Francis to miss Palm Sunday Mass?

The following story appeared on Breitbart News this morning. Walt has made a minor edit. 

Argentinian Cardinal Leonardo Sandri will substitute Pope Francis in the celebration of Palm Sunday Mass in Saint Peter’s Square due to the pontiff’s ill health, the Vatican has announced.

Sandri, the former prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Eastern Churches, revealed that he had been informed last Monday that he would celebrate Palm Sunday Mass, which kicks off the Holy Week celebrations that will culminate with Easter Sunday. "Yes, of course, I can confirm that I will celebrate the Mass of the Palms on Sunday," Sandri said. "I was warned already last Monday by the Master of Papal Ceremonies that the Holy Week liturgies would each be celebrated by a cardinal, and they asked me for Palm Sunday." 

The Vatican reportedly still hopes [nothing was said about praying] that Pope Francis will be well enough to preside over the Easter Mass, which will be officiated by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, and that the pope will be able to impart the Urbi et Orbi blessing from the central loggia of the Basilica. 

In other news... Soros-backed New York D.A. Alvin J. Bragg, who bragged (geddit?) that he would save America from a second Trump presidency, has persuaded a grand jury of 23 fair-minded people to indict President Trump on several charges, the exact nature of which will be revealed when (and if) The Donald surrenders and is arraigned in a New York court, where he is assured of a fair trial. (Geddit?)

The voluntary surrender will likely happen soon. The trial... not so soon. President Trump says this will not affect his campaign for re-election in the slightest, and I belikeve him.

Francis hospitalized; Walt watches and prays

Reports in LifeSite News and elsewhere confirm that Jorge Bergoglio, the man most Catholics call "Pope Francis", has been admitted today to Rome’s Gemelli hospital.

In a brief statement issued to the press at 2030 Rome time, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni stated that "The Holy Father has been at Gemelli since this afternoon for some previously scheduled checkups."

Francis had conducted his regular general audience in the morning, being visibly less physically able than he had appeared in recent days.

After the audience, he reportedly had to cancel a scheduled interview and be transported to the nearby Gemelli hospital in an ambulance. According to news reports, which cited sources in the hospital, Francis was suffering from "heart problems" along with breathing issues when he arrived. 

He is still in hospital, and all audiences in the Vatican have been cancelled until at least Saturday, April 1st, according to a senior Vatican source. Francis' public schedule was empty yesterday, with two publicly advertised meetings due to be held Thursday and another on Friday. On Sunday, he is due to begin the Holy Week liturgical ceremonies with the Palm Sunday Mass. 

Stay tuned.

Walt answers your question

Words of John Kennedy: "Love is the answer... but..."

Nooo.... not the John Kennedy who was Marilyn Monroe's quasi-secret sugar daddy. I'm talking about Senator John Kennedy (R-LA). 

He wasn't a Harvard man. Senator Kennedy graduated magna cum laude in political science, philosophy, and economics from Vanderbilt University. He was president of his senior class and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Senator Kennedy received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an executive editor of the Virginia Law Review. He also earned a Bachelor of Civil Law degree with first-class honors from Oxford University (Magdalen College), where he studied under Sir Rupert Cross and Sir John H. C. Morris. 

Not only does Senator Kennedy have an outstanding academic background. He also possesses a keen sense of humour, on display here in his statement of beliefs. 

1. I believe America was founded by geniuses, but is now run by idiots.

2. I believe you can't fix stupid, but you can vote them out of office.

3. When was the last time you heard of anyone trying to sneal into China? 

4. America is so great that people who hate it refuse to leave. 

5. The Biden administration sucks. 

6. I believe exercise makes you look better naked, but so does alcohol. 

7. I believe welfare should be a bridge, not a parking lot.

8. Weakness invites wolves.

9. I believe we must arm for peace.

10. We don't have a gun control problem; we have an idiot control problem.

11. If government tells you not to buy a gun, buy two.

12. If you hate police, the next time you're in trouble, call a crackhead.

13. Cops will leave you alone if you don't do stupid things.

14. I believe we need an election day, not an election month.

15. I believe you should have to prove you are who you say you are before you vote.

16. I believe 400,000 bodies buried at Arlington National Cemetery are the reason you should stand for the national anthem.

17. I believe the water won't clear until you get the pigs out of the creek.

18. I believe love is the answer... but you should own a gun, just in case.

UPDATED: Thinking of visiting Niagara Falls? Think again!

Walt has received a letter from an American friend who's visiting Niagara Falls, Canada, for some cheap shopping. (The US greenback is worth 1.37 beaverbucks so it's no wonder the mall parking lots are full of cars with US licence plates.)

If you're thinking of visiting the Honeymoon Capital of Canada [he writes], book your hotel room now, and don't be surprised if you have to share space, in the hotel and everywhere in Niagara Falls, with folks like this. 

This pic appeared in the Toronto Sun on Friday. Niagara Falls has welcomed (???) nearly 5000 of these bogus refugees and asylum-seekers, who crossed the porous US-Canada border at Roxham Road, and were sent by the Liberal government to Niagara Falls because the government of Québec said they couldn't and wouldn't take any more.

Trudeau's ministry of DEI has booked another 500 (FIVE HUNDRED) rooms in NF hotels to house these benefit shoppers, many of whom were sent north by Brandon after having entered the USA illegally from Mexico, through the gaps in Trump's wall.

Some, like this chap (dressed as he is for the Canadian winter), came to the New York from Africa, and were given bus tickets to Roxham Road, which they took gratefully because Canadians will immediately give them shelter -- rooms in previously five-star hotels -- food (from food banks), free medicare, free taxi rides, etc etc, all paid for by you know who.

Let's see. Another 500 hotel rooms at, say, 5 or more per room, would be another 2500 to go with the >5000 who have arrived since November. Perhaps they will help Niagara's tourist attractions though. Since they don't have to work -- indeed they can't work! -- they have lots of time, and lots of Canuck taxpayers' money to spend seeing the sights. Hope genuine tourists don't mind sharing!

Looks like Trudeau has pulled the ole switcheroo on this one... locking the barn door (except for 15,000 more who he promised just yesterday to admit without any screening or questioning) AFTER the swine have gone inside. Pretty smart for him, damn gringo!

UPDATE added at 2200: A reader has commented (thank you) that the situation is even more dire in Brockville ON -- closer to the Québec border -- than Niagara Falls. Another has email to say that the3 same situation obrains in Wndsor ON, just across the border from Detroit MI. Why they are sending all these flotsam and jetsam to border towns is inexplicable. Maybe they're hoping that they'll make the jump south to get back into the USA???

VIDEO: Weep with us for these brave young men

Президент Володимир Зеленський узяв участь в урочистостях з нагоди відзначення 9-ї річниці Національної гвардії України й випуску офіцерів Національної академії НГУ та Київського інституту НГУ. 

Graduation ceremony in Kyiv. New officers, soon off to the war. In Ukrainian, but I think a translation is unnecessary. Just share the feeling. Weep with us, dear friends. And pray for these brave freedom fighters, many of whom will not return home. Pray that God will hear...and answer.

 

Many thanks to an old friend for sending us this link. And happy birthday to Agent 1, who has just today reached retirement age.

Ireland ain't what it used to be

Walt is sad to report tha' the Auld Sod doesn't feel very Irish any more. A few years back the plain people o' Ireland (pace Myles na gCopaleen), overwhelmed perhaps by immigrants from the rest of the European Union, elected a prime minister who was not only not Irish but not white, and as gay as 18 balloons to boot.

The Church did not preach against him, because the Church has itself become a nest of homosexuals and male feminists, just like the Church in America. And the plain people have reacted accordingly, turning away from the Church of Francis in a reversal not seen since Québec's "quiet revolution" of 1960.

In a word, the Ireland of today is not the Ireland you see portrayed in the Family Guy episode where Peter Griffin goes to Eire to find his father. It's nuttin' like that, nuttin' at all. It's a shame, so it is. All the same, those of us with a pint or so of Irish blood in us can still celebrate the land of our ancestors.

 

Walt, Ed. and Poor Len -- all of us Irish today -- wish all of yez

 Happy Saint Paddy's Day!

Further reading: "Ireland’s Gay St. Patrick’s Day: A State’s Quest for Transgenderism", by Peter Caddle, Breitbart News, 17/3/23. Lede: For Ireland’s progressive government, transgenderism and other “LGBTQ+” talking points have become central elements within modern St Patrick’s day celebrations.

VIDEO: A word from our OTHER sponsor

Walt is pleased to note that hundreds of people are still checking out WWW every day, in spite of our not putting up any new and/or vital content.

They must be looking through the archives for politically incorrect social commentary. Most of what we've put up since 2009 is still there, and you can use the search window to find trenchant thoughts on, say, "illegal immigrants".

Sadly, the sponsor who sustained us for some 13 years has pulled out, like a Catholic who doesn't want to be a father again. To win him back, we're running the commercial below, to demonstrate the awesome power of video advertising.

You know it's a spoof, right? From South Park, S4E6. If you were fooled, even for a few seconds, that just proves what Walt has been saying for years, that there are certain products and causes which would we'd rather not see touted on the idiot's lantern.

That's it for the moment. When the political / religious waters start to heat up, we'll be talkin' at ya.

Been missing Walt? Here's why!

"Community guidelines"? WHAT "community"? Three guesses... 

Must have been something we said, but they don't tell us what. Ed.