Our first out-of-town guest for the Pittsburgh Brownstone Supper Club, Tom Harrington! Join us!

“Bolshevism and Big Business are very much alike; they are both built on the truth that everything is easy and simple if once you eliminate liberty.” G.K. Chesterton, 29th May 1874 – 14th June 1936

It isn't "traditional Catholicism" to treat the hierarchy with contempt.

"A childlike trust in God’s providence over His Church working through simple obedience would suffice to satisfy the duties of any cleric or priestly society. Individual clergy cannot see distant, contingent spiritual realities such that they could prudently sidestep commonsense obedience to those who have the office and mandate to care for the whole ecclesial community, and this is why God does not want them to do so." @EamonnClark - “My Will Be Done”: On the SSPX Consecrations

Analyzed simply as a movie, “Disclosure Day” was a failure. Will go into more details in a later “Missive from Babylon,” but here is my summary: —Acting: not good (a few moments excepted) —Music score: shockingly unmemorable, given that it was written by John Williams —Story: uninteresting; countless missed opportunities; explained almost nothing; it didn’t dive into any fascinating lore, or present a compelling narrative —Writing: often bad; dialogue didn’t work in many places; came off forced/contrived —Theology/Philosophy: utterly shallow; felt like “New Atheist” level of “thinking”: clearly intended to subvert the Catholic Faith at every turn, given its ubiquitous use of Catholic imagery and themes It had some good/funny moments here and there. But overall, a massive failure. It felt like it was put together super fast and haphazardly. Even its use of CGI was bad. I went to “Disclosure Day” quite literally for research purposes—to study what kind of messages powerful forces in our society want to put out there. I’ll definitely have more thoughts on that, but what I experienced was simply a bad film. The worst Spielberg I’ve ever seen.

St Anthony, intercede mightily for us!

RT @RomanoSace57080: The cell of Saint Anthony of Padua (Camposampiero, Italy; Santuario della Visione):

It is criminal that our government enabled a bat virus to infect and spread between humans. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a bigger betrayal of our species. It is equally troubling that the mad scientists who did this then gaslit all the people of the world about it, including those who CORRECTLY interpreted the evidence. Then, of course, the very same monsters amped up fear of the Covid frankenvirus and steered the panicked public away from safe medicines, and toward an obviously dangerous gene-therapy which they falsely called a vaccine in order to lure us into acceptance. These are among the greatest crimes EVER committed against humanity. We now have persuasive evidence of everything I have said above. If we don't correct the record and hold the perpetrators to account, this pattern will happen again, and again, and again--shortening our life expectancy, and degrading our quality of life each time that it does. This is our Nuremberg moment. We can not simply move on from this ghastly chapter of history. We must finish it. @brownstoneinst

RT @RomanoSace57080: St. Anthony of Padua "lectured at Bologna on the interpretation of Holy Scripture." "The Pope, once hearing him preach…

@RandPaul DOCS: hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/… "SARS-CoV-2 is an American-created recombinant bat vaccine, or its precursor virus. It was created by an EcoHealth Alliance program at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)."

🚨 Pope Leo XIV has sent a WARNING to migrants, telling them how to behave when they arrive into new countries: 'Learn its language, to respect its laws, to get to know its customs, to participate in communal life and to offer your gifts with gratitude'

It's hard to overstate how much of a good thing the 2011 translation of the Roman Missal was, and how bad the previous ICEL translations were. Younger Catholics may not remember these days.

Yes! Thank you, Raymond

Fulton Sheen: American Champion of the Sacred Heart| National Catholic Register ncregister.com/commentaries/…

Bring back quality starts in MLB. I don't care what else happened, if you can't go six innings you didn't give your team a good chance to win.

Wow, that’s childish. I feel sorry for your parishioners. You have a parish, right?

No wonder he is unassignable.

"...we gather, not first to celebrate ourselves, but to consecrate. To entrust. To place the Church in the United States, and indeed the whole nation, into the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ." In the context of a Solemn Mass with all of the bishops.