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[Catholic Caucus] Canada: Does Francis Believe He Is the Successor of the British Empire?The “main culprit” for crimes against Canadian Indians was not the Church but the government of the British Empire, that is, Queen Victoria and the Canadian government, wrote Czech Cardinal Dominik Duka on Aktualne.cz (July 29).Duka reminds of the spread of large epidemic diseases in the 19th/20th centuries and the placement of a large number of children in insufficient sanitary and health condition exposing them to a big immunological strain.Catholic boarder schools asked for financial assistance from the government but were refused. Duka notices that Francis’ visit...

Viganò and Bergoglio’s Trip to Canada. Act of Submission to the New World Order.1 Agosto 2022 Pubblicato da Marco Tosatti 1 CommentoMarco TosattiDear friends and foes of Stilum Curiae, we receive and gladly publish this commentary by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. Happy reading. §§§ Redde rationem villicationis tuæ,jam enim non poteris villicaregive an account of thy stewardship,for now thou canst be steward no longer «My wife, when asked who converted her to Catholicism, always answers, “the devil”». G.K. Chesterton It is not by chance that Satan is called a διάβολος, with the double meaning of liar and accuser. Satan lies...

CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said Friday on “Newsroom” that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) begging for forgiveness from Tucker Carlson is evidence the Fox News host is the new Donald Trump. Stelter said, “Cruz folded like a paper airplane. I think what it shows is the Republican messaging about being tough on crime, which is something that’s gone back decades that Cruz was trying to lean into, has come up against this denial of the January 6 crime. So you have Tucker Carlson trying to take a position that what we saw with our own eyes didn’t really happen....

The Maryland bishops released a pastoral letter Monday decrying the sin of racism and confessing their own participation in it. ................... The bishops also confess to having themselves failed to follow the gospel, which now impels them to lead the charge in eradicating unjust discrimination.“With regret and humility, we must recognize that as Catholic leaders and as an institution we have, at times, not followed the Gospel to which we profess and have been too slow in correcting our shortcomings,” they state. “For this reason, it is incumbent upon us to place ourselves at the forefront of efforts to remove...

De Mattei: HOLY WEEK 2019: THE CHURCH IS BURNING “Thou didst hear his words out of the midst of the fire” (Deuteronomy 4, 36) Roberto de Mattei Corrispondenza Romana April 17, 2019 Why did the fire of Notre Dame Cathedral generate such enormous shock all over the world? Because apart from the intrinsic value of the monument, Notre Dame is a symbol. It was written everywhere: a symbol of Christianity, a symbol of Western conscience, a symbol of a collective cultural patrimony, a symbol of European identity, a symbol of French national history. We live in a world that has...

If you thought there was something fishy about the way the mainstream media kept trying to tell you that Hillary Clinton's election was a foregone conclusion, you were right: NBC’s Chuck Todd confessed that he and others in the mainstream news media played down just how despised Hillary Clinton was in the heartland due to the fear of appearing “sexist.” What’s more, he admitted, the mainstream media failed to “tell the stories of all Americans.” “Where I think political correctness got in the way of what we all knew as reporters and didn’t fully deliver was how hated the Clintons were...

Shirley Sherrod, litigant and co-mastermind of the Pigford settlement, which bestowed large checks on 86,000 of the country's 40,000 black farmers, ironically may help usher in a long-overdue post-racial era in America. Publicity, once the ally of the racial grievance industry, is now the enemy of deals done in quiet. After Dan Riehl linked to a law firm that specializes in filing complaints in the Pigford settlement for a 33.5% contingency fee -- Pogust, Braslow & Millrood, LLC, in Conshohoken, Pennsylvania -- their site at http://www.blackfarmersjustice.com seems to have gone offline. Riehl notes this language from the law firm's 2008...

President Obama's first address to the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, Sept. 23, can only be described as a renunication of American exceptionalism. Obama essentially gave up his nation in favor of being leader of the world when he told world leaders: "No world order that elevates one nation or groups of people over another will succeed." In Obama's eyes the U.S. is tarnished, stained, immoral, and unjust, with a flawed Constitution, and no better than any other nation. It saddens me that Obama does not recognize the greatness of this nation. It isn't that our DNA is differ. It...

President Obama yesterday did his best impression of a high-school soph omore participating in his first Model UN meeting, retailing pious clichés he learned from his pony-tailed social studies teacher. Even Woodrow Wilson might have blanched at the mushy-headed exhortations to world peace and collective action better suited to a college dorm-room bull session or a holiday-season Coca-Cola commercial. "No nation can or should try to dominate another nation," Obama intoned. "No world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will succeed. No balance of power among nations will hold."

This is no way to treat kinfolks, but cousins don't always count. Napoleon described England as a nation of shopkeepers, and shopkeepers are always on the scout for opportunities to pinch a penny. Besides, "loyalty," like "morality," does not apply to nations. Old Blighty is awash in high government officials blaming someone else for the incredible decision to send the Lockerbie bomber back to a hero's welcome in Libya. They're afraid the Americans will take out their considerable anger on chips and fish-eating surrender monkeys. There are already the usual threats of a consumer boycott, particularly of goods from Scotland,...

As President of the United States, it is not overly difficult to be liked, if that is what you want. The way you do that is to tell people what they want to hear. Tell the world that the United States has been arrogant and uncaring and has made lots of mistakes and is responsible for lots of the world's most serious problems, but that you are going to change all that. Tell the Iranians that you are repudiating the prior administration's posture toward them, and that they are not part of the Axis of Evil, and that you are...

Did anyone squirm or feel embarrassed when President Obama allowed Dictator Chavez to give him a book about the evils of the United States? The initial diplomatic handshake could be overlooked, but it was definitely embarrassing to watch Obama accepting, with a smile, a gift from this guy who had previously called him an “ignoramus”, and had called another U.S. President “el Diablo” at the United Nations. This blunder, on the heels of his European fiasco where he apologized for the United States’ policies before he took office, raises serious questions about his vision and understanding of what America is...

MY president went to Trin idad and Tobago, and all I got was this lousy Che Guevara T-shirt. At a Caribbean resort, Obama grinned through a semi-erotic encounter with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, then failed to answer a "strategic rape" charge lodged against America by ex-Sandinista Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua (who knows plenty about rape). Ignoring America's allies in favor of photo ops with anti-American leftists, such as Ecuador's Rafael Correa and Chavez, Obama blamed the United States for Latin America's problems. Whoa! Plenty of US policies toward Latin America have been misguided and myopic. But the primary causes of...

Watching Barack Obama this past week was painful. The new president went out of his way to apologize for America's flaws. His groveling won rave reviews from some foreigners, the American mainstream media, and others who hold the United States in contempt. A key component to Obama's approach was apologetically groveling. Expressing regrets about America is something that apparently comes easily to Obama. Certainly he's had enough experience in apologizing for his own fumbles. He said he was sorry for comparing his bowling prowess to the Special Olympics. He had to call Nancy Reagan and apologize for saying she held...

Barack Obama may not be the Big Thinker his fans think he is, but his big-time groveling is impressive. We've never seen a presidential performance quite like his Groveling, Toadying and Apple-Polishing Tour of the Olde Countries. If this is Monday, this must be a mosque. The president is understandably eager to see whether his honeyed tongue can tease and tickle the Europeans the way it teases the libido and scratches the itch of the hoi polloi at home, but the early returns show that he gave away a lot more than he got in return, which was nothing. The...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A soldier used the Quran -- Islam's holy book -- for target practice, forcing the chief U.S. commander in Baghdad to issue a formal apology on Saturday. Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond apologizes after a soldier admitted using the Quran for target practice. Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, apologized to leaders in Radhwaniya, in the western outskirts of Baghdad, for the staff sergeant who was a sniper section leader assigned to the headquarters of the 64th Armored Regiment. He also read a letter of apology by the shooter. It was the first...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The Rutgers University women's basketball coach said Friday her players have accepted radio host Don Imus' apology for racist and sexist comments toward the team and they are "in the process of forgiving." "We still find his statements to be unacceptable, and this is an experience that we will never forget," said coach C. Vivian Stringer. Imus met with the Rutgers athletes Thursday night hours after CBS fired him for calling the players "nappy-headed hos" in a broadcast last week. (Watch Stringer discuss what happens next Video) "These comments are indicative of greater ills in our...

Many in the West are congratulating Pope Benedict XVI’s recent trip to Turkey, where in the Blue Mosque he prayed facing Mecca and made other gestures meant to salve the wounds raised by his references to Islam’s history of violence. Personally, I found the whole scene a depressing exhibit of the West’s terminal failure of nerve, one particularly distressing given this Pope’s documented understanding that what we call the “war on terror” is in fact the latest episode in the centuries-long struggle with a militant Islam. In the Pope’s visit and the media response to it, we once again witnessed...

        Tony Snow is starting his new job with the Administration and we would like to send him cheers every now and again. We've started a "Cheers to Tony Snow" Thread that will allow FReepers to post messages of good tidings to the Snowman.   If you’d like on or off the Cheers to Tony Snow ping list, please post a request. All requests happily honored.