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The uncertainty is still ongoing with the below about my Mom. Now, my Dad could have a new health issue (he’s had them on & off his entire life—ever since he was in a motorcycle accident as a young man in the Philippines). Please pray for them both.

Minneapolis mayor recognizes the real meaning of Memorial Day

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

El Cardenal Burke celebra Misa tradicional en latín en la Catedral de Chartres, Francia, como clausura de la 44º Peregrinación París - Chartres Deo grátias! Fotos: @ndchretiente #Tradicion #LatinMass #Traditional #Pentecostes #ndc2026

20,000 people, with an average age of 20, after having walked 100 kilometres over 3 days from Paris to Chartres Cathedral, assist a Youth Mass on Pentecost Monday, celebrated by His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke

@DrBobus97 @Mwarning515 “Btw, Holy Ghost come from the King James Bible, an Anglican project.” Someone should inform St. John Fisher! (By the way, who asked you?) From a sermon he gave in 1508:

@MatthewJLB @Mwarning515 I have no use for the use of the word Ghost, which is based on the German* Geist. Better is Spirit, cognate of Spiritus. Btw, Holy Ghost come from the King James Bible, an Anglican project.

Shaw is being pompous and disingenuous here. He says nobody is “forcing” the SSPX to travel to Paris instead of Chartes for pilgrimage. Except that I take it SSPX clergy are not allowed to say masses at Chartres? So instead of SSPX laity walking with their own priests, Shaw says they can just abandon them and walk with stranger priests in the other direction and assist at their Masses instead? OR the Society could just cave, accept the Bergoglian Revolution, and sign on the dotted line with Tucho and go to Chartres. Therefore, Shaw concludes nobody is FORCING them to walk to Paris in the opposite direction so they can say Mass in their own church. What utter arrogance and complete and total lack of compassion for fellow Traditional Catholics. On top of the disingenuous nature of saying they are not forced to go to Paris.

🔴🇫🇷 𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗛 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 — Une association a saisi la Ligue des droits de l’Homme après l’installation d’une croix chrétienne en métal sur les hauteurs du village de Comps, dans le Gard. L’association « Action citoyenne antiraciste et antifasciste à Beaucaire » dénonce une « atteinte très claire à la laïcité » et estime que cette croix, fixée sur un terrain public, aurait été installée illégalement. Selon sa présidente, une première croix en bois avait déjà été installée l’an dernier avant d’être retirée. Cette fois, une nouvelle croix en métal « très solide » a été fixée directement à la roche. L’association soupçonne « un mouvement identitaire catholique local » d’être à l’origine de l’installation et demande aux autorités d’intervenir... (Sources : franceinfo / ICI Gard Lozère)

@ChadWhit1k @magills_ That’s plausible.

@magills_ I'm starting to believe that the ppl who run Minnesota are worse than the ppl who run California.

@maironpontifex @johnamonaco ⬇️

@johnamonaco This just shows that we need to end the church. Why a group of senile child molesters decide for so many?

For as much as people want to claim that the Catholic Church is “irrelevant” or a relic from a medieval past, notice how when the Church speaks on faith and morals, the world stops. Even if the world doesn’t faithfully follow the Church’s directives, the Church is still a “main character”. The Church is still a target of the world’s fluctuating emotions: anger and rage, awe and reverence, curiosity and inquiry. Patriarch Bartholomew, the woman in Canterbury, the Mormon prophet—none captures the global attention. There isn’t 24/7 news coverage on the election of the president of the Southern Baptist Convention. No one ever hears about the Dalai Lama anymore. Anthropic wouldn’t waste its time joining a Methodist convention on AI. Major news outlets and journalists wouldn’t flock to Geneva to hear what Lutherans have to say about artificial intelligence. When Islamic imams issue a fatwa, very rarely does anyone blink an eye. These religions and denominations don’t ever come off as having a moral authority beyond that of their own people. But when the Catholic Church and the pope speaks, the world stops. Maybe the vast majority of people will argue and rant against its teaching (Humanae Vitae, 1968). Maybe what is taught will win favor among world leaders (Laudato Si, 2015). But the fact remains that the Church is seen as a major player on the world’s stage. As I sit down to read Pope Leo XIV’s “Magnifica Humanitas” (Encyclical Letter on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence), I realize that, like Catholics across millennia, I belong to not only a church, but the Church. I am a member of a supernatural society, one that continues the mission of Christ today, through His Spirit. Whether it is mocked or praised, the Church has “main character energy”, because it simply is the main character of history. And when the main character speaks, you stop for a moment to listen. Or in this case, to read a 42,300-word encyclical.

L’arrivée mythique à Chartres !

@nbcwashington This again? This is 3rd time since January that this has been decried by the media. By that standard, you might as well decry most American political figures before 1865.

The statue was taken down in Delaware during protests in the summer of 2020. nbc4dc.com/BNPlPJ3

@HOLYNAMEMOM2 @DavidJHarrisJr FYI: there are white Muslims—from Bosnia to the Caspian Sea.

@DavidJHarrisJr This was a consent trip by the parents. It promotes tolerance, educational and equality. Its not a conversion field trip. So shameful and racist on your part.

🚨BREAKING: A teacher brought her students on a school field trip to a mosque, where an imam taught the children about Islam, demonstrated how to wear burqas on the girls, and instructed the group to kneel for prayer. Only one young boy refused to kneel. The clip from the visit (reportedly involving young scouts or schoolchildren) has gone viral, sparking outrage over concerns of religious indoctrination.

@PdS2QC My Dad’s first language is Cebuano/Visayan. 😇

@MatthewJLB @Mwarning515 Matthew, baliw siya.

@Mwarning515 Nearly of those who have worked to undermine dogma over the past 200+ years have been “cradle Catholics.” The “cradle Catholic” demographic today also hear Mass the least; & hold the false teachings of the world the most.

@MatthewJLB Oh so the Church today does not have any heretics/Locusts attacking her? What better way to attack the Church than from within.

@Mwarning515 I’m taking issue your seeming denial of that part of the Council of Trent (see screenshot). You also need to explain why converts are the heretics of today.

@MatthewJLB What? The Catholic Church has always interpreted Apoc 9 Locusts as heretics and every age in the Church has heretics and those heretics have always been labeled Locusts. Who are the heretics today? Converts. Therefore they are the Locusts mentioned in Apoc 9

This kind of studied ambiguity is both intentional and infuriating. Using the “without prejudice” clause and then the quotes around just war makes this statement impenetrable.

@Mwarning515 Brush up on the Council of Trent—specifically, Session VI, Decree on Justification. Also, why is a supposed Catholic interpreting Apocalypse that way? Finally, there hasn’t been a convert on either side of my family for generations.

@MatthewJLB So convert Joseph Shaw has the power of the Holy Ghost? You're out of your mind. You must be a convert. Converts like Shaw are the Locusts: And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts upon the earth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power

@Mwarning515 So, in this Pentecost Octave, are you denying the power of the Holy Ghost to lead people to the Truth, Who is Christ Himself?

@BigModernism Shaw is a convert. Today's Converts are somewhat evil. Have you never been hurt by a convert? Converts are the Locusts mentioned in Apoc 9.And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts upon the earth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

@JasonKLangford @EdwardMaduh @ABC @EricXWest “Trust me. I’m a scientist.”

@EdwardMaduh @ABC @EricXWest Wherever you got your PhD from should give you a refund.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says her colleagues' handling of the Louisiana voting rights case may have compromised the court's impartiality in political matters. abcnews.link/XxS5GKg

@gamungous @lalalainsd Q. from a non-Trump voter: If America was never great, then is it a big deal that it is destroyed?

@lalalainsd When was America great? When slavery was legal? During Jim Crow? All Trump and maga is doing is destroying this country you moron.

So let me get this straight… Spencer Pratt runs on cleaning up the streets of Los Angeles, fixing the homeless crisis, making sure reservoirs and fire hydrants actually have water, saving dogs and making LA safer and cleaner for everyone… …and the media calls that “MAGA”? 🤔 Since when did wanting functioning infrastructure, safe streets, and competent leadership become controversial? Shouldn’t that be the goal of EVERY politician regardless of party? I guess some people would rather hand out free stuff while cities continue falling apart.

⛪ Merci à Mgr Philippe Christory pour son accueil paternel, sa présence et sa bienveillance envers les pèlerins. 🙏 Sur la route de Chartres, nous marchons comme des enfants de l’Église, fidèles et heureux de recevoir de leurs pasteurs cette sollicitude. #NDC2026