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2012/12/24 · 03:46

The American Pledge of Allegiance — Christmas version from K of C — a great example of the separation of Church and State (under God – born/unborn)

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of
the United States of America and
to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all, born & unborn.

From the Knights of Columbus:

The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States originated on Columbus Day, 1893. It contained no reference to Almighty God, until in New York City on April 22, 1951, the Board of Directors of the Knights of Columbus adopted a resolution to amend the Pledge of Allegiance as recited at the opening of each of the meetings of the 800 Fourth Degree Assemblies of the Knights of Columbus by the addition of the words “under God” after the words “one nation”.

The adoption of this resolve by the Supreme Board of Directors had the effect of an immediate initiation of this practice throughout the aforesaid Fourth Degree Assembly meetings. At their annual State Meetings, held in April and May of 1952, the State Councils of Florida, South Dakota, New York and Michigan adopted resolutions recommending that the Pledge of Allegiance be so amended and that Congress be petitioned to have such amendment made effective.

On August 21, 1952, the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus, at its annual meeting, adopted a resolution urging that the change be made general and copies of this resolution were sent to the President, the Vice President (as Presiding Officer of the Senate) and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The National Fraternal Congress meeting in Boston on September 24, 1952, adopted a similar resolution upon the recommendation of its President, Supreme Knight Luke E. Hart. Several State Fraternal Congresses acted likewise almost immediately thereafter. At its annual meeting the following year, on August 20, 1953, the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus repeated its resolution to make this amendment to the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag general and to send copies of this resolve to the President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, and to each member of both Houses of Congress.

From this latter action, many favorable replies were received, and a total of seventeen resolutions were introduced in the House of Representatives to so amend the Pledge of Allegiance as set forth in the Public Law relating to the use of the flag. The resolution introduced by Congressman Louis C. Rabaut of Michigan was adopted by both Houses of Congress, and it was signed by President Eisenhower on Flag Day, June 14, 1954, thereby making official the amendment conceived, sponsored, and put into practice by the Knights of Columbus more than three years before.

In a message to Supreme Knight Luke E. Hart at the meeting of the Supreme Council in Louisville, August 17, 1954, President Eisenhower, in recognition of the initiative of the Knights of Columbus in originating and sponsoring the amendment to the Pledge of Allegiance, said:

“We are particularly thankful to you for your part in the movement to have the words ‘under God’ added to our Pledge of Allegiance. These words will remind Americans that despite our great physical strength we must remain humble. They will help us to keep constantly in our minds and hearts the spiritual and moral principles which alone give dignity to man, and upon which our way of life is founded. For the contribution which your organization has made to this cause, we must be genuinely grateful.”

In August, 1954, the Illinois American Legion Convention adopted a resolution whereby recognition was given to the Knights of Columbus as having initiated, sponsored and brought about the amendment to the Pledge of Allegiance; and on October 6, 1954, the National Executive Committee of the American Legion gave its approval to that resolution.

* * * Rant * * *

I once knew a Catholic priest who campaigned to remove the phrase “one God” from the Pledge of Allegiance for the reason that he didn’t want to offend Muslims, because… (begin sarcasm:) as we all know, of course, Muslims would never ever say that the world and the United States belong to Allah, whom they hold to be God. (end sarcasm).

As it is, any Muslim who happened to have a sword in his hand at the time it was said to him by a liberal Catholic priest that the words “under God” should be removed from the Pledge would just that quickly cut the head off the liberal Catholic priest. On second thought, he would probably let him live, since he served to deaden his parish to their virtue of patriotism so as to think that they were being nice to Muslims. That can serve a purpose for Islam.

Fortunately, real patriots are not slowed down by liberal Catholic priests. Real patriots are good servants of the nation, but of God first, always faithful to the Church.

* * * end rant * * *

The Knights have also begun to add the words “born and unborn” at the end. Good thing, because this is what we’ve come to in anti-Christmas America:

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The president’s Planned Parenthood even opens on Christmas just to mock both God and man. This can’t go on. Such bloodshed must be followed by a persecution of the church of unprecedented proportions.

Mind you, many martyrs are a blessing for eternal life and even for the conversion and enlivened faith of those who remain on earth for just another short period of time before they also enter into eternity.

Now, this from a story of hope and healing after abortion.

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2012/12/19 · 16:49

“Whoever started this Christmas thing ought to be shot!” — “Don’t worry. We already crucified Him!”

black friday from TLM Maryland

J.M. sent this in an email:

WHO STARTED CHRISTMAS

A woman was Christmas shopping with her two children. After many hours of walking down row after row of toys and after hours of hearing both her children asking for everything they saw on those many shelves, she finally made it to the store elevator with her two children in hand. She was feeling what so many of us feel during the holiday season time of the year, getting that perfect gift for every single person on our shopping list, making sure we don’t forget anyone on our card list, and the pressure of making sure we respond to everyone who sent us a card.

Finally the elevator doors opened revealing a crowd in the car. She pushed her way in and dragged her two kids and all her bags of stuff in with her. As the doors closed she couldn’t take it anymore and blurted out, “Whoever started this whole Christmas thing should be found, strung up, and shot.”

From the back of the car, a quiet calm little voice responded, “Don’t worry, we’ve already crucified Him.”

The rest of the trip down was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop. Don’t forget this year to keep the One who started this whole Christmas thing in your every thought, deed, purchase, and word. If we all would, just think how much better this world would be. Jesus is the reason for the season and wise men still seek Him.

Amen!

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2012/12/06 · 07:06

The Coca Cola Company’s Saint Nick and the Catholic Bishop of Myra who helped prostitutes

This image from The Coca Cola Company incorporates Haddon Sundblom’s Santa Claus. Santa is from Saint and Claus is from Nicholas. Nika is Greek for conqueror and laus is Greek for People. Saint Nick is the Conqueror of People.

The Coca Cola site mentions that Saint Nick is sometimes depicted in Bishop’s robes, that is, the red with ermine borders. They don’t say that he was a Roman Catholic Diocesan Bishop. They don’t say that the Catholic Church canonized him as a saint. They don’t say that he worked countless miracles in his unending work of serving our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the poorest of the poor. They absolutely don’t say that this holy bishop went out of his way to financially help the desperately poor father of three girls, who were in immediate danger of being pimped by their father into prostitution in an effort to make some money.

Sundblom’s depiction depicts the innocent joy of chastity and fellowship. I wonder why Snap doesn’t sue Coca Cola for the outrage of depicting a Catholic Bishop in a good and holy manner! At any rate, isn’t it always amazing how thoroughly  the secular culture  uses all that which is Roman Catholic in origin for all that is good and holy? Actually, no suprise there. Think about how the world history books in use in high schools and universities utterly ignore the Catholic Church, so that only about 1% of history is actually presented, a distorted 1% at that.

Today’s feast of Saint Nick is overwhelmingly huge still today in some countries around the world, where the canonized saint, and not Coca Cola’s marketing is celebrated. I love how gift giving is associated with a Catholic saint. Don’t forget, in remembrance of this great saint, remember that gift giving can be saving men, women, teenagers and children from prostitution. And wouldn’t that make for a wonderful celebration of Christmas all around! What can you do today ?

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2012/12/01 · 19:32

Father Montz and Holy Souls Hermitage: These stats don’t lie. His post-election sermon nailed it.

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father jeffrey montzI gotta hand it to the great Father Jeffrey Montz. It took him three weeks, but his post-election sermon has now surpassed in popularity all other posts on the blog except for my common sense prediction concerning the upcoming decision on the fate of Medjugorje. God bless you, Father Montz.

Let this be a lesson to all priests who want to preach strongly, but still have a bit of fear. Have NO fear. Take a good example:

Update: Transcript of a great post-election sermon by Father Jeffrey Montz

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2012/11/28 · 00:05

THE NEW YORK TIMES — COMPLICITY WITH THE HOLOCAUST STILL TODAY

The upshot of this article: Not only was The New York Times run by Holocaust denying Nazi sympathizers during and after World War II, but this is still the case today, with the particularly tragic edge of sarcasm and cynicism known only to those who defend their crimes against humanity. It is not too harsh to speak of sympathy with Hitler when the most powerful mass media instrument of the day downplayed and buried and, indeed, effectively denied that there was anything even like a Final Solution, as Hitler called his genocide. And that denial is, of course, a crime. Continue reading →

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2012/11/24 · 08:05

Father George privileged to be “doing time” with the Great Pornchai “Super-Max”imilian Moontri

A package arrived at Holy Souls Hermitage from the New Hampshire State Prison for Men. It’s from Pornchai. What could it be? Let’s investigate. Continue reading →

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2012/11/23 · 05:55

Obama’s Mockery of Catholic Confession as noted by Father Gordon MacRae. Who’s the real turkey?

Skip to 5’45″ in the video. Just the last few seconds.

Obama: “Alright. I gotta give the special dispensation.” Then, while making the Catholic Sign of the Cross over the turkey, he says, “Here’s that pardon. Congratulations, Cobbler, you have a great life ahead of you. O.K. Give Cobbler a big round of applause! Alright, we don’t want to overdo it.”

Now, having taken note of that, I see this comment coming in on another post on Thanksgiving, but I thought it best to put it in its own post, giving it the exposure it merits:

Hello Fr. George,

I wanted to wish you a Blessed Thanksgiving and also let you know that [...]

I wonder if I am the only person who noticed, but as I watched footage of our president pardoning his annual turkeys – an event that I always find to be painful – I distinctly saw him make the sign of cross over the turkey he was pardoning. I think this got by most people. It was most insensitive, and even though it was spontaneous, there is much truth in spontaneity. I interpreted it as a gesture of contempt, and not contempt for the turkey. If this footage is available somewhere, have a look.

With blessings, Your friend, Fr. Gordon

Prayers and blessings in return, Father Gordon (about).

Yes, well, I did take a look, finding not only the video and pictures for this year, but also pictures of previous years, which demonstrate that Obama carries out this mockery specifically of the Catholic Sacrament of Confession every year. He even adds words of encouragement to the pentitent about a better, great life ahead. So, it’s even worse than you might have thought. It’s not spontaneous. It’s scripted contempt.

Of course, there are many, especially Catholics who do not go to Confession, who will think that this mock absolution is just so very extremely cute — OH! HOW CUTE! — and they will be most offended by any comment to the contrary, thinking that nay-sayers are just too serious about everything, and need to lighten up, and that we should support PETA (actually read People Eating Tasty Animals), and that we should vote for Obama for a third term, and that we should all cry as we hold candles and say softly in the evening breeze “Yes, we can! Yes, we can! Yes, we can!”, and that all those meanies out there should support free abortion and infanticide for all, and that all those conservative Catholics and pro-life non-Catholics should be marginalized in society through insurance non-compliance penalties, and that — as a tantrum ensues — It’s just so cute how our wonderful Leader makes the Catholic Sign of the Cross over the Turkey! Cute! Cute! Cute! (spittle-flecks all around).

Yes, I agree, “I think this got by most people.”

And, sure, there will be some who will say that this goes back to George Bush and, in fact, to J.F.K., a Catholic!

But they are wrong. The National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation does go back to J.F.K., but this had nothing to do with any pardon. He said, and I quote: “Let’s just keep him.” This was less than a week before he was assassinated. The National Turkey Federation wanted some free press and political niceness in presenting a great meal to the beloved President.

Ronald Reagan compared his presidential pardon of Oliver North (I loved watching those hearings on C-SPAN!) with his having sent a turkey out to pasture. Well, O.K.

The first George Bush started giving turkeys a scripted ”presidential pardon”, but that was a strictly political exercise, which had nothing at all to do with religion. The idea was: They’re all turkeys, but we’ll let them go anyway, whether by way of pardons, conditional pardons, commutations of sentence, conditional commutations of sentence, remissions of fines and forfeitures, respites and amnesties.

It wasn’t until Obama came along that the Catholic Sacrament of Confession entered the script, complete with theatrical actions. Obama has a penchant for attacking the freedom of religion, specifically of the Catholic Church. He says that he will permit freedom of worship as if it were his personal prerogative, but he attacks this as being no more important than a Rose Garden photo-op. He knows that his forbidding Catholics the freedom of religion, of conscience, in the public square, forcing Catholics to pay for abortions and abortifacients, for forced organ donations and euthanasia (which go hand in hand)… He knows that this also means that Catholic conscience in worship, in confession, is merely a joke, like pardoning a turkey. Sure, he’ll pardon one or two or three, like Biden or Pelosi or Sebelius, but he’ll have all the millions of other Catholics, those unpardoned enemies of the State, for dinner.

The real turkey is any Catholic who voted for Obama and his persecution of the Catholic Church.

Even if you didn’t vote for Obama, don’t be a turkey. Go to confession and get a real absolution while you can.

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2012/11/04 · 21:43

09 For Greater Glory – Cristeros – Film review – Just war theory (Part 9)

The hanging of the cristeros “from Monterrey to Veracruz”…

Here’s the response of General Gorostieta to the ”agreement” of Calles, who only pretends to compromise by providing just a little tiny bit of some religious freedom:

We will defeat this government. We will overthrow Calles. And we will establish a democratic government that repects the rights of the people, especially the basic right to worship God in peace. And with God on our side we will prevail.

Of course, God is not so much on our side as we are to be on God’s side, though for us to be on God’s side God has to first of all be on our side, as it were, so to speak. You get the idea.

The general’s statement sealed the rest of the Cristeros’ uprising against the monstrous President Calles. The statement would still be hanging in the air when the general himself would give his life for the cause of religous freedom for a religion in which he now believed. True life begins the other side of death, does it not? It does.

Again, just as a reminder, to those who think that religious freedom, freedom to live by one’s conscience also in public life, isn’t such a big deal, and that religious minded people ought to be content with freedom of worship alone, which is what Obama thinks… such people ought to remember that the two, private worship and public engagement, cannot be separated. When there is no freedom of religious conscience in public life, all private worship will shut down as a danger to the state. Saying Mass will be a capital crime, subversion, a risk to national security. And then the wholesale slaughter, “ethnic cleansing” will ensue.

That’s the way it’s been for some two thousand years. Know your history. Watch it play out again.

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· 08:33

02 For Greater Glory – Cristeros – Film review – Just war theory (Part 2)

Obama says that he can constitutionally limit freedom of religion to worship in closed buildings. Chief Justice Roberts agrees. Roberts signed his legislation, his judicial trumping of the constitution, which cannot but have the effect of a death warrant, a persecution of Catholics, even to death as time marches quickly on.

So, the attempt is already being made to force Catholics to formally participate in murdering their young neighbors in the womb by trying to force them to pay for abortifacients for girls who, in Obama’s opinion, just because they are girls, just can’t help themselves in their college years and need to have sex, sex, sex, you know, for free, as if they are having sex with him (as per his obscene political television message). But it’s O.K., he says, for Catholics to have Mass indoors, all that hocus pocus stuff.

Lots of Catholics agree. I’ve met many. They think Obama is God’s gift to the world, that abortion and contraception and planned parenthood is just great. They will vote for Obama, of course, and then go where after they die?

Anyway, one cannot divide one’s conscience which must be formed by the Church and which one must act on in public life (rejecting Obamacare and its penalties), from worship.

How is it that one could offer Jesus, the Head of the Mystical Body, during Mass, but then go ahead and put the littlest, most defenseless members of that same Mystical Body to death in the womb? “What you have done to the least of these you have done to me” says the King of the Universe. The cowardice of killing such defenseless people is what? There’s just no description…

As Obama wades through the corpses of the little ones he’s helped to slaughter on his way to judgment (for we will all be judged by our Lord), do you think he and those who vote for him so enthusiastically will get a good hearing?

Just to say, there will be no freedom of worship if he is re-elected. Catholics will be held to be enemies of the state. The Department of Health and Human Services, the new polit-bureau (which can legislate at will, on anything), has already stated that the Catholic Church is out to bring down the Government of the U.S.A. by not wanting to support Planned Parenthood.

This is the worst it’s ever been ever in the history of mankind. I mean, usually, tyrannical rulers just want people to go against their conscience by offering incense to the gods, to the politicians of the day. Sometimes, as in this past century, until today, they have instigated genocides of hundreds of millions of peoples. Hundreds of millions.

But now, it is insisted that people pay for the sacrifice of the little ones to the politicians of the day against their consciences. That brings it all to a whole other level. We are on the threshold.

There will be no freedom of worship. Instead, let’s just repeat that picture:

For Greater Glory is now on DVD. A. Must. See.

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2012/09/10 · 11:38

The Great Pornchai Moontri. His craftsmanship. His spirit. His Friendship. His Birthday… And his being re-written by the Word of God

Happy Birthday to the Great Pornchai Moontri! When I published this post, it was his birthday. Now he’s already working on his next year. By the way, I’m told that his first name is pronouned something like “Punch-eye”, but maybe putting the hyphen after “Pun”.

This post now makes a dozen posts in which Pornchai has been mentioned or been the very subject of the post. Yet, it’s been a little while since I’ve put anything up about him. Those who don’t know Pornchai already will surely be inspired by reading the following articles. I only include a few here, since some of these articles have many other links for you to follow. You have to know that Pornchai is a bit of a hero of mine. His saga in coming to know the friendship of Jesus is entirely awesome. He has all my respect:

(1) 28 December 2007 — Pornchai’s Story — (reprinted by Bill Donohue of the Catholic League) This is a MUST READ. Pornchai wrote this himself.

(2) 7 April 2010 — My Fifty Seven — by Father Gordon MacRae

(3) 22 July 2011 — Narrow Gate — on A Ram in the Thicket by Ryan MacDonald

(4) 11 April 2012 – The Duty of a Knight by Pornchai Moontri

In a previous post, I extracted a few brief citations from those articles, just to let you know where this is going:

(1) My name is Pornchai Moontri, and I am prisoner #38284 [That's been changed to 77948] in the New Hampshire State Prison. I come to the Catholic faith after a painful journey in darkness that my friend, Father Gordon MacRae, has asked me to write candidly. This is not something I do easily, but I trust my friend.

I was born in Bua Nong Lamphu, a small village in the north of Thailand near Khon Kaen on September 10, 1973. At the age of two, I was abandoned by my mother to be sold. A distant teenaged relative rescued me. He walked many miles to carry me away to his family farm where I worked throughout my childhood raising water buffalo, rice, and sugar cane. I never attended school, however, and never learned to read and write in Thai. Though my childhood involved hard work, I was safe and happy.

When I was 11 years old, my mother re-emerged in Thailand with a new husband – an American air traffic controller from Bangor, Maine. I was taken from Thailand by them against my will, and brought to the United States. This transition was a trauma to be endured. A month after my arrival in Bangor, my new stepfather’s motive for importing a ready-made Thai family became clear. I was forcibly raped by him at age 11, an event that was to be repeated with regularity over the next three years. I was a prisoner in his house, and resistance was only met with violence against me and against my mother. I was all of 100 pounds. I cannot describe this further. Welcome to America!

Being one of only three Asians in 1985 Bangor, and speaking little English, I did not readily comprehend my new names. “Gook,” “V.C.” and “Charlie” meant nothing to me, but I could sense the scorn with which such names were delivered. Because my English was poor, I was treated as though I was stupid. Part of my humiliation was that I had to get a paper route at age 12, and my earnings were taken from me to pay for the “privilege” of living in my captor’s house. Stephen King’s home was on my paper route. Mr. King once gave me a Christmas bonus of 25¢ for delivering his newspaper all year. The horror stories he wrote about Maine are all true. Remember the one with the evil clown? It’s true.

When I was 14, my English was better. I was a little bigger, and a lot stronger – and nothing but angry. Anger was all I had. So with it I fled that house and became a homeless teenager in and around Bangor. One day the Bangor police actually picked me up and forced me to go “home.” I would rather have gone to one of the ones Stephen King wrote about. I just fled again and again, and ended up at the Good Will Hinckley School for people like me. I was there for a year and got kicked out for fighting. I was always fighting. I fought everyone.

Back on the streets of Bangor, I began to carry a knife. At 17 and 18, a lot of people were after me. I lived under a bridge for a while and sometimes my mother would bring me things. I tried to climb out of the deep hole I was in by signing up for night classes at age 18 to finish my high school diploma. I was kicked out of Bangor High School for punching the principal.

One night, at age 18, something that lived in me got out. I got very drunk with friends, and we walked into a Bangor Shop & Save supermarket to buy cigarettes. I barely remember this. In my drunken state, I opened a bottle of beer from a case and started to drink it. The manager confronted me and ordered me to leave. I tried to flee the store, but the manager and other employees tried to keep me there. I tried to fight them off to flee. When I got outside, a manager from another Shop & Save had witnessed the incident and pounced on me. I was 130 pounds and was pinned to the ground by this 190-pound man. I think something snapped in my mind. IT was happening again. I fought, but his dead weight was suffocating me. The newspapers would later tell a different story, but this was the truth, and it is all I remember.

In jail that night, I was questioned for three hours. I was told that I had stabbed a man and was charged with attempted murder. I have no memory, to this day, of stabbing the man. The next morning, I awoke in a jail cell and was told that I was charged with Class A murder. The man had died during the night. I was told that I blew a .25 on the Breathalyzer, but the result was so high it was discarded as an error.

My stepfather could have hired expert counsel, but it was clearly not in his best interest that my life be evaluated so I was left in the care of a public defender who wanted this high profile murder off his desk.

(2) I was a teenager when I went to prison. Over the years, I was sent back to solitary confinement over and over, for up to three-and-a-half years at a time, because I was so hostile. The longer I was there each time, the more inhuman I felt and became. Living for years on end in solitary confinement joined with the guilt I felt for the life I took during a struggle when I was 18 years old. So I just gave up on myself as a human being. I sank to the very bottom of the prison I was in, and stayed there.

(3) Over the next few years, G [Father Gordon MacRae] and I discussed a lot about the life of Saint Maximilian Kolbe and about Saint Padre Pio. I drifted like an iceberg that was ever so slowly melting, and before I realized it, I was caught up in what happened to Saint Maximilian. I never had a hero, and he became one. I suddenly felt as though I was no longer just adrift at sea; the ice was all gone. Four years after my arrival in this new prison, on the day before Divine Mercy Sunday in 2010, G and I walked to the Prison Chapel where Fr. Anthony Kuzia, a nearby priest, Baptized and Confirmed me.

The next morning, Divine Mercy Sunday, I received my First Eucharist. I stepped that day out of the Dark Wood of Error into the light of day – the light of Christ. If anyone had told me of this just five years earlier, I would have thought them insane. Every demon that once controlled my life was expelled, and I was free.

(4) I dream of having an opportunity to reach those who are lost like I was, and broken, and brokenhearted, and lead them to Christ. I dream that I will be able to help young people who have had all trust broken and taken away from them. I dream that I will be able to live my life in freedom and in service to others. I dream that I will have the chance to honor someone who sought only my good despite his own captivity. I dream that I will live this life as a Catholic. I dream that I will be led to where I am supposed to go and that I will not be all alone when I get there. What used to be just a nightmare is now my dream.

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  • Did I mention that Pornchai has a knack for working with his fellow prisoners, defusing tense situations?
  • Did I mention that he is a superb mathematician?
  • Did I mention that he can write suberbly, candidly?
  • Did I mention that is an accomplished craftsman, a shipbuilder?
  • Did I mention that he crafted this box in which I keep the the Holy Oils?
  • Did I mention that he created a pen-set for me just now? It reminds us of how the Living Word of God is written upon our hearts by our Heavenly Father. Here it is:

I’d like to share his letter as we take a tour of this unique writing center.

Pornchai’s address, should any of you take a fancy to writing to him, is this (and write it out exactly as is):

Pornchai Moontri
P.O. Box 14 — #77948
Concord, N.H. 03302-0014 (U.S.A.)

And… and… Follow the rules or it will never reach it’s destination:

  • Use of tape and/or stickers (including religious stickers) is forbidden and will result in rejected mail.
  • Each envelope is limited to ten physical pages. Double-sided printing is OK.
  • Printed articles from the Internet are allowed (within the ten page limit) but newspaper/magazine clippings enclosed with letters are prohibited.
  • Unused postage stamps and unused writing materials are prohibited.
  • Checks to prisoners must include the prisoner’s full name and number (No. 67546), and the sender’s full name and address on both the check and the envelope. Abbreviated names (e.g. “J. Smith”) are not permitted.

Pornchai begins his letter in this way:

Peace be with you. This is Pornchai and I want to thank you for the very nice post you wrote about the keepsake box I made for you. The pictures of it were very nice and I was happy that you are using the box to store the sacred oils. This made me very proud.

I have been trying another kind of woodworking called wood turning. Using a lathe, I have turned some beautiful woods into a set of pens, and I am sending this set to you as a gift for you and Holy Souls Hermitage. The barrels of the pens are made from olivewood imported from Bethlehem. I am able to special order it, and it is very nice to work with. It has become my favorite wood for wood turning. The Jonah and Cross clips and the bands on the two pens are cast from 24-carat gold. The display box is maple and rosewood, and can be folded open to stand the pens on your desk.

I placed a plastic pen from the Pontifical College Josephinum next to Pornchai’s creation, to give you a bit of perspective on various levels:

Exquisite.

I have to say that I thought I was one to know something about the Fish and the Cross symbols in early Christianity. You can review my somewhat rambunctious views in this Holy Souls Hermitage Special (one of my favorite posts, if I do say so myself). However, it is from Pornchai that I hear for the first time that the fish is called “The Jonah”. We call to mind that Jesus said of himself that there will be no other sign given to this generation (in which we still live) other than the sign of Jonah. Jesus fulfilled that sign by being crucified, and then being buried in the belly of the earth for three days. Thus, the catechetical set of pens, one with the fish, one with the cross. Thanks for that, Pornchai! Did I mention that he is a disciple of Saint Maximilian Kolbe?

Pornchai continues:

A little pressure at the band and the pen will pull apart to replace the Cross pen refill if you need to.

Indeed. I’d just like to point out the absolute precision that goes into such a detail. Look inside of the top of the barrel of the pen. It’s lined with metal to receive the bottom half. This is nanoprecision. I know a machinist who’s CAD program permits him an exactitude of about 1/10,000′s of an inch. This is better. And note how very, very thin the wood is. Yikes!

Pornchai says that this is olive wood from Bethlehem, and I believe him. However, I think you’ll agree with me that this almost transparent wood has all the appearance of a golden marble.

Everything fits together most precisely…

Sorry for the blurry shot here. What I wanted to point out is the matching, continuous grain on both sides of the pen. Not easy to do. If you make a mistake on one side or the other, you have to start all over again. Nothing blurry about Pornchai’s work.

A good shot of the maple and rosewood (top inside cover)…

And there we are. But it will stay open on the desk!

Pornchai continues:

I have sent a few of these pens and boxes to a furniture store in New Hampshire that sells our creations for us. I am sending you one of their brochures. I can make these for others who want them as well.

I was happy to note in that brochure that the prisoners also build toys for Toys for Tots, which is a USMC sponsored program. SEMPER FI! Those up near Concord, NH (Franklin) can go to Grevoir Furniture to see what’s available. They have a website for directions and contacts.

It’s coming up to Christmas time. You won’t regret writing to the Great Pornchai about this.

He continues…

I want to thank you for all the prayers and Masses you have offered for me and my friend, Father G, and for all the support you have given to These Stone Walls. It is strange that a website could change the life of a prisoner, but just by living in the same prison cell as Father G, I have been exposed to a world of true believers that I did not know existed. My whole life and outlook has changed thanks to the readers of These Stone Walls who have touched my heart. I see things very differently now, and I am very happy to count you as a friend. God bless you, Father.

Your brother in Christ,

Pornchai Moontri

I’m very honored to be Pornchai’s friend.

Now, just to say: Pornchai knows I like to write. And I confess I do write with the help of a computer keyboard for big projects, but once in a while I have to sign my name to this or that document, to this or that letter, to this or that oath of fidelity, or, please God, in the future, to this or that contract with a publisher. That’s what I would like to reserve the use of the pens for, besides their being a catechetical conversation starter for any seminarians or priests or bishops who visit the hermitage. I’ll also be able to use that to tell them about another of Pornchai’s friends, Father Gordon MacRae (about), whom Pornchai mentioned in his letter. If you don’t know about http://www.thesestonewalls.com go there and check it out. Click!

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2012/09/05 · 19:24

Nancy Pelosi actually equates Planned Parenthood and the U.S. Government. Treasonous subversion. A coup d’état. Dictatorship by Planned Parenthood.

Nancy Pelosi during the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, 2012:

“It’s really important to point out the extremism of Republicans. They may have a religious view about abortion — but birth control? Birth control? – that they would shut down the government of the United States rather than fund Planned Parenthood. What more do you need to know about them.”

Look, whatever you think about abortion and abortifacient contraception (the pill), when the leadership of the Democratic Party and leadership of the present administration equate any private enterprise, any small group of individuals, with the actual government of the United States, what we’re seeing is the hijacking of the U.S.A.

The government is no longer of the people, by the people, for the people. It is now a dictatorship of a private enterprise.

This is treasonous subversiveness. A coup d’état. Dictatorship by Planned Parenthood.

Or maybe Nancy’s not feeling well.

But someone higher up than her had to put that in her brain, don’t you think?

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Just to say: The murmurings of the intelligence and military communities are becoming louder, more vocal, about pointing out that they are sworn to uphold the Constitution of these United States of America. That obligation, they are quick to point out, does NOT include protecting the government and it’s administration when that government and administration are acting in contradiction to the constitution of the U.S.A., such that the very existence of the United States as we know it is being undone by that government and administration.

The Secret Service, the Intelligence crowd, the Military… They hate the present administration. Their word, not mine. It’s used again and again.

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· 09:45

The Higgs Boson “God Particle”: Of All Things Visible and Invisible, by Father Gordon MacRae

LHC

The Higgs Boson “God Particle”: Of All Things Visible and Invisible

Once in a while I get visits to the blog from the crowd at the Hadron Collider.

What have they been up to, you ask? Good question!

And what does the great Father Gordon MacRae (about) have to with all this, personally? Yikes!

Cllick on the link above to go to the most awesomely brilliant article about faith and science that I’ve read in a long, long time.

Absolutely brilliant, and what a joy to read. Easy, enjoyable reading. Not a long article. Just. Read. It. — !!!

P.S. When I get my popular version of the thesis on Genesis into a first draft, I think that I had better have the likes of Father Gordon MacRae add a chapter on the science of it all. What do you think, Father?

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2012/07/01 · 00:08

(updates) 04 HSH dhimmitude series: I asked for my “insurance” to be cancelled by 31 July 2012 (if it’s not exempt)

I’ve been following an important set of comments, and adding quite a few of my own, on WDTPRS, about Obamacare and the HHS mandate, here. There are important links with great material, such as this one here.

At a certain point, I wrote an email requesting for my “insurance” to be cancelled if it were not exempt from the Obamacare and HHS provisions for abortion, abortifacients, etc., by the end of July 2012, that is, before enforcement begins.

Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s! Praised be the name of the Lord!

When I began this series on the spirituality one might enjoy even though living under the yoke of dhimmitude, I imagined I would be writing for readers who are anywhere but in the United States, that is, until the Supreme Court decision making Catholics pay a penalty for the practice of their religion in not paying into the abortion superfund of Obamacare.

Of course, no one is forced to do anything. I won’t be paying any “penalties” or “taxes” either. That just goes back into the abortion fund, right? So, no.

I just can’t see paying for the deaths for the deaths of the least among us, those who are just conceived, those who are not yet born. I won’t do it.

Those who live under oppression can always do the right thing. We are called to be faithful. If we want to get to heaven, and heaven is forever by the way, then it’s all about…

Fidelity! Fidelity! Fidelity!

Look to Jesus. He’s conquered the world. He bears the scars to prove it. Do we?

UPDATE: Someone said that the enforcement dates are different according to the renewal date on the policy. Thus, if the renewal is comes up only after 1 August, it is only then that the enforcement would kick in. So, I’m checking into that.

UPDATE: There is a plea to map out for everyone in all their circumstances that which is formal or material cooperation, proximate or remote, distanced or not, etc. My response is to ask the USCCB, which has been pushing for civil disobedience based on the fact that paying into an abortion insurance fund, however you make it look, is what it is, formal cooperation in the death of children in the womb or just born, etc. Formal cooperation is a grave evil. And… and… there is a latae sententiae excommunication for formal cooperation in such a case, is there not? The bishops have called for massive civil disobedience. I won’t pay into such insurance, and won’t pay any penalties or taxes. Nope.

UPDATE: In response to a comment on that comments post on WDTPRS linked to above, I answered this:

As for the precedent of dioceses doing untoward things, well… that’s not how moral theology works. There’s no morality by democracy. You can always but always find a super conservative priest, a super conservative canon lawyer, a super conservative moral theologian, a super conservative ethics board, a super conservative moral theology journal, a super conservative ethics think tank, etc., all of whom will back one’s opinion about doing whatever one wants just because it’s the politically correct thing to do, not because it is consonant with Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterial interventions of the Church, which they will only haphazardly cite so as to look nice.

We also have to be discerning. I’ve also done quite a bit of moral theology in my day, that is, with some advanced, as it were, doubly post-graduate studies. I have plenty to say about formal and material cooperation which is proximate or remote or even “distanced[!]“. I have plenty to say about how the USCCB in decades past have misapplied these terms to get what they wanted in health care regarding the combinations of Catholic and non-Catholic hospitals in regard to abortion, etc.

The most conservative Archdiocese at the time, for instance, said that abortions were fine in Catholic hospitals for the reason that it was an out-patient procedure. The Catholic hospital was therefore “distanced” in cooperation.

The most conservative diocese at the time said that handing out date-rape pills was fine because, the super-conservative icon of orthodoxy moral theologian said: “It’s so small [the possibly just conceived baby], who will know the difference? So who cares?” Get it?

However, times have changed, perhaps. The USCCB has said that they are pushing so hard for the reason that paying into an abortion insurance fund would be formal cooperation. If they come up with some other sort of rubbish to say that one is only remotely, materially cooperating, you know, from a “distance”, changing their tune just because they are now under pressure from the laity instead of the government… well… I’d have some choice words to say about all that.

For myself, I can’t see cooperating in the death of little kids, whether by paying into the abortion super fund or subsidizing abortifacients (whenever all that kicks in). The super fund will gain about, what, 3 1/2 billion dollars a year if everyone kicks in? It’s a dollar a month for everyone, but I would guess that even the entire amount of a tax or penalty would go to these ends.

For my own insignificant life, we will see what happens. I suppose I’ll survive to see Obamacare tossed. Maybe not. Whatever… I just want to do the right thing. No compromise. Jesus has loved us too much, right unto death, with no compromise, for us, for me to start compromising by helping to murder the littlest among us. I don’t want Jesus to say to me at the judgment: “Get away from me you evildoer, I never knew you!” So, instead of that: Fidelity! Fidelity! Fidelity!

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2012/06/29 · 08:32

“SCOTUScare” – recipe for a coup d’état

[[This is the comment of "Alan Aversa" on Fr Z's comments post. My own comment: "This shamelessly irresponsible decision seems like a recipe for mayhem. I’ve seen countries fall/rise by way of a coup d’état for less grave reasons." I'm not advocating that. I'm just sayin'. Obamacare is now the scare of SCOTUS = SCOTUScare...]]

Robert’s summary:

The Affordable Care Act is constitutional in part and unconstitutional in part. The individual mandate cannot be upheld as an exercise of Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause. That Clause authorizes Congress to regulate interstate commerce, not to order individuals to engage in it. In this case, however, it is reasonable to construe what Congress has done as increasing taxes on those who have a certain amount of income, but choose to go without health insurance. Such legislation is within Congress’s power to tax. As for the Medicaid expansion, that portion of the Affordable Care Act violates the Constitution by threatening existing Medicaid funding. Congress has no authority to order the States to regulate according to its instructions.  Congress may offer the States grants and require the States to comply with accompanying conditions, but the States must have a genuine choice whether to accept the offer. The States are given no such choice in this case. They must either accept a basic change in the nature of Medicaid, or risk losing all Medicaid funding. The remedy for that constitutional violation is to preclude the Federal Government from imposing such a sanction. That remedy does not require striking down other portions of the Affordable Care Act.

The Framers created a Federal Government of limited powers, and assigned to this Court the duty of enforcing those limits. The Court does so today. But the Court does not express any opinion on the wisdom of the Affordable Care Act. Under the Constitution, that judgment is reserved to the people.

The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is affirmed in part and reversed in part.

It is so ordered.

The summary of the dissenters:

The Court today decides to save a statute Congress did not write. It rules that what the statute declares to be a requirement with a penalty is instead an option subject to a tax. And it changes the intentionally coercive sanction of a total cut-off of Medicaid funds to a supposedly noncoercive cut-off of only the incremental funds that the Act makes available.The Court regards its strained statutory interpretation as judicial modesty. It is not. It amounts instead to a vast judicial overreaching. It creates a debilitated, inoperable version of health-care regulation that Congress did not enact and the public does not expect. It makes enactment of sensible health-care regulation more difficult, since Congress cannot start afresh but must take as its point of departure a jumble of now senseless provisions, provisions that certain interests favored under the Court’s new design will struggle to retain. And it leaves the public and the States to expend vast sums of money on requirements that may or may not survive the necessary congressional revision.

The Court’s disposition, invented and atextual as it is, does not even have the merit of avoiding constitutional difficulties. It creates them. The holding that the Individual Mandate is a tax raises a difficult constitutional question (what is a direct tax?) that the Court resolves with inadequate deliberation. And the judgment on the Medicaid Expansion issue ushers in new federalism concerns and places an unaccustomed strain upon the Union.  Those States that decline the Medicaid Expansion must subsidize, by the federal tax dollars taken from their citizens, vast grants to the States that accept the Medicaid Expansion. If that destabilizing political dynamic, so antagonistic to a harmonious Union, is to be introduced at all, it should be by Congress, not by the Judiciary.

The values that should have determined our course today are caution, minimalism, and the understanding that the Federal Government is one of limited powers. But the Court’s ruling undermines those values at every turn.  In the name of restraint, it overreaches. In the name of constitutional avoidance, it creates new constitutional questions. In the name of cooperative federalism, it undermines state sovereignty.

The Constitution, though it dates from the founding of the Republic, has powerful meaning and vital relevance to our own times. The constitutional protections that this case involves are protections of structure. Structural protections—notably, the restraints imposed by federalism and separation of powers—are less romantic and have less obvious a connection to personal freedom than the provisions of the Bill of Rights or the Civil War Amendments.  Hence they tend to be undervalued or even forgotten by our citizens. It should be the responsibility of the Court to teach otherwise, to remind our people that the Framers considered structural protections of freedom the most important ones, for which reason they alone were embodied in the original Constitution and not left to later amendment. The fragmentation of power produced by the structure of our Government is central to liberty, and when we destroy it, we place liberty at peril. Today’s decision should have vindicated, should have taught, this truth; instead, our judgment today has disregarded it.

For the reasons here stated, we would find the Act invalid in its entirety. We respectfully dissent.

I liked Clarence Thomas’s own succinct dissent the best: «JUSTICE THOMAS, dissenting. «I dissent for the reasons stated in our joint opinion, but I write separately to say a word about the Commerce Clause. The joint dissent and THE CHIEF JUSTICE correctly apply our precedents to conclude that the Individual Mandate is beyond the power granted to Congress under the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause. Under those precedents, Congress may regulate “economic activity [that] substantially affects interstate commerce.” United States v. Lopez, 514 U. S. 549, 560 (1995). I adhere to my view that “the very notion of a ‘substantial effects’ test under the Commerce Clause is inconsistent with the original understanding of Congress’ powers and with this Court’s early Commerce Clause cases.” United States v. Morrison, 529 U. S. 598, 627 (2000) (THOMAS, J., concurring); see also Lopez, supra, at 584–602 (THOMAS, J., concurring); Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U. S. 1, 67–69 (2005) (THOMAS, J., dissenting). As I have explained, the Court’s continued use of that test “has encouraged the Federal Government to persist in its view that the Commerce Clause has virtually no limits.” Morrison, supra, at 627. The Government’s unprecedented claim in this suit that it may regulate not only economic activity but also inactivity that substantially affects interstate commerce is a case in point.»

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Basically, the door is now wide-open for federal “lifestyle taxes.” E.g.: taxes on being heterosexual because that, in many ways, “substantially affect[s] interstate commerce.” Taxes on being with Down Sydrome because those with Down’s Syndrome have a relative “economic inactivity” that “substantially affect[s] interstate commerce.” Taxes on being Catholic because being Catholic includes the refusal to materially or formally cooperate in the abortion and contraception industry, which also “substantially affect[s] interstate commerce.” The possibilities are endless because apparently “the Commerce Clause has virtually no limits.”

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2012/06/28 · 11:37

POTUS & SCOTUS & THE END OF AMERICA: OBAMA CARE SURVIVES

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2012/06/22 · 09:11

The Supreme Court and Holy Souls Hermitage: delaying the Obamacare decision

I’m not absolutely certain of the timing, but I noticed yesterday, in looking over the blog stats that were scrolling along in a blur, that the Supreme Court of the United States visited http://holysoulshermitage.com just before making the decision to delay the Obamacare decision. They visited only one post, which cited just two very hard hitting legal points about such things in the encyclical Evangelium vitae of Blessed Pope John Paul II. That post makes it clear than a merely political solution is not enough: HERE. Yikes!

It seems there four on one side, four on the other, with the ninth being embattled.

So, from the USCCB fortnight4freedom.org:

Prayer for the Protection of Religious Liberty

O God our Creator,

Through the power and working of your Holy Spirit,
you call us to live out our faith in the midst of the world,
bringing the light and the saving truth of the Gospel
to every corner of society.

We ask you to bless us
in our vigilance for the gift of religious liberty.
Give us the strength of mind and heart
to readily defend our freedoms when they are threatened;
give us courage in making our voices heard
on behalf of the rights of your Church
and the freedom of conscience of all people of faith.

Grant, we pray, O heavenly Father,
a clear and united voice to all your sons and daughters
gathered in your Church
in this decisive hour in the history of our nation,
so that, with every trial withstood
and every danger overcome—
for the sake of our children, our grandchildren,
and all who come after us—
this great land will always be “one nation, under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

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2012/06/19 · 09:05

19 June 2012 UPDATE: http://www.cc2w.org/ Who to vote for? Romney=Obama=a vote for crimes against humanity (or is it true that Romney is pro-life?)

So, here’s the website: http://www.cc2w.org/ (you’ve seen their great video). However, I’ve got a question: Who do we vote for?

Mitt Romney created the contraceptive/abortifacient mandate and Obamacare, both of these men reject the Constitution on freedom of religion.

Is it a matter of voting for vice presidents instead of presidents? Don’t vice-presidents just go to state funerals?

Two quotes from Evangelium Vitae of Blessed Pope John Paul II:

(1) When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a “tyrannical” decision with regard to the weakest and most defenceless of human beings? Everyone’s conscience rightly rejects those crimes against humanity of which our century has had such sad experience. [EV 70]

(2) In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to “take part in a propaganda campaign in favour of such a law, or vote for it”. [EV 73]

So, basically, it’s a crime against humanity to vote for Romney or Obama as that is a direct vote for total war on children in the womb by these totally cowardly, anti-American, abusers of power out to harm children. Is one really better than the other? Really? Tell me why…

UPDATE: JAG noted that there’s a rather ferocious discussion going on over at FreeRepublic, as Mark re-posted this over yonder. As soon as one group of opinions appears to be holding sway, another disembowels them, and vice-versa. Interesting.

UPDATE: One commenter was a bit upset with me, I guess?! Does this mean that Romney has a better foreign policy?

UPDATE: If both have a mania to attack children in the womb, if both promote homosexual ”marriage”, if both trash freedom of religion, if both therefore attack freedom of speech, what’s the use of calling one a commie or not? Do we really know Romney’s foreign policy?

Sure, paragraph 73 of Evangelium vitae of Blessed Pope John Paul II also stated that one may vote, for instance to pass legislation further restricting abortion though not eliminating it altogether, so that, analogously, if there were two pro-abort candidates, but one less so that the other, it would be permissable to vote for the candidate who is less of a pro-abort than the other. However, with these two, I don’t see much difference.

What happened to the Tea Party? What happened to “Throw the bums out!” ? Is Newt a viable contender, or is he just posturing to be vice-president? (as if that would change anything…)

19 JUNE 2012 UPDATE: LifeSiteNews reprinted the following article just some hours ago. Is it true? Let’s have some discernment. This is a bit longish, but very important: Continue reading →

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2012/06/01 · 13:15

“For Greater Glory – Cristiada” (1 June 2012) – Obama’s persecution (1 August 2012)

It is worth your time to go to the site: http://www.forgreaterglory.com/

You can easily look for a theater near you. The closest for me is Asheville. I’ve only seen a handful of movies on the big-screen. This one, please God, will be added to the list. Even if I am a hermit.

Meanwhile, a flower for our Lady of Guadalupe. After all…

¡Viva Cristo Rey!

¡Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!

Don’t think it can’t happen in America, even later this very year. If the Supreme Court fails in their upcoming decision regarding the commerce law (forcing people to pay into an abortion fund) and then a possible decision on the freedom of religion… if they fail to uphold the Constitution, then… there will be mayhem. That’s exactly Obama wants. He can more easily, more quickly react to mayhem than to anything else.

Don’t think a presidential election is going to help you save your bank accounts and businesses. He’s got three months before any election. The “fun” starts 1 August 2012.

MOVIE TIMES: The local movie complex mentioned on the Cristiada website is The Carolina, starting today.

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2012/05/18 · 08:06

For Greater Glory – Cristiada – The Movie Obama’s DHS Might Just Forbid You To See (wink wink)

Is there a trailer without commercials at the beginning? Is there a best trailer? I have very little bandwidth. Some help, please.

This is the kind of movie that Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, etc., fears would foment a civil war in the United States should the Supreme Court decide in favor of the abortion mandate, against religious freedom. That decision is scheduled to be on the docket this June, in one form. The USCCB is laudably bringing more examples of Obama’s relentless persecution of religion, particularly persecution of the Catholic Church, to court.

I always thought that this is the Marxist purpose of Obama: to foment civil war by trashing the Constitution of the United States. That’s what our local Marxists do. That’s what Obama’s admin is doing. Too bad, that.

Actually, the DHS doesn’t fear any such thing. They encourage it. That’s the policy. Get it? Why? Because you can’t fight the government of the U.S.A. You will die. The government knows that, and wants people to try, just to kill them “legitimately.”

Don’t take up arms against the government. Be martyrs. Not in the Muslim sense. No. In the Catholic sense. Be led like sheep to the slaughter. That’s how the faith will grow in the U.S.A. In no other way.

Remember how Cristero, beatified Father Miguel Pro, was martyred while he exclaimed, “¡Viva Cristo Rey! ¡Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe! “

It can and most likely will happen here if Obama gets re-elected. But it will be stupid Catholics who will re-elect him, among them Catholic priests, you know, such as those who scandalously and loudly proclaim that they voted against the “one man and one woman = marriage” amendment during North Carolina’s recent election, insisting, as such priesets do, that homosexual “marriage” has to be promoted and protected. Sigh. Such priests should repent or, if not, simply crawl under a rock and die. They are helping to bring on a violent persecution.

Pray for priests. We need those who lay down their lives for the faith.

Am I a terrorist for saying these things? No. Am I fomenting war? No. I’m just saying that we need priests to be martyrs for the faith, not wimps who are sycophants of Obama.

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2012/05/07 · 11:48

Thomas Peters’ excellent take on the North Carolina 8 May Marriage Amendment

Thomas sent me an invite to LinkedIn. I’ll have to investigate such as that, and FaceBook, and other things at some future date, perhaps! At any rate, this was an occasion to visit his site: Thomas Peters

Opponents of North Carolina’s Marriage Protection Amendment have completely given up the effort to defeat the amendment on the issue of marriage.

Instead, they’ve chosen to put all of their TV money into ads claiming that the Marriage Protection Amendment will somehow make it harder for the law to protect unmarried women who are the subject of domestic violence. These opponents are even avoiding calling the amendment what it is, instead preferring to call it simply “Amendment 1.”

The Vote FOR Marriage NC coalition, which is organizing the effort to pass the amendment, organized a press conference of local law enforcement officials debunking these false charges and also released a TV ad in response to the opposing sides’s claims. They also link to this study which provides more scholarly and legal evidence that the Marriage Protection Amendment will take away no common sense protections:

On April 18, three professors of law at Campbell University School of Law issued a report called “The Meaning and Potential Legal Effects of North Carolina’s Proposed Marriage Amendment.” In their report, the legal scholars state, “same-sex couples would still be protected under domestic violence laws…and could continue to receive public health insurance benefits.” The professors were speaking as independent legal experts and not on behalf of the university.

“The study by the law professors is the second analysis of our opponents’ claims that has concluded they are false.  Opponents of this Amendment know that they are fighting an uphill battle, and as a result, have sadly decided to take North Carolinians on an emotional roller coaster,” said Fitzgerald. “Greensboro News & Record editorial writer Doug Clark studied the claims and concluded ‘they’re crying wolf.’”

North Carolina law (General Statutes 50B-1) provides wide-ranging protections for citizens against domestic violence that are not dependent on the victim’s marital status. Out of the extensive six different sub-categories outlined in this statute, even roommates qualify under these protections regardless of marital status. [Vote FOR Marriage NC]

There are more signs that the movement to redefine marriage is failing to get traction in North Carolina, besides the fact that opponents of protecting marriage have given up their attempts to argue on the grounds of marriage anymore.

For one thing, opponents of the amendment have taken to sign destroying as their primary grassroots activism, it seems. While this is hardly a new tactic for their side, the scale is impressive — roughly half of the pro-amendment yard signs around the state have been stolen or vandalized, according to a campaign spokesperson.

If that’s not “signs” of a desperate movement I don’t know what is.

And so, despite editorials by the New York Times claiming the amendment is nothing more than “bigotry”, and despite the fact that opponents of the amendment are outspending supporters by at least a 2-1 margin (not to mention all the favorable coverage they receive from the media), the amendment appears to be heading towards a win next Tuesday, according to all the recent polls.

Why? Because of a winning coalition of Catholics (bishops and lay people), Southern Baptists, Evangelicals, African Americans, Republicans and Democrats, and a deeply committed and professional campaign (which, I’m especially happy to see, has been utilizing social media very well).

Early voting continues in North Carolina through Saturday and then everyone goes to the polls next Tuesday, May 8th. If you live in the Tar Heel State or have friends and family who do, please choose to support marriage and pray for the protection of this institution, which is a precious gift of God to society.

And join me in watching the poll returns on the night of next Tuesday on Twitter…

UPDATE — by the way, I forgot to mention Pope Benedict’s general prayer intention for May: “that initiatives which defend and uphold the role of the family may be promoted within society.” Bravo, North Carolina papists!

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· 09:14

You think Paul VI was prophetic in Humanae vitae on 25 July 1968? Try Paul Harvey 3 April 1965. Yikes!

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2012/04/13 · 17:17

The End of the U.S. Constitution: Obama, Romney, Sebelius

(1) Here’s the first link to the USCCB web page just stopping short of declaring civil war.

(2) Here’s their link to their *PDF just stopping short of declaring civil war.

By the way, in case you wanted to know, the Catholic League gives it a double thumbs up.

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· 16:12

So, permission granted to Holy Souls Hermitage from the USCCB. Hold on, this is going to be quite a ride!

Happy to do so! Here are some pre-tested links for you:

(1) Here’s the first link to the USCCB web page.

(2) Here’s their link to their *PDF.

By the way, in case you wanted to know, the Catholic League gives it a double thumbs up.

Commentary, please God, starting tomorrow. This will keep going until the election, or until Obama closes down free speech along with freedom of religion.

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2012/03/19 · 09:20

Freakishly anti-Semitic Google. Against Google, we’re all Jews.

I always like to “pick” flowers (pictures) in honor of a great Jewess, the Mother of Jesus.

I sometimes like to look up words as I use them. I googled “Jewess” and came up with the top entry definition supplied by Google itself:

jew·ess/ˈjo͞o-is/
Noun: offensive. A Jewish woman or girl.

I didn’t realize that being a Jew or a Jewess was “offensive”. Offensive to whom? I am offended that Google would promote such an offensive description of someone in the line of Judah, fourth son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham.

The Jews are right to say that being Jewish is not a crime, and that to be proud of being Jewish is a good thing, and Pius XII himself said this, by the way.

Google’s anti-Semitic idiocy, saying someone’s very heritage in whatever way is offensive, is quite common.

When I was in Louisiana, the Cajans were condemned as being “Cajan”. But then a Cajan (from Accadia) wrote a book on being proud to be a Cajan, what with all of their epic history as Accadians.

When I was in Australia, I was told never to call an aborignine an Aborigine, for to be called an Aborigene is a great insult. I was incredulous. The Aborigines have been in Australia a good 40,000 years before any immigrants landed in the Down Under. And then an Aborigine wrote a book saying that he is proud to be called an Aborigine and… and… even… gasp!… an Abo. Very cool that!

Today, Catholics have been put into dhimmitude (made second class citizens) by Barak Hussain Obama, who promotes the Qur’an and trashes the Judeo-Christian Scriptures. Unless the courts do something, Catholic hospitals and schools and charitable institutions will cease to exist, just the thing that was happening to the Jews in Germany previous to the holocaust. I, for one, hope that I will always be proud to be a Catholic, however much I suffer or die for this. “Catholic” is also held to be pejorative these days. Whatever. I will continue to be Catholic and be proud of it.

Why all this on the Feast of Saint Joseph, Husband of Mary? Well, because Saint Joseph took care of little Jesus, both when He was in the womb of Mary by way of the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit, and upon His birth, and upon their exile into Egypt, and so on. These days, we especially need the protection of Saint Joseph when so many little ones are being destroyed by abortion pushed by money hungry abortionists, the new Herods of the day. We have now moved into infanticide. We’re quickly moving toward the regulation of the number of children, just like China, where women are killed who have more than one baby.

Saint Joseph, husband of Mary, protect us!

Oh… and a word to Google: I would change your description of what “Jewess” means. Really, I would, if I were you. Your policy is not to be evil. Well, you’re being evil now.

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2012/03/07 · 12:23

The new dhimmitude: a picture of today’s martyrs

HERE Thanks, Philip! This sweet girl will be the first to die. But she’ll be followed by many others, including, please God, myself.

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