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YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
- ArthurH on Daily Rome Shot 1180: “Hard to imagine a less-fitting design and color-choice unless it were a rainbow pentagram. One can only hope and pray…”
- on ASK FATHER: 8 December 2024 is Immaculate Conception but also the 2nd Sunday of Advent – What to do? – UPDATED: “Hwriggles4- Metropolitan archbishops do not have the authority to dispense the faithful of a suffragan diocese. Each bishop must make…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1180: “This chasuble is ugly, but it still compares favourably to the tie died horrors they inflicted on Benedict XVI in…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1180: “Right after the fire, they started raising funds to rebuild Notre Dame. I thought to myself, “When will I ever…”
- on New book SHUTS DOWN the old chestnut objections to the Traditional Latin Mass. Get ready to respond to objections and to deepen your understanding.: “Dear samwise, There are many ways to gain expertise: by academic degree, by self-study, or as an adjunct area to…”
- on Letter of Bp. Jude Noble to the Faithful of the Diocese of Black Duck concerning 8 December 2024: “Father, you mention that the 1962 rubrics allows the Feast of the Immaculate Conception to take precedence over a Sunday…”
- on ASK FATHER: 8 December 2024 is Immaculate Conception but also the 2nd Sunday of Advent – What to do? – UPDATED: “After reading this yesterday I was motivated to do some further research. Several dioceses and archdioceses are giving dispensations -…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1180: “Magnus Carlsen won the first of two “Freestyle” games against Fabiano Caruana in Singapore. Game two is today. Meanwhile, the…”
- on Letter of Bp. Jude Noble to the Faithful of the Diocese of Black Duck concerning 8 December 2024: “This just shows the farcical situation of having two calendars according two Missalia of the one Roman Rite. Its far…”
- on New book SHUTS DOWN the old chestnut objections to the Traditional Latin Mass. Get ready to respond to objections and to deepen your understanding.: “samwise: Stop digging. As far as an audio version, you didn’t read my post much less the book. You have…”
- on ASK FATHER: 8 December 2024 is Immaculate Conception but also the 2nd Sunday of Advent – What to do? – UPDATED: “The problem with the comment by Joseph Corvus is that it makes sense, clearly more than we can expect from…”
- on Letter of Bp. Jude Noble to the Faithful of the Diocese of Black Duck concerning 8 December 2024: “Problem is that even setting aside the very strange American Saturday-and-Monday dispensations (is the Immaculate Conception an exception to that…”
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Tag Archives: POTUS
A good summary of why we are right to worry about the installation (not election) of Harris/Biden
While I have not abandoned hope at the gate of the hell that yawns before us, I am deeply alarmed. A piece at Crisis today puts well some of my concerns. Some bits and pieces to whet…my emphases… […] Aside … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Harris Biden, POTUS
33 Comments
33 Comments
Fearmongering @JamesMartinSJ goes to the zoo on national TV about churches reopening and about @RealDonaldTrump
Last night when I heard on Martha MacCallum’s show on FNC that Jesuit homosexualist activist Fr. James Martin was up to talk about the lockdown and reopening of churches after Pres. Trump’s comments about opening places of worship, I had … Read More
Posted in Blatteroons, Jesuits, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-1984, Donald Trump, Fr. James Martin SJ, POTUS
28 Comments
28 Comments
UPDATE to #TalkLikeShakespeareDay: NEW PLAY! “Two Gentlemen of Corona”
Shakespeare’s birthday, and therefore Talk Like Shakespeare Day, arrived full of expectation on 22 April. I posted HERE. I was working, feverishly, on deciphering the manuscript I mentioned of a hitherto unknown offering by the Bard. I missed the target … Read More
Pres. Trump recalls 40th anniv. of Pope John Paul II’s visit to Poland
I found this in my email. I regularly get messages from the White House Office of Public Liason. This surprised me a little. Also, HERE Presidential Message in Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s First Pilgrimage … Read More
FINALLY! Pres. Trump’s Exec. Order concerning EMP preparedness
FINALLY! Long-time readers here will recall that I’ve written on occasion about the devastation that a large Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) would cause. A large enough EMP could take out much or all of the electrical grid that our lives have … Read More
POTUS, SCOTUS and “Judicial Humility”: a useful tip from @Judgenap
UPDATE: Anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice. Check out the WSJ piece about the group to which Judge Amy Coney Barrett belongs. ___ Originally Published on: Jun 29, 2018 I’ve been looking at the list of the SCOTUS candidates from … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The Drill
Tagged Andrew Napolitano, judicial humility, Justice Thomas, POTUS, Pres. Trump, SCOTUS
22 Comments
22 Comments
@JamesMartinSJ can also amuse
The loony liberal Left had a predictable meltdown concerning something Pres. Trump said. “Yawn”, right? The sun also rose in the East today. It’s turns out POTUS did not call immigrants “animals”, but rather members of MS13. However, the context-challenged … Read More
Pres. Trump and Cuba’s “Damas de Blanco”
Yesterday I watched Pres. Trump’s speech in Miami regarding Cuba. One thing that struck me is that he talked about the “Ladies in White”. I don’t recall… did Pres. Obama ever talk about them?
“Well! This is different!”, quoth I. The First Lady’s Rally Prayer POLL.
Yesterday I watched the TV coverage of Pres. Trump’s massive rally in Florida. Apparently, lines were a mile long to attend. My jaw nearly dropped when First Lady Melania Trump began with the Lord’s Prayer. As this developed, “I thought … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, POLLS
Tagged Donald Trump, Florida, Melania Trump, POTUS, The Lord's Prayer
36 Comments
36 Comments
Trump campaign forms Catholic advisory group
Once again, I would vote for the corpse of Millard Fillmore to keep the treacherous Hillary Clinton out of the White House. By posting this, I am not thereby publicly endorsing a candidate. However, I find it interesting that the Trump … Read More
SCOTUS Nominee endorsed by Planned Parenthood
From Live Action News: Obama nominee Garland sided against Priests for Life in contraception mandate case As Americans attempt to discern the views of Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Liberals, Religious Liberty
Tagged Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood, POTUS, Pres. Obama, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
3 Comments
3 Comments
Obama: Worried more about climate change than ISIS – Admin may pursue “climate change deniers”
Of course he is. Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch comments on the essay at The Atlantic on the “Obama Doctrine” by Jeffrey Goldberg. Get this… “isis is not an existential threat to the United States,” he told me in one of … Read More
Empty chair
The other day I heard that for the State of the Union Address in POTUS’s area of the gallery there was to be an empty seat to honor victims of gun violence (which I assume also means gang-bangers who shot … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras
Tagged empty chair, gun control, gun free zone, POTUS, The First Gay President
24 Comments
24 Comments
SCOTUS DECISIONS: strikes down “buffer zones” at abortion clinics
I just heard that the Supreme Court of the United States, in a unanimous decision, struck down “buffer zones” around the clinical profit centers of big-business abortion. I also heard that SCOTUS found that Pres. Obama’s so-called recess appointments to … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool
Tagged big business abortion, POTUS, Pres. Obama, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
16 Comments
16 Comments
POTUS’ Period
Pres. Obama released 5 terrorists for 1 U.S. soldier, now accused of desertion, held by Taliban terrorists (not by a nation). He said: “Whatever those circumstances may turn out to be we still get an American soldier back if he’s … Read More
Posted in Liberals, The Drill
Tagged Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, period, POTUS, Pres. Obama
24 Comments
24 Comments
The Pope and The POTUS
You may have heard that Pres. Obama met with Pope Francis today. Some people are asking me to comment on this historic event, which liberals will surely say is the first time a Pope smiled at an American President. Popes … Read More
“I never realize how cool wars could be until…”
Ah! Dear Leader!
Posted in Liberals, Lighter fare
Tagged POTUS, Pres. Obama, Syria, The First Gay President
18 Comments
18 Comments
Under Obama Administration: hostility increases toward military chaplains
We Catholic citizens of these USA need to support the Archdiocese for Military Services. From National Catholic Register: Religion in U.S. Military Policy The Family Research Council’s report notes that pressure to impose ’a secular, anti-religious culture’ has intensified over … Read More
ArthurH on Daily Rome Shot 1180: “Hard to imagine a less-fitting design and color-choice unless it were a rainbow pentagram. One can only hope and pray…”
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