Friday, March 15, 2024

Oklahoma Transexual Teen Suicide

According to news reports, a boy here in Oklahoma pretending to be a girl, a transexual, suffering from gender dysphoria and gender theory ideology, started a fight with girls in the girls bathroom, resulting in them responding in self-defense. This male committed acts of sexual harassment against these girls by going into the girls bathroom, and also by starting a fight in that bathroom.  

The girls responded within their rights to protect their dignity. Apparently the result of the incident was the male became so depressed he took his life.  I pray for his soul, and that before he died his conscience moved him to repent.  

Suicide generally speaking is a bad sign that the person may not have been saved. But considering this boy suffered from severe mental illness, and was a victim of woke culture, I see hope for his salvation. 

That said suicide, gender dysphoria, homosexuality, and all the perversions of the LGBTQ movement are straight from the fiery pits of hell.  If that results in Google blogger cancelling me, so be it. Suicide and suicidal depression is high among homosexuals and transsexuals compared to heterosexuals.  

Oklahoma is one of the leading states cracking down on gender theory and all forms of critical theory being pushed in public schools.  Kids shouldn’t bully, including the LGBTQ kids, but the blame for these tragic stories rests with the monsters grooming the confused child to “transition” which is diabolical. 

The Frankenstein doctor approving hormones and surgery, like giving out candy, the woke leftist parents and teachers pushing this, and school principles without the fortitude to put an end to endorsing LGBTQ ideology.  May this child Rest In Peace.  Sad thing to see in Oklahoma. 

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Michael Matt to Climb Mount Kilimanjaro

Frank Walker linked to this at C212 as his main headline today with a question mark, which itself and reading the link gave me a slight chuckle. Which is always welcome for my serotonin levels.  



MM is uniting the clans! By preparing a fundraiser for him climbing the highest mountain in Africa to raise $ for a traditional order/ mission in Africa.  Unite the clans is a good thing by the way, generally speaking. See the fundraiser link at the Remnant to donate and support MM. I will say any mountain that has in its name what sounds like “kill a man” raises concern.  

The majority fail to summit because it is even more grueling a trek to the top and mountaineering climb, minus technical climbing with a rope, than Everest, because of the extremely high altitude and very steep ascent. MM will need to be in very good aerobic health, probably take supplemental oxygen, have medical advisors to avoid altitude sickness, and have the grit of a David Goggins. 

He doesn’t look exactly athletic (neither am I), plus he’s not a young man, but considering his zeal for the cause of Catholic Tradition, and to raise that $, I imagine he’ll be training hard between now and July.  My bet is he makes the summit. It’s all a bit comedic, but fun, inspiring, and will be a fun story to follow as a traditional Catholic.  It does take 7 days to reach the summit, and I’m sure a few more to go back down.  

Maybe I’ll do something like this one day in the future to say raise $ for Silver City or Clear Creek monastery, but on a smaller scale. In my health recovery journey right now—see last post giving update—one goal is to get back into mountain biking, and a dream would be a two day bike journey to CC monastery and back. Maybe I’ll raise some $ for that.  God speed MM. 

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Health Update. Please Keep Me in Your Prayers

Blessed Sunday to you and yours.  Since giving several health updates in the past few months, I trust there are readers who have been praying for me.  Thank you. Please keep my full recovery in your prayers. 

First, to summarize, a year ago I had serious GI problems, then back issues, then a sudden outbreak of nerve and muscle pain in my arms and legs with extreme fatigue, etc.   A very long story, but after a long process of treatment and seeing specialists, I began  to seriously recover after Christmas, the pain itself subsiding to near zero, and fatigue levels lifting enabling me to work.   

The extreme stress itself largely resulted in several rounds of bad ear allergies, including two ear infections, the last one a couple weeks ago that ruptured my ear drum  Fortunately they heal typically within a few weeks or so.  One of the symptoms is tinnitus.  I already have mild tinnitus in the main affected ear over the years which has been very tolerable, yet with the ruptured ear drum it has spiked up which is distracting and stressful.  But I’m offering it up, knowing that as the rupture heals, I expect it to resolve.  God’s will be done.

The other factor was the antibiotics for the ear infection seriously affected my GI, which ironically actually makes allergies worse, considering the affect of the gut microbiome on your immune system and response to allergens.  You also become much more sensitive to food.  This led me down the path of healing my gut this last week. Fasting, probiotics, slowly reintroducing fiber and fermented foods and later more fatty food, good sleep, and daily exercise restores the GI after antibiotics kill off a lot of the microbiome. The allergy meds help but have a lot of side effects when taking several, which motivates me to come off these meds soon and others also affecting the GI.  Most meds disrupt the GI microbiome affecting your whole health, one reason to avoid most, if you can. 

For example, statins cause GI distress, but also chronic fatigue, tiredness, muscle weakness, and muscle pain, ironically all symptoms I’ve been having since this health crisis started.  So I’m expecting major improvements ahead just from the careful weaning off of these meds.  

So two specific prayer requests right now: for my eardrum to fully heal and therefore tinnitus level to resolve, and for my current allergy/GI sickness to resolve.  And please pray for my general recovery, especially so I’m well enough to return to work in physical therapy and resume normal life. 

The positive is that since Christmas there has been a major improvement, to the point I felt more or less recovered, except now for the ear/allergy/GI set back. But it’s only a temporary set back, a bump in the road, looking at it from the bird’s eye view.  From that point of view, all things considered, I am thankful for what level of restored health I now have and the future opening back up.  With my diet, exercise, and other changes, I have every reason to be optimistic for good health in the short term and very good health in the long term. I have learned many life lessons about taking care of my health, the hard way.  I thank God for life, and the opportunity to have eternal life with Him. 

That said, please keep me in your prayers as I will also pray for readers, especially those of you going through your own hardship right now.  For everything there is a season.  



Friday, March 8, 2024

The Gut Microbiome

Public Service Announcement.  God designed the microbiome of the human gut to control all bodily health: the brain, immune system, metabolism, digestion, pretty much everything is controlled by the gut microbiome.  When it is the right diversity and balance, and properly fed, it will give you excellent health.  If it’s out of wack, underfed, or killed off by processed foods, toxins, antibiotics, most drugs, or stress, it will wreak havoc on the person.  Depression, anxiety, ADHD, autoimmune disorders, allergies, chronic fatigue and malaise, you name it. The standard American diet and lifestyle has destroyed our gut microbiome beginning in childhood. To repair it you need to eliminate processed and fake food, figure out what foods cause you allergies, GI distress, or general bad reactions and limit it, rebuild the gut with probiotics, fiber, and fermented foods gradually over time. This heals the leaky gut, and restores health.   

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

History Repeats Itself

History repeats itself.  If this is true, and in 2020 the Dems stole the election through mail in ballots, etc, they’ll do it this time again. Guaranteed. At least they’ll try 150%.  All these court cases against Trump are proving ineffective in keeping him off the ballot, and from being the predicted winner.  But Trump dropped the ball in 2020 in not going full court press to prevent the coup.  He should have been more imsightful and aggressive to defend himself.  I trust he learned his lesson.  The MAGA wing of the GOP hopefully is taking all necessary measures to stop the Steal 2.0. Eight months out they better be.  Go Trump. 

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Justice for All

The title of a top 100 song, sang by the J6 prison choir with Trump.  Listened to it this morning.  It brought tears to my eyes. These men are patriotic heroes. They represent we The People oppressed by Big Brother. When Trump is back in the White House, he’ll pardon them. And probably throw a banquet for them at the White House.  Something to look forward to.  There will be a reckoning, and it will be from God because it will come through lawful authority.  May God give justice for all. 

Friday, March 1, 2024

FSSP Superior Meets with Pope Francis

Care of Rorate C.  And GloriaTV.  Praise God the TLM still exists for now within the approved structures of the Church.  Praise God for the work of preserving Tradition by the Ecclesia Dei societies. At the same time, did the Superior General express any concern to Pope Francis about his pontificate’s program to dismantle what is left of Tradition?  The requirement to eventually bridge to the Novus Ordo?  The homosexual blessings document?  Many FSSP priests are hard core traditionalist, at the individual level, but what is the future of all the ED groups as organizations?  Vatican II has still not been corrected, nor the liturgical reform, the errors of both which cannot be accepted even if that means being pushed underground.  Support also the SSPX.  Know the history of the fight for Tradition, and the principles at stake.  Be ready to go underground if it comes to it, since traditional Catholicism has already been largely underground since 1970 anyway, to one degree or another, resisting the conciliar religion.  Have a good weekend. 

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Low Potassium

Potassium is the most important nutrient your body needs.  It’s high in salmon, other oily fish, leafy green vegetables, avocados, bananas, nuts, grains, etc.  When you have normal levels you feel energy, vitality, muscle strength.  When you have low levels you feel brain fog, fatigue, muscle weakness/aches/nerve pain.   Under stress, especially high stress, your potassium levels drop drastically and your body feels it in these symptoms, the same for depression or anxiety.  I think most people are in a semi-sick state to a great extent from low potassium, but also low magnesium and dehydration.  Now I’m getting all my mineral and vitamin needs on keto by blending a big pitcher every morning for smoothies:  cocoa powder, stevia, three avocados, 4 cups raw kale, 1 cup blackberries 1/3 cup Greek yogurt, 2 tablespoons flax seed meal.  Drink half with breakfast and the other half in the afternoon. Also drinking a gallon of water daily.  

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Science Searching for the Nature of the Universe?

I was listening to a radio program of an astrophysicist talk about how modern science is searching for the ultimate nature of the universe.  Science can’t know that.  Theology and philosophy know that, through the lens of divine revelation.  These scientists want more $$$ to keep themselves employed, and serve special interests in science and technology, ultimately for $$$.  They know the public buys into this.  Replacing religion with science. Science helps understand the universe materially, which informs philosophy to understand it formally.  All that said, we already know the purpose of the universe: to serve the needs of mankind, to reflect the Creator so we know Him by means of Creation, and ultimately to manifest and give glory to God.  

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Vatican to Dialogue with Freemasonry

Catholicism cannot dialogue with an ideology fundamentally anti-Catholicism.  That goes for Communism, Satanism, and Freemasonry.  It is metaphysically impossible without mutating Catholicism. But the new religion of modernism wants this. Freemasonry is evil.  It opposes the truth there is only one true religion, that reality is vertical and supernatural, and life’s goal is salvation, and the kingdom of God in the next life.  Pray for the pope he puts a stop to this and makes reparations before he dies. Just one more reason to be a traditionalist. 

Saturday, February 17, 2024

Putin Murdering People?

He may be, but my thesis is he isn’t.  Russia is effectively at war with the US and NATO countries.  Speaking out against your president during war time how he is handling the war, in such a way that could undermine national security and the war effort, could be interpreted sincerely as treason. Past capital punishment for treason, especially during war time, seems reasonable.  If Putin is giving the order to take out these dissidents, it’s because he regards them as traitors and dangerous to the country.  And as president, he has the legal authority to take out people even in a clandestine way. As does ours.  Also, their political structure isn’t democratic in the way the West is, and the Church does not condemn autocracy.  It is akin to kingship. There is one man standing up to the globalist West, effectively standing for the old order of Christendom, for better or worse that is Vladimir Putin.  

Monday, February 12, 2024

Woke Super Bowl Ad

The Enlightenment convinced us the material is superior to the supernatural.  This philosophy is celebrated through modern sports, where sports has become a religion. Making sports and the cult of the body a religion is called somatolatry, which has its grand feast days such as the NBA finals, the Olympics, and most of all Superbowl Sunday.  The Left has taken over organized professional sports with wokism, with the likes of Mark Cuban.  It’s like what Bud Light did with that ridiculous, in-your-face transexual ad.  It being very bad for business suggests sinister people pushing this. When a Super Bowl ad preaches the “true meaning” of Jesus’ message by showing a priest washing the feet of a homosexual flaunting their homosexuality, or a woman washing the feet of a teenage girl outside a family planning clinic, i.e. involving baby killing, it’s time to boycott. It’s better to organize a Catholic version of Super Bowl Sunday watching old Super Bowl classics before it was taken over. Or better yet have a backyard football game followed by wings. But no more Bud Light.  And no more NFL or NBA until they get rid of wokism. God would be happy. 

Sunday, February 11, 2024

Trump Chooses Vivek

You heard it here first. Trump is choosing Vivek as his running mate.  Vivek and his wife entered the party at Mar-a-lago with Trump and Melania. And Vivek had a joyful look on on his face.  He’s the nominee.  I do think he is a bit sophomoric to be the VP and potential president, but he is very conservative and full of energy. 

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Time to Get Pumped Up about Trump

No more RINOS and Leftists.  No more Marxist coups enabled by the GOP.  We must stop the Leftists from turning this country into Venezuela or the USSR.Besides God, one man is literally our only hope. Because he is not bought and paid for and has zero fear. He will not stop. He created the MAGA movement as a political opposition to the leftist revolution.  The next year will be a political battle more intense than four years ago.  The Democrats will do everything in their power to win through fraud and a political witch-hunt. Once Trump IS the nominee, it will be political war.  Time to get pumped up again. Catholics are political. Wear our Trump hats and fly our Trump flags, and rally. The future of the family, the unborn, the economy, the place of the Church in the nation, the nation itself depends on it. Go President Trump! 

Friday, February 9, 2024

Tucker Interviews Putin

Tucker didn’t handle it well. He started off with a factually incorrect statement and then appeared angry the president was giving a long winded answer, which turned into a long thirty minute lecture on Russian history probably because of Tucker’s bratty attitude.  I like Tucker but this was one of his biggest interviews ever.   Putin should have been more diplomatic though in engaging Tucker as a journalist representing the West, if he wants to prevent world war and find a diplomatic solution soon.   At times he seemed proud, though in many respects I admire his leadership and agree with his world view about the West.  This interview to me signals more war ahead.  Kyrie eleison.  

Monday, February 5, 2024

Cardinal Burke’s Silence

The de facto head of the resistance to the Francis agenda has been silent since he was disciplined by Pope Francis, the release of the new same sex blessing document, and being called to meet with the pope.  Meanwhile traditional Catholics are waiting to hear again from Cardinal Burke. 

Burke knows the agenda will continue to unfold, the Church needing cardinals and bishops to lead the resistance, as he first did at the Synod on the Family, and that if he fades into the shadows that will only hurt this resistance movement and enable the further auto-demolition of the Church.  

We should pray and offer our penances he doesn’t do this, but stands up even more boldly.  What can they do to him realistically if he does?  Take away his entire pension?   Remove him from the college of cardinals?  As long as he acts within his rights and duties, he can stand rightly before God, and surely benefactors would support him if he lost his pension.  

After Burke was called to meet with Pope Francis he was asked how it went, and all he said was “I’m still alive,” which indicated he was being reprimanded, and likely for being the de facto head of this resistance movement.  I imagine he was told or warned to stop what he has been doing or else he’ll be punished more.  

My interpretation of Burke is he very much doesn’t want any disunity between himself and the pope, no matter the doctrinal problems, to even give the impression of a schismatic rebellion or the impression he is the leader of such a rebellion.  His temperament seems much more reserved than say an Archbishop Lefebvre.  

I like Cardinal Burke.  I don’t support his view that Vatican II in itself was not the problem but it’s implementation, or his over-the-top critical statements about the SSPX, but he is the most traditional Cardinal and one of the top five most traditional bishops.  We owe a lot to him for his works on behalf of Tradition.  

Cardinal Burke, if by chance you were to read this, God knows exactly why you are now being silent.  There’s many factors we don’t know.  But I hope you continue to fight the good fight for the Catholic Faith.  




Saturday, February 3, 2024

James Martin Meets with Irish Bishops

He met with all or most of the Irish bishops to discuss how to implement the same sex blessing document, a priest who has said homosexual acts are not sinful. This confirms the interpretation some bishops will take a liberal approach to the document permitted by Rome.  We can expect soon public blessing events in the parish church, in liberal dioceses (that would then seem to be most dioceses) as long as it’s not directly in front of the altar or wearing wedding garb.  Fernandez confirmed the couple itself is blessed, and may be planned and inside the church.  This would be affirming the relationship, if not the sexual act itself.  The Vatican knows Martin counseled an entire country’s bishops on this, that he holds a heretical view on homosexuality, but is not and certainly will continue not to discipline him. The faithful bishops will take an orthodox approach to the document either not implementing it or allowing only blessing of the individual and discreetly.  Kyrie eleison.

Friday, February 2, 2024

US Attacks Iran. Our Lady of Akita’s Prophesies.

We’re bombing today Iranian targets in Syria. Russia and China warned us not to.  Iran is our sworn enemy, wanting to wipe us off the planet.  To them we are the aggressor, that is Iran, China, and Russia in particular.  We remain on the brink of world war.  

Remember Our Lady of Akita, an approved apparition, that a) the world will fall into decadence, b) the Church will fall into apostasy, c) God will chastise us, d) through fire from heaven, e) more people dying than from the great flood.  It’s an approved apparition echoing Fatima, La Sallete, etc. 

I believe in these apparitions, and expect soon a Third World War that is nuclear.  Start prepping, and pray and do penance. 

A year plus supply of food, water, ammo, flashlights, batteries, matches, lighters, camper stoves, propane, short wave radio, ham radio, solar oven, portable solar panels, gardening tools, seeds, barter items: liquor, cigarettes, toilet paper, gold/silver, etc. 

Blessed Feast of Candlemas. 



Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Health Update. Please Keep Me in Your Prayers

Right after Christmas within just a couple days my symptoms greatly resolved, the fatigue, muscle and deep nerve pain in my arms and legs, weakness, etc.  A couple weeks later the remaining burning nerve pain in my lower legs was gone for a week, but came back after I used the sauna at the gym, and from the cold last week. 

It itself had been gone for over two months from mid September to the end of November. Saw a neurologist who said he didn’t know the cause, but didn’t suspect any neurological disease which itself is a blessing. 

He even thought from my tests and history that the nerve pain isn’t from actual nerve damage but inflammation. Recovery is still having its ups and downs.  

To review, I got a very bad GI illness last Spring needing to quit my job, losing my health insurance, sick for several months, then going through several major stressful events in a short period of time, including our one car getting stolen, and then within a day I broke out in intense nerve and muscle pain down both arms and legs, then had balance and walking problems, extreme fatigue, brain fog, becoming barely able to function in that state.  I also got a very intense painful condition of rosacea in my face for the first time, lasting itself two months.

In the Fall thankfully the burning surface level nerve pain disappeared, but I had major sinus infections from the extreme stress of my state resulting in the virus spreading to my face causing Bell’s palsy, one side of my face drooping, thankfully clearing up after a couple weeks.  

But the higher level of already extreme stress that caused including my whole body still in pain and weakness, I think brought back the surface nerve pain in my legs, which has been showing signs of going away.  My focus is on diet, weight loss, daily gym routine including swimming, stress management, and of course prayer.  I also just finished two months of PT.  

At the moment I’m coming out of a pain flare up the last couple weeks, but the fact there were many days I felt almost no pain anywhere, and normal energy, sustains my hope in recovery. It may still take some time but I place my future in God’s hands, the Divine Physician, and offer my cross in reparation for my sins.  It’s better to suffer in this life than in the next.  

I ask you please to add my recovery to your daily prayer intentions.  


Sunday, January 28, 2024

My Response to the Popesplainers

How many times do you need to gaslight your fellow Catholics who sincerely object to problems with Pope Francis?  How is gaslighting charitable or Catholic?

The central problem with popesplaining is it treats ultramontane ecclesiology as if it is official Church teaching, where some ultramontane theologians held that papal infallibility extends to the entire papal Magisterium, including discipline, which would include the liturgy.  But that isn’t Church teaching.  Therefore, while you are free to hold that view, you are not free to impose it on others who don’t hold that view while judging their Catholicity for observing the pope to be promoting error.  Ironically, that also usurps the authority of the bishop or pope who alone can judge if a Catholic has become a schismatic.  

The popesplainer must allow himself to fall into cognitive dissonance and intellectual dishonesty to square the circle on Pope Francis’ scandals, and argue the papal critics are being rebellious schismatics.  It is the equivalent of calling the good bad, and the bad good, which uses duplicity and sophistry to dominate the “rad trad.”  It is a form of bullying. And it should stop, and be replaced with intellectually honest disputation, online public debates, and in the end peace between brothers in the Faith, and not internet flame wars.

I will at least say popesplaining has its merits.  It is attempting to preserve respect for the papacy and prevent people from leaving the Church.  No doubt many have fallen away from the Faith or converted to Orthodoxy because of the contradictions coming from Pope Francis.  Trying to solve those contradictions is praiseworthy in so far as it shows the Catholic Church is not falsifying itself with the problems of this pope, or any pope since Vatican II.

However, intelligent human beings who use their God-given intellect and five senses can’t be manipulated to believe that 1 + 1 = 3, when 1 + 1 = 2.  Sooner or later popesplaining itself will lead many intelligent Catholics to leave the Church over the contradictions from Pope Francis.

I would tell them instead to read the SSPX analysis of Pope Francis and the Crisis in the Church, and similar analysis, which is orthodox.  Understand the problem of applying ultramontane theology to the current situation, the limits of infallibility and indefectability, and how Magisterial documents can in fact contain error.  That could include a papal document permitting blessings of same sex couples.  Therefore, that does not falsify the Church, and there is no need to leave.

Edit: as a side note, to be clear, I am not accusing the pope of teaching error in the homosexual blessing document, though that is the impression it gives to many reasonable Catholics. 

There IS a solution to the errors of Pope Francis and the agenda coming from this pontificate spread downward on the universal Church, and that is to go to the ancient and venerable liturgical rites, whether the traditional Roman rite or an eastern rite, and let that parish be a living resistance to the modernism.  

I have mixed thoughts about talking about the pope.  On one hand, we shouldn’t be focused on the papacy.  It is central to the government of the Church, and the hierarchy is central to Church, but the state of the current pope or local bishop is marginal compared to our daily domestic spiritual life.  On the other hand, when the modernist Crisis is threatening our faith, and the Faith itself, and is to a great extent caused by the bad agenda of the current pope and those who elected him, it becomes vitally important to fight back by calling it out, by calling for resistance to a false agenda.

Also, one of the main problems with popesplaining is it denies there is a Crisis of modernism throughout the Church.  They falsely think modernism doesn’t exist anymore, just liberalism or secularism.  You don’t have to call yourself, your theology, style of liturgy, architecture, spirituality, etc modernist to be espousing and practicing the principles of modernism, and therefore are in fact a modernist, with modernism still existing.

Popesplainers identify as conservative Catholics, which is accurate even if they claim to transcend the political spectrum in the Church, characterizing those “on the right and the left” as “radical dissenters.”  However, conservative or rather neoconservative Catholics, the ones who are anti-traditionalist, which is at the heart of popesplaining, are more liberal than they will admit.  In reality, traditionalist Catholics are simply Catholics because they are as our forefathers were before the conciliar revolution. We are simply being Catholics as they were, upholding Tradition, so in reality we ourselves are not on the political spectrum to the far right.  The neoconservatives in contrast are essentially of this political spectrum to the extreme right.  Traditionalists transcend this spectrum because Tradition, and our practice of it, is transcendent and timeless.