The authority of the Councils is based also on their ecclesiological grounding. A council is not an independent, autonomous body, additional, coming from outside, acting unilaterally. It is not the product of accidental circumstances in history and imposed afterwards. It is closely or rather organically, related with the very essence of the Church. The body of Christ is a living organism, destined to grow, to face difficulties during this process, to be implanted in other regions of the world needing inculturalization and a certain adaptation.
Such embodiment and multifaceted ministry creates problems, tensions, even divisions and in spite of the good will of the local bishop and pastors, the convocation of a major assembly is considered as a natural instrument, salutary and indispensable.
The official voice of the catholicity and the koimonia of all the sister churches, in harmony and guided by the Spirit, would only provide the new assessments, possible remedies and solutions.
The function of such a council was such that the opinions and requests at issues found expression from the very womb of the Church.
Once the decision was made, the people had a part in receiving it and publicizing it (Acts 15:22) as is seen in the first assembly of Jerusalem.
Delaware County Concedes, Will Let Auditors See Ballot Envelope Signatures — Delaware County, Pa. has agreed to allow Republican candidates and poll watchers to count mail-in ballot envelopes from the May 16 primary election and see the signatures on them, according to Greg Stenstrom who is one of the poll watchers.
Stenstrom received an email yesterday, July 13, from county Director of Elections Jim Allen saying “the envelopes are going to be available for review unredacted.”
Stenstrom requested that the two-day audit be scheduled for the middle of next week.
Stenstrom; fellow poll watchers Leah Hoopes and Paul Rumley; and Delaware County Council candidate Joy Schwartz requested to see the envelopes shortly after the election but were stonewalled by the county.
Facing legal challenges, the county conceded but demanded that the envelope signatures be hidden. They began taping over them. This prompted the audit to be cancelled with the petitioners appealing to Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court.
The taping had been done after consultation with the Department of State.
Commonwealth Court Justice Michael H. Wojcik heard the petition, July 11. He accepted the county’s argument that his court was not the appropriate jurisdiction because the secretary of the state could not compel action.
Wojcik sent the case to Delaware County Common Pleas Court.
Sometime between then and yesterday some authority in Delco took a sane pill and agreed to an unredacted audit. Pointless legal expenses will be end and, hopefully, election trust will increase.
Envelope signatures are no different than voter rolls which are obviously and necessarily public records. How one voted cannot be learned from the envelope.
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
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Mainstream Publications Now Airing Vote Fraud Suspicions — John Daniel Davidson of The Federalist points out that the poison injected into America’s veins in 2020 is not going away and that any Republican seeking to challenge Donald Trump for the 2024 nomination better recognize it as to have a prayer of a chance.
Even that would likely be futile.
Simple logic shows that the honorable thing is to support the one who was wronged, not attack him.
Davidson says the election wasn’t taken from Trump but from the American voter. He fudges a little about it having been stolen but is definitive that it was fixed.
“After all, the people and institutions that rigged it have freely admitted what they did,” he writes. “They suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story, censored what Americans could say on social media, introduced unprecedented changes to our voting system under the pretext of pandemic precautions, and poured hundreds of millions of dollars into putatively nonpartisan local election offices through Mark Zuckerberg-connected nonprofits for the sole purpose of turning out Democrat voters in swing states.”
And he certainly doesn’t dismiss the possibility of out-and-out theft.
“Plenty of them will always believe, not without reason, that 2020 was stolen outright,” he says. “Many millions more believe, with even more reason, that it was rigged unfairly against Trump and that the same forces are at work now to rig it against whomever the GOP nominee turns out to be.”
Our leaders — especially in the judiciary — must leave their pleasant bubbles and see the seething anger held by the many who once considered FBI agents and federal prosecutors to be heroes.
Officials must bend over backwards regarding election transparency.
Why doesn’t Delaware County, Pa. want the public to see its correspondence with its ballot printer, Fort Orange Press of Albany, N.Y.?
Why can’t candidates verify that the ballot envelopes have proper signatures?
That these simple things are being fought can’t be taken as anything but proof that our votes are being stolen.
We are going to call out by name Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Justice Michael H. Wojcik.
Two days ago, he presided over a hearing concerning access to ballot envelope signatures.
Rather than resolve the matter by ordering access to these public records, he dumped it on Delaware County Common Pleas Court.
He accepted Delco lawyer Manley Parks argument that Commonwealth Court wasn’t the proper venue since only county officials were involved. This is despite the county seeking, and getting, direction from the Department of State.
Put all the cards on the table now. If it should turn out that nothing untoward happened, or if it did it was minor, a crisis is averted.
If it should be found that the vote fraud was real and decisive, don’t become a co-conspirator.
Years ago, when we were involved with Democracy Unplugged, we would seek out alternative candidates for some of our debates. We contacted people from the Delco Democrats and the Delco GOP, designated speakers supporting Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, our two “legitimate” presidential candidates. We would seek “alternative” candidates by looking at the webpages of Politics1.com
We defined legitimate “alternative” candidates as those with either a Facebook presence or a website. Obviously, these “alternative” candidates did not have any chance of winning, but they had ideas worth hearing, and we wanted to give them a voice at a forum, whether they represented the Constitution Party or a socialist party or were Independents.
On the Politics 1 2024 presidential candidates’ pages, the names of the major candidates are followed by an alphabetical listing of the alternative candidates for each party.
Under the subheading “other Republicans”, Hugo Aguilar’s name is listed second from the top. He is the first candidate I am looking into, because I am ignoring candidates who have no website or Facebook presence.
Here’s the link for Aguilar’s campaign, sponsored by the CBC (Christian based company) Adam Advancement.
Here’s where it becomes interesting.
On this website, one sees references to the following “campaign trails”:
Benjamin Franklin campaign trail (the south)
Alexander Hamilton campaign trail (the midwest)
Andrew Jackson campaign trail (the texMex)
Thomas Jefferson campaign trail (the west)
Gun Rights 2024
Jan 15th and 16th at the Dallas convention center
This website includes the quote “the Trump Train was amazing, but the Aguilar Aerospace will be phenomenal!” and some amazing photographs.
At any rate, I signed up with my Proton e-mail account.
My Proton e-mail account has end-to-end encryption, which we use for anything sketchy.
And as they say on Sesame street, next will be the letter “B”.
