Pope Francis makes an utter mockery of the Catholic faith, gives Nancy Pelosi communion in the Vatican though barred from it in the US

 

Friendship with the world is enmity with God

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 

-- James 4:4

And remember, my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.

-- Wizard of Oz to the Tin Man, 1939

Nancy Pelosi in shock as Supreme Court overturns liberal sacrament of abortion

 PELOSI: WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE? 

https://www.mediaite.com/uncategorized/what-is-happening-here-emotional-pelosi-slashes-at-trump-and-the-republicans-over-cruel-roe-v-wade-decision/

There is no such thing as "double belonging", unless you're a "former", or a Jesuit

 Knitter, a former Catholic priest and a major influence on many Catholics who subscribe to Buddhist ideology, insists the two faiths are not in conflict.

-- Buddhist/Catholic, Priests/Theologians Practice 'Double Belonging'  

Schutz, RNS

 

 

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.  

 

-- Matthew 6:24

Democracy in action

 As when in tumults rise th' ignoble crowd,

Mad are their motions, and their tongues are loud.

-- John Dryden

The flighty life of the enthusiast

 He is drawn, by a sort of ignis fatuus, into bogs and mire almost every day of his life.

-- Isaac Watts

Christian Reformed Church of America 2022 Synod affirms that "polyamory, pornography and homosexual sex ... violate the seventh commandment"

 Among other things, as reported here:

The vote to “affirm that unchastity in the Heidelberg Catechism encompasses adultery, premarital sex, extra-marital sex, polyamory, pornography and homosexual sex, all of which violate the seventh commandment,” passed 123 to 53, with two voting to abstain.

The tree of loving grows on the bank of the river of suffering

 

John Dryden was no Athenian

 A multitude of scribblers, who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff, should be discouraged from writing anymore.

-- John Dryden

For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.

-- Acts 17:21

Impiety begets impiety

Shall then the Son of Saturn be undone,
Like Saturn, by an impious Son!
Justly th' impartial Fates conspire,
Dooming that Son to be the Sire
Of such another Son.

-- George Granville

Calvinist Grand Rapids publisher "Eerdmans is proud to publish many books ... that have stood the test of time", and a bunch that never will

 

Books to Read for Pride Month

The tweet was deleted, but the blog post, and the books, remain.

When pride cometh . . .

 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

-- Proverbs 11:2