Author: Mark Docherty

I have not watched the episode. I have never watched an episode, and I have no idea how people have time for daily, never-ending multiple podcasts. I am poaching this from Jeff Childers (below), so you can go investigate. The news here is that she refuses to use the term “aliens,” and rightly so. But “aliens” is surely the ruse that will be used in the next forced compliance op, so she is taking a big risk with the deep state. She knows what she is dealing with, and it seems more and more that we are in possession of intel/tech from demons. Makes total sense, since the signs and wonders of antichrist will need to come from somewhere. Stay Confessed, folks. -nvp

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Yesterday, on Joe Rogan’s podcast Episode 2365, photogenic Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) described her Congressional Task Force investigation into the looming alien menace, albeit in fuzzy and semi-spiritual detail. Carefully calling them “interdimensional beings,” Luna said, “this gets into deeper aspects of religion… you have the modern-day Bible, and… books of the Bible that have been removed that explain these topics.”

Her conviction after reviewing what the government is so far willing to cough up does, one must admit, give pause.

CLIP: Representative Anna Paulina Luna says she’s seen evidence of interdimensional beings that travel in time and space, and future tech (3:08).

“We’ve heard from people… I take it with a grain of salt, because you do have a lot of crazy people, and there’s a lot of fake stuff out there,” Luna admitted. “But when you have people that are high-level executives, very successful, clean-cut, not on drugs, and they’re telling you this stuff, and you’re cross-referencing it with various people in the intelligence agencies, there’s something there that we should be at least open to hearing the argument.”

Luna referred to classified evidence —without describing it specifically— that she believes shows we’re dealing with interdimensional beings who can travel through space and time.

It was purified catnip for alien watchers, so have a field day. Rogan and Luna also dug into topics like remote viewing, autistic telepathy, and other stuff I’ve never heard of. But hey, it’s 2025, and intergalactic comets are buzzing all the planets near Earth, and the science media is straight-out reporting about astrophysicists speculating about alien probes, so who knows.

And to be fair, Luna never called them “aliens.” Not in the sense that they hail from other spacefaring planets, come in peace, or want to be taken to our leader, and so forth. She seemed to hew to a more Biblical view, that the non-human visitors are fallen angelic beings using high-tech transportation. But mileage may vary. Especially interdimensional mileage…

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/sledge-hammer-thursday-august-14

By David Charter, Washington

Russia and the United States have discussed a model for ending the war in Ukraine that mirrors Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, The Times has been told.

Under this scenario Russia would have military and economic control of occupied Ukraine under its own governing body, imitating Israel’s de facto rule of Palestinian territory seized from Jordan in 1967.

The idea was raised weeks ago in discussions between Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s peace envoy, and his Russian counterparts, according to a source close to the US national security council.

Witkoff, who is also tasked by Trump with bringing peace to the Middle East, is understood to support the idea, which the Americans believe circumvents barriers in the Ukrainian constitution to ceding territory without holding an “all-Ukraine” referendum.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/us-russia-deal-west-bank-occupation-ukraine-wfvnt6v6f

Tuesday 8:30 AM. Over 8 months after the fire, zero construction pic.twitter.com/ClKUjxYOVr

— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) August 12, 2025

Happy Feast! Please join me today in praying an Ave for the intentions of our dear friend, Nurse Claire.

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St. Clare, who in 1215 had, much against her will been made superior at San Damiano by St. Francis, continued to rule there as abbess until her death, in 1253, nearly forty years later. There is no good reason to believe that she ever once went beyond the boundaries of San Damiano during all that time. It need not, therefore, be wondered at if so comparatively few details of St. Clare’s life in the cloister “hidden with Christ in God”, have come down to us. We know that she became a living copy of the poverty, the humility, and the mortification of St. Francis; that she had a special devotion to the Holy Eucharist, and that in order to increase her love for Christ crucified she learned by heart the Office of the Passion composed by St. Francis, and that during the time that remained to her after her devotional exercises she engaged in manual labour. Needless to add, that under St. Clare’s guidance the community of San Damiano became the sanctuary of every virtue, a very nursery of saints. Clare had the consolation not only of seeing her younger sister Beatrix, her mother Ortolana, and her faithful aunt Bianca follow Agnes into the order, but also of witnessing the foundation of monasteries of Clares far and wide throughout Europe. It would be difficult, moreover, to estimate how much the silent influence of the gentle abbess did towards guiding the women of medieval Italy to higher aims. In particular, Clare threw around poverty that irresistible charm which only women can communicate to religious or civic heroism, and she became a most efficacious coadjutrix of St. Francis in promoting that spirit of unworldliness which in the counsels of God, “was to bring about a restoration of discipline in the Church and of morals and civilization in the peoples of Western Europe”. Not the least important part of Clare’s work was the aid and encouragement she gave St. Francis. It was to her he turned when in doubt, and it was she who urged him to continue his mission to the people at a time when he thought his vocation lay rather in a life of contemplation. When in an attack of blindness and illness, St. Francis came for the last time to visit San Damiano, Clare erected a little wattle hut for him in an olive grove close to the monastery, and it was here that he composed his glorious “Canticle of the Sun”. After St. Francis’s death the procession which accompanied his remains from the Porziuncula to the town stopped on the way at San Damiano in order that Clare and her daughters might venerate the pierced hands and feet of him who had formed them to the love of Christ crucified–a pathetic scene which Giotto has commemorated in one of his loveliest frescoes. So far, however, as Clare was concerned, St. Francis was always living, and nothing is, perhaps, more striking in her after-life than her unswerving loyalty to the ideals of the Poverello, and the jealous care with which she clung to his rule and teaching.

When, in 1234, the army of Frederick II was devastating the valley of Spoleto, the soldiers, preparatory to an assault upon Assisi, scaled the walls of San Damiano by night, spreading terror among the community. Clare, calmly rising from her sick bed, and taking the ciborium from the little chapel adjoining her cell, proceeded to face the invaders at an open window against which they had already placed a ladder. It is related that, as she raised the Blessed Sacrament on high, the soldiers who were about to enter the monastery fell backward as if dazzled, and the others who were ready to follow them took flight. It is with reference to this incident that St. Clare is generally represented in art bearing a ciborium. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04004a.htm

Saint Clare, pray for us!

Mea culpa, I was a long time doubter. There are MANY sketchy/problematic elements to probe, with the Apollo 11 mission in particular. But I would bet you have no idea of the hours and hours of video evidence extant from the later Apollo missions. We went to the Moon, folks. Before DEI ruined everything.

This video explores and explains every single claim of the Moon deniers.

I am adding here the timestamps, in case you have a particular tin foil item you want to jump to. But I highly encourage you to view the whole thing, as it will once and for all answer all your questions, quite convincingly.

h/t Br. Bugnolo for featuring this video.

Originally posted August 10, 2017

True charity is the means by which the Catholic Church built western civilization. Hospitals, universities, monasteries, churches, libraries, laboratories, infrastructure were all borne from true charity.

But now the world chooses the slavery of Marxism, which makes the state the sole administrator of “charity”. Since the state possesses no wealth of its own, it must forcibly confiscate half the slaves’ wealth (or more, depending on the country). As the state assumes control of a diverse range of institutions, notably education, the process of societal lobotomization can begin. The slaves really truly believe that a state with no wealth can provide stuff for “free.” Once all the mechanisms are in place and the slaves resigned to ever more labor for ever less reward, so long as they’re permitted their Game of Thrones and football, the only thing left for the Leftists is to see how far they can take it (this includes all areas of morality).

The Church, itself thoroughly infiltrated, also has to get in on the game, because the Church survives no longer on true charity alone, but also forced redistribution, which flows through the state.

So the next time Antipope Bergoglio (or anyone who comes in his name -nvp ’25) abuses the poor, by using them to advance his agenda of redistributive criminality, remember this:

August 10.—ST. LAURENCE, Martyr.
ST. LAURENCE was the chief among the seven deacons of the
Roman Church. In the year 258 Pope Sixtus was led out to
die, and St. Laurence stood by, weeping that he could not
share his fate. “I was your minister,” he said, “when you consecrated
the blood of Our Lord; why do you leave me behind
now that you are about to shed your own?” The holy Pope
comforted him with the words, “Do not weep, my son; in
three days you will follow me.” This prophecy came true. The
prefect of the city knew the rich offerings which the Christians
put into the hands of the clergy, and he demanded the treasures
of the Roman Church from Laurence, their guardian. The
Saint promised, at the end of three days, to show him riches
exceeding all the wealth of the empire, and set about collecting
the poor, the infirm, and the religious who lived by the
alms of the faithful. He then bade the prefect “see the treasures
of the Church” Christ, whom Laurence had served in his
poor, gave him strength in the conflict which ensued. Roasted
over a slow fire, he made sport of his pains. “I am done
enough,” he said, “eat, if you will.” At length Christ, the Father
of the poor, received him into eternal habitations. God
showed by the glory which shone around St. Laurence the
value He set upon his love for the poor. Prayers innumerable
were granted at his tomb; and he continued from his throne in
heaven his charity to those in need, granting them, as St.
Augustine says, “the smaller graces which they sought, and
leading them to the desire of better gifts”

 

Reflection.—Our Lord appears before us in the persons of the
poor. Charity to them is a great sign of predestination. It is
almost impossible, the holy Fathers assure us, for any one
who is charitable to the poor for Christ’s sake to perish.

–Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed.
[1894], at sacred-texts.com

“Putin Tells U.S. He’ll Halt War in Exchange for Eastern Ukraine.”

WSJ reports U.S. and Russia have both confirmed Trump and Putin, but no Zelensky, will meet in Alaska on Friday, Ausust 15th.

“…the tentative proposal includes Russia keeping the territories it has captured or almost fully captured, and maybe swap Ukraine some other real estate to compensate for the small sections Russia doesn’t quite yet control. In the map above, the black lines show the “states” that Russia might get, whereas the red-shaded areas are ones already under Russian military control. Never mind Crimea at the far south; it is already Russian since 2014, but the neocons at the Journal are still sulking about that.”

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/circling-the-drain-saturday-august

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Zelensky Rejects Ceding Territory to Russia After Trump Suggests a Land Swap

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Saturday flatly rejected the idea that Ukraine could cede land to Russia after President Trump suggested that a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia could include “some swapping of territories.”

“Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupier,” Mr. Zelensky said in a video address from his office in Kyiv, several hours after Mr. Trump’s remarks, which appeared to overlook Ukraine’s role in the negotiations.

“Any decisions made against us, any decisions made without Ukraine, are at the same time decisions against peace,” Mr. Zelensky said. “They will bring nothing. These are dead decisions; they will never work.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/world/europe/zelensky-trump-ukraine-russia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c08.8R_G.OLDtRW4GKFRI&smid=url-share

https://praybenedictus.com/

Saint John Vianney, pray for us!

Too good not to share. From our friend THETIMMAN:

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Not mine, found on X…

“Every city’s got one. Fluorescent temple for the drunk, the broke, the damned. This is where rock bottom orders hashbrowns, smothered and scattered.

“You haven’t lived until you’ve bled into a paper napkin under buzzing lights at 3AM while a waitress named Debbie calls you ‘hun’ like your mom never did.

“This is where capitalism sleeps with its boots on. Where gods puke, kings cry, and minimum wage saints keep the world spinning on grease and menthols.

“A Waffle House at night is truth. Everything else is marketing.”

https://stlouiscatholic.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/sometimes-on-the-internet-one-gets-a-true-insight/