June 18, 2015
IF the word “racist” was not so dishonestly used, it would aptly apply to the terrible massacre of nine people in a South Carolina African Methodist church by a white 21-year-old gunman, who appeared to have killed his victims for no other reason than that they were black. The police are saying it may be a hate crime. That is another Orwellian abuse of language. Every massacre is a hate crime. Read More »
June 18, 2015
AT American Renaissance, Jared Taylor reviews Ann Coulter’s latest book on immigration. He calls it “a monument to common sense.” A memorable quote from the book:
“It’s a sweet deal the elites have: They get to have cheap nannies and lawn boys in the whitest towns in America–and feel morally superior at the same time.” There is plenty of hypocrisy: “The reason we can’t use immigration to bring in the best people is because our best people don’t want immigrants competing with their kids. They want immigrants competing with their landscaper’s kids.” Read More »
June 18, 2015
WHAT is “Pope” Francis’s encyclical on global warming, Laudato Si, the public relations mega-sensation released today, other than a nod to the Conciliar Church of Vatican II’s leftist allies, yet another signal that Jorge Bergoglio is one of them. In a nutshell, that’s all it is: a public profession of faith in a religion that is not Catholic. The global warming movement, to be distinguished from the scientific consensus that the planet has indeed warmed in recent years, is similar to medieval and Renaissance alchemy, superstitions that embrace diabolical magic. The recommended cures for global warming are magic spells inspired by human pride and scientific blindness.
But then Francis will do anything to avoid the real concerns of a pope, which involve spiritual, not physical, pollution. The environment will always be a mess, and the cause is human sin. There are also serious environmental problems unique to our time. But spiritual degradation — the atheistic, modern nation that refuses to recognize a supernatural order — is connected to this physical degradation.
From Novus Ordo Watch:
The institution that is widely but falsely believed to be the Catholic Church — the Masonic Novus Ordo Sect that has been occupying the Vatican since 1958 — has become a laughing stock to the world. At this point we may as well expect encyclicals or sermons on jaywalking while Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel is replaced by a giant recycling symbol. Entirely gone is the idea that the purpose of Christ’s coming and the mission of the Catholic Church are the salvation of souls from sin and eternal condemnation — the only time these concepts are still used is to further some humanitarian cause, as Francis did in his homily for Caritas, and as we have pointed out in our scathing critique of Francis’ Gospel of Man.
Years from now if it is proved that Jorge Bergoglio was a Marxist infiltrator planted in the Catholic Church by its enemies, will you be ashamed, dear reader? Will you be ashamed that you did not stand up and say, “No! This man is not the pope?” For that is how dramatic is his departure, and the departure of his Vatican II predecessors, from the institution he supposedly leads, an institution which is not a club, but a faith with specific, clearly defined beliefs, from which one cannot depart and still remain a member.
By the way, for all his purported concern for the poor, climate change measures typically are harder on the poor. Bjorn Lomberg writes in USA Today: Read More »
June 18, 2015
ALAN writes:
Words fail me.
With its “Ramadan Companion,” this is the first time, I believe, that Google has ever officially created a feature to support a religion…. and of course it wouldn’t be the religion that birthed, nursed, and grew the civilization that made Google possible. I’m googling “Lenten Companion” … nothing. Read More »
June 17, 2015
ON THIS day in 1793, Pope Pius VI reiterated his condemnation, in very pungent language, of the modernist concepts of political liberty and equality:
The most perfidious philosophers go farther. They dissolve all those bonds by which human beings are joined to one another and to their rulers and by which they are maintained in their sense of duty; they keep screaming and proclaiming to the point of nausea that human beings are born free and not subject to the rule of anyone, and that society is therefore a multitude of foolish human beings whose stupidity prostates them before priests, by whom they are deceived, and before kings, by whom they are oppressed; to such a point that concord between the priesthood and the empire is nothing other than a giant conspiracy against man’s innate liberty.’
June 17, 2015
FROM an essay by Archbishop Michael Augustine, writing in 1893:
Why am I here in this world? What is my destiny? What is the chief, proper, and only aim or object for the attainment of which I should struggle and strive? This question is one that every rational being must propose to himself, and to the solution of which all his thoughts, words, and actions should be directed.
Every human being must have, here below, some special and fixed aim and purpose. It is contradictory to the very nature of man to even think otherwise. Moreover, we see in the visible world surrounding us that everything created has its own peculiar aim and purpose, and one which it must and does strive to attain and accomplish. Indeed, we measure the worth or worthlessness of every created thing in proportion as it is fitted or unfitted for the end for which it is intended. Read More »
June 17, 2015
“POPE” Francis said today that victims of criminal trespassing should ask God for forgiveness for objecting to people breaking into their homes and pilfering their goods. They should welcome thieves, even let them move in if they want to, and uphold their dignity. Read More »
June 17, 2015
HERE’S an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal, also posted by Brenda Walker at VDARE, about the migrants who are leaving Senegal for Europe. Drew Hinshaw writes:
Senegal is a stable West African democracy, and Kothiary has profited from the currents of globalization transforming rural Africa’s more prosperous areas. Flat screen TVs and, increasingly, cars—mostly purchased with money wired home by villagers working in Europe—have reshaped what was once a settlement of mud huts. The wealth has plugged this isolated landscape of peanut farms and baobab trees into the global economy and won respect for the men who sent it.
But it has also put European living standards on real-time display, and handed young farm hands the cash to buy a ticket out.
A Senegalese woman is quoted:
“What is happening now is not that different from the time of slavery,” Mr. Diop said. “We are losing the arms we need to build this country.”
De-Christianized Europe is a materialist utopia for Africans. Would they be risking everything to get to Europe if they were greeted by gargoyles and black-clothed clerics instead of social workers and pornographic billboards? Would they flee their families and homes to settle in an alien culture if they were reminded of that ancient pessimism once they hit Italy’s shores?
It’s not surprising that Africans will do anything to be part of such a frivolous, man-centered culture.
On that subject, here is a video showing the destruction of the church of Saint Jacques in Abbeville, France in 2013. According to a writer for the Arts Tribune, it would have cost about 200 euros per resident of Abbeville to save the building, a cost that could have been spread out over several years. But the city government decided to tear it down instead.
Weep for Europe. The waves of Africans inundating its shores want to participate in its escapism and diabolical dreams. And without God, there are almost no men in Europe left to stop them.
June 16, 2015
SAGE McLAUGHLIN writes:
Don’t you hate the modern secular trope, recited on television and radio whenever some tragedy strikes, that “our thoughts” are with the afflicted? Our thoughts? What does that even mean? Read More »
June 16, 2015
ANN CORCORAN writes about the Sudanese refugee who was shot by a police officer in Louisville, Ky., after he threatened the officer with a seven-foot flag pole.
He spoke Dinka, a language of southern Sudan, according to court translation records. He struggled to communicate in English, his friends said. [He lived here since 2001 and could not speak English!—ed]
Manyuon fled war-torn Sudan in 2001 and settled in Nashville, according to Bart Weigel, communications director for Catholic Charities of Louisville, which offers resettlement services to refugees.
Imagine what it is like for someone who is mentally unstable, poor and from a primitive society to cope with life in modern America. Look at this man’s face. He looks intensely unhappy.
June 16, 2015
IN THIS interview, Megyn Kelly of Fox News is admirably indignant over the alleged denial of due process to an Amherst student expelled after what was an apparently false accusation of rape. [Warning: Vulgar language.]
The feminist belief in female infallibility and the chaos caused by sexual liberation have led to tyranny on campus. It’s a soft tyranny. No one is thrown in prison camp. Instead, lives are derailed. The accused are humiliated. Read More »
June 16, 2015
THE Baltimore Sun has apparently been the victim of an Internet hoax. An article is in circulation claiming authorship by a staff writer. As you can see, it is rife with heresies. It could never have been produced by The Sun.
The Black Dilemma
“For almost 150 years the United States has been conducting an interesting experiment. The subjects of the experiment: black people and working-class whites. Read More »
June 16, 2015
JONATHAN LAST writes in The Weekly Standard:
[W]hatever the Supreme Court rules in the coming weeks in Obergefell v. Hodges, the same-sex marriage campaign is far from over. It hasn’t even reached the point of consolidating its gains. Rather, it is still in its aggressive expansion phase. Next up on the docket are transgender rights—even before Caitlyn Jenner, it was hard to go a week without a transgender story on the front page of either the New York Times or the Washington Post—and polyamory. Then the push to bring religious organizations—schools, charities, and para-church groups—to heel will intensify. Already, Catholic Charities has been driven out of adoption and foster care in places like Illinois, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia because that organization doesn’t place children in same-sex households. (Tellingly, this rebuff has been deemed not a regrettable by-product of the gay-marriage movement, but a victory for it. The goal is not live-and-let-live.) Then will come the big fight over breaking the churches themselves. And if you think that the same-sex marriage movement will stop short of trying to force churches to perform gay weddings, then you haven’t been paying attention.
Last’s most important point concerns why even petty forms of dissent, such as the refusal by bakers to make cakes for same-sex “couples,” will be squelched. Why?
[Same-sex marriage activists] realize that they have not persuaded society of the rightness of the revolution they actually seek.
In other words, it is precisely because this revolution is not the success it appears to be that it must be accompanied by tyrannical measures. That’s the way it must be. The more society diverges from the Natural Law, the more oppressive it must become.
June 12, 2015
JOSÉMARIA writes:
While we are in the month of the Sacred Heart this article by Charles A. Coloumbe sheds light on this long-forgotten dimension of this admirable and life-changing devotion:
Veneration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus has gotten a bum rap. For many people, Catholics and otherwise, the seemingly effeminate images of Our Lord pointing to His — literally — bleeding heart were dismissed as purely private devotional images best suited for old ladies. For others, such things as placards identifying the driver of a car as a member of the Auto League of the Sacred Heart were the worst kind of kitsch. For still more folks of a thoughtful nature, it was all well enough in its way, but a relatively recent devotion without deep roots in Catholic history. All of these notions are dead wrong. [cont.]
June 12, 2015
JANE writes:
This photo accompanied a front page article titled: “On the rise: Number of female firefighters continuing to grow.”
The photo sure doesn’t match the blah blah blah of the article.
June 12, 2015
ALMOST EVERY day some new atrocity, in word or deed, is committed by the man performing as pope of the Catholic Church. It all seems like a crass, nightmarish reality show. Whether he be hobnobbing with Cuban Communists or praying with, as opposed to for, non-believers or telling Catholics that sin is part of their “identity” or appointing an archbishop who approves of same-sex “marriage” or preparing his Marxist eco-cyclical or secularizing St. Peter’s Square or insulting cloistered nuns and heaping scorn on other devout Catholics with their “prayers and ideas,” almost every day Jorge Bergoglio shows why the position of sedevacantism, which holds that the papacy is currently vacant, is common sense. This emperor has no clothes. A non-Catholic cannot logically be pope.
Here Fr. Anthony Cekada answers some of the common objections.
June 11, 2015
HERE is an important letter I sent today:
Lisa Lambert
Intel Capital Diversity Fund
Intel Corporation
Latte-with-Skim Boulevard
Palo Alto, California 12345
Dear Ms. Lambert,
I have recently been informed of your exciting new venture in capital venturing. As I understand it, you will be giving away $125 million to start-up companies run by women or minorities.
Congratulations! I have just the project for you. Read More »
June 11, 2015
HENRY McCULLOCH writes:
I know this is a GOP-partisan news gatherer, but the title story by Cliff Kincaid about Pride Month celebrations at the Pentagon is worth reading (with sick-bag close at hand).
We are long since through the looking glass. Not very long ago this is something I would have expected to read as a parody in American Lampoon – if that rag’s creative writers were creative enough to imagine such a farce, which I doubt.
I should say, Lord, help America. But, really, what for?
The U.S. government is now without doubt the world’s most powerful peddler of perversion. I’m glad I don’t work for it any more!