Frank Sinatra...

 When we hear the name of the famous entertainer, Frank Sinatra, our minds can conjure up certain images from all the news and information that we've heard over the years.  You don't have to be in your 70's, or older, to know that he was married multiple times, or that he and the "Rat Pack" (from the 1960's) hung around together, accompanied by some very beautiful women, not to mention heavy drinking and the like...

Mr. Sinatra was a Catholic.  He passed away in 1998 at the age of 82.  I wonder if he came back into the good graces of the Church just before he died?  It is very possible, as his funeral Mass was held at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, Ca...

I know that he faced our Lord at his Particular Judgment when he died, as we all will have to face some day, knowing that our works will follow us...

It is not our job to judge his raucous, sometimes raunchy lifestyle, except that his public, scandalous sins should have been admonished by a faithful Catholic priest, warning of the consequences... But I wanted to mention some information that recently came to light by the lewrockwell.com writer, Yvonne Lorenzo, that might shed some light on a side of Mr. Sinatra that not too many folks are aware of...

Contrast this story with that of the poor beggar, Lazarus, and the rich man in St. Luke 16:19-31, King James Version...

The following is an excerpt from Yvonne's article: 

"It was one night back in the mid-70s, around Christmas time, and as always Jimmy Weston’s supper club in New York City was crowded... and the snowy weather outside added to the festive spirit of the season.

Before midnight, Frank Sinatra walked in with his best friend and trusted companion, Jilly Rizzo... After warm greetings and a hug, I escorted Sinatra and Jilly to Sinatra’s favorite table, number seventeen. It was a round corner table near my desk, where I could keep an eye on things, and we always kept it reserved for Sinatra while he was in town.

Later, after a few drinks, Sinatra decided to have pizza at his favorite joint. “Hey Greek, you got that old Chevy outside?” he asked me.

“Yes, it’s outside,” I said.

He stood up, peeled off a couple hundred dollar bills from his wad, and gave it to the waiter. “Greek, you just got yourself drafted,” he said. “Let’s go.”

I asked our captain George Pappas to take charge while I was gone and the three of us walked outside, where Sinatra’s limo was waiting. He told his driver to wait there and we got into my Chevy. It was bitter-cold, snowing heavily, and everything was covered with snow—although driving is not a problem on the streets of New York City: the snow melts fast from the steam coming out the subway grates.

“Where we going?” I asked.

“Uptown,” Jilly said.

We drove uptown on Park Avenue until we reached Harlem, and made a beeline for First Avenue between 117th and 118th Streets, to Patsy’s Pizzeria. It was then I realized that it wasn’t a good idea to arrive there in a limo in the wee hours. I parked in front of the place and went in with Sinatra and Jilly.

We were greeted by Carmela, the owner, and a one-hundred percent amazing Italian woman. When she saw Frank, she rushed to him with open arms.

“Frankie, sweetheart, it’s good to see you!”

She threw her arms around him and gave him a big hug–but when she pulled away Sinatra’s overcoat was now white with flour from her apron. Embarrassed, Carmela started talking fast in Italian-as though cursing herself-while trying to brush off Sinatra’s coat.

Don’t worry about that darling,” Sinatra said. “Just make us your delicious pizza.”

Carmela rushed away–and soon came back with a hot pie. As we started to eat, Sinatra looked out of the window and saw two homeless guys staring at us. They looked cold and very hungry. He waved them in and he ordered pizza for them. Soon more guys showed–and soon the place was packed with Sinatra’s impromptu and ravenous guests—and he ordered pizza for all of them.

Meanwhile, Jilly and I finished our slices, but Sinatra had only taken one bite of his: his eyes were tearing up from watching these poor hungry guys gobbling down the hot, steaming slices as fast as they could. That got Jilly’s attention. He tried to make a joke to divert Sinatra’s attention.

“You see Frank,” he said, “you’re not as famous as you think you are. No one even recognized you here.”

“If you were as hungry and cold as they are, you wouldn’t recognize me, either,” Frank said.

We stayed and ate with these poor guys putting away the pizza faster than Carmela could make it and it was a magical night: only Sinatra couldn’t hold back the tears.

So finally Jilly stood up. “It’s time to go now,” he said.

We got up, and Frank pulled out his wad of hundreds and gave it to Carmela: all of it, without counting it. “What the hell, it’s Christmas,” he said. “Keep the pizza coming through Christmas, darling,” he told Carmella. “I’ll send you more money, and keep everything under wraps.”

(Read the entire story here: A CHRISTMAS STORY: “Hey Greek, you got that old Chevy outside?” )

End of excerpt...

Now you know the private generosity of Mr. Frank Sinatra...

May God have mercy on his soul...

Pray for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, pray for us...

Gene DeLalla

 

The Lunatics Are In Charge Of The Asylum, Redux...

 On March 28, 2020, I wrote: The Lunatics Are In Charge Of The Asylum...  I'm afraid that since I posted that article, things have gotten worse; much worse in many respects...

First, we have "president" Biden.  Second, we have medical "authorities" continuing their assault on our rights to freely assemble -- the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights -- emanating from their arbitrary, un-lawful dictates regarding a strain of the flu (covid) that has over a 99 percent recovery rate.  Third, we have weak-kneed mayors and governors that buy into the lie without doing research on their own, or have some of their underlings to do research to see if the claims of these "doctors" are accurate or false in the first place.  Fourth, we have the clergy -- both the local parish priest, and their bishops -- afraid of their own shadow, and capitulate to the demands of the Caesars to shut down churches, or attempt to force their Mass goers to wear face-diapers...

But that's not all... As President Truman once quipped: the buck stops here (at his desk).  Meaning, that he, as president, must take responsibility for his actions or the actions of his subordinates.  So now, we come to perhaps the worst of the enablers of the diabolical disorientation that is plaguing, not only the church, but also secular society as well: pope Bergoglio.  

How many Commandments has the current occupant of the Chair of St. Peters broken since his ascent as capo di tutti capi in 2013, after the phony "resignation" of Benedict XVI?  

I'll just name one: idolatry...

Once the clergy or laity worship false gods -- in this case, right in the heart of St. Peter's basilica -- then all the other Commandments are up for grabs... They then become the "ten suggestions," not the Ten Commandments, and are open to various interpretations, or discarded completely from the conscience of those responsible for guiding the flock, or their families, to the heavenly beatitude...

For those not in the Catholic Church, all they see and hear are the quips that Bergoglio mumbles from time to time, whether on an aircraft, or in a private audience, further contradicting -- and degrading -- the perennial teachings of holy Mother Church.  What they may not know, is that the pope is the custodian; the guardian of the Deposit of Faith, and not an innovator; at least he's not supposed to be!  But that is exactly what Bergoglio has done with his appointments to the college of cardinals, as well as anti-life, lay appointments to various "advisory" boards in the Vatican.   These appointments include, but are not limited to, population control lunatics, which includes contraception and even abortion advocates!  

What is going on here??

Unfortunately, these machinations further weaken an already shaky -- novus ordo -- house built on sand, in contrast to the house originally built on the solid, unmovable, foundation of the Rock of St. Peter. 

In effect, what we are dealing with here, are "two" churches; one based on the Deposit of Faith -- Scripture and Tradition, and one based on novelty from the Communist and homosexual infiltrators...

It is up to those faithful clergy and we laity to be able to discern what -- and who -- to follow and obey.  We simply cannot allow the lunatics to continue to run the asylum, whether in the church or in civil society, if we do nothing to counter these useful idiots, then we become part of the problem...

Pray for strength and honor -- resist!

Pray too, for the conversion of Bergoglio to the Catholic Faith...

Viva Cristo Rey!   Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, pray for us...

Gene DeLalla

  

We Are Letting Our Freedoms Slip Away!

 Even before the incompetent, incoherent, dystopian boob, Biden, stole the 2020 presidential election, it was apparent that even some of the senators from his own party knew those facts, yet they let this apostate "Catholic" continue his war against women, the pre-born, and the Natural Law.  Not to mention being bought and paid for by certain foreign governments; e.g., Communist Red China and the former corrupt Ukraine, with one of the goals of allowing his, even more corrupt, son, Robert Hunter, to amass huge sums of money while supporting his well-known drug habits... 

Now, we are paying the price by seeing our Constitutional rights slipping away by "executive orders," which are, by definition, arbitrary dictates from the occupant of the Oval Office.  I admit, that some E.O.s can be aligned with those very same rights, but that depends, again, on who is in the White House, and his political bent; either right or left.  It is a rare thing that any semblance of good will ever come from a leftist, and because of that, we are under the thumb of, not only a fraudulently elected miscreant, but also someone who cannot put two sentence together at one time without forgetting where he is, or who he is.  

Remember, it is Biden that has his finger on the nuclear button; heaven help us!  And right now, he continues to rub salt in the eyes of Russia's Putin.  How much longer will the Russian Bear put up with the pin-pricks of the American Eagle before he strikes back??  It should be remembered that Putin is getting really buddy-buddy with Xi of Communist Red China, with joint war games, and increased trade backed by gold and silver, rather than the "reserve currency" of the near-worthless U.S. dollar.

Does Biden not see what is happening here??  Or was this planned even before the stolen 2020 presidential election?

Is it America first, or has the plan been hatched to make America last, subservient to the real "superpowers" of Red China and Russia?   I have little doubt that Biden would betray his country in order to cement his place in the new-world-order of the one-world-governance as suggested by none other than pope Bergoglio.  I am convinced that these two characters are acting in collusion -- real collusion, not the phony Russia collusion hoax perpetrated against President Trump, which, by the way, is still going on!

Recently, Xi of Communist China, said that it is a problem that Americans have so many guns... Translation: he is afraid that, because we are armed to the teeth, any attempted "Red Dawn" on our soil will meet with ultimate defeat.  But  Biden doesn't seem to care one iota about whether or not we can defend ourselves, as he continues to push for more and more "gun control" in order to combat "gun violence" on American streets.  There's only one problem with that stupid hypothesis: he is doing nothing -- nothing! -- to address the street gangs that snuff-out innocent lives, as well as drug lords and gangsters that roam the streets of some of our largest cities -- the war-zone of Chicago comes to mind -- mostly under Democratic governors and mayors, while making it more difficult for law abiding citizens to protect themselves and their families!

Tyranny can come in many forms.   And with the continuing hoax of the so-called "covid pandemic," badge-heavy, authoritarian bureaucrats have, and continue to issue, unlawful, arbitrary dictates telling us to wear face-diapers, and get an untested, filthy vaccine that has taken the lives of literally thousands of people both here and in other major countries of the Western world.  This doesn't even take into account the tens of thousands of adverse reactions to folks, shortly after being stuck with a "vaccine" developed and marketed after using the fetal cell lines from aborted babies...

If we don't resist the malefactor in the White House, and continue to submit to un-Constitutional rules and regulations, what will happen in our country, can best be described by the British author, Frederick Forsyth wrote this concerning what he continues to witness in England:  

“I have only once before seen anything like it. This was when I was posted to East Germany in 1962. Such a brainwashing tactic was employed to frighten East Berliners into believing that the Berlin Wall was a defensive measure to protect them from tiny West Berlin, and that the Stasi was their guardian. The wall was of course an instrument of enslavement.”

Pray for strength and honor -- and resist!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, pray for us...

Gene DeLalla

“The Most Merciful Thing A Large Family Can Do To One Of Its Infant Members Is To Kill It.”

 The title of my article comes from Margaret Sanger.  (If there are any readers seeing this for the first time, know that Sanger was the pioneer of contraception -- and, when that failed, abortion -- here in the U.S. back in the early years of the 20th Century... Her counterpart in England was a character by the name of Marie Stopes.)

Because of her persistence and influence, Stopes was instrumental in finally convincing the Church of England to adapt birth control at the infamous Lambert Conference of 1930. In effect, those at the Conference relented, and determined that contraception (birth control) no longer violated the Natural Law, and, hence, was no longer a serious sin against God.  

Stopes and Sanger did not like each other, but the movement they started has led to the horrendous title of my article; through abortion, and now infanticide...

In just one point of extreme irony, in 22 years, Anne Higgins (Sanger's mother) conceived 18 times, birthing 11 alive before dying at the age of 49. Sanger was the sixth of 11 surviving children.

Why is it that many proponents of contraception, and now abortion, have come from large, in some cases, Catholic families, as Sanger did?   As a note of interest, her father eventually embraced atheism?

But the irony doesn't stop there... A radical racist eugenicist, Sanger's aim was to eliminate the black race from American soil.  Her program of genocide had to have the cooperation of black pastors in order for her diabolical plan to work.  Incredibly, many black Americans unwittingly signed on, either out of ignorance, or demonic disorientation, to the final solution of her contraception and abortion agenda to kill-off black pre-born babies...

The sacrificing of the pre-born on the "altar of choice" or "convenience," has led to "legalizing" the mass murder of millions since the infamous Roe v Wade, 1973, Supreme Court decision... 

Over the last several decades, some very prominent black pastors, as well as black politicians, have become known as some of the most ardent supporters of abortion and "reproductive rights"!  It is a fact, that New York City has become the abortion capitol of the U.S., where more black babies are aborted than there are born. In addition, in 2010, "planned parenthood" came under scrutiny after a census suggested that the abortion giant was preying on black communities as 79% of their surgical abortion facilities were within walking distance of African American or Hispanic communities.

The hypocrisy of "planned parenthood" is on display for all to see, as they claim that "black lives matter," but in reality, are the primary killers of blacks in the U.S.: abortion-induced deaths of the pre-born in the black community are 69 times higher than HIV deaths, 31 times higher than (all other) homicides, 3.6 times higher than cancer-related deaths, and 3.5 times higher than deaths caused by heart disease!

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, niece, Alveda -- an ardent supporter of the pro-life movement -- bemoans the slaughter of her race by the so-called "leaders" in the political and ecclesiastical world.  And because of her pro-life views, she has been attacked by members of her own race, even though they see their precious pre-born being snuffed-out in massive numbers, right in front of them, and with their support and influence, no less!

At the present time, it seems that Satan is in control; having a "field-day" of death and mayhem, but we also know, that in the end, the heel of the Blessed Mother of our Lord will crush the serpent's head, and send that monster and his legions of demonic angels back to hell for all eternity... 

Pray for strength and honor -- and for an end to one of the sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, pray for us...

Gene DeLalla

Something Very Sinister And Illegal Is Going On At The Southern Border: Child Smuggling And Rape!

 Have you ever heard the apostate "Catholic," Nancy Pelosi, rant about: "It's for the children; it's for the children..." when pushing for some twisted Democrat legislation, spending more of our taxpayer monies, that, "ironically," adversely affects those very same children she claims to care about.

I have.

She makes me sick to my stomach -- and my soul.  This poor excuse of a "Catholic" is the number one proponent of the continuing massive slaughter of the pre-born that has taken over 61,000,000 -- that's MILLION! -- lives of pre-born babies since 1973, when the Supreme Court ruled that it was "legal" to do so...

In another piece of contorted irony, in 1973, Pelosi was 33 years old, and still having babies (she was married in 1963), while, at the same time, pushing for "reproductive rights."  Translation: the "right" to kill the pre-born, as well as her support for the radical, family-destroying, homosexual agenda!

This femme fatale has charmed (seduced) too many males into fostering her diabolical political agenda that continues to this very day, with little or no pushback from her bishop!  Such inaction emboldens the likes of Pelosi and Biden -- both "Catholics" -- to run, at breakneck speed, into the fiery abyss of hell...

And now, with an unstoppable influx of illegal aliens rushing our southern, Texas, Arizona and California borders, there is a humanitarian crisis of major proportions.  In fact, many border patrol officers have quit over the lack of support from the powers that be in Washington.  Since Biden took the White House hostage on January 21, there is an open invitation to illegals from all of Central America to come to the U.S. and get free everything, at the expense of American citizens, of course...

But it gets worse...

Now, it has come to light, by investigative reporters, at certain areas of the Texas and Arizona borders, that child smuggling is going on without a peep from the mainstream media. and a severe lack of law enforcement to intercept and jail those responsible.  What was rarely reported by that same mainstream media, that under President Trump, many "sting operations" were successfully conducted, freeing many children that had been used as sex-slaves, and arresting those responsible for those horrendous crimes against humanity.  With the illegal ascent of the corrupt Biden, those efforts have been, for all practical purposes, wiped-out, as the child smuggling and sex-trafficking continues unabated...

Where is the outrage from the likes of -- "It's for the children" -- Pelosi?  

Our Lord tells us in the Bible that it would be better for a man to have a millstone put around his neck and thrown into the sea, than to scandalize one of these little ones (St. Matthew 18:6 and St. Luke 17:2, King James Version)... That would scare the heck out of me, but I guess when one's soul is steeped in the darkness of numerous mortal sins, it becomes more difficult to discern right from wrong; good from evil... 

Our Lord also tells us to pray for our enemies...

Pray, too, for strength and honor!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, pray for us...

Gene DeLalla

   

 

 

A Few Crumbs From The Table...

 Back in the mid-1970's, when I was in the U.S. Coast Guard, I took leave and visited my parents who had a neat little mobile home in central Florida... Down the road apiece, was a small horse ranch that my folks liked to visit every now and then, to feed a carrot or two to a little pony, that, when he saw them coming near the fence, would scurry over to them, knowing that my mom and dad had that special, little treat for him!

Even though it was only one or two carrots, the tiny horse was happy to get his little gift, and quickly started munching on them... This not only made the pony's day; it also made my folks happy to visit and feed their little equestrian friend...

If you compared a couple of carrots to the horse's main feeding, it would only be considered a crumb or two, yet still welcomed by the pony...

There is a story in the Bible about a poor man, named Lazarus, begging for the crumbs that fell from a rich man's table.  Lazarus eventually died and was taken to the bosom of Abraham.  When the rich man died, he was buried in hell, suffering eternal torments of fire and hate (there is no love in hell!).  He entreated Abraham to have Lazarus dip his finger in water and come to cool his tongue.  But Abraham explained that there was a great chasm between those in hell, and where he and Lazarus were, and no one could cross from one place to the other... 

The condemned man then asked Abraham to send Lazarus to his father's house to preach to his brethren, otherwise, they too would end up in "this place of torment."  Abraham explained that those still living had Moses and the Prophets to teach them the laws and ways of God that would lead to salvation... The damned man replied that if they saw and heard someone from the dead, they would believe!  But Abraham said, that if they didn't hear Moses and the prophets, neither would they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead... (see St. Luke 16:19-31, King James Version.) 

Practicing Catholics are being thrown a few "Catholic crumbs," every once-in-a-while from the table of the current occupant of the Chair of St. Peter, Bergoglio...  As an example, the Vatican (just who or what is the Vatican, anyway?) recently stated that the Church cannot, in any way, shape or form, bless same-sex "unions."  Okay, that's a good "crumb," but at the same time, Bergoglio appoints homosexual-friendly males and females to certain advisory committees, or has private audiences with homosexuals and lesbians, not to admonish them and urge them to change their lives around, but for a photo-op!  He'll rightly condemn abortion, then he'll turn around and appoint the likes of Jeffrey Sachs -- a radical supporter of abortion, contraception and population control on a Vatican "advisory" board!  

Imagine, two of the most hideous of sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance, are, for all practical purposes, being fostered under the auspices of Bergoglio and his cabal of Judases...

Then there is idolatry: the First Commandment being torn apart and trampled underfoot; for the sake of "dialogue" or "brotherhood"?    

We must continue to pray for Bergoglio's conversion to the Catholic faith...

Insidious!  We cannot accept tradition with modernism, period!  Yet, what do we hear coming from Rome these days?  Just that: the Deposit of Faith being mixed with modernism and novelty, especially when it comes to the constant teachings of the Church and the holy Mass...

The Elect and the Remnant are between a rock and a hard place, but there is always hope!  We know where that hope lies; not in any one politician or movement, but in Him Whose Resurrection we just celebrated.  "... for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:12, King James Version.) 

Pray for strength and honor -- and for discernment!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, pray for us!

Gene DeLalla   

Is There A Rampage Of Shootings And Killings With Rifles In The U.S.?

 No!

In fact, the CDC, as well as the FBI's own statistics, will show the lie that "mass shootings" are a pandemic, slaughtering tens of thousands of Americans every year...

So, here are some numbers that puts the lie to those who want to deprive law-abiding citizens of their right to keep and bear arms, as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...

First, CDC data shows unintentional firearm deaths for 2018 came in at 458.

Second, FBI figures look at the intentional, criminal use of firearms, and show a total of 297 deaths from rifles of any kind in 2018.

Third, in addition, FBI figures also show that 443 people were killed with hammers, clubs, or other “blunt objects.”

Fourth, for 2018, the CDC shows that 37,455 people died from unintentional falls throughout the year. 

And lastly, falling accounted for at least 126 times as many fatalities as rifles of any kind!

What does this mean in the overall scheme of things?

These are inconvenient data for Democrat lawmakers who are currently demanding a new round of nationwide gun-controls, especially AR-15s and AK-47s.

Perhaps those guiding the ship-of-state, in the federal government, should now demand legislation prohibiting people from using ladders or climbing up the stairs in their own homes??

One more question: who are the real criminals in this whole scenario of proposed gun-control initiatives? 

Why, it's none other than those who want to disarm us, so as to remove the last barrier to their evil plans to destroy our Republic and turn it into another Red, Communist hell-hole of slavery and total despair... 

Ain't gonna happen!!

(Some of the information for this article was gleaned from a story in breitbart.com by AWR Hawkins.) 

Pray for strength and honor -- and for truth!

Viva Cristo Rey!  Blessed Fr. Miguel Pro, pray for us...

Gene DeLalla