A Catholic Actor With Guts And Integrity: Nolte: Actor Neal McDonough Blacklisted For Refusing Kissing Scenes!

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From breitbart.com and written by John Nolte 31 Jul 2025: Nolte: Actor Neal McDonough Blacklisted for Refusing Kissing Scenes

"Well-known actor and devout Catholic Neal McDonough says the entertainment industry blacklisted him for two years because he refused to kiss other actors onscreen.

“I’d always had in my contracts I wouldn’t kiss another woman on-screen,” McDonough explained during an interview on the podcast Nothing Left Unsaid. “My wife didn’t have any problem with it. It was me, really, who had a problem with it. When I couldn’t do it, and they couldn’t understand it, Hollywood just completely turned on me. They wouldn’t let me be part of the show anymore.”

“For two years, I couldn’t get a job and I lost everything you could possibly imagine. Not just houses and material things, but your swagger, your cool, who you are, your identity—everything,” he continued. “My identity was an actor, and a really good one. And once you don’t have that identity, you’re kind of lost in a tailspin.”

The tailspin resulted in a drinking issue his wife eventually helped him out of.

Back in 2010, McDonough claimed he’d been fired from the ABC TV show Scoundrels for refusing to film a sex scene. His comeback arrived in 2012, when he was cast as that season’s villain in Justified. He’s been working steady since.

Ruve McDonough, Neal McDonough pose with family and friends at the “Homestead” Premiere on December 10, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Angel Studios)

Let’s face it, this had nothing to do with refusing to kiss or film sex scenes with co-stars. If McDonough were a devout Muslim, his strict adherence to his faith would be hailed in Hollywood. We all know the truth: Hollywood blacklisted an accomplished and talented actor because he was one of those icky Christians.

My guess — and this is only a guess — is that part of the reason for this contract clause is to avoid gay roles, which I totally sympathize with. If he were to turn down a gay role involving gay sex scenes, the Woke Gestapo would annihilate him and his career. This “no kissing” clause gives him a clever and non-confrontational way out of that dilemma (and trap), which is a real dilemma for any Christian or heterosexual.

You see, these days, it’s like an unwritten rule that heterosexual actors with ambitions must play a gay role, and not just a gay role, but one with all kinds of gay sex. You either do it or you are stamped with a Scarlet H for “homophobe,” and the phone stops ringing.

There’s another word for this: demonic.

McDonough has managed to hold on to his principles in a business that actively seeks the ruin of men’s souls."

John Nolte’s first and last novel, Borrowed Time, is winning five-star raves from everyday readers. You can read an excerpt here and an in-depth review here. Also available in hardcover and on Kindle and Audiobook. 

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Gene DeLalla

The Purge Of Ralph Martin, Et Al... And The Destruction Of The Traditional Latin Mass In The Archdiocese Of Detroit.

 Recently, the tradition-hating archbishop of Detroit, Weisenburger, not only fired theologian Ralph Martin, but also two other professors that taught at Sacred Heart seminary for many years, without sufficient explanation except to release to the media that their "views" and comments were "critical" of the now-deceased Bergoglio.   

The problem and reason for the criticisms were the ambiguities and twisting of Church teachings on the sexuality and other doctrinal matters by the very same Bergoglio...

(See my article here: Make-Believe Archbishop Edward Weisenburger Fires Ralph Martin And Eduardo Echeverria!!! )

Now, from crisesmagazine.com comes this: Ralph Martin and the Crisis of Clarity - Crisis Magazine

Ralph Martin and the Crisis of Clarity

Over decades, through his roles at Sacred Heart Major Seminary and Renewal Ministries, Martin has consistently sounded the alarm—not with panic but with sobriety.

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  Greg Schlueter

The straying sheep you have not recalled; the lost you have not sought; the injured you have not bound up; the strong you have not guarded; and even what was sound, you have destroyed. (St. Augustine, Sermon on the Shepherds, Sermon 46.)

"There is a particular cruelty in offering welcome without truth. It is the cruelty of the smiling gatekeeper who opens the door to a collapsing house. For many, this is no abstraction. It is the lived story of men and women like Joseph Sciambra, who endured the hellish aftermath of ecclesiastical neglect—wounded not only by sin but by the silence of those charged to proclaim the Word.

Sciambra’s life once embodied what the world calls liberation: sex, affirmation, indulgence. In San Francisco’s Castro District, he was celebrated—and destroyed. He tells of priests who encouraged him, of parishes adorned with rainbow flags, and of a Church that smiled gently while he bled. Only when he encountered those faithful to Tradition—priests who spoke clearly of Heaven and Hell, sin and grace—did his descent stop. Their fidelity, not their softness, saved him.

So, when Pope Francis called for the Church to apologize to homosexuals, Sciambra responded with a profound yes—not for past harshness but for the Church’s failure to speak the truth in love. “When I hear Catholics say ‘you were born gay,’ I think: My God, they are killing us.” He meant it literally. His friends had died. He had nearly died. What he needed was not affirmation but salvation.

This is not a footnote. It is a headline. The real victims of clerical cowardice are not those offended by doctrine but those denied it. Those who go unhealed because the Cross has been replaced with a shrug. Those who search for transformation and are handed platitudes. Those whose hunger for God is met with a soft-serve gospel that comforts but never convicts.The real victims of clerical cowardice are not those offended by doctrine but those denied it. Those who go unhealed because the Cross has been replaced with a shrug.Tweet This

Into that wasteland, Ralph Martin stood as a clarion voice. Not shrill. Not angry. Clear. Over decades, through his roles at Sacred Heart Major Seminary and Renewal Ministries, Martin has consistently sounded the alarm—not with panic but with sobriety. His work A Crisis of Truth (1982) was already prophetic in its time, diagnosing the cultural and theological drift within the Church just as it began to take root. Nearly four decades later, his sequel of sorts, A Church in Crisis: Pathways Forward (2020), exposed that drift’s bitter fruit: confusion around salvation, doctrine, sexuality, and the very nature of Jesus Christ.

Martin’s thesis was and remains simple: truth is not something we invent. Truth is not a sentiment to be sculpted for palatability. Truth is a Person—Jesus Christ. In Him, we are determined. In Him, the clarity we fear is revealed not as harshness but as mercy with edges. The courage to proclaim that truth is not self-righteous indignation, nor is silence a virtue. What we are called to is respectful boldness—a Gospel-shaped courage that loves enough to speak what is eternally consequential.

And now, he has been dismissed.

No trial. No theological disputation. Only vague “concerns about theological perspectives,” offered by a newly installed archbishop whose first major act was the removal of Martin, along with other faithful scholars. It was not an act of discernment. It was a purge. A Machiavellian excision of those whose fidelity preceded him. A consolidation of control under the banner of “renewal.”

But the deeper scandal is this: truth itself has once again been made suspect by those who claim to protect it; fidelity is now framed as divisiveness; the prophetic vocation—so central to Christ, so present in the saints, so needed in this hour—is recast as theological inconvenience.

And so we must ask: What theology, then, is being preserved?

Is it a theology where ambiguity is mercy? Where pastoral fog is preferred to the hard edge of repentance? Where unity is prized more than truth, even when unity conceals a lie? If Ralph Martin’s Gospel proclamation—thoroughly grounded in Scripture, magisterial teaching, and lived fruitfulness—can be dismissed with a bureaucratic shrug, we are not witnessing prudence. We are witnessing fear—and worse: clericalism dressed as discernment.

This is not about one man. It is about the cost of clarity.

For every Joseph Sciambra, there are thousands more—unnamed and unseen—wounded by shepherds who chose ambiguity over authority, approval over truth. We will pay the price—in malformed vocations; in a generation of priests unable to speak clearly of sin and salvation; in churches where sentimentality substitutes for sanctity. And the greatest price will be paid before the Eternal Judge, where every evasion, every compromised whisper, will resound.

The legacy of Ralph Martin will not be etched in faculty minutes or episcopal press releases. It will live in the souls who heard him and found Christ. It will live in those who were not affirmed in confusion but restored in truth—those who were not made comfortable but made whole.

And that is a voice no bishop can silence.

Thank you, Ralph. We stand with you. We stand with you because we stand with Him who is Truth, in whom there is no confusion, no compromise, and no crisis, only the invitation to live—and proclaim—the Gospel without fear."

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  Greg Schlueter

  Greg Schlueter is an author, speaker, and movement leader passionate about restoring faith, family, and culture. In addition to directing communication and marketing for the Institute of American Constitutional Thought and Leadership, he leads Image Trinity, a dynamic marriage and family movement, and offers thought-provoking commentary on his blog, GregorianRant.us. He hosts the popular radio program and podcast IGNITE Radio Live alongside his wife, fostering meaningful conversations that inspire transformation. They are blessed with seven children (one in heaven) and a growing number of grandchildren. Recent books: The Magnificent Piglets of Pigletsville, Twelve Roses, and Slaying Giants.

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Pray for strength and honor!

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St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla 

You Are Not Going To Believe This! But Then Again Maybe You Will: Dutch Lawyer Blindfolded And Taken To High-Security Prison For Exposing The COVID Vaccine Holocaust!!

 We Americans have a very short memory, yet I would be surprised if you have forgotten the draconian "mandates" and lockdowns during the so-called "covid pandemic" (hint: it had nothing to do with the corona "virus"!) and the tyrannical elites that forced even little kiddies to wear face diapers, etc.

Not to mention the diabolical policies enforced in nursing homes where hundreds if not thousands of elderly -- some were your friends and relatives -- left to die alone and abandoned because of the fear -- yes, that's the key here: the fear instilled by the arm-chair bureaucrats -- of catching or spreading "covid".

Add to this, the forcing of getting the "vaccine" that has now been shown to have killed and maimed millions around the world -- and still counting!

Since that bizarre and deadly period, that will go down in history as one of the biggest scams in American -- and world history -- initiated for power and control of the populace, there comes this unbelievable story from the insane country of the Netherlands: Dutch Lawyer Blindfolded and Taken to High-Security Prison for Exposing the COVID Vaccine Holocaust - LewRockwell

Written by John C. A. Manley July 31, 2025

"In the Netherlands (where I now live), on June 11 at 5:00 a.m., the Dienst Speciale Interventies (Special Intervention Service) invaded the home of lawyer Arno van Kessel. This elite counterterrorism unit combines personnel from the Dutch National Police Corps, the Dutch military police and the Dutch Armed Forces.

Rather than stopping terrorism, however, this unit was the one terrorizing the Kessel family, including his wife and three children, who were held at gunpoint. Kessel was then blindfolded and taken to a high-security penal institution in Vught, Netherlands.

According to the Dutch newspaper, De Andere Krant, Kessel is being charged with having “violent intentions.” But the Public Prosecution Service has not provided any evidence for this.

Instead, the true reason for his arrest seems obvious: He and his partner, Peter Stussen, have filed a court case against Mark Rutt (former Dutch prime minister), Hugo de Jonge (former Minister of Health, Welfare ande Sports), Agnes Kant (managing director of the Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb), Albert Bourla (CEO Pfizer) and Bill Gates (computer geek turned pandemic specialist). Kessel and Stussen have compiled over a hundred pages of charges, demonstrating that, rather than life-saving, the shots are injurious and deadly (and that the harm they caused was known to the defendants).

Unique to Kessel’s filing is the citing of Bill Gates himself as one of the defendants. Other international cases defending those injured by the vaccine target only the pharmaceutical companies and politicians. Lawyer Meike Terhorst told De Andere Krant that:

[English translation]…as far as I know, Gates is not being prosecuted anywhere in the world. Except in the Netherlands. He won’t accept that, and don’t underestimate his influence. By arresting Van Kessel now, his case will be discredited, increasing the likelihood of its failure.

Kessel has been at the forefront of the Dutch resistance to the COVID deception for the last five years. He explained to De Andere Krant that he first woke up to the COVID-19 hoax in May 2020, after he reviewed the Dutch government’s extensive Corona Emergency Act:

[English translation]…I know how long officials take to write a law. My first question… was: When did those officials start writing this corona emergency law… The [Bar Association] professor was honest and said: The first quarter of 2019. That’s when I suddenly woke up. COVI9-19 wasn’t recognized until 20 February 2020. Yet, in the first quarter of 2019, they started to write the emergency law for it. I smell a rat, as they say in America. It was the eye-opener for me. I woke up from the world I lived in.

Rather than going back to sleep, Kessel dedicated himself to protecting not only Dutch citizens but the people of the world from this medical coup that has injured and killed millions of people through lockdowns and vaccine mandates."

You can donate to a fundraiser, launched by Arno van Kessel’s children, to help cover household expenses in their father’s absence, as well as pay for his legal defence at GoFundMe.

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by subscribing to his email newsletter at: blazingpinecone.com/subscribe/

Copyright © John C. A. Manley

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Gene DeLalla 

This Is Truly A Heartbreaking Story...

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The following article is very hard to take and more proof that the majority of mankind will be damned!

I ask upfront that you pray an Ave for the two sweethearts killed by a drunk, illegal alien felon and the evil and wicked policies being pursued by corrupt, anti-life, demonrat lunatics in the state of Wisconsin.

From breitbart.com and written by John Binder 29 Jul 2025

Sheriff Defends Sanctuary Policy After Illegal is Accused of Killing High School Sweethearts

Wisconsin Sheriff Defends Sanctuary Policy After Illegal Alien Is Accused of Killing High School Sweethearts

"Dane County, Wisconsin, Sheriff Kalvin Barrett is defending the county’s sanctuary policy that shields illegal aliens from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) just days after high school sweethearts 18-year-old Hallie Helgeson and 19-year-old Brady Heiling were killed in a crash allegedly caused by an illegal alien with a criminal record.

As Breitbart News reported, on July 20, illegal alien Noelia A. Martinez of Honduras, 30 years old, was allegedly drunk driving in Dane County when she crashed into Hallie and Brady.

Hallie was killed immediately and pronounced dead at the scene, while Brady was left in critical condition, airlifted to a nearby hospital, and died from his injuries on July 25. Hallie and Brady were high school sweethearts and had recently attended senior prom together.

Hallie Helgeson (Anderson-TeBeest Funeral Home)

Brady Heiling (Wing-Bain Funeral Home)

Martinez, as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have since noted, should never have been in the United States and was able to hide from federal immigration enforcement partly due to Dane County’s sanctuary policy, which refuses to honor ICE detainers. These detainers are requests for custody whenever an illegal alien is released from local custody.

“Hallie Helgeson and Brady Heiling had their whole lives ahead of them — and they would still be alive today if it weren’t for Noelia Saray Martinez-Avila — a criminal illegal alien from Honduras,” DHS’s Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

McLaughlin continued:

Martinez-Avila recklessly drove the wrong way on a highway while intoxicated and killed these two teens. ICE has lodged an arrest detainer to remove this public safety threat from the U.S. Unfortunately, this sanctuary jurisdiction has a history of not honoring ICE arrest detainers often leading to the release of murderers and other heinous criminals. Under Secretary Noem, these precious victims will not be forgotten, and we will fight for justice. [Emphasis added]

Barrett, who told local media in February that he would not honor ICE detainers, is continuing to defend Dane County’s sanctuary policy even after Hallie’s and Brady’s deaths, according to a report from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

After her arrest, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked the Dane County Jail to hold her if she were to post bond so that ICE officers could take her into custody, making her vulnerable to deportation before her case concludes. Martinez-Avila is an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, according to the department. [Emphasis added]

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Barrett said it is the Department of Homeland Security’s responsibility to obtain an arrest warrant signed by a judge, which would ensure that the department can lawfully take custody of Martinez-Avila. Detainers are not legally binding. [Emphasis added]

Barrett’s insistence on ICE securing an arrest warrant for Martinez is a tactic used by many sanctuary sheriffs.

ICE, under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), is not required to obtain criminal warrants from judges for suspected illegal aliens. Instead, ICE agents obtain administrative warrants that are signed off on by federal officials.

Sanctuary counties like Dane County often deploy the tactic anyway, claiming that they are not obstructing ICE agents from enforcing federal immigration law, but merely asking them to get a criminal warrant on an illegal alien, knowing such warrants are not required by federal law.

Martinez remains in Dane County custody, facing two counts of vehicular homicide. Her next hearing in the case is scheduled for September 22."

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here. 

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Please pray for Hallie and Brady -- and for their devastated families...

Pray too for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla

The Tyranny Of Nice: How We Traded Virtue For Vibes

 From The Tyranny of Nice: How We Traded Virtue for Vibes - LewRockwell and written by Brian D. O’Leary

The O'Leary Review July 29, 2025

"America wasn't built on self-esteem. It was built on self-respect—and the courage to speak hard truths."

"People are drowning in the shallow waters of self-esteem. For decades, the high priests of pop psychology and the wardens of politics have peddled a dangerous gospel: that feeling good about oneself is the highest good.

This therapeutic tyranny, whispered from leather couches, insists that self-worth is a prize to be given, not an honor to be earned.

Has the public been sold a bill of goods? Our elites swap the cheap sugar of affirmation for the red meat of character. This isn’t a mere misstep but poison that is corrupting the national soul.

The architects of this grand deception deliberately confuse two distinct concepts: self-esteem and self-image. Self-esteem is a fleeting emotional vapor. Self-image is a clear-eyed reckoning of what you are and what you can become.

The pioneers who carved a nation from wilderness weren’t burdened by chasing warm fuzzies. They stood firm on an honest self-image, aware of both strengths and faults.

Achievement springs not from narcissism but from relentless self-critique. The humble man, conscious of his flaws, builds empires. The peacock, strutting on inflated pride, accomplishes nothing.

This obsession with internal validation spawns a rotten public counterpart: the cult of nice. In the parlors of power and Ivy League lounges, a new commandment reigns: Thou Shalt Be Nice. But—as this writer’s First Law decrees— “Nice is not a virtue.”

Nice is cowardice masquerading as courtesy, silencing plain truths for fear of offense.

This pathology can be seen in some of the forward-facing “celebrities” within the Church hierarchy. In the case of wolves in sheep’s clothing like James Martin, S.J., pastoral agreeableness trumps doctrinal truth and, in doing so, it sacrifices centuries of wisdom on the altar of accommodation.

Another favorite pastime of Martin’s is to weaponize the term “inclusion” to silence dissent, while hurling the bizarre tag of “othering” at faithful Americans, casting them as outsiders in their own land.

Forgotten Americans, however, are aware of the difference. They demand truth over therapy and justice over tolerance. This isn’t a debate over manners but a battle for civilization’s moral foundations.

The classical virtues are not “nice.” They are demanding. Saint John the Baptist did not offer Herod a lifestyle dialogue when he delivered the righteous rebuke that cost him his head.

Charity lives in truth’s strong embrace, not relativism’s flimsy hug. While it isn’t kind to let a man wander in darkness, it is an act of love to show him the harsh light of reality. Our culture’s revival must begin by shattering the mirror of self-esteem and embracing the stark reflection of an accurate self-image.

This is our fight—and it’s not merely against bureaucrats or globalists this time around. The battle is against a weakness within.

The choice? It’s between the fleeting comfort of “nice” and the enduring strength of virtue.

The truth, as a wise man once said, is like a lion. We need not defend it. It needs only to be unleashed.

This article was originally published on The O’Leary Review.

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Which do you choose: being "nice," or speaking truth through charity??

Pray for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle...

St. Joseph pray for us!!

Gene DeLalla