By Charlie Johnston
Pinckney, Michigan – A couple of years ago, while discussing the depravities of the abortion industry with David Daleiden, I exclaimed, “There’s no bottom to this. Every time you think you have gotten to the bottom of something you discover a whole new chamber of horrors hidden beneath what you had already plumbed.” He sorrowfully expressed the same surprised wonder that I had. Make no mistake: the abortion industry is heavily involved in child trafficking and exploitation. And why wouldn’t they be? If you think it is a moral right to rip an infant limb from limb, why would you be disturbed about selling them as sexual playthings?
The new movie, Sound of Freedom, is shocking Hollywood with its box office prowess. It is based on the true story of a man who rescues a young girl from sex traffickers and delves deeply into this hideous and large-scale “business.” Our own Sheryl Collmer wrote a pre-release review of the movie for Crisis Magazine. Astonishingly, the left is attacking the movie and the very idea that there is any large-scale trafficking. CNN tried to make the case that only people involved in QAnon believe there is a problem. (While I was never impressed by the QAnon business, I must concede that, for all their often ridiculous claims, their record for accuracy has been far better than CNN these last seven years.) This while the left is openly trying to groom and mutilate children and advocating for normalizing pedophilia. As a Meme I saw said, “You know who hates movies exposing groomers and pedophiles? Groomers and pedophiles.” Once again, the left is showing us who they are.
We live in a time when people are routinely treated as things, particularly by the left. They no longer argue that it is a matter of moral indifference if a child is executed in its mother’s womb; they insist it is a positive good. At the founding of this country, a whole class of people owned other people as slaves. Many, even of these, knew it was wrong – but it was convenient for them and their economic system depended on it. To justify it, they deadened their consciences by telling themselves that black folks weren’t really people at all, even though the evidence before their very eyes proved the lie. It is the same technique the pro-abortion crowd uses today to justify their favorite depravity. The silver lining is that pro-slavery southerners did not start to try to sell slavery as a great moral good until about a decade or so before it was abolished altogether. It was when they started seriously feeling the heat that slavers tried to make their depravity into a moral good. May the sudden moral posturing of the abortion activists be the same death knell for their peculiar institution that it was for the slave power.
In a larger sense, it is the treating of people as things that make all the multitude of depravities that surround us possible. The tautology of “love is love,” used by the left to justify every perversion of the day, reduces love to the actions of mere sexual co-conspirators. When such an idiotic tautology can be taken seriously by so many otherwise decent people, we have really lost the narrative of what it takes to be free, joyful and prosperous.
I will not “affirm” the right of a whole grab-bag of deluded people to impose their depravities on society and, especially, on impressionable children. Until we understand once more that love is to will the good of another, and that perfect love is to sacrifice in order to secure that good, we are adrift. The left ever seeks new boundaries of depravity to cross in their fruitless effort to find meaning in their desperately empty lives. And every time you think they have hit bottom, they open up a new and more horrifying chamber of depravity below what they had previously done.
Don’t get me wrong. The disorder of homosexuality has been with us since the beginning of recorded history. I have known more than a few homosexuals who live worthy and productive lives. You don’t have to agree with me to be my friend, just respect my conscience as I respect yours. But trying to impose your own disorder on all of society is an offense that must be stopped now. I have bad vision and must wear glasses. I am not the least bit ashamed of that. But I would NOT demand that everyone else “affirm” my visual disability by mutilating their own healthy eyes. I will condemn no one for their infirmity, but I will fight them tooth and nail when they try to afflict everyone else with it.
Sadly, the left loves minorities and the marginalized the same way traffickers “love” children: not for their very selves, but for how they can be exploited and manipulated for the traffickers’ wealth and pleasure. No more. But it will not end until we once again acknowledge the intrinsic dignity of every human life, depriving no one of life or liberty without just cause under ordered and dispassionate law.
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There are people I care about and deeply respect who are adamant defenders of Pope Francis and the Vatican Curia he has assembled. I am sorry that I am going to offend them today, but there it is. I have had my fill of the Vatican’s consistent, unrelenting attack on Scripture and the Magisterium.
The appointment of Argentine Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez to head the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) is just the latest outrage. Abp. Fernandez is known in some circles as the “erotic poet of Argentina,” hardly a recommendation for either a Bishop or the keeper of doctrinal fidelity. He had not been in place for a week when he opined that we would have to look for an appropriate way to bless same-sex unions. I don’t know whether he actually believes in Christ, incidentally, or not, but he is a hard-left ideologue who, when forced to choose between the teachings of Christ or his own woke ideology goes with woke ideology every time. It seems that as time grows shorter for Francis, he works ever more frantically to stack the deck, appointing more and more hard leftists to key positions while purging the hierarchy of orthodox clerics.
I know many clerics and many laymen have struggled over how to balance their legitimate duty of fidelity to Scripture and the Magisterium with their legitimate duty of obedience to authority over them. I think many are coming to the conclusion that they got the mix wrong.
God is incredibly efficient, often accomplishing a multitude of things with a single gambit. After being spoiled for several centuries with an unending series of good – and even great – Popes, a sense grew up among the faithful that one should never criticize or disagree with a Priest, Bishop or, God forbid, Pope. Beginning in the 19th century, ultramontanism progressively began to pick up speed until it had absolutely run amok. When you have such a run of solid Popes, who would notice that obedience had become a fetish, unmoored from doctrinal demands? Well, God would. If we consign all our decisions to a limited authority, we abdicate the responsibilities God demands of each of us. And what was the fruit of this triumphal refusal to ever criticize a cleric? Well, that would be the sexual scandals that have rocked the Church for over a half a century. Is that, then, an excuse to adopt the equal and opposite error of treating clerics with reflexive cynicism and contempt? Absolutely not!
It is Jesus Christ, Himself, who established the hierarchy that He appointed to govern the Church He founded. But so we would not be deceived into thinking that the men He appointed to this task were impeccable He made sure to include Judas in the original 12 apostles He commissioned. That the hierarchy is appointed to guide and guard us does NOT relieve us of our moral agency or of our duty to demand fidelity to Christ’s words from our leaders.
I completely lost confidence in Pope Francis with the Pachamama fiasco, which I thought (and still think) was the “abomination that makes desolate” foretold in both the Book of Daniel and the Gospel of Matthew. Within months of that desecration, Masses were shut down throughout the world. Let he who has eyes open them to see. Pope Francis loves to use ambiguity to confuse. St. John Paul encouraged ecumenism, that people from different religions can collaborate on what they agree on without sacrificing their internal integrity. Pope Francis adopts syncretism, the canard that all religions are the same and tries to pretend it is the same thing St. John Paul did. It is not. It is a tool of the satan to mimic genuine good while adding a vile ingredient that negates the good in the imitation.
We have, at the highest levels in the Church, a group of men who have given themselves to evil, aggressively seeking to contradict the teachings of Christ and His early Apostles, to remake the Church in their own image, toppling Christ from His throne while still giving Him lip service as a fig leaf for their own depredations. I call it the Pope Francis Faction. He has appointed abortion advocates to Pontifical Academies. He has tried to gut the teachings of St. John Paul the Great – and appointed men to academies bearing the saint’s name who are determined to destroy that teaching. (My interpretation of the Third Secret of Fatima envisioned that this would happen shortly after the death of St. John Paul.) Pope Francis has heartily congratulated and promoted men who help him in contradicting Christ and the Magisterium, while disciplining and dismissing men who uphold orthodox fidelity to the faith. Most recently, Pope Francis gave a warm welcome to the “artist” who displayed a Crucifix submerged in a jar of urine, titling it “Piss Christ.” And why not? That artist has proved himself to be a comrade in arms with those who hate Christ and His Church. Pope Francis has refused to promote – and often dismissed – those prelates who are notable for their fidelity to Scripture and the Magisterium.
I have kept certain dissident organizations which criticize Pope Francis at arm’s length. Quite a few of them are just willful. The Cancelled Priests coalition includes more than a few men who I think should not have been cancelled. But it also includes some willful Priests whose main gripe with their Bishop is that his judgment on matters licitly within his authority differs from theirs – and so they will not serve. The first sin was one of disobedience. Christ, Himself, after the teaching in the Temple, was obedient to His earthly parents (Luke 2:51 – Note that it says He WAS obedient to them, not that He pretended to be obedient to them). Obedience to licit authority is important to me because it is commanded by Christ. When my Bishop gives me direction, I do not waste time worrying about whether his judgment matches mine. I only concern myself with whether it is genuinely within his authority and does not obviously contradict Scripture and the Magisterium. If I disagree with him strongly, I am free to make my case on the matter. But if it is within the scope of his authority and a lawful order, I obey, whether I agree or not. By the nature of my work, I sometimes end up coloring outside the lines. When it is pointed out to me, I submit. I do NOT consider it a hardship. Rather, I consider it a blessed form of guardrail given by God to keep me from driving off a cliff. I thank God my Bishop is solidly orthodox – and has never attempted to direct me on matters outside his licit authority. But even if he were not, I would follow his lawful edicts. (In that case, I reckon there would be a lot of controversy because a heterodox Bishop would try to give me all manner of orders on political, economic, and other temporal matters that were outside of his authority – which I would casually ignore). Obedience in Christianity is not a matter of the lesser submitting to the greater. If it were, how could Jesus have been obedient to His earthly parents? It is a means of opening up channels of grace – and establishing guardrails which keep all of us out of the ditch. It matters – and I cannot cheer someone, particularly a Priest, who dissents just because he does not like the judgment of his Bishop.
I have been watching for a clean case. The Vatican visitation of Bp. Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, is exactly that case for me. He is solidly orthodox, profoundly engaged with his flock, and champions the teaching of Scripture and the Magisterium with clarity and fidelity. The worst anyone has been capable of accusing him of is “imprudence” – publicly calling out heresies proposed by this Vatican. Yes, and those few clerics who called out the heresy of Arianism when most of the hierarchy had adopted it were “imprudent” in the same fashion. Thanks be to God. (I love St. Nicholas, the inspiration for Santa Clause, not least because he is reputed to have punched Arius in the face at the Council of Nicaea).
The smoke of satan, which St. Paul VI, said had seeped into the Church two generations ago, has become a choking conflagration. We have some villainous clerics who are working for the satanic side. Many of these do not acknowledge either God or the satan – and think they are working for themselves. It is satanic, nonetheless, and they will find out soon enough who their master is.
We have many good Bishops who are genuinely orthodox, but are skittish, refusing to make waves on behalf of Him who controls the waves. The big problem is that we have a whole host of peacetime consiglieres in a time when we need wartime consiglieres. Do not treat an orthodox, but timid, Bishop with contempt. In peacetime, his emphasis on collegiality and unity are often very valuable qualities. But he is wholly inadequate to the crisis we face. Joan of Arc and Therese of Lisieux are both saints – but it would be an error of the first order to send St. Therese to lead troops while confining St. Joan to a convent.
This Pope and the Bishops who follow him in spitting in the face of Christ are anathema to me. I will waste no more time trying to find some innocuous way of seeing what they mean when they are plainly showing me who they are. As St. Paul said in Galatians 1:8, “…even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed.” Even so, if a licit order within the confines of his lawful authority were given by Pope Francis, I would obey it – even though I think him a pernicious and aggressive heretic who has made himself enemy of the faith. I would do so because that is what Christ commands – and Christ knows what He is doing when I do not. It is a matter of trust.
I know many are worried that this is going to continue for a long time since Pope Francis has stacked the College of Cardinals with men after his, rather than God’s, own heart. Fear not. Disorder always collapses of its own excesses and…disorder.
A decade ago, a judge in St. Clair County, Illinois (where I once lived) died of a drug overdose. It turned out that another judge and a probation officer were involved in the possession and trafficking of drugs in the local court system. St. Clair County is run by a powerful Democratic machine. In raw panic, the machine decided to appoint a friend of mine, Stephen McGlynn, to replace the deceased judge. McGlynn was a Republican, but his integrity was acknowledged by all, including the Democratic machine. It was a desperate attempt to restore some credibility to the local judiciary. The Democratic machine thought they could blunt the immediate crisis and then beat McGlynn at the next election. It was not a bad bet: no Republican had won any countywide office in St. Clair County since the 1930’s. But the bet did not pay off. McGlynn won the next election despite the unified opposition of the machine that appointed him.
Disorder breeds disorder. Eventually, people erupt in revulsion when it becomes too much to stomach.
Here is what I expect: At some point in the next couple of years a hideous scandal will be revealed involving one of the heterodox clerics Pope Francis so dotes on. In a panic, at the next conclave following the scandal, Cardinals will elect a fully orthodox Pope, in hopes of tamping down the controversy. They will reason among themselves that they will be able to control this holy new Pope. They will not. The holy new Pope will drain the swamp, using precedents that the villainous Bishops, themselves, set in their efforts to topple Christ. It could come in the conclave following Francis’ passing – or it could come after the brief reign of another Pope in Francis’ image. But it will come, I have no doubt. God is not mocked.
I believe that the day will come, not too long from now, when the clerics sitting in judgment of Bp. Strickland will be profoundly grateful that he is a much more honorable and noble man than they are, for I think it very likely that he will end up sitting in judgment of them.
Choose or perish. The time has come for all of us to publicly declare ourselves in the great battle for the faith before us. For all you Bishops, Christ is sitting right next to you now asking if you love Him. Your words mean nothing. You will show Him your love by feeding His flock.
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My friend, Bob Scheich, spontaneously came up with a new prayer that absolutely delighted me. Bob, as many of you know, is the man who graciously gives me the downstairs level of his tri-level home as my residence. We both love breakfast biscuit sandwiches of the type that McDonald’s and Hardee’s make. Bob made the mistake of getting some frozen biscuit sandwiches from the store. If you have ever tried them, you know there is something about breakfast biscuits that make them turn out pathetic and forlorn if you try to freeze and pre-package them. Bob had just microwaved one for himself and it sat like a sea-tossed refugee on his plate. After our normal grace, Bob spontaneously added, “And Lord, please bless this poor biscuit!” I couldn’t help it. I howled with laughter. It was so appropriate to the moment. May the good Lord bless all us poor biscuits.
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A Sign of Hope 
Excellent, Charlie!!
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That’s it!!!! I’ve heard you say this many times!!! I need to repeat it often to memorize!!! It’s perfect !
“ You don’t have to agree with me to be my friend, just respect my conscience as I respect yours.”
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Charlie, God bless you. You describe and explain the current situation so perfectly well. The Left, with their identity politics, open borders, and now actively encouragement of teens who go thru the normal Sturm and Drang of their teen years to drastically damage their sexual anatomy– is really a far worse attach on society than I had realized.
The Left’s employing the soulless ghouls who murder the unborn to also operate sex trafficking even exceeds the depravity of Hittler’s Nazi regime.
However, I have faith that this episode of woke social madness will end well–not necessarily here, but when good souls return to Heaven. In the meanwhile, we all have an obligation to our Creator to work for the good of our fellow beings while life remains.
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😂😂😂
After our normal grace, Bob spontaneously added, “And Lord, please bless this poor biscuit!” I couldn’t help it. I howled with laughter. It was so appropriate to the moment. May the good Lord bless all us poor biscuits.”
Amen!!! 😂👩🍳❤️🩹
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Thanks, as always, Charlie!
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“Until we understand once more that love is to will the good of another, and that perfect love is to sacrifice in order to secure that good, we are adrift.” YES!! Oh my goodness, Charlie! I say the first part of this all the time–and I can now add the second part, thanks to you!
Powerful words here! Thank you so much! As my Father-in-law always says at the end of our conversations, “Carry on!”
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Jewelsword13 I had the same thought!!! Lol 😂 it’s going on my bathroom mirror along with my other prayers 😄
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Charlie this is just a Wonderful piece per usual!!! I reiterate EVERYTHING you just stated!
I listen to relevant radio a lot especially when I’m cleaning a home and I heard this past week that there are a certain number of “secret,” cardinals that are amongst us that the popes elect and that they are “secret Cardinals,” to protect them and their identity!
As soon as I heard that, of course the imaginative wheels 🛞 off my brain 🧠 started spinning a HOPEFULLY true tale of a future synod of “secret,” Cardinals electing a very ORTHODOX next pope! 😂🙏🥳. I pray St John Paul II and Pope Benedict stacked the secret deck!!! Ha!!!
Wouldn’t that be a wonderful breath of fresh and holy air!!!
Glory Charlie it was so WONDERFUL to have been able to spend the day with you last Saturday in Michigan along with Mick and everyone else that was there!!! We ALL had sooooo much fun!!! What amazed me was that all the friends I KNEW JUST FROM ZOOM 🏎️ LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE THEY LOOK IN ZOOM! Hahahaha I was sort of surprised by that🥰
HOWEVER; thank you again for agreeing to meet with us all! Even though zoom is fun and engaging It’s still much more rewarding and refreshing in person a Charlie!!! Lol 😂
Mike and I look forward to your Sunday zoom 🏎️!!!
Hang in there good buddy!!! Keep the chin up! 😩. We are on the winning side of things and God is using our suffering to usher in the great Triumph of the Immaculate Heart ❤️ of Our Mother!!!
Count on me for daily prayers for you after Holy communion and weekly flames 🔥 of love being lit at St Mary’s Mother of the redeemer just got you!!! Aka candle 🕯️ 😂
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Ha Linda! Your comment that everyone looked just like they all do on ZOOM took me back. After I had gotten prominent in my radio gig, everywhere I went someone would note, wonderingly, that I sounded just like I did on the radio. It always cracked me up. I mean, what did they expect me to sound like? And your comment brings me back to those charming days – when I was about 30 years younger, by the way.
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Charlie that is so funny!!! I remember you saying that on several occasions too!!!😂😂😂
I have one correction to add to my observation though…. And I think I was thinking about it around the same time you posted this reply to my comment…😂…there was indeed ONE person that appeared different to me from zoom and that was Bob Gawecki aka Bob G! Ha! He was a bit taller than I thought he would be😂.
Thirty years ago…ohmygosh Charlie…that would’ve made you 36…37?!?! That’s how old my children are today!!! Doesn’t it all seem like yesterday😀. Probably the age you will look like in heaven! 🌹 (rose from St. Therese of Lisieux).
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Ps you DO INDEED sound the same in person hahaha 🤣
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Not June 16, July 16.
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Great catch, Carol. Edited.
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Thank-you Charlie.
Yes, ever since Pachamama was placed on the altar it has all gone wrong.😢
Always ongoing prayers for you and all here. ✝️🙏🏽✝️
Katey in OR
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Unfortunately, myown, I think that was just the boil finally bursting. But it had been festering for decades beforehand – from even before “the most wunnafull Council evvah™”.
I think Charlie identifies the underlying issues in this hard-hitting piece which is one of his best. “…toppling Christ from His throne while still giving Him lip service as a fig leaf for their own depredations”. Under previous Popes, they at least concealed their machinations under a (thin) veil of orthodoxy. But now the masks are cast aside and even the lip service seems to be optional – at best.
I did like this: “Do not treat an orthodox, but timid, Bishop with contempt”.
Most of ours, over here in this deluded little isle, are orthodox. It’s just that we never seem to hear them actually strongly teaching anything. Perhaps they’ll eventually stand up and denounce the tide of evil their sheep seem to be wilfully and joyfully immersing themselves in but I’m still hanging on for that. Nevertheless, in most parishes here you’ll still see a pretty much orthodox expression of Faith. And some are very good. Thank God. But, it’s like a besieged fort, barely surviving.
Still, as a French General is said to have said in 1914 (not 1940😎): “my centre has collapsed, my reserves are retreating – I advance!” And they drove the enemy back and saved Paris. Joan smiled on them!
There is always hope.
God bless all.
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Thank you myownbackyard2017🥰🙏😘 back atchya
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Another “wow”, Charlie. (I must admit I had to laugh that St. Nicholas punched Arius.) You probably tire of hearing us say that you analyze as no one else can do! Every once in a while I ponder it all and think about it feeling so surreal that the world, our country, our Church, are the way they are!
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It is somewhat mind blowing eh Annie W?!?! Sometimes I just have to laugh out loud when I hear the next monstrosity!!! That’s what I do when I’m trying to get my grandson Jax out of the tub 🛁 after an hour and HE STILL DOESN’T WANT TO GET OUT!!!😂😂😂. He’s two and he’s in the 99th percentile and he’s super strong! It’s like trying to move an elephant 🐘 to a place he doesn’t want to go and I normally give up and just start laughing because if I didn’t laugh I’d probably cry and get a little agitated! I don’t want to do that. So I laugh 😂
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(Sung to the tune of “Up On the Housetop”)
Up at Nicæa, bishops pause – Arius and Santa Claus!
One claims a time when the Son was not;
One says that’s a heretical thought.
Ho! ho! ho!
Who’s gonna go?
Ho! ho! ho!
Who’s gonna go?
Off with a right hook, good St. Nick;
Down goes the dirty heretic.
😂😂
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Did you pen this yourself, Jewel? If so, nice job!
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No, no, though I wish I would have! 😂 I’m not actually sure who wrote it, but we sing it every year on St. Nicholas’s feast day!
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I liked it. I hesitated at asking about authorship, though. Once, at a live remote broadcast, a fellow introduced himself to me and said he enjoyed my shows and commentaries – but that the guy he would really like to meet was whoever wrote my stuff. I shook his hand and said, “Congratulations, you just met him.” It was, somehow, vaguely insulting to me.
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🥺🤭 Oh dear…
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That is hilarious Charlie 😂😂😂
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Jewel ~ 🤣
Excellent.
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Charlie, I need your take on this “breaking news” if you see this!!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/07/13/ordering-the-selected-reserve-and-certain-members-of-the-individual-ready-reserve-of-the-armed-forces-to-active-duty/
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Yikes 😬
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I don’t regard it as particularly ominous. Members of the service who have retired in good standing are under reserve call-up status for much longer than most people know. I don’t know if this is just a routine annual authorization or prelude to something more. Either way, we have to expect a dying gov’t to strike out in striking ways to preserve itself. When serious issues arise, we will address them in real time, trusting on God with the sure knowledge that He prevails ultimately. That is why, by the way, I fear nothing and rarely get alarmed.
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Thanks, Charlie. That’s reassuring. 😏
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Calling up the Guard & Reserves is not uncommon but calling up the IRR is less so.
Some IRR were called up for the Gulf War 30+ years ago and from time to time the Prez might authorize DOD to recall a limited number from time to time.
Those recalled will be folks with critical skills that are short in the Active Force.
The Military tries to entice discharged folks to come back before resorting to calling up the IRR.
https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/07/14/the-irr-n564584
This recall is just another Sad SIGN that our PC-WOKE Military is going BROKE ;-(
Other recent news and a post I made to MILINET yesterday:
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/around-40-of-u-s-attack-submarines-out-of-commission-for-repairs-leaving-u-s-with-only-31/
Last I heard, stats of In Commission AF/USN Aircraft was dismal and Aircrew training time was near nil.
Oh! Then there is our “LOW” Military War Stockpiles of Gear & Ammo and awful Retention/Recruiting Stats.
But! …… Not to Worry!
Our Diversity, Inclusion & Equity (DIE) “Goals” are being rapidly accomplished with a nominee for JCS Head bragging about “Hiring for Diversity” and making Whites (Evil Supreme Nationalists) a minority in the Officer Corps.
By the By! Does anyone here really believe The Stats from Swamp DC Alphabet Agencies? Like every Economic Stat of late …. Ya can bet that next month the Stats will be adjusted ever downward.
GOD SAVE ALL HERE!!
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Thank you for weighing in, Crewdog. This is something you have MUCH more expertise on than I do. I appreciate it. I’m still not overly concerned but it is something to watch. Of course, I’m not overly concerned about much of anything but the next right step because I know that God wins – but I AM concerned that each of us properly discern our next right step to expedite that victory.
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Okay, it looks like this is, indeed, an unusual call-up designed to prepare for sending boots on the ground to Ukraine. It shows the continuance of Joe Biden’s weird determination to spark a global nuclear war to protect the site of so much of his corruption. It is another good reason why you should NOT encourage your kids to join today’s woke military. To paraphrase an old Willie Nelson song, “Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be soldiers.”
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I agree, Charlie. Biden and his family are up to their eyeballs in corruption in Ukraine, including their investment in Metabiota and other connections to the bio-labs in Ukraine which I believe are directly connected to the development of C19 and the vaxxxes. Anyone guilty of participating in the development of a genocidal bioweapon is likely to want to spend whatever money and lives are needed to suppress that information. Fortunately for us, Putin and others have that information already, and Putin has been pushing that info out in the UN and elsewhere.
I’m never certain whether the Daily Expose is fully credible, but they have done some excellent work in the past, and in this article:
They bring some receipts, as the saying goes. Note the last bullet point in the article, which states “‘Moderna’, alongside the ‘National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) agreed to tranfer ‘mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates’ developed and jointly-owned by NIAID and Moderna, to recipients ‘The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’ on the 12th December 2019.” Keep in mind that the spike protein was *designed* and is one of the most toxic bio-molecules on Earth. Designing that spike for C19 and then converting that spike into a vaxxx candidate took *years*.
Since they were already calling C19 “Covid-19” in December before anyone else even knew it existed, the above quote might make you consider the idea that C19 mRNA vaxxxes were able to be released so quickly at the end of 2020 because they were already mostly or entirely developed – based on the original C19 virus spike! – before anyone even became aware in late December 2019 and early 2020 that C19 had been released. As far as I know, there has never been any even minor hints that the Wuhan Lab was significantly involved in developing what became the Pfizer and Moderna pseudo-uridinated vaxxx spike RNA, so where were those vaxxx bioweapons actually developed, hmmm?
Biden isn’t pouring money and now men into Wuhan or China, is he?
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Absolutely agree, Charlie! I am so thankful to God that my husband’s career in the military was way before today’s insanity, and my father too, who is “looking down on all this” and shaking his head, and praying for us. I know Crewdog, you must feel the same. It was a wonderful family and comradery at the time. It was such a patriotic time; we loved the military and our country! Ok, enough looking back! Come Holy Spirit and lead us forward under Mama’s mantle! Please God, keep our troops out of Ukraine and an expanded war.
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Nice to know!!!
“When serious issues arise, we will address them in real time, trusting on God with the sure knowledge that He prevails ultimately. That is why, by the way, I fear nothing and rarely get alarmed.”
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The appointment of Argentine Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez was just another overt and very strong signal in the way Francis would like the Church to go. I found it tragic and sickening at the same time. May Christ have mercy on us all as we try to navigate the dark waters of evil that are swirling around us and growing at a very rapid pace. Come Holy Spirit and renew the face of the Earth!
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“Joan of Arc and Therese of Lisieux are both saints – but it would be an error of the first order to send St. Therese to lead troops while confining St. Joan to a convent.”……… It is true that God sends us on different paths to do His will. Only He understands the reasons.
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I love that, STJ, and your last sentence. It’s so true, and why I am at peace in doing what I feel called, even compelled, to do. We are each on a different path, led by the Holy Spirit if we ask Him to mold us according to God’s will.
In my Catholic schooling we learned about God’s ordaining will vs. permitting will. I ask each day for major decisions especially, to be molded to God’s ordaining will. Come Holy Spirit!
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Excellent Charlie!
Soo many good nuggets!
Is there any way for the Cardinals to remove the Pope?
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“I don’t know whether he actually believes in Christ, incidentally, or not, but he is a hard-left ideologue who, when forced to choose between the teachings of Christ or his own woke ideology goes with woke ideology every time.” (CJ).
This is not unpresidented for even Scripture tells of how church leaders have traded on the truth many times before now.
“Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.”
(Romans 10).
….But concerning Israel he says,
“All day long I have held out my hands
to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
[Romans 10:21)].
“I know many clerics and many laymen have struggled over how to balance their legitimate duty of fidelity to Scripture and the Magisterium with their legitimate duty of obedience to authority over them.” (CJ).
God’s plans, many times, have included those who trouble His people and for a purpose we are not always given to understand.
He gives us an insight to this here:
“It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this? Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?
What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory- even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? As he says in Hosea:
“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”
and,
“In the very place where it was said to them,
‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
only the remnant will be saved.
For the Lord will carry out
his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”
It is just as Isaiah said previously:
“Unless the Lord Almighty
had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah.”
(Romans 9:16-29).
“The post-Pentecost Peter… is that same Peter who, for fear of the Jews, belied his Christian freedom (Galatians 2 11–14); he is at once a rock and a stumbling-block. And has it not been thus throughout the history of the Church that the Pope, the successor of Peter, has been at once Petra and Skandalon—both the rock of God and a stumbling block?”
(POPE BENEDICT XIV)
“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame”.
(Isaiah 8:14).
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This Sunday, June 16, at 4 pm Eastern Time (3 Central, 2 Mountain, and 1 Pacific) we will hold a national online meeting to discuss some details from our Go Forth initiative at CORAC. You are all invited to join us.
Did you mean July 16?
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Thanks, Lisa. While I missed that typo when hitting, “Publish,” it was corrected yesterday thanks to another reader’s comment.
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Great summary, Charlie. It is sad what Pope Francis is doing. He let the Eucharistic Christ and starving souls be locked down during flu-like pandemic while liquor stores remained opened. I think Popes Francis character is like that one of Pontius Pilate. On one hand Francis says in reference to homosexuality “who am I to judge?”, then he says “God can’t bless sin” so the pope doesn’t let German bishops bless homosexual couples, and then he pretty much allows Belgian bishops to do such blessings ( in Germany some bishops opposed blessing of homosexual couples , in Belgium all bishops are in favor of such blessings so pope Francis in the name of synodality washes his hands like Pontius Pilate and like that piss Christ artist is mocking our Lord)… And archbishop Fernandez long before the appointment was called a heretic by cardinal Mueller who was in charge of the same Congregation of Faith…
It seems that the only hope is in Africa as far as choosing a good pope…
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Is it possible the Lord is allowing all of the rotten eggs to be gathered into one basket? Or to use an industrial analogy, the hierarchy is like a vessel refining steel wherein the slag floats to the top. Perhaps soon it will be time for the Lord to skim off that which floats.
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Excellent image, Steve. That is what I think has been happening all along. Boy, is the slag in for a big surprise. They thought they were at the top to rule – when God is actually just getting it all all in one place for easy removal. Reminds me of the story about belling the cat.
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Yeah, well, if this “slag” meets all in one place, say in a certain city state located in a boot shaped country somewhere, I’d wanna be on a completely different continent during that time period.
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
https://mailchi.mp/jkmi/12wna1250o-1068297?e=b654649ef1
https://catholicexchange.com/st-kateris-scars/
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/earth-to-wyd-god-permits-not-desires-many-religions/
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/162-saints-who-inspired-saints-kimberly-begg/
https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/13/10-abnormal-things-bidens-return-to-normalcy-brought-americans/
HullyGee!! …… After The Usual Lies, Deception, Obfuscation and FBI Director Tap Dance @ House Hearing, was anyone here really expecting anything but a Big Foxtrot Yankee in your Face? … Eh!!???
THE MOST SECURE PLACE in THE USA and the SS can’t figure out who the White House CRACKHEAD is!!??
The Usual Suspects have NO trouble finding Jan 6 Capitol Trespasser Paps & Grannies, Parents @ School Boards, Catholic Pro-Life Activists and Trump Supporters …. and sending companies of Swat Teams to abduct them ….. BUT … when it comes to Criminal Democrats, Blantifa, Church Arsonists, Child Traffickers, Aliens, Chinese Agents, ………… Crickets!
THEY are Lying!
We know THEY are Lying!
THEY know we know THEY are Lying!
THEY care not!
https://nypost.com/2023/07/13/former-federal-investigators-cry-foul-on-wh-cocaine-this-is-a-coverup
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/13/top-men-close-investigation-into-white-house-cocaine-secret-service-say-too-difficult-to-trace-ownership/
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/lo-and-behold-the-secret-service-cant-figure-out-who-brought-the-cocaine/
https://townhall.com//tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/07/14/cover-up-secret-service-chief-was-part-of-joe-bidens-security-detail-as-vp-n2625714
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/not-just-cocaine-secret-service-reveals-another-banned-substance-found-bidens-white-house
What does The Media NOT mislead about!??
https://www.catholicleague.org/media-mislead-on-abortion-poll/
https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258j3m2k.1zxl/c5c288bf
https://www.thedailybs.com/news
https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/
https://newsbusters.org/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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These days Glenn Beck sounds an awful lot like Charlie Johnston!
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Stevebc look what I found In citizens free press just now! 😖
https://www.westernjournal.com/brazilian-faith-healer-touted-oprah-sentenced-additional-99-years-multiple-rapes/
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Yes, Linda, I saw that. Oprah, the Clintons and others touted him over the years. I believe they were entirely aware of what he was actually doing, but that is just my opinion, and I could be wrong. I also believe we will find that he is just the smallest tip of a very large iceberg, floating among many other icebergs.
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Ugh 😣 Lord have mercy!!!
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂
https://catholicexchange.com/recusant-wife-the-white-martyrdom-of-henrietta-maria-in-stuart-england/
https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2023/07/13/weekly-news-roundup-new-cardinals-fbi-director-grilled-during-hearing-america-mags-bizarre-claim/
We MUST confront The Party of Death … EVERY DAY!!!!
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/after-bipartisan-backlash-california-legislators-vote-trafficking-bill-through-committee
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/remembering-the-200th-anniversary-of-the-burning-of-st-paul-s-outside-the-walls
https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/barron/world-youth-day-and-converting-everyone-to-christ/
https://onepeterfive.com/christian-fashion-virginia-coda-nunziante/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/does-jesus-love-you-just-the-way-you-are
Taylor Marshall- On PF, Billary & Soros
https://victorhanson.com/ten-reasons-why-affirmative-action-died/
https://rumble.com/v305s1u-ukraine-soldiers-being-forced-to-do-this.html
Nothing to see here! … Move Along!!
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/hunter-biden-cocaine-white-house/
https://newstarget.com/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
https://thefederalist.com/
https://justthenews.com/
https://www.floppingaces.net/2023/07/14/the-week-in-radical-leftism-07-13-2023/
https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/
https://www.oann.com/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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May the Holy Spirit give wisdom to the judge deciding on the Iowa heartbeat law banning abortion at 6 wks (with usual exceptions, rape, incest, etc).
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2023/07/14/iowa-district-judge-will-decide-whether-to-block-abortion-restrictions/70414724007/
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I think this is so interesting 🧐
https://endoftheamericandream.com/do-you-know-about-the-3-eclipses-that-will-combine-to-create-a-giant-aleph-over-america/
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂
https://onepeterfive.com/7th-sunday-after-pentecost-christs-soldier-slaves/
The Consecration to Jesus King of All Nations
https://mailchi.mp/jkmi/all-souls-day-1068305?e=b654649ef1
https://onepeterfive.com/christian-fashion-virginia-coda-nunziante/
https://catholicvote.org/lgbtq-orgs-groom-kids-schools/
https://catholicvote.org/tx-and-catholic-healthcare-abortion-mandate/
https://catholicvote.org/indiana-court-rules-in-favor-of-archdiocese-in-religious-liberty-case/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/16/tucker-carlson-full-speech-at-turning-point-action-conference/#more-248892
Just another DC Swamp Sock Puppet … preaching The godless Globalist Agenda ;-(
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/07/16/yellen-says-funding-ukraines-war-effort-is-the-best-boost-for-global-economy/
https://pjmedia.com/
https://www.floppingaces.net/2023/07/16/sunday-funnies-751/
https://newsbusters.org/
https://www.zerohedge.com/
https://www.powerlineblog.com/
https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/
https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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Oh man Charlie ~ that was a really great talk you gave today for all of us !!! You sounded so happy!!! And that makes us ALL happy too 🥰
What Mike and I got from the talk:
1. Don’t worry about a thing, just acknowledge God , take next right step and be a sign of hope!!!
2. Goooooooo Fooooooth!!! See if you can help someone in need!
3. Be joyful during this collapse because WE are on the winning side!!!
4. Watch for miracles🥰
5. Mike says he wants baked potatoes and cordon blue! 🤣😂😂😂🤣😂
6. Get ready for the eclipseif the sun April,8 2024!
Signs in the sky 🥳. Again we are on the winning side!
7. Miracles. Miracles. Miracles are coming!!!🥳🥳🥳
8. Again….go forth locally!!!🥰🙏🐶⛪️ 🐿️
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For a short time today I thought ‘get the potatoes out of the oven’ was some ZOOM slang or code for having to use the bathroom. 🤔 I guess not, Charlie literally had to get the potatoes out of the oven. 😃
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Ha! I was fixing dinner for six. The potatoes were a big hit, by the way.
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Hahahaha 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔 🥔
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Hahahaha 🤣
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/bishop-strickland-laying-his-life-down-for-his-sheep
https://catholicexchange.com/taking-on-jesus-restful-yoke/
https://catholicexchange.com/love-is-love/
https://media.benedictine.edu/2023/this-sunday-the-divine-sower-changes-everything-especially-you
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254812/pope-francis-confirms-shanghai-bishop-appointed-in-violation-of-vatican-china-deal
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254815/cardinal-zuppi-traveling-to-washington-to-promote-peace-in-ukraine
https://www.catholicleague.org/disney-still-reeling-from-blowback/
https://www.revolver.news/2023/07/the-war-on-men/
YUP! ’cause the EVIL THEY have THEIR Filthy Fingers in ALL The Evil that besets US, Europe and BEYOND ….. THEY are rich & powerful ;-(
https://healthimpactnews.com/2023/sound-of-freedom-film-falls-short-of-revealing-who-are-the-ones-trafficking-children-and-how-to-stop-it/
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2023/07/16/imploding-cities-will-drag-all-of-us-down-even-if-you-dont-live-anywhere-near-one-n1710865
https://www.newsmax.com/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258j42q9.1szl/c5a080b7
https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254823/cordileone-strickland-condemn-scurrilous-false-schism-message
https://onepeterfive.com/thomas-doctrine-music/
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/they-sang-all-the-way-to-the-guillotine
People who condone, celebrate, exploit Abortion, Child Mutilation, Open Borders-Drug/Human Traffickers will, happily, send YOU to the Guillotine and those who were/are afraid to Speak-Up about any of the above will NOT come to save YOU!
https://www.lifenews.com/2023/07/17/biden-spokesman-its-our-sacred-obligation-to-promote-killing-babies-in-abortions/
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/the-growth-of-catholic-theology-pope
https://catholicexchange.com/a-matter-of-give-and-give/
https://blog.adw.org/2023/07/my-word-shall-not-return-to-me-empty-a-homily-for-the-15th-sunday-of-the-year-2/
Archbishop Vigano’s Twitter Rollercoaster: Kicked OFF, Restored
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/emsound_of_freedomem_box_office_receipts_soar_37_in_second_weekend_of_release.html
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/17/secular-culture-spirals-out-control-christians-hav
https://www.foxnews.com/world/son-canadian-pastor-facing-prison-sermon-blasts-trudeau-before-eu-parliament-draws-standing-ovation
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/our-sorority-allowed-biological-male-join-suing-womens-rights
https://apnews.com/article/archbishop-fernandez-kissing-pope-argentina-2ef12e7f37400147ba7d9feecfe89d56
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/chinese-communist-party-rewriting-bible
http://HTTPS://WWW.NAVYRECOGNITION.COM/INDEX.PHP/NAVAL-NEWS/NAVAL-NEWS-ARCHIVE/2023/JULY/13354-UNPRECEDENTED-SURGE-IN-CHINESE-WARSHIPS-PRESENCE-SURROUNDING-TAIWAN.HTML
https://stream.org/category/us/
https://townhall.com/
https://www.thedailybs.com/news
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … 😉 PM
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/18/prepare-for-big-distraction-irs-whistleblowers-scheduled-for-public-testimony-in-biden-bribery-scandal-tomorrow-100pm/#more-248977
Tin Foil Hat stuff below? methinks NOT. KamalBreath did not misspeak when she exclaimed that POPULTION REDUCTION was necessary to combat Climate Change. Satanic Influence is the ONLY reasonable explantion!!
https://newstarget.com/2023-07-18-nations-engineer-global-famine-destroying-agriculture.html
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/07/18/president-trump-reveals-jack-smith-targeting-letter-delivered-to-attorneys-sunday-night/#more-248967
https://allenwest.substack.com/p/military-readiness-not-leftist-wokeness
More True Than False I’d Bet … ;-(
https://newsbusters.org/
https://www.zerohedge.com/
https://links.glennbeck.com/view/55d278157d0973635efe6258j4b0p.228x/92762617
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC ALL HERE!!
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JESUS = GOOD NEWS! … Happy Day 🙂
https://www.lepantoin.org/wp/saint-joseph-and-a-call-for-the-purification-of-the-united-states/
https://stream.org/tears-the-battle-cry-for-dying-nation/
https://onepeterfive.com/adorning-soul-allegorical-gems/
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/st-thomas-aquinas-canonization-700-years
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/awaiting-the-end
Ain’t that nice ……. ? ;-(
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/news/franciss-man-in-america-says-of-u-s-bishops-they-love-the-pope
https://catholicexchange.com/the-little-saint-of-forgiveness/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/in-the-age-of-ai-even-the-very-elect-will-be-deceived
https://catholicvote.org/social-contagion-the-trans-kids-wave/
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/with-this-appointment-pope-repudiates-his-predecessor/
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254830/archbishop-ganswein-s-post-vatican-future-beginning-to-take-shape
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/has-the-holy-see-surrendered-to-the-chinese-communist-party
Yep! ;-(
https://newstarget.com/2023-07-19-global-take-down-of-the-american-empire-shifts-into-high-gear.html
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/federal-court-just-handed-biden-ministry-truth-big-defeat
https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/19/bidens-doj-will-trigger-a-major-crisis-if-trump-is-indicted-for-jan-6/
https://www.floppingaces.net/2023/07/19/white-pride-is-that-a-thing/
https://stream.org/category/us/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!
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