Annual Pride Parade – “On June 23, hundreds of ‘drag queens’ and other LGBTQ activists marched in a parade in Manhattan. The parade marked the beginning of NYC’s “pride weekend.”NYC Pride Marchers Chant: ‘We’re Coming for Your Children’ (CatholicVote)
Simpler Virtues – “Didn’t most great efforts to usher in a golden age end up in gigantic bloodbaths of the innocent? Didn’t the quest for perfect justice or the perfect race end with megalomaniacs grinding down all who posed a threat to their power?” How humility brings us great success (The Catholic Register)
Imperialist Men – “The essence of imperialism is, above all, to dominate, possess, own, appropriate, and thoroughly expropriate people considered inferior.” The Trans Ideology Movement, Global Capitalism, and the Colonisation of Women (On the Woman Question)
Avant-Garbage — “Pope Francis stunned the faithful this weekend when he welcomed some 200 avant-garde artists in the Sistine Chapel, including photographer Andres Serrano…” Pope Francis Welcomes “Piss Christ” Artist in Vatican (Breitbart)
The Summit – “Touting the process as an effort to lead global Catholicism ‘beyond fragmentation and polarization,’ the Vatican published Tuesday the Instrumentum laboris, or “working document,” for a Synod of Bishops on Synodality” Synod working doc aims to unite Catholics, but may alienate conservatives (Crux)
Children’s Personal Views – “Students at woke schools in the UK have been identifying as neogender “furries” like horses, dinosaurs and even curse-casting moons.” UK students identify as horses, dinosaurs, moons amid neogender ‘furry’ trend (NY Post)
Custody Disputes – A new [California] bill, AB 957, directs family court judges to award custody based in part on ‘a parent’s affirmation of a child’s gender identity,’ which the bill defines as intrinsic to the ‘health, safety and welfare of the child.’” Gender Cultists Make a Move for California’s Children (Compact)
This Means War — “Philosopher Edward Feser argues that Wokism cannot be defeated with economic or market solutions because it’s not fighting an economic war but a political, cultural and religious one.” In Defense of Culture War (PostLiberal Order)
Gender Issues – “[T]he public conversation on this has moved, in recent years – or even months – to a point at which bluntly confronting the truth about this movement and embracing reality – is no longer seen as a vile violation of the command to just be kind.” Consequences (Charlotte Was Both)
Fearful of the Unknown – “Two years after Pope Francis inaugurated the global process for the synod on synodality, Pierre told the USCCB in Orlando, ‘it may be we are still struggling to understand synodality.’” Is there a future for Archbishop Pierre’s synodality? (The Pillar)
Synodal Church – “The Instrumentum Laboris [IL] (Working Document) for the October Synod on Synodality, released June 20, embodies the now familiar pattern seen in the various stages of the synodal process.” The Synodal Church of “Me, Myself, and I” (The Catholic Thing)
The Grand Mystery – “One of the biggest mysteries of ‘the pandemic’ involves the supposed disappearance of the flu. Did the flu really disappear during the covid hysteria era, or is something else afoot?” How the Flu “Disappeared” During the Covid Era (The Dossier)
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