Our responsibilities as citizens; as parents.

Like it or not, we live in a contorted, emasculated world, where priorities have been turned upside-down.  These circumstances present more challenges and more needed solutions if we are to be good stewards of the freedoms that are still left to us and our families, especially, our children.  What kind of world will they face if nothing changes in the coming days, weeks, months and years.

We see anarchy and rebellion, supported and encouraged by those individuals hell-bent on changing, not only our country, but the world at large, in my opinion, for the worse.

The evisceration of our precious God-given rights, especially the right to life, is coming under constant attack by those who have lost the ability to discern right from wrong, good from evil.  This, I believe, is done out of malice, if not out of ignorance.

If they succeed in corrupting and influencing the younger generation, especially those children that have been entrusted to their parents as gifts from Above, the "bad guys" will win the war for their souls; their future.  This cannot happen; we cannot let it happen!

What is necessary is to re-focus our efforts to be good and decent citizens; to give good example to our neighbors, friends, extended family members, but most importantly, to our own families.  Remember: charity begins at home.  There is much truth in this.

The family unit is the bedrock and building block of society.  It also implies the preservation of traditional morals, and acceptable behavior of our offspring (read: discipline), without which, there is chaos, not only in the family unit, but also in society at large.

Fathers must be fathers!  Mothers must be mothers!

The roles of each are crucial to the success of the family.  This is a natural observation and conclusion of the roles of each party.

The father should be the head of the family, and the mother should be the heart of the family; the two being complimentary.  Children, being the "sponges" they are, will observe and "record" what they see and hear between mom and dad, the effects can be immense, and, hopefully, for the positive, not the negative!

I would be remiss in leaving out those who choose the single state in life.

They too, must be good citizens, and have much to offer according to their particular talents contributing to the stability and preservation of societal norms.

In conclusion, we are all directed to be perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect.  A lofty goal?  Yes, very lofty.  Is it attainable?  Maybe, maybe not, but at least we have to try our best.

Pray for direction, and pray for our country.

Gene DeLalla 

Ben Franklin was right: if you give up freedom for security, you deserve neither.

Let me ask you all a question: since "9/11," how many professional baseball games, football games, basketball games, hockey games, soccer games, not to mention college baseball games, basketball games, football games, soccer games have been played all across the country?

Go, on, take a guess...

I'll take a guess: 50,000?  100,000?   200,000?

And I haven't even included any high school games of various sorts.

Actually, your guess is as good as mine.

Next question: how many "9/11's" have there been since September, 11, 2001?

Okay, here's the answer: there haven't been any other "9/11's".

Why is that?

Do you even have an answer?

I'll give you my answer: there haven't been any other "9/11's" because "9/11" was planned from the beginning and carried out, not by a bunch a Arab loonies, but by the traitors within our own governmental structure.

There has been much written about this momentous event, but I'll just skim the surface here...

Realize, that anyone who dares to question the official government investigative report, or offers another explanation, they, or we, or I, are quickly labeled quacks, or conspiracy nuts.

The question begs: where is the real conspiracy?

A little background is in order here; first, I was in two branches of the military, the first, as an Air Force Security Policeman, originally stationed at a Strategic Air Command base, then a year in Vietnam.  The second, I was a Coast Guard search and rescue radioman (communications specialist).

While in SAC (the acronym for Strategic Air Command), NORAD (North American Air Defense Command -- jointly operated by American and Canadian personnel) was SAC's "eyes" and "ears."

Every missile or plane or satellite that was ever launched, was immediately tracked by NORAD; if a threat was determined to be real, then that entity notified SAC.  This is important because the commercial jet airliners -- if that's what they were -- that went off course and headed into the Twin Towers, was seen by, and reported up the chain of command by NORAD.

Fighter jets then were supposed to be scrambled to intercept the errant jets and take them down.  That was not done.  It is a fact, that some were directed out to sea -- because of some supposed military exercise -- while others were commanded to "stand down."  Translation: the civilian authorities ordered the military not to intercept the rogue jet airliners.

But it's not only New York that was targeted, the Pentagon was also targeted.  Keep in mind that the air space over New York, and especially that over or near the Pentagon and D.C., is highly restricted; nothing would be allowed to get that close to the iconic building housing the heart and soul of the American Defense Department.

But no fighter jets were dispatched to take out the plane (or missile?) that hit the Pentagon.  None.

I could go on and on here, but suffice to say that if the Towers were not evidence enough of planned demolition, then I bring your attention to Building 7; a 47-story-skyscraper that fell into it's own footprint -- at free-fall speed,

A perfectly planned demolition!  Perfect!

Also, take a look at a much less known or discussed Building 6, and try to figure out what happened to that structure!

The points being made here, is that just before "9//11," and just after, federal legislation was enacted to severely restrict or contract our freedoms all in the name of security, with fear of other "attacks" being the main weapon that the out of control oligarchy, concerned not with our safety or those precious freedoms, but the monies and power that is always behind such disastrous exploits.

So let me repeat: of all those sporting games that I mentioned at the beginning of my article, notice that not one "terror" attack was carried out on all those vulnerable fans, soaking up the sun and beer.

Not one...

Have we been lied to?

Ben Franklin was correct: if you give up freedom for security, you deserve neither.

Gene DeLalla

The culture of death; read and heed.

The following article is from Lifenews.com.

Elderly Woman Resisted Being Euthanized When She Saw the Needle, So Her Family Held Her Down

International  

SPUC   Jul 27, 2018   |   1:15PM    Amsterdam, Netherlands

Share this story

A Dutch doctor who was rebuked for killing an elderly dementia patient without consent and in a traumatic manner has been given a formal reprimand by the Dutch medical complaints board, and may now face criminal charges.

Worldwide horror

The case involved a woman in her seventies, who was placed in a care home after her dementia became so advanced that her husband could no longer cope with care at home. She was distressed and frightened, and after a few weeks, the doctor at the home determined that she was suffering unbearably. He concluded that she was not mentally competent, but that an earlier statement in her will that she wanted euthanasia “when I myself find it the right time”; justified killing her.

The story was greeted with horror around the world, as it emerged that the doctor drugged the victim’s coffee, and had her family hold her down as she tried to fight off the lethal injection. Despite the woman not being mentally competent to consent to being killed, a review panel cleared the doctor of all charges.

No consent given

Now, the Dutch medical complaints board has formally reprimanded the unnamed doctor -the first case in which a practitioner has been formally censured since the Netherlands made it legal for doctors to kill patients at their request in 2002.

The board said that the woman’s will was contradictory, and that although she said she wanted to die on some days, on others she did not. She had written an ‘advance directive’ asking to be killed if her dementia became too severe, but whenever the issue of asking to die was raised, she also added: “Not now, it’s not so bad yet”. The board found that the doctor should have discussed the fact that a sedative was put in her coffee – which did not happen – and only carried out euthanasia if she agreed.

Criminal charges

The chief public prosecutor at The Hague is investigating whether there are grounds for criminal charges to be laid against the doctor, with an announcement expected after the summer.

Even a euthanasia advocate who was involved in a historic case at the Supreme Court that helped set the legal conditions for the procedure in the Netherlands condemned the killing of the woman. ‘This case is appalling,’ said Dr Boudewijn Chabot, adding that the euthanasia of the Alzheimer’s patient “goes beyond the law as we understand it.”

Slippery slope

In March, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service announced that it has begun investigations into four cases of euthanasia, including one of a woman with Alzheimer’s who was killed without consent. The dangers of legalized euthanasia to the vulnerable have also been highlighted in Belgium. It emerged this week that three children, one only nine years old, have had their lives ended by doctors since the euthanasia of minors was legalized in 2016.

End of article...

My comment: this is outrageous and disgusting.  But is par for the course for the culture of death now so prevalent in this country and around the world.  Why would anyone be surprised to read such things, when babies are slaughtered in the womb at the rate of nearly 3,000 every single day in the U.S.?   Life has little value among some; it is a war against the gift of life, hence, it is a war against God Almighty.  There will be a heavy price to pay for those that kill the innocent, unless there is repentance.   May God have mercy on our country! 

Can't trust the lying media.

The title of my short article is an understatement.

Just imagine if former president Obama had lies told about him on a daily basis, not one lie, but many lies -- day in, and day out.  Do you think that folks hearing those lies will, eventually, begin to believe those lies?  Such tactics have been used since the Fall (that's the fall from the Garden)!

But keep in mind that if Obama was lied about, whoever, or whatever entity was telling those lies, would be called a racist, or a bigot.

Racist; bigot -- two words that have been used and abused to describe President Trump ever since he took office back in January, of 2017.

It seems the lies that have been floating around regarding President Trump, are plastered all over the "6 o'clock news," as well as the various rags that pass for newspapers and magazines these days. (I would be insulting my pet bird if I used those publications to line his cage to absorb his droppings!)

But why are the media attacking our president -- and he is our president!  Remember, he destroyed his opponent in an electoral landslide!  And the Hillary lovers just can't take it.  That is why their hate and malice continues, and will continue, so long as President Trump stays the course.  

He is an "outsider," and that is like pouring salt on the wound!

I love it!

He also acknowledges God Almighty, another reason the hard-left, liberals hate his guts.  Most are atheists anyway, and that includes such miscreants as self-described "devout Catholic" Nancy Pelosi; Biden, Kerry, the list of apostate "Catholics" is almost endless.  Most are for the killing of the pre-born, deceived by the demon, that it is a woman's "right," found somewhere in the Constitution.
 
Sick.

Well, here is some real, big news: God will not be mocked.  He will have His Justice!  And if anyone thinks that God's mercy is endless, boundless, never-ending, regardless of the grievous and grave sins of mankind, you are dead wrong.

I suggest we all pray for our country, and frequently at that.

Gene DeLalla

Is the United States a Christian nation?

Though I love my country, my fatherland, I have to say that the United States is not a Christian nation.

There was a time, however, that it was becoming a CATHOLIC territory long before it became an un-Christian nation.

Those brave missionaries, both Spanish and French, evangelized many of the native tribes long before the Protestants undid much of the work of converting those savages to the Catholic faith.

There was a miraculous exception BEFORE the Catholic missionaries reached certain native tribes of New Spain.  This miraculous exception was due to a woman, a saintly Catholic woman, Blessed Mary of Agreda, who, believe it or not, actually BI-LOCATED to what was to become, geographically, the southwestern part of the U.S.

By the way, bi-location means that someone was in two places at once.  Mary of Agreda remained in her convent, at Agreda, Spain, when, at the same time, this "Lady in Blue" catechized and baptized the Jumanos ("Indians") of the future New Mexico and Texas.

I am digressing here, so let me return to the original thesis of this short article...

First, the "We the people" beginning of the bedrock founding document of the United States of America, the Constitution, though noble to be sure, lacks the acknowledgment that it is God Almighty that grants the power and rights to His people, not the people granting themselves power and rights over those under their jurisdiction.

The Declaration of Independence, on the other hand, does acknowledge "...the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God..." and: "...that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..."

Unfortunately, the system that the Constitution has institutionalized is basically majority rule; mob rule, to be blunt.

So, does that mean that if a majority decides that the killing of the pre-born is "okay," then that is the law of the land (settled law)?  As we have seen, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled just that way, so in the interim, since 1973, 60-plus million pre-born babies have been slaughtered under the guise of a woman's "right to chose."  

A Christian nation?  God bless America?

How and why could He bless America?

This is why we cannot, as a people, put our trust or hope in any one individual or political party so long as those representatives act as though their power comes from the people, and not from God Almighty.  Remember, Christ told Pilate that he would have no power over Him if that power did not come from ABOVE (meaning from His Father!).

A true Christian nation would not live by majority rule, but JUST and moral governance over its people, under Natural and Divine Law.

Pope Leo XIII complimented America because here, Catholics could worship freely, but at the same time he condemned what is called "Americanism."  Simply stated, Americanism refers to the weakening of the doctrines and dogmas of our holy Faith in order to get along with our non-Catholic brethren.  The problem with such a scenario, is that many of the hard truths of the Faith are watered down or outright hidden from those that are in need of evangelization and conversion.

I'm afraid that these days instead of being Catholic Americans, we have become American Catholics. There is a wide chasm between the two meanings, one that sacrifices truth for "peace".

Our job as faithful Catholics is to make waves, to convert those outside the Church.  This can be done within our own, individual talents or ministries as St. Paul indicates.  We at least have to try, doing anything less, and we fail to live up to the command to preach and baptize all nations...

Pray for our country.

Gene DeLalla  

The Cuomo Mob Organization.

Murder, Inc., can take on many forms, such as "planned parenthood," or, a family of ultra-liberal "Catholics" -- the worst kind!

I bring your attention to the Cuomo Mob Organization of New York State (and CNN).

Here we have the so-called "Catholic" former governor of New York State, Mario Cuomo, who went to his judgment before the Just Judge, back in 2015.  He had a lot to answer for; being "personally" opposed to abortion, but stating that the state had no right to ban -- the murder of the pre-born.  Does that sound familiar?  How many times have we heard "Catholic" politicians repeat that mantra?

His son, Andrew Cuomo, is now governor of New York.  Andrew, also a "Catholic," and divorced, is shacking up with his paramour, Sandra Lee, yet still receives Holy Communion from the hands of the his corrupt "bishop."  Sacrilege!

And then there is Christopher (Chris) Cuomo, a host of the fake news network, CNN. Also a "Catholic," can't seem to figure out just when a new life begins in the womb of her mother...

Again, the radical left, pro-death "Catholics" are entrenched in the culture of death, and for all practical purposes, have sold their souls for position, power and money in this world, hell-bent for hell in the next.

So be it.

But there is more.  It is called scandal.  In this case, to the young impressionable minds that look up to these mobsters for some type of direction in their lives, only to be deceived by the prince of this world, educating them in the ways of death, through the heinous act of abortion, as well as the choice of homosexuality, euthanasia, contraception, you name it, they learn it.

Our God is, indeed, merciful, but mercy is tempered with justice, and He will have His justice fulfilled.

Pray for these "Catholics," and pray for our country.

Gene DeLalla

A "personal relationship" with Christ...

Does anyone have Protestant friends?

I do.

When in conversation with your dear, non-Catholic friends, how many times have you heard them say they have a "personal relationship" with Christ?

I have, many times.

Pardon my ignorance, but I'm a little unsure where they get that from, or what that means.

I don't think it's in the Bible, so where do they get that notion from?

Is it made up?  Who knows?

It's a little like claiming to be a Christian; seems like that august handle is applied to an awful lot of folk these days.  Another topic of discussion, I'm sure, but maybe at a later date...

What I do know, is that our "separated brethren," who claim to read and know the Bible, it seems to me, have been very selective in what they read and understand.

Don't get me wrong, anyone who is "biblical" by nature is heading in the right direction, but he or she just hasn't reached their final destination, meaning the fullness of the truth of revealed religion (Scripture and Tradition -- that's tradition with a capital "T").

They seem to be trying to navigate those insidious roadblocks, or wrong turns on the narrow, dimly lit highway that leads to the heavenly Beatitude.

I, for one, don't want to see my Protestant friends -- those that I love -- miss that important turn that will get them back on the right road.

One aspect of that "right road," is the real personal relationship that, dare I say, only we Catholics have.

If that shocks any non-Catholic, it should.

But it is easy to understand, that is, if one is, in fact, open to the truth and willing to accept that truth.

What kind of "personal relationship" with Christ am I talking about?

The most intimate of all: the Holy Eucharist.

When we (Catholics) receive Holy Communion, we are receiving the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ!

Yes, a miracle!  It happens at every Catholic Mass!  I see "It" with my own eyes; I receive "It" on my tongue and into my body!  But only if I'm worthy to do so!

Is there factual information in the Bible to back up this incredible miracle that I just described?

Of course there is, otherwise I wouldn't have dared to mention such a momentous, earth-shattering event.

Before I provide such information, let us contemplate just what is happening here: the Creator of the universe, comes to us, and in us, so we can eventually reach Him, and be with Him forever.

Can our limited mental capacities really comprehend this?  Personally, it is difficult for me to understand, but it's true nonetheless!  

And now the proof: this is the "hard" part for those who may fight this revelation, but if one is sincere, then he or she will be open for, and, I hope, accept these facts.

I point to St. John, Chapter 6 -- all of it.  And, no, the eating of the flesh and drinking of the blood, is not a metaphor.  See what happens when the disciples "walked no more" ("because this saying is hard").

Then, we must also consider the great Apostle to the Gentiles, St. Paul, once a persecutor of the early Christians, who, himself partook of the Eucharist!  Read 1 Corinthians, Chapter 10; 16-17; 1 Corinthians, Chapter 11, 23-27.  Again, if the Eucharist is a metaphor, then what St. Paul says would make absolutely no sense at all.

I ask those non-Catholics to honestly dwell and reflect on this critical, soul-saving information.

No, I'm not attempting to say "see, I told you so," or win a debate, I just want to bring the relevant facts of an astounding miracle that every Catholic priest confects at every Mass.  Come and see for yourselves...

May God bless all of good will...

Gene DeLalla