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"Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul you lose all."

-St. Leonard of Port Maurice

“Pride of place”: Gregorian chant is Vatican II

 VATICAN 🇻🇦 

Pope Leo XIV reaffirms ‘pride of place’ of Gregorian chant in Roman liturgy

Pope Leo XIV has reaffirmed the importance of Gregorian chant and sacred music in Catholic worship during a catechesis on Sacrosanctum Concilium. The Pope said music is “not merely decoration” and recalled the Council’s teaching that Gregorian chant should have “pride of place” in the Roman liturgy

@RealAdVaticanum

“The Roman rite as we knew it has been destroyed.”

Joseph Gelineau S.J, an important member of Bugnini's Consilium, (the group that designed the new mass), said in his 1976 book “To tell the truth it is a different liturgy of the Mass. This needs to be said without ambiguity: the Roman Rite as we knew it no longer exists. It has been destroyed.” At least he was honest.

Source: @iotaunam, Twitter 

Interesting new twist on an old scam?

 “Bryan” is seeking donations for unspecified “Carmelite monks” …

He evidently does not know how to spell his own name …

Might not be legit …

Suicidal Empathy on Steroids in Berlin

“An Islamist with a documented terrorism history is released, attacks a Pride event, and the institutional left pivots immediately to protect the ideology and the migration system that enabled him.

“The same voices that lecture endlessly about "queer safety" suddenly discover that naming the ideology is the real danger. "Queers for Palestine" marched in solidarity with the very ideology that produces these attackers, only for leftists to blame conservatives, GB News, or "whiteness" once the van hit the crowd.”

Incompatible With Western Society...?

BY TYLER DURDEN

TUESDAY, JUL 28, 2026 - 08:05 AM

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,

The comment section under Al Jazeera's Facebook coverage of the Berlin Pride attack has laid bare a reality Western elites still refuse to face.

Hundreds of users with Arab and Muslim names flooded the post with open celebration of the Islamist vehicle-ramming that killed one woman and injured 29 others.

Laughing emojis made up roughly a third of the reactions. Comments praising the attacker with "Alhamdulillah," "Jihad," and "Thank God" stacked up without shame.

More: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/incompatible-western-society

Arthur Brooks: Looksmaxxing Is Repulsive

If there was ever a bigger disjunction between technology and evolutionary biology than this, I haven’t seen it.

“BY LOOKSMAXXING, MEN DO NOT SEND TRADITIONAL MALE MATING CUES,” WRITES ARTHUR BROOKS. (ILLUSTRATION BY THE FREE PRESS)

By Arthur Brooks

07.27.26— 

Everyone knows there is a gender double standard when it comes to physical appearance. And to this, I say, “Thank God.”

When my wife and I got married, 35 years ago, she said that embracing me—I was 6′2″ and 142 pounds at the time—was like hugging a coatrack. (Today, she says that cuddling up to my 60-something gym-rat body is more like spooning with a leather sack of ropes.)

But, of course, she still married me. And sure enough, while women’s physical attractiveness plays a significant role in men’s mate preferences—particularly at the beginning—behavioral science shows that for men it confers only a modest advantage in permanent pair-bond mating (what you civilians call “marriage”). Other factors, such as dependability, hard work, and character, are much more predictive of mating success.

In other words, at least I am a leather sack of ropes with good character.

Some observers claim this double standard is changing. If you’re following new trends on social media, you can’t avoid hearing the word “looksmaxxing,” a practice based on the idea that, because fleeting first impressions are everything, a man’s physical attractiveness is his most important attribute if he ever wants to get a mate. The trend has “soft” variants that involve skin and hair care, teeth whitening, and muscle building, and an alarming “hard” type that encourages cosmetic surgery, fillers, steroids, and even “bonesmashing” to get... 

 More (paywall): https://www.thefp.com/p/arthur-brooks-looksmaxxing-is-repulsive

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