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Just an old, analog woman living in a digital world. Leaving the porch light on for Western civilization so it makes its way back. American of Italian heritage.

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Please explore the FishEaters website, and if you like what you see, tell others about it and link to it. Let's reclaim the West for Christ!

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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage

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A little drama, from Vivaldi's opera "Farnace":

Gelido in ogni vena
Scorrer mi sento il sangue,
L'ombra del figlio esangue
M'ingombra di terror.

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@Catholicizm1 @TaylorRMarshall @CatholicRob Not sure why you'd relate her heresy to her sex. There are plenty of men who think the same sort of nonsense, and plenty of women who know better.

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This makes no sense: "Washington archbishop Cardinal Robert McElroy on June 3 removed a prominent priest from his role as an archdiocesan exorcist after the priest made remarks linking UFOs to demonic activity."

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June 4 is day one of the Novena to St. Anthony of Padua in anticipation of his feast on June 13.

Novena to St. Anthony:
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Feast of St. Anthony:
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June 4 this year -- the Thursday following Trinity Sunday -- is the Feast of Corpus Christi. Learn all about it here:

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This really is how some people think.

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@ChewyYorkie @SophieM66155839 @crawlings13 Do you know what "elder brother" means and implies?

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LOL Doesn't change a thing. And even if the victim had called his murderer the worst words in the world -- loudly and at the top of his lungs at 2AM while heiling Hitler -- it doesn't justify what the killer, his family, and the police did. Enough with this nonsense of giving every single non-white group in the world the power to silence, disempower, and even kill white people because of words.

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@beholdisrael https://t.co/0PWyh6AJUc

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The trailer of the SSPX video came out today and has caused quite a stir. The videos themselves may change public perceptions radically ; if the Holy See is sensitive to public perceptions this could make quite a difference.

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“We are admitting a cohort that cannot read at a college level and are pretending otherwise.”

Another college professor adds to the chorus of concern about student capacity.

In @chronicle:

“Six weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article. It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an undergraduate a decade ago. Not one student finished it.

When I asked why, a student answered honestly: It was too long, and she kept losing track of what the paper was about. This was not a remedial class: These were students who had cleared the admissions process and written essays good enough to get them here. Yet a routine academic reading assignment had defeated them.

Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. The lament is usually overblown, but data have caught up to anecdote, and what I am seeing in my classroom is no longer a hunch. There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing, and the academy is responding to it with improvisation and exhaustion rather than the structural overhaul it requires.

In February 2024, Adam Kotsko, who teaches in the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College, wrote in Slate that students who once handled 30 pages of reading per class meeting now seem “intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding.” Crucially, he added that this is “not a matter of laziness on the part of the students” but of underlying skills they were never given a chance to build.

The Chronicle of Higher Education’s 2024 investigation found the same pattern across institutions as different as the Stevens Institute of Technology and Wellesley College, where the average SAT exceeds 1400. Nicholaus Gutierrez, an assistant professor at Wellesley, told The Chronicle that the baseline for what students consider a reasonable amount of work has dropped so noticeably that he has cut his readings accordingly; a 750-word essay now strikes many students as long. At Stevens, the science and technology studies associate professor Theresa MacPhail described following the mantra of “meet your students where they are” for so long that she has begun to feel “like a cruise director organizing games of shuffleboard.”

Worse, the national data tell the same story in colder language. On the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) writing assessment, which is the most recent comprehensive writing benchmark, only 24 percent of 12th graders reached the Proficient level, and just 3 percent reached Advanced; another 21 percent scored below Basic. The reading side of the ledger is worse, and getting worse fast: The 2024 NAEP results released in September 2025 show 12th-grade reading scores at the lowest level recorded since the assessment began in 1992. Thirty-two percent of 12th graders now score below NAEP Basic in reading, meaning that, in the assessment’s own language, they likely “cannot draw general conclusions based on concepts presented explicitly in a text.” And yet more than half of these same seniors reported being accepted to a four-year college. That last sentence is the whole problem in one line: We are admitting a cohort that cannot read at a college level and are pretending otherwise.”

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@KlaoMadeli92705 @maxdefacto Links to Aquinas's five proofs are on that page, which consists of my own words.

I am finished with this conversation, though, and leave you with these 'possums eating 'nanners. Have a lovely day.

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@eagle177698 @ducinaltumus @Catholicizm1 It is not always unitive. Rape, for ex., does not bring the people involved together in some spiritual, emotional way that deepens the bonds between them.

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@KlaoMadeli92705 @maxdefacto For you: https://t.co/lvLEQYYSU7

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@KlaoMadeli92705 @maxdefacto Scroll up: the only one whining here is you.

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It's not unitive if one of the parties doesn't want it. But that leads to a great line: "Lie down, dear; I'm going to will the good for you now."

It's interesting that talk about sex and marriage only concerns husbands who want more sex, and wives who want less. What about when it's the other way around? What if she wants sex 3 or more times a day and he wants it once a day maximum? (And don't tell me that this scenario doesn't exist. I know for a fact that it does -- not as often as the other way around, but it absolutely exists.) Should he run home on his lunch hour and take care of business if she wants him to? Should he take care of things the minute he gets home if that's what she wants, even if he'd rather unwind for a bit? Should he wake up at 2AM and fulfill her desires if she wants? She's in the mood, and he has a headache: should he have sex anyway? If the answers to any of these scenarios is "no," under what circumstances can the wife also say "no" and not be sinning or considered a Raging Feminist from Hell? For ex., she gave birth a week ago; she is menstruating; she has pelvic pain; she is pregnant; she is nauseated, she'd rather finish something she's working on; she's extremely tired, etc.

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@KlaoMadeli92705 @maxdefacto No one said marriage is needed for reproduction. And religions and states are only separate as long as people want them to be.

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@KlaoMadeli92705 @maxdefacto If you don't know the answers to those questions, I feel really sorry for you.

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@Sensus_Fidelium Happy birthday (2 minutes left by my clock)!

BTW, I share a birthday with Stonewall Jackson :p