Lawn Sign: Click here 2. Volunteer: Click here 3. Donate: Visit Gregory's website here and click on the "Donate" button at top-right.
	TCDSB WARD 04 Support TERESA LUBINSKI 1. Take a Lawn Sign: Click here 2. Volunteer: Click here 3. Donate: By clicking here.
	TCDSB WARD 05 Support PHIL HORNAK 1. Take a Lawn Sign: Click here 2. Volunteer: Click here
	TCDSB WARD 06 Support MICHAEL CHAMPAGNE 1. Take a Lawn Sign: Click here 2. Volunteer: Click here 3. Donate: Send an Interac e-Transfer to SOCS.Ward6@gmail.com
	TCDSB WARD 07 Support MIKE DEL GRANDE 1. Volunteer: Click here
	TCDSB WARD 08 Support GARRY TANUAN 1. Take a Lawn Sign: Click here 2. Volunteer: Click here 3. Donate: Send an Interac e-Transfer to garry.tanuan@gmail.com
	TCDSB WARD 09 Support RENATO FALLICO 1. Volunteer: Click here
	TCDSB WARD 10 Support ELISABETH GARCIA 1. Take a Lawn Sign: email her at electegarcia@gmail.com 2. Volunteer: Click here 3. Donate: Send an Interac e-Transfer to electegarcia@gmail.com
	TCDSB WARD 11 Support CELINE DINOVA 1.Take a Lawn Sign: email her at voteforceline2022@proton.me 2. Volunteer: Click here 3. Donate: Send an Interac e-Transfer to voteforceline2022@proton.me
	TCDSB WARD 12 Support NANCY CRAWFORD 1. Volunteer: Click here

 

Let us thank the Lord for his Providence in inspiring these devoted Catholics to step forth in defending the Christian faith in the school board created to promote and protect it: the Toronto Catholic District School Board!

Thanks, and God bless.

Jeff Gunnarson
National President
Campaign Life Coalition

P.S. If you want to double-check which school system you're currently designated to vote for, or to change the school system, visit this government-run website here.

Salve Regina

FUNERAL OF HER MAJESTY, QUEEN ELIZABETH II

 

BATTLE OF BRITAIN DAY ~ 82nd ANNIVERSARY

 

Please support the re-election of Ward 4, TCDSB Trustee, Teresa Lubinski!

Mrs. Teresa Lubinski, TCDSB Ward 4 School Trustee

Toronto Catholic Witness received the following via e-mail. Long-time readers will recognize Mrs. Lubinski's name from her chronicled track record of defending Catholic teaching in the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB). In 2019, she was one of the four (out of 12!) Trustees who opposed the inclusion of gender ideology into the TCDSB's Human Rights Code. 

Mrs. Lubinski is currently up for re-election as School Trustee. She represents Ward 4, which covers Etobicoke-Lakeshore and Parkdale-High Park. She is an outstanding lady and is deserving of your support. If you live within Ward 4, please read on to find several different ways to directly support her re-election. Thank you for your kindness and generosity.

Your support is needed to get Teresa Lubinski re-elected as Toronto Catholic School Board trustee in Ward 4, Etobicoke Lakeshore and Parkdale-High Park! She is up against two other candidates who are former trustees, but Teresa Lubinski is the only one who has a consistent record of voting for Catholic values.  We need to get her re-elected! 

Will you help us get her name out to all the 30,000 Catholic voters in Ward 4? Our goal is to get Teresa Lubinski's flyers to most of the Catholic voters by the Advance poll dates on October 7th-14th and to all of the voters by the election date on October 24th. We have less than 5 weeks to go! This is why we need your urgent help.

Please let her know if you are able to make a commitment to distribute flyers to homes, churches or schools by sending Teresa an e-mail.  

If you are not ready to commit to distributing flyers, you can still help by talking to friends, family, neighbours, fellow parishioners, and priests to vote, volunteer, or donate to her campaign.  The future of our children relies on your help protecting Catholic values in our schools. 

To Volunteer: Send an email to ReElectLubinski@gmail.com with your name and which neighbourhoods you can distribute flyers in.

To Donate: Click here

For Questions: Click here

Contact for Teresa Lubinski Campaign

E-mail: ReElectLubinski@gmail.com

Twitter twitter.com/LubinskiTeresa

Facebook  facebook.com/TeresaLubinskiTrustee

Web www.teresalubinski.com

No candidate can do it alone, so please consider assisting her in her campaign, in any way you can!

QUEEN ELIZABETH II: REQUIESCAT IN PACE

Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II died today at Balmoral at the age of 96. May Our Lord Jesus Christ be merciful upon her soul. 

 

"Come on out, come on out, there's going to be a war". Reflections on the Anniversary of World War 2

This day, 83 years ago, the forces of Satan crossed the Polish border and unleashed on the world a torrent of bloodshed. In the early hours of that fateful day, Nazi aircraft began to bomb Warsaw leading to the eventual occupation of that nation with co-conspirator, Soviet Russia. The Bolsheviks attacked Poland on the 17th, following the secret protocols in the vile Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. In fact, Nazis had even been training in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. The right and left hand of Satan met at the river San - the dividing line between the two totalitarian States. Eventually, due to far greater organization and international connections and assorted fellow travellers,  the communist empire would devour more than half of Europe and lead to its monstrous extension over the globe leading to such a death count, that even the fiendish Hitler would end up looking like a choir boy. 

 "Come on out, come on out, there's going to be  a war", were the words my mother recalled to me of her mother hurrying down to the ocean side as she played with my uncle at Southend on Sea. That fateful day was September 3rd, and Britain and France had just declared war on Germany. A few hundred miles away, in my father's country the forces of Satanic evil were busily at work, already bombing hospitals and murdering civilians. 

Stalin directing Hitler into a losing war 

The result for Poland was the virtual extermination of Poland's Jews - protected by King Kazimir the Great centuries earlier, when Jews were being hounded out of other European states. Nazi hatred for the Catholic Church too was on display with arrests and executions of priests. Mass was proscribed, with the sole Mass at the Wawel Cathedral under the eye of the Gestapo. It was in this environment that the great Archbishop Sapiecha would take on a seminarian named Karol Wojtyla. 

My father was a witness to Nazi brutality. Early during the war, he and my grandmother on a number of occasions would sneak food to the Jews of Przemysl and pass food through the wired off area where the Jews were kept, prior to deportation to the death camps. My father always remembered this, and he remembered to his horror seeing behind the wire a young teenage boy from his class in school. Eventually my father would be arrested in a "Lapanka" (or street catch) and sent to Germany for slave labour. He then ended up in Norway on an island doing tree cutting; transferred to a camp near the Swedish border, he and another teenager escaped up into the mountains and to freedom in Sweden. He always remembered seeing the German Army motorbikes travelling along the road far below looking for them. In fact, this escape was even more daring for two young men had tried it earlier and had been shot. From Stockholm he eventually he would end up in Scotland in the armed forces... from then, onto London where he met my very English mother (who left London and spent her war years in Llandudno, Wales) - and the rest is history. 

So, please pray for Poland that she may remain true to her ancient Faith.

Welcome home, Mr. LaBeouf - and make yourself at home for the long haul

UPDATE: This isn't a good look for the upcoming movie.

My Facebook feed is awash with news of Shia LaBeouf - a Hollywood actor - converting to Holy Mother Church as a consequence of portraying St. Padre Pio for an upcoming movie. He recently gave an interview to Bishop Robert Barron:

The interview is edifying, not just for the story itself, but how Mr. LaBeouf converted. According to LaBeouf, it was experiencing the Old Mass itself that played an instrumental role. Bishop Barron was also on fine form, to give further edification. The Bishop has had a poor record in that arena, so credit where it is due.

The interview has already been shared widely and reported by such outlets as Fox News. It has even gone to the point where people have "meme-fied" the interview, putting up pictures such as this:

It was this picture that led to this post.

Friends, it is very good that Mr. LaBeouf has converted. Praise be to God and All That He Is for the great grace we are witnessing. Our Lord spent a lot of time looking for this lost sheep. 

However, I think we need to give Mr. LaBeouf absolute privacy when it comes to his conversion and the subsequent growth and maturation in the Faith. I say this as a form of caution. I dislike saying this. Mr. LaBeouf is a Hollywood actor and is in the limelight as a consequence. When people are in the limelight as constantly as he is, there is a danger that we (as Catholics) will make them out as greater than he is, or that he will turn around and disappoint us to some degree, perhaps even doing away with the Catholic faith altogether.

There are strong signs this conversion is genuine. However, Catholic Hollywood actors such as Mark Whalberg have disappointed us in the past, simply because we put them on a pedestal and they turned out not so great. (See, for example, the Ted movies and the recent Father Stu.) Mr. LaBeouf is no exception - though I hope he is.

I think it is imperative we leave him alone from here on out, and let his personal friends in the Capuchins (not to mention Bishop Barron) help him.

That being said...

Welcome home, Mr. LaBeouf. Make yourself at home. We hope you stay for the long haul, and discover the richness of the Faith in the same way I and so many others have - and stayed.

God bless you and keep you in the way Only He can.

"In Him there was life, and that life was the light of men." (John 1:4)

The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 1747, by Fray Miguel Melchor de Herrara

This beautiful painting has several Scripture references. When I realized that, the Prologue from John came to mind. Scripture and His Sacred Heart are intertwined - for Our Lord Jesus Christ was, and always will be, the Word made Flesh.

St. Raphael

The puppet Kiev Regime shows again what the West's war against Russia is really about

 

Vladimir Putin with children

Joe Biden with children

Most readers should be aware that following the collapse of the western-imposed Bolshevik terror regime on the peoples of Russia, the Slavic Nation has been making increasing strides towards a Christian revival. Much work needs to be done, however, the campaign of the Putin-Medvedev governments have shown great fruit in rebuilding thousands of churches, as well as an increasing "symphony" between Church and State (anyone read Pius XII's Quas Primas?). 

 

Meanwhile in the Ukraine, the US-EU puppet regime of "Elensky" (after all "Z" is banned) has now announced that it will be seeking to introduce "civil partnerships" into legislation in a push to fully legalize eventually the horror of same-sex "marriage".

From Interfax Religion: 

The Ukrainian Constitution cannot be changed during martial law or a state of emergency, Zelensky said. "At the same time, the government has elaborated possible solutions to legalize a registered civil partnership in Ukraine in furtherance of the effort to endorse and observe human rights and freedoms," he said.

It should be noted that the long-suffering peoples of the Ukraine (used as cannon fodder in the NATO directed war that commenced with the putsch in 2014) despise sodomy, as all traditional Slavic peoples do. After an abortive "gay pride" parade in Odessa, a priest went about purifying the area with holy water. Would that our priests (dare I say bishops!) in Canada have such courage! But alas, they sit silent like mutes.

 

This perverted scheme of Elensky and his puppet masters will come to naught. The ultimate fate of Elensky and his corrupt regime remains to be seen, but it is becoming highly likely he will either be overthrown by what is left of the Ukrainian Army (exposed as an enemy of the Ukraine and eventually be tried for treason for dragging the nation into a completely unnecessary war on behalf of the imperialist war-mongering NATO globalist elites and sending 60,000 (and counting) young Ukrainian men to needless death), or flee to one of his mansions in the decadent "West".

Meanwhile in Russia we have the following counter-blow against the "LGBT" juggernaut. Would that Washington, Westminster, Ottawa, or Brussels bring in legislation to stop the dissemination of "LGBT" propaganda. Think carefully friends, as to whom God is looking favourably upon right now. One thing I do know, it is not the demonic West (were not high ranking members of the Biden regime just recently in South Korea pushing "LGBT" ideology? Did not "Taiwan" just recently "legalize" perverted "marriages" as a nod towards its puppet master? How long will it take for people to realize that their governments are run by a bunch of perverts?). 

From Interfax Religion we have the following from Nikolay Burlyayev, first deputy head of the State Duma Committee for the Development of Civil Society, Issues of Public and Religious Associations, member of the Patriarchal Council for Culture:

Question: One of the authors of the law, Alexander Khinshtein, said that it will also affect online cinemas. However, as you rightly noted, in recent decades, in almost every film shot in Europe and America, at least one character turns out to be an LGBT representative. In many of such films, as a rule, superstars were shot, and these films were professionally dubbed at the studios of Russia. Does it mean that the new law will deprive the Russian adult viewer of the opportunity to see or re-watch these films?

Burlyayev: That's right. And thank God, because it will be a boon for Russia. I can't say for sure to what extent the law will affect online cinemas, these measures will be worked out later. The main thing now is to pass the law itself, and the specifics will be further discussed and changed. But what will definitely change is that rental certificates will be issued more deliberately.

Question: What are the chances of adoption of this bill?

Burlyayev: There is opposition, of course, but, as Nikolay Gogol said, there is a battle going on now, the most important battle for the human soul, and this battle has not only not ended since Gogol's time, but it has become tougher. As Dostoevsky wrote, "the devil is fighting with God, and the battlefield is the hearts of people." This struggle is going on in every heart, because sin is attractive, and even the screen shows vice as something very interesting. But that time is passed, I hope.

The full Q and A can be read here. 

 

Some thoughts on a Thursday afternoon

 

• The Pope is visiting Canada. I have no inclination to keep up on the news about it. As far as I am concerned, it is a political stunt and that is where I am leaving it.
• I saw this posted earlier. I did not watch it, as the title turned me right off. I did go into the comments on the video, which has a lot of comments badmouthing others, even grandmothers. This is not right. Each and every time I come across the word "radical traditionalists," or "rad trads," it is always used pejoratively  and comes across as smug. As in, "I'm not like those people." I will concur that there are some issues to discuss - such is the nature of our fallen nature - but I think we can do that discussion without resorting to labels or badmouthing those who came before us.
• Speaking of speaking badly of others, the same can be said about sedevacantists and like groups. It seems to be a cool thing now to push such folks off to the side or use the descriptor sedevacantist as a pejorative. Let's not do that. Yes, there are some who are off their rocker or spend too much time investigating this or that thing, but they have some smart things to say as a whole. I don't think we should write them off so quickly on account on a few bad apples. Many of the sedevacantists I have encountered are just as reasonable as you and I. They are intelligent and collected. Their response just happens to be an extreme response to an equally extreme situation. Bar their ultimate conclusion, which I don't agree with, I find many sedevacantists' observations  and logic hard to dismiss.
• When you have a moment, check out Vox Cantoris. He has had some things to say over the past few days.
• Anne Catherine Emmerich's revelations are a boon to meditation.

Fr. John O'Connor IS BACK! The Homosexual Conspiracy against the Catholic Church

Russia moves to ban all LGBT propaganda. The "Christian" West goes full degenerate

If someone had said in January of this year that within a month "fifties traditionalists" (allegedly erstwhile enemies of the degenerate western media) would reverse their position and ally with neocon "Catholics" and join with them the open avowed enemies of the Church and agitprop mouthpieces for neoliberal globalism in attacking Russia (including the scandal of re-tweeting Russia-hating notorious sodomites) one would have thought that this was a sick joke.

Alas, the insidiousness of liberalism in the Church (in the United States known as Americanism) enabled this orgy of copulating with such unlikely fellow travellers as: globalists, lockdown fanatics, big-pharma mafiosi, western corporate media, international finance, corporate capitalism, neoliberal ideologues, socialists, "Christian" zionists, communists, freemasons, modernist "Catholics" etc.) to form a cacophony of hatred against a resurgent Orthodox Russia. 

This diabolically inspired hate will rise to a level of apoplectic madness, now that a new law has been tabled in the Duma to extend the criminality of LGBT and gender ideology propaganda irrespective of age. Concomitant with it will be a clause that will also provide for even harsher punishments for those engaged in promoting pedophilia. President Putin had warned the degenerate West last February that it would not succeed in pushing its anti-human and unnatural vices into the Russian world. He was mocked as a "madman" in their "reviews" of his speeches. Let them mock.

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau:
Mock on, mock on: ‘tis all in vain!
You throw the sand against the wind,
And the wind blows it back again.

William Blake  

 

The Orthodox "symphony" of church and state

As the Orthodox Church in Russia continues to gain in strength, expect the raging and bellowing from the western Christ-haters (joined by the above-mentioned useful idiots of fake "Catholicism") to become even more demonic and hysterical. 

 

President Putin attending Divine Liturgy in St. Petersburg

Meanwhile in the "devout Christian" West we find the following from its debauched mis-"leaders", busy promoting a continual, accelerating downward spiral of moral confusion, degeneration, and evil.

 

Macron with degenerate sybarites

 

Biden in a gay bar

Trudeau with a drag queen

From Interfax: 

Russia plans to ban propaganda of non-traditional relations for everyone regardless age

Moscow, July 11, Interfax - Propaganda regarding non-traditional relations will be banned in Russia for everyone regardless of their age, State Duma Information Policy, IT and Communications Committee head Alexander Khinshtein said.

"Such a ban [on propaganda regarding non-traditional sexual relations] currently only applies to children. Of course, that is clearly not enough. We suggest generally applying the ban on such propaganda regardless of the age of the audience (offline, in the mass media, on the Internet, on social networks, and also in online movie theaters)," Khinshtein said on his Telegram channel on Monday.

He also said it has been proposed to introduce administrative liability for such propaganda, expanding Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offences (it currently applies only to propaganda among minors and envisages a fine in the amount of up to one million rubles, 15 days of arrest, and suspension of the operations of a legal entity).

It is also envisaged to introduce a separate, even tougher liability for the propaganda of pedophilia.

It is also proposed to "ban the dissemination among children not only of propaganda, but also any other information demonstrating non-traditional sexual relations and perversions," the parliamentarian said.

"These initiatives have already been tentatively coordinated with [Russia's telecoms watchdog] Roskomnadzor and the Digital Development Ministry," Khinshtein said.

The State Duma Information Policy Committee has started working on these initiatives, and "we will be ready to discuss them publicly in the fall session," he said.

Earlier in July, State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin proposed to ban propaganda regarding non-traditional values.

LGBT propaganda among minors is currently banned in Russia. A bill banning this propaganda overall has been submitted to the State Duma.