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A matter of law and order

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A matter of law and order

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Born in Bitburg, Germany, Paul Anthony Melanson is a Catholic lay-philosopher and apologist whose work has appeared in many publications and websites including The Union Leader, The Wanderer, Seattle Catholic, Newsblaze, Helium, and Amazines. He has been interviewed by The National Catholic Register, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the television newsmagazine Chronicle.
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An anonymous song composed for the King of France Louis VII and his crossed knights for the outbreak of the Second Crusade in 1145, following the capture of the County of Edessa (present day in Turkey) in 1144 by the Muslim Zengids.

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De Profundis

"Washington did not destroy the Venezuelan state because it needed more oil; it did so because it is preparing for a possible war with China. ...
The theory of “oil imperialism” does not stand up to a simple review of the facts. The United States is no longer the energy-hungry giant it was in the late 20th century. Texas alone now accounts for around 43 percent of total US crude oil production. ...
Over the past two decades, while Washington was bogged down in the Middle East, the People's Republic of China has quietly and systematically built up political influence in the Western Hemisphere. ...
In 2024, trade between China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) reached a volume of US$551 billion (£400 billion). It is particularly noteworthy that since 2005, Venezuela has accounted for around 44 percent of total Chinese development financing in the region. ...
This strategic unrest is inextricably linked to the future of Taiwan. American military planners know …More

spectator.com

Maduro’s capture wasn't about oil

The image of Nicolás Maduro in US custody has inevitably resurrected the ghosts of foreign policy past. For the reflexively cynical observer, the narrative writes itself: a Republican White House, a Latin American strongman, and the world’s largest proven oil reserves. As with Iraq in 2003, the slogan of American imperialism and its ‘blood for oil’ foreign policy circulated on social media before the dust had even settled over Caracas. ‘The overnight strikes on Venezuela,’ declared the Guardian, and Trump’s neo-imperial ‘declaration that the US would run the country and sell its oil, have driven another truck through international law and global norms’. This is a comfortable, nostalgic critique, harking back to the heady days of 2003. It is also dangerously wrong.
Maduro was not merely a socialist pariah; he was a strategic landlord
To view the dramatic defenestration of the Venezuelan regime as a resource raid is to misunderstand the fundamental shift in American grand strategy.…

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Die Behauptung, die USA seien auf dieses Öl nicht angewiesen, ist realitätsfern. Die Vereinigten Staaten verfügen über schätzungsweise 35 Milliarden Barrel Schweröl, dessen Förderung technisch aufwendig ist. Bei einem jährlichen Verbrauch von rund 7,3 Milliarden Barrel wäre dieser gesamte Bestand rechnerisch bereits nach etwa fünf Jahren aufgebraucht. Im Vergleich dazu besitzt Venezuela mit ungefähr 300 Milliarden Barrel ein um ein Vielfaches größeres Ölreservoir.

Fides Et Ratio

Every day I. So grateful the Lord preserved DJT. Purely gratuitous on His part.

Good Riddance to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Swamp Creature 'Populism': From shifting stances, to bizarre alliances, to unusual wealth gains, this is pretty much the opposite of MAGA.

americanthinker.com

Good Riddance to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Swamp Creature 'Populism'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) did not leave Washington as a martyr to principle.
She left as a case study in how rank opportunism masquerades as populism, and how loudly proclaimed integrity can coexist with some of the most cynical behavior the D.C. swamp has on offer.
Greene entered Congress in January 2021, branding herself as a sworn enemy of the political class, promising to drain the swamp and to stand shoulder to shoulder with working Americans.
Five years later, she
timed her exit to meet the minimum service threshold for securing a taxpayer-funded congressional pension.
That benefit was locked in by dating her resignation to Jan. 5, 2026, three days after completing exactly five years in office. Under federal retirement rules, that service guarantees her a deferred annuity beginning at age 62, estimated at roughly $8,700 annually.
It was a beneficial exit, not a sacrificial one.
The timing mattered because Greene’s public rationale did not align with her personal incentives …

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quodscripsi.com

Prophecies of Maria Esperanza Bianchini

Prophecies of Maria Esperanza Bianchini
Excerpt taken from
Prophecies
“The heavenly hurricane will come to help the weak, a battalion led by the Archangel Saint Michael, who will defend you because he will announce the decisive moment, and he will be open to hearing the drums, flutes and bells, able to stand fast and fight with the prayer of the Magnificat.”
She foresees a light coming from heaven, although she did not say whether this light will be visible or invisible, it is just that it will help us to enlighten. “Little by little man will begin to understand the order of the mystical world and in this way, everything will become green and full of hope, with the sweet gaze of Mary and the work of the Holy Spirit, and with the Father who lives and reigns always and forever in a world without end. ”
For Maria Esperanza: “the time has come when humanity must wake up, we must awaken to the love of God. In the coming years a new light from heaven will light our hearts, but before that …

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Mazza La Ragazza

Ounka - Ana Kasparian uncovers YouTube’s covert removal of 700+ clips documen...
Ana Kasparian uncovers YouTube’s covert removal of 700+ clips documenting Israeli war crimes — A clear assist to the US in covering up Israeli war crimes x.com/OunkaOnX/status/2004806457124962743/video/1

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Instaurare Omnia in Christo

What hasn't yt taken down? They even threatened a former Doctor and made him take down his video. Warned him he would be removed totally. It was about the c-19 scam. At the same time they plaster all the propagandist and those defending evil and pay them big money for doing it.

Pierre Henri

31 STATES LOOK TO CLEAR THE SKIES

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en.news

Vicar General of Next New York Archbishop Attended Homosex "Wedding" of Chancellor - Leo XIV Appointment

Vicar General Richard Smith of the diocese of Joliet attended the homosexual “wedding” of the diocese’s chancellor, Robert Salvato, on December 13.
ComplicitClergy.com stated on January 5 that they have an eyewitness who confirms that the vicar general was definitely in attendance. Additionally, two other sources identified the vicar general featured in photos from the "wedding".
Monsignor Ronald Hicks, 58, was installed as Bishop of Joliet in July 2020. On 1 December 2020, he appointed the pro-homosexual priest Richard Smith as vicar general and, in 2021, the homosexual Salvato as his chancellor.
On 18 December, Pope Leo XIV appointed Bishop Hicks as Archbishop of New York. He will be installed as the new Archbishop in February.
On December 23, Leo XIV declined to comment on his controversial appointment of Archbishop Hicks of New York.
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A Full Training in Sacred Art Wall Painting Suitable for Catholics

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A Full Training in Sacred Art Wall Painting Suitable for Catholics

A Full Training in Sacred Art Wall Painting Suitable for Catholics
Writing the Light’s 2-year Certificate, Starts Fall 2026, Applications Open Now.
If we want to see a genuine and widespread flourishing of sacred art in our churches, artists must learn to paint church interiors.
To participate authentically in the sacred liturgy, the environment in which we worship must foster an encounter with Christ in the Eucharist. This requires beautifully celebrated liturgies, as well as music, art, and architecture that harmonise with the actions of the celebrants and the congregation.
The frescoes at St Francis of Assisi, Baddesley Clinton, England, painted by contemporary English Catholic artist Martin Earle. See here for more infomation.
If the sacred art is to play its part in this, we need artists who can paint well and on a large scale, directly onto the walls and ceilings of our places of worship, creating sacred spaces that draw us powerfully into the encounter with Christ.
The Writing …

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Ink pen drawing of the Three Wise Men, done by yours truly at age 10 approx.

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Maria delos Angeles
Tom Morelli

Maduro’s capture raises questions of US election fraud linked to Venezuelan voting machines

lifesitenews.com

Maduro’s capture raises questions of US election fraud linked to Venezuelan voting machines - LifeSite

Mon Jan 5, 2026 - 8:34 pm ESTMon Jan 5, 2026 - 9:08 pm EST
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LifeSiteNews) — With indications of multiple motivations for the U.S. attack on Venezuela and capture of President Nicolás Maduro circulating in the west, proposals have also emerged suggesting the Trump administration is additionally addressing election fraud crimes that many allege originate from the South American nation.
Since at least 2004, concerns of fraudulent voting systems emanating from a company associated with Venezuela nationals, and at least partially owned by their government, have appeared sporadically in media both locally and abroad in the United States.
According to a CNN report at the time, the Venezuelan government owned 28% of Bista, a company that adapted software for voting machines manufactured by Smartmatic, a corporation also owned by businessmen from the nation.
Smartmatic reportedly advanced into the United States with the purchase of competitor Sequoia and grew into what is described as a labyrinth …

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Mazza La Ragazza

Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe: No one can simply say ‘I’m a woman’ – our biology is fundamental

The leading Catholic on trans rights, an astonishing meeting with Pope Francis and what happened inside the secret conclave to elect Leo XIV
In a small, lamplit room at Blackfriars Hall in Oxford,
Father Timothy Radcliffe, England’s newest cardinal, is talking about books. “I love Charles Dickens,” he enthuses. “I think he’s one of the greatest, most imaginative people ever to write. And I love The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene.”
The literary references are typical of Timothy Radcliffe. It is easy to forget that this urbane and cultured man is one of the most important contemporary religious figures in the country. Perhaps the lightness with which he holds his religion is the Dominican way – he is a Dominican friar and former master of the global Dominican order. Or maybe it’s the lingering patrician in him. The grandson of a baronet, he was brought up within the old, upper-class Catholic world of families whose pedigrees predate the formation of the Church of England.

telegraph.co.uk
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Ordinariate-Style Structure for the Roman Rite - New Proposal to Cardinals

Ahead of the January 7–8 consistory, a group of cardinals received a new proposal aimed at resolving long-standing tensions surrounding the Mass in the Roman rite, reports Diane Montagna of Substack (January 5).
Dated December 24, the proposal was made by Father Louis-Marie de Blignières, founder of the French Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer.
The letter (below) was sent in hard copy to 15 cardinals known for their interest in liturgical matters and by email to approximately 100 other cardinals.
Rather than calling for a reversal of existing restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass, the letter proposes a structural solution: the creation of a personal ecclesiastical jurisdiction dedicated to the ancient Roman rite. Modeled in part on military ordinariates and Anglican ordinariates, such a structure would not be defined by territory but by the faithful who choose to belong to it.
The proposed jurisdiction would be headed by its own bishop or ordinary and possess the authority to …More

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Ralph Alexander Michael Curtis

The deep state, controlling the Vatican within, will not allow the occupant of the Chair of Peter to act independently. They will not admit that the VaticanII Church is a fraud. What price for one's salvation? Tragic.

mccallansteve

I have a better idea: Ban the protestant Novus Ordo completely and have only the traditional Mass.