Author: Mark Docherty

Blessed Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel!

COLLECT: O God, the order of Carmel was singularly honored when the title of the most blessed ever-virgin Mary, Your Mother, was given to it. Grant that we who commemorate this solemn feast today may be shielded by Her protection and attain everlasting happiness.

Wear the brown scapular. Have yourself enrolled in it. That scapular is a mini-habit of the Carmelites. Pray the Rosary every day. You will receive many graces.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, pray for us!

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This feast was instituted by the Carmelites between 1376 and 1386 under the title “Commemoratio B. Mariæ Virg. duplex” to celebrate the victory of their order over its enemies on obtaining the approbation of its name and constitution from Honorius III on 30 Jan., 1226 (see Colvenerius, “Kal. Mar.”, 30 Jan. “Summa Aurea”, III, 737). The feast was assigned to 16 July, because on that date in 1251, according to Carmelite traditions, the scapular was given by the Blessed Virgin to St. Simon Stock; it was first approved by Sixtus V in 1587. After Cardinal Bellarmine had examined the Carmelite traditions in 1609, it was declared the patronal feast of the order, and is now celebrated in the Carmelite calendar as a major double of the first class with a vigil and a privileged octave (like the octave of Epiphany, admitting only a double of the first class) under the title “Commemoratio solemnis B.V.M. de Monte Carmelo”. By a privilege given by Clement X in 1672, some Carmelite monasteries keep the feast on the Sunday after 16 July, or on some other Sunday in July. In the seventeenth century the feast was adopted by several dioceses in the south of Italy, although its celebration, outside of Carmelite churches, was prohibited in 1628 by a decree contra abusus. On 21 Nov., 1674, however, it was first granted by Clement X to Spain and its colonies, in 1675 to Austria, in 1679 to Portugal and its colonies, and in 1725 to the Papal States of the Church, on 24 Sept., 1726, it was extended to the entire Latin Church by Benedict XIII. The lessons contain the legend of the scapular; the promise of the Sabbatine privilege was inserted into the lessons by Paul V about 1614.

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10604b.htm

Oh, and in case you missed it, they’ve now crossed over from aggressor to victim:

Secret Service’s ‘cascade of failures’ allowed Trump assassination attempt, report says

Highly critical Senate committee report calls for severe disciplinary action against Secret Service in the future

A new Senate committee report on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, described the events as a “cascade of preventable failures” and called for more severe disciplinary action to be taken with the Secret Service in the future.

In the 31-page, highly critical findings released on Sunday, the Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee lamented the mishandling of communications around the rally and said Trump was denied extra security on the day.

“A 20-year-old gunman was able to evade detection by the country’s top protective agency for nearly 45 minutes,” the committee stated, adding that “not a single person has been fired”.

The publication of the report comes exactly a year after the attempted assassination of Trump, when he was wounded after a bullet grazed his ear on 13 July 2024. One rally-goer, Corey Comperatore, was killed before the shooter, a 20-year-old nursing-home worker from Pennsylvania named Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot dead by a Secret Service agent. Crooks scaled a building overlooking the rally and opened fire using an AR015-style rifle.

The image of Trump defiantly raising his fist in the immediate aftermath of the attack became a political touchstone, helping push Joe Biden out of the race and fuelling support around his presidency in a heightened, accelerated manner.

The committee behind this latest report, chaired by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, conducted 17 interviews with members of the Secret Service and reviewed thousands of legal documents before it reached its conclusion. While it offers no new information on Crooks’s motives, which are still ambiguous almost a year on, it does shine light on the supposed disorganization and disarray of the security agency as the assassination unfolded.

The investigators found that the Secret Service “denied or left unfulfilled” multiple requests for additional staff and assets, and despite acknowledgements of vulnerabilities at the venue, assigned an inexperienced operator to oversee operations.

“What happened was inexcusable,” the committee stated, adding that “the consequences imposed for the failures so far do not reflect the severity of the situation.”

Six Secret Service agents have since been suspended without pay after the events last July. Their suspensions range from 10 to 42 days, with a loss of both salary and benefits during their absence.

This disciplinary action comes nearly a year after the shooting. The agency’s deputy director, Matt Quinn, told CBS News that the Secret Service would not “fire our way out of this” crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/13/trump-assassination-attempt-secret-service-report

h/t Frank Walker http://canon212.com

I wasn’t there. A bunch of my classmates did go, more for the sheer spectacle than in the hopes of a killer concert, something not possible at JFK stadium, no matter how many amps. The venue had also fallen into disuse and decay at this point, notoriously the restrooms, but the organizers had to have their “100,000+” attendance, something The Vet could not accommodate..

It was unbearably hot and humid. The kind of disgusting weather that you just want relief from. I would not have lasted five hours out in that, not even at 18. My group spent the day at a friend’s backyard pool (not a common amenity in my hood). 93.3 WMMR simulcast the concert in stereo; we didn’t even watch it on TV.

The best performance, hands down, was the 21 minute set by Queen in London. Surely you’ve seen it. The most anticipated performance, hands down, was the Led Zeppelin reunion in Philadelphia. The group had not performed together since disbanding after the death of John Bonham in 1980. It was a total disaster, so much so that I cannot bring myself to link to it. Other performers in Philly were Madonna, Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, George Thorogood, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Duran Duran, and Phil Collins, who famously appeared at both venues, having jumped on Concorde after performing in London.  Spectacle: Check.

To mark the occasion, the Live Aid youtube channel is streaming the whole shebang… all ten hours of it. I do hope they have employed AI to clean up the video, which somehow was done with awful quality, even for the tech available at the time. The links below won’t go live until 4am tomorrow.

What about you? Where were you that day? Were you born yet? lol

Does anyone remember what was going on in the 2020-2022 time period? Was there something like a purported pandemic where everyone was imprisoned and forced to work from home, right? On the internet all day. Weren’t there a few other things going on as well? Anything at all?

Add to that, monstrous lies being told in unison by MSM, including Fox News, gaslighting 24/7. Anyone suspecting that the real truth was something different than the narrative had to seek out alternate sources, and those sources were extremely limited. I am humbled to be counted among them.

I made my first call of bullshit on the purported pandemic on February 29, 2020. This was weeks before we even got to the Flatten the Curve hoax. But it didn’t stop there. In case you have forgotten, here is an incomplete list of the not-conspiracy theories covered here and by other select outlets, like Barnhardt.biz, NurseClaireSays.com, FLCCC/Dr Kory, Canon212.com, and… LifeSiteNews.com. Remember, these are all in the 2020-2022 era:

Covid lethality hoax

Social Distancing hoax

Masking hoax

Ventilator hoax

Vaccine hoax (it was somehow ready for human trials March 16th, 2020)

Vaccine as poison

Vaccine derived from abortion

History of Coronavirus vaccine failures/patient death

Original Antigenic Sin

mRNA hoax

ModeRNA hoax (had never produced a successful product, ever)

Ivermectin/Pony Paste

Hunter’s Laptop (Russia Disinformation hoax)

Stolen Election

J6 Insurrection hoax

Jab mandate disobedience, how to obtain an exemption

Remdesivir poison

Hell Mice (CRISPR biotech/aborted baby body parts)

Yay Ukraine hoax

Ukraine biolabs/Victoria Nuland

As I said, this is by no means an exhaustive list. Sorry I don’t have time to hotlink all these, but feel free to copy and paste into the search box on the right. The point here is that any website with a hitherto narrow/niche audience, but then became a much broader source of truth in the season of lies that was 2020-2022, saw its audience BOOM. LifeSiteNews, with certainty, rode that wave.

So for someone to say the decline in traffic is due to current management flying the thing into the ground like a Boeing with a DEI crew is nonsense. Your’s Truly has seen a 75% decline in daily traffic since that time as well.

Anyway, the new regime at LifeSite will reap what they’ve sown. Their blegging will accelerate, perhaps even surpassing 1P5. They won’t make it to the end of the year.

Godspeed, John-Henry.

Steve Jalsevac
@jalsevacs

That is just what John-Henry may have wanted many to believe. It is completely false.

LifeSiteNews has been a close team of many talented persons who created what was an incredibly successful, international pro-life, pro-family news service. None of that could have happened without all those people and their valuable contributions to what, for the first 12 years, was a project of and within Canada’s national pro-life organization that dealt with many international developments related to the culture of death vs. the culture of life.

It was founded, funded, encouraged and guided by CLC and especially by its leader Jim Hughes who was the visionary who saw the great need for the pro-life movement to have its own international news service to counter the lies, manipulations and ignoring of many important developments within the international pro-life movement.

CLC gave us its large email list to begin the incredible growth of LifeSite. LifeSite would never have existed without CLC.

Jim Hughes assumed we would continue to grow and continue as the pro-life, pro-family news agency that it was founded to be and which CLC gave so much to from its own resources.

In recent years, John-Henry worked and insisted that we change the highly successful LifeSiteNews mission to become a dramatically different one of a traditional, Latin Mass Catholic evangelizing, religious organization to draw readers into the Catholic Church according to the teachings of the Council of Trent.

Founding board members Jim Hughes, myself and others strongly opposed this change which we believed would tremendously confuse our loyal readers and subscribers and most new people as to what LifeSiteNews really was because of the schizophrenic messaging that the new mission statement presented.

A large majority of subscribers and readers were not traditional Latin Mass Catholics or not Catholic at all, and the changed LifeSiteNews would appeal to a far narrower audience since the target audience that John-Henry insisted on preaching to were only a tiny fraction of Catholics and violated our founding purpose.

Sadly, John-Henry was able to arrange a board vote that outnumbered those who never thought they would have to vote on such a dramatic change, including other board memberss who were removed prior to the vote for poor behaviours because they were so intensely opposed to the change in what they had given so much of themselves to for a number of years.

One of those board members was wholly responsible for encouraging and paying for LifeSiteNews to incorporate in the United States and was a very generous donor and constantly active supporter in many other ways. The other removed board member was also a major donor and played a large role in our highly successful sustainers program

LifeSite will not die because it has always had a strong appeal to international pro-life Catholics/Christians amd others of goodwill and has never been dependent on any one person.

Our fears about the dangers of the dramatic mission change have proven to have been valid. Readership has plummeted, many have been dismayed by the change, LifeSite has been widely viewed as a sedavacatist website and donations have dramatically declined this past campaign.

Without major needed change LifeSiteNews cannot survive. With common sense return to the incredibly successful founding mission and a return to collaborative management, rather than top-down, one person control, it stands a very good chance of tremendous renewal for the good of all.

We will still always been based on traditional Catholic/Christian moral principles in all we do, as we always have been.
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He begins with a laundry list of splainer platitudes, until he finally gets to the unforgivable sin:

“LifeSite has been widely viewed as a sedavacatist website”

John-Henry had been speaking way too much truth. Visible, obvious truths, that any honest person can see. Truths about purported popes. This was too much for the compromised “board of directors” and Steve Jalsevac, and whomever else their handlers might be.

You will have to click on the tweet to unroll the whole thing: Be sure to read the replies.

https://twitter.com/jalsevacs/status/1943060853881999769?s=46&t=QVRahZjR0Wj-QYIIJUNMOA