I saw that 600, 000 illegals have been deported so far and I'm seeing a difference in my area. There is a gas station about two miles from my home that had a huge group of Hispanic men hanging around every day. They drank heavily, fought, stabbed each other, and harassed women who went to the market next door or were at the gas station. Week after week, the police reports listed arrests for assault and battery. I noticed back in the Summer that there were less men hanging out. Now, when we drive by I see either a handful of men or nobody. For the first time in my memory there are no large groups of men in the Home Depot or U-Haul parking lots. I am amazed.
Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception was disappointing this year. Young Father says the Novus Ordo Mass as best as it can be done but the homily was wasn't great. It's not his fault. The pastor likes "fun", jokey homilies and perhaps between him and some of the more vocal parishioners, I think, young Fr. has been "encouraged" to make his homilies less like adult theology and more like a pep talk for elementary aged school children. Attendance was not great either. Perhaps people took off work and went to one of the day Masses instead of the 6PM, that Rocky and I went to.
I was doing my Saturday cleaning while listening to You Tube and really enjoyed Stephen Kokx's interview with Frank Walker. Later I listened to bits of Kennedy Hall's video on Nick Fuentes and his most recent one which is meant to be an encouragement and warning to Gen Z men. I did not enjoy the Hall experience and I don't see either video going over well with the target audience. Kennedy has a tendency to come off as somewhat pompous and I think that the Z generation is even less tolerant of what they consider to be "Boomer slop condescension," than even my folks, Gen X are. Kennedy is either a Millennial in the older age range or a younger Generation X so he really should know that.
The whole maelstrom around Erika Kirk is astonishing. The woman has been accused of things so wild I won't repeat them. I don't have an informed opinion on any of that, but if I was advising the Widow Kirk I would tell her to make like Jackie Kennedy and say nothing in public for the next six months or more. She may be trying to keep her husband's dream alive but from a public relations stand point, she's failing. Work behind the scenes to publish a book, or create a foundation but the whole speaking gig needs to stop.