Quit condemning the Catholic Church for Indian deaths

by Joseph Saraceno

Reply to Jim Morris and the rest of the News Media.

One important cause of Native American depopulation during European contact was epidemic disease. The sixteenth through nineteenth centuries saw many different diseases strike Native American’s, North and South populations with considerable frequency. Many of the diseases, such as syphilis, smallpox, measles, mumps, and bubonic plague, were of European origin, and Native Americans exhibited little immunity because they had no previous exposure to those diseases. When you have this volume of deaths, there’s no time for grave stones and the like.

Shame shame shame on the news media for slandering Christians who often were killed for helping Indians from killing themselves, for the most part.
God’s revenge is here to stay, until judgment day. Weep America, weep.
Joseph B. D. Saraceno
Native Americans and The Smallpox Epidemic – Varsity Tutorshttps://www.varsitytutors.com/

St. John the Baptist Prayer Card

by Joseph Saraceno

The enclosed St. John the Baptist Card is free to whomever wants one. Just send me a self-addressed envelope with a first class stamp on it. To:

Joseph Saraceno
17024 S. Western Ave.
SPC-8
Gardena, CA 90247-2515

For more than one, up to three, add one dollar. 
God bless, in Christ, Joseph

Full Moon on St. John the Baptist’s Birthday. 6-24-2021 Happy Birthday

by Joseph Saraceno

Father Kevin O’ Sullivan commentaries 1957, Third Sunday of Advent
St. John the Baptist, Elias and God’s Kingdom

When John the Bap­tist appeared at the Jordan river, pro­claiming that the kingdom of God was at hand (cf. Mt. 3:1-12; Mk. 1:2-8; Lk. 3:2-18) the Jews flocked to hear him. (One has to remember that John came from the priestly TRIBE and was supposed to become a priest), The expectation of the Promised Re­deemer, the Messiahs, was strong at this time, and here was a Prophet announcing his proximate arrival and calling on the people to repent of their sins in order to be prepared to receive him.

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Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization

by Joseph Saraceno

A good look at today’s America

I live about 20 minutes south of the Canadian border, which used to be called the longest undefended frontier in the world. People moved freely back and forth across it all day every day. But now it’s been closed for over a year. At one point my daughter asked me to drive her up there, because there was a 30-minute opportunity for people on one side to talk to their friends on the other. “Sad!” as President Trump would say. It was like Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin during the Cold War, except that both sides are now like East Berlin. MORE