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“AS is well known, we are wont to represent the Immaculate Conception in this manner: Mary is represented as a virgin, with eyes cast down, and hands folded as if in prayer. She places one foot upon the moon, whilst with the other she crushes the head of the serpent that lies upon the ground, bearing an apple in its mouth. Behold, in this image the reasons why so many persons so soon lose the grace of baptism; behold also the virtues, on the diligent practice of which depends the preservation of baptismal innocence!

“Mary has one foot upon the earth. This teaches us, that if we wish to retain our innocence we must sever our hearts from all inordinate desire for those things which the world offers — earthly possessions, worldly honor, worldly enjoyments. We must fully understand, that whatever the world may offer with the promise of rendering us happy here below, is naught but dross and disappointment, that can never satisfy the cravings of our hearts, which were created solely for God and for heaven. (more…)

THE Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is celebrated today, a wonderful and solemn occasion in this sacred season of Advent that commemorates the conception of Mary without original sin, not the conception of Jesus Christ, as some erroneously believe.

“At length, on the distant horizon, rises, with a soft and radiant light, the aurora of the sun which has been so long desired. The happy Mother of the Messias was to be born before the Messias Himself; and this is the day of the Conception of Mary,” wrote Dom Prosper Guéranger on this feast. which cannot be appreciated without an understanding of the doctrine of original sin.

All men were to contract the sin of Adam; the sentence was universal; but God’s own Mother is not included. God, who is the author of that law; God, who was free to make it as He willed; had power to exclude from it Her whom He had predestined to be His Own in so many ways; He could exempt her, and it was just that He should exempt her; therefore, He did it.

Many misconceptions about this day and about veneration of Mary exist. Here is a comment by a reader from a 2015 post that does a nice job of addressing some of them: (more…)

THE world that produced this music was a society that valued contemplation.

And its highest form was meditation on the majesty of God.

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CELEBRATED author Wajahat Ali calls Americans “hatemongers,” and then expresses hatred for them — or what would be considered hatred if expressed by a white person.

You’ve lost. You have lost. You lost. The mistake that you made is you let us in in the first place. See, that’s the thing with brown people. And I’m going to say this as a brown person. There’s a lot of us. Like a lot. There’s like 1.2 2 billion in India. There’s more than 200 million in Pakistan. There’s like 170 million in Bangladesh. Those are just the people there. I even talking about the folks who are expats or immigrants.

There’s a lot of truth to what he says and honestly he’s only expressing normal racial pride, which whites in similar positions are strictly forbidden from expressing themselves. I hope he isn’t silenced over this because more people need to hear it.

It’s interesting that he likes living among “hatemongers” and the culture they’ve created. Judging from his bio (below), Ali has probably benefited from affirmative action, which is institutionalized discrimination against white Americans. Do they have something similar in Pakistan? Does the government discriminate against Pakistanis? Does the government give low-interest loans to foreign races — loans that Pakistanis are not eligible for — so that they can open gas stations and motels? I have a feeling there are fewer “hatemongers” in Pakistan. There is no need to create more racial conflict and “diversity” in Pakistan in order to bring about world government and the overthrow of Christianity. The Kalergi Plan is for Western nations.

But I don’t mean to express resentment toward Ali personally. Again, his reaction is normal. His dislike for Trump is laughable — Indians and Pakistanis couldn’t have a better friend in the White House — but his reaction is understandable.

Ali needs, however, to realize that at the end of the day most ordinary people, whether here or there, are not going to benefit from global tyranny and pure materialism. The “brown people” he celebrates will suffer, they will suffer greatly, when white nations fall.

Ali is, for all his credentials, just plain stupid. He doesn’t see the big picture. If he did, he would be advocating for immediate closure of America’s borders, but, hey, he’s getting paid for his rage by The New York Times.

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WE live in such a sexualized culture that even Christmas songs are lewd. Just go to my supermarket, and you will hear them. Everywhere people are induced into the Cult of Lust.

The sex hype isn’t a cause of progress, but a regressive force. Sexual license isn’t liberating; it’s animalizing. In reality, it causes mental and spiritual decline, and we see that everywhere.

Lust is so normalized, people don’t even use the word anymore because of its negative connotation. From The Spiritual Life: A Treatise on Ascetical and Mystical Theology by Adolphe Tanquerey, S.S., a reminder on what an overly sexualized existence does to human beings:

From the point of view of perfection, there is, next to pride, no greater obstacle to spiritual growth than the vice of impurity. a) When it is question of solitary acts or of faults committed with others, it is not long before tyrannical habits are formed which thwart every impulse towards perfection, and incline the will towards debasing pleasures. Relish for prayer disappears, as does love for austere virtue, while noble and unselfish aspirations vanish. (more…)

“It is evident, from what we have said, that Advent is a season specially devoted to the exercises of what is called the purgative life, which is implied in that expression of St. John, so continually repeated by the Church during this holy time: Prepare ye the way of the Lord! Let all, therefore, strive earnestly to make straight the path by which Jesus will enter into their souls. Let the just, agreeably to the teaching of the apostle, forget the things that are behind (Phil. iii. 13.), and labour to acquire fresh merit. Let sinners begin at once and break the chains which now enslave them. (more…)

FROM Karl at his Substack Semitic Controversies:

When you routinely read the so-called ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ incidents that are regularly covered by jewish media outlets as well as more occasionally by the mainstream media – jewish-owned and operated or otherwise – you begin to notice that they tend to fall into three general categories:

1) Homeless/drug-user/drunk/mentally ill person (or people) ‘attack(s)’ jews – usually these are either drunken/drugged up brawls and/or actual/attempted muggings – or vandalise jewish property in some way (often disused or isolated jewish communal graveyards). (more…)

THE FRENCH professor Paul Rassinier (1906-1967) was one of the earliest scholars on what is known today as the Holocaust. What made Rassinier’s study invaluable was that he had been an inmate at Buchenwald himself and, as a Communist opposed to the Hitler government, his impartiality was not in doubt. He had no vested interest in defending the National Socialists.

In his book Did Six Million Really Die?, Richard Harwood describes Rassinier’s work for English-speaking readers:

Without doubt the most important contribution to a truthful study of the extermination question has been the work of French academic Paul Rassinier. The pre-eminent value of this work lies firstly in the fact that Rassinier actually experienced life in the German concentration camps and also that, as a Socialist intellectual and anti-Nazi, nobody could be less inclined to defend Hitler and National Socialism. Yet, for the sake of justice and historical truth, Rassinier spent the remainder of his post war years until his death in l966 pursuing research which utterly refuted the Myth of the Six Million and the legend of Nazi diabolism.

From 1933 until 1943, Rassinier was a teacher of history in the College d’Enseignement General at Belfort, Academie de Besancon. During the war he engaged in resistance activity until he was arrested by the Gestapo on October 30, 1943, and as a result was confined in the German concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dora until 1945. At Buchenwald, towards the end of the war, he contracted typhus, which so damaged his health that he could not resume his teaching. After the war, Rassinier was awarded the Medaille de la Resistance and the Reconnaisance Francaise, and was elected to the French Chamber of Deputies, from which he was ousted by the Communists in November 1946.

Rassinier then embarked on his great work, a systematic analysis of alleged German war atrocities, in particular the supposed “extermination” of the Jews. Not surprisingly, his writings are little known; they have rarely been translated from the French, although some of his writings appeared in English in 1978. His most important works are: Le Mensonge d ‘Ulysse (The Lies of Ulysses’, Paris, 1949), an investigation of concentration camp conditions based on his own experiences of them; and Ulysse ‘trahi par les Siens (1960), a sequel which further refuted the impostures of propagandists concerning German concentration camps. His monumental task was completed with two final volumes, Le Veritable Proce’s Eichmann (1962) and Le Drame des Juifs Europ’een (1964), in which Rassinier exposes the dishonest and reckless distortions concerning the fate of the Jews by a careful statistical analysis. The last work also examines the political and financial significance of the extermination legend and its exploitation by Israel and the Communist powers. (more…)

MODERN nations have been conquered not by armies, but by the hidden power of financiers.

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“PRAYER is man’s richest boon. It is his light, his nourishment, and his very life, for it brings him into communication with God, who is light, nourishment, and life. But of ourselves we know not what we should pray for as we ought; we must needs, therefore, address ourselves to Jesus Christ, and say to Him as the apostles did: ‘Lord, teach us how to pray.’ He alone can make the dumb speak, and give eloquence to the mouths of children; and this prodigy He effects by sending His Spirit of grace and of prayers, who delights in helping our infirmity, asking for us with unspeakable groanings.

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“The prayer of the Church is, therefore, the most pleasing to the ear and heart of God, and therefore the most efficacious of all prayers. Happy, then, is he who prays with the Church, and unites his own petitions with those of his bride, who is so dear to her Lord that He gives her all she asks. It is for this reason that our blessed Saviour taught us to say our Father, and not my Father; give us, forgive us, deliver us, and not give me, forgive me, deliver me.

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“For whilst prayer said in union with the Church is the light of the understanding, it is the fire of divine love for the heart. The Christian soul neither needs nor wishes to avoide the company of the Church, when she would converse with God, and praise His greatness and His mercy. (more…)

EVEN a little spiritual reading during the liturgical season of Advent, which begins tomorrow, may go a long way toward cultivating detachment from the secular frenzy and encouraging the prayer and penance that have been the true purpose of this season for thousands of years. Good reading helps us understand why we celebrate Christmas at all.

To that end, below are three books that offer deep insight into these immense mysteries. I have quoted them often over the years and have never grown tired of them.

Bethlehem: The Sacred Infancy of Our Most Dear and Blessed Redeemer by Fr. Frederick Faber: Here is an elegant, philosophical and poetic meditation on the Nativity by this great orator, a 19th-century convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Whether it be Mary and Joseph, the beasts by the manger, the shepherds, the Holy Innocents, or the traveling kings, Faber brings it all before you with a powerful immediacy. “Old as it is, it is still new.” And so it is in this book, first published in 1860. There are nine chapters: “The Bosom Of The Eternal Father,” “The Bosom Of Mary,” “The Midnight Cave,” “The First Worshippers,” “The Infant God,” “Soul And Body,” “Calvary Before Its Time,” “Heaven Already,” and “The Feet Of The Eternal Father.”

On the helplessness of the Divine Baby, Fr. Faber writes:

All the world’s helpfulness was but a ray out of his helplessness. No man’s work, be it for himself or for his fellows, has any true strength in it, no man’s strength is any thing better than effort and gesticulation, except the weakness of Chris have touched it, nerved it, and made it manful with heavenly manfulness. What are half the literatures and philosophies in the world but gesticulation, men in attitudes which effect nothing, voices raised to screaming partly to save appearances and counterfeit strength by noise? The strong man is he who has gone deepest down into the weakness of Christ. The enduring work is that which Christ’s humiliation has touched secretly, and made it almost omnipotent.”

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FROM the article “Hatred of Facts, Misocosmia, Misologia” by W. Lindsay Wheeler:

Hatred of facts is an intellectual vice that plagues mankind and is especially prevalent among intellectuals and ideologues. Reality is of no consequence for some people and these people seem to think that they are above and beyond reality (i.e. nature/cosmos). It stems from a spirit of rebellion; hence, it is part of original sin that affects all mankind. Hatred of facts is also a contempt for reality which creates a loss of contact with nature and/or loss of respect for nature, reality, the cosmos. This is a sociopathy creating disconnected and disoriented people.

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Facts are dogmatistic; they must be obeyed. Facts are just like religious dogma; they force obedience. The very same people who decry religious dogma, Catholic dogma, are the very same people that hate facts. When presented with dogma, or facts, one must obey. People don’t have a choice. And that is against the spirit of revolution, idealism, fantasy, or just plain anarchic soul. The same methodology of rejecting of Catholic dogma is the same for rejecting facts. (more…)

SOME good analysis of the propaganda tactics used by the supposedly conservative commentator Candace Owens can be found here .

They include: “1). Anomaly overload 2). Just ask questions 3). Control the evidence 4). Use moral outrage 5). Spiritual attacks”

“This video breaks down how Candace Owens persuades millions, not with evidence, but with a powerful psychological formula that turns questions into conviction and outrage into certainty. This is how she has grown so much with her conspiracies, especially following the Charlie Kirk situation.” (more…)

MAY you, your family and friends have a very Happy Thanksgiving.

This recording of Johann Sebastien Bach’s cantata, Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, sung by the Monteverdi Choir, was recorded in the Abbaye d’Ambronay in France in 2000. The English Baroque Soloists are conducted by John Eliot Gardner. (more…)

THE secular liberal state has often been justified by the claim that religion causes war, the so-called religious wars of Europe being cited in defense of this idea.

Is it true that Christendom was more violent than the age of modern democracy? In his book Liberty, the God that Failed (Angelico Press, 2012), Christopher A. Ferrara addressed this point:

What of the “religious wars” that preceded the age of democratic revolution? As William T. Cavanaugh has shown in his magisterial refutation of the “myth of religious violence,” the so-called wars of religion in the 16th and 17th centuries were really conflicts waged “by state-building elites for the purpose of consolidating their power over the church and other rivals.” Hence “these wars were the birth pangs of the state, in which the overlapping jurisdictions, allegiances and customs of the medieval order were flattened and circumscribed into the new creation of the sovereign state (not always yet nation-state), a centralizing power with a monopoly on violence within a defined territory.” Indeed, “the very distinction of politics and religion made possible by the rise of the modern state … was itself the root of these wars.” The result was a “transfer of the sacred from Christianity to the nation-state” and “the substitution of the religion of the state for the religion of the church.” Citizens would no be expected to lay down their lives in vast numbers not for Christ or the defense of the Faith, but for the Union or the Republic or the Confederacy. (more…)