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“And I predict that even stranger things have happened.” – The Amazing Kreskin

Australian High Court Unanimously Acquits Cardinal George Pell

Jorge Bergoglio is busy rolling out the Abrahamic Faith Initiative—the New One World Religion …at lightning speed!

“Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” And they were very sorrowful, and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?” He answered, “He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me, will betray me. The Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.” Judas, who betrayed him, said, “Is it I, Master?” He said to him, “You have said so.” Mt 26, 20-25

Unfortunately, with a few exceptions like Bishop Strickland, it seems to be bringing out the worst in our bishops. The Catholic world is moving day by day into a growing sacramental blackout that includes not only suspension of public Masses and Holy Communion, but also suspension of baptisms, confessions, and—most appallingly, given the dangers faced by the elderly and the sick—extreme unction. (In these circumstances, calling it “anointing of the sick” would seem almost quaint; if people on death’s door, in extremis, no longer count as candidates, a fortiori the gravely ill don’t make the cut, either.)

The nursing facility lost many lives to the flu outbreak earlier this year, and as a family we prayed daily that Dad would not be one of them. Even though there was a flu quarantine for two months during that time, we and others were allowed to visit residents in the nursing home so long as we took proper precautions by wearing face masks and using hand sanitizer while inside the facility. Since Dad himself was not ill, we were still permitted to take him out to daily Mass and for visits to our home.

La nona crociata: I volontari di Pio IX in difesa di Roma [The Ninth Crusade: The Volunteers of Pius IX in Defense of Rome], is the title of a book by Piero Raggi (Libreria Tonini, Ravenna 2002). Raggi is a scholar who has gathered a great quantity of biographical and iconographical material in order to preserve for memory the names of those who defended the Church and the Pope in the decade stretching from 1860 to the breach of the Porta Pia on September 20, 1870.

The Remnant Newspaper was founded in 1967—that’s two years before the promulgation of the New Mass.

Prayer Against Contagious Diseases

“My name is , I am the of . Our family is appreciative of the wonderful medical care and attention that you are showing to my . My is a devout Catholic and has clearly expressed to me desire to receive Last Rites from a Catholic priest. My believes that spiritual life is more important than physical life. This request for Last Rites has been made numerous times to hospital staff, each time being denied. This refusal by the hospital has caused my and our family extreme emotional distress in what could be final hours. Our family has identified a priest who is willing to administer Last Rites if the hospital would permit him direct physical access to my and provide him with any necessary personal protective equipment. Our family has been in contact with our attorney and we feel that this request for accommodation is reasonable. If needed, our family, along with our attorney, is willing to hold an emergency meeting with hospital staff to work out any reasonable accommodations or logistics which would help the hospital maintain a safe environment for all concerned.”

Long-time followers of the liturgical scene may recognize the name of Andrea Grillo, a liturgy professor at Sant’Anselmo in Rome, seedbed of much evil in the realm of the cultus divinus. The two new decrees from the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith— Cum Sanctissima (which makes possible the offering of Mass in honor of more recently canonized saints like St. Padre Pio or St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross, not to mention countless other devotees of the traditional Latin Mass) and Quo Magis (which adds to the 1962 Missale Romanum seven new Prefaces based on older liturgical texts)—has got him and his confreres up in arms.

A medical tent is set up in the parking lot for overflow flu patients outside Loma Linda Medical Center. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) However, this was to care for patients with the 2018 influenza A strain known as H3N2, which hospitalized thousands.

Globalman cries connectivity, but is the first to bug out when the chips fall. “Globalization,” it turns out, is total exposure to risk for most of us, and immunity from it for the global elite. How insular is this strange creature, globalman! Pace John Donne, globalman is an island. (And when the bell tolls, it tolls for schmucks like us, unemployed while globalman decides at which home to ride out the market froth.)

On this the Feast of her Annunciation, may the Madonna intercede for us to end the scourge in Italy and throughout the world!

In our present dire circumstance induced by the sudden onset of the coronavirus, we may be comforted by the Book of Job to know that we are not the first generation to be swept up in events beyond our control. __________

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“We glory in tribulations” (Rom 5:3) _________