By Charlie Johnston
One of the devil’s most brilliant successes has been to embed the pharisaical instinct deeply into the human psyche. Few want the mundane honor of being God’s good servant, preferring the romantic drama of being God’s enforcer. The latter is the wide gate that leads to destruction while, as Christ said, the gate that leads to life is narrow, the path is hard, and few find it. (Matthew 7:14).
Catholics burned those found to be heretics. This was one of the more serious abuses rightly decried by the Protestant Reformation. It would have been more impressive to God if the new Protestants had not promptly followed up that complaint when they had taken power by burning over ten times as many people as witches in a couple of decades as Catholics had burned as heretics in their entire history.
In fact, English King Henry VIII’s break with the Catholic Church in the mid-1530’s kicked off a century and a half of bitter, murderous religious strife between Catholics and Protestants with each vying with the other to see which could be more vicious and bloodthirsty when they held the advantage. Eventually, the Protestants prevailed – and promptly began warring against fellow Protestant denominations they felt were too lax. It all came to a head with the ascendance of Oliver Cromwell, who had Anglican King Charles I (who was married to a Catholic) beheaded and himself declared Lord Protector of England. Cromwell was a Puritan, but not of the majority Presbyterian Puritans. The Presbyterian Puritans thought the country should be ruled by religious Presbyters of their choosing while Cromwell thought it should be ruled by Parliament. But both thought the people should be “purified,” whether by fire or other cruel devices for any infractions of their rules, which they claimed to be God’s rules.
Cromwell and his Puritan cohorts were so fanatical that they forbade the celebration of Christmas, insisting it was a sin to esteem any single day more than another. I suspect Cromwell would have had Christ, Himself, burned upon catching Him celebrating the Passover. During the too-long period of the ascendance of the Puritans in England, even the most minor infractions were met with a penalty of death. It got to where if a couple was caught dead to rights in adultery, a jury would rarely convict them even on the most compelling of evidence, for the juries were not willing to put their neighbors to death for such an infraction. In his defense, as Cromwell aged, he became much more tolerant of other denominations of Protestants. Whether that was because of his distaste for the Presbyterian Puritans who wanted a good chance to “purify” him or because of a late-blooming largeness of spirit I do not venture to guess.
All of these determinedly murderous thugs claimed to do their depredations in the name of truth, justice, and Christ. I expect a lot of tunnel-visioned “followers” of Christ will be shocked when He tells them, “I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.” (Matthew 7:23)
The first thing to understand is that God, the Blessed Trinity is headed by the Father. In the fullness of time, He came in the Second Person as Brother. Which of you, seeing your beloved child or sibling walking a path of self-immolation would eagerly seek their destruction? With all your heart you would yearn for, work for, and pray for their reclamation that you might be joyfully reunited. Why, then, would anyone think they are imitating God by seeking the destruction of their brother? I guess the jealous, vengeful Cult of Cain has been with us from the beginning, inflamed by the satan’s malevolent glee.
I do not shrink from fights. If I think I must, I enter them with fortitude and resolve. I usually prevail – and from a human standpoint take much satisfaction in victory. But spiritually, I grieve because I know it is, at least, partial failure. My call is to reclaim people to the joy and freedom that is in Christ, to help free them from the bondage to sin and the corrosive power of resentment. When I stand before God in judgment, It will not be my triumphs over atheists or heretical thinking that I will offer up as my treasures, though there are plenty. It will be the time the National Spokesman for the American Atheists told me that I was making him rethink his atheism, not because of my clever arguments but because my affectionate regard for his conscience; or the time he asked me sincerely to baptize his baby daughter. There are a few handfuls of more episodes such as these, but they are the crown jewels of my meager harvest.
When I was yet a boy, I noted with growing resentment and wrath the hypocrisy of so many leaders in my family’s Pentecostal sect. Most strove for power in this little group, claiming their viciousness was pleasing to God. There is nothing the leaders so loved as finding someone to condemn, or something by which they could condemn otherwise kindly people. It was hideous. As I got a little older, I came to value the simple people who were sincerely trying to please God the best way they knew how, but without the viciousness. I knew many who struggled, fearing they were not holy because they lacked the predatory viciousness of their most prominent leaders. I tried to give them affectionate, encouraging words. It was a source of profound pride and satisfaction to me when my father become a Pentecostal Pastor whose little Church focused on building each other up rather than engaging in leadership battles involving tearing each other down. Of course, Dad was quite the contrarian. It tickled us both that when fellow pastors would venture a bout of Catholic-bashing, Dad would invariably tell them that, “If I weren’t Pentecostal I would be Catholic.”
Occasionally, because of my flair for disputation, some preachers would try to recruit me into their ranks. I had to tightly control my rage when a couple of them warmly assured me that becoming a revival preacher was a “great way to get girls.” Not that I had anything against getting girls; I was actually an enthusiast for it. But to use the things of God as leverage to obtain the things of man contrary to how God commands it be done seemed to me to be blasphemy of the most rank sort.
A quarter of a century ago there was a gay couple that I was friendly with. They would occasionally stop by my office to chat about this, that and the other. I have always worn my religion on my sleeve, but I like most folks. One day, one of the men looked at me and asked, “You think what we do is a sin, don’t you?” I nodded candidly that, yes, I did. He was quiet for a few moments and then said, “But you think you chasing women is a sin, too.” I agreed that, without benefit of marriage, I knew it was. He was quiet for a few moments and then said, “I can live with that.” Our conversation then went on. Somehow, I rank that among my treasures, as well.
One of my spiritual directors in the early days pushed hard that I needed to be more overtly evangelical. It’s just not my way. I couldn’t – and truth be told – wouldn’t, do it. It was one of the few areas where we seriously disagreed. At a religious event he attended, he later told me that he mentioned I was a friend of his. To his surprise, several people enthusiastically started telling him about the role I had played in their deeper conversion. He told me he believed in overt evangelization, but instructed me, particularly, to keep doing whatever it was I was doing – and that was the end of that.
Ah, but the urge to command rather to serve is visceral. Without care, it can ensnare any of us. On Easter of 2007, I had arrived just on time at a Parish I only occasionally visited. As you all know, if you arrive on time on Easter you are too late to get a seat and must take standing room. I dreaded it. My neurological injury makes standing still quickly very painful for me. But I gritted my teeth. To my surprise, there was a single vacancy right up front – and the usher took me right to it. The front row for me…I felt like Bob Uecker. It was one of the most sacrilegious Masses I have ever been to.
When the Priest began his homily, he spoke glowingly of the “Easter event.” If you don’t know the code, that almost always means the speaker does not actually believe in the resurrection, only that Jesus was, “raised in our hearts.” That red flag signaled the beginning of every humanist shibboleth you can imagine. Jesus was such a good moral teacher, don’t you know? My mood was dark and getting darker, subjected to this sacrilegious offense getting more sacrilegious by the moment. And on Easter, no less! When it was time for communion, people were receiving so close to me in the front row that I could have reached out and touched them without standing up.
I never saw so many offenses piled up all at once. The most memorable one came when the ponytailed dude came up. When the extraordinary minister held up the host and said, “The Body of Christ,” Mr. Cool Dude took it in one hand, gave a thumbs up with the other, and cheerily said, “Cool, Dude!” before popping it into his mouth and crunching it like a potato chip. I was livid, and seriously thinking of walking out, when the Lord appeared to me and said, sadly and sternly, “Behold my people, given into your care. Guard them well.” It was a gentle, but powerful, rebuke. My call was not to condemn people from communion with Him, but to work to reclaim them into deeper communion with Him.
Jesus condemns those who, while being exacting on every jot and tittle of the law, neglect the weightier matters – justice, mercy and faith. He describes them as, “…blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel.” (Matthew 23: 23,24).
The Lord is subtle, patient and precise. He constantly gives us chances to prove ourselves – and in doing so – refine ourselves, conforming ourselves ever closer to His image. That is the internal campaign which must be waged rigorously and pitilessly if we are to bear fruit worthy of the Master. Usually, attempts to be God’s Enforcer are efforts to avoid this internal campaign of pruning yourself that you may bear abundant fruit. Alas, you can bear no fruit at all if you do not engage seriously with it.
A few years ago I was proud to see so many Christians I admired resist the attempt to oppress and marginalize people of faith. Many did so with real courage and resolve. I have been shaken to see so many who I admired, once the pressure eased, eagerly setting themselves up as new enforcers. It was not so much that they were against coercing conscience in principle, but that they wanted to be in the command seat to coerce others’ consciences.
Now I see people I recently admired splitting more hairs than a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader on a humid day in their eager and almost desperate search to find things that will disqualify others from being accepted as real Christians.
Let me make it as simple and straightforward as I can right now.
- God is Creator of all – and Father to those who will accept and follow Him.
- All of us fall short of the glory of God. It is narcissistic tomfoolery to be obsessively fretting about who is the holiest of them all. The actual holiest of all created men falls far short of the glory of God.
- Jesus founded a Church, not that He might drive men who fall short away from Him, but that He might draw men to Him in abundance. He gave doctrinal authority and governance of that visible Church to men, His apostles and their successors.
- As St. Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 4:7, we hold this treasure in earthen vessels. We are the earthen vessels. Our Bishops are the earthen vessels. The Pope is an earthen vessel. Earthen vessels are wont to crack and break. Even so, this is how God chose to set it up.
- The hierarchy of the Church is responsible to God for defending, protecting, extending, and proclaiming sound doctrine to all the world. As earthen vessels they will often stumble. This does NOT invalidate the covenant the Lord has set with them.
- Our duty is to follow Him. Our call is to multiply His followers. We do that by following and submitting to His Apostles in their lawful authority. We are free, even obligated, to criticize, rebuke, and chastise bad doctrine when, inevitably, it makes appearances. We are not free to set ourselves up as a competing hierarchy even when real abuses are propounded by the actual hierarchy Christ sets up.
- Faith means we do all in our power to do right and to set things right when they are wrong, without stepping into territory that has been forbidden to us by our station in life. Trust means that when we do all we can without trying to usurp authority not given to us, that God, Himself, will, in His own good time set things right and hold offenders to account – gentle account for those who honestly err, hard account for those who intentionally defy Him.
Of course, much of this meditation has been triggered by the SSPX defying the Pope and ordaining four new Bishops on July 1 in Econe, Switzerland. I sympathize with many of the doctrinal emphases of the SSPX. I also think some of their proclamations of doctrinal purity are the angry, superficial scrawl of a petulant child. I do not think them nearly as sophisticated as arbiters of faith and interpreters of doctrine as they think they are. That they claim the authority to defy the Pope’s legitimate governance on internal matters is an offense against Christ, Himself, even if the Pope were wrong in all his doctrinal opinions. That they claim it is “of necessity” and, so, they are not bound by the Pope’s authority is laughably ludicrous. If Tyler Robinson is convicted of the murder of Charlie Kirk and then says he must, “of necessity,” overrule the court, that would be as laughable an absurdity.
I do decry the reality that the Vatican, in recent years, has been tolerant of all manner of heterodox, worldly abuses while holding notably orthodox members to a viciously nitpicking standard. That homosexual unions, transgender ideology, and even abortion can get either a pass or just pro forma pushback while the Traditional Latin Mass is shut down, orthodox orders of nuns persecuted…well…it infuriates me. And I have written of it here many times, as is my right as a baptized Catholic. I consider the Vatican’s agreement with China to be one of the greatest scandals in the history of the Church and the most hideous betrayal since Judas betrayed Our Lord, Himself.
I publicly dispute with the hierarchs who enable these things. Privately, I pray for them and pity them. There will be a robust market for millstone futures if these prelates never repent of causing the little ones entrusted to their care to sin. I have no doubt that, though God allows sin to abound for a time, He calls all to account. The spiritual chains some prelates are forging for themselves will make that of Jacob Marley look like a mere bracelet.
But don’t you know that throughout salvation history, God has allowed abuses to endure for a time? “…it is necessary that offenses come, but woe to the man by whom the offense comes!” (Matthew 18:7). He allows offenses to prove our fidelity, though I cannot fathom all of the purposes for which He allows them to endure for His appointed time. And yet, groaning under the weight of such abuses, if we little ones succumb to the temptation to set up shop for ourselves and defy the doctrinal and governing authority of the Church, we become the source of such an offense by our disobedience.
Though those of you who read me regularly know this well, in case a new reader stumbles upon this, do not think that I am one of those pathetic fools who believes the Church has all authority over all things. Some things, very important things, are the primary prudential responsibility of the hierarchy and others are the primary prudential responsibility of the laity. If a Bishop or Pope tells me what kind and color of car I must buy, or what manner of water system I must set up for my community, or the details of the immigration system my country must adopt, I will ignore them and criticize them for trying to usurp the primary prudential responsibility of the laity. I am equally critical of the laity’s efforts to usurp the primary prudential responsibility of the hierarchy – or a subordinate branch of the hierarchy defying the supreme disciplinary and governing authority.
Many of the faith traditions I have tried to live or had dealing with have insisted that only their adherents can go to heaven. I hold such spiritual triumphalism in utter contempt. How then, do I firmly believe the doctrine of “Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus” (outside the Church there is no salvation)? I have always interpreted it not as a franchise to give out golden tickets to heaven, but as a heavy responsibility imposed by God upon the Church, a responsibility for all souls He has created. I believe that the fullness of the deposit of faith has been entrusted to the Church until the end of time, to safeguard and proclaim. I am not, however, going to disparage anyone who has what I believe to be part of the truth.
Years ago, a friend of mine who was Methodist confided in me that he was contemplating converting to the Catholic Church. I was enthused, because he was a very good man. A few months later, after many conversations, he just was not convinced. To his surprise, I told him that, in that case, he should stay where he was. He asked me why I didn’t try to push him over the edge. “You are a very good Methodist man,” I explained. “If you come into the Catholic Church without conviction, you will probably be a bad Catholic – and we have plenty of those already.”
My rule is simple. If a person is of good will, I assume God will move in him in His own time and for His own purposes – and my job is just to be a good friend, available to him, and enjoy his company. Wherever you are on the one road to salvation, if you are of good will, you are my friend and shall remain so, whatever errors I think you are prey to or whatever errors you think I am prey to. I have long said that there is nothing so easy to condemn as a sin you are not tempted by and nothing so easy to justify as a sin you are tempted by. Be charitable with others, rigorous with yourself, and you will come out okay at the end.
Beyond that, each of us is an integral union of body and soul. I have a fair, shrewd mind – supported by an old jalopy of a body. But they will not be separated until my death to this world. Even then, they will be reunited at the Resurrection – and then a glorified body, free from the physical defects of this life. So, too, is the Church a union of a spiritual reality with a visible Church. I weary of all the talk of an “invisible Church” by all who would defy Christ’s command to obedience to His visible Church, even when it fall on hard times because of the earthen vessels who are in charge of it. It is just the old Gnosticism in a new form.
This piece has been an intimate sharing of a slice of my interior life. I share it because, of late, I have been suspecting that it will be decades before the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the beginning of the Great Era of Peace. That suspicion has not been borne aloft by the assaults of enemies of the faith. For all their frothy, performative rage, their time is nearly done. I say it because of the growing hardness of so many of my own compatriots’ hearts. Break not the tender reed nor quench the flickering wick.
For any of you in authority or of influence tempted to spiritual triumphalism, I share again a rebuke I once got:
“Behold my people, given into your care. Guard them well.”
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A Sign of Hope 
WOW!! Thank you for the counsel infused with wisdom, Charlie.
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Thank you, Charlie!
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Boy oh boy did I need to read this today!!! Thank you Charlie!!! I’ve been struggling with a sort of persecution or maybe it’s my own fault because I come off like a jerk😂😂😂. But I wanted to cap down Gods thunder but something kept telling me to bless those who curse you and pray for those who persecute you (even if it’s my own dumb fault) and I did it!!!! I’m going to keep on doing it!!! Thank you so much Charlie for helping us to remember to acknowledge God, take that next right step , be a sign of hope and pray pray pray for us all!!!!🙏🙏🙏 I’m not surprised that the triumph might not be for decades and yet I don’t really know how long we can keep going the path we are on. I guess it doesn’t really matter… we keep going… I thank God for you!!!🥰🙏🤗🇺🇸🥳🏡😘🐰👼
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Without some huge intervention from God, I don’t think we will ever see the Triumph. Just like in the time right before the Flood, aren’t we all doing what is right in our own eyes? ‘Lord, I ask you to open my eyes to your Truth and show me where I have errored. I ask for your great mercy.’
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We will see it, Kate. It was promised at Fatima. It IS the huge intervention from God. But it won’t come until we are all a lot more docile to His will than we are now, a lot more trusting that He will keep His word without our disobedient intervention, a lot more humble before Him, and a lot more yearning for the redemption of our neighbor rather than glee at his destruction.
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I have to say, your response reminds me of how you said we will all lose hope. Even you. Maybe what you are feeling is a sign… I sure hope so…🙏 come Blessed Mother come. All glory to you Jesus.
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Oh, I haven’t lost hope, at all. It does worry me, though, because part of me thinks that I have to go the distance in this whole business…and if its 30 more years…well…I’m not getting any younger. I guess I can take solace from my great-grandmother who lived to 107 and was full of hiss and vinegar until a couple of days before she passed.
On a more serious note, if we received the Triumph before we had been fully forged as a people docile to God, we would not sustain it for long before we started slipping back into our wicked ways. That worries me a lot, for if I insist this is NOT the end, I also believe that this is our last chance. After the Triumph, the next time there is a mass falling away, I believe it will be prelude to the end. So, as much as I would like it to come a few years from now, I want us to be fully chastened and prepped that it may be a thousand years before we start backsliding again. I want to go the distance, then spend 40 or 80 generations or more interceding for the people in the Church Militant.
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This post has stirred in me a desire to pray fervently for our hearts to be converted and turn to God. I see firsthand the effects of satan’s battle for the family; his targeting of the souls of little ones. This generation of children are truly suffering, and if our current trajectory means another generation or more to go, then I must pray and fast for our hearts to be converted. There are too many children lost to abortion, trafficking, abuse and addiction in our time. In my life, the transformation of my heart has come through suffering and has given me the “eyes to see” those whom I could not see before. Charlie, several years ago, you spoke about Desmond Birch and his book about what the Church Fathers believed would happen prior to the Triumph. I’m just curious as to your view of his writings in light of your current assessment of things in our nation.
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As you may know, Desmond has become a very close friend. He has told me that he, personally, has never had any mystical experiences. I think that amazing, as this is very good work – frankly, the best I have seen. I disagree with some interpretation – but interpretation of genuine mystical experiences is brutally hard – and he really does a bang-up job of most of it.
I will confess, when I first read it, I thought sure he must have had some mystical insight. It is that good. (Understand, when I say mystical insight is good, let me say that if you get 80% of your interpretation right, that is Hall of Fame caliber stuff. I had a major mystical event just over a month ago, and I have just pondered enough to speak with my directors on it).
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Thank you, Charlie.
Curious to know where you got the picture–it looks very much like our current FSSP pastor (not to be confused with the SSPX–this Fraternity has the legitimacy of the Pope!)
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I was wondering what to think of the SSPX situation and so am glad Charlie spoke of it.
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I sure hope you are wrong about it being decades before the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the great time of peace. So many of my family laugh at me. Perhaps it is at least a venial sin, but I would like to say I told you so before I die. Nonetheless, we will continue taking the next right step.
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My feeling too, Nance, about it not taking that long for the Triumph! I have to admit some sadness after you were hopeful, Charlie, about the midterms and how it could make a difference in the direction we’d go. You sound less optimistic now.
I agree about it taking God’s intervention, which is why I still believe in the Garabandal messages, including the “Warning” etc. I remember so many years ago that Mother Angela on her program would say that we’re beyond human correction now and it would take God’s intervention.
Recently I was remembering something the Blessed Mother said at an apparition at Garabandal. She said “…when Communism returns….” regarding future tribulations. With “Communists/Socialists” being elected in our own country……….good grief!!!
As we always say, God’s in charge!! Come Holy Spirit!
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I loved the statement “If you come into the Catholic Church without conviction, you will probably be a bad Catholic – and we have plenty of those already.”I got a good chuckle at that one. —- Sent from Doug’s Back PackYou can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” – Ayn Rand
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thanks for the share Charlie.
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Keep it SIMPLE:
GOD SAVE ALL HERE!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! Happy Day 😉 Pray for Peace, The USA & Prepare!!
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https://catholicexchange.com/are-there-waves-in-heaven-what-surfing-teaches-about-life-and-faith/
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/tactics-to-oppose-so-called-reproductive-freedom-amendments/
https://catholicexchange.com/a-visit-from-blessed-popieluszko-the-invitation-to-holiness-is-indeed-possible/
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A Vocal & Violent Minority can/will Take-Over!! The American Revolution is the only revolution, that comes to mind, with a Happy Ending. THEY are vocal/violent and seek to destroy that Happy Ending .. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/how-democratic-socialists-hijacked-the-progressive-playbook/
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GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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As to #6 in your admonitions, as a catechist preparing children and adults to enter into the fullness of the Catholic faith, I struggle bitterly when I am asked about the papacy of Pope Francis and now, Pope Leo and the abuses that are still making their slow creep into the Magesterium. The foreign idea of synodality and the lack of solid, faithful responses to moral questions can be quite unsettling and when I am asked, I fall back on your previous response, “God wants all his children back,’ and I add, “even his bad bishops and Popes.” The Church has survived them before and she will likely go on surviving them BUT will she survive the lack of faith of her people? If we do not speak up when the German Bishops propose a female diaconate or when a false wooden goddess is stood up on the altar of our great cathedral, or worse, if we simply rest upon our promise of indefectibility and act as if God has immunized us against heresy and say nothing, we risk the loss of souls because they will interpret our silence as agreement.
When I once wistfully opined, “Is the Pope still Catholic?,” a good friend took me to task and said that he did not want to be asociated with such anti-Catholic rhetoric. I didn’t take my opinion back because Pope Francis was not my favorite person but I made peace with my friend. I am amazed sometimes by otherwise solid Catholics standing up for him just because he was the Pope and as good Catholics, they say, we owe him our obedience. It cannot be so if the Pope looks the other way at the grave sins of a few of his Bishops and punishes faithful Bishops for questioning him, even taking away a good shepherd from his flock to allow them to be torn apart by rapacious wolves. The response to Covid – cancelling Easter!! – is still the wound that aches in my heart and also the abandonment of the Church in China as you mentioned above.
In her messages to Fr. Gobbi, Our Lady quoted Scripture, Zechariah 13:7, ““Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered; And I will turn My hand against the little ones.” Might this be what we are living through? Have our Popes been stricken, not by death or assassination, but by the spiritual blindness as of the Kings of Judea in the Old Testament? Who will be the prophet the Lord will send to His people to speak the truth to them with love and urgency. So, in my teaching, I wait until someone asks because that shows that they think a great deal about the Truth and then I fall back on all I have learned and from the good souls who still remain here. Blessings to all.
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A marvelous cri de coeur that all of us who wrestle seriously have to wrestle with frequently, Stargirl. In a peculiar way, I think SSPX has given Pope Leo a great gift. Having excommunicated some of their leadership, it makes it much easier for him to excommunicate those who are pushing synodality as a method to effect a coup against the Church. All you can ultimately do is to think well and deeply on the most right thing you can do, then do it with resolve, willing to take whatever barbs and slings that come your way because of it.
I have been bitterly attacked by modernists at times, bitterly attacked by traditionalists at times…and so long as I am doing what I most truly believe to be the most right thing I can, I am content. If you want me to change my attitude, you have to convince me I have erred. There is profound liberation in that approach. Again, as I have often said, the Lord is quick to forgive you when you are honestly wrong. He is slow to forgive when you publicly pretend to something you do not believe. Stand on your own integrity as best you can – and you will sleep well, whatever slings and arrows you have to deal with in your day.
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Hey Charlie, I have been struggling with all the abuses you mentioned and the ones you didn’t. Just the ones mentioned are enough to bring down God’s wrath, but then there are more, because why stop at just a few. I am trying to bring my Goddaughter back into The Church, because Jesus specifically told me He wants her to chose to finish what she started when she was 7 years old, and was being Catechism by me, to make her First Confession and First Holy Communion. Then this fight breaks out in The Church. She has stopped communicating with me. She had renounced the Catholic church when she joined an Evangelical church. She probably went back to it, and I don’t blame her. Until the hierarchy starts living the true Catholic faith and teaching by example, it is going to be a hard sell to bring anyone into, or back into The Church. My Dad, God rest his soul, always said “There’s nothing wrong with The Church, just the people in it”. He also said “Don’t quote me”, but when he was right, he was right. I am sticking with the TLM as much as I can. The Novus Ordo doesn’t have the abuses you mentioned at that Easter mass, but it has enough issues that need to be addressed. We are in a liberal diocese, so I don’t expect much to change. It will take God putting His foot down, to get people to change. When it comes to following Jesus and His teachings vs. Pagan worship, I’ll stick to following Jesus. I don’t know how long Jesus is going to put up with all the nonsense being promoted by the hierarchy. Somethings gotta give and hopefully soon before more people leave The Church.
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! Happy Day 😉 Pray for Peace, The USA & Prepare!!
https://catholicexchange.com/teaching-ourselves-to-trust-during-panic-attacks/
https://www.ncregister.com/features/brother-columba-a-shoemaker-s-sacred-heart-devotion
https://catholicexchange.com/children-are-never-too-young-to-know-christ/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-crisis-of-masculinity-is-really-a-crisis-of-friendship
https://cpldanusmcret764175.substack.com/p/st-john-of-damascus
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https://catholicexchange.com/a-moral-compass-for-the-era-of-algorithms/
https://israel365news.com/419422/the-search-for-the-lost-temple-incense-new-sourcebook-opens-the-next-chapter-of-a-33-year-investigation/
https://www.catholicleague.org/religious-liberty-panel-report-is-ominous/
I’ll Say Again! Vat II was hijacked by LavenderLeft Clerics. The “desecration” of beautiful altars and Church interiors was a Crime Against the Faith & Humanity! Churches that were bought & paid for by Pew Peons that did NOT have a say in the matter! .. https://spiritdailyblog.com/news/did-vatican-two-want-altars-turned-around
Speaking of LavenderLeft Clerics .. https://www.osvnews.com/us-cardinal-exorcist-role-should-be-private-after-priests-removal-tied-to-ufo-controversy/ .. https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=69976
I’m gonna find a copy of this! .. https://www.aleteia.org/2026/07/09/the-catholic-book-that-outsold-everything-for-63-years/
Yep! I miss Ol’ Rush and wish he had not taken up that damned Cuban Cigar habit!! ;-( .. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/here-is-what-rush-limbaugh-said-about-14th/
https://defendingtherepubliclawsplainer.substack.com/p/this-week-supreme-court-intervention
YEP!! Obama’s Rainbow Mafia of godless USA Haters is still alive & well in DC ;- .. https://1819news.com/news/item/our-history-is-not-theirs-to-rewrite-moore-slams-smithsonian-museum-over-report-exposing-radical-left-propaganda-and-degeneracy
https://adanestorwc.substack.com/p/the-walls-of-our-prison
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com
https://townhall.com/https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! Happy Day 😉 Pray for Peace, The USA & Prepare!!
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/huge-statue-of-christ-watches-over-town-and-other-news-in-pictures/
https://catholicexchange.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-and-the-victory-of-confession/
https://catholicexchange.com/the-world-needs-benedictine-stability/
https://onepeterfive.com/michael-davies-a-first-responder-of-catholic-tradition/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-liturgical-way-of-st-therese-of-lisieux
https://onepeterfive.com/the-unsung-praises-of-antonio-maria-bononcini/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/i-cant-not-do-this-addiction-or-vocation
https://spiritdailyblog.com/inspiration/signs-of-spiritual-breakthrough
https://www.catholicleague.org/mamdanis-anti-american-comrades/ .. I’m 1/2 way thru “Bonhoeffer” by Metaxas. Excellent! .. about Men of Faith vs. godless Tyranny. I can’t help but think of US vs. godless DemonRats Today. Manifestly Criminal & NONE held accountable for anything. Ya look at how fast Hitler/Thugs Took-Over in 1933 to MILLIONS dead in 1945 then the ushering in of Cold War Communism and MILLIONS more dead or wishing they were. NOW!! Look at the Blue State/City Tyrants, the awful conditions of THEIR States/Cities and yet THEY STILL maintain power/control. I see the likes of Mandani in NYC, Guv Abby de Red in VA along with the well entrenched DemonRats in NY, MA, CT, IL, CA, MN, MI, CO, NM …THEIR Media .. ALL telling US exactly what THEY will do when THEY have CONTROL of US!! Dictators do NOT come with Guns/Bayonets but with smiles & promises .. and BoobLand votes for their own demise! YEP! Nothing changes under the Sun. .. So far … “Bonhoeffer” is only addressing the Protestant Church in Germany. I hope there is a chapter on what the German Catholic Church was about then!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/democrat-partys-history-race-based-policies-slavery-kkk/
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/joe-digenova-returns-the-grim-reaper-cometh-for-the-dc-swamp/
https://patriotpost.us/articles/128967-the-left-defends-an-indefensible-smithsonian-2026-07-0
https://zeale.co/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com
https://patriotpost.us/digests/128989-mid-day-digest
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! Happy Day 😉 Pray for Peace, The USA & Prepare!!
https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/rhoda-wise-positio-submitted
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/why-being-rather-than-nothingness-part-xvi
https://www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2026/07/bishop-sheens-private-chapel-in-nyc.html
I believe tha “AI” is just another SIGN that the Era of Serious Unpleasantness is Here …. NOW!! .. https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/human-reality-remains-ai-is-just-another-tool/-0
https://lizyore.substack.com/p/dialogue-leads-to-crackdown-beijings
Yeah! .. Right!? This Clown Cardinal would have been MUCH better off NOT addressing the matter again! .. https://www.usccb.org/news/2026/us-cardinal-exorcist-role-should-be-private-after-priests-removal-tied-ufo-controversy
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/being-free-private-wars-and-loony
https://gettr.com/post/p41r4rn679b
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/07/11/wait-that-cannot-be-james-talaricos-latest-voter-outreach-strategy-n2679217
Yep! Dearborn, Minneapolis, NYC!?…..Anyone? .. https://gettr.com/post/p41qc1i8867
https://freebeacon.com/america/terribly-corrupt-coalition-of-anti-trump-prosectutors-bankrolled-by-secret-donors-raises-stunning-constitutional-concerns-legal-experts-say/
When we think of Biblical Beats of the Field, we think of dangerous Carnivores but “Bugs” that destroy our food supply and give us deadly diseases!!?? ..SIGNS? .. https://texasscorecard.com/state/experts-warn-of-pasture-mealybug-outbreak-in-texas/
I wonder what kind of message Erdoğan was sending with this gift? It appears to be a copy of a Colt Python 357. Türkiye has developed quite a large Sporting Arms Industry. The reaction of de Light in de Loafer EU/Media Types to the gifts is amusing 😉 I’d like one of these … I done gave away my Python .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/09/turkish-president-gives-nato-leaders-engraved-guns-and-bullets-at-summit
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/flock-it-saturday-july-11-2026-c
https://gettr.com/post/p41r26e871e
https://zeale.co/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com
https://newsbusters.org/
https://floppingaces.net/most-wanted-archive/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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Alas, Charlie, I have come to believe you are correct that the Triumph is some years away still. I base that on how long it has taken for the most of our US citizens to wake up enough simply to fix the secular system. It’s been ten long years since 2016 and only now does it appear we have enough citizens ready to back those who would help us get the secular matters cleaned up.
It is true that most progress in any movement often comes in a rush toward the end of that process, as you well know from your days directing successful election campaigns. However, my read of people’s state of heart at this point is that we are not near that stage of the spiritual awakening. Much wood still to chop on the spiritual side.
Having said the pessimistic part of my observation, I will say that I do believe this year and next will see some wonderful secular changes, as we do appear to be at the point of the *secular* part of the Big Change where good change can and probably will accrue now in more of a rush. Also, because of the great graces we have had on the secular side, I believe it is decisively more likely that a substantially greater number of people alive now will make it through the spiritual process than would have been the case without the secular awakening we are going through now.
I think getting to the Triumph will be more exciting and less costly than it would have been without the current secular graces I am not saying it will be easy.
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU! Happy Day 😉 Pray for Peace, The USA & Prepare!!
https://catholicexchange.com/why-does-jesus-speak-in-parables-15th-sunday-in-ordinary-time/
https://media.benedictine.edu/this-sunday-take-the-parable-of-the-sower-test-at-mass-and-after
https://onepeterfive.com/in-illo-tempore-7th-sunday-after-pentecost/
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2026/07/11/american-heroism-and-our-lady-of-walsingham/
https://marytv.tv/july-5-2026-update-our-lady-and-screen-time/
https://weirdcatholic.substack.com/p/st-margaret-the-missing-saint-5d8
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/scariest-thing-i-heard-at-adf-summit/
https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/understanding-the-unforgivable-sin-against-the-holy-spirit
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/children-reachers-parents-principal-saw-jesus-in-blessed-sacrament/
https://floppingaces.net/most-wanted/americas-flagship-history-museum-was-captured-by-people-who-dont-want-you-to-love-america/ I hope this guy recovers .. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/yikes-bison-yellowstone-national-park-sends-man-flying/ .. but I couldn’t help but think of that silly 60s Roger Miller Song -“You Can’t Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd”:
https://zeale.co/
https://amgreatness.com/
https://spectator.org/
https://www.americanthinker.com/
https://www.frontpagemag.com/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com
https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/
https://www.westernjournal.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU .. Happy Day 😉 … Pray & Prepare!!
https://catholicexchange.com/fulton-sheens-antidotes-for-anxiety/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/did-homeschooling-in-america-start-with-catholic-parents
https://catholicexchange.com/the-consecration-of-the-philippines-to-our-lady-of-guadalupe/
https://catholicexchange.com/meditate-on-the-cross-daily-and-take-up-your-own/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-new-inquisition
https://weirdcatholic.substack.com/p/st-margaret-the-missing-saint-5d8
https://www.thebeiruter.com/article/bead-by-bead-lebanons-giant-rosary/1452
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/italian-woman-finds-way-out-of-elite-debauchery-through-padre-pio-medjugorje/
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/07/12/a-power-vacuum-has-opened-in-the-gop-trumps-next-move-could-define-it-n4954949
Yep ;-( …. Is Old Christendom beyond help? Midterms in November & could be one of most pivotal in USA History? .. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/open-borders-are-a-death-sentence-to-western-nations/ .. https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/13/bolshevik-russia-and-the-dsas-democratic-party-project-part-i/ .. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/socialism-is-always-a-move-towards-communism-with-the-same-results/
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/sympathetic-monday-july-13-2026-c
https://zeale.co/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com
https://www.westernjournal.com/
https://newsbusters.org/
https://justthenews.com/
https://hotair.com/
https://www.whatfinger.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU .. Happy Day 😉 … Pray & Prepare!!
https://catholicexchange.com/evil-abounds-utilize-the-grace-of-your-baptism/
https://www.catholicleague.org/cair-and-georgetown-joined-at-the-hip/
https://catholicexchange.com/how-to-achieve-whole-person-holiness-part-1/
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/catalonia-poll-suggests-young-adults
https://www.ncregister.com/features/the-nun-summer-phenomenon
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/confessions-baby-boomer/
https://catholicexchange.com/catholics-and-physician-assisted-suicide/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/july-13/pope-pius-xii-excommunicates-communist-catholics-decree .. https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/07/13/data-most-dsa-members-support-communism/
https://www.lepantoin.org/wp/8-million-in-federal-charity-fraud-abortion-funding-through-the-cchd-by-the-u-s-conference-of-catholic-bishops/
https://revolver.news/2026/07/two-years-after-a-bullet-nearly-killed-president-trump-a-new-report-reveals-an-unthinkable-truth/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/belfast-new-menace-rising-enrique-tarrio-captures-story/
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/07/13/no-democrat-has-the-brains-or-courage-to-not-be-crazy-n2679243
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/from-russiagate-with-love-tuesday
https://zeale.co/
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com
https://www.westernjournal.com/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
https://floppingaces.net/most-wanted-archive/
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/video-incredible-moments-in-nature/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE! 😉
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Our good friend Sheryl Collmer has mostly been published on another site. Now, she would like to beef up her own Substack with subscribers.
Her latest essay is quite heartening!
https://sherylcollmer.substack.com/p/the-world-cup-upsets-the-board
God bless,
Sister Bear
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https://catholicexchange.com/ai-and-the-displacement-of-the-heart/
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/fr-michael-los-was-ordained-a-priest-while-terminally-ill-in-hospital/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/reading-the-bible-in-texas
https://www.catholic365.com/article/42219/spiritual-warfare-a-perimeter-prayer-for-protection-deliverance-prayers-for-the-laity.html
https://catholicexchange.com/the-life-of-a-visionary-the-sick-person-who-becomes-the-monstrance-for-christ/
https://onepeterfive.com/the-meaning-of-clothing/
https://www.lifenews.com/2026/07/14/hyde-amendment-has-saved-2-6-million-babies-from-abortion-after-50-years/
https://xcancel.com/JennPellegrino/status/2077127936012886307
https://dwightlongenecker918309.substack.com/p/benedict-the-balanced-three-vows
https://onepeterfive.com/the-writer-in-the-labyrinth/
WAT!!!!? .. https://www.frontpagemag.com/massachusetts-proposes-government-islam-commission/ .. https://www.frontpagemag.com/james-talarico-christians-are-christofascists-islam-is-a-path-to-truth/
https://catholicexchange.com/may-you-receive-pardon-and-peace-2000-teens-and-the-sacrament-of-penance/
https://theacru.org/2026/07/14/the-enemies-of-american-independence/
https://notthebee.com/article/cnbcs-list-of-10-worst-states-to-live-in-is-an-absolute-joke-and-theyre-getting-wrecked-in-the-comments
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/someone-created-a-ghost-font-that-humans-can-read-but-ai-cant-i-had-to-try-it-for-myself
& plenty of unanswered questions, two years ago, on Butler near assassination!!? .. deception, confusion &!!?? EVERYWHERE! .. https://adanestorwc.substack.com/p/the-tyler-robinson-preliminary-hearing
https://zeale.co/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com
https://redstate.com/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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https://www.aleteia.org/2026/07/16/this-is-the-oldest-carmelite-image-of-our-lady/
https://catholicexchange.com/the-mystery-at-pleasant-lake-ai-and-the-artist/
https://www.ncregister.com/features/sherry-weddell-on-discipleship
https://catholicexchange.com/how-maid-is-counted-and-not-counted/
https://onepeterfive.com/the-one-thing-necessary/
https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/built-for-a-church-that-no-longer
https://catholicexchange.com/my-experience-helping-a-demonically-possessed-person/
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/weigel-world-cup-blues
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/why-is-peter-thiel-so-preoccupied-with-the-antichrist
If Ya live in far NE Maine, as I did for four years, DST is NOT a great thing and now that I’m old I’d rather do without it down South! .. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/please-abolish-daylight-savings-a-health-first-choice
https://spiritdailyblog.com/strange-things/of-anagrams
https://www.declassified.live/p/judging-by-his-political-enemies
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-list-wednesday-july-15-2026-c
https://defendingtherepubliclawsplainer.substack.com/p/courts-immigration-and-the-limits
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/big-blue-cities-threaten-red-state-liberty-do-gop-voters-care/
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https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com
https://floppingaces.net/most-wanted-archive/
https://newsbusters.org/
https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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Never been to a traditional pre Novus Ordo Mass, yet the Pope Leo refusing to meet with the SSPX’s general for a long time, while having time to meet with the female proabortion bishop of Canterbury is quite telling. Also, unlike previous excommunication signed by Pope John Paul II ( later lifted by Pope Benedict XVI) this excommunication was not even signed by Pope Leo. It was signed by Cardinal Martinez, nicknamed by some “the porn cardinal”, which is also quite telling. I have zero experience with SSPX/traditional latin Mass, yet I think they might be right. I expect this decision to be lifted again by another pope in the future. I understand that without consecrating new bishops SSPX would die naturally over the time and they might not have other choice. Also aren’t the Chinese bishops consecrated without pope’s influence? They are selected by the Chinese government and still recognized by the pope…
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Pawel & Gang 😉
SSPX is a distraction! Nothing that goes on with them, Vatican City or your Diocese HQ is going to put food on your table or protect your Family/Friends when “THINGS” really go South!
Concentrate on what’s important!!! … Your 50 Square miles!
GOD SAVE ALL HERE!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU .. Happy Day 😉 … Pray & Prepare!!
https://catholicexchange.com/the-precious-blood-of-jesus-and-restoring-human-dignity/
https://onepeterfive.com/risk-a-lot-to-save-a-lot-risk-a-little-to-save-a-little/
https://www.aleteia.org/2026/07/17/being-less-than-perfect-is-perfectly-acceptable/
https://zeale.co/news/articles/exclusive-5-reported-miracles-could-be-potential-leads-to-advance-fulton-sheens-canonization-cause
https://onepeterfive.com/the-one-thing-necessary/
Sadly! Maryland should be renamed Marxland ;-( .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA1JrOitBec
https://dwightlongenecker918309.substack.com/p/magical-thinking-traditionalists
Yep! Never Ending Pervert Scandal ;-( .. https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/another-scandal-our-bishops-have-failed-to-address/
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-sarah-tells-eu-that-gender-ideology-islamic-fundamentalism-are-apocalyptic-beasts/
https://www.catholicleague.org/what-do-dem-radicals-want/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/the-lefts-gleeful-reaction-to-the-murder-of-a-catholic-uk-politician-shows-they-want-us-all-dead
https://spiritdailyblog.com/signs/do-you-see-it
https://adanestorwc.substack.com/p/2081-days
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-great-unwinding-thursday-july
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-investigating-75-truck-driver-schools-fraud-helping-non-citizens-get-licenses
https://notthebee.com/article/woke-lady-vandalizes-lost-fisherman-memorial-because-she-thinks-the-statues-mooring-line-is-a-noose-
https://patriotpost.us/digests/129166-mid-day-digest
https://zeale.co/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com
GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC & ALL HERE!!
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https://pillarsoffaith.net/podcasts/the-renewal-of-the-holy-priesthood/
https://www.lifenews.com/2026/07/17/pro-life-ad-with-boxing-legend-manny-pacquiao-approved-for-world-cup
https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/16/todd-blanche-could-never-be-as-partisan-as-obama-wingman-eric-holder-even-if-he-tried/
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/07/16/democrats-are-panicking-and-scrambling-to-hide-something-big-n4955119
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/trump-card-friday-july-17-2026-c
https://patriotpost.us/digests/129208-mid-day-digest
GOD SAVE ALL HERE!
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU .. Happy Day 😉 … Pray & Prepare!!
https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/nigeria-nicaragua-syria-india-cited-in-index-of-rising-christian-persecution
https://www.ncregister.com/news/us-seminaries-need-to-improve-screening-support-for-priesthood-candidates
https://www.aleteia.org/2026/07/18/the-patron-saint-of-travelers-is-not-who-you-think/
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/why-catholics-should-be-rooting-for-jd-vance/
https://aleteia.org/2026/07/17/does-the-pope-speak-without-error-all-the-time/
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/going-nowhere-papal-holidays-and
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/decadence-conversion-and-tradition
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4388394/posts
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/the-woke-churchs-latest-blasphemy-rainbow-communion-bread/
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/07/kathy-hochul-campaign-surrogates-oppose-nuns-providing-care-to-terminally-ill/
https://www.catholicleague.org/normalizing-black-english-is-racist/
https://newsletter.amuseonx.com/p/rush-was-right-the-2026-receipts
Just WHEN? …EXACTLY!!??? …will we see The Criminals held accountable for THEIR High Crimes & Misdemeanors!!?? .. https://gettr.com/post/p41ydnoc915 .. https://gettr.com/search?q=General+Flynn&tab=top
https://zeale.co/
https://justthenews.com/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
https://newsbusters.org/
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https://spiritdailyblog.com/inspiration/elizabeths-corner
https://catholicexchange.com/parables-of-the-kingdom-of-heaven/
https://onepeterfive.com/in-illo-tempore-8th-sunday-after-pentecost/
https://x.com/ProtecttheFaith/status/2078426708894486863
https://www.remnantnewspaper.com/pope-leo-xiv-immigration-common-good/ .. https://medforth.biz/grieving-mother-of-noelia-castillo-ramos-using-daughters-secret-journal-to-try-and-hunt-down-gang-rape-attackers-after-her-euthanasia-death/
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/the-road-to-jesus/
https://www.aleteia.org/2026/07/19/heres-a-full-list-of-all-the-doctors-of-the-church/
https://aleteia.org/2018/07/16/this-is-why-satan-hates-the-brown-scapular/
https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/nebraska-man-arrested-over-threats-to-shoot-up-catholic-schools-kill-catholic-governor-s-family
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/archives-what-happens-to-suicides/
I’m still thinking that a Red/Blue Split may be the best of worse scenarios allowing a goodly portion of The Republic to survive and with the above The Church will schism along similar lines? .. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/unhinged-far-left-hawaii-supreme-court-issues-disgraceful/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/stephen-miller-delivers-fiery-speech-left-wing-terrorism/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/18/twa-800-thirty-year-anniversary-with-new-evidence/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/18/canadian-prime-minister-blames-u-s-climate-and-energy-policy-for-canada-wildfires/
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/blame-the-canoe-saturday-july-18
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/07/17/hillary-clinton-weighs-in-on-trump-election-security-speech-its-as-ridiculous-as-youd-think-n2204450
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https://x.com/trad_west_/status/2077790361133731865/video/1
https://catholicexchange.com/the-prophetic-voice-of-st-elijah-a-call-to-contemplation-in-a-troubled-world/
https://catholicexchange.com/the-world-has-not-outgrown-dragons/
https://catholicexchange.com/mystical-love-in-the-middle-ages/
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/daily-video-shorts-for-your-discernment-3/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/destruction-comes-also-from-the-ground-up
The Enemy Within .. https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/13-historic-churches-allegedly-control-dc-church-landscape
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/19/sunday-talks-martha-maccallum-interviews-dsa-co-chairman-gustavo-gordillo-about-using-vehicle-of-democrat-party-to-install-communist-government/
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/strange-things-are-happening/ .. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/immigration-is-a-proxy-issue-for-a-western-government-trend/
IslamoMarxists + Cloward-Piven Strategy = ;-( .. https://nypost.com/2026/07/18/us-news/nearly-865k-new-yorkers-collected-welfare-checks-in-past-year/ .. https://clowardandpiven.com/the-cloward-piven-strategy-a-blueprint-for-chaos-and-transformation/ .. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/nyc-residents-collected-stunning-2-6-billion-welfare/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/a-warning-for-the-modern-indulgent-parent
Yep! Young people don’t read books much ’cause they sit on their butts with a Chinese Comm/Tracking device glued to their off hand! Likewise, it’s near impossible to have an intelligent conversation ’cause every 37 seconds their device distracts them with mindless BS;-( .. https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-7-19-2026/
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/07/20/you-dont-have-to-be-complicit-in-a-lie-n2679697
https://defendingtherepublic.substack.com/p/the-massive-cover-up-of-a-traitorous
https://floppingaces.net/2026/07/19/sunday-funnies-907/
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https://catholicexchange.com/fulton-sheens-advice-on-planning-for-heaven/
https://catholicexchange.com/how-do-i-know-if-im-doing-gods-will/
https://tmattingly.substack.com/p/doctrines-that-shape-calvin-and-hobbes
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/heresy-slayer/
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/sword-peter/
https://catholicexchange.com/the-greatest-marriage-manual-there-is/
https://www.catholicleague.org/public-shift-on-israel-and-jews/
Just don’t waste time w/people you have NO critical common ground with! If Ya Vote Proudly for de DemonRat Party USA, I have NO critical Common Ground with thee .. https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/busch-friendship-meal-overcome-polarization
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/21/ustr-jamieson-greer-outlines-details-of-misleading-talking-points-by-canadian-trade-officials/
https://notthebee.com/article/muslims-threaten-to-slaughter-pennsylvania-apologists-family-for-not-saying-islam-is-peacefu
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/20/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-delivers-remarks-to-press-pool-traveling-to-asean-summit/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/20/british-democracy-the-unelected-monarch-creates-the-unelected-u-k-prime-minister/
https://freebeacon.com/california/jennifer-siebel-newsoms-radical-gender-documentaries-force-student-viewers-to-reveal-if-theyre-gay-and-id-classmates-who-may-be-derided-as-fags-films-are-funded-and-promoted-by-newsom-donors/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/muskegon-update/
https://nypost.com/2026/07/20/us-news/sleeper-agents-poised-to-wage-war-in-california-put-us-on-high-alert-as-map-of-their-top-targets-emerges/
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/solidarity-tuesday-july-21-2026-c
https://patriotpost.us/digests/129277-mid-day-digest
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU .. Happy St Mary Magdalene Day 😉 … Pray & Prepare!!
https://onepeterfive.com/the-woman-possessed-by-seven-demons-is-now-the-greatest-of-penitents/ .. https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/st-mary-magdalene-and-the-song-of-songs
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/in-defense-of-our-founding-fathers
https://catholicexchange.com/satanic-attacks-and-the-prayer-especially-suited-to-conquering-evil/
https://catholicexchange.com/psalm-112-a-standard-for-men/
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/lawrence-of-sacred-scripture-and
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/us-ambassadors-diplomatic-skirmish-at-vatican/
https://catholicexchange.com/the-same-weeds-in-the-wheat-field-rome-contraception-and-christs-call/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/abortion-and-the-rights-of-unborn-girls
https://onepeterfive.com/msgr-rosetti-and-other-authorities-on-spiritual-warfare-in-the-family/
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/arrested-homosexual-man-threatened-to-shoot-up-catholic-school-kill-children-and-a-few-nuns-for-funzies
https://theacru.org/2026/07/21/the-unconstitutionality-of-the-democratic-socialists-of-america
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/why-the-devil-becomes-furious-when-you-free-souls-from-purgatory/ .. https://spiritdaily.org/blog/as-we-enter-heaven-we-will-see-them/
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/how-to-respond-when-people-say-jesus-had-brothers-and-sisters
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/20/democratic-socialists-america-declare-war-constitution/
I expect that these “Know It All” elites have forgotten to factor GOD into all their plans! .. https://preppgroup.home.blog/2026/07/21/the-exodus-patterns-have-already-begun-and-the-software-is-tracking-every-movement/
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https://catholicexchange.com/when-our-sufferings-give-way-to-gods-glory/
https://catholicstand.com/the-role-of-the-holy-angels/ .. https://spiritdaily.org/blog/sad-angels/
https://www.ncregister.com/features/figge-exorcists-spotlight
https://life-craft.org/leave-the-shallows-read-together/
https://cbn.com/news/world/i-saw-jesus-my-dreams-3-nights-row-tiktoker-preached-islam-100k-now-he-follows-jesus
https://catholicexchange.com/what-the-world-cup-taught-me-about-being-in-a-crisis/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/now-that-the-dust-has-intensified .. Anybody know this Padre? .. https://spir-food.blogspot.com/2026/07/do-not-abandon-crucified-church.html
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/abortion-movement-abandons-pro-choice-pretense ..’ https://www.lifenews.com/2026/07/22/house-speaker-mike-johnson-makes-last-ditch-effort-to-defund-planned-parenthood
https://catholicexchange.com/united-and-divided-the-two-ends-of-marriage/
https://www.catholicleague.org/amnesty-internationals-idea-of-rights/
DemonRats…In-Action!! .. https://www.lifenews.com/2026/07/22/virginias-abortion-amendment-would-strike-down-statutory-rape-laws/ .. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/22/employees-migrant-detention-center-say-abolish-ice-rioters-have-harassed-them-damaged-their-property/ .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXB-79nKvkU&t=50s .. https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/privacy/aclu-crashes-lawsuit-against-boys-girls-restrooms-says-scotus-trans-sports .. https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/23/congress-spotlights-american-bar-associations-dance-with-the-dei-devil/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/22/promethean-action-pac-reviews-motive-of-canada-vs-usa-on-trade-and-tariffs/#more-285486
https://defendingtherepubliclawsplainer.substack.com/p/election-security-foreign-influence
https://zeale.co/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
https://newsbusters.org/
https://thedailybs.com/news/
https://www.zerohedge.com
https://www.wnd.com/category/front-page/
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JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU .. Happy St. Charbel Day 😉 … Pray & Prepare!!
https://catholicexchange.com/st-charbels-miracles-continue/
https://ewtn.co.uk/chpop-5-fascinating-facts-about-saint-charbel-makhlouf-the-miraculous-healing-saint/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/catholic-parenthood-and-the-summer
https://www.ncregister.com/interview/cardinal-simoni-interview
https://onepeterfive.com/a-case-for-liturgical-tourism/
https://catholicexchange.com/where-are-the-other-nine-the-cross-of-ingratitude/
https://spiritdaily.org/blog/vision-of-michael-hell-turned-beauty-mogul-into-priest/
https://dwightlongenecker918309.substack.com/p/aliens-elephants-angels-and-the-limits
https://www.frontpagemag.com/
https://media.benedictine.edu/six-crucial-lessons-for-our-time-from-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey .. https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/why-i-wont-see-the-odyssey
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/07/socialism-goes-mainstream-in-america-and-no-one-is-stopping-it/ .. https://issuesinsights.com/2026/07/23/why-are-dems-dodging-questions-about-the-dsas-radical-platform/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/24/mike-steger-explains-why-u-s-canada-trade-conflict-represents-much-more/#more-285519
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/woke-left-captured-smithsonian-america-needs-patriot-take-back
My Ol’ CA Kin are spinnin’ in their graves! .. https://issuesinsights.com/2026/07/24/a-rotten-place-to-start-a-business/ .. https://www.breitbart.com/news/nearly-150000-mail-ballots-rejected-in-california-primary-despite-efforts-to-count-every-vote/
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https://onepeterfive.com/the-ai-capitalist-marxist-the-antichrist/
https://pillarsoffaith.net/podcasts/hidden-souls/
https://www.countdowntothekingdom.com/aliens-are-demons-catholic-proof/
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/stories-from-the-silver-screen
https://borkena.com/2026/07/23/ethiopia-two-nuns-six-priests-reportedly-killed-following-drone-strike-on-ancient-monastery/
https://mycharisma.com/spiritled-living/randy-kay-4-biblical-tests-every-christian-should-apply-to-near-death-experiences/
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/let-them-crank-saturday-july-25-2026
https://substack.com/@vigilantfox/note/c-296793665
https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/07/24/trump-roasts-the-media-at-whca-dinner-then-trolls-them-with-a-trump-2028-hat-n2204749
https://www.newoxfordreview.org/
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https://www.theamericanconservative.com/
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