Josh

Traditional Catholic (convert) | Husband | Father | American Patriot | Pro-Life | Automotive Engineer. Viva Cristo Rey

[Brett Pike @ClassicLearner]

Henry Ford tried to warn Americans about Usury. He sold his cars at 0% interest to customers. All you had to do was pay back the sticker price. Now look at the American housing market today. It embraced usury and young people can no longer afford homes.

[Sign of the Cross @CatholicSOTC]

Archbishop Viganò: "Israel's brutality against the Christians of Taybeh — the last entirely Christian community in Palestine — unequivocally exposes the anti-Christian hostility of the Zionists."

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[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.

This one quote sounded familiar.

[Fr Joseph Hudson @acloudofsaints]

A man crashed a stolen car outside St. Joseph Shrine. Then he bolted.

The Rector heard the crash and someone yelled "stop him."

So Rev. Jean-Baptiste Commins — in full cassock — tackled him, and held him until the police came.

Never underestimate a priest in a cassock.

[Trevor Lee @VoteTrevorLee]

One of the most beautiful scenes in cinema teaches one of life’s greatest lessons and on Mother’s Day, it hits especially deep.

In The Return of the King, Arwen, once immortal, is given a vision of her future son. Tears fill her eyes, not just from loss, but from the overwhelming clarity of what she will gain: the chance to hold that child in her arms, to love him, to raise him, to pour her entire being into his fleeting, precious life.

Her father warns her: “There is nothing for you here, only death.” Yet in that little boy’s eyes, she sees something brighter than eternity the vibrant, mortal miracle of motherhood. So she makes the choice. She lays down her elven immortality, embraces the Gift of Men, and accepts aging, goodbye, and eventual loss… all so she can become a mother.

Arwen didn’t just choose Aragorn. She chose motherhood. She traded endless twilight for the brightness of one mortal lifetime filled with love, laughter, scraped knees, bedtime stories, and the wild, irreplaceable joy of watching her child grow. In a world fading for the Elves, she reached for the warmth of human family instead.

This Mother’s Day, may we remember the quiet courage of every mother who has done something similar who has surrendered pieces of herself sleep, freedom, dreams, even parts of her own identity so that new life could bloom. True love, especially a mother’s love, often means choosing the finite so that something eternal can be born through it.
Thank you to every mother who said yes to the beautiful burden of raising the next generation. Your sacrifice is never unseen. Your legacy lives in the eyes of your children.
Happy Mother’s Day. 💐

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

[CatholicVote @CatholicVote]

HOLY SMOKES.

Italian physicist Paolo Di Lazzaro spent five years trying to reproduce the body image seen on the Shroud of Turin—and couldn’t.

Using intense UV light, his team was able to create small areas of discoloration on linen, but recreating the full image proved impossible with modern technology.

According to biblical scholar Jeremiah Johnston, Di Lazzaro estimated the process would require an extraordinary burst of energy:

"Paolo told me it would take 34,000 billion watts of energy traveling in one 40th of a billionth of a second to change the chemical makeup of a fine linen shroud to leave that image... 'We don't have that power on Earth.'"

"There was a chemical change to the shroud that if it had lasted longer than one 40th of a billionth of a second, it would've scorched."

This is incredible.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Did you know Sauron was defeated precisely today, on the feast day of the Annunciation?

the One Ring was destroyed on the exact date of the Annunciation of Jesus Christ (His conception) and, according to medieval tradition, the Crucifixion.

J.R.R. Tolkien was meticulous with his calendar. In the books, the One Ring is destroyed in Mount Doom on March 25th.

In Catholic theology (and medieval tradition), March 25th is the Feast of the Annunciation (when Christ was conceived) and also the historical date assigned to the Crucifixion.

Tolkien deliberately aligned the destruction of evil with the victory of Christ.

[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

EXORCIST: WHY PROTESTANTS OFTEN NEED CATHOLIC PRIESTS

In his interview with @ShawnRyan762, Fr. Chad Ripperger—a widely respected exorcist—explains why protestants can only get so far in some exorcisms, and often need the help of Catholic priests.

One word: authority.

[Rachel 🇻🇦 @RachelToRome]

Always has been

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔦𝔱 𝔗𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 📰 @the_det_times]

Patrick Kane via the @PatMcAfeeShow:

“There’s only one Hockeytown and it’s here in Detroit.”

😤👏

[Justin Spiro @DarkoStateNews]

In 2017, the NHL ranked the best 100 players in league history.

Commissioner Gary Bettman invited all living “NHL 100” honorees to a ceremony, and 9 members of the 2002 Detroit Red Wings showed up.

[Detroit Red Wings @DetroitRedWings]

91.

[𝔸𝕋𝕣𝕒𝕕ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕔 ⳩ @ATradCatholic]

Mock Catholicism all you want, when demons show up, nobody calls a pastor.

[Karoline Gosling @KarolineGosling]

The female vote is the reason for 90% of the worlds problems

[🇻🇦Bug Hall🌱 @Bug_Hall]

Our Lady Co-Redemptrix, pray for us.

[Josh @joshkeeg]

@StarOtheSeaGift Ave Maria!

[Michael J. Matt @Michael_J_Matt]

Cardinal Delivers Exorcism Prayer in St. Peter’s Basilica:
Something else happened yesterday at the Summorum Pontificum Traditional Latin Mass in the Basilica of St Peter (October 25, 2025) that strikes me as significant. Among the well-known prelates in attendance at the Latin Mass celebrated by His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke was the renowned exorcist, Cardinal Ernest Simoni Troshani, who at 97 years of age stood at the pulpit and positively thundered an Exorcism prayer composed by Pope Leo XIII back in 1890.
Who is Cardinal Simoni Troshani?
Cardinal Simoni is an Albanian cardinal, born October 18, 1928, who according to his entry in the College of Cardinals Report, spent “eighteen years in jail at the hands of Albanian communists.” After having completed his seminary study clandestinely, he was ordained a priest on April 7, 1956. But on Christmas Eve 1963, after celebrating an “illegal” public Mass, Simoni was arrested and imprisoned.
Initially, he was sentenced to death for offering the Mass (the TLM at that time), but the sentence was later commuted to twenty-five years of hard labor. During his years of imprisonment, Simoni endured “torture and harsh conditions, including work in mines and sewage canals.” Far from being intimidated by the threat of torture, he secretly celebrated the Latin Mass from memory and heard the confessions of his fellow prisoners.
After his release in 1981, according to the College of Cardinals Report, Cardinal Simoni was still considered an “enemy of the people” and was thus forced to work in the Shkodrë sewers. Nevertheless, he continued to exercise his priestly ministry clandestinely until the fall of the communist regime in 1990.
Fast-forward to present day.
This heroic priest – once sentenced to death for celebrating the Mass – took part in yesterday’s Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage. From the sanctuary of the Altar of the Chair, His Eminence delivered an exorcism prayer composed by Pope Leo XIII on May 18, 1890. The prayer was composed after Pope Leo had overheard a conversation between God and the Devil, just after offering Mass, in which the Devil bragged that he could destroy the Church in one hundred years. Fearful for souls and for the life of the Church of which Leo was visible head, the Holy Father composed the Exorcism prayer, which was recommended by the Church whenever any acts of the Devil are suspected.
Here is an excerpt from the Exorcism Prayer prayed yesterday in St. Peter’s:
“Beseech the God of Peace to crush Satan under our feet, that he may no more be able to hold men captive and to harm the Church. Offer our prayers in the sight of the Most High, so that the mercies of the Lord may quickly come to our aid, that thou mayest seize the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan. . . We cast you out, every unclean spirit, every satanic power, every onslaught of the infernal adversary, every legion, every diabolical group and sect, in the name and by the power of our Lord Jesus + Christ.”
Momentous things are happening, friends. This is a war between God and Satan, and many have only recently begun to understand the scope of it. So let us join this Holy War with the tools and the armor of God’s soldiers. Keep offering prayers of reparation and petition, that God will protect us and Holy Mother Church against the fires of Hell. Especially on this great Feast of Christ the King, let us offer prayers of thanksgiving for the good shepherds—the generals in this army—whom God, in His Providence, has seen fit to grant us. The mere existence of such men proves, once again, that God has not abandoned His Church.

[Pope Respecter @poperespecter1]

Breaking : Pope Leo XIV condemns usury as a "Grave Sin".

[Trad West @trad_west_]

In this day, October 7, in 1571 the Catholic Church saved western civilization from total Islamic conquest.

Christian forces, outnumbered, triumphed over the Ottoman fleet.

This miraculous victory was attributed to the mass recitation of the Rosary.