“I come not to bring peace, but a sword.” – Matthew 10:34

We had a great National Conference. Bishop Strickland not only gave a great talk, but was there all three days interacting individually with people. We’ll give you a full rundown in our CORAC Newsletter at the end of the month.

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I told you  that, back in September of 2023, I was shown that God was gathering all the cultural vandals who have so plagued us into high places – from where they would be cast down suddenly and compellingly. It’s a pretty good description of what is happening this year – and is the reason I don’t get all bent out of shape over the godless left’s latest antics to try to cushion their fall. I believe it has been decreed from heaven and will not be stopped, so I pay it little mind, save for curiosity’s sake. There is a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth, though, isn’t there?

I also told you that, in the darkness just before the Easter Vigil in 2008, the Lord seemed to come to me and say, “Now the hour of darkness comes upon the world. But be not afraid: the darkness will not prevail.” At the time, it had the feel of the Agony in the Garden to it and led me to deeply contemplate the same. I have come to believe that Jesus’ prime source of agony was His knowledge that, despite the magnitude of what He was about to accomplish, many people would still reject Him. It is, indeed, a sorrowful thing to see so many people going needlessly to their own destruction (and so mistakenly self-righteous in the process).

For decades – the ‘60s, ‘70s, and much of the ‘80s, I pleaded with the Lord to show everybody what I was being shown. I figured if He did, surely people would turn back from the abyss. As it has been happening in real time over the last decade and, rather than repenting, so many are just doubling down on their crazed dysfunction, I see how very wrong I always was on this matter. The Lord always knows – even when we think we know a better way.

I have been contemplating Judas a lot these days. I have been convinced for nearly 40 years that Judas actually DID believe Jesus to be the Messiah. His problem was that he expected a politico-military Messiah like all Israel did at the time. I think he got tired of traipsing around the desert and wanted to get this show on the road. His betrayal was not so much a denial of Christ as it was an effort to force Christ’s hand to reveal and use His mighty power to conquer Rome. If this is the case, then the question is, what was the actual sin of Judas? It is an urgent question – to which we had all best attend with alacrity.

Judas did not seek to follow God. Rather, he sought to co-opt God’s supreme power to impose his own favored program. When Judas followed Jesus, he did not think, “Now I have found the way.” Instead, he thought, “Now I have found the means to get MY way.” And thinking that, Jesus told him it would be better for him if he had never been born. Think hard about that.

Who were the people who demanded Jesus’ execution most angrily and forcefully? It was those who were most overtly religious. It was not just religious authorities, but all the seemingly most pious Jews.

This brings me to a point I keep hammering away on. The anti-god left has already sealed their fate. Except for those who might yet come to complete repentance, they are doomed. It is not they who are being sifted. They already have been. This year it is us who think ourselves faithful who are being sifted.

There are a LOT of Judases among us, people who are convinced that God is now going to enforce their will rather than teach them His. There are those who insist the Latin Mass is the only valid Mass. If they don’t quit insisting and start listening they are doomed – as doomed as the anti-god left. There are those who insist the Latin Mass must be suppressed to enforce their own brand of unity. If they don’t quit insisting and start listening they are doomed. There are those who insist that Vatican II was a false council and the cause of all our problems. If they were right that a solemn council of the whole Church could err in its conclusions, it would mean that Christ was wrong about hell prevailing against the Church. If Christ was wrong, He is not God. If He is not God, our faith is in vain and we are following a false Church. Of course, neither Christ was wrong nor is the Church wrong in the conclusions of its solemn council. I write this piece to show what a box canyon these shallow theologians have gotten themselves into. If they are right, the Church is not the True Church. If they are wrong, they have badly separated themselves from the True Church. They twist themselves into a lose-lose proposition.

I understand their point: it is because the so-called “spirit of Vatican II” that so many dissidents have twisted and embraced is a pack of lies and heresies – that has almost no connection to the actual Documents of Vatican II. And yet I find that at least 90% of those who want to argue most vociferously with me over Vatican II have never read a single actual document from the council. They are fighting the same lies and heresies I am, but they wrongly think that is what Vatican II was. As the Lord might say, woe to you who speak rashly without knowledge.

There are hundreds of such bugaboos…and many of the faithful have held tightly to them as the panacea that will solve everything and set everything right. The question now becomes, what are people going to do when the Lord corrects them? Will they angrily refuse to believe in or follow a God who won’t do it their way? If so, they are lost – and many will not serve if God contradicts them in a fundamental way.

I know now how useless it was for me to ask that the Lord show everyone what He was showing me for all those decades. I was completely mistaken about the effect it would have. But I find myself wishing now that the Lord had disciplined and corrected everyone as vociferously as He has disciplined and corrected me over the years. I am terribly afraid that many people who could make it won’t because they are so sure they know exactly what God wants and have set their feet in cement that that is the only way it can be. Please, be prepared to take correction. His yoke is easy and His corrections are usually gentle, if pointed. But woe unto those who arch their back at God in the name of God. It is they who fall the hardest.

Be charitable with others and be rigorous and demanding of yourself. It may save your very soul as we go through this pivotal year.

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For over four years, CORAC helped facilitate people getting Ivermectin when the “experts” and medical establishment were trying to suppress it to justify their toxic Covid shots. I am very proud of that. In at least four cases I am convinced we saved peoples’ lives. Certainly, we had more than a few people who were hovering in the vicinity of death make incredible recoveries after we facilitated them getting their Ivermectin.

Now the walls are tumbling down. You can order Ivermectin right from Amazon. I’m talking about the good stuff, too, the 12-mg tabs. I did order it for myself – and it is the real thing. At one point those boxes of 100 12-mg tabs we would get out had a street value of over $1,800 (good thing we never charged, eh?) but now it is down under $90 on Amazon. So, you will have to make your own arrangements henceforth, But I will keep the link handy for you.

This was one of the biggest programs CORAC ever adopted – and it was primarily because of my scheduler, Mary Lapchak and her late husband, Mark; and Region 10 Coordinators Joe and Connie Brickner that we were able to afford to help so many through their trial when their government and medical communities were assaulting them. But the walls are tumbling now.

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Our Executive Director at CORAC, MP, was going over some stats with me and told me something that flummoxed me. I do an interview program called Crosstalk, which is a joint project of WSFI Radio in Chicago and CORAC. I think it is the finest broadcast work I have done since my old days in radio. It is doing well on the radio channels – but MP told me it is not getting much traction on the CORAC website. That is just bizarre to me. It’s seriously good stuff. The last interview I did was with Captain Christopher Kuehne, one of the J6 prisoners who was pretty clearly railroaded by the Biden Administration’s Injustice Dept. Kuehne is a decorated Marine and a great patriot.

I am going to be talking next week with the head of an Archdiocesan Tribunal. I do it twice a month and try to work with a significant religious figure – or on a subject that people don’t know enough about – and then do an interview with a significant public figure on an issue of ongoing interest and import. These go beyond just a lick and a promise. I’m going to highlight them here much more often – and hope that CORAC members start getting as much out of them as radio listeners are. They are set in a hybrid podcast/radio format so you can watch and listen to them or just listen to them. I hope CORAC members discover these and how much ground they actually cover.

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I have been bemused watching the Jeffrey Epstein controversy unfold – just as the Justice Dept. actually has opened up the floodgates and look to be getting the conspirators behind the Russian Collusion hoax – which was really an ongoing coup attempt.

My hopes on the Epstein issue were never terribly high. Biden and the Democrats had control of all the files for four years – and publicly ignored them. That gave the fraudsters on the left plenty of time to embed things similar to the Steele Dossier to bowdlerize the files…and we know the FBI tried to bury and hide much of the material in the New York office. Whatever is in the Grand Jury file would have some actual value – because it was completed and sealed before Biden and Company took over. But, of course, while Democrats are screaming to release the files, a Democrat Judge said, “Not that file,” and blocked their release. As usual, the left is only interested in trying to leverage things for partisan purposes.

But I’m thinking Trump may be pulling off another of his patented 5D chess moves. We knew, objectively from the evidence, that while there are probably a couple of Republicans involved, this was overwhelmingly a Democrat power-broker scandal. Trump got the Dems to scream for release of the files…and then turned the tables on them by pushing the Grand Jury material that was sealed before Biden could taint it AND opening up interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell – who was the main facilitator. Watch for hard evidence to start being released and for Dems to start screaming to shut it down.

As for the Russian Collusion Coup Attempt, DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard has brought the receipts and I, for one, think a lot of people are going down for this seditious conspiracy that was ordered by Barack Obama, himself. It will show anew just how difficult it is to sustain an actual malevolent conspiracy for any length of time.

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I got a lot of mail from people after I wrote the piece about the Kennedy Assassination being a case of malign neglect by the CIA. Each wanted to know if I had read their favorite conspiracy tome. I was a Kennedy conspiracy buff until the late ‘70s. Then I noticed that, besides contradicting each other ridiculously, almost every conspiracy theory set out one blatantly false set of facts and then leaned into it for the whole book. Even New Orleans DA Jim Garrison’s famous “Magic Bullet” depended on Gov. John Connally’s jump seat being placed over six inches more to the right than it actually was for his “magic bullet” nonsense to be true. Where the seat was actually placed, the bullet behaved well within the range of what you would expect from a high-caliber bullet on that trajectory. It was seeming more and more to be impenetrable nonsense to me. I gave up for a while. The first book that brought some forensic soundness back to the process was Gerald Posner’s Case Closed. Still, though it stuck to the hard evidence, there were what I thought to be a couple of soft spots in it.

When Vincent Bugliose’s massive and masterful Reclaiming History came out, I was completely satisfied. I did not really do justice to what Bugliose (also the prosecutor who got Charlie Manson) accomplished. Besides meticulously examining every iota of forensic evidence and timeline possibilities, Bugliose also ended by taking up all the major conspiracy theories and laying waste to them. Some of the authors of books my correspondents cited to me fell apart when they were examined under oath.

Some people love a good conspiracy. They happen. But I love facts and evidence more. You do whatever you want. I will not go through more conspiracy theories line by line – because I wasted a decade and a half doing just that – and I’m not willing to waste any more time after thoroughly covering the issue. Lee Oswald killed Kennedy from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. I am satisfied that that is the truth.

Interestingly, the only credible conspiracy theory that did not do serious (or any) violence to the proven forensics in the case was a work of fiction. It is entitled The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter.

Now, some 60+ years later, many people who thought they were going to be titans of their age have realized that their dreams never came to pass – and are looking for one more bite at the apple of notoriety. I even once had (30 some years ago) a fellow tell me he had killed Kennedy. He was brought to me by a usually credible source – but it broke down under my questioning of even the limited facts I knew at the time. Do not be fooled by footnotes and supposed eyewitness testimony that was not documented near the time. The biggest fraudsters I know use lots of footnotes. You have to check the footnotes if you’re doing serious research. Some of them are so badly fraudulent it is downright comical.

It occupies peoples’ time – and everybody has to have a hobby. But I will not talk seriously to anyone about the Kennedy assassination unless they have studied Reclaiming History. If you haven’t grappled with that, you are not a researcher, but a kibitzer. I don’t mind. I have met a lot of very interesting kibitzers. But facts and evidence must carry the day.

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Sorry it has been so long since I last wrote here. I have had several major challenges that I had to get under control. I will not (God willing) get so deep in the tall grass again.

If communication goes out for any length of time, meet outside your local Church at 9 a.m. on Saturday mornings. Tell friends at Church now in case you can’t then. CORAC teams will be out looking for people to gather in and work with.

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