OH YES HE DID: Student Testifies About Threesome with his Teachers
Posted: April 26, 2017 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Education, U.S. News | Tags: Affidavit, Algiers, Book of Joshua, Catholic News Agency, Catholic News Service, Catholicism, Chad Griffin, New Orleans, New Orleans Police Department, Shelly Dufresne, The Times-Picayune 1 CommentThe unidentified student, now 19, detailed the relationship he had with former Destrehan High School teacher Shelly Dufresne, 34, that began when he was a 16-year-old student in her English class. The month-long affair began with a Facebook message from Dufresne after the teen was out sick one day in August 2014, he testified, and quickly progressed to the student and teacher kissing in a classroom within days.
“Later on that night was the first time that Shelly and I had intercourse,” the teen told Judge Danyelle Taylor of the 24th Judicial District Court on Tuesday as Dufresne’s trial began. She has pleaded not guilty to two counts of carnal knowledge of a juvenile, the Times-Picayune reports.
If convicted, Dufresne faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
The night of their first tryst began, the teen said, when Dufresne picked up the teen from his home in the New Orleans suburb of Destrehan after a football scrimmage. He testified that the teacher then drove to an isolated location behind a daiquiri shop, where they had sex.
Prosecutors say Dufresne coordinated the trysts using a fake Facebook profile under the name “Madison Mexicano,” complete with an image of the cartoon character Speedy Gonzalez as the profile image. The cover photo also included the phrase, “I love Mexican boys,” a reference to the teen, prosecutor Rachel Africk said. The teen later testified Tuesday that he didn’t appreciate that reference, however, since he is half-Colombian and half-Caucasian.
[Read the full story here, at the New York Post]
The teen provided the court with a list of the places where he met Dufresne to have sex, including at her house in Montz, inside her Honda Pilot SUV in multiple parking lots — and in a shed at a friend’s house. The torrid romps culminated, the teen testified, with a threesome with another former Destrehan High School English teacher, 26-year-old Rachel Respess, at her apartment in Kenner.
“All three of us were in bed together,” the teen told the court. “We all started having sex.”
The teen also said he recorded video of Respess while she slept after the threesome and admitted to the court that his genitals could be seen in the footage.
“It was kind of like proof,” he testified, adding that he showed the video to some teammates on the high school football team. “I told them about it, but they didn’t believe me.”
School officials eventually learned of the threesome after rumors spread throughout the school and contacted authorities in late September. Dufresne and Respess — whose trial date has not been set for allegedly failing to report the commission of several felonies — were arrested in October 2014, the Times-Picayune reports. Read the rest of this entry »
Normandy Attack: Tomorrow’s Newspapers Today
Posted: July 26, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, France, Mediasphere, Religion, Terrorism | Tags: Britain, Catholic Priest, Catholicism, Christianity, ISIS, Islamism, Jihadism, media, murder, news, Newspapers, Normandy, The Daily Star, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, UK 1 Comment
Source: #tomorrowspaperstoday hashtag on Twitter
This is the Wall Around The Vatican
Posted: February 18, 2016 Filed under: Politics, Religion | Tags: Catholicism, Illegal immigration, Open Borders, Pope Francis, Refugees, Transylvania, Vatican, Walls 1 Comment
The wall around the Vatican
“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the gospel.”
— Pope Francis, February 1016

The walled churches of Transylvania

Walls of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai

Wall around the Carmelite monastery in Philadelphia

Wall at Mar Saba Orthodox monastery in the Holy Land

The wall around the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius monastery in Russia
Source: TeamNRO
[VIDEO] Standing Ovation: Values Voters Summit Attendees Respond to John Boehner’s Resignation Announcement
Posted: September 25, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Capitol Hill, Catholicism, John Boehner, Marco Rubio, media, Nancy Pelosi, Pope, Republican Party (United States), The New York Times, United States Congress, video Leave a comment
Marco Rubio announced Speaker John Boehner‘s upcoming resignation at the Values Voter Summit, the crowd erupted into a standing ovation. Rubio, one of the many speakers invited to the 10th annual VVS in Washington, paused from discussing his paid family leave plan to mention Boehner’s resignation: “Just a few minutes ago, Speaker Boehner announced that he will be resigning.”
Needless to say, the audience’s reaction to the news was everything but silent. “With all due respect to people who serve in government,” Rubio continued, “it is important at this moment, with respect to him and the service he has provided to our country, it’s not about him, and I’m not here today to bash anyone, but the time has come to turn the page.” Initial reports described the VVS crowd’s response as a “standing ovation,” a choice of phrase that could be interpreted one of two ways. The audience was either (a) applauding Boehner’s service as speaker with a salutatory round of clapping and standing, or (b) expressing a wild excitement akin to “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead!” in The Wizard of Oz.
The New York Times broke the news Friday morning, citing aides in his office…Boehner has served as a Congressman from Ohio since 1991. He was elected House Majority Leader in 2006, and became House Minority Leader in 2007 after Republicans lost control of the House. He became Speaker of the House in 2011 after the Tea Party resurgence saw massive Republican sgains in the House and Senate. from mediaite…..Religious conservatives broke into a rowdy and prolonged cheer when they learned House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) would resign from Congress. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Descent into Limbo’, Zoan Andrea
Posted: September 22, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Religion | Tags: American Folk Art Museum, Catholicism, Christianity, Descent into LImbo, Engraving, Heaven, Hell, Illustration, Middle Ages, Zoan Andrea Leave a commentDescent into Limbo
Zoan Andrea
engraving on laid paper
circa 1475-1480
New York Post, Feb 17, 2015: ‘POPE’S RAGE Assails Mass Murder of Christians’
Posted: February 17, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Religion | Tags: Catholicism, Christianity, Genocide, Islamism, Jihadism, Mass murder, media, New York, New York City, Newspaper, NYC, Pope, Tabloid, Terrorism 1 CommentLimiting Free Speech: Did The Pope Get It Right? David Harsanyi Doesn’t Think So
Posted: January 15, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Global, Religion | Tags: Anti-Semitism, Catholic, Catholicism, David Harsanyi, Freedom of speech, Freedom of the press, Islamism, Jihadism, Pope Francis, Terrorism, The Federalist 1 CommentIlluminated Choirbook: 1436 Consecration of Florence’s Santa Maria del Fiore
Posted: December 18, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Mediasphere, Reading Room, Religion | Tags: Catholicism, Christianity, Consecration, design, Florence, graphics, Illuminated Choirbook, Illuminated Manuscript, Illustration, Santa Maria del Fiore, The New Criterion Leave a commentCatholics and Postmodernity
Posted: October 27, 2013 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Think Tank | Tags: Aaron Rodgers, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Don Chandler, God, Protestantism, United States 1 CommentHow do you speak the language of morality in an age of militant secularism?
Editor’s note: The following address was given at a gathering of the St. Thomas More Sociey of the Diocese of Green Bay on October 24.
George Weigel writes: Let me begin by thanking my friend Judge Bill Griesbach for describing me here in Titletown U.S.A. as “the Aaron Rodgers of Catholic public intellectuals.” As a native of Baltimore with a long memory, I’ll be happy to accept that accolade if the good people of Green Bay will finally admit that Don Chandler shanked that field goal in the 1965 Colts/Packers playoff game.
Tonight, I want to violate the canons of after-dinner remarks, skip the requisite joke-every-two-paragraphs, and get right down to the business at hand: to drill beneath the surface of American public life in order to explore what’s going on down there; to examine how what’s going on down there shapes the controversies and arguments of the day; and to suggest how that bears on Catholics and other men and women whose consciences are formed by Great Tradition Christianity in these United States in the early 21st century.