Skip West

President/founder @cheeselords. Medicine is my livelihood but I live and love to make music. Devout Roman Catholic and benignly profane, oh I love to be silly!

[MichaelRapaport @MichaelRapaport]

Meet Ahmed Wishah. The Al Jazeera "journalist" NYC Mayor Zoron the Monster chose to shout out & publicly defend yesterday in NYC.

[EWTN News Nightly @EWTNNewsNightly]

After a process spanning two decades, two Catholic priests martyred for their faith under the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s—Fathers Jan Bula and Václav Drbola—have been beatified.

[Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP @FrAquinasOP]

The Vicar of Christ is my co-pilot.

[Catholic West 🇻🇦 @_CatholicWest]

Good response from the priest in question on the St Michael website

He asks for forgiveness.

[JD Flynn @jdflynn]

When Catholic, Inc. starts shilling that you have a duty to see and support Mel Gibson's movie about the Resurrection, remember this.

Gibson's choice of on-site Mass celebrant was a priest prohibited from public ministry.

[📢Rebelión en la Granja🚨 @elorwelliano]

🎵🇭🇷 Croacia irrumpe en la final de Eurovisión con un himno histórico que denuncia la ocupación otomana y revive la tradición de tatuajes cristianos para proteger a las jóvenes.

La canción para la final interpretada en su idioma materno que no tiene nada de woke denuncia la ocupación turca islámica de sus tierras durante siglos y recuerda la antigua tradición croata de tatuar motivos cristianos en las niñas católicas para evitar que fueran raptadas, convertidas al islam y sometidas a esclavitud sexual.

El tema, que incluye versos como “por eso muchos eligieron la tumba, nuestras madres no parieron esclavos”, ha sido aplaudido como un acto de valentía cultural en plena era de corrección política, mientras Turquía ya elevó quejas oficiales.

Los vecinos croatas, lejos de autocensurarse, han convertido el escenario europeo en una lección de memoria histórica porque la historia se respeta.

[The Aramaic Wire ܣܘܪܝܐ @AramaicWire]

The priest whose final words will be remembered forever.

Islamic gunmen approached Fr Ragheed in 2007 after mass in Mosul.

They asked why he hadn’t closed the church.

His response:

“How can I close the house of God?”

One of the many Eastern Martyrs the world has forgotten.

[Ordo Cartusiensis @O_Cartusiensis]

In 1883, St. Hugh's Charterhouse in England had 30 Monks.

In 2017, they had 26 Monks.

At their peak, in 1928, they had 70 Monks.

Pray for vocations to the Carthusian life.

[𝔊𝔯á𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔢 🕊️☘️ @GrainneMcD92925]

Have you heard of this great Italian mystic Maria Teresa Carloni ?

She said yes to Jesus’ offer for her to bear physical pain and mental anguish for the salvation of others and she was also given the gift of bilocation like Padre Pio.

She was born in 1919 and died saintly in 1983. In her younger years, she worked as a nurse, assisting the needy in Rome during World War II.

Her early years were spent away from the Church, but at age 32, her heart began to lean anew and she decided to go to confession and came across Fr. Cristoforo Campana who then became her spiritual director. In 1951, with the support of Fr. Campana, she made a vow of perpetual virginity.

She began a more spiritual life.
While working for poor children at a foundation in Milano, she began to hear an inner voice. Eventually, Fr. Campana himself also began to hear the same voice which was later found to be that of Jesus Christ.

She had on many instances assented to the offer of Jesus to suffer pains on behalf of people who were in their last agonies.

In the early weeks of 1953, Jesus asked if she would be willing to suffer pain for three hours to save the soul of Stalin who was already dying. She as usual, said yes.

So she suffered immense pain for three hours as witnessed by Fr. Campana who was so moved as to even shout, “Enough.”

But Fr. Campana said that Stalin himself rejected the grace offered to him by virtue of her suffering. Blessed Elena Aiello, another Italian mystic, was granted a vision of hell in which she saw the soul of Stalin, as well as horrible spaces there for his followers.

She was also gifted with the charisma of bilocation. In 1963, she bilocated to the bedside of Pope John XXIII as he lay dying.

Another bilocation happened on May 13, 1981, when Pope John Paul II was shot, she went to see him at 8 p.m. up to 1 a.m. at the hospital. This was put on record by Fr. Campana.

After much suffering, Maria died from a peritonitis on January 17, 1983.

[NubesPluantIustum @pluant]

Leo has had a great first year.

The man inherited a nightmare. He’s stabilised the barque and restored a sense of normalcy.

Given how bad things have been, that’s no small accomplishment.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Your brain says Europe, but it's actually Ohio.

This is the Church of Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral in Toledo.

[Rosary Quotes @RosaryQuotes123]

Pope Benedict XVI was fluent in 8–10 languages. He wrote 66 books, 3 encyclicals, and 4 apostolic exhortations. He even played the piano.

Yet above all these accomplishments, he will be remembered throughout posterity for his holiness and humility.

[Rorate Caeli @RorateCaeli]

The Novus Ordo can be made to look really beautiful: fact.

BUT it is always curious that it is most beautiful when it simply resembles the usual Traditional Mass.

[The DC MD VA Live @TheDMVLive]

Seen just now at George Washington University in Washington DC:

[Skip West @Kasegraf]

https://t.co/pUkONtdINL

[Skip West @Kasegraf]

@JacobXMason St. Ambrose

[Fr. Dwight Longenecker @dlongenecker1]

The seal of the confessional is so tight that outside the confessional the priest will not even speak to the penitent about his confession without his permission.

[Robbert Leusink 🇳🇱 @robbertleusink]

The Calvinist iconoclasts of 1566 smashed Utrecht's altars, burned its relics, and tore out its stained glass

The post-Vatican II Archdiocese demolished more churches in 30 years than the Reformation did in 200 years

They called it pastoral renewal

The lost churches of Utrecht 🧵

[The Cheese Lords @cheeselords]

🚨Concert: "Capital Counterpoint", 11 February 2026, 7:30 pm, St. Mary's DC Chinatown, w/UK-based ensemble @SiglodeOroVocal. Favo(u)rites from English & continental Renaissance composers + some modern pieces to boot! More info: https://t.co/PJUChCHTIC

#concert #choralmusic

[The Cheese Lords @cheeselords]

A special moment from a recent workshop with the @kingssingers 🎶

Hear Tibi Christe in full this Wednesday, Feb 11, as @CheeseLords sing with @SiglodeOroVocal in DC.

🎟 Free concert | 🕢 7:30 PM | St. Mary Mother of God (Chinatown)
(NB: Clip feat. KS from workshop only)