Nemo Laeditur Nisi A Seipso
Amen, amen I say to you: If any man keep My word, he shall not see death for ever.—Jn 8:51 (From the Gospel from the First Sunday of Passiontide.) Several years ago I would have written something like this: "If you are living in sanctifying grace, your soul is invincible but your body is not." Not that I totally disagree with that statement now, but as I go a little deeper into theology, I would say almost the opposite—or at least the inverse: "If you are living in sanctifying grace, your body is invincible but your soul is not." That last sentence might sound weird to you, but here's why I stick with it: If you die in grace, then you are absolutely guaranteed that you get a resurrected body back. (And the way to die in sanctifying grace is [...]
TCE 43: Held in Slavery
Theology and Current Events (TCE) #43 is called "Held in Slavery." As world events progress, the veil is dropping more every month between the two masters we can follow. God leads to freedom. Satan leads to slavery. https://rumble.com/embed/vxkh40/?pub=e5jg1
Christ: The Desert Rose
In EMS, we had a shorthand communication term called auto-ped which simply meant "pedestrian hit by a car." In four years on the ambulance, every auto-ped I saw was a hit-and-run. In other words, every time I showed up after someone ran over another person with their car, the perpetrators all fled the scene without helping the victim. 100% of them. Now, granted, if you talked to paramedics who were in the field for 20 years, they would probably say 95% of their auto-peds were hit-and-runs. (Their numbers would be different because medics in the field for more than just four years would have seen a few people stop for their victims, I suspect.) But in my four years of pre-hospital medicine, I never saw any driver stop for their victims. The reason for this is clearly self-preservation. Recently, I [...]
CPX 106: Supernatural Faith
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p.138-140 Q/A 1-18.ble https://rumble.com/embed/vwr1jr/?pub=e5jg1
TCE 42: Homicide in DC
Who's going to investigate if infanticide is happening in DC? We pro-lifers know God sees murder of small babies just as horribly as He sees the murder of big babies, so I don't think we should care much about difference between abortion and homicide. But all these events show the current administration would rather put pro-lifers in prison than stop the possible-infanticide in Biden's DC. DOJ indictment: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/nine-defendants-indicted-federal-civil-rights-conspiracy-and-freedom-access-clinic WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2022/04/01/lauren-handy-dc-abortion-fetuses/ https://rumble.com/embed/vx9ddh/?pub=e5jg1
Viganò “On Irregularities” of 2013
I report today on how Archbishop Viganò answered several questions posed by Aldo Maria Valli in Italian. Thanks to Non Veni Pacem who first put them into Google Translate to get the English. I'm asking some Italian friends to correct the Google translation (if necessary.) It seems pretty good from my limited Italian. I'm including only one Q/A here from the interview: Valli: "Within the College of Cardinals, in your opinion, is there a credible, authentically Catholic figure on which the cardinals, in the event of a conclave, could make the votes converge for a total change of register compared to the current pontificate?" Viganò: "Certain Popes, let us not forget, are granted; others are inflicted. But before discussing the next conclave, it is necessary to shed light on the abdication of Benedict XVI and on the question of the [...]
What is a Pro-Life Rescuer?
Guest Post by Will Goodman "What is a prolife rescuer" I wish to write about an ideal. And share what I have seen and learned from the lives of countless good people who have sacrificed their own lives to save the lives of others in pursuing this ideal. They have quite literally laid down their lives in love so that others may live. They are the rescuers. And this is what i have learned from them. A rescuer is called to be a witness. A very particular and unique witness. A rescuer is an advocate prepared to stay with the endangered victims, no matter what. A rescuer may choose to stand between the innocent and the weapons directed against them. A rescuer is a first responder willing to risk everything to save people in grave danger-- even just to try [...]
VLX 106: His Face Shone Like the Sun
Mt 17:1-3 https://rumble.com/embed/vwr2sw/?pub=e5jg1
EIX 6: O Evangelho de Jesus Cristo em português (Gospel in Portuguese)
Esta é uma série de vídeos e gravações designada pela abreviação grega EIX, Eὐαγγέλιον Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, que quer dizer “Evangelho de Jesus Cristo”. Esta série de evangelização em várias línguas é usada para explicar os elementos básicos do Catolicismo Apostólico em apenas 15 minutos aos não-crentes, aos que estão num caminho de busca e mesmo aos católicos que necessitam de instrução. A Parte 6 é em português. https://rumble.com/embed/vwxdgb/?pub=e5jg1
FBI Arrests My Friends After Discovering They Found Full-Term Murdered Babies
I just wrote in the Life Section of my blog about my friends in the pro-life movement who were taken with drawn guns by the FBI for a peaceful sit-in (aka "rescue") at an abortion center in Washington DC in 2020 where they were arrested. But as these events of late March 2022 have now exploded into mainstream media, I'm putting an updated story on my front page here. https://youtu.be/erIQTJ0dZWI The above footage on YouTube is from an FBI raid against pro-lifers just a couple days ago (March 2022.) But if the pro-life rescue (sit-in) took place in 2020, why did the FBI wait until 2022 to raid their homes? PAAU (Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising) explains what happened this past week in Washington DC to them: "Prior to the arrest, one of the defendants privately arranged for the Metropolitan Washington D.C. [...]