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[An article describing the story of Saint Simon of Trent, a 16th century boy allegedly killed by members of the city's Jewish community]

In 1588 Pope Sixtus regularized the devotions to Simon, giving his full and unqualified approval. Later in February 1755, Pope Benedict XIV cited it in his work, On The Canonization of Saints, and issued the Bull, Beatus Andreas, which gave full sanction and approval to the sainthood of Simon as well as the earlier martyr, Andreas of Rinn. In the late 1500s, Pope Gregory XIII visited St. Simon’s Shrine during the famous counter-Reformation Councils of Trent. During that time, hundreds of Cardinals, Bishops and Priests must have visited all the churches of Trent, including St. Simon’s tomb. This was a rarely disputed case. The Holy Church always affirmed the truth of the matter.

That is, until 1965, when Saint Simon was gravely dishonored. In a stunning move, Archbishop Alessandro Gotardi of the Diocese of Trent, in a sacrificial gesture to the prelates of political correctness declared that the Jews were innocent. This culminated years of work and pressure from liberal historians, operating in the climate of “openness” created by the Vatican Two Council, presided over by “the Ecumenical Pope," Paul VI. As a result of the decree of the Archbishop, the Vatican Congregation of Rites forbade the veneration of relics or the saying of masses in Simon’s name. This was an affront to the truth as well as a total depreciation of the five hundred years of prayer and devotion by devout Catholics to the little saint. Yet even in this climate of liberalism, it became clear that the Vatican had no intention of opening any more records into ritual murder cases.

Perhaps the Jews and liberals were gratified with the Church’s pitiful kowtowing to political correctness as the controversy began to subside. Maybe the church viewed de-canonization of too many saints at once as destabilizing. Nonetheless, the Ritual Murder Deniers celebrated a significant victory. One of the most famous and renowned cases of all was overturned and expunged.

And what, you may well ask, was the new evidence that cleared the conspirators in such an outrageous conclusion? Surprisingly there was no new evidence at all! The verdict was overturned because torture was used in the investigation. No one actually disproved anything. The evidence was deemed inadmissible under standards not even thought of 500 years ago. Shouldn’t we absolve all the murderers of old on the same basis? It appears that no one explored this possibility, and they never will because it is absurd. Nonetheless the liberals won their victory. No more explaining was necessary. As for the victim and the cause of justice? They did not address these concerns in 1965. Superfluous to say, we are thoroughly disgusted by the actions of a clique of deceitful court historians with an obvious ax to grind. We hope that some honest residents of Trent might build a new memorial to Little Simon, once deemed blessed, but this will probably never happen. We shall not wait and hold our breath, to be sure. Moreover, we do not have to wait at all. We can make our own memorial, right here, right now. This article is dedicated to historical truth and to the forgotten little murder victim, killed by a cult of pedophiles. If you are a religious person, please add your prayers. March 24 is his feast day.

PRAISE AND HONOR TO SAINT SIMON OF TRENT,

A LITTLE BOY BRUTALLY SLAIN BEFORE THE AGE OF THREE,

NOT LEFT IN PEACE, BUT TWICE MARTYRED.

ONCE BY HIS BESTIAL AND BLOODTHIRSTY KILLERS

AND THEN DECANONIZED, DISHONORED AND DISRESPECTED ON THE

SACRIFICIAL ALTAR OF POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CORRECTNESS.

Requiescat In Pace
Anno Domini MMIX

THE ROMAN CHURCH AND RITUAL BLOOD CRIMES.

Blessed Simon was certainly not the only ritual murder martyr saint. Even though the Church disowned two of the most prominent, there are several others. Are these once venerated saints now just “holy stepchildren”, forever cast out of Catholic heaven? Apparently neither the Church nor the Jews want to talk about them. It would be embarrassing to say the least to admit that the infallible Vatican made misjudgments and mistakes in the cases . Is there any way that at least some of these children were not genuine victims of a pedophile murder cult? It seems unlikely, to say the least. Here are some of the best-known.

[List of similar cases of alleged Jewish ritual murder]

And never believe, even for a moment, that it does not still happen, deep in the dark, demonic depths of the occult underground, in the secret Synagogues of Satan, because it does!

Socialist genius Bernie Sanders has figured out what’s really ailing America.

Our store shelves have too many different brands of deodorant and sneakers. Just look at all those horrible, fully stocked aisles at Target and Walgreens and Wal-Mart and Payless and DSW and Dick’s Sporting Goods. It’s a national nightmare! If only consumers had fewer choices in the free market, fewer entrepreneurs offering a wide variety of products and fewer workers manufacturing goods people wanted, Sanders believes, we could end childhood hunger.

Nobody parodies the far left better than far-leftists themselves.

In an interview with financial journalist John Harwood on Tuesday, Sanders detailed his grievances with an overabundance of antiperspirants and footwear. “You don’t necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country. I don’t think the media appreciates the kind of stress that ordinary Americans are working on.”[10 questions with Bernie Sanders, CNBC, May 26, 2015]

Try to suppress a snicker: Sanders, Decider of Your Sanitary and Footwear Needs, is casting himself as the Everyman in touch with “ordinary Americans” to contrast his campaign with Hillary “my Beltway lobbyist and foreign agent operator Sid Blumenthal is just a friend I talk to for advice” Clinton.

Blech. By the looks of the 2016 Democratic presidential field, liberals really do practice the anti-choice principles they preach.

At Caracas-on-the-Green Mountains, every business owner’s success robs starving babies of vital nutrition. Because some tummies may be grumbling somewhere across the fruited plains, all must suffer. In Sanders’ world, it’s the “greedy”– America’s real makers, builders and wealth creators — who must be punished and shamed, specifically with a personal income tax rate hiked to a whopping 90 percent for top earners.

Of course, the wealth redistributors in Washington never bear any of the blame for misspending the billions they confiscate. Nearly 100 million Americans participated in dozens of federal food assistance programs in 2014. The General Accounting Office reported last year that $74.6 billion went to food stamps, $11.3 billion went to the national school lunch program, and $7.1 billion went to the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program, along with $1.9 billion for nutrition assistance for Puerto Rico and $10.7 million for a federal milk program.

But no, it’s not the fault of command-and-control bureaucrats and their overseers on Capitol Hill that the War on Poverty and the War on Hunger have failed.

In Sanders’ bubble, childhood hunger is the fault of selfish consumers, self-serving entrepreneurs and rapacious retailers who engage in voluntary transactions in a free-market economy. Just as Sanders believes there are “too many” products on the shelves, President Obama recently opined that families of America’s top earners in the financial industry “pretty much have more than you’ll ever be able to use and your family will ever be able to use.”

We need not speculate about whether the wealth-shamers’ recipe of less capitalist consumption, fewer private businesses, stifling of entrepreneurship and more government control over goods and services would result in happier citizens and fuller stomachs. In Venezuela, the shelves are unburdened by “too many” deodorants and shoes and too much soap, milk or coffee. Food distribution is under military control. The currency of the socialist paradise just collapsed on the black market by 30 percent.

Here in America, dozens of private household goods companies make billions of dollars selling scented, unscented, quilted, two-ply, white and colored toilet paper that people want and need. In Sanders’ utopia in South America, the government imposed price controls in the name of redistributing basic goods to the poor and seized a toilet paper factory to cure the inevitable shortages. The lines are long. The shelves are empty. The daily battle for subsistence is brutal.