ON Dec. 26, 1960, the Philadelphia Eagles played the Green Bay Packers in the NFL Championship game at Franklin Field. It's a long, long way from there to this year's Super Bowl, where the luscious porn star Rihanna will entertain millions. Video clips from that game 63 years ago show a different world, a time when Americans were still civilized.
"SINCE the French Revolution "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" has been the cry of revolutionaries. So what is wrong with liberty, equality and fraternity? Rightly understood, nothing. But one should know that the Revolution uses words in a perverted sense. In this instance Liberty means freedom from the laws of God; Equality means equality with God, Humanity-as-God; Fraternity means brotherhood among the Enlightened ... It might also mean brotherhood with Christ if He will not insist on His divinity. As the Pharisaic predecessors of the modern Sanhedrin put it, 'We will have no king but Caesar." --- W.F. Strojie, "The New Sandhedrin," 1974
"THE provider role of men not only gives the society the benefit of a lifetime of hard work oriented toward long-term goals. It also channels and disciplines male energies and aggressions that otherwise turn against that society. By contrast, full-time work by mothers of small children [and older children too] comes at a serious twofold cost: first, the loss of the immeasurable social benefit of the mother's loving care for her child; second, the frequent loss of the husband's full-time concentration on his career. The yield of the mother's job to the economy or the man's help in the home only rarely can offset these costs of her employment. The society will pay the costs one way or another: not only through tremendous outlays for day care but also through economic declines, population loss, juvenile delinquency, crime, mental illness, alcoholism, addiction and divorce. .... Family breakdown and demoralization can occur with frightening suddenness when government policy destroys the role of the male provider in the family. The alternative to traditional family roles is not a unisex family; it is sexual suicide." -- George Gilder, Men and Marriage (Pelican, 2008); pp. 153-54
BE glad that it will be a divine tribunal, not a human tribunal, that you will stand before when all has fallen away.
As Fr. Frederick Faber wrote in The Creator And The Creature; Or The Wonders Of Divine Love (Richardson and Son, 1857), p. 388:
No one can look forward without very solemn apprehensions to his final judgment. Yet it is the deliberate conviction of our best thoughts and most mature reflection, that we had rather leave our final doom in the hands of the all-holy God than in those of the most merciful of sinful men. Our knowledge of God does not leave us room for a moment’s hesitation. Strange to say! intimately as we know our own wretchedness, and appalled as we often are by the vision of our own sins, our sense of security in the hands of God rises in great measure from the fact that He knows us better than any one else can know us. (more…)
"True simplicity is like that of children, who think, speak and act candidly and without craftiness. They believe whatever is told them; they have no care or thought for themselves, especially when with their parents; they cling to them, without going to seek their own satisfactions and consolations, which they take in good faith and enjoy with simplicity, without any curiosity about their causes and effects." — St. Francis de Sales
IN 2011, Monika Schaefer, a violinist from Jasper, Canada and a former candidate for the liberal Green Party, began researching the events of 9/11. Her world was turned upside down when she discovered that the official narrative of that fateful day was not true and so troubled was she by the Green Party’s neglect of the issue she resigned.
A short time later, prompted by this discovery, she started researching the most famous event of World War II. The result was her video in the summer of 2016 titled, “Sorry, Mom, I Was Wrong about the Holocaust.” The video, a public apology to her deceased German mother for accusing her of being complicit in genocide, instantly went viral and was quickly censored on Youtube and social media.
The personal fallout was immense. The “inclusive” community of Jasper, where Schaefer had been well-liked and active as an artist and volunteer for over 30 years, turned out to be not that inclusive after all. She was harassed on the streets, barred from public venues and lost all of her private violin students. An unknown person wrote a wild, ranting letter in her name to all the businesses in town, portraying her as a disturbed bigot. The police refused to look into this forgery.
But things only got worse when Schaefer, 58, was arrested in January of 2018 while on a Christmas trip to Germany for making the video. She was formally charged with “incitement of the people.” She then spent ten months in a maximum security prison in Munich.
In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, readers might consider buying her engaging new book, which bears the same title as her video and in which she recounts these harrowing events. (more…)
"MARY was made Mother of God to obtain salvation for many who, on account of their wicked lives, could not be saved according to the rigor of Divine justice, but might be saved with the help of her sweet mercy and powerful intercession." - St. John Chrysostom
FOR every one dollar of new wealth earned by a person in the bottom 90 percent since 2020, a billionaire gained roughly $1.7 million. "Billionaire fortunes have increased by $2.7 billion a day," according to a report by OXFAM. Not since World War II have the top one percent so benefited from world events. A deliberately contrived pandemic has led to a pandemic of organized theft. And, OXFAM wants to turn over a good portion of this wealth to the governments that are controlled by the robbers.
ALAN writes: Eleven years ago, I wrote about the abandonment of the Cleveland High School building in south St. Louis. [“The Tale of One High School”, The Thinking Housewife, Jan. 18, 2012] It was a public high school. It has stood there for more than a hundred years, closed and abandoned since 2006. Its huge size and architectural design and craftsmanship create the impression of a castle. That—“The Castle”—is precisely what it was called and how it is remembered by generations of students who got a decent education there. These two pictures appeared last week on a public Facebook page about St. Louis History. They show the school’s auditorium and stage as they look today, replete with advanced deterioration and vandalism. I give credit where credit is due: Such things are a credit to the hard work, professional dedication, and inestimable moral fiber of the St. Louis Board of Education and municipal government. (More on that subject below.) I sat in this very auditorium on many days in 1966-’67. I sat there during the week in January 1967 when three American astronauts died in a fire at Cape Kennedy. During the lunch hour, the cliques and the in-crowd always congregated down front near the stage and whooped it up. That was why I always selected a seat in the outer row and near the back of the auditorium, just outside the view in these pictures. I was not part of any in-crowd. I tried to get as far away from…
ANXIETY is different from ordinary care and concern about tasks that need our attention. Anxiety is fixation, an obsessed determination to overcome difficulties quickly and a rehearsing of the bad possibilities in our minds. At root, it is an excessive desire to be free of the evils and hardships of the world and a lack of confidence in Providence. Anxiety is inner turbulence that wrecks lives.
The reflection of the moon cannot be seen on the surface of stormy waters. The good cannot be seen on the surface of an anxious soul. God dwells in calm.
St. Francis de Sales was a scientist of anxiety and other spiritual afflictions. Here briefly are some insights from his Introduction to the Devout Life:
We must treat of our affairs with diligence, but without eagerness or solicitude.
That care and diligence wherewith we ought to attend to our affairs must never be confounded with anxiety and solicitude. The angels are careful of our salvation, and procure it with diligence, yet they are never agitated either by anxiety or solicitude; for care and diligence naturally result from their charity, whereas solicitude and anxiety are utterly incompatible with their felicity; because the former may be accompanied by a calm and tranquil state of mind, whereas the latter never can. (more…)
THE LIONIZING of the recently deceased "Pope" Benedict XVI continues apace. Conservatives indulge the fantasy that the erudite Joseph Ratzinger, who was under suspicion of heresy by the Holy Office under Pope Pius XII, was the ideological antithesis of the blabby, openly Marxist Frank Bergoglio, whose apostasy is difficult to ignore. Ratzinger was supposedly striving to preserve tradition, rather than engaging in his own classy form of demolition. The two, in fact, constituted a synthesis. The aim of the One World Religion has always been to appear non-exclusive, including even "rigid" traditionalists under its umbrella. "It is never advisable to die as the former head of a false religion," writes Dr. Thomas Droleskey of Benedict in a three-part series that examines Ratzinger, the shameless, "cultured" revolutionary: Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI was a “cultured” heretic as opposed to the vulgar heretic from Argentina, Jorge Mario Bergoglio ... Ratzinger/Benedict used pseudo-intellectualism to obfuscate what is clear and to make it appear as though almost everything about the Holy Faith was subject to skepticism, doubt, and re-examination. He used subtlety and a cloud of murky linguistics to deny Our Lord’s Bodily Resurrection from the dead and his deliberate use of imprecise terminology cast doubt upon Our Lord’s Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament and even the existence of Purgatory. Ratzinger employed "subtlety and a cloud of murky linguistics" where his partner in crime employs scattershot insults and reckless blasphemies.
THE ABSURDITY of the National Debt, by Hastings Russell, the 12th Duke of Bedford, was written in 1947. Nothing has changed in terms of public understanding of national indebtedness either here or in England since then; things have only gotten worse.
An excerpt:
The National Debt started in 1694, when the Government of the day unwisely arranged that a private syndicate, which later became known as the “Bank of England,” should lend it £1,200,000 in gold, at 8% interest. With even greater stupidity, they then allowed the syndicate to issue bank notes to the value of £1,200,000 which it was able to lend into circulation, charging interest. Thus, although the Bank of England was not put to any expense beyond the cost of the paper and printing, it was allowed to draw interest on two lots of money—its own gold and the new notes to the value of the gold! Later, the Bank of England managed to obtain still more gold which they also lent to the Government at interest, and, whenever they did so, they increased their issue of virtually costless paper money until they were getting interest on £16 millions in gold and £16 millions in paper notes. If the Government had done the obviously sensible thing and, instead of borrowing, had decided to issue its own paper money, it could likewise have done so at the mere cost of paper and printing; there would have been no need for interest to be paid to anybody; and the taxpayer would not have been burdened to provide interest.
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“…. the power of people of all classes to buy and enjoy the goods and services which either were produced or could have been produced, was diminished by the vastly increased taxation. Rich people had to pay far more in super-tax. Poor people had to pay more in “indirect taxation.” (Indirect taxation means Customs and Excise dues on imported goods, which add to the price of the latter and increase the amount of money which purchasers, including the poor have to pay in order to obtain them.) (more…)
THE COVID vaccine narrative in the mainstream media is flipping. Don't be fooled. These revelations, while true, are planned and coordinated. See also: "Dr. Aseem Malhotra on the BBC: Hero or Controlled Opposition?"
"... IT is necessary to counteract US Atlanticist geopolitics at all levels and in all regions of the world, trying to weaken, demoralize, deceive and, ultimately, defeat the enemy as much as possible. It is especially important to bring geopolitical turmoil into the US domestic reality by encouraging all kinds of separatism, various ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements of extremist, racist and sectarian groups that destabilize internal political processes in the USA. At the same time, it makes sense to support isolationist tendencies in US politics, the theses of those (often right-wing Republican) circles that believe that the US should confine itself to its domestic problems." --- Alexander Dugin, Foundations of Geopolitics (1997):Pg. 358 How many of the top figures in "the alt-right" are taking part in Russian psychological operations in this country? For instance, six of the popular figures at Charlottesville had ties to Russia. See Hijacking Reality: The Mind Wars of 2015-2022. "Information Operations is defined as the integrated employment of: electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception and security operations. Psychological operations uses information to influence peoples’ emotions, motives, objective reasoning and behavior favorable to the people carrying out the operation. "In social media information operations campaigns, one simply cannot rely on organic growth to promote (dis)information. You need intelligence assets, such as digital influencers to push the desired narrative. They can be dumb and pretty while reading from a…