In one of the cardinal’s antechambers, amid religious statues and book-lined walls, Cardinal Burke and Mr. Bannon — who is now President Trump’s anti-establishment eminence — bonded over their shared worldview. They saw Islam as threatening to overrun a prostrate West weakened by the erosion of traditional Christian values, and viewed themselves as unjustly ostracized by out-of-touch political elites. MORE

At age 24, Alex Mangion became Malta’s first transgender politician when he won a local office on the conservative Nationalists’ ticket, a striking combination in a country that until recently had been a last bastion in western Europe of social norms largely dictated by the Catholic church.

The Nationalist Party recruited Mangion to run for town council with an eye toward grooming him as a candidate for next year’s Parliamentary election. The party, which governed Malta for a quarter-century, hopes to reverse its stinging, landslide 2013 loss to socialist archrivals who returned to power with an agenda heavy on LGBT rights. MORE

“I have been proudly serving in the US Navy Reserve Force since November 2008. I have pledged to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and to spread freedom and democracy around the world. I will never waver from that pledge. I feel like a hypocrite singing about the ‘land of the free’ when I know that only applies to some Americans. I will gladly stand again, when ALL AMERICANS are afforded the same freedom.” MORE & MORE

This is brilliant:  That’s Amore Francis Italian style

Is Babylon falling?

On Saturday, posters appeared around Rome featuring a stern-looking Pope Francis and questioning “Where’s your mercy?” Although no group took credit, the fact that they spoke of a decapitation of the Order of Malta makes it easy to infer they came from conservative quarters. MORE

Vol 10 Issue 5 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
February 4, 2017 ~ Saint

1. Is the Chair of Peter Vacant? An Argument for Sedevacantism
2. Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
3. Saint Agatha
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices

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JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, who had been closemouthed on the contentious question of moving the United States Embassy to Jerusalem, said on Sunday that the embassy “needs to be here.”

But he pointedly did not demand that President Trump immediately follow through on his campaign promise to move the embassy — made by many presidential nominees since the 1970s but never fulfilled. MORE

From the interview granted by the Superior-General of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), Bishop Bernard Fellay, to the program “Terres de Mission” by TVLibertes, a conservative French network, as reported by Italian website Radio Spada: MORE

SAN FRANCISCO — In a compact studio apartment on the fringes of the Castro district here a young couple live with their demanding 7-year-old, whom they dote on and take everywhere: a Scottish terrier named Olive.

Raising children is on the agenda for Daisy Yeung, a high school science teacher, and Slin Lee, a software engineer. But just not in San Francisco. MORE

The government of Chile says wildfires that have killed at least 10 people are the worst blazes in the country’s history.

Several firefighters are among the dead.

“We have never seen anything on this scale, never in the history of Chile,” President Michelle Bachelet said earlier this week, after her administration declared a state of emergency. “The truth is that the forces are doing everything humanly possible and will continue until they can contain and control the fires.” MORE

Deny, deny, confuse, conceal, and claim it’s the parents who are lying. The tactics being used by school officials in this Colorado district are almost as shocking and angering as the horrible x-rated material that is being made available to middle school students.

This kind of behavior by school officials is not new, of course. We’ve seen for years it across the country. We even recall one Massachusetts elementary school that told three parents in a row who called upset about a homosexual event there that they were “only one” who had complained. MORE