In Principio

Michel de Montaigne ~~ The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge...

'Montaigne died in 1592 at the age of 59, at the Château de Montaigne, from a peritonsillar abscess. In his case, the disease "brought about paralysis of the tongue",[39] especially difficult for a person who once said that "the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice."[40] Remaining in possession of all his other faculties, he requested a Mass, and he died during the celebration of that Mass.'

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Normand Thomas

Homily, Saturday, December 6 2025

Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26
“People of Zion, dwelling in Jerusalem, you shall no longer weep; The Lord will be most gracious to you.”
The grace of God is present in this moment. We receive it.
Matthew 9:35–10:1, 5a, 6-8
“Jesus proclaims the Gospel of the Kingdom.”
The Gospel is Jesus. Jesus proclaims that God is with us.
Biblical texts: NAB-RE
Normand Thomas.

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He needs prayers and a long rest

He was not only in the Iraq war fighting, but covering wars in various places besides Ukraine and Russia for over a decade. If you watch till the end you will see why he needs our prayers and a good rest.
When he is yelling we are alive, is the time the Chechen soldiers blew a Ukrainian drone out of the air which was aimed to kill him. The Chechens were very calm. Even laughing. Patrick in the end started to cry with happiness and relief. He has gone though so much to bring us truth.
Video was put up about 12 hours ago.
U.S. Invasion of Venezuela On The Ground Special Reporting
Picture from the time the drone operator tried to kill him.

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Orthocat

Big Pharma Lilly Endowment distributed to 45 theological schools across the U.S. and Canada, includes $60 million to several “Catholic” institutions.

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Cleveland seminary's $8.9M Lilly grant to include collaboration with Sacred Heart - Detroit Catholic

Grant through Lilly Endowment's Pathways for Tomorrow initiative to help fund clergy, lay formation, shared seminary resources
DETROIT — The Lilly Endowment announced it will distribute 45 large-scale grants to theological schools across the U.S. and Canada, including directing about $60 million to several Catholic institutions.
The grants, which range from $2.5 million to $10 million, are a part of the Lilly Endowment’s Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative, helping theological schools to “enhance their educational and financial capacities” and train pastors “to effectively lead congregations from a wide variety of contexts,” according to a
press release from the organization.
The grants will benefit a range of ecumenical traditions, including Catholic institutions, as well as mainline Protestant, evangelical, and Orthodox ones.
Catholic institutions receiving grants include The Catholic University of America, which received over $7 million; Mount Angel Abbey in Saint Benedict, Oregon …

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Orthocat

I just received an email yesterday from the local hospital asking (begging?) me to "get caught up" on my vaccines - flu, pneumonia, COVID. NO WAY. But I got to thinking: what if some confused Catholic asked one of these 'pharma-funded' priests about their struggles with this subject - or any other hot-button issue [ex. contraception, etc.]. Will they receive a Catholic response grounded in solid moral theology & medical ethics? Or will the 'grateful minister' share how these drug companies work for the 'common good'? And why wouldn't he think that? They provided a generous GRANT to his seminary! 🤑 😲 Can't serve God and mammon!!!

Faith Hope Charity

The bought and paid for counterfeit church with its minions have sold out again, again, and again on behalf of their father satan and on behalf of themselves.
Gospel of Saint Mark 8:36 [uncorrupted Douay Rheims BIBLE]-
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

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Vatican Employees Sound the Alarm Over Holy See’s Finances

The Associazione Dipendenti Laici Vaticani (ADLV), a union-like association representing the Vatican's lay employees, has questioned in a December 3 statement the optimism surrounding the recent Vatican financial report.
Last week, the Vatican announced a budget surplus of €1.6 million, its first positive result after years of deficits—a development presented as a sign of progress.
However, the ADLV argues that the information released remains partial and insufficient.
Employees say they would prefer the Vatican to regularly publish complete, certified budgets—both forecast and final—accompanied by detailed documentation, rather than relying on visually appealing slide presentations that lack the depth required for serious evaluation.
As the ADLV notes, it is difficult to believe in a genuine financial recovery when essential data are still missing.
Surplus Driven by Donations and Market Gains
According to the association, the surplus is not the result of structural reforms or improved …More

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Malki Tzedek

Always recall Cardinal Pell who was wrongfully side-lined, and, perhaps, if scuttlebutt is correct, worse than that, when he found the Vatican finances to be amiss. He knew where at least some 'of the bodies were buried'.

Wilma Lopez shares this

Vatican employees’ association meets financial report ‘with skepticism’

Malachi Martin’s WARNINGS: Secret cardinal, … LifeSiteNews_:Malachi Martin's Warnings Secret Cardinal 3. Sekret of Fatima

Malachi Martin’s WARNINGS: Secret cardinal, Fatima & the coming crisis
Malachi Martin's WARNINGS: Secret cardinal, Fatima & the coming crisis
Rob Marro sits down with John-Henry Westen to reveal the explosive contents of his new book, In the Shadows of the Vatican, uncovering the hidden life of the enigmatic Father Malachi Martin.
Marro unveils Martin’s secret elevation as a Vatican “apostolic administrator,” a covert cardinalate established as a Cold War contingency plan. He details Martin’s intimate involvement with the Third Secret of Fatima, his clandestine work behind the Iron Curtain, his profound spiritual warfare encounters, and his prophetic warnings about diabolic disorientation and future crises within the Church.
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tearlach

THE LORD SAID TO ME: WHAT I SHOWED YOU 16 YEARS AGO IN DREAMS WILL HAPPEN SOON - FIRST PART

DEC 3, 2025
I ALMOST DIED 17 YEARS AGO IN 2008, I'm currently taking medication. I was diagnosed with a terminal illness in 2002.
But in 2008 in September I ended up sick, after going to see a Doctor, I was sent home with a misdiagnose, tylenol and anti-biotics. The Doctor was negligent to run tests as I asked, she was a young female pregnant Doctor probably in her mid thirties.
In the last week of september I had already lost 33 pounds in less than a month, high fever, body aches, unable to eat, vomiting, diarrhea, extreme weakness, but I felt the presence of God, so much love, so much peace, although my pains where great.
I was hungry but I was unable to eat anything anymore, not even a soup or broth would make it to my stomach without me vomiting.
A brother and his family came to visit from a different state in the U.S., I was under my mom's care at that time as I had nobody to look after me. I had refused to go to the hospital, because for 3 consecutive times that same year (2008)…More

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Jeffrey Ade

Hell is real, and when the temptations of sin prove to be more forceful than our love for God, a salutary fear can help us stay on the straight road to life.

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Are YOU on your way to Hell?

Hell is real, and when the temptations of sin prove to be more forceful than our love for God, a salutary fear can help us stay on the straight road to life.
Dec 04, 2025
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Hell is real, and when the temptations of sin prove to be more forceful than our love for God, a salutary fear can help us stay on the straight road to life.
Editor’s Notes
The second period of the preparation for St Louis de Montfort’s Total Consecration to the Blessed Virgin – “Week 1” – is focused on gaining a greater knowledge of ourselves, and sorrow for our sins.
Today, we are reading Fr Aloysius Ambruzzi’s explanation of the meditation on Hell, from St Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises.
Bevan of The Corner Cabinet has kindly agreed to read this text for us today.
The themes, as well as vocal prayers and readings associated with this ‘Week 1’, can be found …

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Faith Hope Charity

Saying with a loud voice: Fear the Lord, and give him honour, because the hour of his judgment is come: and adore ye him, *who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and the fountains of waters.
-Apocalypse 14:7 [Douay Rheims uncorrupted BIBLE]

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St Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises is said to be the ultimate book to guard our faith 🙏 🙏 🙏

LiveJohn

WORLD NEWS.

russias-dugin-we-will-wipe-europe-off-the-face-of-the-earth.
Source: Hal Turner.
Left-click the above to read the full article.
Dugin is no fool - his words should be taken seriously.
Other nations support for Ukraine does not bode well for them either.
We are living in dangerous times which fully explain the reason for Divine Intervention aka: Garabandal.
Say the Rosary every day and return to the sacraments as necessary.
Share this post with your loved ones.
Pax Vobiscum.

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Instaurare Omnia in Christo

President Putin has said over and over and over again. We do not want a war with anyone. But if they want a war. We will be ready. But it's much better if we handle things with dialogue. But no one wants to do that. So we are ready for them when they come for us. More or less is what he said. I just watched "Another" video of him repeating that.
Putin's Advice To EU 🇷🇺🕊️🇪🇺
I heave heard exactly what he and others in Russia said. No editing, twisting or changing. I want to hear things from their own mouth. Not propaganda.
Unfortunately Yahoo just deleted an email I was filling with important things Putin and those in the Kremlin say or do. And other links on various things as well. They just wiped it out of my drafts as I tried to click on it. I was going to post a video from Putin and what he said exactly!
As far as Dugin goes. In Russia there is freedom of speech. Unless you talk about overthrowing the government or any other such crazy thing. That's why the Kremlin doesn't stop him.…More

Tell me please, that they are not mocking The Blessed Mother.

Reparations for Our Holy Mother. I couldn't bare to watch the video. I skipped through it. But in at least two parts I saw that witch with a Crown. And she is practically naked. Two pictures included.
Mother Mary | Official Trailer HD | A24

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Psalm 139

First Saturday in three days, perfect time for reparations. I don't think chris griffin knows what that means. Do you chris??

Faith Hope Charity

The reason I used the love emoji is because you, Instaurare, "couldn't bare to watch the video".
GOD bless you, good and faithful servant.

Pope Leo Demands Trump Find ‘Another Way’ on Venezuela

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Pope Leo Demands Trump Find ‘Another Way’ on Venezuela

Pope Leo XIV is demanding President Donald Trump find “another way” to handle Venezuela after days of veiled threats and rumors of military action.
The pontiff urged the president to find a way besides violence to achieve America’s goals—supposedly to curb the drug trade—in the South American country.
“It seems there is the possibility that there may be some activity, even an operation to invade Venezuelan territory,” Leo told reporters aboard a flight home from Lebanon on Tuesday.
He continued, “I truly believe that it is better to look for ways of dialogue, maybe pressure, including economic pressure, but looking another way to change, if that is what they want to do in the United States.”
Trump, 79, accidentally confirmed over the weekend that he spoke by phone with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro. Details of the call remain murky, but reports say Trump ordered the 63-year-old authoritarian leader to relinquish power—something the leader refused to do.
Continue …

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Gérard GERARD GETREY

Trump knows how to talk to Venezuelan traffickers. He also knows how to talk to Islamic fanatics and followers of Wokism. May this self-proclaimed pope who denies the title of Co-Redemptrix to the Blessed Virgin Mary repent before the time is up.

Sally Dorman shares from en.news

Bishop Fellay: Tucho’s Document Pitiful and Insulting to God

"The way to Heaven is tough. Our time has reached a higher intensity of evil than before. Temptations are greater than ever,” said Bishop Bernard Fellay of the Priestly Fraternity of St Pius X in an interview with Kenya’s Immaculata TV on 23 November (video below).
He explained that there has been a terrible crisis in the Church since Vatican II, including a terrifying decline in vocations: "You wonder how far it can go."
And, "The influence of the Church on the world is now reduced to nothing."
Bishop Fellay quoted Cardinal Ratzinger’s well-known prediction that the Church as we know it will disappear and be reduced to "little islands": "I fear we are very close to that time."
He continued, "A lot of things in the Church have already been destroyed."
On Tucho’s Document About Marian Titles
Regarding Cardinal Victor (Tucho) Fernández and his recent document on the Marian titles Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of all graces, Bishop Fellay called it “pitiful.”
“It is an insult to God,” he …More

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Wilma Lopez shares from en.news

Study begun in 2020 published its summary results today -- “The status quaestionis of historical research and theological investigation, as well as their mutual implications, excludes the possibility of proceeding in the direction of admitting women to the diaconate understood as a degree of the sacrament of Holy Orders. In light of Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and ecclesiastical Magisterium, this assessment is strong, although it does not allow for a definitive judgment to be formulated at this time, as in the case of priestly ordination”

Vatican Rules Out Women Deacons for Now – Moves Toward New Lay Ministries for Women

The Vatican on Thursday published the conclusions of its study commission on women deacons.
The Commission rules out admitting women to the diaconate understood as a degree of the sacrament of Holy Orders, but without issuing a definitive judgment at this time.
The report stresses repeatedly that the negative assessment is “strong” yet “does not permit formulating a definitive judgment,” unlike the case of priestly ordination.
Submission of the Report to Pope Leo XIV
On 18 September, Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, President of the Study Commission on the Female Diaconate, submitted to Pope Leo XIV a detailed synthesis of the Commission’s work.
The report reflects several years of historical, theological, and pastoral investigation.
Historical Findings: A Non-Sacramental Ancient Practice
The Commission revisited the findings of two earlier Vatican commissions.
Historical research confirms that, in the early Church, the title deaconess appeared in different regions and periods, but with …More

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Orthocat

YES, YES! Despite all his flaws John Paul II was unambiguous on this point of doctrine. 😍 That's why he was hated by the modernists of his day.

Wilma Lopez

Ordinatio Sacerdotalis states -- “I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women & that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful” In 2018 the Vatican said this text had the mark of “infallibility”

Why is John Henry Westen so much into (false) mysticism?

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silvioabcd

Se fosse falso il misticismo di santi e beati sarebbe vero il tuo misticismo?

yuca2111

The fruits of Rome tells different!

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The crisis in Rome is deepening. We must fight the good fight - LifeSite

Thu Dec 4, 2025 - 7:32 am ESTThu Dec 4, 2025 - 12:52 pm EST
ROME (
LifeSiteNews) — Dear pro-life friends,
I am writing to you today from Rome itself.
The Eternal City – and right now, the most dangerous battleground for the soul of the Church.
You can feel it in the air.
Confusion is spreading. The truth is attacked.
The faithful are pushed aside, while sins that cry to heaven for vengeance are welcomed into St Peter’s Basilica. And those who seek to dismantle Catholic doctrine are working openly, confidently, and without fear of resistance.
That is why LifeSiteNews must be right here in Rome.
Because Rome is where the fight is happening. And our presence here is under threat.
Before I explain why, let me share the latest shocking scandal of what we’re up against.
The new Marian decree: A warning shot
Just weeks ago, the Vatican issued a doctrinal note rejecting the Marian titles “Co-Redemptrix” and “Mediatrix of All Graces” – titles grounded in centuries of Catholic devotion, …

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Tisbe Galaad

Faithfulness to the Gospel

Hebrews 13, 8-9
"Jesus Christ is the same today as He was yesterday and as He will be for
ever. Do not let yourselves be led astray by all sorts of strange doctrines."

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Douay Rheims official Catholic Bible 1899.
1 Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand [1 Corinthians 15:1] 2 By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures:

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Justice Thomas gets New Jersey to admit it targeted pro-life center despite ‘no complaints’ - LifeSite

Thu Dec 4, 2025 - 3:55 pm ESTThu Dec 4, 2025 - 4:32 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (
LifeSiteNews) — Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas struck a potentially fatal blow to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office’s case defending its investigation of a pro-life pregnancy center, by getting an attorney to admit it had received no actual complaints about the center.
As previously covered by LifeSiteNews, New Jersey Democrat Attorney General Matt Platkin issued a consumer alert in 2022 branding pro-life crisis pregnancy centers as “seek(ing) to prevent people from accessing [so-called] comprehensive reproductive health care”; it was later revealed that his office collaborated with America’s largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood, on the final draft of the alert.
First Choice Women’s Resource Centers sued Platkin over its efforts to force the nonprofit to “produce extensive documentation” without reasonable cause and under threat of punishment for “possible violations …

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Does Catholic Charities Share Responsibility For Minnesota’s Somali Mess?

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Does Catholic Charities Share Responsibility For Minnesota’s Somali Mess?

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have no doubt seen reports of massive fraud being perpetrated by the Somali immigrant community under the watchful eye of Minnesota Goveror Tim Walz. Here are just a few of the stories if you haven’t seen the news:
How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
“The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer”
Minnesota government workers blame Walz for ‘massive fraud’ amid allegations against Somali community
Treasury investigating whether Minnesota tax money went to terrorist organization
This scandal has prompted some people ask a few basic questions, such as:
How did Minnesota come to have the largest number of Somali refugees in the United States?
How did these refugees get here in the first place?
What have been the impacts of this Somali resettlement on Minnesotans and their communities?
Enlisting the help of Grok, we embarked on trying to get some answers.
What is the historical context involving …

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