MARY IS THE ARC, AND THE ROSARY IS A DEADLY WEAPON. ITS BEADS ARE BULLETS THAT PIERCE HEAVEN AND MOW DOWN DEMONS

IF CLARENCE THOMAS IS CATHOLIC, THEN WHAT IS FRANCISPRIEST, FR. JAMES MARTIN?

THE DEMOCRAT FRANCISPARTY: HOME OF ANTI-CATHOLIC BIGOTS

CHINESE AUTHORITIES BOYCOTT CHRISTMAS

IF ONLY THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS WERE A MUSLIM ORGANIZATION INSTEAD OF A CATHOLIC ONE…

DOUTHAT: STAY CATHOLIC BECAUSE ALL THIS DEPRAVITY HAS HAPPENED BEFORE AND IT WILL AGAIN, OK?

WHY SINGING CAROLS IS SO IMPORTANT

PADRE PIO’S CHRISTMAS MEDITATION

WHY, CARDINAL DOLAN? WHY?

EVIL FRANCISVATICAN-CHINA AGREEMENT CAUSES WIDESPREAD CONSTERNATION

“THE CORRUPTION OF MERCY IS SURELY A TERRIBLE THING TO THINK UPON” – CHESTERTON ON “THE NEW SORT OF CYNIC”

JESUIT GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHICS IN 2018

IF DETROIT ABP. VIGNERON THINKS FR. LACUESTA’S SUICIDE HOMILY IS A GOOD EXCUSE TO SACK HIM, THEN HE’S NO BISHOP AT ALL.

HOW TRUMP BROUGHT CHRISTMAS BACK TO AMERICA

MGR. BUX:  IF FRANCIS CAN CHANGE THE WORDS TO THE OUR FATHER, THE CONSECRATION IS IN DANGER

NYT MUSLIM TEACHES TRUMP THE HOLY FRANCISGOSPEL

HOW ARREST OF CHINESE ‘PRINCESS’ EXPOSES REGIME’S WORLD DOMINATION PLOT

SOCIAL JUSTICE FRANCISTOPIA: CHINESE CHRISTIANS FLEE ABROAD, THEIR FAMILIES FACE THREATS

‘CATHOLIC’ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN HAUNTING HIS OLD CHURCH FOR UNKNOWN REASONS

HOLY CARDINAL FILONI:  OH, I DON’T KNOW ABOUT ANY MARRIED CHICOM FRANCISBISHOPS, BUT I WOULD WELCOME ANY DOCUMENTATION TO THAT EFFECT, YOU KNOW.

AMORIS LAETITIA ‘EXPLAINER,’ CD. SCHÖNBORN COVERING UP FOR FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES OF HIS BISHOP

SANTA CLAUSE AND THE TWO MAIN BRANCHES OF PRESENT DYNAMICS MATHEMATICS

FRANCE’S MISERABLEMACRON SAYS HE “DEEPLY REGRETS” US DECISION TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM SYRIA

HOW DOCTORS CAN STOP ABORTIONS: SIMPLY REFUSE TO PERFORM THEM

SCOTLAND ACHIEVES GENDER EQUALITY WITH SWITCH TO “GINGERBREAD PERSON”

RADICAL FRANCIS: WITHOUT FAITH, HE SAID, THERE IS A LACK OF STRENGTH TO SPEAK TO THOSE WHO SUFFER.  FAITH IS NOURISHED BY CHARITY, YOU KNOW.

ANGLICAN “AMBASSADOR” TO HOLY SEE IS PRO-GAY AND PRO-DEATH

‘NEVER AGAIN’ FRANCIS AND THE TICKING TIMEBOMBS OF HIS MAHONYCHURCH: “ALL OF THIS IS BEYOND THE GRIMLY SATIRICAL IMAGINATION OF EVELYN WAUGH, AND THE CHURCH HASN’T EVEN HIT BOTTOM YET”

DESPERATE WOMEN FLEEING VENEZUELA SELL HAIR, BREAST MILK, SEX TO GET BY

VERMONT GRINCH STEALS THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF CHRISTMAS TREES

WHY DOESN’T THE POPE OF PERVCHURCH JUST TURN HIMSELF IN?

WSJ: FIERY HOLY FRANCIS’S SPECIAL PERVCHURCH PANEL LETTING ITS CASES SKATE

DER SPIEGEL WRITER ATTACKS SMALL TOWN IN MINNESOTA WITH LIES, SMEARS, AND INSULTS BECAUSE TRUMP;  GETS FIRED

THE ILLEGAL ALIEN-IDOLIZING FRANCISGOSPEL JUST THE SELFISH POWER-MESSAGE OF A DWINDLING ELITE.

FRANCIS HOLY ‘SINICIZATION OF UNITY’ TURNS CHINESE CHURCHES INTO COMMUNIST PARTY CLUBS

WAS FRANCIS’S OUTRAGEOUSLY DISHONEST CHRISTMAS RANT AGAINST HIS PERVBISHOPS JUST A THREAT TO GET ON BOARD WITH HIS EVIL AGENDA OR ELSE?

ASTRONAUTS WHO READ GENESIS TO THE WORLD ON CHRISTMAS EVE. AND GOT SUED.

YES, IT’S VERY DARK IN THE APOSTOLIC PALACE

FRANCIS’S CHINESE COMMUNISTS OF UNITY STORM FAITHFUL MONASTERY — NUNS HAVE ONE HOUR TO VACATE

BISHOP BARRON BETRAYS CHRIST, AGAIN

THE PERPETUALLY OFFENDED HAVE INHERITED THE EARTH

“A RENEWAL OF THE SOCIAL ORDER ON CHRISTIAN LINES WILL BE A WORK OF SANCTITY OR IT WILL NOT OCCUR AT ALL”

HOMOSEXUALITY IS DISORDERED AND CAN LEAD TO DEPRAVED AND DEMONIC BEHAVIOR

MUSLIMS FEAR THOUGHT MORE THAN THEY FEAR DEATH

HAVE AN ANGEL-FILLED CHRISTMAS AND DON’T FORGET TO THANK YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL WHO IS DEFINITELY A BIG BOY AND LOVES YOU MORE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE!

OUR CREATOR IS STILL MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE, AND HIS PROMISES ARE AS VALID AND TRUE NOW AS EVER BEFORE.

ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE

FR. Z: WHAT IS THE PLURAL OF A GIN AND TONIC?

PRESIDENT TRUMP: WIVES AND MOTHERS THANK-YOU FOR ANNOUNCING THE SYRIAN PULLOUT!

The darkening that comes with the year’s shortest hours of daylight is like the lowering of the lights in a theatre as the play is about to begin. But in the “Drama of Salvation” by which the human race is offered the promise of restoration to its original glory, “all the world’s a stage,” and the acts and actors are real. The creation of the world was not a mere myth, otherwise we would not be here. Nor are good and evil abstractions, for they always have had real consequences.

One of the most dramatic events in the progress of man, to which Saint Jude would later allude (Jude 1:7), was the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah about 1,700 years before the birth of Christ. He knew that the story of that destruction was not the sheer theatrics of fiction. Until recently, it was convenient for some scholars to pass it off as an instructive legend. Archeologists in a symposium this past month concluded that those cities north of the Dead Sea were utterly destroyed, and their land became uninhabitable for the next six hundred years. The substantial theory is that upwards of 60,000 inhabitants were wiped out by a meteor exploding at low altitude with the force of a ten-megaton bomb, dropping platinum and molten lava on the larger area called Middle Ghor, and unleashing a temperature the same as the sun.

Wise ones interpreted this as punishment for the corruption of that culture. There is a symbiosis between matter and morality. When souls are disordered, there are consequences in all creation. So it was, that at the climax of the Drama of Salvation, when Christ died on the cross, the sky grew black.

It has been quipped that if God does not punish our culture for its decadence and contempt for natural law, He owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology. It was to save us from total destruction that the Word, whose utterance brought all things into being, became flesh and then appeared on a day now called Christmas.

Twice did our Lord speak of Sodom, saying that its fate was less severe than that of anyone who by an act of willful pride, rejects Him and all that He requires in the way of obedience to His truth (Matthew 10:15; 11:24). Such severity is the outcry of the Christ who wants that none be lost and that all be saved. This is a reminder never to infantilize the Babe of Bethlehem for, while He may whimper in the manger, this is the Voice that made all things and judges all at the end of time. And in His humility by making Himself frail and fragile in a stable, He reveals a mercy more powerful even than an exploding meteor.

“For their sake He remembered His covenant and showed compassion according to the abundance of His steadfast love” (Psalm 106:45).

 

-Fr. George William Rutler, 12/23/18