Saturday, December 19, 2009

The Protection of Christmas - December, 20th 2009, Fourth Sunday of Advent


In her liturgical generosity, our Holy Mother the Church, gives us three distinct Masses every December twenty - fifth. They are known as the Midnight Mass, the Mass at Dawn, and the Mass of Christmas Day.

During the second Mass, the Mass at Dawn, the Church presents us with the memory of a noble widow of Rome named Anastasia, the only saint who gets a "feast day" commemoration on Jesus' Birthday.

Saint Anastasia was martyred by burning on December the twenty - fifth in the year 304.

Among all the Christmas Day occurrences of nineteen hundred years, the Church has chosen to remember, in conjunction with Our Lord's Birth, only this one event; the suffering and death of a Christian martyr whose crime before men was to insist that the Holy Infant of Bethlehem is the One, True God.

This Christmas there are many gods being proposed to the Catholics of America. They are gods with names like Tolerance and Brotherhood, and fail to worship them has become, in effect , a crime before men. Invoking saint Anastasia, The Point prays this Christmas for those who will be guilty of the crime, and who will insist, publicly and persistently, that the Christ Child of Christmas is the only true God, and that His Virgin Mother is that same Mother of God who, when our last Christmas is finally behind us, will stand unique and singular as the one Gate of Heaven.

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For centuries, Catholics have believed that the world was created the way Genesis says it was, and that, therefore, the age of the world is a knowable and not too large number. Not until the "anthropology priests" of our day have Catholics defied the Church's clear tradition on the age of the world.

Each Christmas, however, the priests' Breviary contains a decided kick in the shin- bones for those excavating clerics who prefer to think that the ancestors of the Infant Jesus were the baboons of a few million years ago.

Says the Martyrology for the 25th December: "In the 5,199th year of the creation of the world, from the time when God in the beginning created the heavens and the earth, in the 2,957th year after the flood, in the 2,015th year from the birth of Abraham, ...in the 42nd year of the rule of Octavian Augustus, all the earth being at peace, Jesus Christ , the Eternal God, and the Son of the Eternal Father,...was born in Bethlehem of Juda of the Virgin Mary, made Man."


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The Protection of Christmas

Thy light is come, Jerusalem, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee, and the Gentiles shall walk in thy light. Alleluia


In the troubled season of Christmas, 1958, as the last strongholds of our civilization falter before the Jewish siege, let all who are about to despair consider the above words. They are of an antiphon in the Christmastime liturgy of the Catholic Church, and they offer a needed reminder. Though we must not forget that the Jews have rejected the incarnate God, we must also remember - with thanksgiving and the chanting of alleluias - that God has likewise cast off the Jews and established His new and eternal covenant with us Gentiles.



"A Child is born to us, a Son is given to us, " is the jubilant shout of Catholics at Christmas.



To the Jews, it is a taunt, notifying them that however much they might bedevil the Church with their anti- Christian onslaughts, her ultimate triumph over them is assured. The gates of Hell shall not prevail against her..


From The Point - Fr. Feeney, December, 1958 and December, 1952

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Climategate Christmas 12 December, 2009, Within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception


Climategate Christmas/ Twelve Days of Global warming


As we head into the Christmas season and prepare to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in just 12 days, for those who are still lucky enough to be present at one of the three Masses being offered up on that day, I thought it might be appropriate to finish up, for the time being on this climategate stuff and the shennanigans currently being played out in Copenhagen, with a little light hearted humor!





[ ...remember, polar bears can't swim, so I guess they will have to do with a "paddle pop"! ]
And so, we present :


Thanks to http://www.m4gw.com/ - Minnesotans 4 Global Warming



It's a Climategate Christmas !

at:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQXY4tWaoI



and....



....12 Days of Global Warming !



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmPSUMBrJoI





[ ...twelve days of global warming...]











[ ...poor fella',...musta' got caught out by the melting ice when he was hibernating...drat that global warming thing....and not a seal in sight! ...looks like it's gonna be a long summer for him!]



Having trouble opening up those links, then just go to Minnesotans for Global Warming at www.M4GW.com and watch videos on their site!



https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiZxUWAfOHK6vBcKrIm0pZg

If We had Some Global Warming!

The Hottest year since 1863

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtWIzMY7Dqs

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Global Warming Hoax- Hacked! Monday 22 November, 2009 . St Cecilia


Climate Change Bombshell !


The following video in which Dr. Tim Ball, Research Climatologist, discusses the ramifications of the unexpected hacking of the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University, in which thousands of e-mails and documents have been released.


The e-mails to and from leading researchers in the field, and key players in the IPCC, document attempts to manipulate scientific data, destroying materials that should have been preserved, to avoid their release and the use of deceptive information to influence both the public at large and policy makers.



You can watch the video interview with Dr. Tim Ball at the Air Vent or the url address http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydo2Mwnwpac





[ And that pretty much sums up what I've always thought about s0 -called Global Warming!... 8 - D]


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Climategate becomes Warmergate as the 'cat is let out of the bag' !
[ The continuing saga of how Science became the Pseudo-Science of the NWO]

First let us look at the video in which Lord Monckton explains how Obama is poised to cede U.S. sovereignty to a New World Government in the next month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMe5dOgbu40

Then, read the following statement from Lord Monckton, in the aftermath of the release of the hacked emails/documents of the CRU by an individual or perhaps even a whistleblower...

Monckton on CRU Warmergate

November 24, 2009

"This is what they did - these climate "scientists" , on whose unsupported word the world's classe politique proposes to set up an unelected global government this December (2009) in Copenhagen,with vast and unprecedented power to control all formally free markets, to tax wealthy nations and all their financial transactions, to regulize the economic and environmental affairs of all nations, and to confiscate and extinguish all patent and intellectual property rights.

The tiny close knit clique of climate scientists who invented and now drive the "global warming" fraud - for fraud is now what we know it to be - tampered with temperature data so assiduously that, on the recent admission of one of them, land temperatures since 1980 have risen twice as fast as ocean temperatures.

One of the thousands of e-mails recently circulated by a whistleblower at the University of East Anglia, where one of the world's four global temperature data sets is compiled, reveal that data were altered so as to prevent a recent decline in temperature from showing in the record.

In fact, there has been no statistically significant "global warming" for 15 years- and there has been rapid and significant cooling for 9 years.

Worse, these arrogant fraudsters - for fraudsters are now what we know them to be - have refused, for years and years and years, to reveal their data and their computer program listings. Now we know why: As a revealing 15,000 - line document from the computer division at the Climate Research Unit shows, the program and data are a hopeless tangled mess.

In effect, the global temperature trends have simply been made up.

Unfortunately, the British researchers have been acting closely in league with their U.S. counterparts who compile the other terrestrial temperature data set- the GISS/NCDC data set. That data set too, contains numerous biases intended artificially to inflate the natural warming of the 20th century.


[ The infamous "hockey stick" graph - the brainchild of Michael Mann et al...proved to be wrong, first published in 1999...highlighted in the 2001 IPCC report...the long handle represents data up until 1900, and the blade of the stick 1900 - 2000]


Finally, these hucksters snake oil salesmen and "global warming" profiteers - for that is what they are- have written to each other encouraging the destruction of data that had been lawfully requested under the FOIA in the U.K. by scientists who wanted to check whether their global temperature record had been properly compiled - and that procurement of data destruction, as they are about to find out to their cost, is a criminal offense.


[ IPCC will no doubt try to "steamroll" their agenda through in Copenhagen in December, but I don't think there are going to be many comfortable people in that gathering of the like-minded cabal, after the leaking of all those damaging documents !...8 - D ]


They are not merely bad scientists - they are crooks.

And crooks who have perpetrated their crimes at the expense of the British and U.S. taxpayers.


[ Prof. Phil Jones, head of University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit - one of the ringleaders, who should be investigated and charged with criminal activity, if so warrented...]

I am angry, and so should you be."

[ They were so desperate to explain why recent temperature data showing cooling over the last ten years or so, did not match their junk concocted data, they were reduced to living the lie year after year...so,I guess now, we can safely talk about global cooling...once again! 8 - D ] .....but not man - made!
WARNING - Some people may not appreciate the following video!
[ 8 - D ]
Hide the Decline - Climategate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEiLgbBGKVk





A Few of Those Damning e-mails

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Lord Monckton - more on Climategate




Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Qhm6YRdJE
Climategate spreads to N.Z. - NIWA caught fudging the records to "Hide The Decline"......more to follow [8 - D]
Hot Off The Press- Latest News Release on Climategate!
December, 1 , 2009
CRU's ringleader , Phil Jones to step down while investigation into the whole sorry mess takes place....first it was "there was no dumped data, then it was "95% thrown away" so that no raw data could be verified by scientists...I guess it will all come out in the investigation, so long as it is a complete independant investigation, not "peer reviewed"!


Meanwhile back in the jungle of little ol' N.Z. it appears NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research N.Z.) have also been 'fiddling the books', refusing to release climate data for verification by N.Z. scientists, after they too claim the trend has been for climate warming, in spite of the fact that raw data reveals that, the opposite has been the case.
[ read the latest on the climate scam in AIR CON at TBR.cc ]

Unaltered climate data reveals that cooling has been taking place for the last 9 years, as released by the Climate Science Coalition shows no warming as claimed by the Global warming 'tree hugger' and alarmists at NIWA, over the last 100 years...I guess their masters at the IPCC threatened them if they stepped outta' line in their conclusions, and went against the trend espoused by the NWO's agenda, their funding would suddenly dry up like a creek bed in summer !


Remember, of the three pillars the NWO were reying on to bring in their Reign of Terror ( World Governance),c.f Pope Benedict XV's definition... two have already fallen, The "Swine Flu" scam and the "Financial Crisis" scam....and now the third which they can't afford to have fail, the "Global Warming" hoax/ scam....there is sooo much money tied up in all this! $$ $$$ $$$ = $$$$ $$$ $ $ $$ $$ $$$ $$$ $$ $$$ ....Come Copenhagen 7 December, 2009.
[ This guy's already running for cover as the sheep are waking up to the NWO wolves]

Why the rest of the stations were adjusted is anybody's guess, and Dr. David Wratt, Chief Climate scientist, NIWA, ex vice chair on the IPCC 2007 AR4 report, refuses to say why,and if it be because of island/ urbanization effects, any adjustment should be downward,not upwards as the boffins at NIWA would have us believe! Check all this out at the TBR.cc


If you really believe this climate cabal, you will believe anything...

[ ...and now, kiddies, you can all relax and be assured that the polar bears were not dying out afterall...and did you know, they can actually swim...just go back home and tell Mummy and Daddy we were just kidding!....and we don't know anybody by the name of Al Gore, either!]

Phil Jones told the Guardian last week,

"We're not deleting any e- mails or data here at CRU."

Yet, in one of the leaked e-mails quotes him confirming to a U.S colleague, Dec, 3, 2008..."about two months ago I deleted loads of e-mails, so have very little if any at all." !!!! 8 - [

Of course there's the Wellington fiasco, where because overlaps between Thorndon and Kelburn were absent, it was decided to lower Thorndon's temps for a best fit arrangement, on the basis that Wellington Airport and Thorndon would be similar...yeah, right!....different climatic zones, given that they are 15km apart .



But, why lower those two sites! Doesn't make sense....8 - B


The Truth will out!
[ ah, so that's how they adjusted all those met station figures!]








You can read all this on the TBR.cc site see Climate Science Coalition N.Z.


HOT Off the Press - Lord Christopher Monckton -Fudges caught GREEN -HANDED [ Dec 3, 2009]


[ This is a must read just released by the SPPI- Science & Public Policy Institute....Climategate: Caught Greenhanded! by Lord Christopher Monckton, November 30, 2009]






[ Read the full report on Alex Jone's site at www.infowars.com ] See: " Climategate Outrage Explodes as Carbon Tax Agenda Collapses" - Paul Joseph Watson.

Weather Forecast for Copenhagen, (3 December, 2009)
Weather Channel-
For Monday 7 December, 2009.

[Cloudy; 47deg F ( 8.4 deg C) High; 44 deg F ( 6.6 deg C ) Low. Chance of rain 20%.]


Updated forecast for Copenhagen, Monday 7 December. ( December 4, 2009)

[Cloudy with a brief shower or two. High 41deg F ( 4 deg C), Low 37 deg F ( 2.8 deg C) ]

Forecast update for Copenhagen, Monday 7 December ( Dec 5 , 2009)
Light rain/fog. High 45 deg F( 7.2 deg C) Low 43 deg F ( 6.1 deg C ) Chance of rain 60%
Forecast Dec 7, 2009 Copenhagen:
Showers High N/A Low 42 deg F ( 5.6 deg C) 30% chance of rain
Forecast for Dec 8, Cloudy High 44 deg F ( 6.7 deg C) Low 40 deg F ( 4 deg C) 20% chance of rain
Forecast for Dec 12, Rain/Snow Showers, High 37 deg F ( 2.7 deg C) Low 33 deg F (0.6 deg C)

News Flash! December, 4, 2009

Al Gore has just cancelled his high profile appearance at the upcoming Copenhagen - Aaron Dykes JonesReport.com Dec 3, 2009 -infowars.com


Lord Monckton calls for his arrest and prosecution, as the climate change house of cards falls, Nov 25....but it looks very much like Al Gore has decided not to front up and further tarnish his already bullet-riddled reputation!




NIWA's star weather station an international laughing stock!

The site with the longest running warming trend just happens to be sitting in the middle of an Urban Heat Island ...read article at TBR.cc website
[ Met enclosure at Kelburn, Wellington,New Zealand, showing close proximity of tarsealed carpark with attendant cars and tourist buses, must surely be affecting temperature data used in the climate scam - note position of Stevenson Screen in which thermometers are housed]



BUT, what struck me was, that this was not the site in use during the 1960's and earlier! When was the new site set up? I have no doubt this will eventually come out! The original site was maybe 100 yards further north towards the new Met Office building.



Latest interview with Lord Monckton on DAY 1 , Dec 7, 2009 ,of the Copenhagen Climate Treaty...view at www.infowars.com and to be interviewed daily from the Copenhagen Conference....




[ site of new met enclosure, Kelburn, Wellington, since when????]

Watch Videos on Global Warming: Highly recommended!

 

If We Had Some Global Warming! -  M4GW


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiZxUWAfOHK6vBcKrIm0pZg

 

Hide the Decline - M4GW


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMqc7PCJ-nc


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Catholic Spirituality: Pope Gregory XVI ( 1840) "This is surely the time when the Christian battle line should smash the devil as he rages all over the world." ( Probe Nostis # 15 )

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Chemtrails/Contrails and Strange Clouds- 15 November, 2009.24th Sunday after Pentecost. St. Albert the Great,B,C.

Chemtrails and Contrails

Where to start. Since the concept of chemtrails is a relatively new phenomena to most people, first coming to notice by the mid 1990's, it has now become a serious cause for concern, amongst a growing number of people, more especially in the United States and Great Britain, but recently in Australia as far back as 2000.

[ Contrail persistant and affected by wind shear forms a thin cirrus cloud and drifts away from observer, in a westerlie airstream. Aircraft travelling northwards from Dunedin to Wellington or Auckland]..... But was it a chemtrail?

Cases have apparently even been reported in New Zealand, including Wellington and Tauranga, in recent years.



Not least, because of health problems being reported along with ,and shortly after the observation of such alleged chemtrail activity , are people concerned.


[ What can we do about it? Well, for a start start talking about it and raising peoples' awareness and reporting it to local and government officials, news media etc]


For example, after such reported activity, depletion in the amount of rain has been reported,leading to drought conditions, lack of visibility and polluted skies, being the replacement for once clear blue skies.



[ Now, I would be certainly concerned if I spotted that in my sky - definitely suspicious! Chemtrail or contrail?]




Definitions:

Contrails are caused by moisture in engine exhaust of high flying aircraft forming a cloud when mixed with the surrounding colder air. If the surrounding air has a low humidity level the moist air from the jet engine might produce a short lived contrail or none at all...


...a useful guide for forecasting the weather may be obtained by observing the presence or absence of contrails.

If the contrail disappears quickly expect clear skies and settled weather.

If the contrail lingers and thickens before falling apart, expect a possible change in the weather.

The long lasting contrail indicates high humidity at high altitudes, usually associated with approaching bad weather, while one which does not persist or does not appear indicates low moisture levels at high altitudes, and a settled weather outlook.


[Contrail lingering in regions of higher humidity only- I spotted this one and just managed to race inside to grab the camera to record the next sequence...notice the wind shear in cirrus cloud being generated by the contrail]


Contrails normally form when the temperature is low enough ( less than about -38 deg C) for the droplets to freeze in a few seconds. Wind shear can draw out the contrail into an almost horizontal sheet of thin cirrus cloud.


Next question, is how can we know when we are looking at an innocent naturally occurring contrail as opposed to a deliberate man- made phenomena known as a chemtrail, or a persistent contrail?

[ ...definitely a contrail - notice how the jet engine exhaust disappears within a few seconds of leaving the aircraft as it encounters drier air]

Well, apart from testing the material exhaust from the aircraft and studying the immediate after-effects upon the lives and health of people, or perhaps talking to the pilots flying these aircraft, or examing Government documents on related matters, it can be difficult to determine whether one is looking at one or the other.

So if chemtrails are different to contrails and are persistent, the difference must lie in their composition, and tests have shown that heavy metals, including aluminium and barium are part of the exudent, and these at high altitudes where humidity levels are as low as 30%, where contrails would not normally form. The very fine heavy metal particles have the ability to act as condensation nuclei at these very low humidity levels, so that cirrus clouds from at 30,000 to 40,000ft, much higher than one would normally expect. Much of this is covered on the website below, and more besides...


There are some excellent well documented sites which have extensive files on chemtrails, and I would suggest anyone concerned would be well rewarded in the time and effort spent on further research on this topic.

Start with http://www.apfn.org/apfn/contrails.htm , watch the video and also take a look at :

Rense.com chemtrails data page- for more reading on this serious topic!

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Strange Clouds

Apparently people have been noticing unusual looking clouds in their skies...and have even suggested they be given a completely separate classification, being put into a new group known as "asperatus".


I wonder how long these people have been observing clouds or bothered to glance up at the sky and notice that each passing day produces a completely new set of clouds, and that not one day's set of clouds is exactly like another, a bit like snowflakes, I guess?

Some are more striking than others, admittedly, but they still belong to the same family, sharing the same basic characteristics.



Anycase, the clouds in the pictures are readily identifiable ...as you will see, agree or otherwise!


[ Starting from top left: stratocumulus undulatus,all the rest Cumulonimbus mamma, except for bottom right: stratocumulus undulatus]






CATHOLIC DOCTRINE
Pope Leo XIII ( 1896)



" Christ's teaching from the ship signifies that those who are outside the Church can never grasp the divine teaching, for the ship typifies the Church where the word of life is deposited and preached. Those who are outside are like sterile and worthless sand; they cannot comprehend." ( Satis Cognitum #9 )

Saturday, September 26, 2009

FATIMA - END TIMES SIGN - TWO LAST REMEDIES- Sunday 27th Sept., 2009. St. Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs


Sister Lucia told Fr. Fuentes in 1957 that we are in the last times

"Father, the Most Holy Virgin did not tell me that we are in the last tmes of the world but she made me understand this for three reasons.
The first reason is because she told me that the Devil is in the mood for engaging in a decisive battle where one side will be victorious and the other side will suffer defeat. Hence from now on we must choose sides. Either we are for God or we are for the Devil. There is no other possibility.

"The second reason is because she said to my cousins as well as to myself that God is giving two last remedies to the world. These are the Holy Rosary and Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.. These are the last two remedies which signify that there will be no others.

"The third reason is because in the plans of Divine Providence, God always, before He is about to chastise the world, exhausts all other remedies. Now, when He sees that the world pays no attention whatsoever then, as we say in our imperfect manner of speaking, He offers us with a certain trepidation the last means of salvation, His Most Holy Mother. It is with a certain trepidation because if you despise and repulse this ultimate means we will not have any more forgiveness from Heaven because we will have committed a sin against the Holy Spirit.

This sin consists of openly rejecting with full knowledge and consent, the salvation which He offers. Let us remember that Jesus Christ is a very good Son and that He does not permit that we offend and despise His Most Holy Mother.





We have recorded through many centuries of Church history the obvious testimony which demonstrates, by the terrible chastisements which have befallen those who have attacked the honor of His Holy Mother.


Regarding the Holy Rosary, Sister Lucia told Fr. Fuentes in a famous 1957 interview:


"Look, Father, the Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live, has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Holy Rosary.



She has given this efficacy to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all , spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families, of the families of the world, or of the religious communities, or even of the life of peoples and nations that cannot be solved by the Rosary.




There is no problem I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary. With the Holy Rosary, we will save ourselves, we will sanctify ourselves. We will console Our Lord and obtain the salvation of many souls."
















[ Pictorial illustration of the Fifteen Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary - depicting major events in the life of Jesus and Mary, His Holy Mother ] - meditated upon whilst reciting the prayers of the rosary....








[ The Holy Rosary - The full Rosary indicating days on which the particular mysteries may be recited - of course the full Rosary should be recited every day, if possible, by praying each set of mysteries at different times of the day according to one's circumstances]

Sunday, September 6, 2009

BENEDICT XVI IS PRO- ABORTION September, 8th, 2009. The Nativity of The Blessed Virgin Mary

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BENEDICT XVI IS PRO-ABORTION

The evidence presented in this video shows that those who accept Benedict XVI are not pro -life but pro -abortion.

It shows that Benedict XVI is pro -abortion by examining the case of Ted Kennedy .

Ted Kennedy was pro- abortion. He was even in favour of partial birth abortion, and supported gay "marriage" . Ted Kennedy was also divorced and "re- married".

Benedict XVI , his representatives and his Vatican II church officially consider Ted Kennedy to have been a Catholic and the servant of Christ.
They consider him saved and to be one who will live forever with Christ.

This video shows that all those who do not condemn Benedict XVI as a heretic are pro -abortion.

It proves that Benedict XVI is not the pope, but a heretical antipope.
work in progress -


[ Antipope Benedict XVI - the Vatican II sect, commemorated Kennedy as "one of the faithful departed". Since, according to St. Paul, all those who rest in Christ , for all eternity, are saints. We now have the situation where, according to the Vatican II sect under Benedict XVI we now have a pro- abortion Saint!]



[ "Cardinal Sean O'Malley praises Kennedy as one of the "faithful departed" - a pro-abortion and pro- gay "Catholic" on Saturday, at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Boston's Mission Hill]

In front row notice President Obama and wife and right behind Bill Clinton and Hilary Clinton...




[ " Cardinal" Sean Patrick O'Malley , representing the Vatican II sect of the Counter- church of the last days, officiates at the funeral of Ted Kennedy in the Novus Ordo Cathedral, formally the Basilica of Our Lady Of Perpetual Help, Boston. ]






[ I think this is Kennedy's new "wife", maybe even a daughte...must check...nope it says it's Victoria Kennedy.... o.k.]






President Obama delivers eulogy at pro-abortion supporter Ted Kennedy 's funeral.
[ ...Uh! ...I....uh...would like to Ugh....say uh,...and Teddy...ugh ......I ...uh...can remeber...uh ( where's that damn tele...ugh....prompter...ugh)....and in con....ugh...clusion...I think we sould be all ...ugh...grateful that we have a saint in ...ugh uh .. heav...ugh ...in....uh!]


Finally, what you have all been waiting for, but was delayed due to unforseen technical difficulties, in translation of the relevant video clip from it's parent site to said blog!!!

VIEW HERE:
http://www.mostholyfamilymonastery.com/wma/B16_is_pro_abortion.wmv

IMPORTANT NEW VIDEO JUST POSTED ON THE "SWINE FLU" BLOG - Just Scroll down this page...

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