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Traditional Catholic Faith => Catholic Living in the Modern World => Topic started by: AnthonyPadua on July 19, 2025, 07:51:25 AM
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In an email from Fr Edward Macdonald
Dear Faithful,
Continue to pray for the Gaza Catholics. There Church has suffered from a military attack. The enemies of God controlling that region and responsible for the violence there of course regret it.
I don't know anything about this "biblical man." Probably he is a Protestant but he explains well the attack on the family. What he says happened did happen. This video, fifteen minutes, is worth a listen. He speaks slowly I put it at 2x speed. But what he doesn't mention is the more current situation of motherless families. A motherless family is probably richer than a fatherless family but it would be more miserable. And worse for society. I saw a cartoon. A little boy sitting on Santa Claus's lap. "I want a mummy!" A completely normal little boy wanting what he has a right to have.
In 1963 my father was a skilled tradesman. A typesetter at the Detroit News. To be a typesetter you had to have a large vocabulary, be a good speller, and be dexterous. His 'take home' pay, i.e., after taxes were deducted, was $200. per week. He bought our house, full basement, ground floor with kitchen, dining room, living room and a 'half-bath', three bedrooms and a bathroom 'upstairs' and above that an attic on a 30 foot by 120 foot land with a large mature apple tree, good for climbing, in the backyard and a mature grapevine, sweet green eating grapes, on the fence, for $5,000. The apples were not good for eating but mom made apples sauce from them. Just made apple sauce hot off the stove was a real treat. Dad put a dark room for developing film and printing pictures in the basement. Six months wages to buy a house for the family.
What biblical man says is true. There was a systematic attack on the family.
Another thing that he doesn't mention is contraception. That was sold to woman as liberation but in fact it also contributed to the destruction of the family and the enslavement of women. It enabled 'decent' woman to behave as harlots.
Also boys raised in single parent, that is, mother only, families, are generally not suitable to be fathers of families. There would be exceptions of course, but a girl should be very careful about getting involved with a boy who grew up without a father. He will probably never become a man. We should pray for all the single mothers.
Lord have mercy on us.
We need pray and penance. Fifteen decades a day.
St. Vincent de Paul, pray for us.
Fr. MacDonald
In 1950:
73% of kids had married parents
Home cost 2.2x annual income
62% owned homes by 1960
One income = middle class life
Today:
Only 46% have married parents
Homes cost 9x annual income
47.5% of single moms in poverty
Two incomes = barely surviving
The Frankfurt School called families "authoritarian incubators." Planned their destruction. We bought it.
Betty Friedan compared suburban life to cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρs. While having a full-time maid. Never actually lived it.
Conviction: Result?
85% of youth prisoners from fatherless homes
71% of dropouts from broken families
90% of runaways have no dad
We traded prosperity for poverty. Stability for chaos. All for a lie.
Still think destroying the nuclear family was "progress"?
The enemy was never the family. The enemy was those who convinced us to destroy it.
Time to rebuild what worked.
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Note: the as long as a mother shows herself single on docuмents, they receive cash benefits, food stamps, medical paid for, and job all thanks to the federal gov't, us.
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Note: the as long as a mother shows herself single on docuмents, they receive cash benefits, food stamps, medical paid for, and job all thanks to the federal gov't, us.
That's why the revolutionaries created the MARS program or Man Assuming Role of Spouse. If she is married > no welfare money. But if she lives in sin she gets welfare money. From the pit of hell.
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A home cost 2.2x annual income in 1950.
A home costs 9x annual income in 2025.
Everything is more expensive. Marriageable singles are much fewer for traditional Catholics. In general, a minimum of two incomes are needed to buy a home. Add many children to the equation, lack of jobs with survivable wages, college or other debts, decreased likelihood of family support, and it’s no lazy excuse that fewer young adults are marrying, having children, are self-supporting. Societal deterioration affects traditional Catholics in the wallet just like everyone else.
Think carefully and restrain your tongue before criticizing or condemning tradition, the older generations, or the young trads themselves.
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A home cost 2.2x annual income in 1950.
A home costs 9x annual income in 2025.
Everything is more expensive. Marriageable singles are much fewer for traditional Catholics. In general, a minimum of two incomes are needed to buy a home. Add many children to the equation, lack of jobs with survivable wages, college or other debts, decreased likelihood of family support, and it’s no lazy excuse that fewer young adults are marrying, having children, are self-supporting. Societal deterioration affects traditional Catholics in the wallet just like everyone else.
Think carefully and restrain your tongue before criticizing or condemning tradition, the older generations, or the young trads themselves.
The severely increased cost of things especially housing makes it so much risker for people to save their souls, in the past if temptations of the flesh were too much you could just get married like St Paul advised. Now that's basically not even an option...
I'm also quite concerned with the long term effects from covid injections. It seems like most white collar work can be replaced with A.I. "Paper pushing" and verification checks can all be automated. There is no need for a human to check someone credit/bank statements to approve a loan, a computer system can easily check these conditions and if the person's details meet the conditions then it gets approved automatically.
The question becomes what will happen to all these people if their jobs get taken by a computer? Frankly it doesn't seem like the injection is killing them fast enough, and birth rates are still high enough for people to survive for 1000+ years. So I'm really wondering, is it to to get a lot worse very quickly? Or is it going to be extremely painful with a massive crisis?
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The severely increased cost of things especially housing makes it so much risker for people to save their souls, in the past if temptations of the flesh were too much you could just get married like St Paul advised. Now that's basically not even an option...
I'm also quite concerned with the long term effects from covid injections. It seems like most white collar work can be replaced with A.I. "Paper pushing" and verification checks can all be automated. There is no need for a human to check someone credit/bank statements to approve a loan, a computer system can easily check these conditions and if the person's details meet the conditions then it gets approved automatically.
The question becomes what will happen to all these people if their jobs get taken by a computer? Frankly it doesn't seem like the injection is killing them fast enough, and birth rates are still high enough for people to survive for 1000+ years. So I'm really wondering, is it to to get a lot worse very quickly? Or is it going to be extremely painful with a massive crisis?
White collar jobs in administration, finance, education, government, even coding and programming can be done by AI. IOW, AI can now develop AI. Look, instead, at less standardized vocational jobs assisted by AI.
I wouldn’t worry about the Fauxi Ouchy. If they’d have wanted to kill off a few billion people, there are much more efficient ways to do it. I don’t know the numbers, but what percentage of the world was jabbed? I don’t think even a tenth. And of these, how many have died? Sure, some people are still dying, many others have Long Covid or are otherwise disabled. Nowhere near enough to satisfy the elites.
I’m more concerned about grid collapse on a massive scale. Western nations and most of those in them are toast. The resulting chaos will eliminate a far greater amount than the jab, MAiD, abortion, contraception and even war unless nukes are used on a massive scale. At present, there would be no realistic way for the WEF types to protect themselves long term.
As jobs with living wages vanish, many nations will go Universal Income making just about everyone poor but able to survive. Stipulations will be in place to eligible, many of which will require Catholics and those with string morals in accord with the Natural Law to be excluded.
As for the timing, only God knows. If I were younger, I’d be more concerned. I'm here another 30 years at the very most, probably a lot less. I have no children.
Read Our Lord’s closing words of the Sermon on the Mount. (St. Matthew chapters 5-7) Should we be prudent? Yes. Worried? No.
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A home cost 2.2x annual income in 1950.
A home costs 9x annual income in 2025.…
Expanding on that point: https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/it-will-take-more-low-interest-rates-make-houses-affordable
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White collar jobs in administration, finance, education, government, even coding and programming can be done by AI. IOW, AI can now develop AI. Look, instead, at less standardized vocational jobs assisted by AI.
I wouldn’t worry about the Fauxi Ouchy. If they’d have wanted to kill off a few billion people, there are much more efficient ways to do it. I don’t know the numbers, but what percentage of the world was jabbed? I don’t think even a tenth. And of these, how many have died? Sure, some people are still dying, many others have Long Covid or are otherwise disabled. Nowhere near enough to satisfy the elites.
I’m more concerned about grid collapse on a massive scale. Western nations and most of those in them are toast. The resulting chaos will eliminate a far greater amount than the jab, MAiD, abortion, contraception and even war unless nukes are used on a massive scale. At present, there would be no realistic way for the WEF types to protect themselves long term.
As jobs with living wages vanish, many nations will go Universal Income making just about everyone poor but able to survive. Stipulations will be in place to eligible, many of which will require Catholics and those with string morals in accord with the Natural Law to be excluded.
As for the timing, only God knows. If I were younger, I’d be more concerned. I'm here another 30 years at the very most, probably a lot less. I have no children.
Read Our Lord’s closing words of the Sermon on the Mount. (St. Matthew chapters 5-7) Should we be prudent? Yes. Worried? No.
There really isn't a way to kill most of the world's population without sterilization. Everything else is inefficient at doing any real lasting change. Other than Africa most nations have a high vaxxwd rate. Some European nations are the exceptions but most of asia is vaxxed maxxed.
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I’m more concerned about grid collapse on a massive scale.
This made me think we should all have good quality bicycles or tricycles (for easier cargo carrying) in case the gas pumps fail, or they block our ability to pay for gas.
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BlackRock is buying up US houses
In the first quarter of 2021, 15% of U.S. homes sold were purchased by corporate investors — not families looking to achieve their American dream. While they’re competing with middle-class Americans for the homes, the average American has virtually no chance of winning a home over an investment firm, which may pay 20% to 50% over asking price, in cash, sometimes scooping up entire neighborhoods at once so they can turn them into rentals.
BlackRock is buying up US houses
BlackRock is one of a number of companies mentioned by The Wall Street Journal in a recent exposé. “Yield-chasing investors are snapping up single-family homes, competing with ordinary Americans and driving up prices,” they warned. The question is, why would institutional investors and BlackRock, which manages assets worth $5.7 trillion, be interested in overpaying for modest, single family homes?
To understand the answer, you must look at BlackRock’s partners, which include the World Economic Forum (WEF), and their extreme political and financial clout
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https://strangesounds.org/2021/07/blackrock-is-buying-up-us-homes-like-no-tomorrow-real-estate-market-housing.html