Happily at home in a Maronite Parish

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No, Virginia. Jews are not the innocent victims of the putative "Teaching of contempt"

 The Catholic Church has never had a teaching of contempt about The Jews.

But, in this ecumenical epoch of political accommodation with the ancient and permanent enemies of The Catholic Church, the modern Hierarchy has opened itself to the world, it has become mute about the sins of artificial birth control and fornication and, worst of all, it is silent about sodomy when it is not actively promoting it and it (via Benedict in his trilogy) is silent about the Jews and their need to accept Jesus if they are to be saved.

Ecumenism (The Universal Solvent of Tradition) is execrable in that it insinuates that Indifference is acceptable to Catholics and That The Catholic Church need not strive to teach the truth about the Jews or preach the need for them to convert.

No, the modern drift/inertia is all in the direction of Indifference and Universalism (come on, everyone is saved, right?) and the Church will not teach the truth about The Jews.

Here is a great and very affordable collection of Dogmatic Teachings by the great Rev. Jospeh Pohle that can be found at Amazon and it sets right what has been so wrong in the era and errors of Ecumenism.

Just try to imagine any Pope since Pope Saint Pius X

bold and honest enough to make this observation:

British Bird Shows 'em

 

January 2, 1982 — Described by the BBC as “perhaps the most famous of all streaks,” 24-year-old Erika Roe stripped to the waist on this day and bounced onto the pitch at London’s Twickenham Stadium during a rugby international between England and Australia.

Her dash onto the pitch with a friend (Sarah Bennett) – partly caused, she said later, by alcohol – came at half time

“I still can’t really explain what happened,” she said in an interview. “It was very unlike me.

“But on that day, it was a case of just being swept up in the atmosphere, which was electric. (Yes, thousands of spectators disrobed and ran around the field. Happens all the time). At half time, someone said, ‘Isn’t this where someone is supposed to streak on the pitch?’ and that was it — I just went. I ripped my top off, then my bra.

“When I heard a roar I thought that the game had restarted and I thought I must get off the pitch. But then I realised that the crowd was yelling in appreciation of me. 

“The next thing, I was shrouded in a Union Jack flag carried by an England supporter and marched off by policemen. 

“It’s still a bit of a blur. I don’t even know where I left my clothes.”

Ms Roe, a boarding school girl whose father ran a tea estate in Africa, was working at that time in a book shop. Now married, she moved later in life with her husband and three children to Portugal where she became an organic farmer of sweet potatoes.

(Yes, Hey England, check out my sweet taters...)

For the record, England beat Australia by 15 points to 11. Other vital statistics from that day, which are not recorded by the Rugby Football Union, the game’s governing body, are that Ms Roe’s bosom – displayed to 60,000 spectators and millions on television – measured an ample 40 inches.

WAY TO GO MOM.

Friday Fun.

 Mount Merapi, Indonesia, and The Space Program

 The Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) has reported that an eruption occurred at Mount Merapi on June 21, 2020 at 09.13 WIB (02.13 UTC). The first eruption was recorded on a seismogram with an amplitude of 75 mm and a duration of 328 seconds.

LUMAJANG, Indonesia – Workers snap the miniature rocket's wings into place as Indonesia's little-known space agency readies its latest launch on barren scrubland in East Java.

With a 3, 2, 1 blast off, the two-meter-long projectile belches a trail of fire and then soars a few hundred meters before crashing in a heap – earning a thumbs up from scientists who declared the test a success.

Sadly, the "rocket," which was pointed directly at Engineer Eddie, resulted in his heroic but horrible death.

"Next time, we point it at the stars," said Agun Dewa, the director of Boom Boom Technologies in Papua New Guinea.

It's a very long way from a Mission Control in Houston, but the Southeast Asian archipelago's answer to NASA has big hopes and is now planning to build its first spaceport on a tropical island off the coast of easternmost Papua.

"We've got a dream to put our own satellite -launching rocket 200 or 300 kilometers into space within 5 years," said Lilis Mariani, head of the Rocket Technology Centre at the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space, known as Lapan.

Some experts question how realistic that timeline is, and officials acknowledge much will depend on whether Jakarta stumps up the necessary funds.

Agun Dewa admits that if the expected funding does not materialise they will have to go back to the old ways of their space agency - heaving giant woks into Mount Marapi hoping the next eruption will cause at least one Giant Wok to be blowed-up into space where it will become "The next Sputnik."