Is Washington State -- And The Trump Administration -- Suffering From Schizophrenia When It Comes To The Abortion "Issue"?

I'm really beginning to wonder...

Just the other day, apostate "Catholic" Democrat governor of Washington State, Ferguson, signed a bill into law forcing Catholic priests to break the seal of Confession!

Sorry, gov, it ain't gonna happen -- because real Catholic priests will go to jail rather than break that sacrosanct seal realizing, if they do break that seal, they are automatically ex-communicated from the Catholic Church and are no longer Catholic, let alone priests!

Sorry to say that Ferguson is a radical pro-death "Catholic" -- but I'm sure he still receives the Holy Eucharist along with his buddies in the culture of death, Biden, Pelosi, et al! Committing the grievous mortal sin of sacrilege -- over and over and over...!

But on the other hand, the Washington state legislature passed a budget that -- ready! -- Cuts $8.5 Million From Abortion Program, Babies Will be Saved!!

Here is an article from lifenews.com and written by Steven Ertelt | May 4, 2025 | 7:20PM | Olympia, Washington: Washington State Cuts $8.5 Million From Abortion Program, Babies Will be Saved - LifeNews.com


"In a victory for the pro-life movement, Washington state lawmakers have slashed $8.5 million from the state’s Abortion Access Project, marking the largest cut to abortion funding in the state’s history.

The decision, finalized on April 26, is being hailed by pro-life advocates as a critical step toward protecting unborn children.

The Democratic-controlled Senate and House approved a biennial budget that reduced funding for the Abortion Access Project by 55%, a program that has paid for killing babies in abortions since the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

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Pro-life advocates argue that the program’s funding has enabled a culture of death, pointing to a 2025 New York Times investigation that exposed operational issues at some Planned Parenthood clinics as evidence of mismanagement in the abortion industry.

The budget takes effect July 1, and pro-life groups are already mobilizing to build on this momentum. Some are advocating for increased funding for crisis pregnancy centers, which offer counseling, ultrasounds, and material support to women facing unplanned pregnancies.

The budget cut comes at a pivotal moment in Washington, where pro-life advocates have raised alarms over recent legislation that pushes the boundaries of abortion extremism. Earlier this year, Democratic lawmakers passed a bill critics argue effectively legalizes infanticide by loosening oversight on late-term abortions and perinatal care.

Signed by Gov. Bob Ferguson, the measure has galvanized pro-life activists, who see the funding cut as a counterbalance to the state’s increasingly pro-abortion tact."

End of article...

President Trump's administration asks judge to toss suit restricting access to abortion medication!

What??

From breitbart.com and written by the 

AP

6 May 2025: Trump administration asks judge to toss suit restricting access to abortion medication - Breitbart

"President Donald Trump’s administration has asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three Republican-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to the abortion medication mifepristone

"WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three Republican-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to the abortion medication mifepristone.

Justice Department attorneys on Monday stayed the legal course charted by the Biden administration, though they didn’t directly weigh in on the underlying issue of access to the drug, which is part of the nation’s most common method of abortion.

Rather, the government argued the states don’t have the legal right, or standing, to sue.

“The states are free to pursue their claims in a district where venue is proper, but the states’ claims before this court must be dismissed or transferred pursuant to the venue statute’s mandatory command,” federal government attorneys wrote.

The lawsuit from Idaho, Kansas and Missouri argues that the Food and Drug Administration should roll back access to mifepristone. They filed their complaint after the Supreme Court preserved access to mifepristone last year. They want the FDA to prohibit telehealth prescriptions for mifepristone, require three in-office visits and restrict the point in a pregnancy when it can be used.

The case is being considered in Texas by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump nominee who once ruled in favor of halting approval for the drug.

Kacsmaryk’s original ruling came in a lawsuit filed by anti-abortion groups. It was narrowed by an appeals court before being tossed out by the Supreme Court, which found the plaintiffs lacked the legal right to sue.

The three states later moved to revive the case, arguing they did have legal standing because access to the drug undermined their abortion laws.

But the Department of Justice attorneys said the states can’t just piggyback on the earlier lawsuit as a way to keep the case in Texas.

Nothing is stopping the states from filing the lawsuit someplace else, attorney Daniel Schwei wrote, but the venue has to have some connection to the claims being made.

Besides, Schwei wrote, the states are challenging actions the FDA took in 2016, when it first loosened restrictions on mifeprostone. That’s well past the six-year time limit to sue, he said.

Abortion is banned at all stages of pregnancy in Idaho. Missouri had a strict ban, but clinics recently began offering abortions again after voters approved a new constitutional amendment for reproductive rights. Abortion is generally legal up to 22 weeks in Kansas, where voters rejected an anti-abortion ballot measure in 2022, though the state does have age restrictions.

Trump told Time magazine in December he would not restrict access to abortion medication. On the campaign trail, the Republican said abortion is an issue for the states and stressed that he appointed justices to the Supreme Court who were in the majority when striking down the national right to abortion in 2022.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stance on abortion seems to have shifted at times, drawing criticism from both abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion forces. During his first confirmation hearing in January, he repeatedly said, “I have always believed abortion is a tragedy,” when pressed about his views.

Mifepristone is usually used in combination with a second drug for medication abortion, which has accounted for more than three-fifths of all abortions in the U.S. since the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade."

End of articles...

I have said this many times, we cannot look to any one politician or political party to "save us," only One can save, Our Blessed Lord, Jesus!

Pray for the complete conversion of President Trump and those under him, and 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

A Lamb And A Shepherd Among Wolves And How Catholic Priests Suffered And Died At The Hands Of The Nazis...

 A hero Catholic priest...

The following article is from crisismagazince.com and written by Joseph Pearce: A Lamb and a Shepherd Among Wolves - Crisis Magazine (Published on May 3, 2025)

"In the previous essay in this series, we honored Blessed Otto Neururer, the first priest to be executed by the Nazis. We also acknowledged those better-known victims of the Third Reich’s anti-Christian pogrom, St. Maximilian Kolbe and St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein). It is also fitting, however, that we should commemorate some other largely-unknown victims of Hitler’s National Socialist regime. 

On August 9, 1943, on the first anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross at Auschwitz, a devout Austrian Catholic, Franz Jägerstätter, was guillotined at Brandenburg-Görden Prison in Germany. The “crime” for which he was executed was being a conscientious objector who refused to be enlisted in the Wehrmacht, the army of the Third Reich. His martyrdom was the culmination of five years of passive resistance to the Nazis.

In March 1938, after German troops occupied Austria, Jägerstätter was the only person in his village to vote against the annexation of Austria (the Anschluss) in the following month’s referendum to ratify de jure what the Nazis had already accomplished de facto with their military occupation of the country. “I believe there could scarcely be a sadder hour for the true Christian faith in our country,” he wrote. 

Jägerstätter attended Mass daily and served as the sacristan at the local parish church. On December 8, 1940, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, he became a Third Order Franciscan. In February 1943, he was conscripted into the army of the Third Reich. Firm in his resolution to refuse to serve the Nazi cause, he declared his conscientious objection and was immediately arrested, interrogated repeatedly, and imprisoned. From Tegel Prison in Berlin, he wrote: 

Is it not more Christian to offer oneself as a victim right away rather than first have to murder others who certainly have a right to live and want to live—just to prolong one’s own life a little while?

The crime for which Jägerstätter stood accused was Wehrkraftzersetzung (undermining military morale), for which he was sentenced to death. A few days later, he was visited in prison by his wife and his parish priest, both of whom tried to talk him into saving his life by serving in the army. As he and his wife had three daughters, the eldest of whom was only six years old, one can only imagine the temptation he must have felt to fight for a cause which he knew to be evil. In the end, his conscience prevailed over the pleadings of his wife and his parish priest. It would be better for his daughters to see their father as a martyr, he explained to his wife, than to see him as a Nazi collaborator. It would be better for his daughters to see their father as a martyr, he explained to his wife, than to see him as a Nazi collaborator. Tweet This

As he prepared to die, Jägerstätter’s resolve was strengthened by the example of the Austrian priest, Franz Reinisch, who had been executed a year earlier for his refusal to take the Hitler oath required of all conscripts to the military. Minutes before his execution, Jägerstätter refused to sign a document which would have saved his life, determined to avoid any complicity with the Nazi regime. 

Jägerstätter’s last recorded words before his death are those of a true Christian martyr: “I am completely bound in inner union with the Lord.”

As one who offered his life as a sacrificial lamb, in union with the Lamb Himself, Franz Jägerstätter was duly honored by the Church. In June 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued an apostolic exhortation declaring him a martyr. Four months later, Jägerstätter was beatified. In attendance at the beatification ceremony were sixty members of Jägerstätter’s family, including his widow and their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Their presence was a living testimony to the culture of life for which he had laid down his own life more than sixty years earlier. 

Although Franz Jägerstätter is not as well-known as he should be, he is nonetheless much better known than Fr. Gabriel Gay, a faithful shepherd of his flock in the midst of wolves, who would also fall victim to the Nazis. 

Born in 1911 and still a very young man when he was ordained to the priesthood in 1935, Fr. Gay was a parish priest in Nantua, a town in the Jura Mountains of eastern France, near the Swiss border, at the outbreak of World War II. During the German occupation, Nantua was known as a center for the French Resistance. In December 1943, German troops surrounded the town and began door-to-door searches of the homes, arresting 150 men between the ages of 18 and 40. Fr. Gay was among those arrested. He was sent to various camps, including Buchenwald, before arriving in April 1944, with other members of his Nantuatien flock, at the Hradischko concentration camp in what is now the Czech Republic. 

According to witnesses, the priest showed great courage in the trials and tribulations of life in the camp, offering comfort to all, but especially to his fellow Nantuatiens. Every evening after work, he would pass through the camp, including the infirmary, giving hope in desperate times through his own faith and serenity. When possible, he held secret Masses and prayer vigils. 

In April 1945, as the Germans prepared to abandon the camps during the final weeks of the war, they began killing the prisoners by spraying machine-gun fire into the columns of inmates as they marched to work. On April 11, the seven surviving Nantuatiens, including Fr. Gay, were sprayed with bullets. The priest and those others who were wounded but not killed outright by the machine-gun fire were forced into the adjacent wood. There, each of them received a bullet to the head. 

Although a monument to the deportees was erected in Nantua in 1949, the heroic shepherd of his afflicted flock, Fr. Gabriel Gay, is yet to be recognized by the Church. It is only right and just, however, that this self-sacrificial shepherd should be celebrated alongside the sacrificial lamb Blessed Franz Jägerstätter. May their prayers deliver Europe from the wolves of secularism and restore the European nations to the Faith which forged them."  

I am grateful to Ira Katz for drawing my attention to Blessed Franz Jägerstätter and Fr. Gabriel Gay. Mr. Katz’s own essays on these two unsung heroes of Christendom can be found at lewrockwell.com.

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  Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). The author of over thirty books, he is editor of the St. Austin Review, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative and Crisis Magazine. His personal website is http://www.jpearce.co. 

(Where are the modern-day hero-priests?)

End of article...  But not the end of the story!

As an aside, as it is believed that the Holocaust destroyed at least 6,000,000 Jews, and others, it should also be noted that many of those "others" were Catholic clergy and laity; Poland was especially targeted (see an excerpt taken from Catholic Martyrs of the Holocaust | Catholic Answers Magazine and written by Matthew E. Bunson.)

"The Persecution of Poland

Poland was especially singled out for brutality. Jewish Poles were targeted for extermination through work and the gas chambers, while the rest of Poland witnessed the elimination of the country’s political, intellectual, and military classes and the reduction of the surviving population to a vast labor pool. Between 1939 and 1945 at least 1.5 million Poles were transported to the Reich for labor. To decimate Polish culture, the Germans closed or obliterated universities, schools, museums, libraries, and scientific centers.

The most feared Polish institution, of course, was the Church, as it had given hope to the Polish people and had encouraged.aspirations of Polish culture, learning, and independence. In the annexed regions of Poland, Nazi officials closed churches, seminaries, convents, and seminaries, and the majority of priests were arrested or executed. Between 1939 and 1945 over 3,000 members of the Polish clergy were killed; 1,992 of them died in concentration camps, 787 of them at Dachau (see “The Priests of Dachau,” page 22). Altogether, estimates place the number of Polish civilians killed in the war at between 5 and 5.5 million, including 3 million Polish Jews, not even counting over a half million Polish civilians and military personnel killed in the fighting.

The Priests of Dachau

The Dachau concentration camp was used by the Nazis for many of its most hated enemies. Among them were Catholic priests. Indeed, of the 2,720 clergy sent to Dachau, 2,579 were Catholic priests, along with uncertain numbers of seminarians and lay brothers. Most were Polish priests, 1,748 in all; there were also 411 German priests. Of the 1,034 priests who died in the camp, 868 were Polish. The priests were housed in a special “priest block” and were targeted for especially brutal treatment by the SS guards.

It is estimated that at least 3,000 other Polish priests were sent to other concentration camps, including Auschwitz, while priests from across Europe were condemned to death and labor camps: 300 priests died at Sachsenhausen, 780 at Mauthausen, and 5,000 at Buchenwald. These numbers do not include the priests who were murdered en route to the camps or who died from diseases and exhaustion in the inhuman cattle cars used to transport victims. Several thousand nuns were also sent to camps or killed on the way.

The list of victims is a very long one, and the suffering on a daily basis by the priests is unimaginable. For many, the ordeal lasted for years. Adam Kozlowiecki, a Polish priest, was arrested by the Gestapo in November 1939 and was sent to Auschwitz in 1940; transferred to Dachau in December 1940, he spent the next five years there until he was freed by the U.S. army on April 29, 1945. Kozlowiecki was made a cardinal in 1998. A few of the other notable priests at Dachau were Bl. Michal Kozal, Bl. Stefan Grelewski, Bl. Stefan Frelichowski, Bl. Karl Leisner, and Bl. Titus Brandsma."

Priests at Dachau Tell Their Stories

• Christ in Dachau by Fr. John Lenz (Our Sunday Visitor, 2008)
• Priestblock 25487: A Memoir of Dachau by Fr. Jean Bernard (Zaccheus Press, 2007)
• The Ninth Day (2004), a film about Fr. Jean Bernard’s experience in Dachau

Matthew E. Bunson • 11/1/2008Matthew E. Bunson • 11/1/2008

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 

BREAKING: Washington Governor Signs Bill Forcing Priests To Break Seal Of Confession!!

 I want you folks to listen to the apostate "Catholic" governor of Washington state attempt to explain the reasons and justifications for signing this diabolical bill: he can barely put two sentences together; he is stammering and obviously very nervous!

From lifesitenews.com and written by Matt Lamb Fri May 2, 2025 - 2:21 pm EDT: BREAKING: Washington governor signs bill forcing priests to break Seal of Confession - LifeSite

"OLYMPIA, Washington (LifeSiteNews) — Citing his alleged Catholic faith, Washington’s leftist Democratic Governor Bob Ferguson signed a bill today that orders priests to divulge when they hear of purported abuse in the confessional – or face potential jail time.

The governor also cited his uncle, a Jesuit priest, when signing the bill.

Ferguson is a liberal, pro-abortion, pro-LGBT governor. While running for governor, but still serving as attorney general, he threatened prosecution against several other candidates with the same name. He also initiated legally dubious investigations into pro-life nonprofits while serving as attorney general. He additionally supports prosecuting Christians who decline to provide their services to homosexual “weddings.”

READ: Washington state Democrats pass bill effectively legalizing infanticide

SB 5375 is the latest attempt by Washington state Sen. Noel Frame to force Catholic priests to break the Seal of Confession and reveal what they hear in the confessional – or go to jail. The bill explicitly singles out priests, removing their “privileged communication” exception, while allowing it for professionals who may hear of abuse.

Frame previously cited the Catholic Church’s support for penitential secrecy in her decision to no longer practice Catholicism. However, she already had a history of supporting abortion and the LGBT movement, as LifeSiteNews previously reported.

“At this time the Washington State Catholic Conference has no comment,” Tracey Yackley told LifeSiteNews on Friday morning when asked prior to the signing for comment.

The debate over the bill often involved severe misunderstandings of how the Catholic Church operates, with some people asking why the late Pope Francis could not simply change the Church’s teaching about the Seal of Confession. Frame herself berated Seattle Auxiliary Bishop Frank Schuster for not agreeing with her on this bill. Bishop Schuster shared how he counseled victims of abuse and could still help them while protecting Confession.

Last year, a similar bill that was backed by the Washington Catholic Conference, though not by all bishops in the state, died.

At the time, Frame and the Catholic conference gave contradictory explanations for the bill. Frame told her colleagues that she wanted to go further and eliminate all exemptions but that such a bill could not pass. Meanwhile, the Catholic conference said it supported this bill because it feared a law eliminating all exemptions would pass, as LifeSiteNews previously reported.

This year, Frame’s bill includes no exemptions at all for the religious liberties of priests. It passed the state senate 28 to 20 – all but two Democrats voted to violate the religious freedom of Catholics and remove the clergy-penitent privilege. All Republicans voted against the measure on February 28.

Senate Bill 5375 and House Bill 1211 in the state of Washington are “no exemption” bills that remove all protections for what priests hear in Confession when it comes to alleged abuse. Frame said the bill will not compel priests to testify but only to report abuse. However, that is not written in the text of the law.

Furthermore, a priest would presumably have to reveal the name of a person admitting to the abuse in the confessional in order to alert authorities about a child who might allegedly be at risk, as LifeSiteNews previously reported.

Frame previously dismissed religious freedom concerns during a hearing. “I have tried really hard over the last couple of years to find a balance and to strike a careful compromise,” she claimed before saying “sorry” for not being willing to “make a compromise anymore.” She criticized efforts to protect clergy-penitent privilege “in the name of religious freedom.”

Yet canon law is incredibly clear on this issue.

Canon 1386 states, “A confessor (priest) who directly violates the sacramental seal incurs a latae sententiae excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See; he who does so only indirectly is to be punished according to the gravity of the offence.”

Efforts to force priests to do so, including Montana and Washington this year, have drawn condemnation from Catholic groups as well as several legal experts.

“Putting aside the obvious violation of the sanctity of the confessional, it presents a novel problem for priests if they both encourage the faithful to unburden themselves while at the same time reminding them anything that they say can and will be used against them in a court of law,” Professor Jonathan Turley previously wrote on his commentary website.

“In my view, the Washington State law is a frontal attack on free exercise and would be struck down if enacted,” the George Washington University law professor wrote.

“The only question is why Democrats consider such legislation to be any more viable politically than it is constitutionally.”'

End of very revealing article...

I would venture to say that this "Catholic" governor also receives Holy Communion?!

Does he not fear the Lord of Hosts?  Does he not fear for his immortal soul?

Does he not fear spending eternity with the Evil One, Satan?

We must all pray for the defeat of such "Catholics," and for their conversion back to the Catholic Faith -- and, with that, the Natural Law!

Pray for strength and honor -- and for the priests who are under the gun of these modernist maniacs!

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

Famed Investigative Journalist James O’Keefe Drops Cryptic Message: “I Am Not Suicidal… Please Pray For Me”!

 Truth and justice are very difficult to come by these days, whether in the secular or ecclesiastical realm, yet there are those who dig for those elusive virtues even at the risk of their own lives or fortunes.

Love him or hate him, such a one, is James O'Keefe...

I am going to post an article from thegatewaypundit.com and written by Jim Hᴏft Apr. 30, 2025 5:30 pm: Famed Investigative Journalist James O’Keefe Drops Cryptic Message: "I am Not Suicidal... Please Pray for Me" | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft.

I think you will see why he asks for prayers, and, as our Dear Lord admonished us, we must pray -- even for our enemies!  So, if you consider Mr. O'Keefe an enemy, a "tin-foil-hat" wearer, so be it, but he is asking for those very same prayers!  So, let's do it for him and his family, and we'll see just what devastating bombshell information he has to release!

"James O’Keefe, the fearless journalist who rocked the political establishment with undercover exposés of ACORN, Planned Parenthood, and Big Tech, has just released a cryptic and chilling message that’s raising alarms across social media.

In a video posted to X, O’Keefe appeared visibly shaken as he stated, “I’m going dark. I’m not suicidal. Pray for me. This one scares me, guys.” The message was accompanied by the ominous caption: “T-minus seven days.”

“T-minus seven days” is a countdown expression that means seven days remain until a specific event occurs.

WATCH:

While O’Keefe has not revealed exactly what is coming, The Gateway Pundit previously reported that he is preparing to drop the biggest story of his career—something involving massive government corruption and potentially tens of billions of dollars in fraud.

James O’Keefe of the O’Keefe Media Group said he is dropping a massive bombshell within the next month or so.

O’Keefe said what he is releasing is bigger than his work exposing ACORN.

“This is ACORN 2.0? Or is it bigger?” podcast host Benny Johnson asked O’Keefe.

James O’Keefe said it’s much bigger.

“No, it’s much bigger because we’re talking about corrupt government… Billions of dollars – tens of billions… stay tuned,” O’Keefe said.

“I have these people breaking the law,” O’Keefe said.

WATCH:

James O’Keefe also said there is more to come on Epstein.

“I think it’s time for the citizen journalists to release more on Epstein. If they’re going to kill us, they’ll have to kill us all. Coming soon…” O’Keefe said.

O’Keefe’s cryptic warning comes as he continues a very public battle against Project Veritas board member Matthew Tyrmand — the man O’Keefe says orchestrated his ouster from the organization he founded.

Here’s the tweet from O’Keefe:

This is Matthew Tyrmand. He is the board member who fired me from Project Veritas. While few may know who he is, that’s about to change soon.

We’ve obtained new evidence about what happened. He knows what he did. That’s why he sends pornographic, unhinged messages to me on a weekly basis. That’s why one message was a picture of me nailed to a Crucifix. That’s why he posted private medical records and intimate texts of employees loved ones who he wanted to harm. The messages were obtained from devices of employees.

 That’s why he said he wanted to “carve out James heart and eat it in front of him.”

This man is afraid because he has been subpoenaed. He has much to hide. He will be brought to justice, so help me God.

Trending: RFK Jr. Names the Government Agency Behind America’s Geoengineering Nightmare

Stay tuned.

Jim Hᴏft

Jim Hᴏft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016.

You can email Jim Hᴏft here, and read more of Jim Hᴏft's articles here.

End of very revealing article...

Pray for strength and honor -- especially for Mr. O'Keefe!

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