No Kings!

Rabble-rousers proclaimed across the land,
"No Kings!" "No Kings!" "No Kings!"
stirring blind followers, as was planned,
to rally, and protest, and similar things,
to ignore facts and truth, and just repeat
the talking points that they've been fed,
and hence like sheep, can only bleat,
as common sense in them is asleep, or dead.

Pax et bonum

Encyclicals Update

I just finished rereading Pacem In Terris by Pope St. John XXII. I first read it a couple of decades ago, so it seemed a good time to reread it as I am trying to read more encyclicals.

I have now read:

Pacem in Terris by Pope St. John XXIII
Humanae Vitae by Pope St. Paul VI
Evangelium Vitae by Pope St. John Paul II

Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth) by Pope St. John Paul II

Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII

Casti Connubii by Pope Pius XI

Deus Caritas Est (God is Love) by Pope Benedict XVI

Laudato Si by Pope Francis I

I have on hand:

Mater et Magistra by Pope St. John XXIII

Redemptor Hominis by Pope St. John Paul II
Veritatis Splendor by Pope St. John Paul II - a reread, but it has been years since I first read it.

Fides et Ratio by Pope St. John Paul II

I will be reading at least one of them the coming months, perhaps all of them

Meanwhile, others that I will try to read at some point:

Aeterni Patris by Pope Leo XIII

Humanum Genus (On Freemasonry) by Pope Leo XIII
Providentissimus Deus by Pope Leo XIII
Pascendi Dominici Gregis by Pope St. Pius X
Quas Primas by Pope Pius XI
Humani Generis by Pope Pius XII
Caritas in Veritate by Pope Benedict XVI

Pax et bonum

Some Shakespeare Insults

“I am sick when I do look on thee “

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Act 2, Scene 1)

“I’ll beat thee, but I would infect my hands.”

Timon of Athens (Act 4, Scene 3)

“Methink’st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.”

All’s Well That Ends Well (Act 2, Scene 3)

“More of your conversation would infect my brain.”

Coriolanus (Act 2, Scene 1)

“Thou art unfit for any place but hell.”

Richard III (Act 1, Scene 2)

“Thou cream faced loon”

Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 3)

“Thou sodden-witted lord! Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows “

Troilus and Cressida (Act 2, Scene 1)

“Thy sin’s not accidental, but a trade.”

Measure For Measure (Act 3, Scene 1)

“Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon”

Timon of Athens (Act 4, Scene 3)

“Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell”

Othello (Act 4, Scene 2)

“Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.”

Richard III (Act 1, Scene 2)

Pax et bonum

Obama Scandals

Hmm ...

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Henry VIII and Mistress Anne

Henry VIII

was named "Defender of the Faith."

He kept the title, but cast the Faith aside

when he wanted to make mistress Anne a short-term bride.

Pax et bonum

Havens vs James case

Havens v. James, No. 20-664 (2d Cir. 2023)

Annotate this Case

Justia Opinion Summary

In 2005, a federal district court entered a permanent injunction against several pro-life advocates enjoining them from entering the public sidewalk within fifteen feet of the entrance of any abortion clinic in the Western District of New York. Twelve years later, in 2017, Plaintiff, who was not a named party to the 2005 permanent injunction, started sidewalk counseling near the Planned Parenthood facility in Rochester, New York. After Defendants, the New York Attorney General and the City of Rochester decided that Plaintiff was bound by the 2005 permanent injunction, he sued, seeking a declaratory judgment that he was not bound by the injunction. He also moved for a preliminary injunction to prevent Defendants from applying the injunction to his counseling activities. The district court dismissed his suit for failure to state a claim and denied his motion for a preliminary injunction.
 
The Second Circuit reversed the judgment of the district court insofar as it dismissed Plaintiff’s complaint and vacated the judgment insofar as it denied Plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction. The court remanded for further proceedings. The court held that a person who is not a named party to an injunction or legally identified with a named party is bound by the injunction only from acting for the benefit of, or to assist, an enjoined party in violating the injunction. The allegations in Plaintiff’s complaint do not establish that he so acted and therefore state a claim for declaratory relief.

The Ruling.

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The Salutation of the Virtues

The Salutation of the Virtues
by St. Francis of Assisi

English version by Regis J. Armstrong, OFM CAP & Ignatius C. Brady, OFM
Original Language Italian

Hail, Queen Wisdom, may the Lord protect you
   with your sister, holy pure Simplicity.
Lady, holy Poverty, may the Lord protect you
   with your sister, holy Humility.
Lady, holy Charity, may the Lord protect you
   with your sister, holy Obedience.
O most holy Virtues, may the Lord protect all of you,
   from Whom you come and proceed.
There is surely no one in the entire world
   who can possess any one of you
   unless he dies first.
Whoever possesses one of you
   and does not offend the others,
   possesses all.
And each one destroys vices and sins.
Holy Wisdom destroys
   Satan and all his subtlety.
Pure holy Simplicity destroys
   all the wisdom of this world
   and the wisdom of the body.
Holy Poverty destroys
   the desire of riches
   and avarice
   and the cares of this world.
Holy Humility destroys
   pride
   and all the people who are in the world
   and all the things that belong to the world.
Holy Charity destroys
   every temptation of the devil and of the flesh
   and every carnal fear.
Holy Obedience destroys
   every wish of the body and of the flesh
   and binds its mortified body
   to obedience of the Spirit
   and to obedience of one's brother
and the person who possesses her is subject and submissive
   to all persons in the world
   and not to man only
   but even to all beasts and wild animals
   so that they may do whatever they want with him
   inasmuch as it has been given to them from above by the Lord.

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