NEWS FROM SEN. VATICAN CORRESPONDENT MICHAEL HAYNES...
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If anyone has been paying attention, ever since the first executive order of President Trump was issued, the radical, leftist judges, mostly appointed by previous Democrat presidents, have attempted to thwart the agenda, not only of the President, but also, in fact, of the American people. We knew, or should have known, that any attempt to clean up the waste, scandal and abuse of taxpayer monies would be met with fierce resistance by the treasonous deep state.
In addition, one of the goals of the new administration is to help alleviate the moral rot that infects the corrupt agencies and politicians of D.C. and elsewhere. And surprisingly (or unsurprisingly?) President Trump is actually on the side of the pro-life movement and demonstrating that fact in a pretty aggressive way, thank God Almighty!!
So, right on cue, the unaccountable, un-elected leftist "judges" are trying to stop President Trump's juggernaut of trying to get the nation back on somewhat of an even keel by countermanding his executive orders and other movements, especially by trying to stifle the out-of-control so-called NGOs...
The following article from Paul Craig Roberts: Who Will Rule? An Elected President or an Unaccountable Judiciary? is worth the read!
"Who Will Rule? An Elected President or an Unaccountable Judiciary?
Paul Craig Roberts
The Democrats are using the judiciary to cover up their corrupt operations and theft of taxpayers’ money.
If you will notice, the slew of judges countermanding Trump’s executive orders are themselves issuing executive orders, and they are doing so with no reference to law. Instead, they are ruling that Trump’s executive orders are harming someone, including illegal immigrant-invaders who are not US citizens. This is outrageous. Harm is a subjective standard. Moreover, the judges are overlooking the harm that their rulings do.
What can Trump do? Like Andrew Jackson, he could ignore the judges. He could order the federal marshals, who report to the president and not to the judiciary, to cease delivering the judges’ edicts and to stop providing any service to the judges other than life protection.
The rulings by these judges are so egregious that they demonstrate both that some judges are in on the grift and the danger to Democrats from having their corruption revealed is so great that it has to be prevented by having the judiciary dictate to the executive.
We have judges blocking Trump’s order against birthright citizenship which prevents illegals from gaining US citizenship by illegally entering the US in order to give birth. Such births are known as “anchor babies” as they result in citizenship for the entire family. Hows corrupt does a judge have to be to claim that the Constitution provides nefarious ways for foreigners to acquire US citizenship?
We have judges ordering Trump to reinstate federal funding for private NGOs working to undermine foreign governments and to spread sexual perversion and anti-white woke propaganda. Judges ordering the continuation of these harmful activities are arguing that it is harmful to prevent harm. Moreover, many and probably most of these NGOs are grift money-laundering operations dumping taxpayers’ money into the hands of Democrats and their children via NGO salaries and grants. Judges are even ordering Trump to continue financing private DEI and gender operation websites.
Judges do not have executive powers. They can interpret existing law and the Constitution, but not on the basis of some subjective factor as their personal notion of harm or their determination to cover up corruption.
I predicted that Trump’s attempt to restore America would be tied down in lawsuits aided and abetted by a corrupt judiciary. Something must be done about judicial overreach or the renewal of America is a lost cause."
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Food for thought!
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
"Pope Francis has been noticeably frail in recent weeks, suffering both with increased breathing and mobility issues."
From lifesitenews.com and written by Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent
"VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis was admitted to hospital in Rome this morning for “diagnostic tests” and to receive treatment for ongoing “bronchitis” which has lasted for some time.
Just before 11 a.m. local time today, the Holy See Press Office issued a statement reading: “This morning, after his audiences, Pope Francis will be admitted to the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic for necessary diagnostic tests and to continue hospital treatment for his ongoing bronchitis.”
By the evening local time, the Vatican Press Office issued another update, saying that Francis has begun “pharmacological therapy” and currently has a respiratory tract infection and mild fever.
READ: Pope Francis cuts speech short for third time in one week as breathing issues continue
Francis’ breathing has been a notable issue for him in recent weeks, as he has complained of “bronchitis” and had to cut short a number of speeches and homilies as a result.
Since last Thursday – when already he had asked aides to read speeches – his private audiences have been held in his house of residence, the Casa Santa Martha, rather than the Apostolic Palace: this arrangement being so in order to avoid any unnecessary movement.
The Pope had received the prime minister of Slovakia in audience this morning, before the press office’s statement was issued to the Vatican press corps.
Less than two hours before the statement, new events had been added to the Pope’s public calendar for the morning of Saturday, February 15, namely his participation at a 9 a.m. general audience for a Jubilee Year pilgrimage. Such timing suggests that the Pope’s admission to hospital was a hastily arranged affair.
In a later update issued to the press around 1pm local time, the press office stated that the Pope’s participation at his planned events for February 15, 16, and 17 was cancelled due to his hospitalization. Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, will deputize for Francis at the Jubilee events.
As previously reported on these pages, the health of the 88-year-old Pontiff has been particularly frail in recent months. Already missing a large part of one lung as a result of illness in his early 20s, the Pontiff has always been particularly susceptible to winter colds affecting his breathing capability.
Prior to today’s admission, he underwent brief “diagnostic tests” in February 2024 but has not officially visited hospital for an operation since summer 2023.
However, in recent months he has had two publicly acknowledged falls. At the December 7 consistory to create cardinals, Francis appeared with a very visible bruise on his chin. The mark was explained by the press office as being due to a minor fall that the Pope had on the previous morning, when he hit his chin on his bedside table.
Then, in mid-January, the Pope had another fall which this time led to his using a sling on his right arm for a few days.
The Pope’s mobility has also been noticeably much more limited in recent weeks. While he has had to use a wheelchair and a cane for some years, his inability to walk freely without assistance has been especially highlighted this winter.
His features have displayed signs of significant bloating also, an aspect carefully hidden by the camera-operators during his live-streamed events.
Speaking to La Croix, sources close to the Pope said that Francis was “not in good shape,” an observation which appears readily ascertainable for those with an observational eye.
In 2023 Francis underwent two significant hospitalizations, the first of which was described as “scheduled” but which Francis later described as being an emergency, having arrived at the hospital “unconscious.”
In June 2023 he underwent surgery for an “incarcerated incisional hernia,” which the Holy See Press Office described as a necessary procedure, but not an emergency.
Prior to that in summer of 2021, the Pope also had a 10-day stay in hospital, after he had to undergo a six-hour surgery at the Gemelli to have part of his colon removed due to diverticulitis.
Information surrounding the Pope’s health is always shrouded in secrecy and privately held concerns downplayed to the public. It remains to be seen what information about Francis’ condition will be forthcoming in the subsequent hours from the Vatican."
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We have to pray for the restoration of Francis' health, this, no matter what you may think of him, even if he has attempted to create a new, novus ordo, synodal church that does not resemble the true Catholic Church, we have a duty to pray for him as he approaches his Particular Judgment, end of story!
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
Warning, warning, warning... The description of the martyrdoms of the Saints mentioned in the following article is quite graphic!
The following article from crisismagazine.com and written by Casey Chalk, gives another perspective and helps to fill in the blanks, so to speak, on the horrendous martyrdoms suffered by the good and holy Catholic priests who died bringing the faith of Christ, Our Lord to the American Indians (Native Americans as they are called), both here in the U.S., Canada and South America, namely, Mexico.
My wife and I have visited the sight of the North American Martyrs in upstate New York on several occasions going back to around the year 2000. It is quite humbling to walk where those Saints walked and worked just before they suffered martyrdom, baptizing as many of the "good" Indians as possible before they themselves were killed in the most brutal of ways.
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Uncomfortable Martyrdoms - Crisis Magazine
"On January 27, Pope Francis officially recognized the martyrdom of five Spanish Franciscan missionaries killed in September 1597 in what is now the state of Georgia. Francis labeled the martyrdom of the Venerable Servants of God Pedro de Corpa, Blas Rodríguez de Cuacos, Miguel de Añón, Antonio de Badajoz, and Francisco de Veráscola—also known as the “Georgia Martyrs”—to be in odium fidei (in hatred of the faith). The friars were murdered by an indigenous tribe because of an argument over marriage—many of the men took multiple wives. A sixth friar, Francisco de Ávila, was kidnapped and tortured before being liberated months later.
When we consider such martyr stories, we usually focus our attention on the martyrs themselves: their faith, their courage, their stories which led them to the moment when they died for the Faith. But there’s another element to martyrdom stories that has historical, political, and spiritual importance: the character of the cultures doing the actual martyring. And that’s especially the case when the default stance of our dominant cultural institutions—media, the academy, and entertainment industry—is nothing but sympathy for indigenous peoples.
The fact that the Super Bowl featured a team called “The Chiefs” provoked the customary indignation from pundits who claim such mascots are racist toward indigenous peoples. “The team’s imagery is filled with racist tropes,” declared ESPN panelist and Washington Post columnist Kevin Blackistone, who accused the team of “cultural theft wrapped in misappropriated imagery and accompanying cartoonish imitations of their customs.” Changing team names such as the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians, land acknowledgements, and investigative journalism into American Indian children who died in boarding schools—these are all examples of attempts to “atone” for historic sins against indigenous peoples.
Certainly, as Catholics we should demonstrate charity and empathy for those who suffer, and the story of Native American relations with settlers and the U.S. government is categorically one of suffering, epitomized in such incidents as the Trail of Tears, the Sand Creek massacre, or Wounded Knee. Even American Indians who did their best to comply with the demands of the government and military often encountered mistreatment, betrayal, and violence. And American Indians today endure great hardship, with comparatively higher incidence rates of addiction, sexual violence, and poverty than other groups in the United States.
But the dominant narrative of victimized American Indians and victimizer white settlers has a tendency to obscure what the many civilizations and tribes of our continent’s indigenous populations were truly like. This is where martyr stories can be so important.
Consider the stories of the Canadian Martyrs (though many of them were actually killed in what is now upstate New York). The French Jesuits Isaac Jogues and René Goupil, for example, were ambushed by Iroquois warriors in 1642. For months, the Iroquois subjected Jogues and Goupil to terrible tortures, including tearing off their hair, beards, and nails, and biting through their forefingers. The Iroquois eventually tomahawked Goupil to death. Jogues escaped in 1643; but three years later, in 1646, he was tomahawked by a Mohawk warrior, his severed head implanted on a pole, and his dismembered body thrown into the Mohawk River.
Three years after that, French Jesuit missionaries Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant were captured by Iroquois warriors who tortured them, subjecting them to boiling water, then burning them at the stake. The Iroquois then cannibalized de Brébeuf’s body, drinking his blood and eating his heart. That same year, another French Jesuit, Noël Chabanel, was murdered by a “renegade” Huron.
Farther south, in what is now Virginia, the Powhatan—a tribe celebrated in contemporary accounts of Pocahontas—in 1571 betrayed and murdered Jesuit missionaries Juan Baptista de Segura, Gabriel Gómez, Pedro de Linares, Cristóbal Redondo, and Sancho de Zaballos. The Powhatan then tried to deceive a Spanish relief expedition later that spring by dressing in the dead Jesuits’ cassocks. (The Spanish soldiers recognized the deception, and avoided a similar fate.)
Out west, approximately 2,000 Comanches and allied North Texas Indians in 1758 attacked Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá, on the San Saba River in what is now Texas. Among those killed were two priests, Fray Alonso Giraldo de Terreros and Fray José de Santiesteban Aberín, who were seeking to evangelize the Apache. (As S.C. Gwynne describes in his best-selling book Empire of the Summer Moon, the Comanche’s brutality was especially legendary, mutilating the dead bodies of male settlers and gang-raping settler women.) A few decades after the attack on the Spanish mission in Texas, four Franciscan missionaries—Fathers Francisco Garcés, Juan Antonio de Barreneche, José Matías Moreno, and Juan Díaz—were murdered in 1781 during a Quechan uprising in what is now Arizona.
These are not stories that are well-known, even among Catholics. But they offer a gruesome window into the practices of many Native American cultures. Polygamy, torture, rape, murder, and cannibalism were all practices settlers could expect to encounter among various indigenous civilizations. Yes, it’s true, not all tribes engaged in such horrors, but many did. (For another example of cannibalism, look up the Karankawa, a tribe in present-day Texas.) And, it should be said, indigenous peoples were fighting, conquering, and enslaving each other for millennia before European settlers arrived.
This is one reason why the memorialization of martyrs killed by indigenous peoples is so important. Yes, we revere the faith and courage of the priests and religious who heroically sought to share the love of Christ and His Gospel with American Indians. But we also remember the terrible evils that these civilizations unleashed on their enemies. And those evils demonstrate that any narrative that presents Native Americans as solely innocent victims who suffered nothing but betrayal and abuse from American settlers is highly misleading and even false. Yes, settlers and soldiers often did indefensibly cruel things to indigenous peoples. But those indigenous peoples were capable of horrific cruelties as well. We revere the faith and courage of the priests and religious who heroically sought to share the love of Christ and His Gospel with American Indians. But we also remember the terrible evils that these civilizations unleashed on their enemies.
The many martyrdoms that defined the evangelization of indigenous peoples in the Americas remind us of the pervasiveness and perversity of sin in our fallen human condition—and that it is only Christ who can help us both perceive that sin for what it is and defeat it with heroic virtue enabled by God’s grace. What is needed to address the continued suffering of indigenous peoples in the United States today is not performative land acknowledgments, name changes for professional sports teams, or patronizing portrayals in the media and movies. What is needed is the kind of saintly love and sacrifice manifested in such martyrs as our Church still (praise God) honors."
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