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The great theologian Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange said "Humility... consists in abasing ourselves before God." (Christianperfection.info, "The Three Ages of the Interior Life") True humility or abasement is shown to involve repentance from sin and abasement in and with Jesus to God the Father: "Catechism of the Catholic Church  537: Through Baptism the Christian... must enter into this mystery of humble self-abasement and repentance, go down into the water with Jesus in order to rise with Him, be reborn of water and the Spirit so as to become the Father's beloved son in the Son." Pope Francis in his Palm Sunday liturgy homily said: "[Jesus] knows that true triumph involves making room for God... self-emptying. To remain silent, to pray, to accept humiliation." Francis in a homily in 2014 explained what he means by humiliation: "That is the path of Jesus Christ: abasement, humility, humiliation... if a thought, if a desire t...

Did Adolf Hitler suffer from dementia? Dr. Abraham N. Lieberman who was a eminent neurologist at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix and the clinical director of the National Parkinson Foundation thought the dictator suffered dementia in the form of Parkinson's disease according to the Los Angeles Times: "Hitler's Parkinson's, he argues, may have been caused by a viral infection incurred around 1916, when a pandemic of Von Economo's encephalitis hit Europe. Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain caused, in this case, by a still-unidentified virus." '...The first symptoms of Hitler's Parkinson's were apparent, Lieberman says, in Leni Reifenstahl's 1934 film "Triumph of the Will," made when Hitler was 45 years old. The decreased and slowed movement of his left arm, a symptom called bradykinesia, was visible when he arrived at a Nazi Party congress in the morning, Lieberman says." "... And finally, Lie...

Deceits favorite role is playing the victim! - Paul Galindo In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell Leftist presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren deceitfully said "President Donald Trump is trying to incite violence" for sharing the truth of Rep. Ilhan Omar's own words in a video before a "terrorist supporting front organization." In the video she said that the horrific Islamic 9/11 attack that killed almost 3,000 innocent people was only "some people did something" so the Council on American- Islamic Relations organization (CAIR ) was founded which according to the Anti-CAIR website has been shown to be a "terrorist supporting front organization." In the video Omar was speaking at the "terrorist supporting front organization" CAIR. Omar and her leftist enablers such as Warren are justifing minimizing the Islamic 9/11 terrorist attack and her support for the "terro...

- Updated January 1, 2020 Yesterday, Francis's inappropriate angry "childlike" hand slapping episode when added to the earlier in the year ring-kissing behavior controversy where he appeared to play the immature children's "gotcha" game that received similar headline sequences was similarly explained as "bizarre," "awkward" and "cringeworthy." (CatholicCulture.org, "The bizarre ring-kissing controversy, March 28, 2019) The many episodes of "bizarre behavior of Francis" apparently are a habit pattern, but other than when he is not angrily and dynamicly denouncing faithful Catholics or American anti-socialism he appears to be normal if somewhat dynamic or theatrical. Francis's theatrical spoiled child ways remind one of a C.S. Lewis' Great Divorce character, the theatrical Frank, who is like all leftists who have acted like tyrannical spoiled children since Karl Marx in wanting to use "pity...

The Catholic Herald reported that in the United States: Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) attendees are over overwhelmingly real Catholics while New Mass or Novus Ordo Mass (NOM) attendees tend be lapsed and heretical Catholics according to a new study by Fr. Donald Kloster: Fulfill Sunday obligation: TLM: 99℅ vs. NOM: 22℅ Approve of abortion: TLM: 1℅ vs. NOM: 51℅ Go to Confession at least once a year: TLM: 98℅ vs. NOM: 25℅ Approve of contraception: TLM: 2℅ vs. NOM: 89℅ Support same-sex marriage: TLM: 2℅ vs. NOW: 67℅ "TLM attendees donate 5 times more in the collection" according to Fr. Kloster. (Catholic Herald, "Traditional Latin Mass attendees more devout and orthodox, study says," February 27, 2019) Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church.

" Semantics : An argument, or a type of guarantee that the outcome of your statement can be taken in two or more ways which will benefit you in either way it’s perceived. The *careful* use of semantics can be applied to situations which allow you to be right in any reverse query ." [ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=semantics&=true#ampshare=https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term%3Dsemantics ] The Catholic Monitor received a third comment from the former public relations and (apparent) semantics expert OnePeterFive publisher Steve Skojec that was puzzling. But before I respond to it I want to say I pray for him. I am praying because I am worried about him and I am worried specifically about his increasing and multiplying of disparagements for what someone is calling the "Skojec Little Book of Insults." Before I respond to his first and third comments (the second one isn't pertinent) it is...