“WE have the fifty-four-hour law, the minimum wage commission, the prohibition of night-work in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits in Indiana, Nebraska, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania, although women do not vote in these States. An electorate of men has created the best body of remedial and protective legislation for the working woman in response to the need for such legislation made manifest by economic and industrial conditions. It has yet to be shown that women electors as a body in any one double-suffrage State have evolved policies unknown to any other single man-suffrage State and distinct from the normal trend of present-day progress in which men and women play their part. Not until such showing can be made should the ballot be given women as a means of social efficiency.”

— Mrs. A.J. George, The Women’s Protest. April, 1916

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“THE leaders of the suffrage movement cannot and will not deny it, nor have they ever repudiated it. The Socialists, carrying their banners, have taken part in all the big woman suffrage parades and they have been welcomed. At the recent convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association, in Nashville, Tenn., the Socialists of that city filed into the auditorium in which the Sunday session was held and proudly rested their banners against the walls. They remained as guests of these woman suffrage agitators throughout the meeting.

“Socialism is rampant in woman suffrage States, and the Socialist vote was responsible for establishing the “cause” in several of those States. In Nevada, after the recent election, woman suffragists thanked the Socialists for assistance, and the statement was proudly made that every Socialist vote had been cast for woman suffrage. (more…)

“WOMAN suffrage has proved such a failure in the State of Washington that thousands of those who helped to adopt it four years ago would today gladly vote for a return to male suffrage if given the opportunity, according to Judge W. H. Snell of Tacoma, who is staying at the Beaconsfield, Brookline, with his wife and family.

“In an interview yesterday, Judge Snell said:

“’I favored woman suffrage in Washington and voted for it. But in common with thousands of others who looked at the question as an abstract proposition, and hoped for the best, I am so greatly disappointed at the way it has worked out that I would today welcome an opportunity to vote for its withdrawal; and I believe if it were resubmitted to the people of Washington, and every man and woman of voting age were compelled to vote upon it, woman suffrage would be defeated by an overwhelming majority.

“’Many of us were led to support woman suffrage in Washington by the familiar argument that it would tend to purify politics and make for better government. But, after four years of experience, we are forced to conclude that it has done neither. On the contrary, it has simply added to the numbers of those who can be used in the interest of corrupt politics, and has resulted in a hodge-podge of ill-digested, sentimental, socialistic legislation, which is a menace to the welfare of the State.

“’The suffragist theory is that women are as much entitled to the ballot as men, but however this may be considered in the abstract, I am now convinced that we should have done much better for the State of Washington if, instead of extending the franchise to women, we had adopted a more restrictive franchise for men. (more…)

“IN demanding equality, Suffragists assume that there is not and has not been equality. In asserting that ‘there is no sex in mind,’ they really have had to maintain that there is one sex in mind, and that the masculine, to which woman must conform. If man wanted clinching arguments to prove his superiority, could he find another to match this one which suffrage has furnished him? The quaint wit of the Yankee put it neatly when he gave the toast, ‘Woman–once our superior, now our equal!’ Man has said: ‘The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.’ He has also said, with Martin: ‘Whatever may be the customs and laws of a country, the women of it decide the morals.’ The civilization of no nation has risen higher than the carrying out of the religious ideals of its best womanhood. If man has the outward framing of church and state, woman has the framing of the character of man.”

— Helen Kendrick Johnson, in her 1897 book Woman and the Republic: A Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates

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NATIONALISTS who reject Christ the King and his One True Holy Church, which lives now in the wilderness, deserts and byways of the modern world away from apostate Rome and its papal pretenders who are nothing more than worldly celebrities — these nationalists put Christ to death again and will come to nothing, their nations to be reduced to dust like that of the Pharisees:

Many therefore of the Jews, who were come to Mary and Martha, and had seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him.

But some of them went to the Pharisees, and told them the things that Jesus had done. 

The chief priests therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered a council, and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles? 

If we let him alone so, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and take away our place and nation. 

But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest that year, said to them: You know nothing. 

Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation. 

And not only for the nation, but to gather together in one the children of God, that were dispersed. 

From that day therefore they devised to put him to death.

— St. John, 11: 45-53

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“LUV’ is the fatuous, non-stop talk of love you see everywhere today. So often, it is just self-centered affection, a pleasure in itself. These words from the 19th-century Spanish priest, Fr. Félix Sardá y Salvany, are a good description of it:

The liberal charity that is fashionable today is, in form, flattery, condescension, and affection; but it is, at its core, the essential contempt for the true goods of man and for the supreme interests of truth and of God.

You don’t love anyone unless you care about his or her supernatural welfare and you can’t achieve that true charity unless you yourself have supernatural faith.

Never has love been so pervasively professed as in our age, and never has it been so truly absent. We live in a loveless time, as was predicted.

“And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold.” St. Matthew 24: 12

“Iniquity” is lawlessness, the falling away from God’s laws and truth for a do-as-thou-wilt, indifferentist spirituality devoid of true love of God.

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“WORLDY people constantly need to feel supported and reaffirmed in their false and wicked judgments by other unhappy souls like themselves, for deep down in their troubled and guilty consciences they know they are wrong and sense, however faintly, that they are being unjust and selfish. The world is a vast conspiracy of sinners and transgressors of God’s holy Law who seek refuge and understanding for their sins and crimes among themselves, impiously thinking that by feeling supported by an infinite majority of blind sinners like themselves they might be able to escape God’s inscrutable and implacable judgment and His holy and righteous wrath. They are certainly worthy of pity, for they are so misguided and ignorant of the only path that leads to unchanging Truth and eternal life.

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“LET it be known, then, that from Judas to the former Father Jacinto, the lineage of Church ministers who betray their Leader and sell themselves to heresy continues uninterrupted. That alongside and in opposition to the tradition of truth, there also exists in Christian society the tradition of error; in contrast to the apostolic succession of good ministers, hell has the diabolical succession of perverted ministers. This should not scandalize anyone. In this regard, let us recall the Apostle’s words, which he did not forget to warn us about: ‘There must be heresies, so that those among you who are truly tested may be revealed.'”

— Fr. Félix Sardá y Salvany, 1887

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“WHOEVER refuses to assent to divinely revealed truths on even one point truly abdicates all faith, for he refuses to submit to God insofar as He is the sovereign truth and the proper motive of faith.”

— Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum,  1896

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Prayer for Deceased Soldiers

You are all-powerful, O God, and live forever in light and joy. Look with pity and love, we beseech You, upon those who have bravely fought and gallantly died for our country.

By laying down their lives, they have showed supreme love for others. We implore you to accept their sacrifice and their belief in the justice of the cause for which they died. May their offering not be in vain. Deign to forgive any sins or misdeeds they may have committed. Bring them quickly, we implore You, into Your august presence, where fear, sadness, mourning and death no longer exist. Have pity, in Your loving kindness, on those they leave behind. In Your own inscrutable ways, make good their absence, and lavishly bestow Your love and consolations upon those deprived of their presence. This we ask of You in the name of Jesus Christ, Our King. Amen.

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“WHEN his disciples saw him, in the height of the fever, lying upon his back and praying, they entreated him to turn over and take a little rest upon his side while the violence of his sickness would allow him. But Martin answered them ‘Suffer me to look heavenward rather than earthward, that my spirit may see the way whereby it is so soon going to the Lord.’ At the moment of death he saw the enemy of mankind, and cried out: What are you come here for, you bloody brute? You murderer, you’ll find nothing in me. With these words on his lips, he gave up his soul to God, being aged eighty years. He was received by a company of Angels, who were heard praising God by many persons, especially by holy Severinus, Bishop of Cologne.” Source

St. Martin of Tours, Roman soldier, hermit, monk, and the third Bishop of Tours, likely died in 397 AD in France and has been venerated continuously for over 1,500 years. He was also what would be considered today a “religious extremist” incapable of engaging in dialogue.

O Martin, thou Priest of God, thou worthy shepherd, pray God on our behalf.

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Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners,  nor sat in the chair of pestilence.

But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season.

And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.

Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth.

Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just.

For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 1: 1-7

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A woman walked into a local breakfast cafe.

As she was being seated in a booth, she noticed a sign on a chalkboard behind the cash register and hostess station. An attempt at self-promotional humor, the sign said in bold, cursive lettering, “There is no unhappiness that can’t be cured by a good breakfast.”

The woman read these words and they fell into heart like drops of acid.

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Softly and gently, dearly-ransom’d soul,
In my most loving arms I now enfold thee,

And, o’er the penal waters, as they roll,
I poise thee, and I lower thee, and hold thee.

And carefully I dip thee in the lake,
And thou, without a sob or a resistance,

Dost through the flood thy rapid passage take,
Sinking deep, deeper, into the dim distance.

Angels, to whom the willing task is given,
Shall tend, and nurse, and lull thee, as thou liest;

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“MENNNAS was a Christian Egyptian soldier who had withdrawn himself into a desert place to do penance, but one day, during the persecution under the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian, upon the said Emperors’ birthday, when the people were gathered together at a great show, stood forth in the theatre, and reviled with a loud voice the idolatries of the Gentiles. Thereupon he was arrested, and being bound at Cotyasus, the chief city of Phrygia, under the authority of the President Pyrrhus, was first savagely lashed with thongs, then racked, then scarified with fire applied to his naked body, then had his wounds lacerated by rubbing with hair-cloth, then dragged through thorns and iron spikes with hands and feet tied, then lashed again with whips loaded with lead, and lastly slain with the sword, and thrown into a fire. The Christians saved his body thence and buried it, and it hath in after times been carried to Constantinople.”

St. Mennas was an officer in the imperial army of Rome. He was rudely booted from the general calendar of saints in the 1960s, along with many other holy martyrs. If only this warrior saint had known that “proselytism,” as Jorge Bergoglio said, “is solemn nonsense!” He might have chosen dialogue instead of the combative and extremist measure of “revil[ing] in a loud voice,” and then prevented these unpleasant experiences for himself. Pray for us, St. Mennas, and for all those who implicitly argue that your martyrdom was in vain.

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