Daily Rome Shot 1512 – ANGELS VS DEMONS (aka angry leftist protesters)

From The Parish™.   I’m sad I’m not there as I thought I might have been.  No presepio this year, however, because of the ongoing restoration work in the nave which requires enclosing the side chapels in scaffolding.

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I’m all in on this Italian Sushi! ? pic.twitter.com/IoJKGofzUu

— Grits n Football (@goodbreffis) December 23, 2025

White to move and mate in 4.

NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.

This is a great story found at Human Events.

Members of the Ave Maria (Florida) choir were at a restaurant in Washington, D.C., after singing at the White House.  Protesters approached, shouting, chanting, and directing verbal harassment with blowhorns and lights at those present. The choir responded by singing the Marian antiphon Salve Regina. The article states that, after the singing began, the protesters stopped and left.

The first recorded use of MERRY CHRISTMAS goes back to 1534 in a letter dated December 22 by imprisoned English Bishop John Fisher to lawyer and activist Thomas Cromwell. In his letter, Fisher—who had been in the Tower of London prison for eight months for refusing to recognize… pic.twitter.com/FdWbtWwCtz

— Father V (@father_rmv) December 23, 2025