The Only Savior – “A Church united on the essential truths of the Christian faith : this is what Pope Leo wants, judging by the actions and words of the start of his pontificate.” Jesus Is the Only One Who Saves, Says Leo. So Much for Equality Between Religions (Diakonos.be)
Denouncing Trans-Inclusive Sports – “The author behind The Tipping Point admonished his prior actions, saying he had felt ‘cowed’ by the public.” Malcolm Gladwell Speaks Out Against Trans Athletes, Reversing Past Statements: “I’m Ashamed” (Them)
God-Given Rights – “Senator Tim Kaine compares God-given rights concept to Iran’s theocracy.” Bishop Robert Barron: The dangers behind Sen Kaine’s rejection of God-given rights as a founding principle (Fox News)
Workplace Evangelization – “Importantly, we each do different kinds of work in God’s vast vineyard, and He’s given each of us particular gifts and talents to do the work He wills us to do.” Evangelizing in the Workplace (Homiletic & Pastoral Review)
Bemoaning Marriage – “An MSNBC writer takes it upon herself to warn Taylor Swift that marriage isn’t ‘magical.’ Here’s why she’s wrong.” MSNBC Tries To Scare Taylor Swift (And Everyone Else) Out Of Getting Married (The Federalist)
Our Lady of the Prairie – “The rural diocese of New Ulm shares the challenges of many rural dioceses in the country – a small population, a small number of vocations, young people who move away from home for school or work and do not return, and a decline in the agricultural economy of the area … “American pope, American Lady: The story behind Our Lady of the Prairie (The Pillar)
Invisible Inner Libraries – “We are what we read, shaped intellectually and spiritually and relationally over the course of a lifetime by the books we read, re-read, misread, remember, and misremember in some way.” To Read Is Human (Providence)
A Senseless Murder – “The senseless slaughter of a young Ukrainian woman in North Carolina is the price society pays when authorities refuse to protect the public.” The Many Horrors of Iryna Zarutska’s Murder (The European Conservative)
Mandatory Vaccination – “Florida governor Ron DeSantis and state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo have announced that they will be ending all mandatory vaccination in the state.” Is mandatory vaccination intrinsically wrong? (Edward Feser – Blogspot)
Rights Come from God – “The clash of worldviews itself is not new. What is new is the urgency with which this clash is now arriving on the cultural landscape. This used to be something that was background noise for most people in society. Now it is frontline news and it’s unavoidable.” The Briefing: September 9, 2025 (Albert Mohler)
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Mandatory vaccinations are intrinsically immoral. It is government overreach that violates man’s personal integrity. How about mandatory euthanasia for the “good of society”? How about mandatory abortion for certain people for the “good of society”? How about mandatory sterilization for some deemed unworthy to reproduce for the proection of the rest of us? How about mandatory masking for the health of society (funny how that went away almost overnight with no declaration from government that “the coast is now clear”)?
@ God Given Rights
We read: “Think, too, of that familiar word from Jefferson: ‘inalienable.’ These rights are inalienable precisely because they do not come from the government.”
As a fine point of history, the more rationalistic terms “self-evident” and “inalienable” were edits made by Benjamin Franklin replacing Jefferson’s original expression “sacred and undeniable” (Paul Johnson, “A History of the American People” [New York: Harper Perennial, 1999], 155).
And, yet, it was Jefferson who later edited the “inspired” bible to eliminate all references to the supernatural and miracles. The timing of that gratuitous exercise, likely as a step toward religious tolerance within a distinction (separation) of State from Church, was 1819-1820. But, not entirely unrelated, in 1765 as a law student, Jefferson had bought and owned a copy of the Qur’an which likewise dissolves the divinity of Jesus Christ, rendering Him as the last in a line of prophets foretelling the coming of—not the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, but—Muhammad in the year 570 A.D.
So, amplifying Bishop Baron’s overall remarks…Senator Kaine’s “rejection of God-given rights” almost sounds like the archaic Islamic (con)fusion of the Mosque-State, where nothing is prior to the dispensations of (governmental) Sharia Law—under the “uncreated” Qur’an as “dictated” to Muhammad as the very essence of God.
SUMMARY: About the “Kaine” Mutiny, are serious political differences ultimately theological in origin?
@ The Only Savior
Exceptional Vatican journalist Sandro Magister makes a strong case for Leo XIV’s Christocentric salvation theology. Whether he can fully be responsible for his welcome Solus Jesus Salvator remarks is of the greatest import.
Contrary to a full adherence to Jesus as savior are policy decisions that soften this, as a reminder to the reader the appointment of Paglia’s double Msgr Renzo Pegoraro overlooking Cdl Willem Eijk, retention of the old guard in all key positions. His open to all position suggesting no exclusiveness, no rules. Was his allowance for Cdl Burke to offer the TLM at St Peter’s Basilica a tasty donut to keep us all happily sedated?
About recent policy appointments and disappointments, maybe Cdl Eijk or Cdl Erdo will make a good replacement for the kissing car[di]nal Fernandez as Prefect for a restored Congregation (not a bifurcated dicastery) for the Doctrine of the Faith. And, maybe the “allowance for Cdl Burke to offer the TLM at St. Peter’s Basilica” upstages the recent rainbow banner sacrilege at the church of St. Gesu, which was actually the “tasty [testis] donut” for that long-sedated tribe?
Still guardedly confident, here, in less ambiguous policy decisions in the upcoming bottom of the first inning, in what is surely to be a long-game…Establishing the “primacy of God” is not a bad signal compared to the alternative signaling in some of the past twelve years. “According to information provided by the Vatican, the ideas that stand out in the first discourses of Leo XIV’s pontificate include the primacy of God [!], communion in the Church [no longer a “synodal” town hall meeting?], the search for peace.” https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/08/26/let-there-be-peace-book-of-pope-leo-xivs-discourses-to-be-published-aug-27/
@ The Only Savior
I haven’t given up hope like yourself, although it doesn’t look good with a Pope who seems to acquiesce to Pope Francis’ mitigation of intent/responsibility ethic leaving the matter of moral guilt questionable, e.g., leaving the penitent free to receive blessings and the Eucharist – relegating the doctrine of moral absolutes to opinion.
I shouldn’t exclude perhaps the most damaging matter, the LGBT jubilee celebration in Rome according to Charles Royal by protocol normally under the auspices of Leo IV. For the first time since Pope Leo’s ascendency to the pontificate Royal clearly expressed his disfavor:
“It’s more than enough for any pope to feed and water God’s people and to invite those outside to join the fold – by conversion and small daily steps of repentance, not by the politically inspired suicide of ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’. Until these last days, I had hopes that Pope Leo got that. After the LGBT Jubilee fiasco this past weekend, I also have doubts” (Precis Robert Royal Leo and the Fabius Maximus Factor).
under the auspices of Leo [XIV]. Royal asserts Leo had to have agreed to the protocol for the LGBT Jubilee celebration in two necessary instances of procedure.
Very unnerving, but Pope Leo XIV is not part of the tribe.
Wondering instead, from the back bleachers, about that one-copy and 300-page investigation into homosexual infiltration—commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI. My memory is that three cardinals did the research. And, then later the single copy was passed on to Pope Francis. Nothing happened. One media interpretation was that Benedict resigned when he saw how deeply the homosexual factor and banking irregularities were coupled together. A package too metastasized for Benedict to handle, and he likely anticipated that someone more adept in governance would be elected.
So, today, after twelve more years, how much might we still attribute to deeply ingrained forms of blackmail? Follow the money, and more. In the world of street-level crime, the way it works is not direct, but more incapacitating…if you don’t play the game at least for LGBTQ visibility stunts, we will go after not you but your family members, or here after Church unity (der Synodal Weg?) or maybe financial programs helping innocent and suffering third parties at the peripheries.
Maybe this 21st century crisis won’t end until all of the termites have died of old age or AIDS. But, who am I to speculate? Pray for Pope Leo XIV.
It might not be A Senseless Murder. The article by European Conservative could be too conservative. A similar “random” murder of a Ukraine refugee happened in Germany and it is noted in the same article.
Iryna Zarutska sat under in the train directly under the camera presumably for safety.
If this was her habit and she was being stalked by Ukraine intel or local pro-Ukraine intel, then, she would have been targeted; and the killing would not be random act but a contract murder.
Brown would have to be interrogated properly.
And if so, what is the connectivity between the two intel groups irrespective of Brown that would have to be mapped with and apart from the interrogation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrotvorets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrotvorets_Battalion_(Ukraine)
https://swentr.site/pop-culture/623559-woody-allen-kill-list/
https://swentr.site/news/615039-ukraine-eydelshteyn-anora-kill-list/
https://swentr.site/russia/618908-ovechkin-nhl-ukraine-mirotvorets/
If the deadly attack was pre-arranged, it would not have been necessary for the conspirators and assailant to exchange information by phone. Once the contact would have been established in person between them, it could be it was then left for the last moment for one of them to positively identify the “target” victim by signalling this to the attacker. That would most likely mean someone else was present in the same train cabin, to give Brown the go-ahead indication.
Just make the trip each day until the elements coalesced.
What this is saying if it is true, is that Brown fully expects to escape the worst punishment by showing off the act in front the camera as “more bad behaviour so ludicrous not really stable”. Throw off authorities. Send lesson to copycats.
https://www.rt.com/news/624606-america-wont-be-the-same/
https://swentr.site/news/624606-america-wont-be-the-same/
Myrotvorets behaves alike to Joker-Riddler as suits occasions but it’s very serious.
A criminal organization operating on an international scale, getting up to be as a “legitimate structure of war defense”. Can … not … stand.
https://www.newsweek.com/da-baby-rapper-iryna-zarutska-charlotte-george-floyd-2131376
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_North_Carolina
So now the possible elements of federal capital crime begin to appear, as for example in if any of the following connect: involvement of a member or members of a continuous narcotics operation, a conspiracy to kill Zarutska transcending state lines, involvement of a member or members of Federal Government or past members eg. “Russia Hoax”, involvement of foreign diplomatic corps, involvement of an international group or military operation or mercenary cell, the existence of a policy to kill Ukraine refugees or Ukraine visitors to the US who are known pacifist or known to be against the war waged in Ukraine’s eastern regions.
Mere murder can amount to federal capital crime including considerations of heinousness of the violence, planning and premeditation, vulnerability of the victim. See in the CONGRESS.GOV link under Capital Homicide Offenses.
‘ A defendant convicted of a capital offense may be executed, however, only if it is shown beyond doubt at a subsequent sentencing hearing that one of the statutory aggravating circumstances exists, and that he either (A) killed the victim intentionally; (B) intentionally inflicted serious injuries that resulted in the victim’s death; (C) intentionally participated in an act, aware that it would expose a victim to life-threatening force, and the victim died as a consequence; or (4 {-sic}) intentionally engaged in an act of violence with reckless disregard of its life-threatening nature and the victim died as a consequence. The court will sometimes permit a separate preliminary jury proceeding to determine the existence of the requisite intent. …..
The act-of-violence branch of the intent requirement in 18 U.S.C. § 3591(a)(2)(D) consists of (1) “intentionally and specifically engag[ing] in an act of violence”; (2) “knowing that the act created a grave risk of death . . . such that participation in the act constituted a reckless disregard for human life”; and (3) death of the victim “as a direct result of the act.” The Federal Death Penalty Act does not define “act of violence.”
It has been said to encompass the use of physical force against the person or property of another. ‘
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R42095
‘ Brown was subsequently indicted by a grand jury on September 15, 2025, and charged with murder in the first degree in North Carolina state court and committing an act causing death on a mass transportation system in Federal court. He is being held at the Mecklenburg County Detention Center without bond. ‘
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Iryna_Zarutska