I think this headline must be repeated to show how the party of the damned, the Democrats, have lost, not only their God-given common sense, but also their patriotism and embraced treason!
ICE Arrests MS-13 Member And Fentanyl Dealer In Providence, RI – Local Officials Worried That Police May Have Assisted.
Now think about it... These are the same maniacs that want to slaughter pre-born babies in the womb, love the sin of Sodom, and hate those who love God and neighbor -- and the Natural Law.
The grand irony in all of this, is that some of these bad actors -- masquerading as representatives of their constituents -- are "Catholic"!
Further, I wonder if their priest or bishop admonishes them concerning their heinous and foul sin and threatens them with excommunication if they don't repent of their support for the killing of pre-born babies?
I can say that I have never heard nor read of such clergy fulfilling their charism to chastise these baby killers.
Rarely if ever!
One more thing... I understand that the majority of the population of Rhode Island is Catholic!!
"This week, ICE arrested a man in Providence, Rhode Island who is a member of the MS-13 gang and a known dealer of fentanyl. Sounds like a pretty solid arrest, right?
In an absolutely bizarre turn of events, the Democrat leaders of the city are deeply concerned that local police may have assisted ICE. They’re even suggesting that this will be investigated.
Mayor Brett Smiley characterized the incident as “complex,” but said that the incident remains under review.
“I’m interested in making sure that our community knows that Providence police are there to protect them, that they will not cooperate or sere as immigration agents, and that preliminarily, we believe that policy was followed in that instance, although it certainly was jarring video that I saw,” Smiley said at an unrelated news conference on Tuesday. “But upon closer review and understanding the full context of the circumstance, it feels like… it seems like at the initial outset, that Providence police acted in accordance with our existing policy.”
Miller said she appreciated that there is a review underway, but added that she wanted PERA to examine the incident because they are a third-party in the situation.
See below:
A Democrat lawmaker in the state also criticized ICE for the arrest, calling them the gestapo.
Democrats seem to think illegal aliens are their real constituents. How else can this be explained?"
End of very troubling article...
To answer the question: "How else can this be explained?"
It is because they are traitors to their country and the Constitution -- that they took an oath to protect and defend! But you would never know it. On that basis alone, they should be removed from office for malfeasance!
Pray for strength and honor!
Viva Cristo Rey! Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...
Answer one question: did you vote for Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte?
If you did, did you know she is, and always was, for the killing of the pre-born in the womb? In other words, a very pro-abortion, anti-life politician...
Did you also know -- like the apostates, Biden, Pelosi et al, that she claims to be a "practicing Catholic"?
Verbal gymnastics will not change that one iota!
Yet where is the bishop of the New Hampshire diocese in rebuking, admonishing and -- excommunicating this radical baby killer?
By the way, she also supports the queers/body mutilators and filthy books in the lower grades in the indoctrination centers known as the public school system in the Live Free Or Die State!
The Human Rights Campaign, which supports same-sex "marriage" and other gay rights, gave Ayotte an 80% rating!
Ayotte said of same-sex marriage: "Ultimately I do think this is a matter for the states and states should decide how to define marriage."...
Actually, Governor Ayotte, you are a little late to the game as that was done back at the creation of the world by our good God and Creator.
"(LifeSiteNews) — New Hampshire’s socially liberal Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte recently vetoed legislation meant to protect girls from being preyed on by gender-confused men. She also sided with liberals on mandatory vaccines, pornographic books in schools, surveying kids about private information, and teaching them about fetal development.
House Bill 148 would affirm that state antidiscrimination law does not forbid entities from keeping men out of girls’ sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms.
“This bill permits classification of individuals based on biological sex in lavatory facilities and locker rooms, sporting competitions, and detention facilities,” according to an analysis posted by LegiScan.
Ayotte sided with the transgender lobby and vetoed the bill, claiming it could be “exclusionary.”
“I believe there are important and legitimate privacy and safety concerns raised by biological males using places such as female locker rooms and being placed in female correctional facilities,” Ayotte wrote. “At the same time, I see that House Bill 148 is overly broad and impractical to enforce, potentially creating an exclusionary environment for some of our citizens.”
Ayotte also tried to play both sides in her statement, saying she “believe[s] that the legislature should address this serious issue” but “it must be done in a thoughtful and narrow way that protects the privacy, safety, and rights of all New Hampshire citizens.”
“However, with House Bill 148, I have concerns about the broadness of this bill, the unintended impacts accompanying its implementation, and that it will spur a plethora of litigation against local communities and businesses,” she wrote.
Much like liberal California Governor Gavin Newsom, Ayotte said she is concerned about men playing in girls’ sports but does not plan to sign legislation to actually address the issue.
She stated:
Furthermore, as the mother of a daughter who competed in three sports in high school, I have serious concerns about fairness and safety when biological males participate in women’s sports. State law already rightly addresses this by prohibiting biological males from competing in girls’ sports in K-12 schools. See RSA 193:41, RSA 193:42. While this law has been challenged in federal court, my administration will continue to vigorously defend it.
The language in House Bill 148 addressing women’s sports is largely redundant and, frankly, weaker than the current law. This exact piece of legislation was vetoed by Governor Sununu last year, and for the reasons stated above, I have decided to do the same.
Gov. Christopher Sununu was the liberal Republican governor who preceded Ayotte.
Teachers union thanks Gov. Ayotte for opposing parental rights
Gov. Ayotte again referenced her role as a parent in her decision to veto a conservative bill protecting kids from gender ideology.
House Bill 324 would make it easier for parents to object to pornographic content in school libraries.
However, Ayotte once against sided with social liberals, even winning praise from a teachers union, and vetoed the legislation.
“Current State law appears to provide a mechanism for parents through their local school district to exercise their rights to ensure their children are not exposed to inappropriate materials,” she wrote, after explaining there is a process in place. “Therefore, I do not believe the State of New Hampshire needs to, nor should it, engage in the role of addressing questions of literary value and appropriateness, particularly where the system created by House Bill 324 calls for monetary penalties based on subjective standards.”
This decision won her praise from the state teachers union.
“We hope this book ban bill veto represents a changing tide at the State House and call on lawmakers to listen to Granite Staters who overwhelmingly oppose classroom censorship efforts,” teachers union leader Megan Tuttle said, according to TheCenter Square. Ayotte, however, did sign legislation in June to protect parental rights.
Gov. Ayotte sided with liberals several more times in her vetoes. She also vetoed legislation that would require parents to opt their students into “non-academic surveys,” in public schools. Once again, Gov. Ayotte cited her role as a “parent” in explaining why she sided against parental rights.
“As a parent, I understand the concerns surrounding what type of material children are exposed to in school,” she said.
Ayotte also vetoed legislation, HB 358, that would have made it easy for parents to opt their children out of mandatory vaccines by simply stating they have a religious objection.
Rounding out her use of the veto pen, Ayotte vetoed legislation to require public schools to teach kids about fetal development using high-quality imagery.
“I do not believe the state should dictate to local school districts that they must show a high-quality computer generation or ultrasound video that shows the gestational development of a fetus in health classes,” she said. “That is not an appropriate role for the State to be mandating such requirements.”
The legislation mirrors other states, such as Indiana, that have passed “Baby Olivia” laws, a project of Live Action.
Ayotte previously opposed efforts to amend the state’s minimal 24-week abortion prohibition to a slightly better 15-week limit. Though a 15-week limit would still allow a vast majority of babies to be killed in the state, even that minor improvement went too far for Ayotte."
End of article...
In the end, we get what we deserve!
Pray for strength and honor!
Viva Cristo Rey! Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...
Now that the truth has emerged that the results of the survey of bishops around the world concerning the TLM turned out to be distorted -- a lie! -- to give a false premise so Bergoglio could suppress and stomp out the traditional Latin Mass of the Saints and Martyrs, especially here in the U.S., more and more calls have stormed the Vatican -- the Pope, that is! -- to undo the damage done by Francis...
But will he listen?
If there is any hope of him doing so, it seems, at this point, unlikely as his most recent appointments such as Bishop Edward J. Weisenburger to the archdiocese of Detroit, who, immediately upon assuming office, eliminated 28 Latin Mass sites!!
As you will see, these modernist haters of Tradition -- directed at those faithful who adhere to the Mass of the ages -- will never stop unless and until Leo acts to reverse this demonic trend!
Now, Bishop Athanasius Schneider is calling on Leo to reverse course and let the TLM be set free to those who love Our Lord and want to worship Him in the most beautiful thing this side of Heaven...
"(LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Athanasius Schneider has decried the suppression of Traditional Latin Masses (TLM) around the world as an “injustice” and called upon Pope Leo XIV to “free” the TLM.
In a Sunday interview with the bishop, Christopher Wendt of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima brought up the TLM crackdown prompted by Pope Francis’ document Traditionis Custodes, which triggered a cascade of TLM closures continuing even into the papacy of Leo XIV.
“It is an injustice. We must publicly say this,” said Bishop Schneider, the auxiliary of the Diocese of Astana in Kazakhstan. He pointed out that the TLM suppression is particularly unjust during a time when, as under Francis, the top levels of the Church declare the importance of listening to all the lay faithful and accepting their “proposals and desires,” as he noted.
“But only one category is punished, and marginalized. These are the faithful priests who only wish to pray and to celebrate Mass, to assist Mass, and it was done during… almost a millennium, and by the saints,” he said.
When asked what the Holy Father should do in response, Bishop Schneider urged him to “protect” his “daughters and sons” who are being “persecuted” by the bishops throttling access to the TLM, such as in the Archdiocese of Detroit, where as of July 1, TLMs were banned in all of its 28 parish locations and delegated to a mere four locations.
“This is unbearable. It is a great injustice towards good faithful who only desire to pray as did their forefathers,” lamented Bishop Schneider. “Nothing more. Who love the pope, who love their bishop.”
The prelate declared that it is “urgent” for the pope to protect the faithful who are being treated as “second class” Catholics and called upon the faithful to pray for Pope Leo “that he may recognize this injustice” and “have the courage” to free the Latin Mass through an act of his magisterium.
Bishop Schneider pointed out that Pope Pius V had “solemnly canonized” the Traditional Latin Mass in his bull Quo Primum, which declared in an “extraordinary” way that “no one can be forbidden, even in future,” to offer the Tridentine Mass.
Quo Primum ordains that, “in perpetuity,” the Missal of the Tridentine Mass “is hereafter to be followed absolutely, without any scruple of conscience or fear of incurring any penalty, judgment, or censure, and may freely and lawfully be used” and that “this present document cannot be revoked or modified, but remains always valid and retains its full force.”
Bishop Schneider affirmed that “every Catholic priest and every Catholic ha(s) the right to celebrate or to assist” at this rite and to hand it on.
The Astana bishop expressed hope that Pope Leo XIV stop the “persecution” of the TLM, something Catholics have implored him to do in a letter campaign. Leo XIV has not yet responded or given any indication he will recognize the authority of Quo Primum by declaring Traditionis Custodes invalid. Instead, by granting a TLM in Texas a two-year extension, he appears to be recognizing the dictates of Traditionis Custodes.
Wendt continued on to ask if Bishop Schneider thought it was fair to “evaluate” Leo XIV by his clerical appointments, something he began to participate in as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops.
The bishop said that by appointing bishops “who are promoting confusion and ambiguities or even errors which were known before the appointment,” that is, “dubious candidates, ambiguous candidates or openly heterodox candidates,” the pope is “opening the door” to let “wolves” enter into the flock.
Orthodox Catholics and clergy such as Bishop Joseph Strickland have already raised concerns about the doctrinal fidelity of clerical appointments of Leo XIV, including for example his appointment of Bishop Shane Mackinlay, who has publicly expressed support for the possibility of “ordaining” women to the diaconate, as archbishop of Brisbane.
Bishop Schneider believes God will hold every pope to account “about his appointments.”
“This is serious,” he added."'
End of article...
Pray for Bishop Schneider and for the defeat of these modernist monsters and for their conversion!
Pray too for strength and honor!
Viva Cristo Rey! Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...
"(LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg, president of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK), recommended implementing the conference’s official guidelines for the “blessings” of same-sex “couples,” the divorced and civilly “remarried,” and other irregular unions in his diocese this week.
The Diocese of Limburg published Bätzing’srecommendation to implement the heterodox “blessings” in its official diocesan journal on July 9. The bishop’s recommendation follows April announcement from the German Bishops’ Conference and the lay organization Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) that they were adopting the guidelines for these “blessings” in line with “the pastoral approach” of the late Pope Francis.
The heretical “blessings” in the document are meant to be offered for “divorced and remarried couples, couples of all gender identities and sexual orientations, as well as couples who do not want to or cannot receive the sacrament of marriage for other reasons.”
It’s worth noting that the document is not binding on the country’s bishops but merely represents “practical advice.” Bätzing is now the first German bishop to recommend implementing these “blessings” in his diocese.
The German bishops’ guidelines further state that the “blessings” can be carried out by both clerics and laypeople with an episcopal assignment. They also note that the ceremony for the “blessings” should be marked by “greater spontaneity and freedom with regard to the life situation of those who ask for the blessing.”
“For this reason, no approved liturgical celebrations and prayers are planned for the blessings,” the document states.
“The way in which the blessing is conducted, the location, the overall aesthetics, including music and singing, should testify to the appreciation of the people asking for the blessing, their togetherness, and their faith.”
The document does suggest that no one should be forced to commit the heterodox “blessings.” However, it also states that “Pastors who nevertheless come to the conclusion that they cannot reconcile a blessing with their conscience or are unsure about this should refer the couple requesting a blessing to supportive persons (e.g., representatives for queer pastoral care, marriage and family pastoral care of the diocese).”
LifeSiteNews reached out to the German Bishops’ Conference but did not receive a response by publication time.
These guidelines for homosexual “blessings” had been expected in Germany, since the country’s heretical “Synodal Way” had already decided to allow and implement same-sex “blessings” in 2023. That same week, the “Synodal Way” had also voted in favor of allowing female deacons and approved a declaration saying that “transsexuals” should not be “excluded” from the priesthood.
Several prominent Catholic prelates have criticized the Synodal Way. Cardinal Gerhard Müller has slammed the “Synodal Way” for “not respecting the Christian anthropology, that everybody is created according to the image and likeness of God, but they are occupied and influenced by the LGBT and woke ideology, that is meta-realistic and nihilistic, and therefore they have these strange ideas for the ‘blessing’ of same-sex unions.”
Pope Francis’ controversial 2023 document, Fiducia Supplicans, which allowed the “blessings” of homosexual “couples” under certain conditions, offered much support to the heretical course of the German “Synodal Church.” Indeed, the German Bishops’ guidelines cite Fiducia Supplicans to justify their heretical cause.
“In order to bring the pastoral approach of Pope Francis’ pontificate to bear more strongly on this issue as well, it is the declared intention of Fiducia Supplicans to ‘coherently combine doctrinal aspects with pastoral aspects’ (FS 3),” the German bishops wrote."
End of article...
Did you get all that??
Heretics want to impose more heresy on German "Catholics"...
By the way, how many German "Catholics" go to Mass on a regular basis??
Look it up, you may be surprised!
One more thing... How many know that the German "Catholic" church is mainly supported with government funds??
(In our country, this is why the U.S. bishops are so enraged at the Trump administration for cutting off the taxpayer money spigot to the numerous N.G.O.s, amounting to billions of dollars every single year!! A good majority of those funds go to support illegal aliens that have invaded our country, which by the way is a felony!)
Pray for the defeat of these modernist monsters and for their conversion!
Viva Cristo Rey! Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...
"Clownishness reached new depths several months ago in the Philippines. Not the Bozo kind, the Catholic kind. Cardinal Antonio Tagle took to the stage, donning a chorus line outfit, microphone in hand, bobbing and swaying as he crooned John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
For those fortunate to have escaped the cultural junk-littered demi-monde of the ’60s and early ’70s, this song was a paean to the consolations of atheism. His Eminence held the Filipino Catholic crowd in thrall as they, too, swayed to this spectral reinvention of Catholicism. Yes, this was in the Philippines, where Roman Catholics reach 78.8 percent of the population.
Disturbing as this should be to grounded Catholics, it should not be considered heretical. Heresy is far too respectable to descend to such redoubts of vaudeville religion. Heresy takes the Faith in great earnest, enough to understand its central dogmas and to calculate fatal substitutes. Heresy is a serious business, and it requires serious thinking.
No, what we have in Cardinal Tagle’s nightclub gig is making the Faith nothing more than a joke. More menacing, it is an embalming of religion, making it a shadow of itself.
For Catholicism’s approved cognoscenti, this approach has become their preferred line of attack for tweaking of the Old Faith. Its ground plan is to infantilize religion to such a degree that it becomes no more demanding than a sandbox exercise. Trying to critique it is rather like attempting to nail down raindrops. Its purpose: that all feel well, all be smiling, no one be unwelcome, and bonhomie fill the room.
Aborning here is no-fault Catholicism, where no one is banned from the reception of the “bread,” God loves everybody, and “love is love.”
Nightmare? Yes, to most Credal Catholics. But isn’t that the aim of most parishes today? In these religious deserts, nothing bespeaks the majesty of God. Every detail is self-referential, viz., the saccharine music along with the swagger of the priest as he descends the middle aisle glad-handing and waving to his fans.
But there is more. The platoons of “ministers” settling in their roles like vendors at a state fair. Not to be overlooked is the modernist design of the new churches which remind one of laundromats. Their sterility would embarrass even Bauhaus and Le Corbusier.
For this comedic enterprise, no detail is neglected. Even the vestments of the priest advertise the message of the banal, the pedestrian, the ordinary, the fatuous. This clowning reaches its peak in the reception of Holy Communion (an expression quite unknown to a deprogrammed laity), where all take a casual stride to the minister to take the bread and drink the cup in a display of good feeling and nonthreatening “connecting.”
But beware, vice makes a furtive entrance in the priest as clown. Where the heretic priest might raise the defenses of alert Catholics, the priest of oozing affections is nonthreatening, leaving most Catholics disarmed. Then what enters the soul is religion as a no-threat zone, easily falling victim to the joking priest with his cloying winks and “have a good day” send-off. Along with his studied casualness at the altar, all of this conspires to be a totalizing reconfiguration of Catholicism. Who cannot love the priest as Mr. Rogers and the makeover of God that he peddles?
The priest as clown shrinks the souls of Catholics by making them content with merely the trivial and meretricious. Then the fatal switch. No longer God demanding obedience but a stroking god, bidding all to be themselves. Belloc’s ominous warning chills the soul:
We sit by and watch the barbarian, we tolerate him. In the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence. His cosmic inversion of our old certitudes, and fixed creeds refreshes us: we laugh.
But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond; and on these faces, there is no smile.
A similar Taglian performance was conducted by the good Cardinal Cupich at a stadium Mass several weeks ago hailing Chicago’s native son as pope. He repeated, like a metronome, the all too familiar, “Jesus loves you just the way you are.” Spliced into that incantation was the obligatory “all are welcome,” especially those who break the law as illegal immigrants. Add to that the swinging mariachi band and you have the big-top feel of a Barnum and Bailey circus.
Witness here the victory of Man over God. The Secular over the Sacred. The Clown over the Consecrated Priest. The Entertainer over Alter Christus.
St. Paul describes priests as the “dispensatores mysteriorum Dei” (1 Corinthians 4:1),an exalted title of transcendent proportions. This sacerdotal status embodies the whole man, body and soul. It would be a truncated Catholicism that sees the indelible mark of Holy Orders as merely interior. This would be a denial of the metaphysical unity of the human person. This unity most surely manifests itself in a kind of resonance, where the soul manifests its highest purposes in the body.
This is why symbols bear such weight in the life of man: they radiate the interior mystery of the human person. So obvious is this truth that the most common man adheres to it reflexively and without question, objecting to its absence. Evidence is ubiquitous: the wedding ring, the policeman’s uniform, the salute to a superior, the erect walk of The Old Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown soldier, or a nation’s flag.
Abandoning any of them would cause protest, if not a riot—and for good reason. The symbol embodies a truth that lies deep in the soul of man. Setting it aside is eclipsing the truth itself, and man finds himself capsized.
The compelling power of symbols is just as critical to the life of the priest, if not more. He bears in his soul the indelible mark of Holy Orders which demands notice by the world. The priest represents the power of the thrice-Holy God, making the symbols of his soaring Office all the more necessary, all the more communicative.
It is first conveyed in his manner: grave, purposeful, composed, and strong. The word “grave” is not to be understood as forlorn; it is to be understood in its Latin derivative: gravitas. It is that quality reflected in seriousness without being ponderous, steadiness without artifice. It communicates joy without frivolity and approachability without an ounce of sentimentality. The priest should bear himself with assurance, never haughtiness; confidence, never swagger; high purpose without pomposity.
All these traits breathe through his dress, as it would with any man. As with any office, this is something quite consequential. When exercising his sacerdotal office at Holy Mass, or in the administration of any of the sacraments, his raiment must bespeak the supernatural wonders he dispenses. It should cause arresting amazement in Catholics. They must look and behold Heaven breaking through.
His vesture must appear as rich and sumptuous as the Divine Mysteries he summons to earth. In C.S. Lewis’ words, “the priest at Mass should wear vestments that are heavy, or, at least, look heavy”—heavy with the glories of Paradise. His vestments must act as a tocsin bidding Catholics to come and partake of the riches of the Incarnate Word. Catholics should be left dazed.
Even when he is not administering the surging graces of the Holy Mass or the Sacraments, he is still a priest. Whether he walks the environs of his parish or the streets of New York City, he must always be announcing the glories of the Savior who longs for the souls of men.
It is ever more necessary for him to bestride the byways of this fallen world in dress that conspicuously differs from the ordinary and pedestrian life of its citizens. Whether that be a Dominican habit or a Roman cassock, it shouts a divine mission far better than words. The Roman cassock makes him different so men might not fear being different.
The cassock creates a firestorm in the denizens of our wizened culture and a cooling breeze in the hearts of Catholics. For secularized man, the Roman cassock is an irruption of the Supernatural in their desiccated world. It might disturb, it may seem odd, but it always creates a cyclonic appearance and demands a response. The cassock, to borrow the words of Franz Kafka (in speaking of the purpose of the novel), is like “an axe against the frozen sea within us.”
For the Catholic, it is like an oasis, where he finds relief from the fetid air of his secular world. It also acts as the strong voice of a Supernatural dominion that he might have forgotten. Forgotten at the hands of men who deliberately set out to make him forget.
The priest set forth here stands as diametric opposite to the priest as clown. That kind of priest considers himself no longer an icon of the sacred but a man like any other. The clown priest does not believe he brings to men the marvels of the Supernatural but only a firmer foundation in the world in which men sink. He does not see himself as the transformative invitation to Calvary but merely a facilitator helping folks be more themselves. He does not see himself as the thunderous voice of the Lion of Judah but simply the pathetic assurance to men that God loves them just the way they are.
An Anglican priest once bemoaned his fate, representing a false religion, when he remarked, “When St. Paul arrived in cities, there were riots. When I arrive in a city, they call for tea.” This is the fate of the priest as clown.
Do not fret, dear Catholic. Despite Cardinal Tagle’s disco dance, the priest as clown is a dying breed, just as the inanities of the Bergoglio pontificate have become an embarrassing memory. Robust Catholic genius is creating podcasts, publishing houses, and new organizations of laymen that are setting the stage for a bright and rich Catholic renaissance. We are already seeing the fruits of their labors in the appearance of priests pulsating with the fires of Heaven and the splendors of the Supernatural.
Oh, how the architects of the priest as clown are shrieking now.
Catholics still may have to suffer the burlesque of the priest as clown.
Fr. John A. Perricone, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Iona University in New Rochelle, New York. His articles have appeared in St. John’s Law Review, The Latin Mass, New Oxford Review and The Journal of Catholic Legal Studies. He can be reached at www.fatherperricone.com.
End of very sobering article!
Pray for strength and honor!
Viva Cristo Rey! Bl. Fr. Miguel Pro, Fr. Emil Kapaun and Fr. Vincent Capodanno, pray for us...
