More and more Indians are being blocked from entry to the United States and I believe we even have them about to retreat from Texas!
KEEP THE PRESSURE ON!
A seminary student was asked to pray for Abby Johnson’s conversion while she was
working for a Planned Parenthood clinic. He eventually became a Catholic priest and, after Abby’s conversion to Catholicism, became her parish priest.
If we can’t VALUE GOD’s GIFT of LIFE HERE;
WHERE CAN WE?
IF MAN ISN’T A MAN?
IF WOMAN ISN’T A WOMAN?
THEN A BABY ISN’T A BABY?
LOVE
CREATE
HAVE PURPOSE
PROSPER
(cont.)
What are the fruits of Vatican II?
Loss of vocations and collapse of religious orders, empty churches, loss of faith (including decline in belief in the Real Presence), moral degeneration in Catholic clergy members and laity, doctrinal ambiguity and loss of the deposit of faith, the Catholic Church levelled with sects, loss of the Mass of the Ages, liturgical experimentation and fragmentation across parishes, weakening of sacramental discipline (confession, fasting, etc.), rise of theological dissent within seminaries and faculties, confusion regarding the Church’s teaching on religious liberty and ecumenism, increased secularization among Catholics mirroring wider society, reduction of Catholic identity in education and institutions, emphasis on dialogue over conversion in missionary activity, politicization of parts of the clergy along ideological lines, loss of Latin as a unifying liturgical and intellectual language, diminished sense of the sacred in liturgy and church architecture, inconsistent moral teaching or reluctance to address controversial sins, fragmentation of authority (local vs. universal tensions) following the Second Vatican Council."
More property tax insanity (and another case study on why we must ELIMINATE PROPERTY TAXES!!)
What exactly is Ellis County’s Voter Approval Tax Rate???
After the bombshell admission that Ellis County can’t account for $20 MILLION of your dollars, the County’s fuzzy math scandal gets even worse!... The tax rate information keeps changing, and it just changed again!
First it was the new property tax revenue that kept changing, then it was the No New Revenue Rate,… and now it’s the Voter Approval Tax Rate (VATR) which magically changed… again!
The VATR is the rate at which local governments attempt to raise taxes so much that it is illegal unless voters approve that tax rate in an election. These elections often fail because voters do NOT want higher property taxes, which is why local governments often skirt state law by setting rates just BARELY below the Voter Approval Tax Rate, sometimes as little as 0.000x below the VATR.
Tax hiking politicians do NOT want voters to get to vote on property tax hikes!!
So, what exactly is Ellis County’s Voter Approval Tax Rate????...
We have no idea!!
Unfortunately, and indefensibly, Ellis County has put forth at least THREE different numbers for what the VATR is - in just the past nine days!:
1️⃣ The County’s original proposed budget, AND their amended proposed budget, shows a VATR of 0.280238
2️⃣ A slide presented by the Ellis County Tax Assessor Collector at the Commissioners Court meeting on Tuesday the 18th showed a VATR of 0.280685
3️⃣ Ellis County just published their NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON TAX INCREASE in the newspapers as required by state law, but it shows a VATR of 0.283796
IMPORTANT: The VATR that was presented at Commissioners Court when THEY VOTED to propose the tax rate DOES NOT MATCH the number that was published in the newspaper!
Unfortunately for Ellis County taxpayers, while the VATR is not known, what is known for a fact is that Ellis County has proposed to RAISE PROPERTY TAXES.
At this point, does anyone trust their math at all???
My constituents deserve better than governmental fuzzy math. They deserve the truth… and they deserve property tax CUTS, not property tax hikes from supposedly “Republican” County Commissioners.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and his wife, Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, are devout Catholics raising nine children. Rachel once summed up their parenting philosophy with a powerful remark: “My job isn’t to get you into Harvard; it’s to get you into heaven.”
A face at 20 weeks. A life already developing in the womb. 💔
Whatever our differences, we should never forget the humanity of the unborn. Every child deserves a chance to live, to grow, and to see the world.
Choose life. Protect the unborn. 🙏✝️
Better days.
We can pray they come again, but I don’t expect to see them in my lifetime
The modernists are still in charge, determined to burn everything to the ground in the fires of their pride and heresies
Nearly 30,000 sign LifeSite petition calling for the excommunication of "Catholic" Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey after she legalized abortion until birth.
https://t.co/KqBv3c81m3
Friends, today we celebrate the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
This feast is no sentimental ceremony. In the biblical world, whenever people spoke of kings or queens, they were speaking of warriors. Today, we recognize Mary as the warrior-queen engaged in a cosmic struggle against evil.
The question for us is: Which side are we on? In which army do you serve?
Vatican investigation into Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation remains active, with journalist Andrea Cionci facing a second hearing this month.
The probe is looking whether the 2013 resignation was valid, bringing into question the pontificates that followed.
https://t.co/w9JOVBInOx
I TOLD YOU SO. A week ago I reported I pay $811 per month for Medicare. No better than cost of my private health insurance. A few of you on social media thought I was lying, or exaggerating. Really? I ALWAYS tell only raw truth. Medicare escalates dramatically based on income. Even though I paid into it my entire life- with 0 interest.
https://t.co/v3jUaXjqU5