I was a bit surprised by Bishop Strickland's post on his substack; it rang like corporate HR-speak dressed as charity, whereas what Chris posted came across as reality. I'm canceling my LSN donation schedule and will wait to see how JHW emerges from this.
You should not be surprised. Strickland says some good things sometimes but ultimately is not a traditionalist. He is a conservative. Never ever confuse those two.
Strickland was not ordained by a traditional bishop or with the traditional ordination procedures. He is without the ability to be a true bishop of the true Church. He can still perform acts of charity but to think that a Novus Ordo bishop can all of a sudden be without severe damage from the false church is naive to put it mildly.
There is a reason Lefebvre set up the SSPX outside of the diocesan (Novus Ordo) structure.
Nice try. I made a constructive criticism of his title, not his character or his soul. Anyone affiliated with the Novus Ordo deserves to be considered suspect. It is a false church not any different than a protestant church. Until he gets conditionally ordained in a traditional seminary under a traditional bishop, I'm not budging. If you find that objectionable I can't help you.
Speaking of removal I find it odd that Strickland was quick to call for aid when it came to his removal but was oddly silent about this highly questionable 'business' decision. Anyone with decency and sense can see something is way off here.
John Henry Westen WAS LifeSite News. John Henry has always been unapologetically conservative in his views, and unafraid to call out anything he saw as going against the true faith. He has always been vocal about injustices while remaining prayer centered, and focused on Jesus. This entire affair of being unceremoniously ousted from the organization that he built from the ground up is shocking and jolting, and seems very unChristian in its execution and ongoing criticism of John Henry. The fallout from this will destroy what is left of the organization, as what has transpired has tainted all who remain in the organization. It all seems so unnecessary. Badly done.
We older Catholics see what happened since 1962 and hopefully the entire lifesite is buried. I like Bishop Strickland , however I’m tired of weak men. He was burned and now he’s weak. His words are meaningless. Better he stay quiet and cry in his milk as he has been. I want to see John rise like Tucker Carlson with his own podcast. God will punish these demons running the church. Not one red cent to them. They are evil esp the fake pope who has been groomed. What was his fall that he was so easily duped?
Yeah. It's disappointing. Medjugorje is a V2 affirming theatre of heresy and blasphemy. Here is Strickland promoting the same: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uSh7h99eozE
"I am firmly convinced that no responsible person will dare to defend the apparitions. The contrary arguments are too strong. It is only necessary to be aware of them." (Monsignor Zanic, bishop of Mostar-Duvno). True apparitions of Our Lady conform entirely to Catholic dogma. The 'whore' of Medjugorje is a decades long chatterbox mixing truth and lies. It has been noted that the 'image' of the apparition hides its feet, and the seers have recorded an apparition of the devil that transformed into the 'gospa'. The 'seers' are performers whose lives reflect their worldliness. Fr Gruner and John Vennari in this short clip tell you all you need know about Medjugorge https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2AncKty4UK0
It has been demonstrated over and over again that celebrity does incredible damage to clerics. It is simply very very dangerous for them -- way too many ways it can all go sideways.
So yes, it looks like yet another case with Bishop Strickland, unfortunately.
Also - Life Site DROPPED at least two ENTIRE comment sections down the memory hole between yesterday afternoon and this morning.
Poof!
The one on the Strickland article and the one on the Jalsevac article.
Gone. Entirely. As if they never existed. Not accepting comments on them now.
As I've said on the other thread, they've been doing that for a few years., including large chunks of threads. I've been deleted (along with the comments of other posters) and banned a number of times, then they carry on sending emails begging for money. They even managed to send one to an address I know I never gave them, because even I had forgotten I had it! I emailed asking how they got it but received no reply. Took me years to 'unsubscribe' as they kept popping in to every address I've got, even after I'd unsubscribed them. So I'm not surprised it's gone downhill - I suspect The Remnant is heading in the same direction. When sites start censoring big time, I consider it to mean there's a serious underlying problem because they won't tolerate dissent.
Grateful for this column. JHW should not be punished for the obvious departure in the Vatican from holy doctrines and traditions. He spoke the truth and exposed the facts about bad people in the church and what they are doing to destroy it. This is what made people very uncomfortable. Thank you, John Henry for doing what we are all confirmed to do: defend our Lord and his Church. We follow the reporting of the truth, not the decision of a Board who betrays its founder for speaking it.
JHW was speaking the truth clear, plain and simple. A modified comment I posted on another site, Bp. Strickland and LSN are equivocating. The issue with Bp Strickland and those prelates who have been raised to "defenders of the Faith" status is they were/are willing accomplices. They allowed the destruction for years but because we ended up with an apostate posing as the pope, the Burkes, Schneiders, Sarah's , Stricklands etc. who showed up with a plastic hammer to repair the damages are now recognized as faithful sons of the church and restorers of tradition.
As we grow weary of the fight it becomes easier to lower the standard and we end up settling for a pious Novus Ordo and Saturday mass to fulfill our Sunday obligations
Strickland spoke out specifically why he and other priests were cancelled. Now, he tells us to not make waves. It’s BS and everyone who has been following what has transpired in the hierarchy over the last decade or more understand this has nothing to do with pushing traditionalism but the truth. We are lied to regularly, told to change with the times, to speak out and the synodal church will listen. That’s a bunch of malarkey. It’s crap and everyone who refuses to follow the party line,Vatican wise, knows it. My mother taught me 40 years ago that when you disagree with the shenanigans the church is attempting, you hit them where it hurts— the pocketbook. At this point we need more than their purse being lightened( since the Vatican last I read is worth upwards of 73 Billion dollars with a yearly intake of about 53 +\- million dollars) . It’s our voices that need to be heard in mass and I’m not talking about a synodal listening committee that pretends to hear in order to say,”the lay people have a voice and we hear them.” Lie! We are told to beware of false teachers. We are living proof of that biblical warning.
I've said this before: I'm afraid they don't need/want our money anymore. They've aligned themselves with secular powers, like the CCP, to *almost* pay the bills, and *almost* is good enough for them.
Indeed. A professionally done survey a few years ago showed the contrast between Catholics who regularly (even exclusively) attend the Traditional Latin Mass and those who attend the Novus Ordo. The difference in attitudes toward importance of Sunday Mass, Confession, piety and attitudes toward moral issues such as abortion, fornication, adultery, homosexual activity, etc. was about as expected with the Traditional parishioners being more clear-minded about living the Catholic faith and Novus Ordo parishioners being more wishy-washy. What surprised me was the difference in the reporting of financial contributions. According to the survey, when assessed on a per capita basis, the Traditional Mass-goers give $6 for every $1 the Novus Ordo Mass-goers give, again, on a per capita assessment. Pretty much ever since the issuance of Summorum Pontificum, it is the TLMers who are sacrificing to take care of the material needs of their parish communities. The survey result holds pretty close when examining Sunday collections in diocesan parishes where one of the Masses is Traditional; that Mass is the highest-giving Mass. So if the Vatican and the bishops really needed/wanted our money, Traditionis Custodes and its subsequent documents would have never been issued.
Years ago, maybe ten or more, LifeSite News had a video of Fr. Linus Clovis (of St. Lucia in the Caribbean) giving a presentation that opened with the words [I'm recalling, likely inexactly.]: "The Church and the antichurch currently occupy the same liturgical, sacramental, and juridical space."
In our present day, it appears that the separation between the two is finally taking place, and it will not be without considerable pain, suffering, and sacrifice on the part of us who uncompromisingly cling to the full Truth.
Let us recall the very difficult ecclesiastical life of St. Athanasius the Great during the Arian heresy. He said of the Arians [Again, am recalling, likely inexactly.]: "They have the buildings, but we have the Faith." Let us take comfort in that: after all any of us could enter eternity at any moment, and our Heavenly Homeland awaits us; what awaits the others?
I just responded to the email from Steve at LifeSiteNews: I believe the drop in readership is because LifeSiteNews has become a propaganda tool for the apostate Vatican II sect, anti-pope Bergoglio, and now anti-pope Bob. That is why I cancelled my donation several years ago and rarely read their articles anymore.
We're entering a new era in the crisis and the war on Tradition. More and more people will realize that to be Catholic, to be a member of the Church militant, means to call out and to reject what is clearly evil and opposed to Christ.
No more silence. No more passively and naively hoping for the best. Fight, fight, fight.
Put on the armor of Christ and take up the sword of the Immaculata.
Keep writing, Mr. Jackson. Keep supporting those who share your spirit for combat and for the Truth.
Trad Inc will milk this distraction from what should be news which is the double scandal of the cardinals electing a twice accused pedophole protector and the invalid election.
It's unfortunate that in the Internet age, rage bait gets more attention than actual canonical principles (which are being thrown out the window by those claiming that the election was invalid).
Well said Al. The election is also invalid by the fact that Prevost supported Fiducia Supplicans and Amoris Laetitia, contrary to Catholic doctrine. And according to Pope Paul IV's Bull Cum Apostolatus Oficio a heretic cannot be elevated to Bishop or Pope.
Haven't the Ukrainians dealt with him yet - you know, the ones who are pretty annoyed that he's using their country to raise funds, under the pretence of humanitarian aid?
Oh Lord. He is a Franciscan Brother whose vow is poverty. Whatever funds he raises are 100% for the said cause. He asks seperately for his own needs, which, if you had visited his site you would know. Your calumny stands exposed.
I've been visiting his 'sites' for 10 years - including his companies' public online details. I know all about him, thank you. Your idiocy or complicity stands exposed.
Ms. Wang, or is it Dr. Wang? Or is it Dorothy Ludwig-Wang Th.M.? You pronounce from on high but you have not read what Fra Alex's has written with documentation that his situation as a Franciscan of private vows was authorised by the pope. Go and read again. For the last time
I agree with some of the criticisms of John Henry Westin -- Life Site News has increased coverage of the Latin Mass and has nodded towards Sedevacantism. That doesn't bother me at all. It has seemed. though, that in very recent years Life Site had endorsed this, that, and the other private revelation apparition, locution. A mistake, in my opinion.
Concur to an extent. I'm not a fan of the private revelation sentimentality and so avoided those posts. But I did find some of the positions and explanations from the sede POV interesting (but still unpersuasive). Free speech should remain free.
Not everyone is going to like everything about any organization. It's good to just avoid the things that don't interest you, and embrace the things that do. This is true of any media outlet. John Henry Westen was not commanding that any of us believe the private revelation stuff. He was just putting it out there because it was interesting to him, and timely. It seems a little petty for people to complain about this, when all they had to do was go elsewhere for their news.
That's true. I don't read anything about supposed private revelations and supposed virgins Marys appearing around each corner. It's another Big black hole from Hell, in my opinión, to spread further and further the conversion to the false modernist Church.
For whatever reason he was fired, John Henry Westen was a sure voice for truth and unfortunately, truth seems to have to be told just a certain way and in a measured volume. By those lights, Paul Revere wouldn't be shouting in the streets, he would have left notes underneath the doors, and the colonies would all be British subjects. I am a little disappointed in Bishop Strickland's explanation of why John Henry was let go, but to be fair, perhaps he didn't know for sure. I hope John Henry finds a new venue by which to continue to keep informing the Catholic faithful.
It came as a surprise to me because I've been watching LSN swirling around the bowl for years with their weirdness and their agenda driven censorship. But as far as I'm concerned today, JHW is the "last man standing" among the Catholic commentors and journalists defending the Holy Mother Church and the pew sitting orthodox (small "o") and TLM (big "T") Catholics. I'll be sending him a nice gift to help him get restarted as soon as the inevitable appeal begins. The others can stay in their basement with their printing press or down on the farm with their cows.
I was a bit surprised by Bishop Strickland's post on his substack; it rang like corporate HR-speak dressed as charity, whereas what Chris posted came across as reality. I'm canceling my LSN donation schedule and will wait to see how JHW emerges from this.
You should not be surprised. Strickland says some good things sometimes but ultimately is not a traditionalist. He is a conservative. Never ever confuse those two.
Strickland was not ordained by a traditional bishop or with the traditional ordination procedures. He is without the ability to be a true bishop of the true Church. He can still perform acts of charity but to think that a Novus Ordo bishop can all of a sudden be without severe damage from the false church is naive to put it mildly.
There is a reason Lefebvre set up the SSPX outside of the diocesan (Novus Ordo) structure.
Your denunciation of Strickland is most unfortunate, considering his political removal by Francis. Shame on you.
Nice try. I made a constructive criticism of his title, not his character or his soul. Anyone affiliated with the Novus Ordo deserves to be considered suspect. It is a false church not any different than a protestant church. Until he gets conditionally ordained in a traditional seminary under a traditional bishop, I'm not budging. If you find that objectionable I can't help you.
Speaking of removal I find it odd that Strickland was quick to call for aid when it came to his removal but was oddly silent about this highly questionable 'business' decision. Anyone with decency and sense can see something is way off here.
If your “
donation schedule “ Is set up in any way like those I have experienced here in Australia, you had best double check your cancellation.
Why is Bishop Strickland posting anything for them if they are an ecumenical, non-denominational and secular pro-life organization?
John Henry Westen WAS LifeSite News. John Henry has always been unapologetically conservative in his views, and unafraid to call out anything he saw as going against the true faith. He has always been vocal about injustices while remaining prayer centered, and focused on Jesus. This entire affair of being unceremoniously ousted from the organization that he built from the ground up is shocking and jolting, and seems very unChristian in its execution and ongoing criticism of John Henry. The fallout from this will destroy what is left of the organization, as what has transpired has tainted all who remain in the organization. It all seems so unnecessary. Badly done.
We older Catholics see what happened since 1962 and hopefully the entire lifesite is buried. I like Bishop Strickland , however I’m tired of weak men. He was burned and now he’s weak. His words are meaningless. Better he stay quiet and cry in his milk as he has been. I want to see John rise like Tucker Carlson with his own podcast. God will punish these demons running the church. Not one red cent to them. They are evil esp the fake pope who has been groomed. What was his fall that he was so easily duped?
Strickland is Medjugorge salesman, literally.
Really? I didn't know that so thanks for the information.
Yeah. It's disappointing. Medjugorje is a V2 affirming theatre of heresy and blasphemy. Here is Strickland promoting the same: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uSh7h99eozE
"I am firmly convinced that no responsible person will dare to defend the apparitions. The contrary arguments are too strong. It is only necessary to be aware of them." (Monsignor Zanic, bishop of Mostar-Duvno). True apparitions of Our Lady conform entirely to Catholic dogma. The 'whore' of Medjugorje is a decades long chatterbox mixing truth and lies. It has been noted that the 'image' of the apparition hides its feet, and the seers have recorded an apparition of the devil that transformed into the 'gospa'. The 'seers' are performers whose lives reflect their worldliness. Fr Gruner and John Vennari in this short clip tell you all you need know about Medjugorge https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2AncKty4UK0
Well said, I’m afraid
Did Strickland just engage in gaslighting?
It has been demonstrated over and over again that celebrity does incredible damage to clerics. It is simply very very dangerous for them -- way too many ways it can all go sideways.
So yes, it looks like yet another case with Bishop Strickland, unfortunately.
Also - Life Site DROPPED at least two ENTIRE comment sections down the memory hole between yesterday afternoon and this morning.
Poof!
The one on the Strickland article and the one on the Jalsevac article.
Gone. Entirely. As if they never existed. Not accepting comments on them now.
They also deleted a Twitter thread.
As I've said on the other thread, they've been doing that for a few years., including large chunks of threads. I've been deleted (along with the comments of other posters) and banned a number of times, then they carry on sending emails begging for money. They even managed to send one to an address I know I never gave them, because even I had forgotten I had it! I emailed asking how they got it but received no reply. Took me years to 'unsubscribe' as they kept popping in to every address I've got, even after I'd unsubscribed them. So I'm not surprised it's gone downhill - I suspect The Remnant is heading in the same direction. When sites start censoring big time, I consider it to mean there's a serious underlying problem because they won't tolerate dissent.
Why yes, yes he did. Heartbreaking.
Grateful for this column. JHW should not be punished for the obvious departure in the Vatican from holy doctrines and traditions. He spoke the truth and exposed the facts about bad people in the church and what they are doing to destroy it. This is what made people very uncomfortable. Thank you, John Henry for doing what we are all confirmed to do: defend our Lord and his Church. We follow the reporting of the truth, not the decision of a Board who betrays its founder for speaking it.
JHW was speaking the truth clear, plain and simple. A modified comment I posted on another site, Bp. Strickland and LSN are equivocating. The issue with Bp Strickland and those prelates who have been raised to "defenders of the Faith" status is they were/are willing accomplices. They allowed the destruction for years but because we ended up with an apostate posing as the pope, the Burkes, Schneiders, Sarah's , Stricklands etc. who showed up with a plastic hammer to repair the damages are now recognized as faithful sons of the church and restorers of tradition.
As we grow weary of the fight it becomes easier to lower the standard and we end up settling for a pious Novus Ordo and Saturday mass to fulfill our Sunday obligations
So true. We are still waiting on that "filial correction", while Schneider continues to make up doctrines concerning heresy and holding office.
Stick a fork in Lifesite..........their done! Dependence on donations always breeds cowardice.
Done and forgotten. Cowards every last one of them. Irrelevant media
Strickland spoke out specifically why he and other priests were cancelled. Now, he tells us to not make waves. It’s BS and everyone who has been following what has transpired in the hierarchy over the last decade or more understand this has nothing to do with pushing traditionalism but the truth. We are lied to regularly, told to change with the times, to speak out and the synodal church will listen. That’s a bunch of malarkey. It’s crap and everyone who refuses to follow the party line,Vatican wise, knows it. My mother taught me 40 years ago that when you disagree with the shenanigans the church is attempting, you hit them where it hurts— the pocketbook. At this point we need more than their purse being lightened( since the Vatican last I read is worth upwards of 73 Billion dollars with a yearly intake of about 53 +\- million dollars) . It’s our voices that need to be heard in mass and I’m not talking about a synodal listening committee that pretends to hear in order to say,”the lay people have a voice and we hear them.” Lie! We are told to beware of false teachers. We are living proof of that biblical warning.
I've said this before: I'm afraid they don't need/want our money anymore. They've aligned themselves with secular powers, like the CCP, to *almost* pay the bills, and *almost* is good enough for them.
Indeed. A professionally done survey a few years ago showed the contrast between Catholics who regularly (even exclusively) attend the Traditional Latin Mass and those who attend the Novus Ordo. The difference in attitudes toward importance of Sunday Mass, Confession, piety and attitudes toward moral issues such as abortion, fornication, adultery, homosexual activity, etc. was about as expected with the Traditional parishioners being more clear-minded about living the Catholic faith and Novus Ordo parishioners being more wishy-washy. What surprised me was the difference in the reporting of financial contributions. According to the survey, when assessed on a per capita basis, the Traditional Mass-goers give $6 for every $1 the Novus Ordo Mass-goers give, again, on a per capita assessment. Pretty much ever since the issuance of Summorum Pontificum, it is the TLMers who are sacrificing to take care of the material needs of their parish communities. The survey result holds pretty close when examining Sunday collections in diocesan parishes where one of the Masses is Traditional; that Mass is the highest-giving Mass. So if the Vatican and the bishops really needed/wanted our money, Traditionis Custodes and its subsequent documents would have never been issued.
That's good to know - they won't resurrect my unsubscribed email addresses and start begging for money again!! On the other hand........
Glory to Jesus Christ!
Years ago, maybe ten or more, LifeSite News had a video of Fr. Linus Clovis (of St. Lucia in the Caribbean) giving a presentation that opened with the words [I'm recalling, likely inexactly.]: "The Church and the antichurch currently occupy the same liturgical, sacramental, and juridical space."
In our present day, it appears that the separation between the two is finally taking place, and it will not be without considerable pain, suffering, and sacrifice on the part of us who uncompromisingly cling to the full Truth.
Let us recall the very difficult ecclesiastical life of St. Athanasius the Great during the Arian heresy. He said of the Arians [Again, am recalling, likely inexactly.]: "They have the buildings, but we have the Faith." Let us take comfort in that: after all any of us could enter eternity at any moment, and our Heavenly Homeland awaits us; what awaits the others?
Our Mother of Perpetual Help, aid us!
I remember that video - it was excellent. It's a shame he isn't more to the forefront. Must have a look around for him!
I just responded to the email from Steve at LifeSiteNews: I believe the drop in readership is because LifeSiteNews has become a propaganda tool for the apostate Vatican II sect, anti-pope Bergoglio, and now anti-pope Bob. That is why I cancelled my donation several years ago and rarely read their articles anymore.
We're entering a new era in the crisis and the war on Tradition. More and more people will realize that to be Catholic, to be a member of the Church militant, means to call out and to reject what is clearly evil and opposed to Christ.
No more silence. No more passively and naively hoping for the best. Fight, fight, fight.
Put on the armor of Christ and take up the sword of the Immaculata.
Keep writing, Mr. Jackson. Keep supporting those who share your spirit for combat and for the Truth.
Follow the money. Always follow the money.
Trad Inc will milk this distraction from what should be news which is the double scandal of the cardinals electing a twice accused pedophole protector and the invalid election.
https://www.fromrome.info/2025/06/01/project-save-rome/
John - I'm just going to keep reposting this link whenever I see someone link to that site: https://dorothealudwigwang.substack.com/p/what-invalidates-a-papal-election.
It's unfortunate that in the Internet age, rage bait gets more attention than actual canonical principles (which are being thrown out the window by those claiming that the election was invalid).
UDG notwithstanding- heretics can never be validly elected pope.
Well said Al. The election is also invalid by the fact that Prevost supported Fiducia Supplicans and Amoris Laetitia, contrary to Catholic doctrine. And according to Pope Paul IV's Bull Cum Apostolatus Oficio a heretic cannot be elevated to Bishop or Pope.
https://www.fromrome.info/2025/05/07/pope-paul-ivs-solemn-warning-to-the-cardinal-electors-of-2025/
https://www.fromrome.info/2025/07/10/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-franciscan-brother-of-private-vows/
Brother Bugnolo responds to your mendacity
Haven't the Ukrainians dealt with him yet - you know, the ones who are pretty annoyed that he's using their country to raise funds, under the pretence of humanitarian aid?
Oh Lord. He is a Franciscan Brother whose vow is poverty. Whatever funds he raises are 100% for the said cause. He asks seperately for his own needs, which, if you had visited his site you would know. Your calumny stands exposed.
I've been visiting his 'sites' for 10 years - including his companies' public online details. I know all about him, thank you. Your idiocy or complicity stands exposed.
No presentation of evidence, no argument, just an adhominum! May the Good Lord elucidate your mind.
Paul Dale - I'm not sure who he thinks he's responding to. As far as I know, there is no individual named "Dr. Ludwig-Wang" who works as a professor.
You have seen his reply and you are standing naked in your duplicty
Paul Dale - For the last time: religious are defined by PUBLIC vows and common life, not private vows (c. 607 §2).
Ms. Wang, or is it Dr. Wang? Or is it Dorothy Ludwig-Wang Th.M.? You pronounce from on high but you have not read what Fra Alex's has written with documentation that his situation as a Franciscan of private vows was authorised by the pope. Go and read again. For the last time
With pleasure Dorothea 😀. I think it is important that readers consider different opinions.
I agree with some of the criticisms of John Henry Westin -- Life Site News has increased coverage of the Latin Mass and has nodded towards Sedevacantism. That doesn't bother me at all. It has seemed. though, that in very recent years Life Site had endorsed this, that, and the other private revelation apparition, locution. A mistake, in my opinion.
Concur to an extent. I'm not a fan of the private revelation sentimentality and so avoided those posts. But I did find some of the positions and explanations from the sede POV interesting (but still unpersuasive). Free speech should remain free.
Not everyone is going to like everything about any organization. It's good to just avoid the things that don't interest you, and embrace the things that do. This is true of any media outlet. John Henry Westen was not commanding that any of us believe the private revelation stuff. He was just putting it out there because it was interesting to him, and timely. It seems a little petty for people to complain about this, when all they had to do was go elsewhere for their news.
Totally agree.
That's true. I don't read anything about supposed private revelations and supposed virgins Marys appearing around each corner. It's another Big black hole from Hell, in my opinión, to spread further and further the conversion to the false modernist Church.
For whatever reason he was fired, John Henry Westen was a sure voice for truth and unfortunately, truth seems to have to be told just a certain way and in a measured volume. By those lights, Paul Revere wouldn't be shouting in the streets, he would have left notes underneath the doors, and the colonies would all be British subjects. I am a little disappointed in Bishop Strickland's explanation of why John Henry was let go, but to be fair, perhaps he didn't know for sure. I hope John Henry finds a new venue by which to continue to keep informing the Catholic faithful.
It came as a surprise to me because I've been watching LSN swirling around the bowl for years with their weirdness and their agenda driven censorship. But as far as I'm concerned today, JHW is the "last man standing" among the Catholic commentors and journalists defending the Holy Mother Church and the pew sitting orthodox (small "o") and TLM (big "T") Catholics. I'll be sending him a nice gift to help him get restarted as soon as the inevitable appeal begins. The others can stay in their basement with their printing press or down on the farm with their cows.