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Month: June 2025
Ship Carrying 800 EVs Abandoned In Pacific After Fire Breaks Out
by Tyler Durden
On Tuesday, the Morning Midas—a roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) vehicle carrier—was abandoned by its crew in the central Pacific Ocean following an onboard fire, according to a Bloomberg report.
The vessel was transporting approximately 3,000 vehicles, including an estimated 800 electric vehicles (EVs). The fire’s origin has not been confirmed, though lithium-ion battery ignition remains a possible cause given the cargo profile and previous mid-sea incidents involving EVs (see here & here).
Morning Midas had departed China in late May with a scheduled port call in Mexico, according to Bloomberg data.
The US Coast Guard evacuated all 22 crew members from the RoRo carrier to a nearby merchant vessel earlier today. Coast Guard sea-based assets are en route to the incident area.
The ship’s manager, Zodiac Maritime, confirmed that smoke was billowing from the deck. A company spokesperson said salvage support teams are en route.
Insurance giant Allianz has long emphasized the need to strengthen safety protocols for all maritime shipments involving lithium-ion batteries given the proliferation of green tech around the world.
The saints explain the never sufficiently execrated depravity of sodomy
“The unnatural vice [sodomy] is the greatest of all sins after the sin of unbelief.” -St. Thomas Aquinas
“Every sexual intercourse [sodomy] that cannot lead to conception is opposed to man’s nature.” – St. Thomas Aquinas
“Since by the unnatural vices man
transgresses that which has been determined by nature with regard to the use of venereal actions, it follows that in this matter this sin is gravest of all.” – St. Thomas Aquinas
The sin against nature [Sodomy] debases man lower than even his animal nature.” -St. Thomas Aquinas
“Since by the unnatural vices man
transgresses that which has been
determined by nature with regard to the use of venereal actions, it follows that in this matter this sin is gravest of all.”
– St. Thomas Aquinas
“Sodomy pollutes the flesh, extinguishes the light of the mind, expels the Holy Spirit from the temple of the human heart.”
⁃ St. Peter Damian
“And what more should I say since it [sodomy] expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.”
– St. Peter Damian
“This vice [sodomy] violates temperance, kills purity, stifles chastity and annihilates virginity with the sword of a most infamous union. It infects, stains and pollutes everything: it leaves nothing pure: there is nothing but filth.”
-St. Peter Damian
“This plague [Sodomy] undermines the foundation of faith, weakens the strength of hope, destroys the bond of charity; it takes away justice, subverts fortitude, banishes temperance, blunts the keenness of prudence.” – St. Peter Damian
“The miserable flesh [of the sodomites] burns with the heat of lust; the cold mind trembles with the rancor of suspicion; and in the heart of the miserable man chaos boils like Tartarus [Hell].
– St. Peter Damian
“As the Sacred Scripture says, the Sodomites were wicked and exceedingly sinful.”
-Saint Peter Canisius
“Those unashamed of violating divine and natural law are slaves of sodomy never sufficiently execrated depravity.” –
St. Peter Canisius
“Someone who lived practicing the vice of sodomy will suffer more pains in Hell than anyone else, because this is the worst sin that there is.”
– St. Bernardine
“No sin in the world grips the soul as the accursed sodomy; this sin has always been detested by all those who live according to God.”
– St. Bernardine
All sodomites, men and women, died all over the earth, as Saint Jerome said commenting on the verse Lux orta est iusto [The light was born for the just] (Ps 96:11). This was to make it clear that He [Jesus Christ] was born to reform nature and to promote chastity.
St. Bonaventure, Sermon 21 – In Nativitate Domini
“Consider how great is that sin [sodomy] to have forced hell to appear even before its time!” – St. John Chrysostom
“The sin of Sodom is contrary to nature, and it is an insult to the Creator.” – St. John Chrysostom
“The worst is that such an abomination is committed boldly and that the monstrosity became the law. Nobody nowadays fears, nobody blushes. They boast and they laugh at these actions.”
-St. John Chrysostom
“All passions are dishonorable, for they make the soul a slave, and force it to do things that are shameful. But among these, the worst is lust between men.”
-St. John Chrysostom
“Such sins [of Sodomy] overturn the laws of nature, and they bring down the wrath of God upon those who commit them.”
– St. John Chrysostom
“The sins of Sodom are abominable
and deserve punishment whenever and wherever they are committed”
– St. Augustine
“Those offences which be contrary to nature are everywhere and at all times to be held in detestation and punished; such were those of the Sodomites, which should all nations commit, they should all be held guilty of the same crime by the divine law.” -St. Augustine
“Sodomy offends God and provokes His wrath.”
– Pope St. Pius V (In his papal bull Horrendum illud scelus)
“Like the blind and stupid, homosexuals do not recognize the disease and misery in which they find themselves. This not only causes Me nausea, but displeases even the demons themselves, whom these miserable creatures have chosen as their lords.”
– St. Catherine
It is disagreeable to the demons, not because evil displeases them and they find pleasure in good, but because their nature is angelic and thus is repulsed upon seeing such an enormous sin being committed.
It is true that it is the demon who hits the sinner with the poisoned arrow of lust, but when a man carries out such a sinful act, the demon leaves.” -St. Catherine of Siena
“They [homosexual acts] are born from an ardent frenzy; they are disgustingly foul; those who become addicted to them are seldom freed from that vice; they are as contagious as disease, passing quickly from one person to another.”
– St. Albert the Great
“Sacred Scripture itself confirms that sulfur evokes the stench of the flesh, as it speaks of the rain of fire and sulfur poured upon Sodom by the Lord.”
– St. Gregory the Great
“And Sodom and Gomorrah might have appeased [God’s wrath], had they been willing to repent, and through the aid of fasting gain for themselves tears of repentance.” – St. Jerome
“[God in the Law given to Moses] having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.”
– St. Eusebius of Caesarea
“…It was just that Sodomites, burning with perverse desires arising from the flesh like stench, should perish by fire and sulfur so that through this just punishment they would realize the evil they had committed, led by a perverse desire.” – St. Gregory the Great
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Act of Consecration to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
June is the month of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Let us pray.
Most sweet Jesus, Redeemer of the human race, look down upon us humbly prostrate before Thine altar. We are Thine, and Thine we wish to be; but, to be more surely united with Thee, behold each one of us freely consecrates himself today to Thy most Sacred Heart.
Many indeed have never known Thee; many too, despising Thy precepts, have rejected Thee. Have mercy on them all, most merciful Jesus, and draw them to Thy sacred Heart.
Be Thou King, O Lord, not only of the faithful who have never forsaken Thee, but also of the prodigal children who have abandoned Thee; grant that they may quickly return to Thy Father’s house lest they die of wretchedness and hunger.
Be Thou King of those who are deceived by erroneous opinions, or whom discord keeps aloof, and call them back to the harbor of truth and unity of faith, so that there may be but one flock and one Shepherd.
Be Thou King of all those who are still involved in the darkness of idolatry or of Islamism, and refuse not to draw them into the light and kingdom of God. Turn Thine eyes of mercy towards the children of the race, once Thy chosen people: of old they called down upon themselves the Blood of the Savior; may it now descend upon them a laver of redemption and of life.
Grant, O Lord, to Thy Church assurance of freedom and immunity from harm; give peace and order to all nations, and make the earth resound from pole to pole with one cry: “Praise be to the divine Heart that wrought our salvation; to it be glory and honor for ever.” Amen.
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