These are the only thoughts on Pope Francis I feel capable of writing publicly with any confidence.
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From “An Honest Conversation About Dishonesty”: So again, you say I’ve changed. But I would submit I haven’t. You have. (Or people like you — not truly knowing your past, I’m using you as a stand-in for a type I encounter with great frequency.) I’m still against all the horrible ideas I used to be against. But the terrain changed on me, …
Who Changed?
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Now that I have been doing it, I can talk about it. My New Year’s resolution was to read the Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare. A play a week, 38 weeks into 2025.
I’m on schedule! 16 on finishing Merchant today.
Do I recommend it? Yes, yes I do. I honestly find myself choosing to lap up another scene or two of bloodshed or invective rather than scrolling through the glamour of Insta.
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I spent the morning teaching, but I’m watching the playback of the funeral now. Church history is long, and there will be many centuries to determine the legacy of Francis, but now we lay the Holy Father, the successor of St Peter, to rest and there is only prayer and hope in the resurrection. May God bless him and let His light shine upon him, and may He welcome him into the kingdom. Ora pro eo.
“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.
Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
— C.S. Lewis
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In the other place - X - Ross Barkan is assailing Jesse Singal for his tenacious and courageous exposure of the fast-tracking of sex reassignment for children, mainly gay and lesbian, without any solid medical basis.
He is trying to argue that good journalism should not happen if some bigots might want to deploy it for nefarious ends.
I just want to say that in my view, Jesse’s reporting has been scrupulous and prophetic and courageous. If Pulitzers were still given on the basis of merit instead of ideology, he’d have racked up several.
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I will never, ever, ever get tired of living 700 feet from this waterfall.
I think it takes me exactly three minutes to walk here from my front porch. How the hell did I get so lucky?
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This juggler is funny. Reagan is having a blast.
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ATTENTION TORONTO AREA CATHOLICS: On May 4th, I will be presenting my book Charismania after the 10 AM Mass at the Church of the Transfiguration in Etobicoke. There is no charge for the event. ontario.sspx.ca/en/toro…
The fun is really going to begin when all of vaccinated doctors and all the vaccinated nurses and all the vaccinated staff get sick and die. No need to go to the hospital... no need to go to the clinic... no need to call the ambulance because there is NO one left to treat you. Yes people are going to being dying at home with no medication and one treating them. Welcome to 1862.
That is part of the WEF's Great Reset. When they Build Back Better, you won't have access to proper healthcare, because it will no longer exist. And if you don't take your shots, you won't have access to any healthcare of any kind whatsoever, because you won't get past the scanner at the door, or the login on the website.
It is part of the coming catastrophe of millions of vaccinated health care workers leaving the workplace. I don't think any reset plans included the total destruction of the healthcare system. But who knows? I wrote a short story about what it will be like when the healthcare system collapses. Mercy Killing my Neighbors https://lawrencebutts.substack.com/p/mercy-killing-my-neighbors?r=gjogf&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
No, it is planned. They are dismantling healthcare as we know it and turning it into another service to be accessed only by those who comply. Where I work, I see documents every week on this sort of thing, many of them from WEF-associated organizations.
The model they want is for most diagnosis to take place at home via the computer and over the internet. Patients will then go to an automated warehouse to pick up prescriptions, etc. Access to facilities will be dependent on the status of the various accounts linked to your personal ID.
They are building a digital prison, free of human interaction, and nearly free of any means of recourse.
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