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E. MICHAEL JONES glibly employs Catholic language while comparing gun ownership to sexual perversion, raising the question once again of his true loyalties.

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A LITTLE recent history for “Pride Month:”

In 2021, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus made fun of the millions of victims of homosexual predation in their musical video featuring the song, “We’ll Convert Your Children.”

The connection between homosexuality and pedophilia has been known for thousands of years and has been abundantly confirmed by recent studies:

Of 86 – 88 million heterosexual men, 9 percent of them victimized 8 million girls under age 18, which constitutes 25 percent of all girls. An uncertain percentage of the estimated 2 million homosexual men victimized 6-8 million boys, under age 18, amounting to 17 – 24 percent of all boys. Therefore, considered in the aggregate, 3 to 4 boys are sexually molested per homosexual adult male. Only .09 girls are sexually molested per heterosexual adult male, which is to say that, on average, 1 in 11 heterosexual males victimizes a girl under 18.

Further corroborating these findings, the Journal of the American Medical Association published the following facts: 50 percent of male AIDS victims reported having sex with an adult male by the age of 16. 20 percent of male AIDS victims had sex with an adult male by age 10. (Source)

Nevertheless, the chorus made fun of the idea that homosexuals create homosexuals through child abuse.

The many young people whose lives have been decimated, who have turned to suicide or drugs, who have never had children of their own, all because of homosexual predation, which used to be private but now comes from schools, the government and popular culture, are of no concern to the selfish and the self-absorbed.

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ACTIVISTS for the “gay rights” movement candidly admit that homosexuality is a choice, not an innate condition. From Ryan Sorba’s book The Born Gay Hoax:

Dr. John DeCecco is a psychologist, Director of the Center for Research and Education in Sexuality at San Francisco State University, and Editor of The Journal of Homosexuality. Dr. DeCecco calls himself “gay” but insists that such attractions are a changeable preference not an orientation. He explains in his book entitled, If You Seduce A Straight Person You Can Make Them Gay, that, the whole born gay and immutable characteristic idea is just “gay and lesbian politics” and is aimed at achieving “gay” rights.

Dr. Vera Whisman writes in her book, Queer by Choice: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Politics of Identity, “The political dangers of a choice discourse go beyond the simple (if controversial) notion that some people genuinely choose their homosexuality. Indeed, my conclusions question some of the fundamental basis upon which the gay and lesbian rights movement has been built. If we cannot make political claims based on an essential and shared nature, are we not left once again as individual deviants? Without an essentialist [born gay] foundation, do we have a viable politics?”

Lesbian writer Jennie Ruby admits, “I don’t think lesbians are born…I think they are made… The gay rights movement has (for many good, practical reasons) adopted largely an identity politics.”98

Jan Clausen, lesbian author of the book Apples and Oranges writes, “What’s got to stop is the rigging of history to make the either/or look permanent and universal. I understand why this argument may sound erotic to outsiders for whom the public assertion of a coherent, unchanging lesbian or gay identity has proved an indispensable tactic in the battle against homophobic persecution.” Later, Clausen quotes the popular lesbian poet Audre Lorde, who admits the lies associated with the born “gay” hoax as well, when she writes, “I do not believe our wants have made all our lies holy.”

Lesbians Lyne Harne and Elaine Miller explain their feelings regarding the born “gay” hoax: “There’s nothing natural in lesbianism, ‘it’s a positive choice,’ and a political one.” Yet another admission appeared in the homosexual magazine Girlfriends; it states, “No wonder lesbians are so nervous. What makes the lesbian movement strong is the formation of a collective identity, unified behind sexual orientation as a category. If bisexuality undoes that, it kicks the lesbian movement where it really hurts: in the heart and soul of identity politics.”

Contrary to the propaganda, homosexual activity is unnatural and irrational, profoundly harmful to the individuals who embrace it.

Hilmar Johannes Backer, The Spoiled Child

“USUALLY parents are so proud of their children that they fail to give them any religious training during their infant and childhood years, much less school them in the virtues of humility and the fear of God. Instead, they worship them as the fulfillment of all their desires, the same way other people love their dogs and cats. Contrary to all logic, instead of seeing the child as a poor sinner, whom it is their duty before God to save from his innate pride and selfishness, they are consumed with such adoring love of him (or her) that they proceed to destroy them with toys … and cooing and coddling and compliments. Many modern parents are misfits, who refuse to grow up to their awesome responsibility. They seem beset with a mortal fear that their child will not love them, or thanks to their carefully-instilled phobia about child brutality, they find it impossible to punish or discipline him.

“…. As might be expected, such a child will grow up to be an insufferable, unmanageable ingrate … (All such children should be named Nero and Caligula.) Later in life, he is a sociopath, who hates himself, and everyone else. His summation of his life is printed on his dirty, black T-shirt, something like: “No Fear!” or “Life Stinks.” Not infrequently he destroys himself with play, drink, drugs, crime, sexual perversion, and/or suicide.

“The child who is seriously spoiled in his or her infant and childhood years has little chance of saving his soul, for he will never submit his will to God’s. The Little Flower wrote that it took her whole life to get over the coddling of her dear father and sisters, and she lived in a truly Catholic household. Regardless of what they are thinking, or what they intend, if modern parents were incarnate demons out of Hell, they would follow the same program for their child’s ultimate damnation. When our divine Savior said, “Unless you be converted, and become as little children …” He was speaking to children as well as grownups. He was saying, simply, that true and profound humility is essential for salvation. And achieving it is the great labor of the Christian life, the great undertaking and burden, something more difficult than any kind of physical fitness program, or studious endeavor, or professional training, or work of art, and infinitely better.”

— Fr. James Wathen, quoted in Thou Art a Priest Forever, The Life of Father James F. Wathen, 2015

BRING FLOWERS OF THE RAREST

Bring flow’rs of the fairest,
Bring flow’rs of the rarest,
From garden and woodland
And hillside and vale;
Our full hearts are swelling,
Our glad voices telling
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Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush loves you

ALAN writes:

I have no doubt that anti-feminist philosopher Anthony Ludovici would agree with your remarks and those of Kathy G. in the entry “Grandma Police Chief.” I would extend those remarks to include women police officers, mayors, governors, and “congresspersons.” All such victories for feminists are merely additional signposts on the road to national and cultural suicide. A corollary question is:  Why do we Americans submit to this?, as Dr. Susan Huck asked in her 1997 book by that name. But why they put up with it is less significant than that they put up with it.

Regarding the consequences of female emancipation in England in 1918 and the years after, Dr. Ludovici wrote:

I was alone in pointing out that the dominance of women must culminate in an era of rampant anarchy, and I made myself extremely unpopular for so doing.

….That feminine dominion must consequently lead to a general decline in discipline, law and order, should have been recognized by all well-informed leaders of society.  Yet we have seen the era of indiscipline and laisser-aller come about, with all its accompanying symptoms of increasing crime, raging juvenile delinquency and general social anarchy….”

(Anthony Ludovici, “Feelings masquerading as thoughts in the modern world,” 1963)

His words are noteworthy because they describe exactly the conditions of life in St. Louis today in the wake of two women mayors. Crime, vandalism, anarchy, agitation, and militant contempt for rules, laws, and civility have surged to a degree I have never seen in seven decades of life in this city.

But instead of law enforcement, what do feminists offer us?  Mush.

“Your Congressperson Loves You!” That ludicrous blurb appears in a poster in the corner window of that “congressperson’s” office in downtown St. Louis. Rep. Cori Bush is in the forefront of agitation for any destructive ideological cause you could think up. “Radical love is the driving force behind my work in Congress,” she says. (Speaking of “radical love,” Bush was campaigning to defund police, threatening the further loss of physical security for her crime-embattled constituents, when she married her security guard, hired for a generous sum to protect her after they became romantically involved.)

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ON this feast in honor of the Eucharist, of which there is nothing greater in creation, readings can be found here.

O precious and wonderful banquet, health-giving and full of all sweetness! What could be more precious than this banquet, in which no longer as under the law the flesh of calves and goats is eaten, but Christ the true God is set before us that we may receive Him? 

— St. Thomas Aquinas

Even in this time of the great apostasy, when this mystical bread has been withdrawn from us as a much deserved chastisement, we can honor this sacrament, and like the Israelites of old who received miraculous manna as nourishment, seek it as indispensable spiritual nourishment, expressing our gratitude for this heavenly food come from above. What are we wretches without Thee, Sweet Bread? Nothing at all.

Act of Spiritual Communion

O Jesus, my soul hungers and thirsts after Thee. I long to receive every day Thy most Holy Body. I implore, at least, Thy spiritual presence. I beg of Thee to descend into my soul and give me some share in the infinite merits of Thy death, the memory of which we celebrate in this Mass. Grant, O loving Saviour, that I may be made one in union with Thee and Thy Mystical Body.

(St. Andrew’s Missal)

Adoro Te Devote

I devoutly adore you, O hidden God,
Truly hidden beneath these appearances.
My whole heart submits to you,
And in contemplating you,
It surrenders itself completely.

Sight, touch, taste are all deceived
In their judgment of you,
But hearing suffices firmly to believe.
I believe all that the Son of God has spoken;
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Robert Cresswell: Corpus Christi Procession, Kinvara, 1955-56

Henri Cartier Bresson, Feast of Corpus Christ, Ireland

The Corpus Christi Procession Leaving the Church of Santa Maria del Mar, Ramon Casas; 1896-98

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, On Corpus Christi Morning; 1857

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THESE “four fundamental truths” come from a 1934 pastoral letter by the Austrian hierarchy of the Catholic Church in response to National Socialism.** Reflect on this simple and beautiful statement, which can be applied to any nation, as you peruse the Internet with its serious errors on these issues from both the left and right:

“1. Mankind is one family built upon justice and love. Therefore, we condemn racial obsession which leads to racial hatred and conflict. Likewise, to be condemned, is the sterilization law, as it is contrary both to Catholic law and to Nature.

“2. True Christian nationalism is of God and the Church; and love of one’s people and country is ingrained in the nature of man. We preach the virtue of Christian patriotism and we condemn treason against one’s country; and we also condemn radical, racial anti-Semitism.

“3. Nation and State are different, and the State is above the Nation. Therefore, we condemn extreme nationalistic principles, defend the historic rights of our country, and favour the cultivation of the Austrian conception.

“4. Over and above nationalism is religion, which is supernatural, and ennobles every nation.”

[Emphases added]

**Quoted in The Mystical Body of Christ in the Modern World by Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp. (Christian Book Club of America), First Printed, 1935; p. 314.

An Astrologer casting a Horoscope, Robert Fludd

“WE are sometimes ready to congratulate ourselves that our age has outgrown all superstitions. But the historian of the future will, I fancy, reckon in the same class as number-worship and astrology and the study of the gizzards of birds the strange superstition that, whenever money is invented, a percentage must be paid for ever afterwards as a propitiation to a banker. It is on that superstition that the whole empire of Mammon is built. There is no basis for it in reason, and in our day, when it has for the first time been overtly recognized and challenged, the defenders of it have utterly failed to justify their superstition … It is inconceivable that the world will be content for long … to tolerate want with abundance all around, the destruction of food while men and women and children are perishing for the lack of it. And if sound finance continues to put forward such a demand, then at the last, it will be so much the worse for sound finance.”

—- Christopher Hollis, The Breakdown of Money, 1934

                                                Loquats and Mountain Bird, Lin Chun

“I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.”

— St. Bede

[T]HE multiplicity and distinction existing among things were devised by the divine intellect and were carried out in the real order so that the divine goodness might be mirrored by created things in variety, and that different things might participate in divine goodness in varying degrees. Thus, the very order existing among diverse things issues in a certain beauty, which should call to mind the divine wisdom.

— St. Thomas Aquinas

Another blast from the past, this is from a 2012 entry.

JESSE POWELL writes:

The Economist recently featured a special report titled “Women and Work” (November 26, 2011). What struck me the most about all of the articles in the report was their anti-human utopianism. The central theme was that we are moving towards a better world of equality but that we aren’t there yet and that there are still many pesky differences between men and women in the workplace that we should try to overcome with changes in cultural practices and attitudes and perhaps with outright government-mandated quotas.

There was some acceptance by the authors that there are differences between the sexes, that men and women might have different temperaments and different preferences regarding the focus on work versus the focus on the family but even when these differences were pointed out there was a tendency to blame things on discrimination and cultural stereotypes; to suggest true inborn differences between men and women was condemned as “biological determinism.” The feeling was that maybe there are real differences between men and women but that these differences are bad and should be minimized. Read More »