“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.” ― St. Antony the Great
The Vox household is one which prolongs the Christmas season in an ancient manner to Candlemas on February 2, the Feast of the Purification of Mary and Presentation of the Lord in the Temple. We cut the tree on December 1 just outside of Simcoe, Ontario on the north shore of Lake Erie, It is a Fraser Fir. We kept it outside in the shade and in water, the cool air and rain throughout December and brought it in the 22nd of December decorating it on Christmas Eve. Here it remains and it is actually booming and in more places than what you see here. As an aside, the angel on the top of the tree first appeared in 1957 when your writer was 15 months old.
The pine cone ornament above and the little coloured one below it to the right of St. Charbel are older than this writer. The pink ball on the left and the blue and silver teardrop on the upper right are quite delicate and from Poland and are almost as old. In the picture below, the little candle clip and candle are at over a century old and was my grandmother's. What a joyous feast is Christmastide.
At the World Youth Daycare in Panama, Bergoglio of Rome said that "Gossipers are not interested (in the person). They
quickly seek to put a label to get them out of the way. The adjective culture
belittles the person,"
You mean like:
"Old
maid!"
"Fomenter
of coprophagia!"
"Specialist
of the Logos!"
"Rosary
counter!"
"Functionary!"
"Self-absorbed,
Promethean neo-Pelagian!"
"Restorationist!"
"Ideological
Christians!"
"Pelagian!"
"Mr
and Mrs Whiner!"
"Triumphalist!"
"Rigid
Christians!"
"Modern
gnostics!"
"Liquid
Christian!"
"Superficial
Christians!"
"Slaves
of superficiality!"
"Museum
mummy!"
"Renaissance
prince!"
"Airport
Bishop!"
"Leprous
courtier!"
"Idealogue!"
"Long-faced,
mournful funeral Christian!"
"Gnostic!"
"Careerist
Bishop!"
"Sourpuss!"
"Authoritarian!"
"Elitist!"
"Querulous
and disillusioned pessimist!"
"Sad
Christian!"
"Pickled
pepper-faced Christian!"
"Children!
Afraid to dance! To cry! Afraid of everything!"
"Asker
for certainty in all things!"
"Christians
allergic to preaching!"
"Closed,
sad, trapped Christian who is not a free Christian!"
"Pagan
Christian!"
"Little
monster!"
"Defeated
Christian!"
"Creed-reciting,
parrot Christian!"
"Watered-down
faith, weak-hoped Christian!"
"Inquisitorial
beater!"
"Seminarians
who grit their teeth and wait to finish!"
"Those
who follow rules and smile [who] reveal the hypocrisy of clericalism - one of
the worst evils!"
"Abstract ideologue!"
"Fundamentalist!"
"Smarmy,
idolator priest!"
"Worshiper
of the god Narcissus!"
"Priest-wheeler
dealer!"
"Priest-tycoon!"
"Religious
who have a heart as sour as vinegar!"
"Promoter
of the poison of immanence!"
“Those
closed in the formality of a prayer that is cold, stingy!"
"They
might end up as Michal, in the sterility of her formality.”
"Older
people nostalgic for structures and customs which are no longer life-giving in
today’s world!"
The Bishop of Covington in Kentucky has issued a statement. The pathetic, wolf-coward states that he was "pressured" for a response and of course, threw the boys and young Mr. Sandman, under the bus. He even goes after various Catholic commentators over his cowardice who dared to criticize. The sins in this whole matter are legion.
What a pathetic excuse for a Shepherd of Jesus Christ.
Then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, key spokesman for bishops at the summit meeting with JPII on the sex abuse crisis unfolding in the U.S., faces the press at the Vatican on April 24, 2002. The Remnant's Chirstopher Ferrara was there to ask McCarrick the $64,000 question. (Reuters photo)
Introduction: the “Abuse of Minors” Ruse
The homosexual priest and bishop scandal has erupted anew, just as I predicted in an article for this journal seventeen years ago, concerning the useless “pedophile summit” in Rome, presided over by none other than ex-Cardinal McCarrick, the serial sexual abuser of seminarians and altar boys Pope Bergoglio was finally forced to discipline after having rehabilitated him in full knowledge of his past. The 2002 Roman junket for well-fed prelates was cunningly designed to avoid the issue of homosexual activity among the clergy and their “consenting adult” partners in sodomy.
With vipers like McCarrick running the show, the participants would never get anywhere near the third rail of rampant homosexuality in the post-Vatican II priesthood. The problem, we were told, was “abuse of minors” by pedophiles—an outright lie designed to conceal the widespread homosexual corruption of Catholic clergy. I attended the event as a reporter for The Remnant, confronting McCarrick personally at a press conference during its worthless proceedings. Herewith my question and McCarrick’s supremely deceptive and hypocritical answer, a carefully worded nod to the continuing ordination of homosexuals so long as they profess not to have been “active”:
Lest I disgrace this blog with the actual photos of the lover boys Dulibber G. Gonzalez and Marcin Bradtke, I'll just link to the story over there. Serratelli - another apostate, homosexualist, heresiarch.
"We were told that Fr. Treco was visited by Bp. Lopes, who essentially provided Fr Treco with the option of renouncing what he had said in the sermon (which Fr. Treco declined), or that he be removed as pastor, wherein he would have to take… wait for it…. further education classes so that he could better understand the post-conciliar church. We were also told, though, that Fr. Treco is free to continue as priest for St. Bede, even presiding over mass, just as long as he (a) does not deliver sermons or (b) has his sermons reviewed and signed off by the local diocesan priest prior to any such delivery.| http://stumblingblock.org/?p=13313
Native American activist Nathan Phillips waded into the crowd and taunted the boys and then lied to the media about the facts.
James Martin.
Dan Horan
The Bishop of the Diocese.
All disgraceful public sinners in their rash judgement who attacked the boys over the lie and set up used against them.
I am the student in the video who was confronted by the Native
American protestor. I arrived at the Lincoln Memorial at 4:30 p.m. I was told
to be there by 5:30 p.m., when our busses were due to leave Washington for the
trip back to Kentucky. We had been attending the March for Life rally, and then
had split up into small groups to do sightseeing.
When we arrived, we noticed four African American protestors
who were also on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I am not sure what they
were protesting, and I did not interact with them. I did hear them direct
derogatory insults at our school group.
The protestors said hateful things. They called us
"racists," "bigots," "white crackers,"
"faggots," and "incest kids." They also taunted an African
American student from my school by telling him that we would "harvest his
organs." I have no idea what that insult means, but it was startling to
hear.
Because we were being loudly attacked and taunted in public,
a student in our group asked one of our teacher chaperones for permission to
begin our school spirit chants to counter the hateful things that were being
shouted at our group. The chants are commonly used at sporting events. They are
all positive in nature and sound like what you would hear at any high school.
Our chaperone gave us permission to use our school chants. We would not have
done that without obtaining permission from the adults in charge of our group.
At no time did I hear any student chant anything other than
the school spirit chants. I did not witness or hear any students chant
"build that wall" or anything hateful or racist at any time. Assertions
to the contrary are simply false. Our chants were loud because we wanted to
drown out the hateful comments that were being shouted at us by the protestors.
After a few minutes of chanting, the Native American
protestors, who I hadn't previously noticed, approached our group. The Native
American protestors had drums and were accompanied by at least one person with
a camera.
The protestor everyone has seen in the video began playing
his drum as he waded into the crowd, which parted for him. I did not see anyone
try to block his path. He locked eyes with me and approached me, coming within
inches of my face. He played his drum the entire time he was in my face.
I never interacted with this protestor. I did not speak to
him. I did not make any hand gestures or other aggressive moves. To be honest,
I was startled and confused as to why he had approached me. We had already been
yelled at by another group of protestors, and when the second group approached
I was worried that a situation was getting out of control where adults were
attempting to provoke teenagers.
I believed that by remaining motionless and calm, I was
helping to diffuse the situation. I realized everyone had cameras and that
perhaps a group of adults was trying to provoke a group of teenagers into a
larger conflict. I said a silent prayer that the situation would not get out of
hand.
During the period of the drumming, a member of the
protestor's entourage began yelling at a fellow student that we "stole our
land" and that we should "go back to Europe." I heard one of my
fellow students begin to respond. I motioned to my classmate and tried to get
him to stop engaging with the protestor, as I was still in the mindset that we
needed to calm down tensions.
I never felt like I was blocking the Native American
protestor. He did not make any attempt to go around me. It was clear to me that
he had singled me out for a confrontation, although I am not sure why.
The engagement ended when one of our teachers told me the
busses had arrived and it was time to go. I obeyed my teacher and simply walked
to the busses. At that moment, I thought I had diffused the situation by
remaining calm, and I was thankful nothing physical had occurred.
I never understood why either of the two groups of
protestors were engaging with us, or exactly what they were protesting at the
Lincoln Memorial. We were simply there to meet a bus, not become central
players in a media spectacle. This is the first time in my life I've ever
encountered any sort of public protest, let alone this kind of confrontation or
demonstration.
I was not intentionally making faces at the protestor. I did
smile at one point because I wanted him to know that I was not going to become
angry, intimidated or be provoked into a larger confrontation. I am a faithful
Christian and practicing Catholic, and I always try to live up to the ideals my
faith teaches me -- to remain respectful of others, and to take no action that
would lead to conflict or violence.
I harbor no ill will for this person. I respect this
person's right to protest and engage in free speech activities, and I support
his chanting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial any day of the week. I
believe he should re-think his tactics of invading the personal space of
others, but that is his choice to make.
I am being called every name in the book, including a
racist, and I will not stand for this mob-like character assassination of my
family's name. My parents were not on the trip, and I strive to represent my
family in a respectful way in all public settings.
I have received physical and death threats via social media,
as well as hateful insults. One person threatened to harm me at school, and one
person claims to live in my neighborhood. My parents are receiving death and
professional threats because of the social media mob that has formed over this
issue.
I love my school, my teachers and my classmates. I work hard
to achieve good grades and to participate in several extracurricular
activities. I am mortified that so many people have come to believe something
that did not happen -- that students from my school were chanting or acting in
a racist fashion toward African Americans or Native Americans. I did not do
that, do not have hateful feelings in my heart, and did not witness any of my
classmates doing that.
I cannot speak for everyone, only for myself. But I can tell
you my experience with Covington Catholic is that students are respectful of
all races and cultures. We also support everyone's right to free speech.
I am not going to comment on the words or account of Mr.
Phillips, as I don't know him and would not presume to know what is in his
heart or mind. Nor am I going to comment further on the other protestors, as I
don't know their hearts or minds, either.
I have read that Mr. Phillips is a veteran of the United
States Marines. I thank him for his service and am grateful to anyone who puts
on the uniform to defend our nation. If anyone has earned the right to speak
freely, it is a U.S. Marine veteran.
I can only speak for myself and what I observed and felt at
the time. But I would caution everyone passing judgement based on a few seconds
of video to watch the longer video clips that are on the internet, as they show
a much different story than is being portrayed by people with agendas.
I provided this account of events to the Diocese of
Covington so they may know exactly what happened, and I stand ready and willing
to cooperate with any investigation they are conducting.
