Happy new year

Happy new year everyone. Tomorrow is the day. Off to Rome we go!

Just 3 more days

In less than 72 hours myself and others from the parish in Louisville will be en route to Rome! I think the excitement has finally begun to set in.

Gamehouse.com is fradulent

I recommend that everyone look at their checking account and look for anything from Gamehouse.com. I called them and they gave me the email attached to the account in which I HAVE NEVER even heard of the email. Gamehouse also has several complaints of fraud all over the internet. I called my bank to dispute all the gamehouse charges and to cancel the card used on the transactions.

Matrimony and civil government

Q. 1014. Can the Church dispense from or remove these impediments to marriage?

A. The Church can dispense from or remove the impediments to marriage that arise from its own laws; but it cannot dispense from impediments that arise from the laws of God and nature. Every lawmaker can change or excuse from the laws made by himself or his equals, but he cannot, of his own authority, change or excuse from laws made by a higher power.

Hence, anyone that gets a 'divorce' and 'remarries' is still married to the first person married beyond that the individual is committing adultery

Russia still communists monsters?

So I hear that there is little to no evidence of Christianity in Russia. Friends of family members are over there right now in the attempt to adopt. Perhaps it would seem that we have been fed a shovel of you know what regarding the insistence that Russia and Mr Putin are pious orthodox protestants. Though a pious protestant is the same as a pious piece of granite rock.

Scary dream last night

I remembered a very scary dream I had last night. I suppose I was in Rome and at St Peters. Well the scary part, I was at the n.o. mess. I was pulling on a rope ringing a ceiling bell perhaps it was meant to be a warning. After about ringing the bell four times or so I turned around and ran out.

I have been asked how I have come to the One True Church

Well part 1: While I was deployed in Iraq I came to understand somethings. There were absolutely evil things done in this world. I did not believe that man alone could be capable of these things and I mean vile. Reason would instinctively show that man was not meant to be part of these things alone. As such Satan lead man to these things of desecration. If Satan existed, then the God obviously existed to rebel against.

A Christmas Rosary

My mother made a Rosary for me for Christmas. It's very nice. She asked me last year if I had a Rosary and said I did so she didn't think about it, I later told her, "you know just because I have one doesn't mean you can't make one for me." Well not in those exact words. So for this Christmas she made one. Coming from a family of protestant it shows there is hope for them yet ;)

First Communion on Christmas Day!

Well December 25, 2011 is the day that I recieved First Communion! A pretty good day for that. I think I can say that Christmas 2011 was the most important day of my life.

Well it's, I'm official...Now a catholic

Yesterday afternoon I was finally recieved into the Church. Happy, Happy...and to top it off Christmas Communion will also be my first Communion! December 23, 2011 is a great day.

The Case for Archbishop Fulton Sheen

Investigation concludes on claim of miracle attributed to Fulton Sheen

Who really knows at this point. Ever since Vatican II the new church has been wrecking things left and right. The Church had always required 3 or more confirmed miracles that could not be explained by scientific examination. After VII they reduced that number to simply one. Having only one shows no pattern really of divine intervention. I'm not doubting the saintly demeanor of the Archbishop, I just question the saint factory attitude of the Vatican II church. It's the same with the beautification of JP2. The woman that was supposedly healed by JP2 intercession relapsed, she was never cured. No miracle happened. The church of Vatican II ignores that.

Really

nar·cis·sism   [nahr-suh-siz-em] Show IPA
noun
1.
inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.
2.
Psychoanalysis . erotic gratification derived from admiration of one's own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.

Moronic Glenn Beck guest host

So the radio host on Glenn Becks show said, we have all the energy we need or at least the guest said that. That aspect was agreed upon. The caller pointed out that we don't need that neeto pipeline everyone is bickering on. And he pointed out that a business needs demand to warrant the hiring of employees to increase production. To hire employees without a need for them is a sunk cost it defies all logic number one but it is a socialist/marxist idea! However the Glenn Beck guest host said we should go ahead and build the pipeline anyways!! Why, it will create some jobs. I should have called in and called the guest host a flipping socialist/marxist. It truelly amazes me. These pundits on the radio(now pardon my french) don't know jackshit about economics. They are ideologues playing on citizens themselves that have never opened an economics book. One aspect that should be pointed out though is that a company will produce a good UP to the point that marginal cost=marginal revenue. But those radio hosts are to freaking stupid. When I heard that conversation on the way to Petsmart, no kidding my head was about to explode at the sheer level of moronic notions from the guest host.

The World-Inquisition store is back open

World-Inquisition Store
The store is back open. You can also get the link on the top right of the front page.

The Confessional, humility and joy, sorrow

Two things that should guide a person in the Confessional are humility and joy. Does that sound contradictory? Firstly it is an act of humility to go into the Confession. In doing so means that we have committed a sin whether it be mortal or venial. By doing so we have angered God the Father by disobeying his laws, we have caused pain to our Lord Jesus Christ resulting in the five sorrowful mysteries of the Holy Rosary, and we have separated ourselves from the graces of the Holy Ghost. By being humble and going to Confession we acknowledge our faults and misdeeds and seek reparation for them and thus confess them and ask for forgiveness. Humility.

On to joy. We should possess joy in knowing that through God's love for mankind that HE through the Son, Jesus Christ instituted Penance. John 20:23 "Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." Joy should be had knowing that we have a means in which remove the guilt and stain of those sins committed. Through they Power of Keys granted to St Peter and the Holy Catholic Church the bishops and priests have the power to forgive us for sins as alter Christus. Joy.

What should not be forgotten is sorrow in that the sins we commit are not forgiven if we are not contrite. However that is perhaps for another post.

Just another week, and then just another week again.

Well it's been a while a little over two years actually. I'm going to finally be received into the One, Holy, Apostolic, Universal--Catholic Church. Conditional Baptism is right around the corner and Confession pretty much right after. Then I should be receiving first Communion on Christmas. Then just a week later I'll be on a plane to Rome, Italy. A whirlwind entering the new year, yah think? I'll actually be missing the first two days of classes of the spring semester but I think it's a bit worth it to see St Peter's Cathedral, Pompeii, Mikey's "Pieta", etc etc.

THE OATH AGAINST MODERNISM

Given by His Holiness St. Pius X September 1, 1910.

To be sworn to by all clergy, pastors, confessors, preachers, religious superiors, and professors in philosophical-theological seminaries.

I . . . . firmly embrace and accept each and every definition that has been set forth and declared by the unerring teaching authority of the Church, especially those principal truths which are directly opposed to the errors of this day. And first of all, I profess that God, the origin and end of all things, can be known with certainty by the natural light of reason from the created world (see Rom. 1:90), that is, from the visible works of creation, as a cause from its effects, and that, therefore, his existence can also be demonstrated: Secondly, I accept and acknowledge the external proofs of revelation, that is, divine acts and especially miracles and prophecies as the surest signs of the divine origin of the Christian religion and I hold that these same proofs are well adapted to the understanding of all eras and all men, even of this time. Thirdly, I believe with equally firm faith that the Church, the guardian and teacher of the revealed word, was personally instituted by the real and historical Christ when he lived among us, and that the Church was built upon Peter, the prince of the apostolic hierarchy, and his successors for the duration of time. Fourthly, I sincerely hold that the doctrine of faith was handed down to us from the apostles through the orthodox Fathers in exactly the same meaning and always in the same purport. Therefore, I entirely reject the heretical' misrepresentation that dogmas evolve and change from one meaning to another different from the one which the Church held previously. I also condemn every error according to which, in place of the divine deposit which has been given to the spouse of Christ to be carefully guarded by her, there is put a philosophical figment or product of a human conscience that has gradually been developed by human effort and will continue to develop indefinitely. Fifthly, I hold with certainty and sincerely confess that faith is not a blind sentiment of religion welling up from the depths of the subconscious under the impulse of the heart and the motion of a will trained to morality; but faith is a genuine assent of the intellect to truth received by hearing from an external source. By this assent, because of the authority of the supremely truthful God, we believe to be true that which has been revealed and attested to by a personal God, our creator and lord.

Furthermore, with due reverence, I submit and adhere with my whole heart to the condemnations, declarations, and all the prescripts contained in the encyclical Pascendi and in the decree Lamentabili, especially those concerning what is known as the history of dogmas. I also reject the error of those who say that the faith held by the Church can contradict history, and that Catholic dogmas, in the sense in which they are now understood, are irreconcilable with a more realistic view of the origins of the Christian religion. I also condemn and reject the opinion of those who say that a well-educated Christian assumes a dual personality-that of a believer and at the same time of a historian, as if it were permissible for a historian to hold things that contradict the faith of the believer, or to establish premises which, provided there be no direct denial of dogmas, would lead to the conclusion that dogmas are either false or doubtful. Likewise, I reject that method of judging and interpreting Sacred Scripture which, departing from the tradition of the Church, the analogy of faith, and the norms of the Apostolic See, embraces the misrepresentations of the rationalists and with no prudence or restraint adopts textual criticism as the one and supreme norm. Furthermore, I reject the opinion of those who hold that a professor lecturing or writing on a historico-theological subject should first put aside any preconceived opinion about the supernatural origin of Catholic tradition or about the divine promise of help to preserve all revealed truth forever; and that they should then interpret the writings of each of the Fathers solely by scientific principles, excluding all sacred authority, and with the same liberty of judgment that is common in the investigation of all ordinary historical documents.

Finally, I declare that I am completely opposed to the error of the modernists who hold that there is nothing divine in sacred tradition; or what is far worse, say that there is, but in a pantheistic sense, with the result that there would remain nothing but this plain simple fact-one to be put on a par with the ordinary facts of history-the fact, namely, that a group of men by their own labor, skill, and talent have continued through subsequent ages a school begun by Christ and his apostles. I firmly hold, then, and shall hold to my dying breath the belief of the Fathers in the charism of truth, which certainly is, was, and always will be in the succession of the episcopacy from the apostles. The purpose of this is, then, not that dogma may be tailored according to what seems better and more suited to the culture of each age; rather, that the absolute and immutable truth preached by the apostles from the beginning may never be believed to be different, may never be understood in any other way.

I promise that I shall keep all these articles faithfully, entirely, and sincerely, and guard them inviolate, in no way deviating from them in teaching or in any way in word or in writing. Thus I promise, this I swear, so help me God. . .

So let me get this straight Neocons

Newt Gingrich who has been baptized has been married what 3 times? WRONG he's only been married ONCE to Jackie Battley. Unless one or both were not baptized they are sacramentally married. Which means that Newt is not only married to his first and only wife he as been committing adultery every day since his rendezvous with his 2nd "wife". Neocons want this person to be the pillar of conservative values? He has links to masonic organizations which are anti Christ and anti God. If you wish for a FURTHER descent into Sodom go ahead and vote for Newt in the primaries.

Take a look and see which senators and reps voted to enslave you

http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2011/h/375
http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2011/s/230

Store is up

Stop by my store at Cafe Press. The link is on the right of the blog entries near the top. Help support the cause :)

Working on tshirt store

I am working on an online store to sell tshirts. Will keep anyone out there posted.

Very well said comments on Distributionism

He hit the bulls-eye on this one and could not be anymore accurate.

http://remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/2011-1225-ferrara-distributism.htm

In Defense of Distributism

Why Socialism and Distributism are Wholly Antithetical
Christopher A. Ferrara POSTED: 12/12/11
REMNANT COLUMNIST, New Jersey
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“Distributism is just capitalism with morality.” - Robert Laskey

(www.RemnantNewspaper.com) In recent years spokesmen for neo-liberalism who call themselves “conservatives” and libertarians have labored to take out of commission a growing movement for economic independence that goes by the name of Distributism. The neo-liberal attack on Distributism is in keeping with the process by which, for nearly two centuries, Catholics have been chased by the boogeyman of socialism into the domain of radical laissez-faire capitalism, where corporations peddle everything from pornography to human zygotes without restraint by law and Big Business allies itself with Big Government for the destruction of the moral order. Distributism is under attack precisely because it represents, in the economic realm, an alternative to the endless liberal game of heads I win, tails you lose.

No, It’s Not Socialism

So, what is Distributism? Contrary to what our critics suggest, Distributism does not denote government redistribution of wealth, which is socialism, but rather the natural distribution of wealth that arises when the means of production are distributed as widely as possible in society.

Distributism essentially equates with family-owned enterprises of any sort (not just hobby farms, as sneering critics would have us believe) or firms owned by their employees (otherwise known as cooperatives) or small or even mid-size corporations operating on a local or regional scale. Small business and self-employment in general are distributism in action. So are the growing local produce movement (in which many traditionalists participate) and the widespread boycotts of Wal-Mart and other multinational giants that have annihilated small businesses and destroyed the commerce of neighborhoods.

Chesterton formulated the Distributist idea with his usual genius for stating the essence of things: “Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.” Distributism looks to increase the number of owners of private property by encouraging individuals and families to acquire or create means of production for themselves instead of being dependent upon wages. In practice it might well mean Chesterton’s “three acres and a cow,” but in the modern economy it might just as likely mean “three computers and a home office.”

Because it seeks to restore microeconomic life—commerce between neighbors in neighborhoods—Distributism is a movement for liberation from the globalized, interlocking, government-dependent, and dangerously fragile economic order that laughably describes itself as “free enterprise” today. Anybody who thinks “free enterprise” means Wal-Mart, with its legions of Chinese wage-slaves toiling for the benefit of American shareholders while under the yoke of a Communist government that will not even allow them to have children, needs to consult Catholic social teaching immediately. Something is drastically wrong in the moral order when the founders of Wal-Mart sit on an $84 billion stock portfolio built largely on virtual slave labor while Wal-Mart’s “sales associates” cannot support their families or pay their medical bills, even though a small fraction of the Waltons’ billions could fund in perpetuity a self-insured medical plan for every Wal-Mart employee.

I am not suggesting government confiscation of the Walton family’s wealth. The point, of course, is that the Waltons should be doing justice to their struggling employees without any government mandate. That is, they should be applying the law of the Gospel to the conduct of their business. In The Church and the Libertarian I show how Costco, whose co-founder and CEO is a Catholic steeped in Catholic social teaching, pays its employees a family wage along with 92% of their medical bills.



The Church and the Libertarian obliterates every argument economic liberals think they have, while simultaneously mounting a powerful defense of the Church’s Social Teaching. With the wit and penetrating analysis Remnant readers have come to expect from him, Ferrara carefully considers all the arguments, even those advanced by radical libertarians, exemplified by the so-called “Austrian School,” to help you answer the one question that matters most: What am I -- Capitalist? Libertarian? Socialist? As a Catholic, where must I stand?


Distributism succeeds to the extent people simply refuse to participate in the culture of mass capitalism. It is a way of life, not a government program. It is a form of peaceful secession from an economic order dominated by multinationals that scour the world for virtual slave labor, corrupt public and private morality by peddling innumerable vices, destroy domestic industry, receive government advantages at every turn, and demand treaty concessions and bailouts whenever necessary to prevent the collapse of their surreally bloated and otherwise unsustainable structures. Distributism is a justified reaction against moral and material excesses condemned by the Magisterium in encyclical after encyclical and summed up by that renowned Lutheran defender of the free market, Wilhelm Röpke, in one memorable phrase: “the cult of the colossal.”

Socialism and distributism are thus antithetical. Let me repeat: socialism is the opposite of distributism. Whoever suggests that distributism is a form of socialism is either uninformed or dishonest. Even the Wikipedia entry gets it right: “Distributism (also known as distributionism, distributivism) is a third-way economic philosophy formulated by such Catholic thinkers as G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc to apply the principles of Catholic social teaching articulated by the Catholic Church, especially in Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum and more expansively explained by Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quadragesimo Anno... Essentially, distributism distinguishes itself by its distribution of property (not to be confused with redistribution of wealth).” I hasten to add that to be a Distributist is not to endorse every practical suggestion Chesterbelloc advocated, but only the goal of widely distributed ownership of the means of production and with it true economic freedom for the individual and the family as the basic unit of society.

What is meant by a “third way”? Simply that Distributism is neither socialism nor capitalism. As Thomas Storck has put it: “both socialism and capitalism are products of the European Enlightenment and are thus modernizing and anti-traditional forces. In contrast, distributism seeks to subordinate economic activity to human life as a whole, to our spiritual life, our intellectual life, our family life.” This is precisely what the Popes have counseled in their social teaching.

The Sordid Love of Wealth

As Pius XI declared in Quadragesimo anno (1931), social and economic liberalism have a common root in abandonment of the precepts of the Gospel on account of sin:

The root and font of this defection in economic and social life from the Christian law, and of the consequent apostasy of great numbers of workers from the Catholic faith, are the disordered passions of the soul, the sad result of original sin which has so destroyed the wonderful harmony of man’s faculties that, easily led astray by his evil desires, he is strongly incited to prefer the passing goods of this world to the lasting goods of Heaven. Hence arises that unquenchable thirst for riches and temporal goods, which has at all times impelled men to break God's laws and trample upon the rights of their neighbors, but which, on account of the present system of economic life, is laying far more numerous snares for human frailty.

It was nothing other than an “unquenchable thirst for riches and temporal goods” that caused the Meltdown of 2008. Indeed, Quadraegismo could have been written to describe the corporate climate surrounding that event:

For what will it profit men to become expert in more wisely using their wealth, even to gaining the whole world, if thereby they suffer the loss of their souls? What will it profit to teach them sound principles of economic life if in unbridled and sordid greed they let themselves be swept away by their passion for property, so that “hearing the commandments of the Lord they do all things contrary.”

Since the instability of economic life, and especially of its structure, exacts of those engaged in it most intense and unceasing effort, some have become so hardened to the stings of conscience as to hold that they are allowed, in any manner whatsoever, to increase their profits and use means, fair or foul, to protect their hard-won wealth against sudden changes of fortune.

The laws passed to promote corporate business, while dividing and limiting the risk of business, have given occasion to the most sordid license. For We observe that consciences are little affected by this reduced obligation of accountability; that furthermore, by hiding under the shelter of a joint name, the worst of injustices and frauds are penetrated; and that, too, directors of business companies, forgetful of their trust, betray the rights of those whose savings they have undertaken to administer.

The contention that the Meltdown resulted simply from the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve is ludicrous. It was a perfect storm of greed arising from the combined avarice of (a) mortgage originators and brokers who made loans they knew would fail in order to earn processing fees and commissions, (b) borrowers who borrowed far more than they could afford to repay in order to acquire far more than what they really needed, (c) usurious interest rates on variable rate mortgages and credit card balances, (d) the packaging of risky mortgages palmed off by the originators into bundles of worthless securities sold as hot investments by investment firms based on fraudulent AAA ratings by rating firms, and (e) the practice of hedging these toxic assets with credit default swaps that allowed the same firms that peddled the toxic assets to their clients to bet that the very investments they had recommended would go bust, triggering massive insurance payouts to the investment firms while the clients suffered catastrophic losses. (Cf. The Church and the Libertarian, Ch. 13).

All of this happened in a de-regulated environment in which depositary banks once prohibited from engaging in risky investments were no longer restrained from doing so, investment firms once limited to their partners’ own capital were allowed to amass vast pools of risk capital from public offerings of their stock, and credit default swaps were allowed to be traded as unregulated securities, creating a vast and unstable pile of pickup-sticks just waiting to collapse if someone pulled out the wrong one.

The Meltdown, in short, represents what Pius XI called “[t]he sordid love of wealth, which is the shame and great sin of our age...” The Fed’s lowering of interest rates did not cause the sordid love of wealth that led to a worldwide economic collapse any more than a pistol causes someone to commit suicide. In any case, the Fed—which of course should be abolished—is itself a creature of capitalist manipulation of state power: a quasi-private banking cartel that is not even accountable to government, which is why the same libertarians who deplore the Fed (while conveniently ignoring its seamy capitalist origins) demand an audit that Congress refuses to compel.

A Movement for Economic Freedom According to the Gospel

There could be no Meltdown in Catholic social order because in Catholic social order economic activity will be governed, as Pius XI wrote, by “the gentle yet effective law of Christian moderation which commands man to seek first the Kingdom of God and His justice, with the assurance that, by virtue of God’s kindness and unfailing promise, temporal goods also, in so far as he has need of them, shall be given him besides.”

Distributism is nothing other than free enterprise conducted according to the Gospel as summed up in Our Lord’s two great commandments: love of God and love of neighbor. Subtract “the sordid love of wealth” and boundless ambition from free enterprise, add love of God and love of neighbor, and you will see emerging naturally the very economic order many of us are old enough to remember: the economy of the local grocer, hardware store, and savings and loan; an economy in which one could provision a household entirely on the basis of exchanges with one’s own neighbors in one’s own neighborhood; an economy conducted on a human scale by human beings rather than fictitious corporate “persons” created by government fiat that display all the personality traits of a psychopath.

Nor is the recovery of what Röpke called a humane economy merely a question of “personal” morality a given capitalist could choose to observe if he wishes, as the libertarians would argue. The imperatives of the Gospel must be reflected in laws and institutions. In the realm of economy no less than the realm of politics there is no disjunction between public and “private” morals, but rather one divinely ordained moral code governing the whole of society. A capitalist does not love God or his neighbor when he exploits his workers, sells pornography and otherwise pumps moral filth into society, provides abortions, engages in usury and price-gouging, recklessly speculates with his clients’ money, systematically defiles the Sabbath with the most vile commerce, extracts unconscionable bargains from weaker parties, discharges toxic waste into rivers or the ground, or commits a thousand other offenses against the moral order and the common good.

Civil authority—especially at the local level in keeping with subsidiarity—has every right to restrain the capitalist’s depredations with appropriate legislation, including penal sanctions. We are not, after all, at the mercy of corporate boards of directors who have not received any authority from God to govern us with decisions affecting the common good in its moral, spiritual and material totality.

Pope John Paul II was teaching in line with all his predecessors when he declared on the anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum that the Church cannot approve capitalism if it means that “freedom in the economic sector is not circumscribed within a strong juridical framework which places it at the service of human freedom in its totality, and which sees it as a particular aspect of that freedom, the core of which is ethical and religious...” Distributism, as a movement for a humane economy on a human scale—that is, an economy more in keeping with the Gospel—respects the ethical and religious limits on economic activity and naturally leads men away from the corporate cult of the colossal toward an economic order that subordinates the pursuit of material goods to man’s eternal destiny.

Distributists at Occupy Wall Street

In an article for the Remnant Richard Aleman noted that he, John Rao and I went the site of the Occupy Wall Street demonstration in order to present the Catholic case for economic justice. We did not go there to commune with the hippies or to lend support to any sort of Leftist ideology. We went there because we recognized that many of the wandering souls who had gathered in Zuccotti Park suspected that something was radically wrong with the modern economic order but had no clear idea of what it was.

We saw the Occupy demonstration as a neo-pagan search for the Unknown God. We told those who would listen that the God for whom they seek is the one who gave us His Gospel for the good of both men and nations. We handed them excerpts from Quadragesimo Anno and a flier containing the elements of what a humane and distributist economy would look like—without a single government intervention—if people would only order their pursuit of material goods to the highest good of eternal beatitude. We felt compelled to tell as many of these people as we could that the fundamental social problem that had brought them together—unwittingly or not—is the apostasy of Western civilization, and that there could be no approach to social justice that did follow the path the Catholic Church has marked out for men and nations. As Pius XI put it:

All experts in social problems are seeking eagerly a structure so fashioned in accordance with the norms of reason that it can lead economic life back to sound and right order. But this order, which We Ourselves ardently long for and with all Our efforts promote, will be wholly defective and incomplete unless all the activities of men harmoniously unite to imitate and attain, in so far as it lies within human strength, the marvelous unity of the Divine plan. We mean that perfect order which the Church with great force and power preaches and which right human reason itself demands, that all things be directed to God as the first and supreme end of all created activity, and that all created good under God be considered as mere instruments to be used only in so far as they conduce to the attainment of the supreme end.

It is really very simple: to apply the two great commandments to the pursuit of material goods is to be, more or less, a Distributist. A Distributist, trusting in Providence, will want for nothing his family needs, and he will be the first to defend private property as essential to ordered liberty—and not only against government, but also against the corporate hegemons that are relentlessly snuffing out the God-given right to make one’s own way in the world with one’s own means.

How ironic it is that Catholics who consider themselves libertarians defend government-assisted corporate collectivism on a scale so vast as to amount to privatized socialism, while attacking Distributists for their truly libertarian defense of economic independence for the individual and the family in an economy that does not depend upon the labor of Chinese wage-slaves.

Let us have an end to this demagoguery. And let the Remnant help lead Catholics toward the humane economy the Magisterium has always had in view.

Intermediate Microeconomics final!

F YEH. I got an 80 on my Intermediate Microeconomics final! I did bad on the first two tests and pulled off a 72 for the class. That class was freaking hard too actually that is not quite correct. The two lowest homework grades have not been dropped yet. Ouch the 37.14 is class average and the 39 is the median, out of 60points

Awesome Aimless and Misfire Targetmaster Transformer

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Transformer-Aimless-and-Misfire-/130615214388?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e69460134

SAVAGE OFFERS GINGRICH $1 MILLION TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE

http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/2011/12/savage-offers-gingrich-1-million-to-drop-out-of-the-race-will-announce-on-show-today/

SAVAGE OFFERS GINGRICH $1 MILLION TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE (Only 48 hours remain)

(SUBJECT TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS TO BE EXPRESSLY STATED BY DR. SAVAGE, INCLUDING GINGRICH DROPPING OUT WITHIN 72 HOURS OF TODAY)

THE MOST PRESSING ISSUE BEFORE AMERICA TODAY IS DEFEATING BARACK OBAMA. AND THAT IS SOMETHING NEWT GINGRICH CANNOT DO. FOR WEEKS ON MY SHOW, I HAVE ENUMERATED THE REASONS WHY GINGRICH CANNOT SUCCEED IN AN ELECTION AGAINST OBAMA:

WHEN HE WAS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, GINGRICH FAILED TO DELIVER ON HIS SO-CALLED CONTRACT WITH AMERICA.
HE MADE ADS WITH NANCY PELOSI PROMOTING THE FALSE THEORY OF GLOBAL WARMING.
HE’S IN FAVOR OF AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS.
HE’S TAKEN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FROM FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC, TWO OF THE MOST CORRUPT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN HISTORY.
HE’S CHEATED ON TWO WIVES AND LEFT BOTH OF THEM WHILE THEY WERE BOTH SERIOUSLY ILL, WHICH WILL DESTROY HIS CHANCES AMONG FEMALE VOTERS.
HE CALLED THE REPUBLICAN PLAN TO REFORM MEDICARE “RIGHT WING SOCIAL ENGINEERING.”
IN A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE AGAINST OBAMA, REGARDLESS OF HOW WELL HE DOES, ON TELEVISION, HE WILL COME OFF BADLY COMPARED TO OBAMA AND LOOK LIKE NOTHING MORE THAN WHAT HE IS: A FAT, OLD, WHITE MAN.

NEWT GINGRICH IS UNELECTABLE. ANY OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES WOULD HAVE A MORE VIABLE CHANCE OF DEFEATING BARACK OBAMA, AND THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT FOR THE FUTURE HEALTH, SAFETY, AND SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THEREFORE, I AM OFFERING NEWT GINGRICH ONE MILLION DOLLARS TO DROP OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE FOR THE SAKE OF THE NATION.

IF NEWT GINGRICH REALLY LOVES THIS COUNTRY AS MUCH AS HE SAYS HE DOES, IF HE REALLY WANTS WHAT IS BEST FOR AMERICA, HE WILL SET HIS EGO ASIDE, CALL ME, AND ACCEPT MY OFFER. HIS CONTINUED CANDIDACY SPELLS NOTHING BUT RUIN FOR CONSERVATIVES, REPUBLICANS, AND ALL TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOTS. ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN EXCHANGE FOR PRESERVING THE NATION, NEWT. I SAY TAKE THE MONEY… AND DON’T RUN.

Beautiful Ave Maria

So much happening

I have my conditional Baptism coming up as well as my first Confession, First Communion(on Christmas no doubt), and the trip to Rome. Not overwhelmed just excited.

Looking for some nostalgia? Buy some toys from the 1980's

http://www.ebay.com/sch/shientienchi/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25&_trksid=p3686

Those mortal sins

You know the ones that incredibly anger the Father, cause torture in the Garden, Scourging, Crowning, Carrying, and Crucifixion and yet still separate you from the Holy Ghost.

Yeh THOSE mortal sins. If you are not truly contrite. May Jesus the Christ have mercy on you because other wise you face eternal torment.

My auctions and selling childhood away

http://www.ebay.com/itm/130613268338?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_500wt_898

http://www.ebay.com/itm/130615208598?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_500wt_898

http://www.ebay.com/itm/130615214388?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_500wt_898

Sending me to Italy

UGh

Why do I freaking do it, ugh. I hate it.

Our Lady of Loreto

Our Lady of Loreto, Our Glorious Mother, we confidently turn to you; receive our humble prayer. Humanity is troubled by great evils which it wishes to overcome on its own, and is in need of peace, justice, truth, and love, yet thinks it can find these divine realities away from your Son. O Mother, you, who carried the Divine Saviour in your immaculate womb and lived with Him in the Holy House on Loreto Hill, grant us the grace to seek Him and imitate His example, He who leads us to salvation. Amen.

What Sin really does/ and causes

You know the thing about the Act of Contrition is realizing exactly what is means. Sin angers the Father to immense degrees going against His very Law. Sin causes so many pains upon Jesus in every one of the Sorrowful Mysteries, and separates us from the Holy Ghost. That is what the AoC really is for, to remind us of that.

Filthy stinking apostates

Heresy, apostasy, scandal.
I'm no saint and I don't claim to be but I am trying to be better. Some folks have given in to carnal desires and become full fledged soldiers of Lucifer.

Semester hurry up

I would love for this semester to hurry up and be over

When you don't know what to get someone

For those hard to shop for people just get them this.

Shop Amazon's Gift Cards - Perfect Anytime

Ugh not again

I know what I need to do but I keep doing the opposite.

Some real Christmas music for you

Selling 1980's Toys including Transformers, Gi Joe, MASK

I am selling some old toys that I have. They are REAL originals from the 80's not the newly made ones. Some are TMNT, GI Joe, Transformers. My Ebay id is shientienchi. I will be putting them up for auction in the next few days.

State of Affairs

During the French Revolution masons controlled to duped masses of people to murders thousands of thousands of people. Those masons were anti Church, anti-Christs, and anti-God.
In the early 1900's mason socialists took over Mexico in a "revolution" they murdered thousands if not milllions of Catholics both those from the laity and priesthood. Look up Blessed Padre Pro, aka Father Pro, aka Miguel Pro. He was murdered by firing squad because he was a Catholic Priest, a real catholic priest.
Communists(a little more to it than that, look up the real name of Stalin and Lenin) in Russia mass murdered thousands if not millions of Christians throughout Russia during the Bolshevik revolution.

The enemies of the Church, and Christ and hence God have (since specifically the French Revolution) realized they cannot attack the Church and God directly. These enemies have since perhaps 1860 sought out to infiltrate the Church. These enemies include masons, communists, fascists, socialists, talmudists. They sought to infiltrate the Church to destroy it from within and destroy the faith. Think of the from that is dropped into the boiling water, the from will immediately try to jump out. However if you put the frog in room temperature water then slowly increase the heat; the from will be dead before it realizes.
Vatican 2 Council was their victory party so to speak. They infiltrated the Church like vipers. These vipers have murdered the faith of billions of Catholics and most likely doomed them to eternal hell. However there were and are still truly faithful Catholics. Luckily some priests and bishops saw what was happening and fought against the luciferian influence that brought about the newchurch created. Thus the One, Holy, Apostolic, Universal Church founded by Jesus upon the rock of Peter still exists as it will always.

I am thankful for

Jesus the Christ, Holy Mass, Holy Catholic Church, Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, the Apostles, Pope St. Pius V and X. I am also grateful for Archangels Michael and Gabriel.

I am thankful for my little fuzzball Sasha, and my friends and family.

Now I just need my key to Chapel

I at this point I need an operating key for the chapel for Adoration of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. I passed my test, so now I just need a key that works

I am a miserable sinner

God please help me to overcome my vices, I am not seeking to be a hippocrit, I am trying to make up in a weird way for having offended you.

Spring break and Lent

No sure what I intend to do. Maybe same as last year and see some folks all over again

Non eventful

Another non eventful day I'm sure.

Ugh why

Why do I keep doing things I shouldn't

A comprehensive examination of conscience based on twelve virtues

http://www.catholicapologetics.info/thechurch/sacraments/adults.htm

The text is quite long so just posting link and this part.
Introduction

Self-examination has always been con­sidered a necessary means of progress in vir­tue. All Religious Orders and congregations have provision in their rules for at least one daily examination of conscience. While the practice is also necessary for lay people, there have been few booklets offered to them whereby a systematic examination of con­science might be made at definite times. Lists of sins may be found in prayer books and pamphlets, but frequently they lack com­pleteness, or they make no clear-cut distinc­tions between mortal and venial sin, or they make no reference to the helps and counsels that might build up virtue and prevent sin.

The object of this booklet is to initiate lay people into the practice of concentrating their efforts at self-perfection on one virtue a month. It provides a fairly complete list of mortal sins to be avoided, of venial sins to be corrected, and of helps and counsels that may be practiced. For each month a short explana­tion of the virtue to be practiced is given, an aspiration is suggested for frequent use, and a prayer is added containing sorrow for the past and resolve for the future.

The division of the obligations of the Chris­tian life into twelve virtues is not one that can be made without some degree of arbitrary ar­rangement of material. There will be overlap­ping, some repetition, and not always a strictly logical inclusion of questions under a given head. The practical purpose has been kept in mind, rather than the theoretical; an effort has been made to bring into each month reminders of some of the fundamental obliga­tions every Christian has, as these can be related to given virtues.

A warning should be given to souls who are inclined to scrupulosity. Such souls are fre­quently disturbed by reading lists of sins, because they erroneously think themselves guilty where they are not guilty at all. They should have permission of their confessor before they undertake to make a minute ex­amination of conscience, and in every doubt must obey their confessor blindly. Aside from the scrupulous, some persons may find doubts arising from certain questions because circumstances not mentioned may confuse particular issues. It is to be remembered at all times that a mortal sin is not committed unless three conditions are pre­sent, viz:

1) sufficient reflection,
2) full consent of the will, and
3) a violation of God’s law in a serious matter.
The mortal sins listed repre­sent only objectively serious matter; if one or both of the other conditions necessary for the commission of a mortal sin be lacking in a particular case, the guilt would not be incur­red. In prudent doubt, a confessor should be asked for a solution.

It is recommended that once a week during each month, the examen for that month be read carefully and thoughtfully. On some oc­casions this would be best done before confes­sion. The ejaculatory prayer of the month should be said frequently every day.

Greek Bishops Defy

From Traditio concerning SSPX and the conciliar church.

The highlights of the Bouchacourt report, issued on October 12, 2011, in Spanish, include the following revelations:

The Neo-SSPX's senior bishop, Richard Williamson, did not attend the Albano meeting. Fellay first placed two conditions upon Williamson's attendance: he had to cease disseminating his weekly bulletins and to keep secret the contents of Benedict-Ratzinger's "Doctrine Preamble" to Fellay's sellout to Newrome. Williamson courageously refused Fellay's imperious attempts to silence him.
Fellay refused to provide copies of the Doctrinal Preamble to the District Superiors, but gave them only his own biased oral summary.
The Doctrine Preamble completely ignored the traditional Catholic principles that had been discussed with Newrome during the preceding two years, but merely stated that the Modernist doctrines of the Second Vatican Council -- the Novus Ordo Mess, religious liberty, collegiality, and false oecumenism ("all religions are equal, we all worship the same god ") -- are in fact traditional!
The Doctrinal Preamble is based on the 1988 memorandum of understanding that was proposed to Archbishop Lefebvre, but Ratzinger's 2011 Doctrinal Preamble is more restrictive against traditional belief and practice.
Ratzinger demands that the Neo-SSPX accept the corrupt doctrines of Vatican II, the corrupt 1992 Novus Ordo catechism, and the corrupt 1983 Novus Ordo "canon law."
Ratzinger demands that the Neo-SSPX recognize the legitimacy of the Protestant-Masonic-Pagan Novus Ordo "liturgy."
Once the Neo-SSPX is sold out to Ratzinger and his Newchurch, the Neo-SSPXers would be required to swear a Profession of Faith and Oath of Allegiance to the New Order.

Military appreciation at Applebees and Golden Corral

Applebees has the free meals for vets today and on monday the 14th Golden Corral runs their military appreciation.

You should read this, but note the concilliar church is not THE catholic church

In light of the current confusion and moral scandal in the Church, it would be well to consider a neglected bit of recent Church history: the public testimony of Bella Dodd, who served as legal counsel to the Communist Party in the United States until her conversion to Catholicism, after which she spent the rest of her life atoning for her role in the communist infiltration of the Catholic Church.

An article in Christian Order magazine (November 2000) recounts how Dodd and her associate, Douglas Hyde, revealed the plan for communist subversion of the Church:
Ex-Communist and celebrated convert Douglas Hyde revealed long ago that in the 1930s the Communist leadership issued a worldwide directive about infiltrating the Catholic Church. While in the early 1950s, Mrs. Bella Dodd was also providing detailed explanations of the Communist subversion of the Church. Speaking as a former high ranking official of the American Communist Party, Mrs. Dodd said: "In the 1930s we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within." The idea was for these men to be ordained and progress to positions of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops. A dozen years before Vatican II she stated that: "Right now they are in the highest places in the Church" — where they were working to bring about change in order to weaken the Church's effectiveness against Communism. She also said that these changes would be so drastic that "you will not recognise the Catholic Church."
Dodd gave voluminous testimony on communist infiltration of Church and state before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in the 1950s. In a lecture at Fordham University during that time, Dodd unveiled what would seem to be an uncanny prophecy of future chaos in the Church. The lecture was attended by a monk whose account of the talk is presented in Christian Order:
I listened to that woman for four hours and she had my hair standing on end. Everything she said has been fulfilled to the letter. You would think she was the world's greatest prophet, but she was no prophet. She was merely exposing the step-by-step battle plan of Communist subversion of the Catholic Church. She explained that of all the world's religions, the Catholic Church was the only one feared by the Communists, for it was its only effective opponent. The whole idea was to destroy, not the institution of the Church, but rather the Faith of the people, and even use the institution of the Church, if possible, to destroy the Faith through the promotion of a pseudo-religion: something that resembled Catholicism but was not the real thing. Once the Faith was destroyed, she explained that there would be a guilt complex introduced into the Church…. to label the ‘Church of the past’ as being oppressive, authoritarian, full of prejudices, arrogant in claiming to be the sole possessor of truth, and responsible for the divisions of religious bodies throughout the centuries. This would be necessary in order to shame Church leaders into an ‘openness to the world,’ and to a more flexible attitude toward all religions and philosophies. The Communists would then exploit this openness in order to undermine the Church.
Does any of this sound familiar? Unless you have been comatose since Vatican II, you would be aware that Bella Dodd was describing the state of the Catholic Church today. Today, post-conciliar churchmen wallow in guilt over the Church’s "intolerant" past, make public apologies for the sins of dead Catholics (but not their own sins against the living faithful, including the victims of the homo-priest cover-up), and extol the virtues of other religions, thereby de facto abandoning the defined dogma that there is no salvation outside the Church.
Bella Dodd was no prophet. She merely told us what the infiltrators of the Church were planning to do. And lo, they have done it.
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One, Holy, Apostolic, Universal

If you want to learn about it
is a great book to learn about the catholic faith.

We will see

One part of my Economic Development test is done. Now is the take home portion. Also the semester paper in that class and urban development. A humanities test Tuesday, and homework due Thursday. Semester ends get frustrating. St Gabriel please pray for me.

I find it intruiging

People will refuse to apply beliefs in the criminal justice system and the wall street protests that should be applied to religion. We often say you did the crime do the time right. Well that is exactly the case of Purgatory. We have receive absolution for sins and eventually go to Heaven but there is justice due to God for sins we commit. Whether now or later in Purgatory justice is due. When justice is due we are released. It's odd.
Protestants act like the freebie groups on the occupy protests they want everything for free without the work. Heaven is not free, we must work to get there. Yes, Jesus did die on the Cross so we could go to Heaven it is not automatic. It's often said nothing is free and that is right. Jesus Christ was the Lamb of God, and gave his life on earth, so why is it we seem so unwilling to perform acts contrition, and mortification in thanks to God and to help the souls of Purgatory to be released sooner.

Lets start trying to apply these hypocritical actions to religion, you know the One, Holy, apostolic, universal.

Dangers of Obama

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/11/09/ron_paul_obama_presidency_on_the_verge_of_being_a_dictatorship.html

Really and http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/obama-administration-to-delay-new-15-cent-christmas-tree-fee/

Granted the tax was a small amount but still. Coming from a liar that claims to be a christian, he's not catholic so we know he's not. He is communist to the bone and communism is anti-Christ, anti-church, anti-God. Why didn't he propose a mosque tax, or a menorah tax?

Any good catholic women out there

Well that want to get married

Assisi III damage continues

http://www.traditio.com/comment/com1111.htm

"Take the case of the Assisi III conference, which burns with condemned syncretism"

Kosher taxes

The ADL and the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax: Fact and Fiction

For many Gentile consumers, it comes as a shock to realize that they pay a Jewish tax on each and every pre-packaged food item with a "U" or "K" stamp on the package, with some of these fees possibly going to support Zionists in Israel. The Union of Orthodox Jews (symbolized by the "U" within a circle) and the Circle-K (for Kashruth or, Kosher) are the two main organizations within the United States that issue Kosher-certification and its accompanying tax, though there are 273 other Kosher-certification organizations that have other symbols within the U.S. alone.(1)

The ADL (or Anti-Defamation League), an offshoot of B'nai B'rith that got its start after the Atlanta chapter head of B'nai B'rith was arrested and convicted by a jury of murdering a 12-year-old girl, Mary Phagan, in a cruel manner,(2) has long since countered Gentile resentment towards this Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax. Typically, the ADL says that such resentment towards the extra fees paid on food for the rabbis' certification is the hallmark of anti-Semites. While it stands to reason that in some isolated cases this may in fact be true, there is a growing concern among many others over these extra fees that Gentile consumers are forced to pay, particularly with the downward trend of the economy.

In an article called "The Kosher Tax Hoax," the ADL sought to allay many Gentiles' fears and concerns over the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax. However, upon reviewing the "facts" presented by B'nai B'rith's ADL, one quickly sees that it is filled with outright lies or, at best, half-truths.

From the beginning of the ADL's article, it suggests that it is false that "only a small segment of the American population desires such markings, and that even the meanings of the labels are guarded secrets deliberately kept from non-Jews to trick them into paying the 'kosher tax.'"

If you are a typical non-Jewish reader, it is easy to see that both these statements are true, not false as the ADL claims. Have you personally desired such markings? And, if it is not a "secret" of sorts, why do they not display a symbol that makes it clear that a fee is indeed paid to a Jewish organization for Kosher certification?

Lubomyr Prytulak, a retired Canadian psychology professor, has long argued that a Star of David (or, Magen David, as it is often called) should also accompany the Kosher certification to make its meaning well known.(3) This makes sense, and it would be more fair to Gentile consumers, most of whom are unaware of the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax. If the ADL and Jewish organizations were genuinely concerned with honesty, they would have done this long ago.

Jewish organizations do not necessarily seem to be concerned with honesty in this matter, however. In some advertisements of products bearing "K" or "U" symbols in magazines, these symbols will often actually be "hidden" or "masked off." However, when these same items are advertised in Jewish publications, these symbols might actually be larger and have an arrow pointing to them.(4) This is, of course, deceptive advertising and goes to show that there are concerns among Jews or the companies that sell these Kosher products of the meaning behind these symbols becoming known.

While the ADL suggests that the claim "only a small segment of the American population desires such markings" is an anti-Semitic lie, the truth speaks otherwise. In fact, according to the Kosher-certification agency Star-K, "Integrated Marketing Communications reports that approximately 2.5 million Jews consume kosher food products."(5) So what about the other 297.5 million people in the United States? Why are we then forced to pay for their Jewish religious dietary habits; why are we forced to pay for the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax?

The ADL argues that "the cost to the consumer for this service is a miniscule fraction of the total production overhead; it is so negligible in practical terms as to be virtually non-existent." Is this true? I certainly would have no problems if Jews wanted to certify products as being Kosher or not at entirely their own costs.

As you might suspect, such talk by the ADL is either an outright lie on its part or, at best, deceptive. For example, the ADL report cites a "representative of the Heinz Company." This "representative" reportedly said that the cost is "so small we can't even calculate it." This Heinz "representative" also said that the extra business it received more than made up for the costs associated with the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax. Who was this "representative"? If what he stated was true, why is his name not even given in the ADL's article for verification? Did this person even exist?

Quite to the contrary of the ADL's article, the Canadian Jewish News of March 20, 2003, has an article with an interesting headline: "Heinz Canada trims kosher product line." Many of the Canadian Heinz's products were no longer to be certified Kosher (thereby avoiding the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax, symbolized by Canada's "COR" - Council of Orthodox Rabbis' marking), although a few products would still be kept Kosher for Jews. Apparently, according to (named) Heinz spokeswoman Anna Relyea, this was done to "keep costs down while continuing to provide [some] kosher products to our customers." The reasons--given by Heinz for the decision to cut back its on its Rabbinical Kosher Excise Taxes--were due to "how complex the manufacturing is, what the savings were and so on."(6) In any event, these costs--that were initially reported by the ADL as being "so small, we can't even calculate it"--could, in fact, be calculated and must have been significant.

Another item that seems to be deliberately distorted in the favor of the ADL is a reported "fact" given by the Birds Eye company. According to the ADL's article, General Food's Birds Eye unit paid only "6.5 millionths (.0000065) of a cent per item." It would be more interesting to know how much General Foods itself paid in real dollars altogether for the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax, but the ADL avoids such talk for obvious reasons. But is the paltry sum of .0000065 cents per item true?

Again, this seems like a deliberately deceptive move on the ADL's part (or that of one of its members who was employed at Birds Eye). Does anyone really believe that a rabbi would fly to Birds Eye foods if he only received 6.5 cents for each $1 million of business Birds Eye did? If Birds Eye did, say, $100 million in business, that would be a paltry $6.50 in fees by the certification agency. This wouldn't even pay for the time involved, let alone travel and paperwork. So is the ADL lying? Probably not. If you'll notice, it says ".0000065 of a cent per item." I believe that Birds Eye sells corn, peas, pieces of broccoli, et cetera. In effect, the ADL's "informer" was probably meaning that every single piece of corn, every single pea, and every single bean--that is, every "item"--incur the cost of .0000065 cents. Added up, this then makes sense.

Of course, if the Jewish agency that charges the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax would care to make available how much it charged this company in real dollars for the previous year, that would be a start to being honest. But, if you carefully examine the web, you will not find one company that has reported this fee paid to the rabbis. Why is this? From a logical standpoint, it stands to reason that the rabbis must have some type of confidentiality agreement in which if the company reveals its cost it is then penalized to a certain extent. What other reasoning could there be that not one single company discloses its costs associated with the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax?

The ADL then goes on to cite a company that reportedly had its business increase as a result of Kosher certification. Is this true? Possibly. One must keep in mind, however, what Dr. Prytulak refers to as the "Pyramid Scheme" at his website. In effect, this is how it works: A large company is courted by Jews, who fill the company's heads with promises of a greater market appeal--but only, of course, if they pay this initially "small fee" (in comparison with the company's total business) for certification. The company agrees. However, now the company must buy all its supplies from other "Kosher companies." Aside from the obvious need to purchase food products from Kosher suppliers, a company might even have to purchase the steel for its manufacturing process and the cleaning supplies from Kosher companies, to name just a couple other items now considered Kosher. In any event, if the suppliers do not give the main company a Kosher product, the company cannot do business with them. (After all, products prepared by lowly Gentile companies do not meet the Jewish religious dietary standards as set forth by rabbis without due compensation.) In effect, if your company happens to be one of the suppliers to another company, you risk much business by failing to abide by the Jewish standards (and, of course, paying them your accompanying fees).

Is the extra business really there for companies that decide to go Kosher? Not according to some businesses. The Albuquerque Tribune reported one bagel company as wanting to be certified Kosher, but "the expense was more than the ... bagel company could muster." The owner stated, "We occasionally get asked for it but not that often." Another company decided to drop its "Star-K certification after one year." The owner of that company reported, "Kosher wasn't opening up any markets for me. I thought it was too much for my little operation."(7)

As you might expect, later in the ADL's article, it spends a significant amount of space questioning the "motives" of those who question the motives of the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax. Since the ADL cannot obviously refute the content of the argument, it has to resort to attacking the organizations and people who bring forth legitimate arguments against an illegitimate tax that Gentile consumers are forced to pay, which is unknown to the vast majority of them. Of course, the ADL itself has a few skeletons in its closet, so to speak. Books such as "Conspiracy Against Freedom" or "The Ugly Truth about the ADL" (available from www.addall.com/used ) tell much of the stories kept behind the headlines.

In an attempt to make the ADL's concerns seem legitimate, it cites Dr. Ed Fields, who states:

"All of this is superstitious nonsense and has absolutely nothing to do with improving the quality of any food product. Still, this clever scheme of requiring kosher labeling has become a multi-million dollar business today!"

Obviously, since Dr. Fields says this--and since the ADL makes him out to be a "bad" person through the use of its personal attacks (for failing to cooperate with the false-logic that Kosher is somehow wholesome)--we are to believe what he says is false. But in fact, it is true. What the ADL fails to mention, here, is that many Jews have corroborated what Dr. Ed Fields has stated, and these Jews are even cited by Dr. Fields. For example, the Washington Post of 2 November 1987 is cited, quoting orthodox Rabbi Schulem Rubin:

"Kosher doesn't taste any better; Kosher isn't healthier; Kosher doesn't have less salmonella. You can eat a Holly Farm chicken which sells for 39 cents a pound on sale and next taste a Kosher chicken selling for $1.69 a pound and not tell the difference. There's a lot of money to be made. Religion is not based on logic."

Of course, facts have always been a problem for the ADL, which is why it has attacked Dr. Fields's character so much. If you cannot refute the argument, the ADL seemingly reasons, attack the person's character who makes the argument.

The ADL's article then goes on to suggest that Jews are not the only ones who prefer Kosher. It argues, "Some kosher marketing officials estimate there may be as many as six million Americans who seek out Kosher foods in the supermarket. Of these only 1.5 million are Jewish. Moslems and Seventh Day Adventists also adhere to certain aspects of the Jewish dietary laws." Is this true? Yes, it certainly is. You see, the article says, "Some Kosher marketing officials estimate...." Who are these "Kosher marketing officials" that make this claim? If you said the ADL, you might have just won the prize.

While I have not taken the time to see what the Seventh Day Adventists believe, I looked into if the Muslims found the Kosher certification acceptable as meeting their religious dietary habits as well. What does the Islamic Food Council of America have to say about Kosher meeting the religious dietary requirements of orthodox Muslims, or "Halal," as it is commonly known. According to the Halal Digest of July 2000, it states,

"Many Kosher producers believe that Muslims accept Kosher as being Halal. In fact, Muslims do not accept Kosher certification as being a substitute for Halal certification. Some Muslims may have believed that Kosher slaughter was similar to Halal, but they are learning that this is not true and are demanding Halal certified products. Internationally, only proper Halal certification is acceptable and monitoring agencies are being established to ensure compliance."

There is one major difference (that even I know of) between the Halal method of slaughter and that of the Kosher method. The Halal method is actually done in a more humane manner, as it allows the animal to be stunned first. However, this is not the case with Kosher slaughter, which requires the animal to experience the full amount of pain and be fully conscious.

Continuing, the ADL then goes on to say that "the bulk of Kosher shoppers appear to be consumers who believe the Kosher certification ... means higher quality food." Is this true? Well, the ADL gives no proof that there are a significant number of consumers who are non-Jewish and who buy Kosher products because they "believe" (with the word "believe" being the key-word here) Kosher "means higher quality food." However, as to the false claim that Kosher is a "higher quality food," the response to this is best summed up by Rabbi Irving Silverman. Rabbi Silverman is cited in the 20 March 1987 edition of The Sun-Sentinel:

"There's one misconception that I'd like to clear up. There's a perception that Jewish dietary laws are steeped in health considerations. That's not so at all. It is a commitment to a strict adherence to a tradition. I'm not Kosher because it's healthier; I'm Kosher because my parents were Kosher, and my grandparents were Kosher. It's a commitment!"

In conclusion, the ADL admits, rather hesitatingly it appears, that consumers do, in fact, "pay a higher price" at "Kosher butcher shops." While this is nice of the ADL to actually concede this relatively minor detail, it does not answer the greater question: How much are we Gentiles paying for the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax overall? What are the real costs to us as consumers?

This figure of costs associated with the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax is largely unknown due to Jews not disclosing how much they charge to the various companies that receive Kosher certification. In perhaps what can only be viewed as a mistake by the rabbis who oversee the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax, in 1987 they disclosed that they expected Kosher steel to bring them in $700,000.00 of fees per year.(8)

How much is the total cost today? While the figure is unknown, there are other things we can tell. For instance, according to both Star-K Kosher certification and EBizAsiaLink, $165 billion worth of food received Kosher certification in 2002.(9) But does this $165 billion figure also include non-food products such as steel and aluminum foil, which are not actually Kosher "food" items despite the fees that are paid and certification received?(10) Probably not, so the figure may be much greater. Another figure that we can look at to determine cost is taken from an article appearing in the Detroit News. It stated that one Kosher certification company brought in an estimated $20 million.(11) (It is not known whether this figure of $20 million is actual net profits, or gross business.) You begin to understand how much money we are talking about when you realize, as stated at the beginning of this article, that there are 275 such Kosher-certification organizations in the United States, and a total of 400 worldwide.(12)

It must be recognized that in addition to the fees paid to rabbis for the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax, there are other fees that a company might incur simply in an effort to ensure that its product is indeed Kosher. For example, they could not process pork or non-Kosher beef on the same equipment as Kosher beef, lest it be "contaminated." Equipment might then have to be added or changed. Suppliers might need to be changed. Special training would need to be administered. Perhaps, even a full-time rabbi might need to be hired to oversee the production.

The total costs associated with the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax from all this is certainly in the billions, if not the trillions, of dollars.

My Urban Development class

I think the paper for my UD class just my drive me crazy.

No matter where I move

Wherever I move in the future has to have a real Fall season. Fall mornings smell awesome.

Going to Italy

The group got the required number and I got my passport. Going to Italy, woohoo.

Darrel Winstead

A good man who's time was cut short. He died after a rock slide caved in on he another another person. I knew Darrel from my time in the Army Reserves. He was one of those people that got along with everyone and could talk about anything. May the Blessed Virgin intercede for you.

Michelangelo's pieta

St Albert's in Cincinnati has a copy of the Pieta. I never knew what it was called until my humanities art class at school. Michelangelo is the best artist ever. I need to get a copy of the statue.

Rome without internet is crazy

I really do want to go to Italy. I'm not sure in the 8 days if I can last without internet. This
would really help :). I just need wifi, haha.

Good Morning

So Fr Bitzer said the kids wanting to go to Rome were going door to door asking for donations for the Rome trip. They probably aren't even old enough to have a job. My job will probably be chaperone for the trip, lol.

And my sneaky dog was on the couch last night. I wonder what went their her head. She's not been on the couch in months.

An early day

Wow, 3 loads of laundry in dryer, showered, dressed for the day all before 11am on a saturday. What's wrong with me?

St. Catherine of Siena

‎"The second is a weakness which springs from too much indulgence. Alas! The members of Christ are corrupted because no one reproves them! Our Lord has a special aversion for three detestable vices: They are impurity, avarice and inflamed pride. And they all reign in the spouse of Christ in those who seek after nothing but pleasures, honors and riches. They see the demons of Hell carrying off the souls confided to them and they care nothing at all about it, because they are wolves and traffic with divine grace. What is needed is a strong hand to correct them; too much compassion is at times an excessive cruelty.” --St. Catherine of Siena

Germania in Evansville

I went and talked to some guys at the Germania club. Nice guys helped me out and gave me contact info to work on the German history of Evansville. They even had a bar in that place :D

British Royal rules change

It's about time! It seems that Catholics will now be up for the throne in England. It's about time. The title "Defender of the Faith" was originally given to Henry VIII before his apostasy. And due to his apostasy it is an undeserved title within the royal family.

I love this show

In lieu of B&B back on the air I thought maybe after the second run they will bring back King of the Hill. Not quite likely though, but KOH is a great down home show with good quirkiness. 3rd season is good. Hint hint, present, cough cough.

Good morning

Hello world. Nice fall day.

St Pius X biography

I love this book. One of the last great Popes, and my patron.

Slow day

As if the clocks are running slow

An odd dream

Wow, Have you ever had a dream in which something important or good was about to happen? I'm pretty sure that happened to me. Maybe it was the dream ending first then the alarm who knows. I guess it means don't put off helping those in need, because you don't know when they will be gone.(Weird, someone said something like that 2000 years ago, huh.)

The Send me to Italy fund

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=DULNFSN9XQ9WG&lc=US&item_name=Send%20Inquisitor%20to%20Italy%20Fund¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted

I want to meet Bishop Williamson

A good sermon of his.

Coffee

I swear I almost fell asleep reading/skimming art stuff. I needsome starbucks

So an unknown call

I got an unknown call at 0530 this morning. Yeh ok I'm really going to pick up.

God Bless

God bless Father James Wathen, may he sing with the angels in heaven.

The test

Turns out I got a 62 not a 56 on my test. Prof put in the wrong number

Catholic monasteries

Does anyone out there know of any traditional catholic monasteries?

Civil vs GOD

So when did people start thinking that a state government had power over GOD almighty? When did people begin to think a government could sever a Sacrament instituted by Jesus Christ? Divorce is a false notion.

Absolutely beautiful

It is wonderful outside today. Deo gratias

Really EU

The diversity of the peoples and regions of Europe are too different. The countries actually have cultures that differ. Really the EU is a path of failure. What is good for England is not good for Spain, what is not good for Greece. And now Benedict 16 calls for a global bank, um perhaps he might want to reread the implications of the "world" organizations. There is something Biblical about that hmmm.

So, not so sure about Italy

It seems we might not have the requisite number of people to go. We need 15 or more and from what I've heard there isn't enough interest or people don't have the money. I'll tell you what though I have no clue how a person would not want to go.

A real pick me up

After a couple dissapointments this week, catechism and Mass really helps

A little thought on humility

Last week or so my priest had mentioned how we often pray for certain attributes.  Though we might not "get" those attributes we are given situations in which to exercise the development of the virtue.  It is up to us recognize the situation.  Well  my Intermediate Microeconomics class test wasn't what I had hoped for.  I got a 56% on the test.  The class average was apparently 54, and the median less than that!  Though I didn't get what I wanted I did better than most apparently.  I'm not glad people did worse than me, but this is a distinct situation in which my priest mentioned that we may pray for humility but get a bad grade let us practice humility.  Well, now I need to turn this around and use this to work for that diligence, insight, wisdom, and fortitude I often pray for.

En nomine patris, et fili, et spiritus sancti.

Sending me to Italy

So anyone interested in sending me to Italy?  I'm trying to raise the money to go on January 1.

Protesters outside the murder mill

Before I will be outside with the other prolife people outside of the murder mill here.  I'll need to bring some hot coffee since the temperature has fallen.

Something I found from another forum

This is something I found on a forum.  These are not my words but I do agree with it
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I was recently at the hospital having a conversation with the nursing staff. One of them brought up the topic of circumcision. She was telling us about what the urologist she took her 2 year old son to. Apparently when he was circumcised as a newborn the doc only took "a little off the top." She wanted to have him recircumcised because the remnant of foreskin was there and partially covering the glans. The urologist declined the surgery and explained to her that his circumcision was better the way it was done. He stated it was better to leave some foreskin there for the skin to stretch as he got older. He also went on to explain that he has had many teenage boys come in to his office for painful erections that are secondary to scarring from the circ. She is now pregnant with another boy and is considering leaving this baby intact.
I was also amazed that the physicians, OB/Gyn's, in this conversation agreed with the urologist. They all agreed that is was better not to circumcise the baby.
The circumcision consent used at the hospital I work at says nothing about the affects of the scar to the penis as it grows. More parents need to know the complications of the circumcision later in life than just the immediate effects to the baby."

Are you German and from Evansville?

I have some good plans for those that are German and from Evansville

By their fruits you will know them, Pelosi is evil

Here is a thought, what about all the baby girls that were murdered in your support of infanticide?  Well??  You call yourself a catholic Pelosi???  The scandal and support of ritual infant murder that you bring leads to one place where souls burn.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/pay-abortion-or-women-die-floor

Sheesh weekend will be full

I have to redo 2 essay questions for an economics class then, do an extended annotated bibliography for another econ class, oh joy.

Good time at my parents

My parents house is a vacation for me.  I don't understand how some people don't like to mow their lawn.  I had  fun using the riding mower at my parents house.  I came back inside and asked if they needed anything else mowed.  I also managed to find my fishing poles and lure box, awesome!

Hail Holy Queen

SALVE REGINA, Mater misericordiae. Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve. Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevae. Ad te Suspiramus, gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle. Eia ergo, Advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte. Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis post hoc exsilium ostende. O clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Maria.
V. Ora pro nobis, Sancta Dei Genitrix.
R. Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi.

Eric Holder

Seriously.  We know you hate white people.  We know you hate the United States just like your boss Barack.  You are communist thugs.  The only reason you KNOWINGLY put forth "Fast and Furious" was to create an anti gun sentiment and your plan backfired.  Why?  Because the vast majority of law abiding gun holders that actually care about this country are middle class white people.  Lets bar race or skin color for a second.  You're a communist thug.

Our Chapel

Today was First Friday

Well, today was First Friday and I missed Mass.  I lost track of what I was doing and went grocery shopping on the way home from class and by the time I got home it was probably 3pm.  I would be quite helpful if we had a regular Traditional Mass here.

Interesting why the Inquisition was formed

The Inquisition meant to location heresies among Catholics, and combat those heresies.  Ironic how now there are modernists, and heretics impersonating Catholic bishops and priests.

A place to fish

So I need a place to go fishing in the southwest portion of Indiana...any thoughts?