How very Chicagoan of him. Also, no mention of the pandemic of transsexuals committing mass-murder nor anti-Catholic violence. -nvp
Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis (sic), frequently condemned the arms industry and warned that the use of guns by civilians to defend themselves had become a “habit.” Leo, who was elected in May, has continued to condemn the “logic of weapons” and the arms trade…
The first canonized saint of the Western Hemisphere, Rose of Lima (1586-1617) might also be considered a type of the special vocation of contemplative-in-the-world. Inspired by the example of St. Catherine of Siena, Rose became a Dominican lay tertiary and devoted herself to works of active charity while living a life of extreme austerity. She longed to evangelize the Indians, not at all discouraged by the thought that they would probably kill her. Saint Martin de Porres and Bl. John Masias were among her friends. She died at the age of 31, praying, “Lord, increase my sufferings, and with them increase Your love in my heart.”
St. Rose was born in April 1586 in Lima, Peru to Oliva and Gaspar Flores. She was the 7th of 11 children. Her birth name was Isabel. However, her mother and friends witnessed a mystical rose descend from the air and light on her face while she was just an infant. From then on she was called Rose.
Rose clearly had a religious calling from an early age. After reading about St. Catherine of Siena, she decided to imitate her. She fasted at least 3 times a week. She found ways to do penance and offer her suffering for the good of others. She understood redemptive suffering from an early age.
St. Rose wished to enter the convent. However, her parents refused to let her. Finally, after ten years of struggle and refusal to marry she became a Third Order Dominican. She lived in her home just as St. Catherine of Siena did. St. Rose received the Blessed Sacrament daily and lived her life in silence and seclusion, enjoying the family garden.
At the age of 31 St. Rose came down with a high fever. She died from the fever and paralysis. A multitude of people attended her funeral.
St. Rose was canonized by Pope Clement X in 1671.
“Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.”
“If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.”
“Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.”
https://tridentine-mass.blogspot.com/2025/08/saint-rose-of-lima-1617-ad-saints-felix.html
https://catholicfaithpatronsaints.com/prayers-quips-and-quotes-st-rose-of-lima-feast-day-august-23/
By Brad Lendon, CNN
A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the ground in Alaska earlier this year, an accident report released this week says.
The January 28 crash at Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks was recorded in a video that showed the aircraft dropping straight down and exploding in a fireball. The pilot ejected safely.
An Air Force investigation blamed the crash on ice in the hydraulic lines in the nose and main landing gears of the F-35, which prevented them from deploying properly.
Attempts to fix the landing gear caused the fighter jet to think it was on the ground, ultimately leading to the crash.
After going through system checklists in an attempt to remedy the problem, the pilot got on a conference call with engineers from the plane’s manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, as the plane flew near the air base. Five engineers participated in the call, including a senior software engineer, a flight safety engineer and three specialists in landing gear systems, the report said.
The pilot then tried two “touch and go” landings, where the plane briefly lands, to try to straighten out the jammed nose gear, the report said.
But those attempts failed to recenter the nose wheel and resulted in both the left and right main landing gears freezing up and not being able to extend fully to attempt an actual landing.
At that point, the F-35’s sensors indicated it was on the ground and the jet’s computer systems transitioned to “automated ground-operation mode,” the report said.
This caused the fighter jet to become “uncontrollable” because it was “operat(ing) as though it was on the ground when flying,” forcing the pilot to eject.
An inspection of the aircraft’s wreckage found that about one-third of the fluid in the hydraulic systems in both the nose and right main landing gears was water, when there should have been none.
The investigation found a similar hydraulic icing problem in another F-35 at the same base during a flight nine days after the crash, but that aircraft was able to land without incident.
The report notes Lockheed Martin had issued guidance on the problem the F-35’s sensors had in extreme cold weather in a maintenance newsletter in April 2024, about nine months before the crash. It said if the conference call participants had referenced the 2024 maintenance newsletter, “they likely would have advised a planned full stop landing or a controlled ejection instead of a second touch-and-go” that eventually led to the conditions that caused the crash, the report said.
Lockheed Martin referred questions about the findings to the Air Force.
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/alaska-f-35-crash-accident-report-hnk-ml
Originally posted AUGUST 29, 2017, way back when the Amoris adultery lurv was fresh out of the box, the majority of Cardinals were still BXVI and JPII appointees, and we still thought it possible that ONE prelate would call out Benedict’s failed abdication (or at least the suspicion thereof), and the subsequent installation of a raging apostate antipope teaching heresy as Authentic Magisterium (which is impossible). Good news, gentleman; it’s not too late. -nvp
“I spoke of Thy testimonies before kings, and I was not ashamed; I meditated also on Thy commandments, which I loved exceedingly.” (Ps. 118:46-47) Introit for the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist
How’d that work out for St. John the Baptist? What was his earthly reward for speaking Truth to power? What price are you willing to pay for defending the indissolubility of marriage? Was the price paid by John just TOO MUCH? Should he have been more pastoral? More accompanying? More discerning? More tender and merciful? Ask yourself: Did St. John the Baptist err in his defense of marriage? Is this the error now being corrected in Chapter Eight of Amoris Laetitia? There can be only one Truth.
“Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee. Be not afraid at their presence: for I will make thee not to fear their countenance. For behold I have made thee this day a fortified city, and a pillar of iron, and a wall of brass, over all the land, to the kings of Juda, to the princes thereof, and to the priests, and to the people of the land. And they shall fight against thee, and shall not prevail: for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.” Jeremias 1:17-19, Lesson for the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Our Lord did not lie when he proclaimed divorce and “remarriage” as adultery, and our Lord did not lie in today’s Lesson. Our reward is not of this earth. Where is the St. John of our times? Where are the men willing to sacrifice everything to defend our Lord and His Church? Where are those who will stop worrying about what they might lose and STEP UP? Have you no care for the souls which are perishing? If you’re not willing to defend the Sixth Commandment, you’re not much committed to the First Commandment.
“The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus in the house of the Lord. To show forth Thy mercy in the morning, and Thy truth in the night. Alleluia, alleluia. The just shall spring as the lily, and flourish forever before the Lord. Alleluia.” (Ps. 91 13-14, 3; Hos. 14:6) Gradual for the Feast of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist
If flourishing forever before the Lord sounds glorious to you, get cracking.
From the combox on the previous post:
I am a professional counselor specializing in sexual and identity issues. I’ve worked with many young men and women who suffer with this condition, both those who wish to go through the mutilation process and those who wish to be cured of their disordered feelings.
In nearly every case, I have had the opportunity to get to know the parents of these young people. In every single case, the mother has severe unresolved mental health issues like Depression, Borderline Personality Disorder, and/or Narcissistic Personality Disorder. There was even a study done in 1991 comparing the moms of boys with Gender Identity Disorder to the moms of normal boys. 100% of the moms of boys with GID were found to have clinically significant mental health problems of the kind stated above.
We see another type of psychopathology in the mothers who try to turn the sons into “trans” kids, namely Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. These mothers are different than the ones above in that these mothers are intentionally trying to make their kids “trans” for the purpose of showing that they are great and attentive mothers.
The mothers from the study above aren’t intending to turn their kids “trans”, and many times are horrified at it. These mothers more fit the “devouring mother” archetype who uses the son for emotional gratification and scapegoating.
If you want to stop these shooters, we have to address psychopathology in women. For the Munchausen cases, those women need intensive and long-term inpatient care and be kept away from their children. The “devouring mothers” need serious help as well, and these women cannot be relied upon to get help for themselves. They must be compelled.
These acts of terrorism by people calling themselves “transgender” will not cease if the upstream causes are not addressed.
Matthew Sciba, M.Ed.
Tyler, Texas
Today’s entry into the already-lengthy trans murder Hall of Horrors. To Roman’s point, when will the gun control crowd call for pre-crime bans on purchasing/possessing firearms by mental patients? Oh wait, most mental patients already are banned. Just not the special genital mentals. So it will need to be the other side who does this.
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13 KIA 26 August 2021. Biden’s “signature moment” desiring to be the one to withdrawal from Afghanistan in haste, leaving it in Taliban hands, but ISIS had other plans (and we knew it). It didn’t need to end this way.
11 Marines, one Navy Corpsman, one Army SSG. RIP.
The pictures don’t do it justice. 70 mph winds, crazy dust and rain, Sky Harbor shut down, all planes diverted to LA or Vegas.
h/t VoxDay
