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Today in a memo, Secretary Austin rescinded the Aug. 24, 2021 memorandum mandating that members of the Armed Forces under DoD authority be vaccinated against COVID-19, and the memorandum of Nov. 30, 2021, pertaining to the vaccination of National Guard and Reserve personnel. This rescission requirement was established by the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023. The health and readiness of the Force are crucial to the Department’s ability to defend our nation. Secretary Austin continues to encourage all Service members, civilian employees, and contractor personnel to get vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19 to ensure...

How Conservative Parents Can Fight Back Against Colleges Requiring Student Vaccination Next Fall . . . and perhaps even save $30,000 Once again, the leftist media moves in lock step with their comrades in academia who wish to do everything they can to dominate us and take away our liberty and our rights. A case in point is this recently created propaganda that is being pushed on you by all media outlets about colleges requiring vaccinations for students. “More than 100 colleges and universities across the country plan to require students to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in order to...

Dear Bishop Stika: Pope St. Pius V, our father in God, the Pope of the Battle of Lepanto, would have deposed and laicized you, and turned you over to the secular authorities to be tried and executed for sodomy, you hideous, slack-jawed, mouth-breathing faggot. Quote me. Please. In one of his very first acts as pope, Pope St. Pius V in Cum Primum on April 1, ARSH 1566 ordered that sodomites be executed by the secular authorities. Two years later, he declared in a Constitution: “That horrible crime, on account of which corrupt and obscene cities were destroyed by fire...

"Asbestos particles are on average 5 microns, which are much larger than SARS-CoV-2, yet nobody in my field – industrial hygiene – would recommend that we could protect workers from asbestos exposure using a mask," said Stephen Petty, a certified industrial hygienist and hazardous exposure expert, on my podcast last week. "In fact, I would argue that you'd lose your credentials for saying such a thing." The notion that cheap cloth and surgical masks are considered proper protection, much less bona fide PPE, for a virus that is 0.1 microns – 1/50th the size of average asbestos fiber – was...

Call for resignation or removal It is unknown how Gov. DeWine came to the decision to nominate Acton, but if he thought he was getting a Department of Health Director without an abortion agenda, it now appears he was wrong. “Operation Rescue calls on Amy Acton to resign, and if she will not do that, we call on Gov. Mike DeWine to fire her and appoint a new director who will not surreptitiously defy the laws of Ohio and rulings of the courts to keep dangerous abortion facilities open,” said Newman.

This film asks the question: Is this pandemic the chastening hand of Almighty God on America? If so, why? What has America done, and what can we do to receive God's blessing in this troubling time? The film turns to Ancient Jerusalem and modern New York City for answers.

THE SPONTANEOUS and ardent devotion, beloved sons and daughters, with which you flocked here on his day of penance could not better interpret Our intentions nor fulfill with greater satisfaction for Us the desire of Our Heart confided to you on the vigil of the opening of the Holy Door, when We exhorted you to give life and strength to a fervent spiritual movement of expiation during this Jubilee Year. On this particular Sunday, the Church opens the sacred time of the Passion and with the sorrowful note of its rites causes the drama of the Divine Expiator of human...

If you knew of a faithful Christian who was to obtain (intentionally limited) TV (using a Roku device), but could afford but one channel each of Sports, Weather, World News, National News, History, Nature, and Movies, and perhaps one other category, what existing channels might you advise he subscribe to for his household comprised of teens through elderly?

Till now our traditional Catholic household has always enjoyed life free of television except occasional DVD viewing. With a new elderly member of the household, with reluctance we are considering setting up limited, low budget, low tech, due to privacy concerns (no Alexia nor two way TV with camera nor google for example) television platform for the member's viewing. The venue sought is very limited at most: news, sports, weather, nature, and occasional clean family-oriented made-for-tv series and movies and documentaries. We wish to not pay for nor deal with bundles of shows that are objectionable or otherwise will not...

Proselytism, triumphalism, and more! June 5 is the feast of St. Boniface Winfrid in the Roman calendar, an eighth-century Englishman who evangelized the Germanic peoples with such zeal and success that he is commonly known as the Apostle of Germany. Today the so-called Catholic News Agency sent a tweet with a link to its biographical page about this great bishop and martyr, which notes: St. Boniface was very bold in his faith, and was well known for being very good at using the local customs and culture of the day to bring people to Christ. He was born in Devonshire,...

(snip) We know we ought to obey the pope and the magisterium because if we don’t we will place ourselves outside the faith and become heretics. We also know that if a prelate or the Pope himself was a heretic before/after election we know that they, ipso facto, ain’t no more the head so what does all of this mean? It means francis isn’t francis is what it means. (snip) Rev. Francis X Doyle, S.J. explains: “The Church is a visible society with a visible Ruler. If there can be any doubt about who that visible Ruler is, he is...

Yes, thanks and honor to the man who demonstrated manly and courteous sacrifice in this sad incident. His courage inspired others to step forward as well and lives were spared. Hail, Mr. Castillo!

I was on a train back into Paris this afternoon when I started receiving a number of messages on my phone asking if I had heard about Notre Dame. The roof was on fire, I was told, and it might be difficult to put out. But the first thought that came to mind was that all things happen by God's will or His permission. Nothing is random. Everything has a purpose. This was Monday of Holy Week. Could I help but think of Our Lord's words, "Weep not for me, but for your children"? Just yesterday in the liturgy Our...

A.D. 327. King Sapor, in the eighteenth year of his reign, raised a bloody persecution against the Christians, and demolished their churches and monasteries. Jonas and Barachisius, two brothers of the city Beth-Asa, hearing that several Christians lay under sentence of death at Hubaham, went thither to encourage and serve them. Nine of that number received the crown of martyrdom. After their execution, Jonas and Barachisius were apprehended for having exhorted them to die. The president mildly entreated the two brothers to obey the king of kings, meaning the king of Persia, and to worship the sun, moon, fire, and...

Snippets at article's end: ...Institute of Franciscan friars destroyed in a similar way The destruction of the Little Sisters...follows a pattern similar to the Vatican-induced collapse of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate (FFI), an order of Franciscans that followed a more traditional pattern of community life and that made free use of the traditional Latin Mass in accordance with the rites prevailing in 1962... Just as in the case of the Little Sisters, Braz de Aviz brought about the removal of the superiors of the FFI from their positions, and even the founder, Fr. Stefano Maria Manelli, was sent...

Enough with all the globe-trotting… Francis cracks down on “Bp.” Athanasius Schneider, orders him to reduce his traveling abroad We all know that “Pope” Francis is a big friend of migration, but even he has his limits when it comes to tolerating persistent moving about. The expert Vatican journalist Marco Tosatti reports on his blog today that “Bishop” Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary of the diocese of Maria Santissima in Astana, Kazakhstan, has “received a verbal [i.e. oral] injunction from the Vatican asking him to reduce the frequency of his trips abroad” (“Il Papa Impone ‘i Domiciliari’ al Vescovo Athanasius Schneider”, Stilum...

Developments & Reactions (Note: This will be the last Meltdown summary post for the time being) [UPDATED 30-OCT-2018 01:10 UTC] This post continues our coverage of the ongoing ecclesiastical Chernobyl unleashed by the accusations of the former Vatican nuncio to the United States, “Abp.” Carlo Viganò, which were first published on Aug. 25, 2018 and have the potential not only to bring an end to the Francis “pontificate” but even to throw the entire Vatican II Sect into unprecedented chaos: Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 Developments Francis is reportedly “stonewalling a summons for his head of the Congregation for the Doctrine...

ROME, October 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò today has issued a third explosive testimony, in response to an open letter from Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops. Here below we publish the official English text of Archbishop Viganò’s third testimony, dated October 19, the liturgical Feast of the North American Martyrs. On the Feast of the North American Martyrs To bear witness to corruption in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church was a painful decision for me, and remains so. But I am an old man, one who knows he must soon give an...

Developments & Reactions This post continues our coverage of the ongoing ecclesiastical Chernobyl unleashed by the accusations of the former Vatican nuncio to the United States, “Abp.” Carlo Viganò, which were first published on Aug. 25, 2018 and have the potential not only to bring an end to the Francis “pontificate” but even to throw the entire Vatican II Sect into unprecedented chaos: Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018 Developments •After meeting with Francis, English Novus Ordo bishops say he is “serene” in this “time of turmoil” •In Poland a movie about Novus Ordo sex abuse sets box office record, surpasses Fifty...

...We begin, therefore, with a little “Litany to Saint Paul VI”, a list of 50 outrageous titles that can justly be applied to this new anti-saint. The idea, of course, is not to ask anyone to use this for an actual litany (God forbid!), but rather to point out vividly the absurdity of taking this wicked man for a saint of the Catholic Church. “St.” Paul VI was the… destroyer of the sacraments architect of the Novus Ordo Missae deformer of the Curia captain of collegiality councilor of heresy admirer of false religions cheerleader for the United Nations patron of...