Author: Pete Vere

Speaking of snacks, I’ve been surfing the net looking for good places to buy buffalo meat and/or moose meat here in the good ol’ USA. I’m not familiar with any of the companies I’ve surfed on the net, so I thought I would ask our readership since I love buffalo meat. Is there a company anyone has experience buying from and would reccomend?

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Never before has he complained about debating Catholic Traditionalists. He debated Gerry Matatics many times after Mr. Matatics embraced Traditional Catholicism in the early 1990s. Mr. Matatics is also favorable to Geocentrism and does his share of critiquing the Zionist movement as well. Yet we have heard no complaints from White.

Two points: First, it is not White who is complaining, but rather his audience (both Catholic and Protestant). As a staunch Calvinist, White would likely consider the debate between orthodox Catholics and radical traditionalists something to be worked out on the Catholic side of the fence. It is not a matter of which side within the Catholic debate holds true, as White rejects both as false. (I should note that White is incorrect in this assumption, however, it is what he believes.) Thus in asserting his Calvinist position, he is trying to reach as wide a Catholic audience as possible. If CAI is no longer accepted among mainstream Catholics who follow the apologetics movement, then any head-to-head with Sungenis on White’s part will simply be ignored or dismissed by most Catholics, and subsequently, most Protestants as well. Despite being an out-spoken Reformed Calvinist apologist, even White has enough Roman sensibility to recognize this. In short, when you become the Catholic equivalent to Peter Ruckman, others tune out.

Secondly, I find it interesting that Sungenis publicly claims that Matatics is also favorable to geocentrism. While this wouldn’t surprise me, given that much of the modern push for geocentrism among a certain segment of the traditionalist population arises from Solange Hertz, and given that only a couple of years ago Matatics was hosting a weekly Solange Hertz study group in the Scranton area, I wonder whether there is a source to Sungenis’ claim vis-a-vis Matatics and geocentrism? I mean, has Matatics commented publicly about geocentrism? If so, where? (Again, I’m not denying the possibility of such references; but if they exist, I would like to know where.)

Lidless Eyes and the Jews

Against the Grain, which is the blog of the Cardinal Ratzinger Fan Club, posts some interesting comments on certain Dubious sources in Catholic Family News. Being a traditionalist myself, and having publicly confronted Michael Hoffman over this same issue on a traddy email discussion list five or six years ago, I can agree with Christopher’s following conclusion: “Traditionalists may have legitimate grievances about the post-Vatican II church and the right to express them — and it is entirely possible to do so in a respectul and credible manner. However, one can only conclude that Vennari’s high praise of such a controversial source as ‘one of the finest contemporary books on the subject of the Talmud’ in the pages of Catholic Family News can only result in the further tarnishing and discrediting of the Catholic traditionalist movement.”

As many Catholic Light readers are aware, this problem is nothing new when it comes to the fringes of the traditionalist movement (which is why I stick pretty closely to more moderate Ecclesia Dei organizations.) Here’s an interesting little piece Michael J. Mazza wrote some time ago for Fidelity Magazine entitled No Ordinary Bishop.

A great way to get rid of zits!

For some reason, I occasionally get these white-heads and black-heads on my nose. I think it is the hot and humid Florida climate. Anyway, my wife introduced me to a great way of getting rid of them today. Basically, take our toddler’s liquid glue dispenser and rub some across my nose. Then when the glue solidifies into a film, peel it off and presto! All gone! Believe it or not, it worked…

Please Keep These Folks in Prayer

As I mentioned earlier, after doing a spate of annulment cases for various tribunals that involve people who were either addicted to pornography or involved in some capacity with the so-called “adult entertainment” industry, I’m hoping to write some sort of article in the next year. Anyway, after a couple of bad starts while trying to conduct research (and a sharp increase of the worst types of porn spam to my email account), I’m managed to find a number of pro-Christian as well as feminist sites that both offer hard statistics and share the experiences of those who are victims of pornography. Here’s one particularly good website: Victims of Pornography. For those who think that pornography is mostly harmless, here’s one particularly haunting testimony of child pornography:

I am thirty years old, married, with two young children, and have been on disability due to mental illness for the past eight years. I was born into an insane family where my grandfather physically and sexually abused me from a young age until I was fifteen. Part of what he did was send me to strangers’ homes for child prostitution where I was also used for child pornography. My grandfather would take pictures of me, as well as show me haunting pictures of other kids who looked drugged and dazed.

May is Victims of Pornography Month. By victims, we should include the so-called performers. One of the ugliest truths I’ve discovered from a goverment report is that my hometown, Sudbury, is Canada’s child-prostitution capital. (I found this even more disturbing than Christianity Today‘s following survey which determined that one in three ministers visited on-line pornography websites in the past year.) From the various feminist websites, I also came across various statistics corroborating my former experiences with Pentecostal street ministry as well as my current experiences in tribunal ministry, in that the vast majority of so-called “adult entertainers” are victims of childhood sexual abuse. Another interesting fact I dug up from ABC news is that our national security is at risk because of pornography. As veteran journalist Mike Malone asks in The Murder of Innocents, “Do you think it is a coincidence that al Qaeda hid its e-mails behind porn pictures?”