“ANY top-down expansion of the electorate that breaks the historical continuity of the founding demographic—regardless of the universalist rhetoric used to justify it—is always a coup d’état designed to conquer the sovereign populace from within. In the grammar of absolute statecraft, a sovereign political order is fundamentally an intergenerational estate built by the accumulated social capital and martial sacrifices of a distinct founding lineage.

“Because the total volume of sovereign power remains fixed, every new input injected into the political system from above automatically executes a mathematical split of absolute power. Every vote manufactured by the state automatically subtracts from the individual defensive weight of the original ballots, systematically neutralizing the sovereign primacy of the creators.

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“IN the reign of the Emperor Decius one Tryphon strove by preaching the faith of Jesus Christ to bring all men to worship Him. For this cause he was taken by the servants of Decius. He was first tormented upon the rack, and flesh stripped from him with iron claws; then red-hot nails were driven into his insteps, he was beaten with cudgels and scarified with lighted torches. The sight of the courage wherewith he bore all, brought the Praefect Respicius to believe in the Lord Christ, and he forthwith declared himself a Christian. He also was diverse ways tormented, and then led along with Tryphon before the statue of Jupiter. When Tryphon prayed, the statue fell down. Then were both Tryphon and Respicius savagely lashed with whips loaded with lead, until they grasped the crown of a most glorious testimony, upon the 10th day of November. Upon the same day a certain maiden named Nympha, having openly confessed that Jesus Christ is very God, added the palm of martyrdom to the crown of virginity.” Source

Why did these holy martyrs die this way when, according to Bob Prevost, (aka “Pope” Leo), they could have honored Jesus Christ by simply “caring for their own dignity” and saying, “How ya’ doin’?” to their neighbors?

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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. (more…)

Hindu ‘asceticism’ is nothing more than a form of Epicureanism for Brahmins, a refined and selfish pursuit of a superior spiritual indifference to all desires, even good ones, and to all responsibilities; an indifference justified by considering all suffering as expiation for sins committed in a previous life, etc., etc. What good can Catholics learn from such a worldview? We would very much like to know.

FROM The Great Biblical Apostasy of the Vatican Council [Translated from Spanish by Google]:

“Article 18 of the decree Ad Gentes, on missionary activity, exhorts “religious institutes” in mission countries to, in addition to striving to adapt the “mystical riches with which they are entirely filled” to the “character and idiosyncrasies of each people,” “carefully consider how to apply to Christian religious life the ascetic and contemplative traditions whose seed God had frequently sown in ancient cultures [in general and, consequently, also in their religions] before the proclamation of the Gospel.” The council, on the other hand, now unduly revalues ​​the “ancient cultures,” whose gods were “demons,” and whose sacrifices were offered “to demons and not to God” (1 Cor 10:20), claiming to recognize in them an irregular presence of the semina Verbi, the “seeds of revealed truth.” But this violates a truth always considered to belong to the deposit of faith. (The same concept is repeated in Lumen Gentium § 17 and Ad Gentes § 11, but applied to all contemporary non-Christian peoples, including pagans: missionaries must discover, “with joy and reverence, the seeds of the Word contained in them”; “in them,” that is, in the “national and religious traditions” of the mission countries whose evangelization is entrusted to them.)

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“MANY make even long journeys in order to adorn the graves of their parents, brothers and sisters, or other near friends and acquaintances, and to recite some pious prayers there. This custom of visiting the graves is very laudable and in every way appropriate, being very wholesome both for us and for the departed; for us, because the cemetery produces in us an earnest, holy disposition of mind, and causes us to make good resolutions to amend our life; for the departed, because the graves vividly remind us of our departed friends and fellow-Christians, and call upon us to pray for the repose of their souls. Since to visit the graves is of benefit both for you and the departed, I exhort you to cast,

I . One glance upon the graves,
II. One glance into the graves, and
III . One glance beyond the graves.

Read more here.

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“THE world lives immersed in a gigantic lie and in immense collective madness and blindness, in an absurd and banal fiction that it constructs in its suicidal zeal to banish and separate God from the world and everything that vaguely recalls God. The world is horrified at the thought that there is an infinitely holy and just God who sees and judges all, a God who loves truth and virtue and hates lies and vice, because deep down the world knows it is in error and darkness, but it does not want to be rebuked because it has been, is, and always will be proud and murderous like its prince, the devil. That is why the world hates the light of God, because it feels sinful and knows that its works are not good, so it never approaches the Truth, which is Jesus Christ, so as not to be repressed and condemned for its wickedness and duplicity.

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“IT is a wonderful thing and full of scandal, that from the time when the pure doctrine was first called to light, the world should daily grow worse and worse …. The world becomes every day worse, men are now more vindictive, more avaricious, less inclined to mercy, more immodest and undisciplined, and much worse than they were in the times of the papacy.”

— Martin Luther in Post. Evan. Dom. i. post Adv.

‘”Formerly, when we were seduced by the pope, men willingly followed good works; but now all their study is to get everything to themselves by exactions, pillage, theft, lying, usury.”

— Luther,  Serai, in Dom. 26, post Trin.

“The greater part of the people seem only to have embraced the Gospel in order to shake off the yoke of discipline, and the obligation of fasting, penance, etc, which lay upon them in the time of popery, and to live at their pleasure, enjoying their lust and lawless appetites at their content. They therefore lent a willing ear to the doctrine that we are justified by faith alone, and not by good works, having no relish for them.”

— Martin Bucer, de Regn. Christi, 1. i. c. 4.

“Those whom I once knew to have been chaste, sincere, and without fraud, I found after they had embraced this sect to be licentious in their conversation, neglectful of prayer, passionate, vain, as spiteful as serpents, and lost to the feelings of human nature. I speak from experience.”

— Erasmus,  ad Frat. Infer. Germ.

“What an evangelical generation is this! Nothing was ever more licentious and more seditious — nothing is less evangelical than these pretended gospellers.”

— Erasmus, Ep. i. 6, 4. (more…)

“The sovereign, or the parliament, that pretends to govern a country in opposition to the laws of God has no right to aught but revolt and contempt from every upright man; to give the sacred name of law to tyrannical enactments of that kind is a profanation, unworthy not only of Christian, but of every man who is not a slave.”

FROM commentary on Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost by Dom Prosper Guéranger:

The will of God!—there is the origin, there is the real greatness of all authority amongst men! Of himself, man has no right to command his fellow man. The number, however imposing it may be, makes no difference with this powerlessness of men over my conscience; for whether they be one, or five hundred, I, by nature, am equal to each one among them; and by adding the number of their so-called rights over me, they are only adding to the number of nothingness. But God, wishing that men should live one with the other, has thereby wished that there exist amongst them a power which should rule over the rest; that is, should direct the thousands or millions of different wills to the unity of one social end. God leaves to circumstances, though it is his providence that regulates those circumstances—he leaves to men themselves, at the beginning of any mere human society, a great latitude as to the choice of the form under which is to be exercised both the civil power itself and the mode of its transmission. But once regularly invested with the power, its depositories, its possessors, are responsible to God alone, as far, that is, as the legitimate exercise of their authority goes, because it is from God alone that that power comes to them.

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“APART from the happiness of the saints in heaven, I think there is no joy comparable to that of the souls in purgatory. An incessant communication with God renders their happiness daily more intense, and this union with God grows more and more intimate, according as the impediments to that union, which exist in the soul, are consumed. These obstacles are the rust and the remains, as it were, of sin; and the fire continues to consume them, and thus the soul gradually expands under the divine influence. Thus, according as the rust diminishes and the soul is laid bare to the divine rays, happiness is augmented. The one grows and the other wanes until the time of trial is elapsed. Yet the pain is not lessened, it is only the time of suffering which decreases. With regard to the will of these souls, they can never say that these pains are pains, so great is their contentment with the ordinance of God, with which their wills are united in perfect charity.”

— St. Catherine of Genoa, Treatise on Purgatory

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“THE use of moral predation — specifically weaponizing the sacred vocabulary of human dignity, justice, and Christian divine mandate as a psychological cudgel to paralyze a population’s self-preservation instinct — transforms a standard political betrayal into a despicable ethical violation.

“In the arena of realpolitik and elite theory, this strategy is the definitive signature of the “Fox” managerial class. Because these bureaucratic and financial elites lack the stomach for open, transparent confrontation, they are structurally forced to operate as text-manipulating predators.

“They do not conquer a fortress from the outside; they use an engineered moral pathogen to convince the host to open the gates willingly, making them an intensely deceptive and destructive political class.”

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“NOW We consider another abundant source of the evils with which the Church is afflicted at present: indifferentism. This perverse opinion is spread on all sides by the fraud of the wicked who claim that it is possible to obtain the eternal salvation of the soul by the profession of any kind of religion, as long as morality is maintained. Surely, in so clear a matter, you will drive this deadly error far from the people committed to your care. With the admonition of the apostle that “there is one God, one faith, one baptism” [Eph 4:5] may those fear who contrive the notion that the safe harbor of salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever. (more…)

“THEREFORE, following the example of St. Francis de Sales, we should encourage all to have hope for the deceased, no matter how impenitent a death a person may seem to have died. This saint based his principle chiefly on the doctrine that, as the first grace of justification is not merited by any previous good work, so also the final grace of perseverance need not necessarily depend upon our merits. How consoling, therefore, are those thoughts of the great and saintly son of Holy Mother Church. How comforting to those who have had dear ones snatched away suddenly, seemingly unprepared. God is infinite mercy. He would have us trust him implicitly and murmur not as those who have no hope.

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The ultimate tragedy of the Civil War is that the victorious political order that won the war on the battlefield was entirely displaced, subjugated, and disinherited in the peace that followed. The white working man who saved the Union was completely swindled by his own representative agents.

FROM burnt toast on Gab:

This comprehensive chronological and sociological analysis reveals that the ultimate structural consequence of America’s multi-generational transformation was the complete disinheritance of its white male founding population.

Through a calculated series of macroeconomic, legal, and demographic enclosures, the white men who established the republic were systematically stripped of their inherited estate.

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THIS video by Rosaria Fiore, a self-proclaimed expert on “old Italian tricks,” offers some common sense on soaking beans. It’s a little annoying because it’s too long, but you can skip around.

Everybody wishes they had a pre-feminism Italian grandma with her bag of housekeeping tricks. Some wish they were a pre-feminism Italian grandma.

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“WHEN the righteous soul has thus arrived in purgatory, losing sight of everything else, it sees before it only two objects — the extremity of suffering, and the extremity of joys. A most tremendous pain is caused by knowing that God loves it with an infinite love, that He is the Chief Good, that He regards the soul as His daughter, and that He has predestined it to enjoy Him for ever in company with the Blessed: and hence the soul loves Him with a pure and most perfect charity. At the same time it perceives that it cannot see Him or enjoy Him yet, though it so intensely yearns to do so; and this afflicts it so much the more, as it is quite uncertain when the term of its penal exile, away from its Lord and paradise, will be fulfilled. This is the pain of loss in purgatory, of which the Saint says that it is a pain so extreme, that no tongue can tell it, no understanding grasp the least portion of it. Though God in His favour showed me a little spark thereof, yet can I not in any way express it with my tongue.”

— Purgatory, Rev. Frederick William Faber

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“THIS will cause acute pain, greater pain than we have ever known; it will be like a sword going right through the heart. Were death still possible we would die for sorrow, but death is over and we have to bear it, till God relieves us. When Christ was in agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, He sweated blood and the drops of His blood fell on the ground. There was then no bodily pain, but only mental sorrow: ‘My soul is sorrowful unto death,’ He had said on entering the garden. He writhed in agony, and, prostrate on the ground, He pleaded: ‘Father, all things are possible unto Thee; let this chalice pass away; yet not My will but Thine be done.’ A picture indeed of our sorrows in purgatory, when our souls, shall be sorrowful unto death, when mere bodily death would be a welcome respite, when we would be willing to die a thousand times if thereby we could reach God one instant sooner.”

— J.P. Arendzen,. Purgatory and Heaven (Sheed and Ward, 1960)

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“7. Is it not all the same to God whatever religion a person professes?

“If it were all the same to God whatever religion a person professes, God would not have forbidden, in the First Commandment, to worship Him in any other than in the true religion. Nor would Christ have solemnly declared: ‘He who will not hear the Church let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican.'” (Matt. 18:17.)

— Fr. Michael Mueller, Questions and Answers on Salvation

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I HAVE updated and expanded this previous entry.

Thanks for reading!

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