FOR many years now, major toy manufacturers have been producing demonic “action figures” for children, particularly for boys. This is not a new story. But it is still a shocking story.

Just to give you an idea of the latest, here are a few figures that Walmart recommends for children between the ages of two and four. In other words, these are recommended for toddlers.

What are we to think of these hideous “toys?” We are to think of them as child abuse. They desensitize children to extreme ugliness, impoverish their imaginations and acclimate them to the satanic. It would be better to have no toys at all. (more…)

CHERYL SULLENGER at Tradition in Action writes about the "full, uncut video of the undercover visit to the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Houston, Texas." "That longer video contains new revelations that some aborted baby remains sold by Planned Parenthood go to biotech companies for the purpose of creating 'humanized' mice."

WILLIAM writes from the Netherlands:

After the unveiling of the satanic ‘Baphomet’ statue in Detroit, people can now also rejoice in the projection of the Hindu goddess Kali on the Empire State Building.

The Kali projection was part of a visual show on the building’s exterior last weekend, a display on threats to endangered species and Kali was included for “giving mother nature a fierce avatar against pollution.’ I suppose the fact that ‘mother’ nature pollutes the world much more than humans by way of volcanic eruptions or that humans, in the modern view, áre nothing but mammals, i.e. themselves part of ‘mother nature,’ does not make anyone pause for a second.

So now we have the goddess Kali to project ‘change.’ Her name means “black, time, death, destruction” and could be connected with “hell” and the Germanic goddess ‘Hella’ or ‘Holda.’ She, like Kali, was a goddess of death and associated with the (skin) colours blue and black, being the same in ancient understanding.

In recent years, the people who have tatto-ed or body-painted themselves with skeletal features have increased tremendously and Hella was often half skeletal. There is a skeletal goddess or aspect of Kali in Hinduism too (Chamunda). (more…)

THE former public school teacher and well-known anti-school crusader, John Taylor Gatto, explains his views of mass schooling. The primary purpose of modern schools, he argues, is not knowledge, but social engineering. There are many other videos of his talks here and here. I don't understand his points about eugenics, but his general idea of the industrializing of schools is his most important criticism.

FROM an essay by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira: “Judas, dost thou betray the Son of Man with a kiss?” Both faces were close to each other at the memorable moment of this infamous kiss and terrifying question. Giotto depicts this scene in another painting in the same chapel. With his low forehead, flabby flesh, grim look, vulgar nose, loathsomely soft and drooping lips, Judas reveals an inexpressible infamy in his whole being. Jesus-noble, infinitely superior, and possessing an ineffable moral loftiness-looks upon him with a gaze wherein a sparkle of love, rebuke, severity, and total repulsion can be found. Poor, miserable Judas, who did not want to open his soul to the love or fear which this gaze elicited and to which this doleful and pungent question invited him. And, because his soul resisted every invitation to love and to fear, it sank from theft to deicide and from deicide to despair.

THOMAS F. BERTONNEAU writes:

In a poem so oft-quoted that it embarrasses me slightly to quote it again, W. B. Yeats, gazing with a prophetic eye on the disintegrating world of modernity, writes

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.  (more…)

ANTI-GLOBALIST EXPATRIATE writes:

I guess black lives don’t matter, after all, since the race of this perp and his victims has been completely downplayed by the media. (more…)

"THE soul as it leaves God's hands projects His image without hindrance, for it is utterly sinless and immortal. Marie des Vallées, the extraordinary seventeenth century mystic to whom St. Grignon de Montfort and St. John Eudes owe so much of their eschatology and Marian doctrine, was privileged over the course of a week without interruption to see newly created souls before they were joined to their bodies. St. John, her confessor and biographer, quoted her as saying that Divine Love showed her, "pointing them out merely with the finger, an incalculable number of souls just as they are when issuing from the hands of the Creator, before being soiled by original sin. I saw them adorned with a beauty so great that man is incapable of understanding or experiencing it. Oh, it didn't surprise me that God came down from heaven to redeem such beautiful creatures!" Solange Hertz, The Passion of the Church; "Death's Door"

ANTI-GLOBALIST EXPATRIATE writes: This is a continuation of the saga involving former California State Senator Leland Yee, racketeer and would-be arms-smuggler.

SEE more paintings by Spanish artist Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) at It's About Time.

SUZANNE VENKER writes at Time that corporate parental leave policies create an illusion of balancing parenthood and child-rearing:

As a society, we’d do better to acknowledge the fact that women (and men, for that matter, though in a different way) change as a result of having children, and often do care less about work. And what’s wrong with that? Isn’t that why people have babies? To make life more meaningful? And, dare I say it, less focused on work?

Offering new parents full pay for up to one year is akin to putting a band-aid on a gaping wound. The needs of children are huge, and they do not end at one year. On the contrary, they just begin. Taking a year off of work to meet those needs merely scratches the surface. (more…)

FATHER Klaus Luhmer, one of eight Jesuits who survived the bombing of Hiroshima unscathed (some say miraculously) described in this interview five years ago what he saw that day. He was praying in the garden of a Jesuit residence on the outskirts of the city when the bombing occurred. Today is the 70th anniversary of the nuclear bomb attacks. See the recent lengthy discussion of the morality of the bombing here.

TODAY, the Feast of the Transfiguration, is the 140th anniversary of the death of Gabriel Garcia Moreno, the president of Ecuador who was assassinated on the morning of August 6, 1875. He was heroic in his refusal to submit to the Masonic idea of separation of Church and State. He consecrated his country to the Sacred Heart. Marian Horvat wrote about his last day here: When he won re-election to the Presidency in 1875, his death was decreed by the Masonic Lodges of Germany – led by anti-Catholic Grand Master Otto von Bismarck. A reader sends this sermon on the daily rule of Moreno.

To some who remembered that part of St. Louis as home, it seemed like the desecration of something sacred.”

— Mary Joan Boyer, The Old Gravois Coal Diggings

ALAN writes:

The “Tales of Chester” are exactly the kind of stories of particular places and memories connected to those places that readers of The Thinking Housewife should consider writing about their own lives.  If they don’t, do they imagine anyone else will?  Those tales would not exist if one man had not held on to vivid memories from living there as a boy.

No one would ever have seen the motion picture “Meet Me in St. Louis” if a woman named Sally Benson had not written her memories of life in a certain neighborhood of St. Louis during her childhood in 1903.

Late in his life, I tried to persuade my father to write about the place where he had lived as a boy.  He liked the idea and had many fine memories.  But it was too late.  He could not summon the will to do that because too many of his friends and family were gone.  He filled an envelope with their newspaper death notices.  They were the people for whom he might have written those memories and to whom they would have meant the most, but all those connections had been dissolved by the passage of time. (more…)

THE Vatican II Church, which has been hemorrhaging members ever since it revolutionized Catholic worship and theology, harms Mexican churches by supporting illegal immigration to this country. Jonathan David Carson at The American Thinker explains how. He writes:

Someone more intelligent and better-educated than I could perhaps explain the madness of church leaders who think they can somehow increase their herds by going left.  It never works, but they cannot learn from their own experience, or from the universal experience of others.  They fixate on “inclusion” and include and include and include until there is almost no one left.

Carson errs in presuming that the American bishops support illegal immigrants purely because these immigrants might fill the pews. Global universalism flows from Vatican II theology, and the bishops genuinely believe in it. (more…)

ONE hundred and nineteen blacks have been murdered in Baltimore in the past three months. This summer's murder rate is the highest in 43 years.