Here We Go Again

By; Judd Garrett

Objectivity is the Objective

June 11, 2023

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This week, former President Donald Trump was indicted for the second time in two months on alleged crimes related to handling of classified documents. He faces up to 100 years in prison. So, Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has indicted the front-running candidate from the opposite party who is leading in the polls in a head-to-head match-up with Biden. Trump was indicted for possessing classified documents in his home, the exact same thing that Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Mike Pence were discovered doing but none of them have been indicted? Why?

In April, Trump was indicted for paying Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about an extramarital affair, but Bill Clinton who paid $750,000 to Paula Jones in a sexual harassment settlement was never indicted of anything, even though he lied to a federal grand jury. 

In 2019, Trump was impeached for “quid pro quo” in Ukraine for inquiring about Hunter Biden’s illegal business dealings in Ukraine, but Joe Biden who leveraged $1 billion of military aid to Ukraine to get the Ukrainian President to fire the prosecutor investigating his son’s illegal business dealings, has never been impeached. 

In a joint statement, Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies called for Trump’s indictment to play out “without any outside political or ideological interference.” So, in that vein, Jack Smith, the prosecutor who was in charge of the Lois Lerner IRS investigation where she weaponized the IRS against Barack Obama’s political opponents and was let off the hook by Smith, has been appointed to oversee Trump’s prosecution. So, we can rest assured that there will be no political or ideological interference by Jack Smith even though he has already proven that he is only interested in acting in a politically partisan manner. 

Senator Schumer and Congressman Jefferies also stated with a straight face that, “No one is above the law?” Which is comically false. Joe Biden is above the law. Hunter Biden is above the law. Hillary Clinton is above the law. Bill Clinton is above the law. Barack Obama is above the law. Jim Comey, James Clapper, John Brennen, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page, are all above the law. If you’re a Democrat, you’re above the law. If you’re a Republican, you will be held to the most extreme interpretations of the law.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis condemned Trump’s indictment, by writing, 

“The weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society. We have for years witnessed an uneven application of the law depending on political affiliation. Why so zealous in pursuing Trump yet so passive about Hillary or Hunter?” 

Senator Ted Cruz characterized Trump’s indictment as the,

 “culmination of what Merrick Garland has been pushing for since he became Attorney General. The weaponization of our Department of Justice against enemies of the Biden administration. It will do enormous damage to the rule of law & have a lasting impact.”

Our rule of law has already been compromised. We already have a multi-tiered justice system. Why have hundreds of Trump supporters who stormed the Capital on January 6th been thrown in jail for years while far-left activists who stormed the Capitol in Washington, DC in 2018 trying to interfere with Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, got off with a fine? Why did the far-left activists who stormed the Capitals of Milwaukee in 2011; the Portland Federal courthouse in 2020; the Capital in Austin in 2023; and the Capital in Nashville in 2023 get off with barely a slap on the wrist while grandmothers who walked around the Capitol rotunda for 5 minutes were thrown in jail?

Trump’s indictment is further proof that the 2020 election was stolen and the Democrats plan to steal the 2024 election. The list of the Democrats interfering with our elections is staggeringly long. In 2020, 51 former intelligence officers signed a document that falsely states that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation was election interference. The false Russian collusion investigation was an attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election. The first impeachment in the fall of 2019 was election interference. The second impeachment which attempted to disqualify Donald Trump from ever running for President again was election interference. The January 6th Committee whose goal was to prevent Donald Trump from ever running for President again was election interference. The indictments in New York City are election interference. This current indictment is election interference. If they will go to those lengths to interfere with an election, they will easily exploit mail-in ballots and no voter ID to stuff the ballot boxes, because ethically they are the same. They both are illegal and they both create a fraudulent election result.

When those in power arrest their political opponents, we are no longer a Constitutional Republic; we have crossed the Rubicon into a Banana Republic, totalitarian state, or full-blown fascism; take your pick. But none of this should surprise anyone, we have witnessed the fascism right in front of our eyes for the last three years: 

ü Government imposed lockdowns. 

ü Government shutting down schools, churches, and businesses. 

ü Government mandating masks and vaccines. 

ü Government telling citizens with whom they are allowed to celebrate Christmas and Thanksgiving. 

ü Government preventing family members from going to loved ones’ funerals. 

ü Government officials and intelligence agencies working with social media to silence political voices of their opposition. 

Those were all Democrat policies to control and dictate the lives of American citizens. The Democrats love to call Republicans and conservatives fascists, but, when you really look at both parties and their behaviors, there is only one fascist party in America, it’s the Democrats. 

At times, the Democrats will be so bold and arrogant to admit to their fascism in public. In a video that is often suppressed on the internet, former President of the United States and current leader of the Democrat party, Barack Obama said,

“As for the international order that we have worked for generations to build, ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs. Order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign.” 

That is what this is all about. The Democrats do not care about preserving the American system of government and elections, they want a totalitarian take-over of America – “the individuals surrendering their rights to an all-powerful sovereign”. So, weaponizing the intelligence agencies and rigging elections not only achieves those aims but are aligned with the political ideology.

Almost a century ago, H.L. Mencken, famed American journalist, essayist, satirist, and scholar said, “The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” The question is, which ones are the liars, and which ones are the truth tellers? Is Barack Obama the liar or the truth teller? Is Joe Biden the liar or the truth teller? Is Donald Trump the liar or the truth teller? Does the deep state exist or doesn’t it? 

Remember, the politicians who want to overtax you, overregulate you, take your Constitutional rights from you and tell you it’s for your own good, they are the liars.

Texas Takes Genius Action Against Border Crossers – Governor Abbott Greenlights New Tactic 

By Adam Casalino|June 9, 2023 

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What’s Happening:

It’s clear that the federal government refuses to do anything about the border crisis. Texas Gov. Abbott has contacted DC several times, seeking aid. But Biden has refused. It has been left to the state to deal with the millions of illegal aliens threatening the lives of Texans (and Americans in every state).

Gov. Abbott has been implementing various plans to shut down this border crisis. He has even launched a task force, with resources from many other red states, to stem this tide of illegal immigration. Now, he is coming up with a new, ingenious tactic, to send the cartels running back to Mexico.

From The Washington Examiner:

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has approved a plan to disrupt Rio Grande crossings from Mexico to his state by illegal immigrants.

His plan is to use a 1,000-foot “marine floating barrier” to visibly block key sections of the river most immigrants have to cross to enter the United States illegally…

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What’s more, the state is also considering hanging “webbing” under the water barrier to make it hard to dive past.

Texas Gov. Abbott approved a plan to use a 1,000-foot barrier in the Rio Grande to block illegal crossings. This barrier will be made of large floating balls that will spin, to prevent people from climbing over them.

A good swimmer might be able to dive underneath, but the vast majority of illegals won’t be able to. The plans might also include webbing to prevent divers from getting past.

This might sound like something that can threaten the life of those crossers. But this is a deterrent. Nobody should be entering the Rio Grande to get into America illegally. If someone tries to get passed this barrier, they are taking their lives into their own hands.

The governor has made it very clear that Texas is enforcing its immigration laws. Biden is the only one refusing to protect the United States from illegals and criminal aliens. We shouldn’t have to put this barrier into the river.

But Biden’s neglect is only making the problem worse.

Key Takeaways:

• Texas Gov. Abbott approved a floating barrier to stop illegals from crossing the Rio Grande.
• The 1,000-foot barrier system will prevent swimmers from crossing.
• This comes as Joe Biden refuses to defend the U.S. border.

Source: The Washington Examiner

By: Kenneth Allard

Mike Huckabee’s Newsletter

June 5, 2023

In the fortnight since the Durham Report was released, the nation’s tectonic plates have been strained to the breaking point. It turns out that the “silent coup” Donald Trump had long suspected was actually quite real: two impeachments and “Russian collusion”originating primarily from a fictional dossier spun by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Columnist Robert Knight recently posed the most penetrating question about this lawlessness, “Officials who swore to uphold the Constitution have committed serial crimes that add up to sedition and even treason. Many Americans are asking when someone, anyone, will pay a price for subverting our self-governing republic.”

There was once a time in this country when those systematic abuses might have brought mobs into the streets. A timely reminder of that history was published last year by Stacy Schiff in The Revolutionary, her brilliantly, Pulitzer Prize-winning portrait of firebrand patriot Samuel Adams. 

“With singular lucidity, Adams plucked ideas from the air and pinned them to the page…He muscled words into deeds, effecting…a revolution that culminated in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence.” Royal governors throughout the 13 colonies and even King George himself had good reason to tremble when Adams’ pen attacked their petty tyrannies. How sad that the FBI, an organization established in the last century to safeguard American liberties, has in this century been seduced and become the preferred political weapon of the governing elites (whose double standards and snooty snobbishness have much in common with their Loyalist predecessors). 

It is now considered the worst form of political incorrectness to recall in polite company the memory of our Founding Fathers. Yet whatever name you apply to those Old White Dudes, even a cursory reading of their lives and times is sufficient to establish that they had limited faith in the institution of Government. Actually, very limited faith. Not only would they have been unsurprised that governmental excess would re-appear (while sporting shades, tailored suits, and artfully concealed weapons) in our times, but they would have instinctively relied upon the institution of The Media to help correct any imbalance. Thomas Jefferson, whose exquisitely tuned mind inspired most of our liberties, had an unwavering faith in the power of a free press. In his 1789 letter to Richard Prince, Jefferson wrote that “Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.”

OK, so nothing lasts forever, maybe not even the faith to keep “the people well informed” once placed so unquestioningly as a core media virtue. But ever since the Vietnam War, “objective journalism” has been mostly ignored – either as an obsolete feature or one overcome by the ghostly ideal of the “crusading journalist.” Either way, today we rarely hear anything other than what our media elites believe to be important. Now well-known as “media bias.” Over the last two decades, this phenomenon has attracted a long and distinguished group of analysts – from Bernard Goldberg who effectively invented the term in 2001 to Mark Levin, whose Unfreedom of the Press, is the genre’s latest jeremiad.

However, my favorite media analyst is Tim Groseclose, currently a professor of economics at George Mason University.  In his 2011 book Left Turn, Prof. Groseclose provided persuasive, evidence of a startling conclusion: Overwhelmingly liberal “Newspapers, television, radio, and online media are extremely influential, especially over consumers’ political views.” He found that over time the liberal bias of the media provided a “slant quotient”moving the “political quotient” of the average voter 24 points leftward. Worse yet, “thinking more liberally…makes us less able to detect the bias.” With startling foresight, he concluded, “It’s time the public wakes up. Media bias is more significant, complex, and pernicious than people realize.”

A decade later, there is an especially pernicious relationship between liberal media and the abuses of government now widening into a daily cascade. While it is hard to know whether media or government corruption came first, together they provide a terrifying synergy, like a forest fire spread by strong winds. At the conflagration’s height, a former FBI general counsel was seconded to Twitter, acting as an information “traffic cop.”

But this same arrogance is on stark display at every White House press “briefing” – an ongoing charade between the know-nothing briefer and timid “journalists” unwilling to risk their burgeoning careers with an incautious question.

Could someone please tell Sam Adams that we need a clean-up on Aisle 7?

Colonel Kenneth Allard, United States Army (Ret.) is a Vietnam-era draftee who became a West Point professor and Dean of the National War College.

The Fight for America’s Soul

By: Kenneth Allard

Mike Huckabee’s Newsletter

June 5, 2023

In the fortnight since the Durham Report was released, the nation’s tectonic plates have been strained to the breaking point. It turns out that the “silent coup” Donald Trump had long suspected was actually quite real: two impeachments and “Russian collusion”originating primarily from a fictional dossier spun by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Columnist Robert Knight recently posed the most penetrating question about this lawlessness, “Officials who swore to uphold the Constitution have committed serial crimes that add up to sedition and even treason. Many Americans are asking when someone, anyone, will pay a price for subverting our self-governing republic.”

There was once a time in this country when those systematic abuses might have brought mobs into the streets. A timely reminder of that history was published last year by Stacy Schiff in The Revolutionary, her brilliantly, Pulitzer Prize-winning portrait of firebrand patriot Samuel Adams. 

“With singular lucidity, Adams plucked ideas from the air and pinned them to the page…He muscled words into deeds, effecting…a revolution that culminated in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence.” Royal governors throughout the 13 colonies and even King George himself had good reason to tremble when Adams’ pen attacked their petty tyrannies. How sad that the FBI, an organization established in the last century to safeguard American liberties, has in this century been seduced and become the preferred political weapon of the governing elites (whose double standards and snooty snobbishness have much in common with their Loyalist predecessors). 

It is now considered the worst form of political incorrectness to recall in polite company the memory of our Founding Fathers. Yet whatever name you apply to those Old White Dudes, even a cursory reading of their lives and times is sufficient to establish that they had limited faith in the institution of Government. Actually, very limited faith. Not only would they have been unsurprised that governmental excess would re-appear (while sporting shades, tailored suits, and artfully concealed weapons) in our times, but they would have instinctively relied upon the institution of The Media to help correct any imbalance. Thomas Jefferson, whose exquisitely tuned mind inspired most of our liberties, had an unwavering faith in the power of a free press. In his 1789 letter to Richard Prince, Jefferson wrote that “Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.”

OK, so nothing lasts forever, maybe not even the faith to keep “the people well informed” once placed so unquestioningly as a core media virtue. But ever since the Vietnam War, “objective journalism” has been mostly ignored – either as an obsolete feature or one overcome by the ghostly ideal of the “crusading journalist.” Either way, today we rarely hear anything other than what our media elites believe to be important. Now well-known as “media bias.” Over the last two decades, this phenomenon has attracted a long and distinguished group of analysts – from Bernard Goldberg who effectively invented the term in 2001 to Mark Levin, whose Unfreedom of the Press, is the genre’s latest jeremiad.

However, my favorite media analyst is Tim Groseclose, currently a professor of economics at George Mason University.  In his 2011 book Left Turn, Prof. Groseclose provided persuasive, evidence of a startling conclusion: Overwhelmingly liberal “Newspapers, television, radio, and online media are extremely influential, especially over consumers’ political views.” He found that over time the liberal bias of the media provided a “slant quotient”moving the “political quotient” of the average voter 24 points leftward. Worse yet, “thinking more liberally…makes us less able to detect the bias.” With startling foresight, he concluded, “It’s time the public wakes up. Media bias is more significant, complex, and pernicious than people realize.”

A decade later, there is an especially pernicious relationship between liberal media and the abuses of government now widening into a daily cascade. While it is hard to know whether media or government corruption came first, together they provide a terrifying synergy, like a forest fire spread by strong winds. At the conflagration’s height, a former FBI general counsel was seconded to Twitter, acting as an information “traffic cop.”

But this same arrogance is on stark display at every White House press “briefing” – an ongoing charade between the know-nothing briefer and timid “journalists” unwilling to risk their burgeoning careers with an incautious question.

Could someone please tell Sam Adams that we need a clean-up on Aisle 7?

Colonel Kenneth Allard, United States Army (Ret.) is a Vietnam-era draftee who became a West Point professor and Dean of the National War College.

This jaw-dropping crime just proved that no one is safe in Joe Biden’s woke America

Roughly three years ago America erupted into chaos and violence following the death of George Floyd.

Even worse Democrat lawmakers across the nation took major steps to make it easier than ever to commit crimes without facing any serious punishment.

But now this jaw-dropping crime just proved that no one is safe in Joe Biden’s woke America.

Out-of-control crime is everyday life in Democrat-controlled communities

All across America, crime is spiraling after control, especially in Democrat-controlled communities.

The San Francisco Bay area is the epicenter of this crime boom, with homeless camps and human waste lining the streets.

This is especially true in Oakland, California, which is seeing a mass exodus of businesses, residents, and even sports teams after years of woke pro-crime policies.

However, a recent attack on an Alameda County judge is sending shockwaves across the nation.

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At around 9:00 A.M. last Thursday morning, Alameda County Judge Kevin Murphy was robbed at gunpoint by a group of masked criminals.

The thieves stole his Rolex, car keys, and wallet, among other belongings, according to the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.

A spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office released a statement saying, “Fortunately, the judge was not injured. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is working with the Oakland Police Department to gather leads and evidence.”

As it stands, police have not arrested any suspects in connection to this armed robbery.

A number of attacks this past week alone prove that not only are judges not safe in California, but Marines are not safe either.

Last weekend, a mob of teenagers in San Clemente, California were arrested after mercilessly beating three U.S. Marines after those heroes asked them to stop lighting off illegal fireworks.

These brutal attacks and robberies show that even judges and Marines are not safe from the Democrat-fueled crime wave plaguing the state of California, and much of the nation.

The sad truth is that crimes like this are the new normal in California, and other parts of America that suffer under Democrat control.

Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, many Democrat-controlled communities, such as Oakland, adjusted their criminal justice system to favor criminals, making it harder than ever for police officers to apprehend criminals.

Even in rare instances that police officers are able to get their guy, California courts controlled by woke left-wing radical activists posing as judges are notoriously lenient, often releasing career criminals after laughably short sentences.

Democrats are destroying their communities with woke insanity

At the end of the day, the corrupt Democrats running the city of Oakland are causing severe damage to the community they claim to represent with their woke pro-crime policies.

Businesses are fleeing the city in droves, and many people no longer have safe places to shop and dine due to Democrats’ policies.

Oakland, CA is a shell of its former self, especially now that the Oakland Athletics are scheduled to leave the city any time now.

The truth is no sane person wants to visit, work, or live in the city of Oakland, OR IN ANY OTHER DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED CITY IN AMERICA FOR THAT MATTER!!!!

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Archbishop Cordileone vs. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

By strongly condemning the growing anti-Catholicism around us, Archbishop Cordileone also rebukes the tepid response of many Catholic leaders and ordinary Catholics to this evil.

• Fr. John A. Perricone

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Pentecostal fire still burns brightly in San Francisco.   

It blazes from the episcopal throne of Archbishop Cordileone, most recently in his exceptional editorial in the Wall Street Journal. He trumpets a sanguine defense of the Church, so unusual for his kind. But it is not the first time he has broken ranks with the greater number of his episcopal confreres (the Pelosi affair comes to mind).   

Not to put too fine a point on it, but with studied prudence and a marked fidelity to the duty of a Successor to the Apostles he has governed the See of San Francisco with the steadiness of St. Cyprian or St. Denis. With the Apostolic persistence of St. Athanasius, the meticulous scholarship of Aquinas, and the sonority of Bossuet he boldly inserts the voice of Mother Church into the ears of a diseased secularism. 

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In that bracing editorial for the Wall Street Journal, he calmly called to task the Los Angeles Dodgers’ recent decision to give a “community hero” award to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, who are, in the Archbishop’s words, “a group that perversely dresses up as nuns while encouraging lewd and sacrilegious behavior.” Cordileone names this appalling gesture for what it is: “the latest example of mainstreaming derision of the Catholic Faith.” 

These are the kinds of episcopal words that make Catholic hearts race. His temperate, albeit firm, tone sunders the decades-long inertia that seems to have entrapped much of Catholic officialdom. Cordileone’s words are like Kafka’s axe, when the existentialist novelist wrote in another context, “the purpose of the novel is to take an axe to the frozen sea inside us.” Cordileone wields not the novel’s axe but the Church’s. 

San Francisco’s archbishop precedes those words by reciting a long list of anti-Catholic bigotry in America’s past, among them: 

• In 1834, a frenzied mob attacked and burned to the ground a convent of Ursuline nuns outside of Boston. The act was the culmination of years of anti-Catholic preaching and aggression toward the Church’s property. None of the firemen present intervened, and some reportedly joined the riot.
• Later that century, the Know Nothing party emerged to suppress the rights of German and Irish Catholic immigrants, fearful of a Catholic conspiracy to take over the country.
• Not long after that, the Ku Klux Klan began to terrorize black Americans, Catholics, and Jews. In 1921, an enraged Klansman fatally shot Fr. James Coyle after the priest celebrated the wedding of the gunman’s Catholic-convert daughter to a Puerto Rican man. The killer was acquitted at trial by a Klan-filled jury at a trial presided over by a Klansman judge.

The archbishop then reminds his audience that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops reports that “at least 260 incidents”—attacks on Church property—“have occurred across 43 states and the District of Columbia since May 2020.” He continues,  

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Catholics in the San Francisco area have weathered our share of attacks in October 2020, protesters trespassed on to the property of Mission San Rafael carrying paint, tools and rope with the intention of desecrating and destroying a beloved statue of Saint Junipero Serra. Five perpetrators were later charged with felony vandalism.

All these facts have been reported and, for the most part, forgotten. Little known was that on May 25th, the Marin County district attorney’s office decided to resolve the case through “an innovative restorative justice solution” reducing the charges to a misdemeanor if the defendants were willing to say “I am sorry” and pay an unspecified sum toward restitution. The archbishop concludes, “worse yet, officers from the San Rafael Police Department saw the crime in real time and decided to “‘observe the demonstration and not intervene’ for fear of escalation.” 

With rare clarity of mind and even rarer common sense for these times, Cordileone summarizes,  

history teaches that when we don’t treat religiously or racially motivated crime seriously, we will see more and more worse aggression. Already we are witnessing what such laxity has wrought across America. Transgender activists on social media have threatened heinous violence against Christian “transphobes” who don’t subscribe to their ideology.

Bravo, Archbishop Cordileone! 

He brings to mind the stirring words of St. John Chrysostom: 

Let us then come back from that altar like lions breathing out fire, thus becoming terrifying to the devil, and remaining mindful of our Head and of the love which He has shown us.

One wonders why similar outrage was not expressed by ordinary Catholics across the country. If such acts were committed against Muslims or Jews there would have been howls of indignation. And rightly so. Why have Catholics been mute to such attacks on their Holy Religion? Could it be that they no longer consider their Religion holy? Could it be that a half-century of diluting Catholic identity has taken its toll? Could we be harvesting the fruits of decades of pulpits and Catholic schools teaching that nothing defines Catholics except a treacly “God loves you” catechesis?   

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For most Catholics, the rich content of the Faith has been leveled to a saccharine do-goodism that stands for nothing. Catholic doctrine is as unknown to most Catholics as the Bhagavad Gita. For most Catholics, the rich content of the Faith has been leveled to a saccharine do-goodism that stands for nothing.Tweet This

Moreover, our once mighty Catholic university/college system has been transformed into a reliable feed for the Woke Left. Their classrooms have been turned over to a steady diet of anti-Catholic grievance at best and hearty draughts of transgressive Catholic theology at worst. Such students would have no reason to defend their religion. Likely, we would find them leaping upon the bandwagon that Archbishop Cordileone deftly decries. 

Aside from all of this, there is the scandalous silence of a good part of the American hierarchy to such anti-Catholic bigotry. Catholics have long been taught to obey their leaders. I suppose they do.  

What is a Catholic to think when so many of their leaders have been mired in hopeless deadlock over such an obvious issue as entrance of pro-abort politicians to the Holy Eucharist. Or the muddled problem of admitting divorced and remarried Catholics to Holy Communion? Or the generally deafening quiet on the burning issue of transgenderism and the nature of Christian Marriage between a man and woman? 

Catholics are not fools. They learn by silence, or near silence. No surprise that many Catholics reading Archbishop Cordileone’s intellectually coherent words might believe them to be harsh or overwrought. Such remarks are déclassé to the newly-minted Catholics of a redressed religion of accommodation rather than doctrine. 

An example of this attenuated Catholicism is the one that Cordileone cites in his editorial. Of course, he reports the incident with exquisite charity and cultivated Romanitas. With all that, he does report it. To the disgrace of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ award to the anti-Catholic group, the Archbishop of Los Angeles “has asked us to respond to the outrage in a deeply Christian fashion: namely, ridding any resentment in our hearts and reaching out to our communities’ Catholic sisters.” Now, now. Isn’t that kind of pusillanimity tantamount to watching an old lady being mugged and responding by taking out your rosary? We love the Rosary, but the situation calls for much more. 

Cordileone responds to such a thin response with a thoroughly measured priestliness, “That’s important, but faithful Catholics would also do well to warn their political leaders from becoming modern Know Nothings.”   

A perfect riposte. 

It is time for trumpets, not whispers. The time for détente has ended. 

Cordileone has set the match to the rotting timbers of a post-Vatican II “kneeling before the world.” 

Other lit matches must follow. 

• Fr. John A. PerriconeFr. John A. Perricone, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. His articles have appeared in St. John’s Law Review, The Latin Mass, New Oxford Review and The Journal of Catholic Legal Studies. He can be reached at frjohn1765@icloud.com.

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Friends of LifeTree,

Bishop Gracida’s 100th birthday is June 9 at the end of this week.  This email from him reminds me of why we bonded so quickly when I called him early in 2015 and asked for his advice on how to fight the wing of medicine who were pushing palliative care.  It was the Jacobian Third Path way to euthanasia — the subtle wing.  

The phone call was followed by a mini-workshop here in Raleigh sponsored by LifeTree in the summer where he was the guest of honor.  We called it a brainstorming session.   His presentation on the Feast of St. Benedict was titled the “Cultural Virus of Proportionalism.”  

I am reminded by this email below that Bishop Gracida was one of the first bishops who did not buy into the argument that it was morally licit to withhold and withdraw food and water from vegetative patients.  Even the Vatican was slow to clarify the truth with their arguments about extraordinary and ordinary care.  It wasn’t until later in John Paul II’s Pontificate that he specifically identified hydration and nutrition as ordinary care.  By that time the palliative care movement had become almost mainstream.  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation had spent 5 years at 5 major medical centers preparing the way for palliative care using their SUPPORT Study of the mid-80s and George Soros entered the list of societal change agents in the early 90s with his Project on Death in America.

In this email we are told that Bishop Gracida did not waver one inch in standing for the truth about food and water.  He tells us that in 1991 he and one other bishop in Texas went on record as disagreeing with the other Bishops of Texas who gave their approval to withdrawing food and water from certain patients.  In the early 1990s Bishop Gracida stood the moral high ground against the subtle euthanasia movement!

THANK YOU, BISHOP GRACIDA!!  May God bless and and may the angels surround him on his important day.  

Elizabeth D. Wickham

LifeTree.org 

SIXTH DAY: Please Join The Catholic Monitor St. Joseph Novena to Celebrate Bishop Gracida’s 100th Birthday that will be on June 9

June 05, 2023

SIXTH DAY

PATRON OF FAMILIES

Saint Joseph, I venerate you as the gentle head of the Holy Family. [https://americaneedsfatima.org/prayers/novena-prayers-to-saint-joseph]]

Let us for nine days enter St. Joseph’s workshop for nine days as Jesus did and pray for Bishop Rene Henry Gracida in celebration of his 100th birthday on June 9.
 “When you invoke St. Joseph, you don’t have to speak much. You know your Father in Heaven knows what you need; well, so does His friend St. Joseph.” “Tell him, ‘If you were in my place and Bishop Gracida’s place, St. Joseph, what would you do? Well, pray for this in Bishop Gracida’s behalf.’” – This prayer is adapted from a St. Andre Bessette prayer. Also, say the Hail Joseph prayer:

Hail Joseph the just, Wisdom is with you; blessed are you among all men and blessed is Jesus, the fruit of Mary, your faithful spouse. Holy Joseph, worthy foster-father of Jesus Christ, pray for us sinners and obtain divine Wisdom for us from God, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. – St. Louis Marie de MontfortSHARE

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SIXTH DAY: Please Join The Catholic Monitor St. Joseph Novena to Celebrate Bishop Gracida’s 100th Birthday that will be on June 9

June 05, 2023

SIXTH DAY

PATRON OF FAMILIES

Saint Joseph, I venerate you as the gentle head of the Holy Family. [https://americaneedsfatima.org/prayers/novena-prayers-to-saint-joseph]]

Let us for nine days enter St. Joseph’s workshop for nine days as Jesus did and pray for Bishop Rene Henry Gracida in celebration of his 100th birthday on June 9.
 “When you invoke St. Joseph, you don’t have to speak much. You know your Father in Heaven knows what you need; well, so does His friend St. Joseph.” “Tell him, ‘If you were in my place and Bishop Gracida’s place, St. Joseph, what would you do? Well, pray for this in Bishop Gracida’s behalf.’” – This prayer is adapted from a St. Andre Bessette prayer. Also, say the Hail Joseph prayer:

Hail Joseph the just, Wisdom is with you; blessed are you among all men and blessed is Jesus, the fruit of Mary, your faithful spouse. Holy Joseph, worthy foster-father of Jesus Christ, pray for us sinners and obtain divine Wisdom for us from God, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. – St. Louis Marie de MontfortSHARE

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Bishop Gracida: “Ratzinger, many years ago had written that national episcopal conferences are dangerous… I had ample opportunity to see Cardinal Ratzinger’s observation validated”

June 05, 2023

Bishop [Gracida] Excommunicates 2 In Texas for Abortion Stance

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By Ari L. Goldman

• June 30, 1990

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Bishop Rene Henry Gracida’s 100th birthday is coming up on June 9 so I am reading his autobiography in preparation for the great day. 

Bishop Gracida revealed that “Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, many years ago had written that national episcopal conferences are dangerous… I had ample opportunity to see Cardinal Ratzinger’s observation validated“:

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, many years ago had written that national episcopal conferences are dangerous.  He wrote that sometimes the bureaucracy or staff of a conference would come to have too much influence over the bishops and the bishops, like sheep, would be led to their slaughter.  What the Cardinal wrote about national episcopal conferences was true also of the Texas Catholic Conference.  The staff of the Conference had always been liberal.  The first Executive Director of the Texas Catholic Conference was Monsignor John McCarthy, later Bishop of Austin.  There is probably not a more liberal bishop in Texas than Bishop John McCarthy.  The Conference was connected for years to Saint Edwards University in Austin, a very liberal University in the most liberal city in the State of Texas.

During all my years as a member of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops/United States Catholic Conference I had ample opportunity to see Cardinal Ratzinger’s observation validated.  Also, in the Texas Catholic Conference I had ample opportunity to observe that it is only on rare occasions that the body of bishops will reject a proposal or opinion of the Conference’s staff.  I doubt very much that any bishop-member of the TCC had actually read SB303, despite many Catholic patient advocates, legislators, and pro-life activists writing to them about the specific dangers of the nuanced language in SB303. I had plowed through it and Kassi Dee Marks, and appellate attorney did a detailed analysis of SB303 which she shared with me.  I suspect that following the usual procedure the bishops would have received and accepted the analysis of SB303 prepared by the staff of The Texas Catholic Conference.  Perhaps that reliance on staff would be acceptable in many matters, but not in the matters of life or death.

I along with other pro-life activists had a good working relationship with Governor Rick Perry.  We explained to him in clear legal and moral theology terms the dangerous provisions in SB303.  He listened, did his own analysis consulted with his staff, and expressed his opposition to key legislators who were instrumental in stopping the legislation in the House.  SB303 passed the State Senate and was set for a hearing in the House late in the 2013 Legislative Session.  During this saga, the Bishop of Austin, speaking for the bishops of Texas visited the Governor and asked him not to veto the bill.  Governor Perry, knowing that I was totally opposed to the bill asked Bishop Vasquez, “Are all the bishops of Texas in favor of SB303?”  Bishop Vasquez replied, “All except one old retired guy.”  This old, retired guy is grateful to Governor Perry for help in stopping the passage of SB303.  The next session of the Texas Legislature will be in the Spring of 2015 and “this old retired guy” will again join with the pro-life activists (if I am still alive)  in opposing the revived version of that anti-life, anti-patient bad legislation.

I suspect that part of the problem of the liberalism of the staff of The Texas Catholic Conference lies in its proximity to the Capitol of Texas.  There is much that is positive in that proximity and much that is negative.  One of the negatives is that the staff of the Texas Catholic Conference, especially its Executive Director, is subject to lobbying by special moneyed interests such as The Texas Hospital Association, The Texas Medical Association, big pharma  and others who have a financial interest in the outcome of legislative battles over specific legislative proposals.  Proposals that sometimes verge on being immoral.[http://extraordinarybishop.blogspot.com/2014/09/here-is-series-of-posts-by-bishop-rene.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

– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.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.

Pray an Our Father now for America.

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.

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THIRD DAY: Please Join The Catholic Monitor St. Joseph Novena to Celebrate Bishop Gracida’s 100th Birthday that will be on June 9

June 02, 2023

THIRD DAY

MAN CHOSEN BY THE BLESSED TRINITY

Saint Joseph, you were the man chosen by God the Father. He selected you to be His representative on earth, hence He granted you all the graces and blessings you needed to be His worthy representative.

[https://americaneedsfatima.org/prayers/novena-prayers-to-saint-joseph]

Let us for nine days enter St. Joseph’s workshop for nine days as Jesus did and pray for Bishop Rene Henry Gracida in celebration of his 100th birthday on June 9.
 “When you invoke St. Joseph, you don’t have to speak much. You know your Father in Heaven knows what you need; well, so does His friend St. Joseph.” “Tell him, ‘If you were in my place and Bishop Gracida’s place, St. Joseph, what would you do? Well, pray for this in Bishop Gracida’s behalf.’” – This prayer is adapted from a St. Andre Bessette prayer. Also, say the Hail Joseph prayer:

Hail Joseph the just, Wisdom is with you; blessed are you among all men and blessed is Jesus, the fruit of Mary, your faithful spouse. Holy Joseph, worthy foster-father of Jesus Christ, pray for us sinners and obtain divine Wisdom for us from God, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. – St. Louis Marie de Montfor