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"Whether you’re a “Catholic for Choice”, ex-Catholic, of other or no faith, recognize that six extremist Catholics set out to overturn Roe. Stand at or in a local Catholic Church …." Extremist Catholic? Upside-down! Extremism took aim at Our Lord in A.D. 33 and has been repeated without surcease.
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Brief biography/obituary of Father Calvin Goodwin who left the Jesuits and was received by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter in 2004. https://fssp.com/fr-calvin-peter-goodwin-fssp-1948-2021/
One can watch the Latin Mass live at the FSSP website if there is none nearby. Broadcasts come from different countries. The text of daily Mass is there in Latin and English. Contrary to what many Catholics think, Vatican II did not abrogate it. Go to fssp.com. Click LIVEMASS. At the bottom of the page, click MISSAL. That takes one automatically to the Mass of the day, which means that one does not have to own a Missal. Also at the website is a three and a half hour video of ordination day in Warrington, England. At about 1:47, incense and light from the windows bathe the altar face with a magenta glow. The gospel is the good and faithful servant. I see two priests from the US I know and one from Nigeria I recognize but do not know. Many women and girls of our parish wear a veil. Recently, I saw a beautiful red and gold veil, more like a shawl, perhaps from India. JP 2 approved the FSSP. Francis is obstructing the Missal, which dates to the 1500s and, perhaps, as far back as St. Augustine (354-430). The literary English translation surpasses all others. Agatha Christie begged for it to remain, and so it has. What if the French Revolution were transposed to San Francisco in the 1960s? What might have happened? What follows is a short speculative fiction. Speculative elements are based on conjecture about what might have been, and the evidence is incomplete, or is it? Read on. Paris The distance from Place de la Bastille to Chapelle Expiatoire is three miles. Tragic events of the French Revolution along this route include these sites: Place des Vosges, Conciergerie on Ile de Cite, Jardin de Tuileries, and Place de la Concorde. You can take a walking tour of them. San Francisco The distance from St. Ignatius High School to San Francisco City Hall was two miles, and the distance to the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was half a mile. At the time, St. Ignatius was a traditional Catholic boy’s school. My brother, Tom, and I attended in the 1960s. The turmoil happening around me seemed normal. Disorderly conduct, sometimes criminal, occurred at City Hall, in the Haight, and in locations in between or nearby, not as ruinous as the French calamities … on the surface. Speculation What if the French Revolution could be zoomed forward to San Francisco in the 1960s? What would have happened to the school’s leadership: Father Harry Carlin, SJ, president, Father Edward McFadden, SJ, principal, and Father Leo Hyde, SJ, vice principal? According to Wikipedia, “Victims of the Reign of Terror totaled somewhere between 20,000 and 40,000. According to one estimate, among those condemned by the revolutionary tribunals, about 8 percent were aristocrats, 6 percent were clergy, 14 percent were middle class, and 70 percent were workers or peasants accused of hoarding, evading the draft, desertion, rebellion, and other purported crimes. Of these social groupings, the clergy of the Catholic Church suffered proportionately the greatest loss.” Given the centrality of St. Ignatius, were the episodes of the revolution transplanted to San Francisco in the 1960s, all three Jesuits would have been arrested and imprisoned and possibly exiled or guillotined. That is not speculation. Keep going. Back to Paris A similar reoccurrence transpired in 1871. By Solène Tadié World May 28, 2021 PARIS — May 28, 1871, ended the dark episode of the Commune of Paris, a bloody civil war that [set in opposition] … the legitimate French government of the Third Republic [and]… the socialist and revolutionary republicans who had controlled Paris for 72 days. The terrible wave of repression that followed this period of insurrection, considered the most violent episode of the country’s history since the French Revolution (with approximately 6,500 deaths), [covers] … the ruthless exactions committed by the Communards on those they considered to be their enemies, including many clergymen. … https://www.ncregister.com/news/remembering-the-catholic-martyrs-of-the-commune-of-paris Courtesy of the National Catholic Register. This photo montage depicts the execution of Paris Archbishop Georges Darboy and four other ‘hostages of the Commune’ at the Grande Roquette prison, May 24, 1871. (photo: Ernest Charles Appert / CC0 Paris MusÈes / MusÈe Carnavalet) Photo of Father William Ryan, SJ, from my yearbook. In 1951 he was held in solitary confinement in China by the communists. He said that his parents and his superior had no idea where he was for the entire year. Bill was a big man, over 6 feet, and very disciplined. It is “just deserts”, not “just desserts”. A way to remember is to think of the word, deserve, which has only one “s”.
How to you get a radical out of the denominator? You multiply the numerator and the denominator by the radical. A radical over the same radical is one, so you are changing nothing, just moving furniture.
Catholic content creator is permanently banned from communist app. A R lost all her content. Using Tik Tok regularly, either as a consumer or content creator, increases your digital footprint. On its own, this poses great risks such as being more prone to phishing attacks and stalking. This is an important reason why you should care about your digital footprint.
When asked by an actress what her motivation should be in playing a character, Hitchcock answered, “Your salary.”
Today, Altan (13) and I collaborated on a report about soccer in Spain. This coming summer he will land in Barcelona and play soccer in Valencia. His mom said he should know something about Spain before visiting. So, I directed him to write about the history of soccer in Spain. He is an avid player. We used three internet resources, one of which had a photograph of the Barcelona soccer club founders.
This writing exercise emphasized point of view. A student writing at high school level must take a point of view and not just regurgitate facts from other sources. Altan will be entering high school at the end of summer 2022. The report is short. I did minimal editing. As difficult as it is, a tutor must let the words and their flow come from the student. Extra credit would be to write more about the men who started the soccer club (in other places, soccer is called football) and add a metaphor and a vocabulary word or two from his grade list. Spain and the Start of Soccer, by xxxxxx. When you think of Spain, do you think of soccer? People who know the most recent history of Spain might picture La Sagrada Familia, the unfinished cathedral in Barcelona. However, what you do not know is the amazing story of how soccer started in Barcelona. Team FC Barcelona was formed in 1899 as the popularity of soccer was spread to Spain by a group of young foreigners and local men. The organizers came from England, Switzerland, and Germany and recruited other rich, educated, single Catalonians. Barcelona is one of the four provinces of Catalonia. Then a calamity almost happened. On May 31, 1906, King Alfonso XIII was almost killed by a Catalonian anarchist on the street during Alfonso’s wedding procession. Spain in the late 19th century and early 20th century was poor, and there was a war in Morocco. The war revealed the privilege of the rich and the disparity between rich and poor. Rich young men and their families could pay a fee to avoid war conscription. This caused rioting and culminated in the assassination attempt. This is the amazing story of how, despite difficult circumstances facing the founders, soccer started in Barcelona. A great deal of turmoil gripped Spain. Against the odds, these men persevered and gave players today a great future. |
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