Today is the feast day of Saint Nicholas. Saint Nick was a bishop in what is now Turkey. During the time of Emperor Constantine, and up until Moslem invasions during the Middle Ages, Turkey had many Christians – mostly Orthodox Christians.
Saint Nicholas threw dowry money into the houses of three girls who were set to be sold into slavery. This saved them from being sexual prey.
Saint Nicholas also brought back to life three boys who a butcher had murdered. The evil scumbag put their bodies in brine and was preparing to sell their flesh as pork because there was a famine in the land.
Children in many countries of Europe put their shoes out on St. Nicholas Day. The Saint (actually their parents) fill the shoes with candy and nuts and leave presents.

US Army photo … Soldier Dick Brookins played Saint Nicholas for the poor children of war-torn Wiltz, Luxembourg. US troops and Catholic nuns gave out gifts and sweets to the children. I read this story in the magazine “America in WWII.” Days later, the Battle of the Bulge began, and we had to smash the Germans. Let anyone who criticizes the hearts of the vast majority of our military and first responders repent or suffer the punishment they deserve!
This tradition survived the Protestant Reformation in the Netherlands. So while witch-hunting Puritan prunefaces banned Christmas celebrations in Massachusetts (just like the Democrat politicians and other pervs who run Pansychusetts today have tried to take Christmas out of public life there), the Dutch immigrants in New York carried on the tradition. The Puritans by and large took the side of England during the Revolutionary War, and were discredited. However, since most Americans still hated Catholics, even though the French and Spanish kings had aided America in the war, and 30% of the Continental Army was Irish and Catholic, and Polish officers Koskiuszko and Pulaski were Catholics. So they really couldn’t celebrate Christmas with the kind of merriment the Catholics could — until they realized Americans of Dutch Protestant blood did likewise.
So Saint Nicholas became “Santa Claus” (Claus is German for “Nicholas”) and Americans in the 1800s returned the celebration to the Christmas holiday thanks to this great and charitable bishop who loved children, hated child murders, and hated child sexual abuses.
Saint Nicholas Day is a good day to talk about two items in the news.
The first is that Pope Francis, while not a reader of “How To Be Your Own Detective,” did something very intelligent the other day.
He said homosexuality is incompatible with the priesthood.
Since about 80% of the victims of the evil priests who committed rape and other sex offenses were boys, defrocking or isolating in monasteries current homosexuals in the priesthood and forbidding others the ability to become priests will essentially end the Church’s child molester cancer.
As someone who has fought abusers in the Church for a generation, I applaud the Holy Father’s statement. Now I await concrete action in this regard.
Of course, the politicians will protect sex offenders who are public school teachers. Teachers and other public school employees have raped hundreds of times as many children as priests have done. This doesn’t excuse the priests. But it is a call-out to politicians to stop protecting the biggest group of child molesters in the country – those who are unionized government employees.
Now for Saint Nicholas’ other pet peeve – child murderers.
A few months ago, we reported abortion madam Merle Hoffman used willing New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman like a hired goon to abuse the rights of several sidewalk preachers and other pro-life witnesses outside her Queens abortion mill.
Not many women can say they went to work for an abortion mill owner, serviced him sexually, got him to divorce his wife, married him, then took over the abortion mill when he croaked, Even Stormy Daniels can’t stoop this low, huh?










