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Susan Daniels's avatar

"The Bishop looked at me as if I had just peed on his shoe." LOL

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SKnow's avatar

Brian Wilson and “God Only Knows”— I see what you did there ; )

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Greg's avatar

The bit about May 1 is especially galling because the Catholic Church actually celebrates something on that day - the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, which Pope Pius XII instituted as counter-programming to May Day.

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Chief2Star's avatar

Exactly right, “God knows why” they did it then and are continuing to do it now.

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Justin. Hart's avatar

If this story wasn’t so sad especially the hypocrisy of the church , it would be funny . Long ago about the time of the Boston Archdiocese Sex Scandal where the cardinal Bernie Law flew the coup + hid out in a church at the Vatican I became a Non Practicing Catholic NPC for short . When God returns to earth I hope he pays these hypocrites a visit before sending them to hell !

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Jack Cashill's avatar

I found my way back through the traditional Latin mass. A whole different world.

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Burnt taco's avatar

The Catholic Church is in dire financial stress and needs all the allies it can muster. Pedophilia is an expensive addiction

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Justin. Hart's avatar

Yes as the church has found out !

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Dave Kepus's avatar

Nice job Jack…did you mean Larry Elder by chance?

I got smoked by Lee Elder back when the Senior PGA came to Loch Lloyd?

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Jack Cashill's avatar

Good eye, I will fix.

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Dave Kepus's avatar

I am shocked I remembered 😆

I was young and cocky enough to think I could play with them 😆

Have you connected the dots yet between Pompeo giving a speech in Ukraine as coincidentally Lindsay Graham happened to be in country the day before the drones went boom on the Russia Bombers. Pompeo spoke that Putin hasn’t paid the proper cost yet for his invasion…

Lindsay on the other hand, gives a speech threatening (Executive Branch) Trump, hinting that the House could stop his Big Beautiful Bill while praising the Judiciary for slowing Trump’s Agenda down…

Magically, Von Hollen’s margarita date is back on American soil and soon to be walking as a F U to get his bill passed? USAID money reappears as does US institute for Peace

Every thing the Uniparty does is staged theatre and to save our country….these props must be removed from power, civil society no?

Our Founders stated in our

Declaration of Independence

‘We pledge our lives, our fortunes and our Sacred Honor’

In getting our country back should demand the same from those who went stray no?

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Southern Gentleman's avatar

It is a 163,696 square mile nut-house and / or loony bin

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John Kirsch's avatar

If there was one moment that convinced me to leave California it was when I saw a thirtyish man roller skating down the street in San Rafael.

The look of childish self indulgence on his bearded face persuaded me that Californians were not interested in doing the hard work of preserving and enhancing the well run state bequeathed to them by Pat Brown and other visionary officials.

They just wanted to play while the whole thing fell apart around them.

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Jack Cashill's avatar

Exactly

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ALtab's avatar

I was born and raised in Kansas , but have traveled the country and currently live in the SE. I chuckled at spots, but also frowned as you explained the modern Catholic tradition. The culture/church clash is as old as the church and has applied to all Christian churches.

California is a spectacularly beautiful state and has such diversity in the natural world. Too bad the left made it the poster child for all the Marxist propaganda. The focus on celebrity worship started there.

The vast majority of the people there are likely as everywhere. A few radicals on both ends making all the noise serving the elites. I expect this to change.

Thank you for the post!

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Jack Cashill's avatar

You are right about the church. Tradition happily is making a comeback.

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HEIDI's avatar

"radicals at both ends"?? What does 'radical right' look like? Way too much individual life liberty & freedom?

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ALtab's avatar

No, I’m a firm believer in all of this….referring to the fascists. Of course, there really isn’t a difference….it’s all tyranny, including communism, although they mask it with the so-called focus on people!

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HEIDI's avatar

Fascism, Nazism, like communism/socialism is LEFT on the political spectrum, not right. This video, Daniel Hannan at Oxford Union explains it well in first 5 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QaZEGcoGXo&ab_channel=OxfordUnion

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ALtab's avatar

Actually the spectrum is a circle, but fascism has never been equated with communism. It’s all semantics anyway, as they are all tyranny! Thank you for responding with the link. Blessings for you today.

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Bob S's avatar

Jackie, you da man.

Rome semper eadem.

Rome is always the same, Rome always lies.

(And I speak as a cradle RC. There was a reason and still is for the Reformation, even tho a lot of prots seem to have forgot.)

cheers

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Jack Cashill's avatar

Bob, I reformed the other way when I discovered the traditional Latin mass revival.

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Bob S's avatar

Sorry to hear that, sir.

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Daniel Meegan's avatar

Capital research center.com search Occupy California

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Simon Sez's avatar

They surrendered because the law it’s not about abortion, it is about the right of women to choose what they do with their body. No one has the right to tell women they cannot decide if or when they can have children. NO ONE, not the government, not the church, not even the husband. A child is a woman’s decision, period.

How about to forbid men to take viagra or force all of them to get circumcisions, no matter of age?

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Mary Jo Nieson's avatar

This just made me feel good that I was not raised Catholic and better about casting a blind eye to the new pope. And would Ms. Huerta be the wife of the SEIU pres. Huerta?

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HEIDI's avatar

It's not that 'God only knows', it's that it's more pleasant for many to stay blind to truth. USCCB or more accurately, USCCP, gets BILLIONS in tax payer funding for their human/drug/sex trafficking operations:

https://www.corpuschristiforunityandpeace.org/who-really-controls-the-catholic-church-in-america-the-bishops-or-the-government/

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Fr. Wah's avatar

I like to think the Gramscian march through the institutions of the Church leads to the graveyard. Mostly, the younger clergy seem solid.

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Jack Cashill's avatar

Yes, I attend a Latin mass, a different world.

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Brandy's avatar

Ahhh! Now that makes sense.

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