Abortion Clinic Boxed Up 115 Aborted Babies, Sent Them to an Incinerator to be Burned to generate Electric Power

National  |  Jonah McKeown, Katie Yoder  |   Apr 6, 2022   |   9:14AM   |  Washington, DC

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Anti-abortion activists said Tuesday that they obtained 115 aborted babies from a driver for a medical waste company in late March, with the intention of giving the unborn children a dignified funeral and burial.

Five of those babies that appear to be of late-term gestation are now in the possession of Washington, D.C. Metro Police, which retrieved the remains Friday from an apartment in the city where they were being stored by members of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU), a group that demonstrates against abortion and engages in activism in and around abortion clinics. Police say they are in the early stages of an investigation into how the remains were obtained.

Along with other pro-life groups, PAAU has called on the D.C. Medical Examiner to autopsy the babies’ remains to determine their manner of death in order to assess whether they died after being born, in possible violation of federal laws.

“Pro-life Americans will not stay silent in the face of such aggressive and barbarous violence,” Terrisa Bukovinac, PAAU’s founder, said during a press conference the group held in Washington Tuesday morning. Also speaking at the press conference was Lauren Handy, PAAU’s director of activism.

“We will diligently work until the American abortion-industrial complex is fully disarmed and dismantled,” she said.

Members of the group also demanded that the five babies be allowed to have a proper burial after any autopsies are performed.

The medical examiner’s office has not commented publicly yet on whether it plans to autopsy the babies. On Friday, the Washington Post reported that the medical examiner’s office does not plan to autopsy the bodies, though two anonymous officials told the Post that the decision not to do autopsies “could change if they receive additional information.”

PAAU members on Tuesday claimed that they discovered the babies’ remains in a sealed cardboard box that group members obtained from a driver working for Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services on March 25 during a demonstration outside Washington Surgi-Clinic, an abortion clinic located on F Street in the district’s northwest section.

The clinic is operated by Dr. Cesare Santangelo, an OBGYN and well-known abortionist in Washington. In 2019 the pro-life group Live Action released a video it secretly recorded in which Santangelo says that he would allow a child who survived an abortion attempt to die if the child was born during the procedure. CNA was unable to reach Santangelo for comment prior to publication.

Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services has confirmed that it did pick up three boxes of medical waste from Washington Surgi-Clinic the morning of March 25, but the company denies that any of the boxes left the driver’s possession.

In a statement, Curtis Bay said it has a contract to dispose of biohazardous medical waste from the clinic at a power-generating incinerator the company operates in Baltimore, but the company maintained that “customers like Washington Surgi Clinic are prohibited from disposing of fetuses and human remains via Curtis Bay’s services.”

At its press conference, PAAU displayed graphic video footage and still photos of the babies’ remains. The video footage showed someone wearing gloves opening the cardboard box and removing early-stage aborted babies from lidded plastic containers.

The group’s members said the 110 smaller babies have been given names, a funeral Mass, and dignified burial in an “undisclosed location.”

Encounter with driver described

In an interview prior to the press conference, Bukovinac and another PAAU activist, Lauren Handy, told CNA that on the morning of March 25, 2022, they were planning to do what they call a “Pink Rose Rescue,” which involves entering abortion clinics with pink roses, offering them to the mothers inside and letting them know there are resources available to help them choose life rather than abortion.

Bukovinac said she and Handy had roses in hand and were planning to enter the Washington Surgi-Clinic. Bukovinac and Handy told CNA they saw a truck parked outside the clinic labeled “Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services,” and a driver about to load two cardboard boxes into the truck.

Bukovinac said she and Handy asked the driver if he knew what was in the boxes, to which he said no. Terrisa told him “dead babies,” to which he looked “totally shocked” and appeared speechless. They asked if the boxes had come from Washington Surgi-Clinic, because the building houses other medical facilities. Bukovinac said the driver responded that he didn’t know, but she said that she and other members of the group saw a label on one of the boxes, which they photographed, indicating that it had come from the clinic.

The two women said they asked the driver if they could take one of the boxes, and when the driver asked what they would do with it, Handy, who identifies as a Catholic, told him that they would give the aborted babies a funeral and proper burial.

Bukovinac and Handy told CNA that the driver, who they say already had “scanned in” the boxes, allowed them to take one of them. They say they did not learn the driver’s name and have not heard from him since.

Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services disputes the group’s account. In a statement, the company said the following: “On March 25, a Curtis Bay employee took custody of three packages from the Washington Surgery Center (Washington Surgi Clinic) and delivered all of them to Curtis Bay’s incineration facility. At no time did the Curtis Bay employee hand over any of these packages to the PAAU or other third party, and any allegations made otherwise are false.”

The statement said that Curtis Bay “continues to fully cooperate with law enforcement.”

Bukovinac was asked Tuesday about the company’s statement.

“When we spoke with the driver, he did say that he had already scanned the boxes in and that was right before he asked, ‘What would you do with them?’” Bukovinac responded.

“So I am not sure if Curtis Bay is lying or if he simply already scanned them in and so therefore they are accounting for them,” she added. “From our observation, there was only two boxes, but it’s possible that he had loaded one onto the truck before we arrived. And it’s definitely possible that they don’t know what is inside the box.”

Opening box a ‘soul-crushing experience’

In the interview with CNA prior to Tuesday’s press conference, Bukovinac said that once she and Handy took possession of the box they immediately took it to Handy’s apartment. They say they did not know for sure what was in the box, so they turned on a video camera and recorded as the box was opened.

Bukovinac described the processing of opening the box and examining its contents as a tearful, “completely soul-crushing experience.” She said the box was full of small turquoise-colored plastic containers, each with a small, first-trimester fetus in it, 110 in total.

There was also an inner plastic bag with five larger plastic containers. In the largest one, the aborted baby, whom the activists named Christopher X, was “whole” and appeared to be large enough to be born alive, in the women’s view.

“We often carry around a fetal model that is 22 weeks … this baby was huge,” Bukovinac recalled.

The women removed a second large baby from the box, a girl whom they named Harriet. The baby’s “brain has been suctioned out and her skull has collapsed and been crushed,” Bukovinac told CNA. Another baby they removed was “severely and brutally dismembered,” she said. Another large baby, whom they named Phoenix, was still within its amniotic sac.

Bukovinac said she and Handy packaged up the babies, called their lawyers, and realized they needed a private pathologist to give an opinion on how the babies had died. They said they were not yet ready to hand the five larger children over to police because they did not believe the police would conduct a thorough investigation.

While looking for a pathologist, the women found a priest willing to come and celebrate a funeral Mass for unbaptized children. They said they named all 115 babies and read the names during the Mass.

The 110 smaller babies were taken to an undisclosed location — not known to Bukovinac and Handy, they said — and buried in a private cemetery. During the press conference they declined to name the priest, or disclose the location of the cemetery, but said they were creating a headstone with all the babies’ names on it.

“It’s our moral imperative, especially as Catholics, to try to uplift the moral dignity of these victims by giving them a proper burial and funeral to commend their spirit to the Lord, commend their soul to the Lord,” Handy said in the interview with CNA.

“And maybe things could have been done differently, I don’t know. I do know that I tried to love to the best of my ability, and I’m thankful for the priests who were advising me the entire time,” she said.

FBI arrived prior to police

Bukovinac and Handy told CNA they were unable to find a pathologist willing to examine the five larger babies’ remains, and they were concerned that there was decomposition occurring. Bukovinac and Handy worked with an attorney to write a letter to the D.C. police homicide division, asking it to investigate the deaths of the larger babies. That letter was sent to the police on March 29, and the women said they expected the police to come that evening, and so left the door unlocked for the police.

The next morning, March 30, they learned that the FBI was making arrests related to a federal indictment of Handy and eight other protestors charged earlier that week for alleged violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act during a protest at the Washington Surgi-Center in 2020, which one of the protestors streamed live on Facebook.

Bukovinac told CNA she and Handy had returned to the apartment that morning to check if the babies were still there, or if the homicide division had already come. Bukovinac said when they stepped out of their Uber, the FBI stepped out of their cars and arrested Handy on the sidewalk, never entering the property.

When Bukovinac went into the apartment, the babies were still there, she said. She contacted her lawyers, who said she would need to be present to let the medical examiner and homicide division in. She told CNA that she let the police and forensic team in when they arrived, and the authorities opened the containers and took photos of the babies.

City officials have not announced any charges in connection with the revelation of the remains. Executive Assistant Chief of Police Ashan Benedict said at a March 31 press conference that the five babies recovered “were aborted in accordance with D.C. law” and that an investigation into how the remains ended up in the apartment is ongoing.

The district’s abortion laws are some of the least restrictive in the nation. The district does not have a gestational limit until which abortions can take place, meaning they are legal until birth.

LifeNews Note: Katie Yoder writes for Catholic News Agency, where this column originally appeared. Jonah McKeown is a staff writer and assistant podcast producer for Catholic News Agency. He holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and in the past has worked as a writer, as a producer for public radio, and as a videographer.

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Masonic Conspiracy, Lefebvre, and the Murder of John Paul I

 Timothy Flanders April 6, 2022 0 Comments

Fr. Charles Murr is one of the last living witnesses to Vatican corruption who is both orthodox and courageous. We have many clerics out there – dare I opine “many”! – who are orthodox, but do not have the courage – or perhaps the opportunity? – to speak the truth come what may.

Today, we thank God for Fr. Charles Murr who continues to show that he has both, setting an example for all clerics everywhere.

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In an interview with Kevin Symonds back in 2020, Fr. Murr confirmed himself as an independent witness to the Masonic membership of Annibale Bugnini, leading Rorate to conclude that “it is fair to say that there is no longer any reasonable doubt that the moving force in the Consilium was, indeed, a Freemason” (on Symonds’ evidence on this point, see also his review of Infiltration here).

Fr. Murr’s first book on this was The Godmother about that holy woman of God, secretary to Ven. Pius XII, the great Madre Pascalina. We have already promoted this text more than once to readers, especially in our discussion of the Third Pornocacy.

I cannot recommend this book enough to Trads because it truly cuts to the heart of the matter in a truly edifying book which is both hilarious and galvanizing at the same time.

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Now Fr. Murr has done it again. Murder in the 33rd Degree: The Gagnon Investigation into Vatican Freemasonry.

In this new book, Fr. Murr has given a pious testament to the great man who stood against the Vatican corruption under Paul VI: the great French Canadian Cardinal, Édouard Cardinal Gagnon “Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, Priest, Bishop, Loyal Son and Prince of the Church, Philosopher, Theologian, Lawyer, Teacher, Linguist, Mentor, Guide, Friend” (book dedication).

Perhaps, like Fr. Murr’s Madre Pascalina and the venerable Papa Pacelli, the good Cardinal is another not-yet-canonised saint.

Gagnon: Trusted Man of God

When Pope Paul VI realized that the “smoke of Satan” had entered the Church, and he was presented with substantial evidence that the architect of the new Mass was a Freemason, the most trusted man at the Vatican was this French Canadian Cardinal.

Paul VI turned to Gagnon to initiate a complete investigation into Vatican corruption in 1975. He spent three years interviewing every single person in the Vatican and collecting a massive stack of documentation that fully detailed the Third Pornocracy that the Church was suffering under at that time.

It was a massive dossier, foreshadowing the Vati-Leaks dossier in 2012 (which probably told about the same story of corruption) under Benedict XVI shortly before his resignation.

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Fr. Murr’s new book tells the story of that dossier and his personal friendship with Cardinal Gagnon and the other good men he knew in and around Rome: Monsignor Mario Marini and Cardinal Giovanni Benelli.

These were the men fighting against corruption decades ago, while the nefarious forces of Masonic intrigue sought to tighten their grip on the Church, by means of wicked men like Secretary of State Cardinal Jean-Marie Villot and Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio.

The Murder of John Paul I

But wait – there’s more.

Fr. Murr also tells the story of the year of three popes, 1978, when the “smiling pope,” soon to be beatified John Paul I, Papa Luciani (whom Murr confirms actually surpassed Paul VI and John Paul II in an important way) died suddenly after only 33 days in office.

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Here I must refrain from going into more details so that you will buy this book and support Fr. Charles Murr. Suffice it to say: this book is a historical witness from a rare living voice who was present with the “insiders” of the Vatican in that fateful year. Murr’s evidence from his contact with these good men should be taken into the debate about John Paul I’s death and the call for Catholics of a full investigation, besides the release of Gagnon’s dossier. The title of the book should give a clue about what is discussed therein.

John Paul II and Archbishop Lefebvre

There’s another connection here that I need to mention as well, which is partially covered in The Godmother and partly by my own conversation with Fr. Murr. First, in the final pages of Murder in the Thirty-Third Degree, Murr relates a critical juncture in the pontificate of Papa Wojtyła:

In early 1981, the Italian Secret Police informed Pope John Paul II that in a raid on the Grand Masonic Lodge [Propaganda Due (P2)], they uncovered a Masonic plot to bankrupt the Vatican. In May of that same year, a would-be assassin’s bullets left the pontiff fighting for his life in the Gemelli Hospital. When John Paul II regained consciousness and the power of speech, it was said that the first two words out of his mouth were: “F-i-n-d G-a-g-n-o-n…” (182).

Cardinal Gagnon helped John Paul II turn his pontificate around and start dealing with Vatican corruption. If only Papa Wojtyła would have listened more to Gagnon and done more of what he said (besides removing Baggio and finally removing Marcinkus from the Vatican Bank).

Nevertheless, John Paul II trusted Gagnon for a very important task: the apostolate visitation of the SSPX seminary at Écône completed in January, 1988 (before the SSPX episcopal consecrations later that year). Fr. Murr confirmed to me concerning this visitation that Gagnon thought that Écône was a “model seminary” and that Archbishop Lefebvre was a “holy and pious man of God” who was doing the right thing.[1] He told John Paul II about the seminary personally.[2]

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So the most trusted man in the Vatican under Paul VI, who became the most trusted man in the Vatican under John Paul II, tasked to investigate the vilified Archbishop Lefebvre and his seminary… had that to say about the Archbishop.

As I said before about our SSPX Debate, we can admire Archbishop Lefebvre, we can be his ally, and we can even say he was a holy man… without saying he was infallible or impeccable on every point. Those who vilify the man or his fraternity of priests fail to see this, and fail to take into account witnesses to the contrary.

At OnePeterFive, we can’t ignore the witness of Cardinal Gagnon, the man whom John Paul II trusted to give the judgment about the SSPX and the Archbishop Lefebvre.

We hope that through Fr. Murr’s book, greater knowledge may be spread about the great French Canadian prelate, and his life’s work may be more appreciated and honoured. Most especially, we hope and pray that more clerics will seek the truth that Cardinal Gagnon sought – at the risk of his life – and fight for the cleansing of the Mystical Body of Christ from the Third Pornocracy, according to God’s good time in the mystery of His Providence.

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For now, please support Fr. Charles Murr and buy his book. Buy two, and give one to a priest! And especially for priests, this will soon be an audio book read by our contributing editor, Kennedy Hall.

T. S. Flanders
Editor
Feria Quarta post Dom. Passionis

This article has been updated.

[1] Fr. Charles Murr, private interviews conducted by T. S. Flanders (April 24th, 2020, March 31st, 2021).

[2] Ibid. (April 5th, 2022).

Timothy Flanders

Timothy Flanders is the editor of OnePeterFive. He is the author of City of God versus City of Man: The Battles of the Church from Antiquity to the Present and Introduction to the Holy Bible for Traditional Catholics. His writings have appeared at OnePeterFive and Crisis, as well as in Catholic Family News. In 2019 he founded The Meaning of Catholic, a lay apostolate dedicated to uniting Catholics against the enemies of Holy Church. He holds a degree in classical languages from Grand Valley State University and has done graduate work with the Catholic University of Ukraine. He lives in the Midwest with his wife and four children.

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Aqua: “The Essence of [Francis is Definitely the Pope] Steve O’Reilly’s Argument is: Words don’t Matter, Error doesn’t Matter, as long as the Intent was Clear. My Argument is: Precise Words Matter such [as]… Mary’s Fiat; Eucharistic Consecration; Papal Abdication”

April 06, 2022

The Catholic Monitor hosted a mini debate with the publisher of .RomaLocutaEst, Steven O’Reilly, who is a former intelligence officer in his visit to its comment section in which he argued with the well known commenter Aqua on if Francis is definitely the pope or an antipope. (https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2022/04/the-catholic-monitor-aqua-debate-steven.html)

Here is Aqua’s take on the debate with O’Reilly:

Aqua said…

I went back through Steve’s comments looking for any direct commentary on the central issue of contention: Benedict XVI’s resignation of what the Pope DOES; Benedict XVI’s clear and adamant retention of what the Pope IS – he resigned Ministerium; he retained Munus.

My contention with Steve O’Reilly has been over his refusal to argue that essential point. I finally found this:

– Steve O’Reilly quote –

“So bottom line…the Roman Pontiff can resign the papacy. Any numbers of words might be used. There is no list of approved and unapproved words. There is no formula for that. He could say…”I renounce the papacy.” Valid. Full stop. The word “munus” does not need to be used. I believe even Estefania Acosta admits that *narrow* point. 

The term “mininisterium/ministero” may include ‘office’ among its definitions. That combined with the fact that Benedict said he renounced the Petrine ministry ‘in such a way’ that the “See of Rome, See of Peter will be vacant”, etc., makes it quite evidence what he was doing. Resigning the papacy. What else leaves the See of Rome, the See of Peter vacant? The answer is obvious. A papal death or resignation. That is what leaves the See vacant. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

Finally, though not necessary, but for those ‘demanding’ munus, we can see the logic of the whole text. He starts off using ‘munus’ saying he is unable to continue due to age/weakness, and a few sentences later uses the term ministerium in the same way, noting his age/weakness. So the two are logically interchangeable, and we have it on authority, such as Cardinal Burke they are used interchangeably. Why did he make the transition or switch to ministerium? Ultimately, it doesn’t matter…but it has been suggested he preferred the more personalistic/relational tone of the use of “ministry.”

– end Steve O’Reilly quote –

As with the entire parallel post-conciliar Vatican II newchurch™️, Steve’s argument (above) boils down to this:

“It’s good enough, close enough, meanings and definitions are open to interpretation and intent; we know what he meant to do; we don’t know why he did what he did, said what he said – don’t know why he calls himself Emeritus, don’t know why he still uses the honorific Holiness, don’t know why he still lives in the Vatican. We know what he meant. It is what it is. What will he will be. The Church has already spoken and we must do what they say. The Church is indefectible so any questions must submit to authority which is always right. And so … Ministerium = Munus. Canon Law says Munus, but any old word will do also. The action is concrete and so the intent is clear. The Pope controls Canon Law and if he says Ministerium = Munus then it is so. If the Pope wants to simply say ‘That’s all folks’, he can. If the Pope wants to remain as an Emeritus Pope, even though he dreamed it up himself – the Pope can do whatever he wants – he is unconstrained by law; a law unto himself. In sum: If the Pope wishes it to be true, then it is true”.

I do not believe that. I believe shortcuts and expedience lead to heresy and are the Devil’s raw material for his lies and deception to take root. Precision is a core element of the Faith, because there is only *One Way*, and, the *road is narrow; gate is small that lead to life*.

Ministerium ≠ Munus. Ministerium is not even ≈ (approx) Munus. One is one thing. The other is a different thing.  

Ministerium = Bergoglio (it was resigned).
Munus = Benedict XVI (it was not resigned).

Thus, the essence of Steve O’Reilly’s argument is: words don’t matter, error doesn’t matter, as long as the intent was clear.

My argument is: precise words matter such that at some times the entire Universe hangs upon them – Mary’s Fiat; Eucharistic consecration; Papal abdication. [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2022/04/the-catholic-monitor-aqua-debate-steven.html]

Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia. 

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.

Francis Notes:

– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:

“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.”
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]

– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html

 –  LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:

The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”

–  On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:

“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”

– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:

“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.

Election Notes: 

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html

– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1

– A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020: 
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1

What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”: 
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1] 

Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.

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DR. TAYLOR MARSHALL DISCUSSES VIGANÒ’S CALL FOR THE GREAT CATHOLIC RESET

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Editor’s Note: It appears from Dr. Marshall’s comments, that he is 100% on board with the call for an investigation. He is actually delighted at the possible outcome that Benedict XVI’s renunciation of the papacy is not valid, or the Conclave’s election of Bergoglio was illegitimate.

After Patrick Coffin and Archbishop Viganò, Dr. Marshall is the 3rd strongest voice on this. But I am not surprised, that with the Archbishop’s embracing of this position, that Dr. Marshall has followed suit.

All I can say, is that this Easter is going to be the best in 8 years.

Now, let’s hope that some non-Voting or voting Cardinals get on board. Especially one “appointed” by Bergoglio, since that would be of maximum shock value.

I do believe that Dr. Marshall’s testimony will be crucial in convincing EWTN to open the question, and if that happens, a lot of Bishops in the USA and round the world will begin to open their hearts to the light of truth.

Archbishop Lenga and Bishop Gracida, now’s the time to get publicly on board with Vigano’s call — though I know you were on it before him — so that this snowball can roll down hill all the faster, and gain the maximum speed and velocity to shatter the complicit silence of the College of Cardinals, which will be the last hurdle.

And all of you, need to start contacting those priests before who seemed to be sitting on the fence and get them now to publicly back Viganò’s call.

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Why don’t you, Mr. Ferrara, in 2022, again, Call for an “Imperfect Council” & present your Friend Fr. Gruner’s Evidence that Francis’s Papacy is Invalid? 

April 07, 2022

In my opinion, one of the smartest journalists in the Catholic Church in the United States is pro-life attorney Christopher A. Ferrara.

On September 17, 2018, Ferrara, president of the American Catholic Lawyers Association wrote a brilliant article calling for a “imperfect council” to be enjoined to investigate and possibly “declare” Francis “deposed” from the papacy:

“The Synod [of Sutri in 1046] was convoked by Henry III, the German king and soon-to-be-crowned Holy Roman Emperor, a pious and austere Christian and an exponent of the Cluniac spirit of reform. The Synod declared that Benedict IX (who had refused to appear) was deposed notwithstanding his attempt to undo his resignation. As for Sylvester, the Synod declared that he be “stripped of his sacerdotal rank and shut up in a monastery.” Gregory was also declared deposed, either by the act of the Synod itself or by Gregory’s own voluntary resignation in view of the Synod [Historian Warren Carroll states in “The Building of Christendom” that it was by his resignation, Page 464.].”

“… What would be the grounds for a declaration of deposition at such a gathering of prelates?  One could readily point to the evidence that a faction that included Bergoglio himself had agreed upon his election before the conclave, and that all those involved, including Bergoglio, were thereby excommunicated latae sententiae in accordance with Article 81 of John Paul II’s Universi Dominici Gregis, which provides:

 ‘The Cardinal electors shall further abstain from any form of pact, agreement, promise or other commitment of any kind which could oblige them to give or deny their vote to a person or persons. If this were in fact done, even under oath, I decree that such a commitment shall be null and void and that no one shall be bound to observe it; and I hereby impose the penalty of excommunication latae sententiae upon those who violate this prohibition.'”

“To quote Cajetan on this point (citations taken from the linked article by Robert Siscoe), deposition by an imperfect council is appropriate ‘when one or more Popes suffer uncertainty.

Biden Has Sunk the 

‘Progressive’ Option

By: Conrad Black

The Epoch Times

April 4, 2022

The Biden administration is turning into the funeral pyre of the American left. Historians of the future will deduce who was responsible for converting the Biden–Sanders unity program, designed as the most socialistic that could be sold to the voters, into an outright, far left, suicide note for the Democratic Party as it had been known since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The kamikaze candidacy of George McGovern in 1972, although President Richard Nixon had almost entirely withdrawn from Vietnam, demanded peace terms that, as the New York Times stated, were harsher for America than what the North Vietnamese government was seeking. That was an aberrant moment: The candidate returned to inconsequential obscurity, as Nixon was reelected by what still stands as the greatest plurality in American history despite a doubling in the size of the electorate—18 million votes, carrying 49 states.

Apart from that mad excursion, the Democrats have held to the old Roosevelt coalition of the working class, the working press, the African Americans, Latin Americans, and any other voters identified with ethnic minorities, the academics including the teachers, and a healthy chunk of the middle class.

After only 14 months, the Biden administration has insulted almost all of the core elements of its support and discredited all of its principal “progressive” policies.

Citizenship is held to be unnecessary to vote; mere physical presence in the country will suffice and immigration has been reduced to the tawdry flood across the southern border, more resembling the barbarians pouring across the frontiers of the Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. than any considered and sincere determination to come to America to adapt and espouse the American ethos. The fatuous idea of open borders and refuge and haven for anyone in the world seeking to enter it for whatever motives, appalls the country. It’s personified in the nodding head of Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas as he declares “The border is closed” while on the other side of the split television screen, unrestrained masses of unauthorized foreigners flood into the country with no recognition that they’re crossing a national border.

The administration has waffled badly on the whole issue of race relations, has effectively promoted critical race theory in the education system, the armed forces, and among civilian employees of the federal government, and has shown grossly undeserved respect for the theories that have been floating around the Democratic intellectual entourage that proclaim that the United States was initially a slaveholding enterprise that has not begun to compensate African-Americans for what President Abraham Lincoln called “the bondman’s 250 years of unrequited toil,” followed by a century of segregation and 50 uneven years of the Great Society. Biden’s negligent tolerance of racial extremism is tarnishing and weakening the powerful consensus for enabling African Americans to achieve a position of equality in American society that has been faithfully followed by both parties for nearly 60 years.

There’s probably a consensus for more professional rules and training for police, but there was never the slightest support for the disparagement,  intimidation, and shrinkage of police forces that occurred in most large Democratic governed cities in the last two years. The Democrats are finally coming to regret blaming the 2020 summer of “peaceful protests” (in which more than 50 people were killed and $2 billion of property damage inflicted) on racist police. The whole party was cowed by Black Lives Matter, which was threatening to “burn down America” if it didn’t receive everything that it sought. Black Lives Matter has since been substantially exposed as an alleged tax scam, but the Democrats have done almost nothing to distance themselves from these harum-scarum radical and charlatan movements that have alienated the great majority of Americans.

Most Americans were tired of unending war in the Middle East, particularly when the principal effect of the 2003 Gulf War was to raise Iran’s influence in Iraq. But the catastrophic departure from Afghanistan, in which thousands of Americans were left behind along with billions of dollars worth of sophisticated military equipment, and tens of thousands of completely unevaluated Afghans who had had no connection with the United States were admitted to the United States, has justly shaken faith in the military and splintered any foreign policy consensus.

For the first time since the battle of Kasserine Pass in 1943, America’s allies are seriously questioning the efficacy of the U.S. armed forces. It’s now clear that despite the colossal funds allocated to rebuild American defense by the Trump administration, the senior military staff have failed to provide adequate protection for the Nimitz class aircraft carriers that are the principal means of projecting American power in the world, and have completely failed to grasp the significance of hypersonic weapons.

The further the United States gets from a successful war in its past, the more absurdly decorated and bemedaled its senior officers become. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Mark Milley, sports more ribbons than the combination, at the heights of their careers, of Generals Washington, Grant, Sherman, Lee, Pershing, Marshall, MacArthur, and Eisenhower. Faith in every branch and activity of government has largely evaporated, for good cause.

The initial Biden reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine was very ambiguous as if there were any relativism possible where one sovereign state is simply invaded, and its civil population is smashed up from the air and by artillery. Again, Milley so grossly misjudged the correlation of forces that he predicted the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv would fall to the Russians within three days, and the daring act of solidarity offered by Biden in the early days was a guaranteed safe headlong flight of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his family out of Ukraine.

The United States had been instrumental in training and supplying the Ukrainians, and the joint chiefs should have known how dangerous and motivated their armed forces could be. The administration seems painfully committed to trying to assure Ukrainian survival while avoiding Russian defeat: a cowardly policy of appeasement while Ukrainians die at the hands of unprovoked invaders. And while the Pentagon spokesman John Kirby contradicts the Secretary of State, saying that furnishing Ukraine with 13-year-old warplanes would be “escalatory,” the president has sought to distract the nation with a lot of unutterable nonsense about transsexualism.

This presidency has failed so badly and so quickly that it has made the Democratic Party synonymous with bad policies. The demented extravagance of Build Back Better — like the attempted coup d’état of the electoral changes that would have eliminated any process of verification and turned elections into 30-day harvested ballot-stuffing contests, and a packed, overtly political Supreme Court — could not even be brought to a successful vote.

Everything the administration could do to discredit the “progressive” agenda, from ambivalence about the naked aggression against Ukraine, to maintaining defenseless 5-year-old children in masks, to skyrocketing inflation and urban crime, it has done. Biden has sunk the “progressive”option. And for that, and probably only that, the country will be grateful to him.

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The Nihilism of the Left

In pursuit of its utopian omelet, the Left cares little about the millions of middle-class Americans it must break to make it.

By: Victor Davis Hanson

American Greatness

April 3, 2022

The last 14 months have offered one of the rare occasions in recent American history when the hard Left has operated all the levers of the federal government. The presidency, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the permanent bureaucratic state are all in progressive hands. And the result is a disaster that is uniting Americans in their revulsion of elitists whose crazy ideas are tearing apart the fabric of the country. 

For understandable reasons, socialists and leftists are usually kept out of the inner circles of the Democratic Party, and especially kept away from the control of the country. A now resuscitated Bernie Sanders for most of his political career was an inert outlier. The brief flirtations with old-style hardcore liberals such as George McGovern in 1972 and Mike Dukakis in 1988 imploded the Democratic Party. Their crash-and-burn campaigns were followed by corrective nominees who won the presidency: Southern governors Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. 

Such was the nation’s innate distrust of the Left and in particular the East Coast elite liberal. For nearly half a century between the elections of John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama, it was assumed that no Democratic presidential candidate could win the popular vote unless he had a reassuring Southern accent. 

How did the extreme Left manage its rare takeover of the country between 2018 and 2020? Certainly, Obama’s election helped accelerate the woke movement and energized identity politics. One could also argue about the political opportunities in 2020 following the devastation of COVID-19. 

In the long term, the medicine of lockdowns and quarantines probably proved more calamitous than the disease, and this crisis mode made doable what had once been unimaginable. State governors such as Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, and Andrew Cuomo did not let the pandemic crisis go to waste. It was a rare occasion to leverage agendas that otherwise had no public support in ordinary times.

In the chaos of 2020, both laws and customs were altered or scrapped—changing the very way we vote. Over 102 million ballots were either mailed in or cast during so-called “early voting”—strangely resulting in far lower rejection rates in most states than in past “normal” years of predominantly in-person voting on Election Day. Indeed, in just one year, Election Day went from an American institution to an afterthought.

The hatred of Donald Trump prompted an influx of hundreds of millions of dark dollars from Silicon Valley to supplant the responsibilities of registrars in key precincts with armies of paid activists. A noncompos mentis, basement-bound Joe Biden was cynically given an “Ol’ Joe from Scranton” moderate veneer to pursue a calibrated hard-Left agenda. 

So Americans ended up with a neo-socialist government. It is proving as disastrous as it is bitterly instructive—reminding this generation of Americans what the Left does when it grasps power. As all restraints came off, the hard and now unbridled Left went to work to turn America into something like a looney, one-party California. A wide-open border followed. We may see 3 million illegal aliens cross the southern border during the first 18 months of the Biden Administration. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been allotted to reward those illegally entering America, who can expect free legal support from the U.S. government to ensure they are not subject to the laws of the United States. 

In a sane world, Biden would have been impeached for deliberately destroying the very federal laws he swore to uphold. On the prompt of his hard-Left controllers, he was eager to alter the electoral demography of the nation rather than ensure immigrants came in reasonable numbers, legally, with audit and background checks, and safely in a time of a pandemic. The former illegal arrivals were seen as needed constituents, the latter legal immigrants too politically unpredictable.

The Left in about a year has negated American gas and oil independence. Biden, who promised to end America’s use of fossil fuels on his watch, cast adrift millions of his fellow citizens to choose between driving and eating. Much of what the Left had traditionally demonized and wanted gone from American life—from gasoline to beefsteak to new pickup trucks—became so inflated in price as to be nearly unattainable. 

The electrician now pays five times more for his wire, the carpenter eight times more for his plywood, the plumber six times more for his pipe—as all three have to pay off-the-books cash for rare workers who prefer to get checks from the Biden Administration. The Biden printing press has destroyed both the idea that all citizens will work if there are just good-paying jobs, and that affordable necessities for life—food, fuel, and shelter—form the basis for a middle-class life.

If the Left did all that in 14 months, imagine what it can still do before losing Congress in 2022.

The Biden Administration’s profligate multitrillion-dollar budget, inflation of the currency, de facto zero interest rates, destructive subsidies that undermined labor participation, and incompetence at addressing the supply-chain and clogged port crises will all by midyear likely achieve a 10 percent annualized inflation rate. Carter-era stagflation is on the near horizon. 

When an American president predicts a food shortage in what used to be the breadbasket of the world, then we see the wages of socialism in all their unapologetic cruelty. When the Left can scarcely hide its glee that diesel fuel hit $7 a gallon in California, the public is finally seeing that the Bidens, Newsoms, and AOCs of the world care nothing for the real-life consequences of their elite utopian green fantasies. How did America ever stoop to begging communist Venezuela, theocratic Iran, and dictatorial Russia to pump oil for us that we have in abundance but will not produce? Which insane person thought up the idea of using Vladimir Putin’s Russia as our mediator to restart the Iran Deal?

The now unfettered woke revolution seeks to Trotskyize American history and its heroes. A disastrous foreign policy of appeasement has ended U.S. deterrence. After the worst military humiliation in 50 years in Afghanistan, Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea all seek to capitalize on a rare American Phaethon moment. The world’s superpower has turned over the reins of its deterrence chariot to a ninny and his gurus. And before crashing the country, they aimlessly rebound from one self-created crisis to the next self-induced disaster. 

The Clerks Come Out

Aside from the dismal left-wing political record, the public has also witnessed an unapologetically leftwing federal bureaucracy now completely unbound. Our top echelon of the administrative state is defiant in its weaponized assumption of legislative, executive, and judicial powers. 

We are learning that the likes of Anthony Fauci have all but destroyed the reputation of once time-honored federal health agencies. In their contradictions, about-faces, and deceit, they focused mostly on controlling their multibillion-dollar public fiefdoms, hounding critics, rewarding sycophants, politicizing “science,” hiding culpability about routing money to lunatic gain-of-function research in China and marginalizing outspoken voices of audit.

The military apparat after Afghanistan—defined as woke Pentagon functionaries, revolving door and politically weaponized corporate generals, and outspoken politicos—managed the impossible: a once revered military now cannot even win a 50 percent vote of confidence from the American public. 

The intelligence agencies are worse. Former kingpins such as John Brennan and James Clapper, both pundits for hire on leftwing cable networks, lied under oath before Congress without consequences. When 50 retired intelligence officials during the Biden 2020 campaign claimed publicly that Hunter’s laptop was likely a Russian plot, what then is left of any semblance of nonpartisan professionalism and integrity? 

James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Christopher Wray have all eroded the reputation of the FBI by fueling the Russian collusion hoax, the Alfa Bank hoax, and the Hunter laptop disinformation hoax. Since when does the FBI go after journalists in their underwear or moms and dads at school board meetings, as if it is now an extension of the teacher union or DNC?

Along with Robert Mueller—who claimed no knowledge of either the Steele dossier or Fusion GPS—the Washington FBI hierarchy did to the agency what Lois Lerner infamously did to the IRS. Just as Lerner became an extension of the Obama 2012 reelection effort and corrupted tax law, so the FBI descended into becoming the wayward Biden family’s retrieval service—eager to keep quiet Hunter’s incriminating laptop and to rescue Ashley Biden’s lurid diary.

When the evidence becomes overwhelming that the collusionary media lied about the laptop or the origins of COVID-19, there is never a retraction, only a Soviet-style silence about past untruths. And then it is on to the next false narrative. 

Add in the conduct of FBI luminaries such as the forger Kevin Clinesmith, Lisa Page, and Peter Strzok, who preferred to investigate conservatives rather than enemies of the nation. What characterizes, then, our once revered intelligence agencies is not just institutionalized mediocracy. Rather it is a dangerous zeal to enact by fiat politicized agendas that cannot otherwise be ratified by a legislative vote—all with the expectation that these sanctified agents of political change are above the law and will be rewarded accordingly.

Our Ill Institutions

Americans had tuned-out many of our major institutions that are now openly hostile to American exceptionalism. In their nihilism, leftists seek to destroy the very organizations they absorbed. 

Professional sports? Multimillionaire basketball players are more likely to refuse to salute the American Flag than to say a word of dissent to their autocratic and often ethnocentric Chinese paymasters.

Higher education? A Yale law school dean contextualizes the loud disruption of free speech by leftist law students at a conference. Only that way can she ensure that rules about open expression remain theoretical, and not real for the woke. 

Entertainment? Hiring, promotions, and awards are now based as much on race, gender, and sexual identity as on merit. 

Forty years ago, face slapper Will Smith would likely have been removed from the Oscar ceremonies for rudely shouting and interrupting the worldwide show. Twenty years ago, he might still have been rebuked for profanity and yelling the F-word in a live televised event. Now he is neither arrested nor even removed for physically assaulting comedian Chris Rock. His belated contrition is belied by his refusal to leave the ceremony and to go dancing and partying into the post-assault wee hours. Will there be open brawling on stage next year?

The Left got what it wanted and now controls academia, the media, the internet, K-12 education, corporate boardrooms, the Pentagon, Wall Street, and Hollywood. And they more or less have turned each of these into versions of Pravda. The sermons, arrogance, and narcissism of these woke cultural imperialists now explain why they are disliked as much abroad as they are at home. 

In sum, we are watching a rare laboratory experiment in which the traditional American fringe is now in control of the government. In pursuit of its utopian omelet, the Left cares little about the millions of middle-class Americans it must break to make it. The result is an unmitigated disaster that not only has tarred the Democratic Party, corrupted once revered agencies, and alienated half the country from our cultural institutions but now endangers the very health and security of the United States.

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APRIL 6, 2022

Disney Has Been Corrupting Kids for Decades

MARY CUFF

Disney has officially declared itself a woke leader, vowing to fight Florida’s newly-minted Parental Rights in Education Law while advancing the rainbow agenda to the youngest of its viewers. The past few weeks have shown Disney’s wokeness in startlingly clear detail: top execs are promising that 50 percent of its characters will be racial or gender minorities by the end of 2022; there will be a gay kiss in a Buzz Lightyear spin-off; its theme parks have removed “gendered language”; and internal company meetings discuss how Disney is committed to reprogramming young children’s concept of what is “normal.”

However, Disney declaring itself the Wokest Place on Earth should come as no surprise to anyone. Recent Disney movies are not necessarily “family friendly.” Many conservatives held their breath before the second Frozen movie was released: Would the corporation give in to the loud demands to make the ice-queen Elsa overtly gay? It did seem likely, after her “coming out” style song in the first movie, even if she was technically talking about her magical abilities instead of her sexual orientation. Parents everywhere must have breathed a sigh of relief when the sequel decided instead to lecture their children about white guilt and the oppression of native peoples.

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Disney has been quietly and steadily paving the way for the new normal of identity politics for almost forty years now. At least since the dawn of the so-called “Disney Renaissance” in the ’80s, Disney has been the progressive Trojan Horse that has infiltrated almost every single home in the developed world. It has deposited its special Disney morality in the impressionable imaginations of several generations who now embrace the narcissistic tautologies and equivocations that make up identity politics.

When I was a kid, folks on the Right were already trying to call attention to the dangers of Disney. Unfortunately, while many people smelled that something was rotten, all too often they highlighted the wrong things, making a laughingstock of the entire position. Take, for example, the charge that there is a phallus making up one of the spires of the mermaid Ariel’s palace; or that a cloud of bugs in The Lion King quickly spells out the word “sex.” Supposedly, Aladdin sends silently-mouthed, dirty subliminal messages to the audience. Church groups in the ’90s warned each other about these sorts of things, and much of the world—many good, conservative parents included—laughed.

But the supposedly wholesome Disney of yesteryear was, in fact, dangerous. The ’90s saw the “family values” company offer family benefits to homosexual couples in a country where Bill Clinton—of all people—was signing the Defense of Marriage Act. That decade also ushered in “Gay Days” at Disney theme parks. This should have been expected: many of the producers, writers, and lyricists of the classic Disney Princess movies were themselves out and proud members of the gay community. The songwriter widely acclaimed as the major force behind the Disney Renaissance—Howard Ashman—died at the age of 40 from AIDS. Beauty and the Beast, for which he won a posthumous Oscar, is dedicated to him. And his same-sex partner made history when he accepted the award on Ashman’s behalf. 

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Now, as a literature scholar, I do not believe that an artist’s personal life necessarily impacts the morality of their art, nor am I advocating that Christians consume only literature written by verified saints. We would have to chuck almost all of the greatest books ever written if we were that scrupulous. And yet, upon closer examination, it cannot be denied that the Disney Renaissance wrote the theme songs for today’s woke reality.

Take, for instance, the movie that kicked off the Disney Renaissance: The Little Mermaid. In Hans Christian Andersen’s original story, the mermaid trades her fins and voice to the sea witch not only for the chance to win the love of the human prince but also because she has learned that humans have immortal souls and will go to heaven; mermaids, on the other hand, live for 300 years and then become sea-foam. The witch promises the mermaid that if she marries the prince, not only will she remain human but she will also share his immortal soul. If not, she will die. 

Naturally, the prince mistakes his girl, and the mute mermaid watches as he marries another. The witch offers the mermaid a magical dagger: if she murders the prince and his wife on their wedding night, she can avoid death and become a mermaid again. The mermaid, however, chooses death rather than this evil. As she turns into foam, she is taken up into heaven, awarded an immortal soul of her own because she worked so faithfully and righteously to attain it.

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By contrast, Ashman and his Disney colleagues turned this deeply religious tale into a story that validates those who dislike their bodies and wish to change them because they believe the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Virtue does not win the day but, rather, a juvenile love of two smitten teenagers. The prince is attracted to Ariel because of her voice, and when the witch steals it and passes it off as hers, her ill-temper and abuse of his loyal dog aren’t enough to make him reconsider. Ariel’s father is swayed from his anti-human prejudices simply because he can’t say no to “love.” 

Back in 1989, with even most Democrats against same-sex marriage and transgenderism almost universally abhorred, it would take a keen eye to see what exactly was so dangerous about Disney’s version of the story. But songs like “Part of Your World” and the longing to be in a different body due to personal feelings settled into the subconscious of generations of kids.

Soon to join that earworm were songs from Mulan, which reaffirmed the idea that you can (and should) change your reflection to match who you are inside. Mulaneven features an explicit transvestite joke as one of Mulan’s silly (prejudiced?) ancestors panics when she sees the girl in male clothes. Mulan also took pains to mock traditional marriage roles: our heroine stands out from the crowd of brain-dead bimbos lining up at the frankly frightening matchmaker’s house, excited to be turned into some man’s chief cook and bottle washer. Later, the army sings about “a girl worth fighting for”: the sort of girl Mulan has rejected in her own reflection. By contrast, Mulan manages to metaphorically out-swim “Lia” Thomas with her sudden ability to physically outshine an entire army of men.

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Similarly, the plot of Tarzan was changed dramatically from the book’s original emphasis on the superiority of man in the state of nature. Disney turned that tale into a vehicle for the expansiveness and possibilities of family structures. “Don’t listen to them, ’cause what do they know? We need each other, to have, to hold,” Phil Collins assured millions of children. 

Aladdin—the last film for which Howard Ashman wrote lyrics before his untimely death—fantasizes about a “whole new world” where “no one will tell us no.” The movie also involves a rather stupid plot device where the poor Sultan feels like a jerk that there are laws that dictate whom his daughter can or cannot marry, until he suddenly and conveniently realizes that he can just change them at will…with no thought as to why those laws might have been there to begin with. Ashman himself faced a law that told him he could not marry his choice of partner, a law that was also abruptly dismissed in a similar manner using the shakiest of logic and with no authentic consideration as to why it was a law at all.

The fact of the matter is that Disney has been feeding generations stories and songs that focus our attention on our own wants and desires without making us reflect upon their wisdom or virtue. For almost forty years, we have been hammered with Disney’s definition of love, a definition that is shockingly supportive of the woke tautology that demands that we define no further, impose no limits, and allow no objections. 

Old fairy tales and beloved legends were repurposed to fit a very modern message by artists and producers whose own lifestyles required a cultural seismic shift in basic definitions about family, relationships, love, and personal identity. Nineties conservatives felt that there was something wrong when they looked at this friendly, Mouse-shaped Trojan Horse, but few were perceptive enough to realize that the danger lay in the songs their children knew by heart rather than the supposed subliminal messages and dirty images.

In a sane world, a world where megacorporations do not vow their support of blue-haired teachers openly discussing their bedroom habits with kindergarteners, where men do not win “woman of the year” awards, and toddler board books do not introduce babies to the idea that their identity is “fluid,” this would all be different. In such a world, the movies from the Disney Renaissance would simply be shallow, threadbare versions of greater stories, albeit with extraordinarily catchy music. In such a world, parents could reasonably allow their children to fall in love with these movies because their facile depictions of love and self-expression would not have an external application.

But the world in which Disney has been operating for at least these past forty years has not been that world. And they have been quietly ushering in this woke new world by reprogramming children’s conceptions of what is normal for decades. They have only come out of the closet so thoroughly now because they sense that total victory is so near.

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By Mary Cuff

Mary Cuff is an independent scholar, wife, and homeschooling mother. She holds a PhD in American literature from the Catholic University of America and has published in the Southern Literary Journal, Five Points, Mississippi Quarterly, and Modern Age. She teaches online high school classical rhetoric courses at Homeschool Connections.

Long Island Lawmaker Targets Religious Speech A lawmaker from Suffolk County, Long Island is seeking to abridge religious speech. Here is Bill Donohue’s response. April 6, 2022 Hon. Robert TrottaSuffolk County LegislatureChair, Ways and Means Committee59 Landing AvenueSmithtown, NY 11787 Dear Chairman Trotta: I am writing to you, and to all the other members of the Ways and Means Committee, about an amendment to the Rules of the Legislature proposed by Bridget Fleming. She has proposed a resolution that would in effect neuter the heart and soul of invocations before the Legislature. The action she took is in response to an invocation given by Msgr. Robert Batule before this body just before Christmas. Full disclosure: He is on the board of directors of the Catholic League. Msgr. Batule offered a Christian prayer on December 21, wherein he included a prayer for unborn children. He had every constitutional and moral right to do so. Moreover, what he did can hardly be considered novel: it is done all the time. The clergy of all faiths have a tradition of making specific references to various segments of the population and to various issues. I am the author of two books on the ACLU, and I have also taught First Amendment law to graduate students. Trust me—what Fleming gave as reasons for her resolution are constitutionally flawed. I am referring to Resolution No. 1004-2022, presented on January 3, 2022. The establishment clause of the First Amendment was not written to guarantee “pluralism among religions in governmental speech and practice.” Madison made it clear that it was written to prohibit the establishment of a national church and to bar favoritism of one religion over another. Moreover, no future court decision buttresses her point. Fleming cites the Supreme Court decision in Marsh v. Chambers as supportive of her position. In fact, it undercuts her stance. She writes that the purpose of this ruling “is to acknowledge widely held religious beliefs, not to advance one particular religious perspective, nor coerce or compel any particular religious doctrine.” She then implies that Msgr. Batule’s invocation violated “the United States Constitution and is therefore impermissible.” In point of fact, the ruling in the 1983 Marsh decision, as written for the majority by Chief Justice Warren Burger, struck down a lower court ruling that improperly invoked the establishment clause. He wrote that opening official deliberations with a prayer “is deeply embedded in the history and tradition of the country.” Most important, nothing the court said came close to saying anything about tailoring an invocation in such a way that it does not “advance one particular religious perspective.” A more pointed decision by the Supreme Court was not mentioned by Fleming. In the 2014 Town of Greece, NY v. Galloway, the high court took up objections by two persons who were offended by the Christian themes of prayer invocations. The words “Lord,” “Jesus,” and “God” were frequently used by Christian ministers before town meetings. The Supreme Court said such prayers did not violate the Constitution. At the very outset, the high court rejected the contention that a prayer’s content determined its constitutionality. If it were otherwise, it ruled, courts would be converted into “supervisors and censors” of religious speech, something which itself would violate the First Amendment. Make no mistake, what Fleming is proposing is exactly what Justice Anthony Kennedy and the majority of Justices said was unconstitutional. Her “remedy” is to require that all prayer invocations “shall maintain neutrality regarding personal beliefs unrelated to the body’s legislative function….” The idea of a “neutral” prayer is an oxymoron. Prayers are never neutral—they are always normative, and they frequently reflect the personal beliefs of the prayer giver. Most significant, if government personnel were to sit in judgment determining whether a prayer were neutral, they would become the “supervisors and censors” that the Supreme Court clearly rejected. Fleming’s problem is not simply a misreading of the establishment clause, or a failure to cite Town of Greece: it is her inattention to the other First Amendment provision, namely the religious liberty clause. It ensures freedom of religious expression, the kind that Msgr. Batule exercised. It cannot be said too strongly—the content of his prayer is none of the state’s business. In fact, it reflects his freedom of speech as much as it does his freedom of religion. It would be in the best interest of everyone for this resolution to be withdrawn. If Fleming persists, rest assured that we are prepared to take this issue to the next level. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, William A. Donohue, Ph.D.President Contact Chairman Trotta: Robert.Trotta@suffolkcountyny.gov

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Biden’s Supreme Court nominee made one rash decision with devastating consequences

April 5, 2022

Joe Biden is anxious to get his Supreme Court pick confirmed.

But skeletons in her judicial closet keep emerging.

And Biden’s Supreme Court nominee made one rash decision with devastating consequences.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has not had the smooth confirmation process that the Democrats expected.

Unlike the Democrats’ disgusting smear of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and other Republican appointees, Jackson has been peppered on her legal record.

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley brought up the fact that Jackson has a tendency to give lenient sentences to sex offenders who harm children.

A case involving a convicted molester named Leo Weekes served as an example.

Weekes was given a slap on the wrist after failing to register as a sex offender, and soon after he sexually assaulted someone else.

The New York Post reported that “[i]n 2010, Weekes was convicted in DC Superior Court of raping his 13-year-old niece four years earlier. He was sentenced to 16 months in jail and four years of supervised probation and was required to register as a sex offender for the next decade . . . Weekes failed to register – lying about his whereabouts by claiming he lived in DC in February 2013 when prosecutors said he was really living with his wife in Temple Hills, Maryland since 2012. He was hauled before Jackson, then a federal judge in DC, on Feb. 19, 2014 for sentencing after pleading guilty to a charge of failing to register.”

Prosecutors asked for 30 months in prison plus five years probation, but Jackson sentenced him to 12 months with credit for time served.

The prosecutors who condemned Weekes in harsh terms were correct because he offended again.

The Post added that “Weekes landed on law enforcement’s radar again in June 2015 – when he would have been in prison had prosecutors gotten their way . . . Weekes allegedly plied his sister-in-law with liquor while she was babysitting for his wife. He then allegedly started touching her, trying three separate times to pull her leggings down . . . Weekes ‘was able to digitally penetrate her vagina with his fingers and then tried to perform oral sex on her.’ In response, the sister-in-law punched Weekes in the head, stopping the alleged attack. ‘She noticed that the defendant had his penis exposed and was trying to insert it,’ the report continues, ‘but was unable to get close.’”

This is the creep that Jackson gave a light sentence, and he isn’t the only one.

Child sex offenders have an astronomically high recidivism rate, so if there’s any class of criminals that deserve a sterner hand from judges, it is them.

For whatever reason, Judge Jackson saw fit to go easier on them, and at least in this instance, another victim had to pay the price.

Stay tuned to Right News Wire for any updates to this ongoing story. 

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• KETANJI BROWN JACKSON
• LEO WEEKES
• PROSECUTORS
• SENTENCES
• SEX OFFENDERS