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only God can judge the human heart, the extent of understanding & the level of freedom & consent The above words were entered by George Pell into his prison journal on May 22nd, 2019. Lest We Forget a great Man of God.

mysterious Lord: the silent hidden God mercy and refuge lodge inside the shadows of His wings My friend, anglo-catholic Anglican bishop David Farrer, describes George Pell’s prison journals as “remarkably uplifting” and said he is grateful for the way they help us to pray. Above is a prayer which I have shaped today from words of the Cardinal about mass in the May 20, 2019 entry to the journal and from the words of Psalm 57 which he quotes in that entry. Lest We Forget: Cardinal George Pell, a truly great man of God, thrown to the lions by a...

Here we go! David Hogg has infuriated top Democrats, and they are now plotting to force him out as DNC Vice Chair. In February, the DNC elected David Hogg, 25, as Vice Chair – and Democrats immediately had buyer’s remorse as the ‘twerp’ began threatening to primary certain Dem lawmakers. Hogg has no experience in actually getting Democrats elected to office. He’s an online troll who is causing too much damage to the already ailing Democrat party, so now the Democrat leadership has the knives out for him. Last week, TGP reported that Hogg vowed to spend millions to unseat...

Peter, an individual, betrayed Jesus, by denying knowing him three times, and thereby betrayed the group of individuals to which he belonged. His own conscience troubled Peter very deeply. Waltzing Matilda, often called Australia’s unofficial national anthem, is also about betrayal. But it is the betrayal of the human rights of an individual denied his basic right to food by an unjust society. The swaggy is driven to suicide, whereas Peter recovers to become the rock upon which the Christian church was built. For me the fusion of these two different types of betrayal is very beautiful. Perhaps a strange...

my opinion, the great artistic acts for freedom of speech in American artistic history include: Mark Twain opposing racist bigotry through The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. Walt Whitman’s life long Hymn to America a.k.a Leaves Of Grass. Dylan Rejecting Woke Censorship With Freedom of Emotional Speech in Maggie’s Farm And lines like “How Does It Feel?” and “Once upon a time you dressed so fine/Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?/People call say ‘beware doll, you’re bound to fall’/ You thought they were all kidding you” to deaf snobs and opened eared fans at Newport. Nobel Prize...

This story is absolutely hilarious. We first heard about this back in December, but there were not as many details. Now, Sean Spicer has shared the entire saga with Glenn Beck. In a nutshell, back in the fall of 2021, Spicer was serving on a couple of different boards. His term was set to end in November, but Biden fired him and some other conservatives in September, seemingly just to be a petty jerk. Spicer then sued the Biden administration, for the sole purpose of losing and having a court of law affirm that Biden could fire whoever he wanted....

Paul McCartney’s homespun classic album, Ram, is my favourite Symphony. It has all the grandeur, playfulness and adventure of the Beatles at their best but, unlike any Beatles album, is a total embodiment of love, celebrating his life with his wife Linda partially replacing his former partner John Lennon in his music.. Notes on some of the songs: Too Many People: soaring lead guitars back the primary message to his preaching lefty former collaborator John, pull your head in. Ram.On: the right of men to love. Ride away. Right away. Dear Boy: chattering rhythms reflect the imprecisions of love. It...

I am a writer and poet, though not by trade. The following poem, in the comments below, is one of several I have written as a tribute to those who were never allowed to be born. It was prompted by the battle over Amendment 3 in Missouri and similar initiatives elsewhere. We lost on Amendment 3 yesterday, but I am not without hope, and I do not believe the final word on this issue has been spoken. My words are not eloquent, but I do hope they are poignant. Also, I hope I'm posting this correctly. This is a first...

Uzay Bulut @bulutuzay_: İsmet Özel, a well-known Muslim poet from Turkey, said at a conference: "Muslims are terrorists. The first duty of Muslims is to be terrorists. Kafirs [infidels] should be afraid of Muslims. If they are not afraid, then a Muslim is not a Muslim." https://t.co/oyNMAnLP7E — Uzay Bulut (@bulutuzay_) September 27, 2024.

Real womanhood is drawn to and celebrates men. This love is the foundation of families and society. We must not let the carping, whining man-haters of the modern world drown out love. Please celebrate Rita's words and encourage others to do so too.

Jo Biden has earned the contempt being shown for him now. He is a warmonger. He has weaponised the justice system for political advantage. He gave the vice presidency to an incompetent woman for racist and sexist reasons and to make it harder to replace him when his own unfitness for the presidency became obvious. But I feel a tiny bit sorry for the old bloke as his own mob turns on him. His dithering geriatric incompetence to be in the Oval Office was obvious long before last night. Why the hell did all the alleged Democrats let him become...

Waltzing Matilda is Australia's unofficial national anthem. It is a song about suicide being a better option than being a prisoner of tyranny. Such is Australia. Here the musician, playing in the caldera of extinct volcano Mt Buninyong, slows it down and pauses a lot. This gives the birds in the trees around him a chance to sing back. What do those birds say?

The Australia which I Iive in is a police state. Antiwhite racism and feminist tyranny reduce good people to poverty. But prayer still gives refuge. As I write this, it is Sunday morning in the Socialiat Left governed state of Victoria. Via this post, I share Fr Justin Glyn's glorious concept of God as "the Voice Of Sheerest Silence." Praise Freedom. God Bless America. God Save Australia.

I asked Ben "Is Australia still a free country?" With a whimsical Aussie lilt, he answered, ""Freedom ....... a distant memory ...... but lets work back towards taht."

Delusions destroy what is good. Together we are strong. Wasted Bidings & Coming Up Trump's .......

"One has only to look at the situation in so many theatres in the world at the moment, Middle East and the Ukraine in particular, where we don't seem to have any protocols we can invoke that might bring the warring parties to the table so that a Peacefire can be negotiated. We don't seem to have the instruments for reconciliation. And things are so drastically fallen apart that we don't know where to look to find those instruments." - octogenarian Father Bill Uren The word "Peacefire" might have been a misspeak but in the context of the thought of...

Just when you thought you had heard the worst of this crime family new text messages reveal the feral dogs were plotting Chinese deals to coincide with their trip to the Sandy Hook Memorial. A new traunche of documents released by Congress reveal crackhead son Hunter Biden texted Communist Chinese business partners to arrange a meeting with Joe while they were attending a Sandy Hook Memorial Ceremony. Cristina Laila reported on this communication earlier – Now we know Joe and Hunter were using Sandy Hook as a decoy to meet with a Chinese business leader. Hunter Biden proposed a meeting...

Talk to anyone in my business and they'll all say the same thing: No matter how long you write stories and put them in the newspaper, you are never really sure which ones are going to strike a nerve.What you think might be a Pulitzer-quality epic might draw only a nice call from Mom, while a simple tale tossed off on deadline causes an uproar, or an avalanche of praise. One legendary former investigative reporter at this paper wrote scores of stories that changed laws and saved lives, yet never did he get more mail than when he wrote about...

Happy 83 birthday to the legendary Bob Dylan!

Image from wikimedia commons, 1992 LA riots, taken by Ricky Bonilla, cropped and scaled by Dean Weingarten In the tumultuous middle 1960's, the ideologically progressive media came to full power, with a blame America first, globalist, anti-Christian set of assumptions about reality. Their answer to the riots in the cities was to "purchase peace" with money and programs. A primary result of this action was the funneling of enormous amounts of cash to people in the progressive cultural knowledge-elite. They did the studies, ran the think-tanks, and administered the programs. The money flowed through their hands, and a great deal,...