Los Angeles Dodgers Of Shame Can't Dodge It

Last Friday the Los Angeles Dodgers shamelessly went ahead with its plan to mock Catholics giving a national platform to so-called “queer and trans nuns” who dress up in sexually explicit and rainbow-colored “nun” clothing to mock Catholics - the organization allowed two “sisters” on the field to receive their award, quietly, in the dark- an hour before the game … with the stadium empty well before any fans arrived!


Why do you suppose the Dodgers try to hide the big event from the public, after heavily and shamelessly promoting it?





HINT: “The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.” former UCLA Basketball Coach John Wooden

The Dodgers ducked and dodged hoping the controversy over their blatant anti-Catholic bigotry would soon fade away - it won't go away - ask Anheuser-Busch! The Dodgers' can't Dodge Shame!


Anheuser-Busch finds recently found out it can't serve God and Mammon: One of Minneapolis' most well-known gay bars says it will stop serving Anheuser-Busch beers after the company walked back a marketing campaign featuring a trans spokesperson. Accirding to Matthew 6:24-26
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon [money, possessions, fame, status, or whatever is valued more

Let's be honest, take away the euphemisms, and it’s obvious that we have a full on attack on Christianity by Corporate America, including Bud Light, NorthFace, the US Navy, Kohl’s, Major League Baseball, Target et al
as the White House, DOJ, FBI and Main Stream Media are in lock step to promote the Christo-Fascist, America Is Racist narratives



You see, St. John Paul II prayed that all families would look to God, the source of all fatherhood, and not be seduced by the "father of lies."

Sadly, corrupt politicians crowned the Father of Lies & kicked God to the curve, with predictable consequences: Since SCOTUS (1963) kicked God out of public schools these are some of the creeping elegance consequences


[ ] We have mental health crisis
[ ] Infanticide turned into #BlackGenocide
[ ] African American nuclear family has joined the Sea Turtles in the endangered list
[ ] 80% of AA kids are raised in fatherless homes
[ ] We have a fatherlesssness crisis
[ ] A Girlhood Crisis
[ ] A Trans Crisis


Now the White House, DOJ, FBI,MSM, Corporate America, including MLB, are in lock step to promote the #ChristoFascist, #AmericaIsRacist narrative.


And while the Los Angeles Dodgers try to Dodge its Shame, the organization should, like Anheuser-Busch, soon find out it can't serve God and Mammon.

Christianity is Counter-intuitive, in Harmony with Faith & Reason

Christianity is counter-intuitive and in harmony with faith and reason. Why it has been used as a punching bag for thousands of years:  Take for example Gay men dressing in vulgar and blasphemous nun costumes  celebrated by major league sports. The Los Angeles  Dodgers gave a national platform to so-called “queer and trans nuns” who…

-Dress up in sexually explicit and rainbow-colored “nun” clothing to mock Catholics

-Mock the Catholic  faith with ridiculous stunts like pole dancing on a crucifix

-Tricked an archbishop into giving them communion, then defiled the Eucharist

Then there is Hollywood:  One of the most popular film genre is action film, where the inciting incident is revenge: the inciting incident is ‘the reason why the protagonists blows up buildings or kills lots of people, even the innocent," often quoting the Code of Hammurabi: 

"An eye for an eye" (Biblical Hebrew: עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן, ʿayīn taḥaṯ ʿayīn)  and a commandment found in the Book of Exodus 21:23–27 expressing the principle of reciprocal justice measure for measure. The earliest known use of the principle appears in the Code of Hammurabi, which predates the Hebrew Bible

But in Matthew 5:38 "Jesus said to his disciples:

"You have heard that it was said,
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil.
When someone strikes you on your right cheek,
turn the other one to him as well.
If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic,
hand him your cloak as well.
Should anyone press you into service for one mile,
go with him for two miles.
Give to the one who asks of you,
and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow."


Pope Benedict XVI says " The Catholic insistence on a close connection between faith and reason is based on the belief that God created human beings and is always close to them."


While the Catholic Catechism states that: "Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason. Since the same God who reveals mysteries and infuses faith has bestowed the light of reason on the human mind, God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever contradict truth." "Consequently, methodical research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God. The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are." CCC 159


Brings up a rhetorical question:
Since human intelligence is surely already capable of finding a response to the question of origins, is it not reasonable then to conclude that Gödel’s Theorem, just like Stephen Hawking’s belief that it’s not possible to find a Theory of Everything due to limitations in human understanding,that all laws are subject to the Creator, including the Algorithm of Life?

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If one was not really to blame then there is nothing to forgive. In that sense forgiveness and excusing are almost opposites - CS Lewis


https://www.maitlandpres.org/post/cslewis

Call to prayer of a different kind

While the mainstream media typically associates the term "call to prayer" with adhan - the Islamic call to prayer, several religions have their own call to prayer

In the days before clocks, keeping of Canonical Hours was one way to tell time as it was based on the sun rising and setting.

The Islamic call to prayer is the Adhan recited by a muezzin at defined times of the day. The call is recited loudly from the mosque five times a day on most days and all day long during the religious holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, traditionally from the minaret. It is the first call summoning Muslims to enter the mosque for obligatory prayer. A second call, known as the iqamah summons those within the mosque to line up for the beginning of the prayers.

Outdoor loudspeakers, usually mounted on tall minarets, are used five times a day for the call to prayer, beginning at dawn. Some loudspeakers are powerful enough to be heard as far as three mikes away and in areas where more than one mosque is present, the loudspeaker sounds overlap one another, especially in the early morning when sounds are more clearly heard.

Sunnis believe that the adhan was not written or said by the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, but by one of his Sahabah (his companions). Abdullah ibn Zayd, a sahabi of Muhammad, had a vision in his dream, in which the call for prayers was revealed to him by God, after it had been decided that Islam should find its own method to announce the time of prayer rather than using those of other religions, such as the use of bells by Christians

Sanctifying Time

From the time of the Mosaic law, the People of God have observed fixed feasts, beginning with Passover, to commemorate the astonishing actions of the Savior God, to give him thanks for them, to perpetuate their remembrance, and to teach new generations to conform their conduct to them. In the age of the Church, between the Passover of Christ already accomplished once for all, and its consummation in the kingdom of God, the liturgy celebrated on fixed days bears the imprint of the newness of the mystery of Christ. CCC 1164


In the Christian tradition, church bells are rung as a call to prayer voluntarily. at the canonical hours prayed at fixed prayer times, as well as at the start of a church service, but typically not referred to as a "call to prayer " - In the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, for example, canonical hours are also called officium, since it refers to the official prayer of the Church, which is known variously as the officium divinum ("divine service" or "divine duty"), and the opus Dei ("work of God"). Canonical hours mark the divisions of the day in terms of fixed times of prayer at regular intervals.


The mystery of Christ, his Incarnation and Passover, which we celebrate in the Eucharist especially at the Sunday assembly, permeates and transfigures the time of each day, through the celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours, "the divine office."This celebration, faithful to the apostolic exhortations to "pray constantly," is "so devised that the whole course of the day and night is made holy by the praise of God." In this "public prayer of the Church," the faithful (clergy, religious, and lay people) exercise the royal priesthood of the baptized. Celebrated in "the form approved" by the Church, the Liturgy of the Hours "is truly the voice of the Bride herself addressed to her Bridegroom. It is the very prayer which Christ himself together with his Body addresses to the Father. CCC 1174


A book of hours, chiefly a breviary, normally contains a version of, or selection from, such prayers for the Liturgy of the Hours. In the early Church, different methods were used to call the worshippers: playing trumpets, hitting wooden planks, shouting, or using a courier. The use of social media apps, such as the Divine Office, makes it easier to refer to the prayers in the Liturgy of the Hours.








The Liturgy of the Hours is intended to become the prayer of the whole People of God. In it Christ himself "continues his priestly work through his Church."50 His members participate according to their own place in the Church and the circumstances of their lives: priests devoted to the pastoral ministry, because they are called to remain diligent in prayer and the service of the word; religious, by the charism of their consecrated lives; all the faithful as much as possible: "Pastors of souls should see to it that the principal hours, especially Vespers, are celebrated in common in church on Sundays and on the more solemn feasts. The laity, too, are encouraged to recite the divine office, either with the priests, or among themselves, or even individually." CCC 1175

The celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours demands not only harmonizing the voice with the praying heart, but also a deeper "understanding of the liturgy and of the Bible, especially of the Psalms." CCC 1176

The hymns and litanies of the Liturgy of the Hours integrate the prayer of the psalms into the age of the Church, expressing the symbolism of the time of day, the liturgical season, or the feast being celebrated. Moreover, the reading from the Word of God at each Hour (with the subsequent responses or troparia) and readings from the Fathers and spiritual masters at certain Hours, reveal more deeply the meaning of the mystery being celebrated, assist in understanding the psalms, and prepare for silent prayer. The lectio divina, where the Word of God is so read and meditated that it becomes prayer, is thus rooted 

       in the liturgical celebration. CCC 1177

The Liturgy of the Hours, which is like an extension of the Eucharistic celebration, does not exclude but rather in a complementary way calls forth the various devotions of the People of God, especially adoration and worship of the Blessed Sacrament. CCC 1178

From the time of the early Church, the practice of seven fixed prayer times, being attached to Psalm 119:164, have been taught: Psalm 119:164 states: "Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws." Symeon of Thessalonica writes that "the times of prayer and the services are seven in number, like the number of gifts of the Spirit, since the holy prayers are from the Spirit; in Apostolic Tradition, Hippolytus instructed Christians to pray seven times a day "on rising, at the lighting of the evening lamp, at bedtime, at midnight" and "the third, sixth and ninth hours of the day, being hours associated with Christ's Passion
In the West, the Rule of Saint Benedict, was modeled on his guidelines for the prayers on the customs of the basilicas of Rome. It was he who expounded the concept in Christian prayer of the inseparability of the spiritual life from the physical life. St. Benedict set down the dictum Ora et labora – "Pray and work". The Order of Saint Benedict began to call the prayers the Opus Dei or "Work of God"

By the 9th century in the West, the canonical hours consisted of daily prayer l liturgies:

Matins (nighttime)

Lauds (early morning)

Prime (first hour of daylight)

Terce (third hour)

Sext (noon)

Nones (ninth hour)

Vespers (sunset evening)

Compline (end of the day



We have heard about sanctifying places and spaces. Now we can also sanctify time.

The one who sings prays twice - St Augustine

CIY Day 157 - Justified
“The one who sings prays twice”- Saint Augustine.

Two or three years ago my wife and I got into the habit of having Alexa play gospel music in the backround while Chrome randomly display pictures chronicling our life together, in the big screen- it has over 8,000 pictures going as far back as to when we were kids.





Sometime ago, one of our twin granddaughters ask me why we had the gospel music playing in the background all the time, and also when we were in the car. I immediately blurted out: "because when we are singing we are also praying" - I had not heard this until today, so I don't know why I said it, but now I feel justified.No wonder Father Tomassi's first Mass at Holy Redeemer right after his ordination the day before, felt so special. He sang the entire Mass!

Where do you find Catholic Singers? Was the first question that came up - All the Christmas songs we ever heard were sung by popular musicians and mostly not even Christian.

In no time we found John Michael Talbot - came up during the Jesus Freaks era, and Andrew Goldstein who is much younger -I wrote a review when we first met Andrew, in part reads "Needless to say, we were double blessed: Attended a beautiful service and were treated to an outstanding free service. We just had to get Andrew's by donation CD. Life is good! If you want to hear Andrew's music so we can compare notes, perhaps is best to contact him at the Parish."







Now we have Christian gospel music Playlists for every mood - we will also listen Christian music with other artists like Elvis Presley, Alan Jackson, Bill Gaither, The Isaac's and so on.  Some Catholics object to gospel music by non-Catholics saying something like "there are a few groups that you should be aware of that do sing songs that are not in line with our faith - Hillsong being one of them. I came from a protestant background and I look up what their beliefs are before I let me kids listen to the music."  On the other hand, I love Elvis Presley's rendition of gospel music, including that of other artists who may not be Catholic, including Hilsong.I try to listen to the message, as opposed to the messenger - consistent with CCC 1158 "The harmony of signs (song, music, words, and actions) is all the more expressive and fruitful when expressed in the cultural richness of the People of God who celebrate. Hence "religious singing by the faithful is to be intelligently fostered so that in devotions and sacred exercises as well as in liturgical services," in conformity with the Church's norms, "the voices of the faithful may be heard." But "the texts intended to be sung must always be in conformity with Catholic doctrine. Indeed they should be drawn chiefly from the Sacred Scripture and from liturgical sources.""

Saint Augustine's Commentaries to the Psalms, Psalm 72,: “Whoever sings a praise, not only praises, but only praises with gladness. He that sings praise, not only sings, but also loves him of whom he sings. In praise, there is the speaking forth of one confessing; in singing, the affection of one loving.”

I'm amazed at the quality of the Christian music genre and wonder why, with so much talent, local radio station during the Christmas Season resort to mainstream singers. 

 Sacred music imparts spiritual truth to one's mind, heart, and soul. It displays a dimension of meaning and feeling that mere words cannot. Music makes prayer more pleasing, promotes a sense of congregational unity, and confers greater solemnity upon the sacred rites. Three criteria need to be present for song and music to fulfil their potential: “beauty expressive of prayer, the unanimous participation of the assembly at the designated moments, and the solemn character of the celebration” (CCC 1157

Habemus Sacerdos - We Have Priests

Saturday. June 3rd, the Archdiocese of Seattle welcomed Deacons John Paul Tomassi and Deacon Sylvester Chanda as Archbishop Paul D. Ettiene presided over their ordination Mass. 

Deacons Tomassi (L) & Chanda (R) 

Newly minted priest Father Tomassi celebrated his first Mass at his home parish, Holy Redeemer Church, Vancouver, WA. Established in 2000, Holy Redeemer is fertile ground,as it has already produced two priests, including Father Tomassi.

If you happen to attend Sunday Mass at Holy Redeemer, and witness the procession of altar servers, you might guess why of the fertile ground.  

In many Catholic churches, the priest likes to have three to six altar servers. Although once prohibited in the Catholic Church, female altar servers are now allowed to serve provided that the diocesan bishop and the parish priest allow the practice. Altar servers carry the cross and the processional candles. They hold the book for the priest celebrant when he is not at the altar. They carry the incense and censer and present the bread and wine along with the water to the priest during the preparation of the gifts or assist him when he receives the gifts from the people. At Holy Redeemer. Father Nathe usually has fifteen altar servers for Sunday Masses. Father Tomassi was an altar server at Holy Redeemer and entered the Seminary right after High School.

Begs the question. Who celebrates the liturgy? And the answer is everybody!  Dead or alive! The pews are not bleachers for expectators but for participants.  

"Liturgy is an "action" of the whole Christ (Christus totus). Those who even now celebrate it without signs are already in the heavenly liturgy, where celebration is wholly communion and feast."  CCC 1136

""Recapitulated in Christ," these are the ones who take part in the service of the praise of God and the fulfillment of his plan: the heavenly powers, all creation (the four living beings), the servants of the Old and New Covenants (the twenty-four elders), the new People of God (the one hundred and forty-four thousand), especially the martyrs "slain for the word of God," and the all-holy Mother of God (the Woman), the Bride of the Lamb, and finally "a great multitude which no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes, and peoples and tongues."" CCC 1138

Father Tomassi & Holy Redeemer Church illustrate the Law: lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi 

"It is in this eternal liturgy that the Spirit and the Church enable us to participate whenever we celebrate the mystery of salvation in the sacraments." CCC 1139

It should not bee too surprising then that  Father Tommassi started as an Altar Server at Holy Redeemer.

Sacramental Grace

DRAFT

Argument for infant baptism - its not the one who is being baptized 

Sacraments are visible rites seen as signs and efficacious channels of the grace of God to all those who receive them with the proper disposition.  The sacraments according to Catholic theology were instituted by Jesus and entrusted to the Church.  According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Sacraments have a visible and invisible reality, a reality open to all the human senses but grasped in its God-given depths with the eyes of faith. When parents hug their children, for example, the visible reality we see is the hug. The invisible reality the hug conveys is love. We cannot "see" the love the hug expresses, though sometimes we can see its nurturing effect in the child. USCCB

[  ] Celebrated worthily in faith, the sacraments confer the grace that they signify.

[  ] Sacranents are efficacious because in them Christ himself is at work: it is he who baptizes, he who acts in his sacraments in order to communicate the grace that each sacrament signifies CCC 1127


[  ] By virtue of the saving work of Christ, the sacramental graceis not a function of the celebrant or the recipient, but by the power of God. CCC 1128


[  ] The fruits of the sacraments also depend on the disposition of the one who receives them. CCC 1128


[  ]  The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation
CCC 1129

From the moment that a sacrament is celebrated in accordance with the

1127 Celebrated worthily in faith, the sacraments confer the grace that they signify. They are efficacious because in them Christ himself is at work: it is he who baptizes, he who acts in his sacraments in order to communicate the grace that each sacrament signifies. The Father always hears the prayer of his Son's Church which, in the epiclesis of each sacrament, expresses her faith in the power of the Spirit. As fire transforms into itself everything it touches, so the Holy Spirit transforms into the divine life whatever is subjected to his power.


1128 This is the meaning of the Church's affirmation that the sacraments act ex opere operato (literally: "by the very fact of the action's being performed"), i.e., by virtue of the saving work of Christ, accomplished once for all. It follows that "the sacrament is not wrought by the righteousness of either the celebrant or the recipient, but by the power of God." From the moment that a sacrament is celebrated in accordance with the intention of the Church, the power of Christ and his Spirit acts in and through it, independently of the personal holiness of the minister. Nevertheless, the fruits of the sacraments also depend on the disposition of the one who receives them.

1129 The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation. "Sacramental grace" is the grace of the Holy Spirit, given by Christ and proper to each sacrament. The Spirit heals and transforms those who receive him by conforming them to the Son of God. The fruit of the sacramental life is that the Spirit of adoption makes the faithful partakers in the divine nature by uniting them in a living union with the only Son, the Savior. 

Creeping Elegance in Progressive Policies

Analogous to creeping elegance in software development, by design or happenstance progressive policies have had a regressive impact on the American culture. Not unlike the deleterious effects on Native Americas & Alaska Natives

In software development, creeping elegance is related to creeping featurism and second-system effect. The tendency of programmers to disproportionately emphasize elegance in software at the expense of other requirements such as functionality, shipping schedule, and usability. Consider that since SCOTUS (1963) kicked God out of public schools - School District of Abington Township, Pennsylvania v. Schempp (1963) is a U.S. Supreme Court case holding that mandatory religious activity as part of a public school's curriculum, such as Bible readings and the recitation of the Lord's Prayer, violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

You may recall that during Jesus' ministry, He not only cured physical ailments, but also mental and spiritual sickness.  These are some of the creeping elegance consequences

[ ] We have mental health crisis
[ ] Infanticide turned into #BlackGenocide
[ ] African American nuclear family has joined the Sea Turtles in the endangered list
[ ] 80% of AA kids are raised in fatherless homes
[ ] We have a fatherlesssness crisis
[ ] A Girlhood Crisis
[ ] A Trans Crisis

Now compare to the recent Washington Sate firong of Office of Equity Director Dr. Karen Johnson’s. According to investigation, she was fired for a number of reasons including, micromanagement, lack of organization, lack of adequate structure and processes, made unreasonable requests of staff, made inappropriate or insensitive comments to some staff members and publicly criticized some staff members regarding issues unrelated to protected classes, including "credible examples" of Johnson making inappropriate comments about the personal appearances of staff, their bodies, as well as "comments about a staff person’s ethnicity, race, and/or veteran status." Get it?

And then it gets even more regressive: The college majors that pay the most right after college are STEM-based. Except for a BS In Race Hustling - the highest paid: The University of Michigan has 163 DEI officers. Ohio State & U of Virginia have 94. Georgia Tech has 41, but only 13 history teachers. The Highest-paid diversity and inclusion employees rake in substantially more than the average full-time professor. While the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers Racially Exclusive-Programs and Scholarships. Even as the University Of Minnesota PhD's were forced to retract an article they wrote about "structural racism in the Journal Of Health Services Research - The authors, UM employees are focused on racial equity: Stuart Grande, senior Lecturer, Janette Dill, an associate professor, and Tongtan Chantarat, a research scientist. The retraction is because its claims were "inaccurate, misleading, or false," according to a note on the withdrawn article.

Not to be undone, Targets diversity Chief Kiera Fernandez said that it’s the role of white women to call out transgressions, and continued to single out a white employee and said that because of her race her voice carries more weight and she has a responsibility. She runs Targets Racial Equity Action and Change. Her task force focuses on engaging with black customers and hiring more black employees. Target is also shifting to more black owned suppliers and ending contracts with white owned companies. She was hired internally from the Human Resources department.

And a FSU professor abruptly left his 190K job after faking data to make racism seem more common and having six research papers retracted.

It can't get worse, right? Wrong! The California legislature's LGBTQ Caucus join the Los Angeles Dodgers in their War On Christianity as they are set to honor anti-Catholic Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence member, despite Dodgers backlash

Progressive policies are not only regressive, but if you take away the euphemisms, it's obvious that we have a full on attack on Christianity by Corporate America,

 including #BudLight, #NorthFace, the #USNavy, #Kohl’s, Major League Baseball, as the White House, DOJ, FBI and Main Stream Media are in lock step to promote the Christo-Fascist, America Is Racist narratives

Et Tu Chick-fil-A?

Join me in prayer for the soul of this Nation - When even  Chick-fil-A, sees the need to hire an executive in charge of diversity, equity, and inclusion, you know we are in trouble. "I think, that the greatest evil we can do is to call what is evil good and what is good evil. It does not matter whether this calling is shrouded in the form of relativism, diversity theory, or the will to power. The effect is the same." CS. Lewis, in Mere Christianity

As Alexis De Tocqueville might say,  Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. 

But don't blame Chick-fil-A executives. Consider ABC News Experts warn against canceling Pride campaigns after extremists threaten Target. Whereas our own experts agree Pride is euphemism for deadly sin. Of the seven deadly sins, theologians and philosophers reserve a special place for pride. Lust, envy, anger, greed, gluttony and sloth are all bad, the sages say, but pride is the deadliest of all, the root of all evil, and the beginning of sin.

But wait, there is more: The college majors that pay the most right after college  are STEM-based. Except for a BS In Race Hustling -  the highest paid: The University of Michigan has 163 DEI officers. Ohio State & U of Virginia have 94. Georgia Tech has 41, but only 13 history teachers. The Highest-paid diversity and inclusion employees rake in substantially more than the average full-time professor. While the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers Racially Exclusive-Programs and Scholarships. Even as the University Of Minnesota  PhD's were forced to retract an article they wrote about "structural racism in the Journal Of Health Services Research - The authors,  UM employees are focused on racial equity: Stuart Grande,  senior Lecturer, Janette Dill,  an associate professor, and Tongtan Chantarat,  a research scientist. The retraction is because its claims were "inaccurate, misleading, or false," according to a note on the withdrawn article. 

Recently, Washington state Office of Equity Director Dr. Karen Johnson’s was fired for a number of reasons including, micromanagement, lack of organization,  lack of  adequate structure and processes, made unreasonable requests of staff, made inappropriate or insensitive comments to some staff members and publicly criticized some staff members regarding issues unrelated to protected classes, including  "credible examples" of Johnson making inappropriate comments about the personal appearances of staff, their bodies, as well as "comments about a staff person’s ethnicity, race, and/or veteran status." Get it?

Yet, the Gov. Inslee's office whitewashes the firing, according to the Seattle Times: "“She launched this groundbreaking office and contributed greatly to starting this important work,” Faulk said. “However, the office has experienced a lack of stability in agency operations and the work environment, including high vacancy rates, high employee turnover and budgetary concerns.”

Not to be undone,  Targets diversity Chief Kiera Fernandez said that it’s the role of white women to call out transgressions, and continued to single out a white employee and said that because of her race her voice carries more weight and she has a responsibility. She runs Targets Racial Equity Action and Change. Her task force focuses on engaging with black customers and hiring more black employees. Target is also shifting to more black owned suppliers and ending contracts with white owned companies. She was hired internally from the Human Resources department.

Now, the California legislature's LGBTQ Caucus join the Los Angeles Dodgers in their War On Christianity as they are set to honor anti-Catholic Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence member, despite Dodgers backlash

And a FSU professor abruptly left his 190K job after faking data to make racism seem more common and having six research papers retracted.

Race hustling pays, but don't get greedy; Follow the #NYT suggestion: Figures don't Lie, liars figure.


So, don't blame Chick-fil-A. If there was ever a doubt that America is under siegue, this is proof positive: Do away with euphemisms and it's obvious that we have a  full on attack on Christianity by Corporate America, including #BudLight, #NorthFace, the #USNavy, #Kohl’s,  Major League Baseball, as the White House, DOJ, FBI and Main Stream Media are in lock step to promote the Christo-Fascist, America Is Racist narratives.

Los Angeles Dodgers Mocking The Catholic Faith Not Sitting Well

Just as the NAACP and the FBI see Catholics as potential domestic terrorists, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and 19 GOP state attorneys general are demanding answers from the FBI and Justice Department and threatening legal action after a leaked internal FBI memo revealed that the agency had efforts underway to identify and treat Catholics as "potential terrorists." "Anti-Catholic bigotry appears to be festering in the FBI, and the Bureau is treating Catholics as potential terrorists because of their beliefs," the AGs wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Now the Los Angeles Dodgers decided to mock the Catholic faith, prompting 

CatholicVote.org's Brian Burch

"How important is the Dodgers mocking our Faith to you? 


Is this fight really worth it?

 

Answer: a thousand times YES. And here’s why:

The Dodgers’ decision to honor one of the most flagrantly anti-Catholic hate groups as “Community heroes” is not a blip or just a flash in the pan. It’s a direct attack on all we hold sacred. 

They’ve defiled the Holy Eucharist. Mocked the Mother of God.  

 
Turned our Faith into a sexual fetish.

Dodgers Stadium is now the front line of the civilizational revolution underway. The endless marketing of “PRIDE” and “LOVE IS LOVE” have been exposed as gimmicky slogans for what the gay “rights” movement is really about: destroying the family, faith, and especially the Catholic Church.

Our campaign isn’t some political stunt for attention. It is a full-throated defense of the respect due Catholic nuns and respect for our most sacred beliefs. 

 

And here’s the thing. We know it works. 


Bud Light is still reeling from the boycott over their ridiculous campaign featuring fake woman Dylan Mulvaney. Target stores in red states have moved Pride gear off the shelves. Corporations are learning the hard
way: “Go woke, go broke.”


But the Dodgers' anti-Catholic stunt is even worse.


How far will we allow corporations to push us before people finally say enough? 

 

This may sound harsh, but there’s a reason there are no “Imams of Indulgence.” Or Rabbis of Indulgence. That’s because mocking Muslims and Jewish people is beyond the pale. And because woke corporations know they can exploit our instinct to “be nice.”

And so the Dodgers have decided to go ahead and celebrate a bunch of perverse men masquerading in sexualized religious habits of Catholic nuns – honoring one of the most vile and blasphemous groups that exists. 

Because they think we won’t do anything more than issue a press release and complain.

 

In the last few days, I have received more emails and calls in support of this fight than I’ve seen in any other campaign in a decade. The media coverage on this is also as big as anything we have ever been involved in.  

We’re done asking nicely. 

We’re readying a massive ad blitz that is set to begin next week.

Enough is enough.

Keep your perverted sexual fetishes away from our Faith.

 

It doesn't end June 16

I want the Dodgers ownership to wake up each day fretting that these pesky Catholics just won't quit. 

 

Here are my terms:
[  ] 1) We get a complete public apology from the Dodgers,
[  ] 2) the Dodgers pledge never to host or honor an anti-Catholic hate group again,
3) the people responsible for this stunt are fired, and
[  ] 4) The Dodgers agree to make a gift from their foundation to a group of religious sisters that perform real charity."

The Los Angeles Dodgers mocking the Catholic Faith is not a new phenomenon.  More lies have been aimed at destroying the Roman Catholic Church than any other institution in the world. So much that even most Catholics believe the lies they were taught in high school or have seen on T.V. and social media:  Consider all the misrepresentations that Pope Francis has been subjected to, even when he clearly stated in his Laudato Si:  “Since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature, is incompatible with the justification of abortion” – Pope Francis

But let's not forget the full on attack on Christianity by Corporate America, including Bud Light, NorthFace, the US Navy and Major Leage Baseball, as the White House, DOJ, FBI and Main Stream Media are in lock step to promote the Christo-Fascist, America Is Racist narratives

 

California's High Speed System Ready to Leave the Station

According to the Palestinian Wasp, California's #GavinNewsom has announced that a High Speed System is finally operational

Because of the high demand for the system,  Newsom would like potential travelers to compare GOP presidential hopeful's Tim Scott's fierce proLife stance: "If I were President  of the United States I would literally sign the most conservative pro-life legislation they can pass through Congress."

To his own view and that of the White House, DOJ, FBI & MSM: War on Life and War on Christianity

Newsom feels confident the pool of potential Travellers will go down significantly, making everybody happy - a politician's blissful scenario: "There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened."  CS Lewis

Not only will Californians be free to stay if they choose, but the right is enshrined in the US Constitution: 
The Declaration of Independence  specifically mentions  Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness as certain unalienable rights, as in:

"....all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of …" but thanks to the Lord's  "mercy, we too, men that we are, have received the inalienable promise of eterna life." CCC 1050


According to Newsom, California's high speed transportation system will offer a one-way, non-stop straight to hell.


ICYM: Gavin Newsom's is also gighting a War On Christmas

"Merry Christmas!

Even to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Earlier this month, Newsom hosted the ceremonial lighting of the Capitol Holiday Tree and expertly avoided any mention of Christianity — a stunning feat considering he was overseeing the lighting of a giant evergreen tree in December (talk about cultural appropriation!)."

Steve Jobs Was Wrong; Death is But a Fork on the Road

Since human intelligence is surely already capable of finding a response to the question of origins, is it not reasonable then to conclude that Gödel's Theorem, just like Stephen Hawking's belief that it's not possible to find a Theory of Everything due to limitations in human understanding that all laws are subject to the Creator, including the Algorithm of Life?

In his famous commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005, with over 40 million views on YouTube, the most watched commencement speech of all time, Steve Jobs’ touched on three heartfelt, compelling personal stories: How he dropped out of college, but not from learning, about what he learned rom Steve Jobs was right when he said: “remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose,” particularly when he said: "Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life:

Seve Jobs knew what he was talking about: “This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades,” he said referring to a successful surgery after his first fight with cancer. In May, 2021, Jobs' wife Laurene Powell Jobs, delivered a commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania. recalling the memory of her late husband and his 2005 speech: “Steve used to say: ‘Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet – keep looking.’ “Let his words guide you as they’ve guided me. The only way to do great work, is to love what you do. And while you’re doing it … love who you do it for – and love who you are while you do it.”









But Jobs was wrong when he said death is “very likely the single best invention of life.” At best, the statement is anthropomorphic. Unlike saying the Algorithm of Life is the Theory of Everything - a term for the ultimate theory of the universe. A set of equations capable of describing all phenomena that have been observed, or that will ever be observed. Livescience.com for example, lists the 20 Inventions that Changed the world, including the wheel, nails, nuclear energy and vaccines. Death is not one of them.


A theory of everything, final theory, ultimate theory, unified field theory or master theory is a hypothetical, singular, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all aspects of the universe.[Finding a theory of everything is one of the major unsolved problems in physics, while String theory and M-theory have been proposed as theories of everything.

Stephen Hawking was originally a believer in the Theory of Everything, but after considering Gödel's Theorem, he concluded that one was not obtainable. "Some people will be very disappointed if there is not an ultimate theory that can be formulated as a finite number of principles. I used to belong to that camp, but I have changed my mind.
Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who, was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge and the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world

In 1931, the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel published his incompleteness theorem, a result widely considered one of the greatest intellectual achievements of modern times. Gödel's Theorem states that in any reasonable mathematical system there will always be true statements that cannot be proved.

While Hawking spoke of his lack of belief in God during his life, according to his wife Adele, Gödel, did not go to church, butvwas religious and read the Bible in bed every Sunday morning. He said, "I like Islam: it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded." Whereas Peter John Kreeft a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College is a convert to Roman Catholicism, and the author of over eighty books on Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics.

Death is a terminal illness, as Kreeft posits and something we see as a natural irreversible event it can be viewed as a fork on the road. A major milestone on the way to the end times, then on to eternity. As Jobs might say, keep in mind that the fork on the road keep us focused on what is important to each one of us while we are alive. However, death is not part of the Algorithm of Life, but an aberration, man's last enemy to be conquered. "As a consequence of original sin, man must suffer "bodily death, from which man would have been immune had he not sinned"" (GS § 18). CCC 1018

"It is in regard to death that man's condition is most shrouded in doubt." In a sense bodily death is natural, but for faith it is in fact "the wages of sin." For those who die in Christ's grace it is a participation in the death of the Lord, so that they can also share his Resurrection.- CCC 1006


To rise with Christ, we must die with Christ: we must "be away from the body and at home with the Lord." In that "departure" which is death the soul is separated from the body. It will be reunited with the body on the day of resurrection of the dead. CCC 1005


Death puts an end to human life as the time open to either accepting or rejecting the divine grace manifested in Christ. The New Testament speaks of judgment primarily in its aspect of the final encounter with Christ in his second coming, but also repeatedly affirms that each will be rewarded immediately after death in accordance with his works and faith. The parable of the poor man Lazarus and the words of Christ on the cross to the good thief, as well as other New Testament texts speak of a final destiny of the soul -- a destiny which can be different for some and for others. CCC 1021


Those who die in God's grace and friendship and are perfectly purified live for ever with Christ. They are like God for ever, for they "see him as he is," face to face: CCC 1023


The Christian vision of death receives privileged expression in the liturgy of the Church: Lord, for your faithful people life is changed, not ended. When the body of our earthly dwelling lies in death we gain an everlasting dwelling place is. heaven. CCC 1013

By death the soul is separated from the body, but in the resurrection God will give incorruptible life to our body, transformed by reunion with our soul. Just as Christ is risen and lives for ever, so all of us will rise at the last day. CCC 1016

The Church's Magisterium, as authentic interpreter of the affirmations of Scripture and Tradition, teaches that death entered the world on account of man's sin. Even though man's nature is mortal God had destined him not to die. Death was therefore contrary to the plans of God the Creator and entered the world as a consequence of sin. "Bodily death, from which man would have been immune had he not sinned" is thus "the last enemy" of man left to be conquered. CCC 1013


Not unlike Steve Jobs, The Church encourages us to prepare ourselves for the hour of our death. In the ancient litany of the saints, for instance, she has us pray: "From a sudden and unforeseen death, deliver us, O Lord"; to ask the Mother of God to intercede for us "at the hour of our death" in the Hail Mary; and to entrust ourselves to St. Joseph, the patron of a happy death.
Every action of yours, every thought, should be those of one who expects to die before the day is out. Death would have no great terrors for you if you had a quiet conscience. . . . Then why not keep clear of sin instead of running away from death? If you aren't fit to face death today, it's very unlikely you will be tomorrow. . . .

Praised are you, my Lord, for our sister bodily Death,
from whom no living man can escape.
Woe on those who will die in mortal sin!
Blessed are they who will be found
in your most holy will,
for the second death will not harm them. CCC 1014


While death is the end of man's earthly pilgrimage, the Christian view of death is positive, just "as the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?""  Psalm 42 1. Death is transformed by Christ. Jesus, the Son of God, also himself suffered the death that is part of the human condition. Yet, despite his anguish as he faced death, he accepted it in an act of complete and free submission to his Father's will. The obedience of Jesus has transformed the curse of death into a blessing. CCC 1009

Because of Christ, Christian death has a positive meaning: "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." "The saying is sure: if we have died with him, we will also live with him. What is essentially new about Christian death is this: through Baptism, the Christian has already "died with Christ" sacramentally, in order to live a new life; and if we die in Christ's grace, physical death completes this "dying with Christ" and so completes our incorporation into him in his redeeming act:
It is better for me to die in (eis) Christ Jesus than to reign over the ends of the earth. Him it is I seek - who died for us. Him it is I desire - who rose for us. I am on the point of giving birth. . . . Let me receive pure light; when I shall have arrived there, then shall I be a man. CCC 1010


You see, for Christians, Death is transformed by Christ. Jesus, the Son of God, also himself suffered the death that is part of the human condition. Yet, despite his anguish as he faced death, he accepted it in an act of complete and free submission to his Father's will. The obedience of Jesus has transformed the curse of death into a blessing. CCC 1009

In death, God calls man to himself. Therefore the Christian can experience a desire for death like St. Paul's: "My desire is to depart and be with Christ." He can transform his own death into an act of obedience and love towards the Father, after the example of Christ:

My earthly desire has been crucified; . . . there is living water in me, water that murmurs and says within me: Come to the Father.

I want to see God and, in order to see him, I must die.

I am not dying; I am entering life. CCC 1011

Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven-through a purification or immediately, -- or immediate and everlasting damnation.

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love. CCC 1022


Those who die in God's grace and friendship and are perfectly purified live for ever with Christ. They are like God for ever, for they "see him as he

is," face to face:

By virtue of our apostolic authority, we define the following: According to the general disposition of God, the souls of all the saints . . . and other faithful who died after receiving Christ's holy Baptism (provided they were not in need of purification

The search for the Theory of Everything is analogous to the Athenian's search for the unknown god. Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said: “You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious. For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, 'To an Unknown God. '* What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you." Acts 17:23

Fides et ratio. Latin for 'Faith and Reason
is an encyclical promulgated by Pope John Paul II on 14 September 1998, primarily addressing the relationship between faith and reason. '

The encyclical posits that faith and reason are not only compatible, but essential together. He starts with "Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth;" Faith without reason, he argues, leads to superstition. Reason without faith, he argues, leads to nihilism and relativism.

St. John Paul II extolled faith and reason in general as both necessary and harmonious. He also applied this vision to the scientific investigation of the universe. declaring, “Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can bring the other into a wider world, a world where both may flourish.” Many struggle with believing in God because of what they think science says, and many others struggle with accepting the discoveries of modern science because they fear that it leads away from God. Perhaps looking at them together, as St. John Paul II recommended, can help us embrace both.

Human intelligence is surely already capable of finding a response to the question of origins.  CCC 286

Wit the Knowledge Doubling Curve and Artificial intelligence: The Knowledge Doubling Curve (KDC) was first described by Buckminster Fuller in 1982 notes that, until 1900, human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the middle of the twentieth century, knowledge was doubling every 25 years. As of 2013, human knowledge was doubling every 13 months on average – faster in some industries like nanotechnology research. Now, human knowledge is almost doubling every day. Pfizer's Dr Becci Corkill refers to the KDC as the reason consumers should not be afraid of the COVID Vaccine.

It can be argued that Artificial Intelligence is a byproduct of the KDC. The traditional goals of AI research include reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, learning, natural language processing, perception, and the ability to move and manipulate objects


The field was founded on the assumption that human intelligence can be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. This raised philosophical arguments about the mind and the ethical consequences of creating artificial beings endowed with human-like intelligence.  Earlier this year Elon Musk and more than 1,000 tech leaders, researchers and others signed an open letter urging a moratorium on the development of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems, citing profound risks to society.

The existence of God the Creator can be known with certainty through his works, by the light of human reason, even if this knowledge is often obscured and disfigured by error. This is why faith comes to confirm and enlighten reason in the correct understanding of this truth: "By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear. CCC 286

Since human intelligence is surely already capable of finding a response to the question of origins, is it not reasonable then to conclude that Gödel's Theorem, just like Stephen Hawking's belief that it's not possible to find a Theory of Everything due to limitations in human understanding that all laws are subject to the Creator, including the Algorithm of Life?

Resurrection Sunday: All Will Rise!

The Catholic Catechism emphasizes that Easter Sunday, the celebration of Jesus' Resurrection, is the "Feast of feasts" and "Solemnity of solemnities". It is the culminating point of the liturgical year, marking the victory of good over evil, sin, and death, and the promise of eternal life. The Resurrection is the foundational truth of the Christian faith and the basis for our hope in eternal life.

The last week of Lent, before Easter, is Holy Week, which begins on Palm Sunday (marking the entrance of Jesus in Jerusalem), includes Spy Wednesday (on which the betrayal of Jesus is mourned), and contains the days of the Easter Triduum including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. 

Eastertide, the Easter  season, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts seven weeks, ending with the coming of the 50th day, Pentecost Sunday

The good news is that when all is said and done, all people will be resurrected. Where resurrection is the rising from the dead of a divine or human being who still retains his own personhood, or individuality, though the body may or may not be changed.

All the dead will rise, (1 Corinth 15:22)"those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment."CCC 998

What is "rising"? In death, the separation of the soul from the body, the human body decays and the soul goes to meet God, while awaiting its reunion with its glorified body. God, in his almighty power, will definitively grant incorruptible life to our bodies by reuniting them with our souls, through the power of Jesus' Resurrection. CCC 997


From the beginning, Christian faith in the resurrection has met with incomprehension and opposition. "On no point does the Christian faith encounter more opposition than on the resurrection of the body." It is very commonly accepted that the life of the human person continues in a spiritual fashion after death. But how can we believe that this body, so clearly mortal, could rise to everlasting life? CCC 996


Belief in the resurrection of the dead has been an essential element of the Christian faith from its beginnings. "The confidence of Christians is the resurrection of the dead; believing this we live."

How can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. . . . But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.CCC 991


God revealed the resurrection of the dead to his people progressively. Hope in the bodily resurrection of the dead established itself as a consequence intrinsic to faith in God as creator of the whole man, soul and body. The creator of heaven and earth is also the one who faithfully maintains his covenant with Abraham and his posterity. It was in this double perspective that faith in the resurrection came to be expressed. In their trials, the Maccabean martyrs confessed:

The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws. One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. Ccc 992


The Pharisees and many of the Lord's contemporaries hoped for the resurrection. Jesus teaches it firmly. To the Sadducees who deny it he answers, "Is not this why you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God?" Faith in the resurrection rests on faith in God who "is not God of the dead, but of the living." CCC 993

But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life." It is Jesus himself who on the last day will raise up those who have believed in him, who have eaten his body and drunk his blood. Already now in this present life he gives a sign and pledge of this by restoring some of the dead to life, announcing thereby his own Resurrection, though it was to be of another order. He speaks of this unique event as the "sign of Jonah," the sign of the temple: he announces that he will be put to death but rise thereafter on the third day. CCC 994



But how does this rising happen How? Christ is raised with his own body: "See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself"; but he did not return to an earthly life. So, in him, "all of them will rise again with their own bodies which they now bear," but Christ "will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body," into a "spiritual body":

But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?" You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel. . . . What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. . . . The dead will be raised imperishable. . . . For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality. CCC 999


This "how" exceeds our imagination and understanding; it is accessible only to faith. Yet our participation in the Eucharist already gives us a foretaste of Christ's transfiguration of our bodies:

Just as bread that comes from the earth, after God's blessing has been invoked upon it, is no longer ordinary bread, but Eucharist, formed of two things, the one earthly and the other heavenly: so too our bodies, which partake of the Eucharist, are no longer corruptible, but possess the hope of resurrection. CCC 1000