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And now... the rest of the story.
Every year, families across America gather around the television.
They watch a bald kid try to kick a football. A beagle dance on a dog house. Charlie Brown get a rock instead of candy.
They laugh.
They don't know they're watching a man's autobiography.
When Charles Schulz was a boy, the other children called him Sparky. The name of a horse in a comic strip. A joke horse.
He failed every single subject in eighth grade.
Not one or two.
Every. Single. Subject.
But the grades weren't the worst part.
Paul Harvey told this story, and his voice cracked on this line:
"Sparky wasn't actually disliked by the other youngsters. No one cared enough about him to dislike him."
He wasn't hated. He was nothing.
The one thing he had was his drawings. He submitted cartoons to the school yearbook.
Rejected.
He wrote to Walt Disney. Poured everything into the drawings.
The reply was a form letter. Disney only hired the very finest artists. Sparky was not among the very finest.
Harvey paused there. Then: "I think deep down, Sparky expected to be rejected."
This is where the motivational speakers lie to you.
The rest of the story isn't about winning.
Sparky didn't try to prove them wrong. He wrote his autobiography in cartoons.
He drew himself. The loser. The kid who failed everything.
He named him after himself.
Charlie Brown.
You know what Charlie Brown never does?
Win.
His kite crashes. Lucy pulls the football. The Little Red-Haired Girl doesn't notice him.
And sixty years later, we still watch.
Not because Charlie Brown succeeds.
Because Charlie Brown keeps showing up.
Here's the part even Paul Harvey didn't tell.
Schulz taught Sunday school. He read the Bible so constantly his strips are filled with scripture.
When network executives tried to cut Linus reciting Luke 2 from the Christmas special, Schulz refused.
Either the Gospel stays, or there's no special.
It stayed.
A boy called a horse.
A student who failed everything.
An artist Disney rejected.
Planted the Gospel of Luke in front of sixty million homes.
The loser became the messenger.
God has a history of using the rejected ones.
Moses had a stutter. David was the forgotten son. Peter denied Him three times.
The kite never flew.
But the Gospel did.
Still falling?
Good company, brother.
Get up.
He's not done with you yet.
A Protestant Woman Went Viral After Explaining Why She Started Praying the Rosary
Instagram creator Sarah Giles recently shared something that caught a lot of attention: why she, as a Protestant, started praying the Rosary.
Since then, she has continued learning more about the Catholic Church and what Catholics actually believe.
In her video, Giles directly addresses some of the accusations Protestants sometimes make about the Rosary, including claims that it is “demonic, satanic, or a form of idolatry.”
She rejects those claims completely.
“None of those are true, and quite frankly, we sound a little bit uneducated when we say those things,” Giles says. “I know this because that’s how I sounded when I first started learning about the rosary.”
That honesty is important.
Sometimes the things we criticize most strongly are the things we have never actually taken the time to understand.
Giles encourages people to approach the Rosary with humility, to open their “hearts and minds,” and to “do your research.”
She then explains what the Rosary is really centered on.
“This tool is used to meditate on the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. It’s used to meditate on specific mysteries — whether the Sorrowful Mysteries or the Glorious Mysteries — to place yourself at the scene, or to look through the eyes of the people who were there and meditate on that,” she explains.
And that is something many people misunderstand about the Rosary.
The prayers may repeat, but the purpose is not empty repetition. The Rosary draws the mind back again and again to Jesus Christ and the mysteries of His life, Passion, death, and Resurrection.
For Giles, it has also changed her personal prayer life.
She says praying the Rosary has brought her closer to God and even describes it as feeling like a spiritual weapon.
“Even when I wore this for two days after I started praying the rosary, I felt like I had a weapon with me. Not because of what this is, but because of what God is doing through it.”
That distinction matters.
Catholics do not believe beads themselves have magical power. The Rosary is a prayer. Its power comes from God, and its purpose is to lead us deeper into the life of Christ.
Giles ends by asking people not to judge something they have never seriously studied.
“This is so powerful, and I would encourage you: if you haven’t researched for yourself what Catholics or Orthodox actually believe about the rosary, look into it before you form a prejudice,” she says.
“And even just try it with an open heart. See what the Lord has to tell you about it.”
Let us pray that more Catholics rediscover the Rosary, and that more non-Catholics are willing to learn what it actually is before dismissing it.
The Rosary has led countless souls to meditate more deeply on Jesus, Scripture, repentance, suffering, hope, and eternal life.
💬 What is one thing you wish more non-Catholics understood about the Rosary?
David Morens just pleaded guilty.
Fauci’s senior advisor. The man who sat at his right hand for years.
He used a secret Gmail account to hide official communications from the American people. He destroyed and concealed federal records to evade FOIA. He worked to protect the grants that flowed into Wuhan and the narrative that COVID could not have come from the lab his agency funded.
This was not a clerical error. This was a deliberate cover-up while the country was locked down, censored, injected, and told to “trust the science.”
Careers were destroyed. Early treatments were suppressed. Children lost years of their childhoods. Millions suffered.
We stood on the steps of the Supreme Court in 2020 and told the truth. They censored us. They called us dangerous. They were the ones deleting the evidence.
One guilty plea is not enough. The house of cards is still standing as long as the man at the top remains untouched.
Accountability is not optional. It is the only path back to medicine and a free country.
The Rosary is not a magic prayer that guarantees Heaven no matter how we live. Its power is that it keeps bringing us back to Jesus through Mary, helping us repent, trust God, and stay close to grace.
St. Louis de Montfort wrote, “If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death... you will receive a never-fading crown of glory.”
That promise points to perseverance. Scripture says the one who remains faithful will receive “the crown of life” (James 1:12). The Rosary helps train the heart to keep choosing God, even after failure.
💬 Do you believe faithfully praying the Rosary can truly change the direction of a person’s life?
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🚨 WHAT MAINSTREAM MEDIA WON’T SHOW YOU — AUGUST 18, 2026 — 76 DAYS UNTIL NOVEMBER 3RD:
AND YES — WE ARE ABSOLUTELY PISSED OFF. 🔥
🔴 THE STAR TRIBUNE IS A DEMOCRAT FRONT — CONFIRMED:
New York Post columnist Miranda Devine: “The Minnesota Star Tribune masquerades as a newspaper. It’s actually a Democrat front, hiding news, twisting facts, lying outright. One of the worst in the country.”
Even MORE damning — the Star Tribune’s CEO is Steve Grove — Tim Walz’s OWN former commissioner. The man who ran communications for the Governor now runs the paper covering him.
Minnesota newsrooms were told NOT to cover Somali fraud stories because they feared being called “racist.” Conservative reporters tried to push stories but “bumped into roadblocks.”
THAT is why you never heard about $9 BILLION until it was too late.
🔴 O’KEEFE EXPOSES VOUCHING SYSTEM — STEVE SIMON THREATENS JOURNALISTS:
O’Keefe walked into a Minneapolis polling location with two men and told poll workers they were “Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip.” Poll workers were ready to get them registered to vote as long as O’Keefe “vouched for them.”
Steve Simon’s response? He threatened O’Keefe and Higby saying they were in “legal jeopardy” — for EXPOSING the crime — not committing one.
They went after the JOURNALIST who exposed the broken system instead of fixing the broken system.
🔴 FLANAGAN — DERELICTION OF DUTY — NOW EXPOSED:
As Chair of the Capitol Security Advisory Committee — Flanagan held only roughly half of the legally mandated meetings — even after two Minnesota lawmakers were assassinated.
😡She didn’t show up for work.
😡She didn’t show up for security.
😡She didn’t show up for the fraud.
😂But she showed up to blame Walz for everything while taking credit for his wins.
🔴 DEMOCRATS SEIZING ON GUN CONTROL TO DISTRACT FROM FRAUD:
Desperate to deflect attention from Minnesota’s fraud scandals, the state’s Democrats have seized on gun control as a political lifeline — despite having already passed an anti-gun package when they had complete control over state government in 2023.
😡Classic DFL playbook:
🤔Create a crisis.
😳Ignore accountability.
🫦Change the subject.
😱Blame Republicans.
🔴 WASHINGTON POST CONFIRMS — MINNESOTA IS IN PLAY:
Minnesota’s burgeoning fraud revelations threaten to put the state in play politically. Tim Walz’s sudden, surprise exit indicates this could be true in 2026 AND 2028. Democrats’ long-time dominance there all the more precarious.
When the Washington Post admits it — you know something seismic is happening. 🇺🇸
🔴 THE BOTTOM LINE MINNESOTA:
They stole your money. ✅
They stole your vote. ✅
They stole your children’s future. ✅
They stole your voice. ✅
They covered it all up. ✅
They threatened journalists who exposed it. ✅
They laughed at you behind your backs. ✅
AND THEY ARE STILL ASKING FOR YOUR VOTE.
The audacity is breathtaking.
But here’s what THEY didn’t count on:
76 days of PISSED OFF Minnesotans who finally woke up. 🔥
🗳️ Lisa Demuth — Governor
🗳️ Michele Tafoya — Senate
🗳️ John Nagel — MN-05 vs Ilhan Omar
🗳️ Ron Schutz — Attorney General
🗳️ TAD JUDE — Secretary of State — END THE VOUCHING SYSTEM
🗳️ Anders Folk — Hennepin County Attorney
🗳️ Vote RED down EVERY SINGLE RACE
SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE.
TALK TO YOUR NEIGHBORS.
REGISTER EVERY CONSERVATIVE YOU KNOW.
Minnesota is on a LIFELINE.
We either save it NOW — or lose it FOREVER. 🙏🇺🇸
#Minnesota #PissedOff #November3 #Demuth2026 #Tafoya2026 #Nagel2026 #TadJude #RonSchutz #VoteRed #TakeBackMinnesota #NeverDFL #ElectionIntegrity #FraudExposed #StarTribuneIsALie #SAVEAmericaAct #76Days
RUSSIA HOAX: Obama knew. Clinton knew. Biden knew. Comey knew. Brennan knew. FBI knew.DOJ knew. They all knew Trump was innocent but they smeared and spied on him. Worse than Watergate. Trump is a crime victim
It’s a slippery slope that leads to more and more evil
This is repugnant and heartbreaking. These women are celebrating the signing of the new statue in Massachusetts that allows abortion up to the moment of birth and treating it as a victory for women. It is anything but. It authorizes the taking of a human life. Even the people cheering this law would admit that the baby, if born, would be a person who cannot be murdered just because the mother wants to. There is no medical, legal, or, most importantly, moral basis to treat an unborn baby at that point any differently. Horrifying. Thomas Jefferson observed in the context of slavery that "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." I pray that God's vengeance will not exact too high a price for this modern-day abomination.
I know I’ve been posting a lot recently, but as Fr. Richard John Neuhaus used to say, “it’s a target-rich environment” right now.
The governor of Massachusetts just signed into law a statute that permits abortion up until the moment of birth, as long as mother and doctor give the go-ahead.
Please understand what this means. A fully-formed child, moments before exiting the birth canal, can be eviscerated, chopped into pieces, have its head crushed or skin burned off—all under the full protection of Massachusetts law.
What I found particularly gross was the reaction of the entirely female crowd around the female governor of Massachusetts as she signed this barbaric provision into law. They were clapping and cackling with delight because what can only be called infanticide can now be practiced with impunity in their state.
I’m old enough to remember when Mario Cuomo, the devoutly Catholic governor of New York, admitted that, though he found abortion personally repugnant, he was, after tortured wrestling with his conscience, willing to give it limited protection of law.
How far we have fallen from agonized and conflicted Cuomo to the present governor of Massachusetts and her entourage gleefully applauding the murder of children.
The Miracle That Made Carlo Acutis a Saint
Saint Carlo Acutis was only 15 years old when he died. But during his short life, he had one great desire: to bring people closer to Jesus, especially in the Eucharist.
Years after his death, an extraordinary healing attributed to his intercession would help lead to his canonization.
On July 2, 2022, a 21-year-old woman from Costa Rica named Valeria Valverde suffered a terrible bicycle accident while studying in Florence, Italy. She suffered a devastating head injury. Her condition was so serious that doctors performed emergency brain surgery and removed part of her skull to relieve the pressure on her brain. Her chances of survival were extremely low.
Six days later, Valeria’s mother, Liliana, traveled to Assisi. She went to Carlo Acutis’ tomb, knelt down, prayed for her daughter, and left a written plea asking for his intercession.
That same day, something changed. Valeria began breathing on her own. The next day, she began moving her arms again and was able to speak partially.
But the recovery didn’t stop there.
Ten days later, doctors performed another CT scan. The hemorrhage in her brain had disappeared. Her recovery happened so quickly that when she was moved to rehabilitation, she needed only about one week before doctors saw she was close to a complete recovery.
Just two months after the accident, Valeria traveled with her mother to Assisi. This time, they were not coming to beg for a miracle. They were coming to Carlo’s tomb to give thanks.
The Catholic Church carefully investigated the healing, and in May 2024, Pope Francis officially recognized it as a miracle attributed to Carlo Acutis’ intercession. It was the miracle that cleared the way for his canonization.
And on September 7, 2025, Pope Leo XIV declared Carlo Acutis a saint.
The teenager who spent his short life leading people to Jesus in the Eucharist is now honored throughout the Church as Saint Carlo Acutis.
Saint Carlo Acutis, pray for us.
💬 Maybe you’ve never told anyone this before, but I know some of you have a story where the doctors said one thing and something completely unexpected happened. Have you ever witnessed a healing you still cannot explain?
John Solomon is reporting that EPA Chief Lee Zeldin revealed to him in an interview today that he has made “several criminal referrals” to the DOJ after discovering that Obama & Biden officials were moving money ($29 billion in green energy grants 🙄) around to former cabinet secretaries, donors and political activists.
“He told me today that he has found a major self-dealing scandal… Obama and Biden administration officials were moving money around to former cabinet secretaries, to donors, to political activists - Stacy Abrams, one of them… and that he’s now made several criminal referrals.”
They were stealing YOUR hard earned money and giving it to all their elitist buddies.
WHY DOES ANYONE STILL PAY TAXES?
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BREAKING--FDA Approves Moderna's mRNA Influenza Vaccine Despite 75.3% Rate of Adverse Reactions
According to the FDA briefing document, severe systemic reactions were 4× MORE COMMON than with the traditional flu shot. Data consistent with mRNA being a more dangerous vaccine platform. Will it sell in a crowded flu shot market? @NicHulscher @McCulloughFund
Today I finally understood something about Donald Trump that I had been missing this entire time. And when it hit me — it hit me completely. Because, look at who this man chose to surround himself with.
Not billionaires.
Not people born into power.
Not people who had everything handed to them.
Karoline Leavitt — 27 years old. Ice cream shop girl from New Hampshire.
Trump looked at her and saw something the entire world missed.
Made her the youngest Press Secretary in American history.
Susie Wiles — a woman who has spent her whole life quietly strategizing from the background.
No fame. No spotlight. Just pure brilliance.
Trump looked at her and said — you will be my Chief of Staff. First female Chief of Staff in American history.
JD Vance — a soldier. A boy from Appalachia who served his country in uniform before he ever served it in office.
Trump looked at him and said — you will stand beside me.
Pete Hegseth — a soldier who gave everything on the battlefield. Two Bronze Stars.
Trump looked at him and said — you will lead our military.
Marco Rubio — the son of a bartender and a hotel maid. Two immigrants who came to America with nothing.
Trump looked at their son and made him the first Latino Secretary of State in American history.
My wife heard all of this tonight and said, "Do you understand what Trump actually did?
He did not build a powerful administration.
He built an unbreakable one."
Because every single person in it knows what it feels like to have nothing. And people who came from nothing never take anything for granted.
Tonight, say one prayer for this entire administration. And say a bigger one for the man who chose them.
Then pass this to every American who needs to understand why this administration hits different from every single one that came before it (Jeff Roush)
Ted Bundy was one of the worst serial killers in history.
On the night of January 15, 1978, at 3: 00 am, Bundy m**ered two girls in the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University – he entered a third room,
but fled when he saw a girl clutching a Rosary in her hands.
Later, the girl explained that she had promised her grandmother to pray the Rosary every night when she went to bed, even if she fell asleep while praying.
Years later, when Bundy was awaiting his execution, he asked for a priest.
The priest, Fr. Esper asked him what
happened that night. Bundy said he intended to murder the girl,
but “some mysterious power prevented him.”
Pray the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary in order to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war, for she alone can help."
The Rosary,The Weapon
I love you, O most lovable Lady, and because of my love for you, I promise to serve you always and to do all in my power to win others to love you also. In your hands I place all my hopes; I entrust the salvation of my soul to your care. Accept me as your servant, O Mother of Mercy; receive me under your mantle. And since you have such power with God, deliver me from all temptations, or rather, obtain for me the strength to triumph over them until death.
Amen
Easily verifiable🤔🤔🤔
Verifiably false things almost every progressive believes.
1. Thousands of unarmed black men are killed by the police every year.
2. There is a transgender genocide happening right now in the United States.
3. Most black people don’t know how to get an ID.
4. Real Socialism hasn’t been tried.
5. The top 1% don’t pay tax or pay very little.
6. The progressive movement was responsible for ending segregation.
7. Most of the Democrats down south changed parties in the 60s or 70s.
8. Al Gore requested/wanted a full statewide recount in Florida in 2000.
9. Trump is a convicted rapist.
10. Trump called white supremacists fine people in Charlottesville in 2017.
In 1979, not long before he died, Archbishop Fulton Sheen gave his final interview to Marie Torre of WABC. The 5 most important things he said in the interview were....
1. Modern erotic culture is a failure of purpose, not merely a failure of rules.
2. The family depends on sacrificial love, not mutual self-satisfaction.
3. The human heart wants life, truth, and love in an absolute form; this desire points to God.
4. The Church cannot become credible by copying the world.
5. Children require moral formation, not permissive abandonment disguised as freedom.
When he gave this interview, no one knew it would be his. Let us never forget his wisdom.
The conspiracy theorists were right
A new FDA data mining report shows they knew the Covid vaccine had 25 major side effects and they all conspired to hide it from the public
Senator Ron Johnson’s Senate PSI Majority Staff Interim Report has been released on FDA data mining and the March 2021 analysis by Dr. Ana Szarfman
There was a “masking” in the standard FDA system, where signals from Pfizer and Moderna reportedly cancelled each other out
Meaning they lied and hid the side effects from the public and told you it was 100% safe and effective
I have compared the whole list for you:
Neurological & Dysautonomia
• Bell’s palsy (Suppressed Signal)
• Paraesthesia ear (Suppressed Signal)
• Bradykinesia (Suppressed Signal)
• Basal ganglia stroke (Suppressed Signal)
• Cerebral artery occlusion (Suppressed Signal)
• Thalamic infarction
• Sinus rhythm abnormality
• Agonal rhythm
• Diaphragmatic spasm
• Dementia (Pfizer)
Cardiac
• Sudden cardiac death (Suppressed Signal)
• Acute left ventricular failure (Suppressed Signal)
• Diastolic dysfunction (Suppressed Signal)
• Ejection fraction abnormal (Suppressed Signal)
• Hypertensive emergency (Suppressed Signal)
• Blood pressure systolic changes (Suppressed Signal)
• Aortic stenosis (Suppressed Signal)
• Cardiac failure chronic
• Acute myocardial infarction (Pfizer, Moderna)
• Cardiac telemetry abnormal (Pfizer) (Suppressed Signal)
Vascular & Pulmonary
• Pulmonary infarction (Suppressed Signal)
• Embolic stroke
• Ischaemic stroke
• Aortic aneurysm rupture
• May-Thurner syndrome
• Hypomagnesaemia (Suppressed Signal)
Other
• Cholecystitis acute (Suppressed Signal)
• AST/ALT ratio abnormal
• Mastoid disorder
• Cardiac assistance device user
• Brain natriuretic peptide increased
• Asymptomatic COVID-19 (Pfizer) (Suppressed Signal)
The FDA’s standard analytical method allegedly masked “obscured” statistical safety signals in the data
Aka they lied
Very grateful to President Trump and the First Lady for joining the Catholic faithful and the bishops of the United States in dedicating the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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The Eucharistic Miracle of Legnica, Poland (2013)
On Christmas Day 2013, at St. Hyacinth’s Shrine in Legnica, a consecrated Host fell to the floor during Communion. It was placed in holy water to dissolve per Church custom.
After about two weeks, the Host had not fully dissolved. A red spot appeared on its surface, later identified as human heart muscle tissue showing signs of agony. DNA tests confirmed it was human.
In 2016, Bishop Zbigniew Kiernikowski officially recognized it as a Eucharistic miracle with “the hallmarks” of a supernatural event. The relic is now venerated in a golden monstrance at the shrine, drawing pilgrims worldwide.
It is seen as a sign affirming the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
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