'The "Vatican Rite" or "Pauline Rite" is the Novus Ordo, but NOT the Roman Rite...'

Amici,

For all of us repudiating and discarding – to the extent we can avoid it, something Bergoglio is making difficult at the moment – the hapless, never sufficiently disparaged Novus Ordo Mass, there's an essay from Dr. Peter Kwasniewski at OnePeterFive, here online that I encourage everyone to read.

Dr. K is a great defender of the Vetus Ordo, the Ancient Rite, the TLM, and I always read him with profit. Usually, my only quarrel with him revolves around whether Bergoglio (for whose pitiful soul we must all pray while he's still among the living, before it is too late for him to repent – though it is a pretty big mountain to repent: i.e. a lifetime of trashing out the Church and supporting the sexually deviant in myriad ways) is actually pope.

But leaving that issue aside, this article at OnePeterFive focuses on the infamous Sant’Anselmo professor of liturgy Andrea Grillo. Grillo has been outed as the creator of Traditiones Custodes and the subsequent liturgical garbage Bergoglio has tightened around our necks, like successive slave collars. Indeed, except for one or two individuals, Grillo is perhaps the biggest influence on Bergoglio.

The article is lengthy, but should you have interest in how the official Catholic Church (à la the "Officials" for you who know IRA history) is now so determinedly anti-TLM, well, Grillo is yer man. He's just evil. And stupid. These two estimable qualities vie in his cockroachian soul. But don't take my word for it. Read the article.

I will say that the comhrá os íseal, the scuttlebutt, that the TLM will be formally cancelled sometime next year, must come from Grillo's fevered imagination. "Grillo proposes, God disposes" ought to be a saying. Actually, Grillo is insisting it is banned already! (Read the article.) By this time next year, however, there'll be mass starvation around the world, national power outages in the "developed world", esp Europe, and social unrest on a horrendous scale. Covid vaccine mortality alone will bankrupt public and private insurance on a planetary scale. So somehow I think it will be easier than ever to dismiss Bergoglio's rantings (as indeed, Prof Kwasniewski would have us do, though not as I would, as the words of an anti-pope whom we must pray for lest he be damned).

Here is an extract from the article, a fascinating and a very revealing exchange of email Grillo had with a student; here's the student:

More and more voices, of different sensibilities, testify that the 1969 operation was truly radical, in the face of a limited conciliar mandate: from the right, as in Card. Stickler’s lengthy memoirs; and from the left, as in Fr. Gelineau’s lapidary comment: “This must be said without ambiguity: the Roman Rite as we knew it no longer exists. It has been destroyed.”

And it is precisely on account of Gelineau’s admission that I personally feel like making a concession: it is indeed true that the theorem of the two forms of the Roman Rite is fragile (to be generous) and sophistic (to be more ruthless). For the Council had called for a reform of the Roman Rite. The Consilium produced instead a “Vatican Rite” or a “Pauline Rite,” with some vestigial resemblance to the historic Roman Rite, and some superficial resemblance to some of the Council Fathers’ indications, although most were ignored de plano. Hence with a little intellectual honesty—but that is still a long way off—it will sooner or later be necessary to acknowledge that the Vatican Rite or Pauline Rite is not the Roman Rite, as indeed a forthcoming book argues.

AnP again:

• An excellent way of saying it. The Vatican II Council called for one thing and got another, something with "some vestigial resemblance to the historic Roman Rite, and some superficial resemblance to some of the Council Fathers’ indications." Touché. It's ridiculous, but there it is. We should have demanded they toss it back then, reject it on the spot, yet the "Vatican I Church" (from 1870 to 1962) had drilled Catholics to pray, pay, and obey. No longer. That sort of submission no longer exists much of anywhere in the Church.
  
• FWIW, I never bought into Ratzinger's spiel that two forms of the western Roman Rite existed, the "Ordinary" form and the "Extraordinary" form. Many others did not, either; anyone, in fact – me thinks – will come away with that realization who bothers to even remotely interact with the TLM Vetus Ordo. Hence the idea of a "Vatican Rite" or "Pauline Rite" seems so fitting. The N.O. is an alien thing altogether. A Changeling. As I say, it's a Methodist service with one of the N.O.'s Eucharistic prayers squeezed in.
  
• If you take time to read Grillo's responses to this student above, and another exchange Prof K provided, you realize Grillo is a parrot to Modernist notions purely ideological in nature. A high apparatchik in a dying cult. Such ideas cannot be sustained except by brute force (via KGB, Stasi, or FBI), which is precisely why Bergoglio acts the way he does.
• The near-term future is not conducive to the Novus Ordo: world-wide social stresses and economic upheavals will destroy, at long last, the "Vatican II Church", for as we saw with the ridiculous Covid lockdowns, that Church has no stuffing, no guts; it bent over showed its  butt to the dominant Grillo gorilla-brute culture of power, the fascist "boot on the human face forever" (Orwell) when what the world needed was the actual Catholic Faith, represented during the lockdowns best by the SSPX, which kept chapels open and priestly services ongoing, as much as possible. If you want to see that actual Catholic Faith in action, watch this video of an SSPX priest making the rounds in Alaska. 
  
  

So, we'll see. Time will tell. But remember: Motus in finem velocior. Time speeds up before the end. Or as Aristotle said: Time is the measure of motion. And things are running ever faster toward Global Dystopia.

    An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Once again: Jenner's smallpox vaccination did NOT stop smallpox in England

Friends, 

It's time to "think the unthinkable". What with all the lies our governments our spreading, lies about war, food production, "green" energy, Global Warming (now the even more vague "Climate Change"), and of course the grotesque authoritarianism in the U.S. Federal Government, not to mention the most putrid lies of all that come from the Bergoglioan hierarchy of Church destroyers, it is time to review just how long and how thoroughly we are lied to. It is time to "think the unthinkable". Scotsman Neil Oliver has a great talk on that here. 

To that end, here is Part I of a series I am endeavoring to start on how we've been lied to, let's consider medicine, specifically vaccines.

I had sent something similar to this around months ago, but it is time to consider it again. We've been told for two hundred years the legend of Edward Jenner, a plucky English physician eliminating the dreaded smallpox plague via vaccination, beginning this work in the 1790s. Jenner, 1749 to 1823, is known as "Father of Immunology".

It is an old story, and a hallowed one. But it is not true.

Despite Jenner's inoculations, Smallpox reigned in England in the mid-1800s, and they suffered the worst Smallpox outbreak in their (recorded) history between 1871 and 1880, but it has been like finding hen's teeth to uncover information on it. The bottom line is that Jenner's Smallpox "vaccine" did not work. IT DID NOT work, not the way it has been historically related. 

What got rid of the pox, then? Sanitation. Installing urban sanitation systems, sewers, what the Brits have always called "water closets" (toilets with drains to sewers) and other "boring, nuts-and-bolts" civil engineering stuff. Urban sanitation. 

So, despite the fame of Edward Jenner and his smallpox vaccine (called "inoculation" in 1796, a somewhat different protocol from vaccination, per se), smallpox remained a plague in England for a long lifetime. Contrary to the Jenner legend, and despite of – or because of – England's vaccination laws, between 1871 and 1880, 57,016 smallpox deaths occurred in Britain. 57,016 people in nine years, mind you, with a version of the famous vaccine BEING REQUIRED BY LAW. Smallpox was so common in the early 1800s that Parliament passed laws mandating the use of vaccination. (Sound familiar?) Smallpox looked as inevitable as ever.

• It looks as though the anti-smallpox inoculations caused more smallpox than they stopped. Actually, this was noted simultaneously in France regarding Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies inoculations. Back in 1909, a Dr. Montague R. Leverson wrote that Pasteur's anti-rabies inoculations "afford the most decided test of the pernicious character of that method of treatment. During the 23 years preceding the use of anti-rabic serum, there were 685 deaths from rabies in all France, or an average of 30 per annum...with a continually increasing number each year, so that according to the official returns the number of death from rabies in France for the year ending in June, 1907, was just about 300. In truth, as Professor Peter said, in his address to the Academy of Medicine in Paris, on the 11th of January, 1887, "M. Pasteur does not cure rabies, he imparts it!" (13:20 of https://odysee.com/@hipsterious:3/Dr.-Sam-Bailey---What-About-Rabies:c)

Regarding smallpox in England, something major changed dramatically, however, for between 1911 and 1920, only 110 English deaths occurred from smallpox. By that time, vaccination had evaporated as a national policy. But as noted, for years vaccination had been national policy for the British government made Smallpox vaccination a requirement in 1853, with the Compulsory Vaccination Act, with a more stringent version in 1867.

A Dr. Hadwen wrote: "After about 40 years of compulsory vaccination, Britain suffered the worst smallpox epidemic in its entire history, with the highest death rate in history." What vaccine brought smallpox to an end? No vaccine at all. Rather, sanitation policies brought smallpox to an end. City reformers in Leicester set the example: they rejected vaccination in favor of sanitation. Yes, friends, this is true. Sanitation. Boring. Unexciting. "Un-legendable". I've always said that the invention and use of soap saved more human lives than any other thing in all history. With sewers and indoor plumbing and a ban on vaccination, smallpox disappeared from Leicester, and eventually from England. 

The same thing happened in Cleveland (of all places!). A Dr. Friedrich, in charge of the Health Board of Cleveland, abolished vaccination "absolutely" and promoted sanitation. Smallpox vanished. (As reported by a Dr. John Hodge in 1902.) Clearly, sanitation played the major role in ending Smallpox. Everyone, and I mean EVERYBODY, needs to know these facts. Please, pass it on, folks. Vaccination has NEVER BEEN the panacea it has been cracked up to be, and it is time this info gets broadcasted. (Same with polio, which did not come from a virus but arsenic/lead-based fruit tree insecticide, and later DDT; once these were discontinued, so vanished the polio, or it was just renamed: "Acute Flaccid Paralysis", which is formally said to be clinically indistinguishable from polio.)

In fact, most important to comprehend of all: we have been as consistently lied to about vaccination and the Germ Theory of Illness as we have been lied to about every other category I opened this essay with.

Another name for Hell is "The Kingdom of Lies" and we've been long-term residents therein. 

An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Now I get it: a full coup d'état has been underway since November 2020

Friends,

Well, since Trump was elected in 2016.

When I read the search warrant they used to invade Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, I knew there's been a coup d'état going on in the U.S.A. since Biden fraudulent election back in November 2020. (Before, it seemed more Democrat harassment than anything else.) The terms of the warrant put everything in in perspective. This raid on Mar-a-Lago involves more than merely a major turning point wherein they are obviously impatient to go through the drawn-out "lawfare" they've been waging against Trump. They want to bring him down now, before the Fall elections. Any excuse will do. Expect to see Donald John Trump arrested soon.

A Leftist acquaintance of mine sent me a link to video commentary by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell (why do these idiots have to have Irish names?) titled: ‘Merrick Garland Has Outsmarted Donald Trump At Every Turn’. You see how they think – though "think" isn't the word, is it? They are delusional. Truly. On par with castrating boys and calling them girls.

Actually, Merrick Garland's "I'm responsible" broadcast the other day was a disaster. First of all, Biden (always an idiot and now a drugged-up zombie) must take responsibility for whatever the Executive Branch of the American government does. He's captian of the ship of state (supposedly). Biden claims he's clueless about all this (even though he's recorded saying he wants Trump taken down), but regardless, he is supposed to take responibility.

Broadcast four days after an absolute Justice Department silence regarding the raid, with mainstream news earlier leaking Garland had no say in the raid, Garland admitted he had indeed ordered the raid. (Just on how they played this, you can't believe these hobgoblins.) But the man Garland looked like a corpse and uttered a string of lies thicker than the Earth's upper and lower mantle, and core, combined. It was a grotesque performance. Democrats have been getting off Scot-free for years now where Republicans are railroaded, manacled, and "perp-walked" for the evening news. Hillary actually "acid washed" thousands of emails that were ordered to be preserved, and her peeps took hammers to her computers. Obama took literally millions of records from the White House and has them in storage at the Hoffman Estates (huge industrial park) outside of Chicago. So forth and so on. The examples are as legion as the long rosters of the Devils in Hell.

But regarding the ongoing coup, why issue a warrant the way they did? It gives warrant to search for “Any government and/or presidential record created between January 20, 2017 and January 20, 2021?” See the Conservative Treehouse here  for details and a fuller explanation than I can give. This warrant was so opened ended that the clear message was Trump has NO PRIVACY RIGHTS whatsoever, and no privileges as a former president.

Consider what the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1787) says, in whole:

• "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

This was an 'unreasonable search an seizure, by long-established definition. They are not be granted "fishing expeditions", such as this obviously was. You're supposed to go to a judge and say, "We have this bit of evidence for a probable cause to search, and we need to search for X, Y, and Z". If you've ever been issued a search warrant, or watched TV cop shows like the murder mystery "Castle", etc., you know cops often ask a judge to issue a search warrant, but these are always probably cause for specific items and regarding particular crimes, say, phone records within a specific time frame, or a person/house search for specific things. There's obviously some leeway; if you search a guy's flat for a gun and find a warm corpse, well. But what the Department of Justice and this judge, a friend of dead child pimp Jeffrey Epstein (who miraculously hung himself in prison when the cameras just happened to be turned off) issued this warrant to search Mar-a-Lago for, it was for everything from Christmas cards to grocery lists.

THEY WANT TRUMP. And the RINO Republicans who run the Republican Party (merely one wing of the Deep State's "Uni-Party") have made clear is they do not want Trump running in 2024. In fact, all the evidence points to the RINOs being in on just when the Deep State would raid Trump. Trump was the people's choice in both 2016 and 2020, but the Powers-that-Be will just not tolerate it. Right now, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida as come out as a RINO "Great White Hope", but he's patently in thrall to the Party's bigshots. He's being "managed" and "groomed". I am aghast, but not really surprised.

Anyway, my friends, the American government we thought we had, a representative republic, has fallen. How did it happen?

It happened incrementally, and resulted from two separate streams merging. The creation of powerful information-controlling bureaucracies after World War II (CIA being a classic example, but also the National Security Agency, etc.), and the incorporating of the prior-established FBI (established in 1908 after prodding by the famous president, Theodore Roosevelt, who had himself become president because President McKinley had been assassinated by an anarchist – just as the Department of Homeland Security was established after the 9/11 terrorists attacks. See the pattern? So the FBI in combo with the CIA and the NSA, plus a host of other agencies, including the infamous IRS, the Internal Revenue Service, the establishment of which in 1913, after the 16th Amendment was passed, rewrote the Constitution because the Founders had NO wish to create a federal government income tax. The Democrats have just funded the addition of 80,000 IRS agents and have advertised for people willing to use force (and they're having IRS agents trained to raid suburban homes commando-style!).

On top of that, and parallel to it, you had the Communists, a foreign ideology long plotting via their "long march through the institutions" (a "long march not just through secular academia, but government and even the Church), to take over the government. The Democrats were heavily infiltrated by Communist agents after Franklin Roosevelt came to office in 1933 and immediately recognized the Soviet Union. Communists were thick in the Federal government thereafter, and Richard Nixon was hated because he actually found such an American serving as a Soviet agent, Alger Hiss.

Then something profoundly wrong occurred with the KGB-style (pure, pure KGB-style, even using an American who had emigrated to Russia!) murder of Jack Kennedy. Jack was worthless on many levels, but at least he was an actual anti-communist warrior and he was turning against any further U.S. involvement in Vietnam. (The murder of the South Vietnam president, a Catholic, just before his own assassination, sickened Kennedy.) But we can't know now whether his murder was KGB or a CIA operation, because the latter themselves are quite practiced in overthrowing governments and quite capable of framing the KGB. In any case, Lyndon Johnson, a "Deep Stater" if ever there was one, then immediately took the U.S. both feet first into Vietnam, and nearly ripped the guts out of the country. Richard Nixon, who succeeded "LBJ", was as loathed by the Democrats as Trump is, but Nixon was a "RINO" before the term was coined. In any case, when "Tricky Dick" (apparently) gave the Democrats a chance, they gutted him like you would gut a fish, and the country would have been hors de combat after the disastrous Democrat Jimmy Carter, had not Ronald Reagan been elected. A true populist, he restored much of the nation's national health, but the Deep State forced on him as vice-president a "RINO of RINOs", George (Herbert Walker) Bush, who succeeded Reagan and who governed, well, like a RINO. The incompetent Bush let that poison pair Bill and Hillary Clinton get elected in their turn, and they paved the way for Obama, who of course succeeded the second Bush (George Walker Bush, yet another puppet RINO: the Republicans will foist another on us, DeSantis or whoever; it is what they do). This second Bush paved the way for Obama, a true Communist, and right now we are suffering through Obama's "Third Term".

All this has been building for decades, in other words, and only a full revolution will reverse it. But the bad guys controlling the Federal bureaucracies have so heavily armed themselves since Obama that they're just itching for a citizen uprising so they can declare Martial Law. You see the problem. As Fr. James Altman, a cancelled priest and a man and a priest of the highest qualities says, they've basically "won" and we have lost. We now have to go through the Garden of Gethsemane and the Good Friday. A full-scale civil war might actually not turn out the way the Deep State wants it, however. Anything can happen. Wars are often unpredictable. Some unknown Lt. Col. somewhere might flip the entire war over to the Good Guys.

But right now it looks like the Bad Guys are winning. So it seems, indeed.

An Préacháin

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

As the American Republic self-destructs...two theories, and a civil war?

Friends,

The Venetian Republic lasted 1100 years. The American one not so long. The Republic of Venice endured from 687 to 1797, when the French under Bonaparte, that, er, 'republican' revolutionary, snuffed it out. Many reasons exist, no doubt, for this temporal disparity, but I think a big one is the American Republic kept religion as far from having any formal say in the state as possible. The First Amendment, as far as the religious clause goes, wasn't to keep religion free from state interference (ask Mormons about that, or the 'Radio priest', Father Coughlin, or currently, Father James Altman); oh, no. It was to keep the state free from religious interference. The Catholic Church and the Venetian state, of course, weren't such strangers to one another.

Certainly the United States government seems to have an ethics problem. It is immoral as Hell. We can't seem to keep any moral men in power. We can't seem to keep an SANE men in power, as the Democrats, in this huge spending bill they just passed that will create a massive IRS to fleece the commoners, the Democrats refused to pass a Republican clause that only women can bear babies. (Insisting you believe in something manifestly not true is one of the control techniques and is an essential element to Biderman's Chart of Coercion, and THAT is what this is about.) 

Right now, this raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence is an opening of Pandora's Box (okay, okay, it was a bag, sheesh). President Trump – well, he is sort of president, as Biden isn't a real president both because the 2020 election was rigged and because he doesn't even know where he is most of the time, so I suppose Trump could still be considered president – is the Prometheus the American people need to fight a runaway U.S. federal government. Half the country sees him that way, the other, when not involved in an orgy to aquire monkey pox, seem to think Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell (technically a RINO and not a Demonrat) and Nancy Pelosi are actual people, and not Chinese mannequins. What can I say? Their supporters consist of the types who apparently think men can have babies.

About the raid, though, why it occurred, who is behind it, more information keeps coming out. One thing many are saying is this definitely appears to be a major change in just about everything relating to the American people and their government. This is just too egregious an outrage, so totally "unAmerican" on just too many levels, for it to be ignored or dismissed, as was the treatment of Roger Stone, for example, when that old man and his handicapped wife were hustled out of their house by federal agents in full battle gear, after the agents alerted the Leftist Washington Post to be there and film it all.

Donald Trump has been a target of endless investigations, official and unofficial harassment, and lies. "Russia-gate" was a fraud, then the two, TWO impeachments of Trump were frauds, and all the blather about the January 6 fiasco is dribbling madness fraud. I can usually bear reading, for a while at least, Leftist arguments about their favorite issues, but I just can't tolerate the "narrative" that January 6 was some sort of quasi coup-d'état. (Nancy Pelosi, you're lost soul is calling. Liz Cheney, in Hell you'll reside in your father's armpit – when stuck up his, er, well, ahem.)

I think the latest ideas going the internet rounds on the raid are two-fold. One theory is based exactly on all the lies about Trump. The Deep State lied about Trump and railroaded him over the course of his presidency (Russia-gate, first and second impeachment), and there is evidence of that. And Trump has this evidence, the theory goes. They are lividly desperate, therefore, to confiscate the evidence. It will truly exonerate him and also indict the Deep State. So, they pulled off this crazy raid –  keeping his lawyer out of the house, showing her the warrant only from ten feet away and not leaving her a copy, demanding security cameras to be turned off (which the staff didn't do, thankfully, so someday we may see them on vid going through stuff not on the warrant, like Melania's undies), and so on. This is a PR disaster for the Demonrats, that way, and more. Very few individuals tolerate well the idea of strangers going through their stuff.

The other idea is they want to plant evidence. Destroy Trump that way. That's a dangerous thing to try to do. And absolutely desperate. But as a sort of corollary to that, they might have re-classified documents that Trump himself declassified but didn't know they reclassified. The Conservative Treehouse, whom I often link to, has some extremely thorough articles on this. For a taste of that, here's a bit of commentary from someone with the right background to know wrote in a comment over at The Conservative Treehouse (obviously, I recommend the articles over there, and many of their comments):

In a professional organization, this is what happens. However, the reclassification of previously declassified material is a rare occurrence. In addition, material may be declassified but still have other restrictions placed on it such as Official Use Only (OUO) or Business Confidential.
...
However, if a document containing such material is found to be in someone’s possession, it is technically possible to allege that the person holding said document is doing so without proper authorization in violation of law. But to make such an allegation against a person who has no criminal intent and who is unaware of the change in status of the document is clearly an egregious abuse of prosecutorial power.

AnP again: Compare all that to how they treated Hillary, who actually, willfully, destroyed evidence. We KNOW she did, but she was never remotely prosecuted for that. We must not forget that, or how Obama's people carried out crates off documents from the White House and stuffed them in a warehouse outside Chicago, to go through them at their leisure. No one raised an issue with that, and why should they? "Presidential library" and all that.

Personally, I don't think they'll be put off by it being an egregious abuse of prosecutorial power, do any of you? They seem absolutely desperate and without even a fig leaf of legal propriety.

I think we can all expect indictments to be brought against Trump very soon, now, regardless of the merits. Why? Because the Deep State clearly wants to start a civil war and everything they're doing aims to spark one. Obviously, they intend to win. But once you "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war", as Shakespeare had Antony roar in Julius Caesar, all best are off. This raid on Trump is the equivalent of Brutus and Cassius & Co.'s assassination of Caesar. They thought that "taking him down" would put them in the driver's seat, when it instead backfired totally on them. I know very well, however, that how this goes all depends who who Anthony turns out to be.

So, we'll have to see.

    An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

"Don’t be shocked at anything our ruling regime does from here on out."

 Friends,

The Biggest News since Pearl Harbor, and probably even Fort Sumter. The bad guys in the Deep State went for broke last night.

1. First, they're fishing for a crime. That's what they did with the two impeachments, and the Mueller investigation, and fishing for a crime is not how police work in a free country is supposed to proceed. They've been auditing Trump and investigating him for years, and there's no politician alive who could have survived what Trump has gone through that way. That's how incredibly squeaky clean Trump is.
2. Second, a N.B. regarding Trump having classified documents: 1, Trump's daughter-in-law says Trump's team was cooperating; this raid was unnecessary except as theater, and of course to set precedent; 2, they can easily reclassify documents that were previously unclassified in order to bring charges against Trump, and 3, Barack Obama's people took many boxes from the White House when Obama left, and these were gone through in Chicago, without anyone saying anything about Obama stealing documents, while Hillary Clinton took not only documents, but antiques from the WH, and she was never charged with anything. 4 Besides, the question is actually about whether some documents should have been sent to the National Archives instead of home with Trump – honestly, this is the lamest joke excuse.
3. We can pray this is so over-the-top that it will produce a backlash that will finally force change in the U.S. We can at least pray it does.

Anyway, Demon worshipers of Moloch and Ba'al and Xochiquetzal are all liars. (Just ask Bergoglio.)

A lot of articles are being published on the American police state's raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home last night, but for one excellent essay, look no further than John Zmirak here at Stream.org. 

If you've never read him, John is my kinda Catholic. Review his articles. This one about last night is excellent, and he also references and quotes from and provides a link to conservative scholar Michael Anton's prophetic piece published a fortnight ago.

As it is clear the mainstream Republican politicians are going to do nothing about this, we need a nation-wide strike to get their attention. At this stage of the American government's collapse, though, nothing will probably work except full-scale confrontation. As former New York police commissioner Bernie Kerik says here, they'll stop at nothing to prevent Trump from being president again, including assassination. Read Zmirak and also Michael Anton for why "The Powers That Be" hate Trump so badly. 

The USA has three months to make sure a November Congressional election takes place at all, and that it isn't egregiously stolen. Were I still in the US, I'd probably end up arrested myself. As it is, I'm going to read some medieval Irish poetry.

   An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Covid Murder: Seven Canadian docs die in a fortnight. Crows would have never fed so well on Physicians

Friends,

We live in absolutely evil, lawless times.

• The FBI (KGB à la américain) just raided Donald Trump's home in Florida
• The World Economic Forum stooges in the Netherlands and Canada are getting ready to starve us en masse
• Jorge Bergoglio overturns previous pope's rulings as though he, Bergoglio, has the authority to remake the Faith in his own image
• And insurance companies are saying there's a spike of 40 percent more deaths than usual, but the obvious culprit, the Covid "vaccines", remain unmentioned as the cause

Regarding the late Covid "vaccine" death news, Steve Kirsch writes in his Substack column about the shocking death toll of Canadian physicians that: 

"The fact checkers need to tell us the last time this happened where 7 doctors died in 14 days from unusual causes. They cannot. This is unprecedented."

Mr. Kirsch goes on to list the details and the incredible (in the literal sense of a much abused word) the "medical community's" blindness about this. Just staggering. Check it out.

These Physicians. Blind guides. In cynical modern parlance, they won the Darwin Award, did they not? I try to be sympathetic, but even now, pathologists just don't want to know. The mainstream media doesn't want to know. "Fact Checkers" don't want to know. 

One doc dies every two days for two weeks? Most of them between 30 and 50? Just SCREAMINGLY obvious but these folks are being pitched into Eternity without a clue. They either swallowed the Covid "narrative" or at least took the "vaccines" to keep their jobs, and now they're at their Judgement. No time to prepare. No time to confess. Just ejected into Eternity. (The Vatican II feel-good Church hasn't equipped these unfortunates for suddenly meeting God. Pity, that.)

And if nothing else, all this shows that the "medical community" self-selects for "sheeple". It's as though they're ascending the stairway of an Aztec Temple and they just keep climbing, ignoring all the blood flowing down past them, ignoring the beating hearts rolling down the steps and the bloody, twitching corpses flopping down.

Or a better image: this is Judgement, my friends, in an Old Testament-style Biblical slaughter. Think of the priests of Ba'al, 450 of them being slaughtered in 1 Kings 18. Or the 3,000 that had their throats cut for worshiping the Golden Calf (aka Apis bull) at Mount Horeb. And it just keeps happening. In Canada and around the world. Doctors, athletes, soldiers, airplane pilots, actors. The sheep are bleating, bleating away their last gasping moments as they're led to the guys with knives. 

So, I try to be sympathetic, but...being Corvine, I keep thinking that in the old days, my Corvine brethren would have been eating well.

God will sort them out. 

   An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

I renounce, denounce, and repudiate Bergoglio as pope – because...

...Because it is obvious he's out to destroy the Catholic Church.

Yes, that's right. It is obvious, especially after this doleful trip to Canada wherein Bergogio engaged in a pagan seance, opening his stupid self – and the prelates there with him – to demonic possession! It's insane. INSANE. And so I'm taking off the gloves. No more Mr. Nice Préachán. (And anyway, after 60 years of "turning the other cheek" to these people, enough is enough.)

Attack on the TLM intensifies

As we approach the establishment of One World Religion with the opening of the Abrahamic Covenant House in Abu Dhabi, attacks on the TLM intensify. And now the anti-pope Bergoglio is directly attacking the TLM, trying to close them wherever they are, using Cupich in Chicago,  Gregory of Washington D.C., and now the bishop of Arlington, Virginia, Michael F. Burbidge, to do so. (This tactic is being repeated all over Europe as well as North America or anywhere on the planet.) Of course Bergoglio's attack on the Traditional Latin Mass is a direct attack on Holy Church. Why?

1. Because a Church or any religion "is how it worships".
   
2. The traditional Latin saying for this is Lex orandi, Lex credende. "As you pray, so you believe". 
3. Its the style, form of worship that creates a religion's paradigm.
   
4. Making Muslims worship like Mormons or Hindus like Baptists is just as insane as making Catholics worship like Methodists. (I grew up with Methodists, and the Novus Ordo is often exactly that style of worship.)
   
5. The leaders of the Catholic Church have been launched on one huge "psy-ops" for over a half-century now, a cognitive-dissonance psy-op. The results are obvious.

More and more "mainstream" Catholics are cottoning on to the truth that is Lex orandi, Lex credende; one's worship forms one's belief. As the soul is the form of the body, so the liturgy forms the Church. When the soul departs at death, the body putrefies. We have all of us, Catholic, Protestant, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, have see the Catholic Church literally decompose over the past half century. Benedict tried to reverse it with his Summorum Pontificum. and was overthrown. His 'installed' replacement, Bergoglio, has wielded his axe against S.P.

This is inherently cruel. Bergoglio's cruelty is not remotely Christian. It is not honorable pagan. We KNEW Bergoglio was bad news when he crucified the Franciscans Friars of the Immaculate, which various "Church Lady" busybodies, true imps, "accused of focusing only on the Extraordinary Form", so the bureaucracy under Benedict in 2012 launched a visitation (a formal investigation) and Bergoglio, installed March 13, 2013, in 2013 smacked them down. Hard.  

What about the current TLM smack down?

Consider this sorrowful lament – and damning indictment – of both the remorseless cruelty of Bergoglio an the screaming stupidity of Bergoglio and his henchmen. The author describes the devastation wreaked on a southern Maryland TLM parish:

"Catholics who don’t hew to the official program of mind control which views 2,000 years through the exclusive lens of one pastoral council, which occurred over a period of a few years in the 1960’s, must be monitored closely and accompanied into the true Church as envisioned by prelates promoting LGBTQ+, transgender ideology and Communion for adulterers, just for starters." (We should all memorize this!)

The author of this excellent article, Father Kevin M Cusick, notes that the parish simply cannot afford to lose the TLM: only 20 to 30 Novus Ordo parishioners show up on a Sunday, and the parish just spent a bunch of money on restoring the Church for the TLM, as well. Just a mess. People are, to use that poignant Irish phrase, "gob-smacked". In this one area, three-hundred TLM parishioners from three parishes will be herded into a mission church with room for only half that number (and apparently with little or no parking). Father Cusick likens the parishioners to being prisoners of war, herded into official camps, or to 19th century American Indians forced onto the reservation.

With all this, we can truly say, Damn you, Beregoglio, and the horse you rode in on.

Then in this article, well-known and widely respected mainstream "Trad" Dr. Peter Kwasniewski writes another of his very learned and wise articles on how the Church is in such a free-fall catastrophe, and at least we can toss the "forced optimism" that has characterized Catholic prelates and commentators for 60 years. Prelates and theologians and priests galore smiled their Joker-smiles and repeated ad nauseam how much better things were getting. Liars. The Vatican II reforms, at least as implemented by those "in the spirit of Vatican II" are an unmitigated disaster. We don't have to pretend any longer. Also, Professor Kwasniewski "goes for broke" and clearly says the Novus Ordo has no future, that the TLM will be fully restored:

I will regretfully but more truthfully stick with the language of crisis. We will never find a solution to this churchwide crisis until we reclaim our Roman Catholic birthright, our innermost identity through the celebration of our traditional sacred liturgy. When the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Divine Office, and the sacramental rites of the Church are once again offered to God in a manner truly in continuity with tradition, then, and only then, will come that “Second Spring” about which postconciliar Popes have spoken with such premature confidence; only then will a new age of evangelization begin in earnest, with the Mass of the Ages as its pulsing heart.

And:

In short, if the Catholic Faith survives in any given diocese of the West, it will survive either by embracing the Tradition of the Church, or by dwelling beneath the shadow of the wings of that Tradition. Liberal territories are drying up; the moderate or eclectic approach has shown itself weak and spineless, incapable of responding effectively to the aggressive and even demonic secularism of our time.

 

The Canadian Trip

This article at LifeSiteNews is an excellent source what what happened in Canada, while this article details some of the shocking things Bergoglio is saying about the TLM. He clearly has no clue about what attracts people to the TLM and thus you get all his commentary (and his supporters ominous wording) about how Trad Catholics need to be "re-educated". Sounds like Communist re-education camps, doesn't it? Many of his people are saying the TLM will only be allowed as a half-way house to full-scale re-education.  

The Irony of it all

Ironically, if Bergoglio's goal is to destroy Traditional Catholicism, he'll only succeed in destroying Pope Paul's creation, the inherently "disgraced" Church John Paul II kept going for 30 years. (Somewhere in these articles, one of the insightful authors wrote of the Novus Ordo that the only thing that distinguished it was the collapse of Mass attendance it caused!) Whereas another John Paul II-type pope would have killed us with a thousand cuts, Bergoglio is the axe wielder. God allows all this because the Lord wants His bishops on Earth, what used to be called the Church Militant, to show themselves to themselves (and everyone else) to be gutless cowards, knaves, and "disgraced" fence-sitters. It's a divine effort to get them to "wake up" and "repent" before they die. And as Bishop Athanasius Schneider says, the restoration of the Latin Mass is the work of the Holy Ghost and cannot be stopped. They need to get on board, or drown.

Destroyer of Church Government

Before I finish, let me take a moment to explain just how bad it is if one pope undoes, formally declares null and void, what a previous pope promulgated. Take birth control for an example. The Church has always damned artificial birth control and counseled abstinence, etc., instead. Love it or hate it (and if you hate it, you don't understand the teaching), that's the Church's rule. But if Bergoglio refutes that and supersedes it with a contrary law, then he's murdered the Papacy. Sound crazy? It's not. Why? Because the Church operates on Stare Decisis. It's governing system stands or falls on Stare Decisis.

• A pope is chief legislator and chief jurist and chief exec of the Church: he has carte blanc power – but only to defend the deposit of Faith.
  
• He's like Aladdin's genie, unlimited power but confined to a lamp – he has a very restricted use of his power.
  
• Unlike the president of the Mormon Church or a willful Protestant, like Luther, a pope cannot break precedent.
  
• As St. Paul wrote in 2 Thessalonians 2:15 "… 14 To this He called you through our gospel, so that you may share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 Therefore, brothers, stand firm and cling to the traditions we taught you, whether by speech or by letter."
  
• A pope is as bound to that as is any lay Catholic or parish priest.

Luther broke the Tradition, coming up with a novel revelation about Romans 3 while sitting on a toilet; in contrast, a Mormon president can make it by saying he has had a prophesy to reveal, such as the decision to repudiate "plurality of wives" that Mormon president Wilford Woodruff made in 1890 (after a business trip to San Francisco). No pope can do that. If a pope were to start overturning precedent, he has dynamited the Church's government. He's cut its throat.

• Bergoglio has already done this on a number of levels, such as with capital punishment, a Church teaching since St. Paul himself. See Romans 13:4 For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. John Paul II tried to nibble away at that, and Bergoglio has broken it, changing the Catechism (which no one reads anyway). His next step would be to excommunicate Catholics who still hold the traditional teaching.
• Because Bergoglio has set this new precedent, the next pope can overturn everything Bergoglio did, without even having to declare him an antipope. Or a pope could overturn any basic dogma. Recreate the religion in his own image. This what Bergoglio has done, and the world's bishops let him get away with it.

Bergoglio is also clearly relaxing (previous to truly changing) Church teaching on homosexuals and their behavior, (Many Progressive bishops, esp in Germany, have already done so! See this LifeSiteNews article for details.) But regarding the Traditional Latin Mass, Bergoglio, with Traditiones Custodes and its later supposed Dubia, and Archbishop (and Progressive flunky and former ice-skater) Arthur Roche's anti-Trad rulings, Bergoglio the Accursed is clearly moving toward an outright suppression of the TLM. Many commentators expect this to come in 2023. As noted above, he's allowing it a limited existence now in order to "re-educate" us.

Again, taking off the gloves, not trying to mince words and not trying to be "nice" about it, the New Mass has been an act of cognitive dissonance. It has never been accepted by everyone in the Church, beset as it has been from the beginning by controversy, bringing with it rampant abuses, scandal, sacrilege and loss of faith. (Did you see the news from Italy of the priest who celebrated Mass in the surf, on a floating altar?) As noted above, the only constant by which the Novus Ordo can be measured is a continuing decline in attendance.

So, my friends, all things Catholic are in turmoil. But secluded havens exist, such as Dom Alcuin Reid's haven in the South of France, the Monastère Saint-Benoît. And there's Silverstream Priory in Ireland. About them, too, "allegations were made" but investigation by both Irish police (The Garda) and Church authorities found "no cause of action". (It just never lets up, does it?) And of course Clear Creek Abbey in Hulbert, Oklahoma. And everywhere, too, we'll be seeing the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered in the proper way despite the screechings of the Progressives. (Can't someone tell them the Age of Aquarius has passed?) With God's blessing, we'll have a myriad of other such havens of the True Faith. So, keep praying!

  An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Michael Yeadon has turned against Germ Theory, and Dr. Zach Bush's extraordinary interview

 Hi Everyone,

Regarding Covid, medicine, etc., we have turned a corner.

Two H.U.G.E. developments in the Covid fraud fiasco. First, Michael Yeadon, famous for being a former Pfizer vice-president in charge of viruses/vaccines who turned totally against the whole vaccine spiel – a perfect example of being "red pilled" if ever there was one – has now gone in "whole hog" and has declared viruses aren't respiratory pathogenic, don't cause respiratory disease, and maybe even that they (as we've understood the idea of them) don't exist at all.

This is stupendous. Like the Mormon president becoming a Baptist or the King of Saudi Arabia becoming Catholic. That is the scale it is on. (And how long can long-time friends of Yeadon's, like Robert Malone or Reinder Fuellmich, keep believing the Pasteur Pastiche? One wonders, indeed.)

See Yeadon here: Dr. Mike Yeadon Concludes, "There Are No Respiratory Viruses!"  (He even references Dr. Tom Cowan, Dr. Sam Bailey, etc.! And this article has a link to a longer version.) Or see a longer, but different interview, here.

Then there's this young Dr. Zach Bush making a brilliant case for Terrain Theory and skewering Germ Theory. This a just on-the-target 100 percent explanation that you all will want to read. This is truly a "must read" for anyone remotely interested in or curious about the Covid fraud and the entire Western Allopathic Medical Construct: Children's Health Defense org Zach Bush on humans and our microbiodome. 

You are definitely going to want to pass this on to everyone you know. 

I mean, this article is actually "mind-blowing" because it is now so public, so patently obvious that the standard, Western, Pasteur-derived "Germ Theory" is going down. It's going to crash. It has caused woe, death, and destruction for 100 years. Covid – the spiel, the lockdowns, the medical larceny and murder of it all – represents the highest achievement of the Virus Theory. And like Icarus, from its dizzying height, it is about to free-fall into an utter crash-and-burn. Governments will still try to apply lockdowns and promote "vaccines", but the word is out, Pandora's box (or bag or whatever it was) is opened.

• Why? There was always a "Minority Report" and popular media and Big Pharma/Big Med has suppressed it. So now, although it has been ignored for a century, it is finally getting attention because A, our actual science, our actual understanding of our world, or biodome, is rapidly expanding because of our communication technology. (Like me writing you-all, etc.) And B: people are just desperate to escape this lockdown nonsense, this global warming crap. No one in their right minds wants to eat bugs. No one wants to "own nothing and be happy" per the World Economic Forum.
  

• This Covid fraud, so lockstepped internationally, so unquestioned, so dropping diaboli ex machina on us out of the blue, has forced ever more people to realize it is B.S. That, and that the older, more holistic ideas of healing are innately sound. A "major tremor in the force" is that Dr. Michael Yeadon now as joined Tom Cowan and the Baileys, and a thoroughly vetted physician such as Zach Bush is getting a serious platform at the Children's Health Defense Fund.
  

So, we've turned a corner.

As this Dr. Bush says in the interview:

But the last 20 years of scientific discovery about how a healthy human body is inhabited by trillions of microbes, including bacteria and viruses, and how the body relies on the presence of these microbes to function, have “disrupted” this model, Bush said.

“We’re finding our way in allopathic Western medicine to an unfortunate conclusion that we were wrong, and that all the other ancient sciences were right.”

For thousands of years, Bush said, ancient health sciences — such as Ayurvedic medicine and Chinese traditional medicine — have affirmed a model of the “complete oneness in biology” that regards human life as inherently in relationship with the rest of nature, rather than a view of human beings as separate from and at odds with other manifestations of biological life on Earth, such as microbes.

In this ancient science model “you can’t separate out a single species” as separate from the rest of nature because human beings derive their sense of health — including physiological coherency, mental sanity and personal identity — through being in communicative relationship with the rest of biology, according to Bush.

Germs and humans: not ‘us versus them’ but a ‘cooperative relationship between many species’

Bush explained how scientists such as Louis Pasteur developed a germ theory of disease based on the idea that humans are always under attack from disease via the presence of germs, including hostile viruses and bacteria.

Other scientists during Pasteur’s era, such as Antoine Béchamp and his colleagues, disagreed with Pasteur’s germ theory.

According to Bush, these other scientists said the notion of an “us versus them” reality of microbes attacking human beings didn’t make sense because humans never would have existed if it weren’t for microbes.

“[Microbes] were here long before us,” Bush explained, “then we emerged from this environment of microbes, so there’s no way they’re against us.”

In fact, recent research suggests the human body contains a vast microbiome of helpful bacteria, fungi and viruses so small they are invisible to the naked eye — but without them, we wouldn’t be alive.

AnP again:

So, for Heaven's sake, and your own sanity, pass this Dr. Zach Bush interview on!

    An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Lughnasa, First of August

 A chairde,

Today is the First of August and in the Irish Celtic tradition, this is the beginning of the great pagan Celtic Feast of Lughnasa /Lughnasadh (modern Lúnasa), or Lammas in Scotland. (The Scottish-Gaelic version is, of course, Lúgasad). In Scotland, it was a day of local harvest fairs and one of the year's four quarter days, i.e., Candlemas (28 February), Whitsunday (28 May; originally Pentecost) Lammas (28 August), and Martinmas (28 November). But of course it goes back into pagan times, and represented the beginning of the yearly harvest. People were getting on short commons by August, and needed to bring the crops in. Because of the weather patterns in Ireland and Scotland, the year wasn't quartered on the solstices and equinoxes, because the seasons didn't correspond to those. Lughnasa was the beginning of Fall, the Harvest time, so you had the three months of Autumn, Lughnasa, Meán Fómhair and Deireadh Fómhar (i.e. Lúnasa, Middle Fall, and End of Fall.

Of course, Lugh was a great pan-Celtic god, Lugh Lámhfána Samildánch, Lug the Long-handed, many talented/gifted. Many place names in Ireland and indeed, throughout Europe, represent his name, such as, it is said, Lyon in France. In Welsh, he is Lleu.

Lugh was the son of Cian, son of Dian Cécht, the god of the medicinal arts, and Eithlinn, who herself was daughter of Balor of the Evil Eye. Balor was, of course, evil, and tried kill his grandson because of a prophesy that his grandson would kill him (how very Greek). The ardent Cian scaled the high tower Balor had imprisoned Eithlinn in, and 'took care of prophesy'. So the sea god, Manannán Mac Lir, fostered the infant Lugh (with help from Gobhniu, the smith god, thus Lugh learned many crafts). When the great god-king Nuada of the Silver Arm – in Welsh, Nudd, and in Roman times, Nodens, himself it was that brought the Tuatha Dé Danaan (People of the Danube River Goddess) to Ireland in the first place – was killed in battle with Balor, Lugh fulfilled the prophecy by killing his grandfather, Balor. A Celtic quid-pro-quo.

Meanwhile, Cian had trouble with his brother, Tuireann. Cian had a Slat Draoíchta, a magic wand, and would harass Tuireann by turning his horse into a cat and his hound into a mouse. Tuireann mentioned to his three sons how he would like to kill Cian, because obviously these humorous minor jests merited death. (/sarc) These three sons, Brian, Iuchar, and Iucharba (said to be sons of the beautiful goddess Brigid herself – lucky Tuireann!), caught Cian one day returning from the palace of the king of the gods at that time, and gave chase. Cian used the wand to turn himself into a mighty boar, to escape into the woods, but he dropped the wand in the process. So Brian and his brothers used it to turn themselves into hounds (Irish Wolfhounds, of course) and gave chase. They caught Cian and killed him.

You won't be surprised to learn that Lugh found out about all this – from his father telling him about it from his grave, mind you – and demanded his father's body price, or éiric (in English: erc), from his cousins. In the old law, murder was okay as long as you paid the erc to to family of the killed. In Old English, this was called the wergild, or man-money (N.B. A "werewolf" is a man in wolf form, one might guess.) The High King (might well have been Nuada himself at this point, if memory serves – this was a long time ago, believe it or not) summoned the Clann Tuireann an asked Brian and his brothers, 'Ar mharaigh sibh athair Lugha?" "Mharaigh," ar siad. Very laconic. Well, that was that. The king gave Lugh the right to set the éiric, and Lugh said, also very laconically, "Tri úll, craiceann muice, sleá, agus trí gháir ar chnoc." I.e., three apples, a pigskin, a spear, and three shouts on a hill."

Well, Brian and his brothers laughed at that. "Ní mór an éiric í siúd!" they laughed. Not a great erc, that! Then Lugh the Crafty explained: The three apples I want are from the garden of the Hesperides, he said. "Gairdín na hIsberine". Lugh explained these magical apples were heavily guarded. And of course – naturally – the pigskin was something akin to the Golden Fleece, only porcine. The spear belonged to the king of the Persians (who else?). All three items were on the far side of Europe, you'll note. And the three shouts on the hill? They were last, and closer to home, but perhaps the most difficult, because the hill belonged to "Fathach anTuaiscirt", the Giant of the North.

Thus Lugh sent his cousins, the Clann Tuireann on the Celtic equivalent of the Voyage of Jason for the Golden Fleece. Someday, the mood might take me to tell the tale, and how it ended, but now, I'll let you wonder. And anyway, I cannot tell it as well as Fionn Mac Cumhail could, anyway.

Lugh was accepted into the fortress of the gods because although they had smiths and poets and craftsmen galore, they didn't have one individual with all these gifts, as Lugh had. And he fathered many children (including my mother's father's people) in various forms, esp that of birds. As the Druidic religion was founded, in part, on reincarnation, some say that the great Irish and Scottish hero, Fionn Mac Cumhail was himself Lugh. And some say Lugh fathered the mighty Cúchulainn, the Irish national hero, on the woman Dectíre (let's hope he engaged the maidin in a non-feathered form).

Linguistic scholars, some of them, assert that the name of the Irish Fairie (the Sidhe) craftsman known as Leprechauns, comes from "Lugh-chromain", "Little, stooping-Lugh", maybe it does. Though I've never known Lugh Lámhfáda Samildhánach himself to stoop for anyone.

An Préachán

PS Today in Ireland, as the Church as retreated, a new Irish paganism is rampant. So I assume Lugh is worshiped again, that is, if modern Narcissists can worship anything besides self. Here is a respectful poem to the great god, and I'd wager it has more of the true spirit of the "Old Faith" in it than you'll find most anywhere else.

The Poet of Lugh

The rain falls in the temple garden,
I hear its cadence on the tiles,
Its rhythm strokes in endless patience
The arched back of the blue-gray day,
Fertilizing the thighs of the rich, warm earth
With incontinence pouring from the sky.

Ah, cold wet day of endless rain,
Winter-herald from the quiet land,
Embrace me and enrapture me
In your eternal, steady drumming
Until I wash over my banks
And make a sea of the land.

I am the stream of the temple garden,
I murmur and ebb among the rocks and courses
And am one with the rain and lowering sky;
I am the breeze in the rain that falls straight down,
I am the sound of the water from the eaves to the ground.

(The Irish is better, but the English will do here - AnP.)

China's threats about Pelosi and Taiwan

Amici,

Sam Faddis has a doleful column on China and war and Nancy Pelosi here. Many such articles are being published now as war looms.

Demonic China 

Communist China is as close to a simulacrum of Hell as it is possible to get, and not actually be Hell. In the past century, humans created a number of simlacrums of Hell, and now we have Begoglio the Accursed turning the Church into Dante's City of Dis. (And Bergoglio is wholly in bed with Xi, too. Notice how both Xi and Bergoglio openly persecute the Catholic Church to the extent they can. They're the Bobbsey Twins of evil. Just incredible, but true.)

But China, that brutal dragon. Bureaucrats at all levels there are incompetent grifters, up to the top echelon, where they're the most immoral, brutal thugs who, however else they got their jobs, competency wasn't high on the list. And they simply have no "moral fiber" of any sort short of that imps and hobgoblins possess. The majority of their time is spent looking at porn, or engaging in carnal dissolution themselves. (Think of Congressman Eric Swallwell and his "ho" "Fang-Fang" writ large.)

Their economy is shaky, too, very. And a lot of this is true of their military, as well. Much of it engages in non-military "business". Yes, they have a large and thorough counter-intelligence assets and they specialize in non-traditional operations (psy-ops, biological warfare, etc.), but fighting a major war requires competence on many levels. It requires leadership. It requires character. (An example from WWII in that Asian theater, the Fall of Singapore: compare British Lt-General Arthur ("Rabbit") Percival to Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

The Chinese Communist Party Army

In today's Chinese Communist Party army (and it isn't a "national army" but the army of party, entirely), in every field, a small percentage is competent at what they're supposed to do, such that Taiwan they can probably successfully invade, though it won't be a flat Ukraine. The U.S. military declined to invade what was then Formosa in WWII because of its mountainous terrain. What will the Chinese do if they get bogged down, just nuke it? (BTW, an invasion of Taiwan will tank our computer-based economy in a dire way.)

In short, they mirror us. Our bureaucrats and government "betters" are at about the same levels of personal morality, and Nancy Pelosi, curiously enough considering her role in this Taiwan crisis, is also a ruthless grifter, but on a grand scale. She and her husband and probably most of her family (including not-exactly-related Gavin Newsom) ought to be in jail, with Hunter Biden, "The Big Guy" Joe, and hundreds of others. Also mirroring the Chicoms, Pelosi is a devout worshiper of Ba'al and Moloch, and has the blood of millions of dead babies on her hands (most of them girl babies).

The Biden Regime (whoever runs it; the Chicoms?) have literally emasculated our military, and the situation is such that we cannot be expected to fight, even if we could magically insert Theodore Roosevelt in the Oval Office.

But in starting this war, the CCP will be slitting its own throat, too. War requires guts, character, at the very least, hard men like Yamashita compared to "Rabbit" (Percival had buck teeth, you see?). And war is like golf, you won't know how good you are till you swing the club. You might think you're good; you might think you're prepared, but you might be surprised. And once you've swung it, there's no going back. How the Communist Chinese self-destruction will work out we can't know now, but it will happen. They most certainly do not have "the Mandate of Heaven."

And the "Mandate of Hell" isn't much good. Devil breaks his tools when he has no further use of them.

   An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.