FROM Meditations for Lent from St. Thomas Aquinas:

Christ truly suffered for us, leaving us an example in anxieties, contempts, scourgings, the cross, death itself, that we might follow in His steps. If we endure for Christ our own anxieties and sufferings, we shall also reign together with Christ in the happiness that is everlasting. St. Bernard says, ” How few are they, O Lord, who yearn to go after Thee, and yet there is no one that desireth not to come to Thee, for all men know that in Thy right hand are delights that will never fail. All desire to enjoy Thee, but not all to imitate Thee. They would willingly reign with Thee, but spare themselves from suffering with Thee. They have no desire to look for Thee, whom yet they desire to find.”

MICHAEL R. writes:

You make interesting associations between pizza and dysfunction in the modern world so I thought a pizza chain, Hell Pizza, which has started here in New Zealand and spread elsewhere, might interest you. As a marketing tool, its reversal of what we might normally expect has a quirky attraction, yet the continuing and growing evisceration of language will not be without ill effect.  The menu options include : Lust Deluxe, Lust, Greed, Envy, Pride, Sloth, Gluttony,  Pandemonium,  Grimm, Creator, Limbo, Damned,  Sinister, Underworld, Serpent. Snack Pizza with One Topping For Your Little Devil, or a Snack Pizza With One Topping and a Kids’ Drink For Your Little Devil.

 Condition the kid’s and condition the consumer in one easy serving.

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The Stix Baer and Fuller Department Store in St. Louis in 1959

ALAN writes:

Speaking of savages:

One night last week, a thug fired eight to ten gunshots through a window of a house in south St. Louis.  An 11-year-old boy (black) was struck and killed, though he was not the intended victim.  The response by “The Law” and the “news media” was the standard mix of evasions, omissions, and ready-made phrases.

The context for that is this: That house is in an area that was occupied fifty years ago only by white men and families. I know, because I was there and walked through that area many times.  A miniature golf course was just down the street. I had cousins who lived a few blocks away. In 1962, I had friends who lived one block away.  They and I walked throughout that neighborhood that summer as we compared the merits of current hit songs by Pat Boone, Connie Francis, and Jimmy Dean. My boyhood doctor’s office was two blocks away.  The Little Sisters of the Poor were three blocks away and had been there since 1902.

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TO further mark the first anniversary of Lawrence Auster’s death, I offer this excerpt from his speech, “Multiculturalism and the War Against White America,” delivered at the 1994 American Renaissance conference. Everything he says is as pertinent today, twenty years later, as it was then. An excerpt:

So before we recoil in horror or embarrassment from speaking explicitly about race, let us remember that America’s current politics is already a race-conscious politics, only it’s a politics based on lies about race. It’s a politics directed against whites and their civilization. And it pretends that it’s not about race at all, but that it’s race-neutral and universal. So instead of today’s race-conscious politics, which is based on lies about race, let us have a race-conscious politics based on truths about race.

Holy Trinity Catholic Church

CAROLINE writes:

Keep on contracepting, Catholics! Ugh! Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Syracuse is about to become a mosque. Particularly annoying is the tone of this article, as if having Moslems buy a church–once consecrated ground–is the same as exchanging beef for chicken or deciding to buy a blue shirt instead of a red one. We are turning into Europe at a breathtaking speed. It is all so unbearable at times.

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Jeffrey Tyrone Savage

THE story of the fatal shooting of a sailor at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia last week is a perfect storm of racial and feminist delusions.

Jeffrey Tyrone Savage drove a tractor trailer onto the base last Monday and wrested a gun from the hands of a female sailor who was guarding a missile-guided destroyer, the USS Mahan. Here we see what everyone knows: an ordinary man can overpower a physically fit female sailor. Another sailor, 24-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark A. Mayo, responded and jumped between the female sailor and Savage — s perfect demonstration of what is likely to happen when male combatants face threats to female combatants. He was shot by Savage. Mayo arguably lost his life because of affirmative action.

Mark Mayo

Savage was subsequently killed by others on the destroyer. He was already a convicted felon. He pled guilty to shooting a friend in the head in 2005 and dumping his body beside a highway. He was in jail for less than six years. He was employed by a trucking company even though he had also been jailed for possession of crack cocaine, and had a valid ID card. The aunt of the man Savage shot in 2005 spoke to NBC:

“When it came to Jeff and what I’ve heard about him, anything was possible for him to do,” said Vanessa Griffin, who lives in Chesapeake. “He would have went to any extreme to whatever he had to do. To me, he was a dangerous man.”

Anything is possible for thousands of dangerous and hostile black men who roam our streets with impunity — or spend years watching porn and lifting weights in jail — after already having committed vicious crimes. And America doesn’t care about the victims of these remorseless animals.

Lawrence Auster, in New York City in January of 2013

TODAY is the first anniversary of the death of Lawrence Auster, cherished friend, mentor and much-loved conservative writer who died of pancreatic cancer in the early morning hours of Good Friday last year. I will always vividly remember Mr. Auster’s death and his friendship. I was with him when he died and I will visit his grave today, where I will pray for his perpetual rest and for his many friends and companions. May you too have a good death. May you, dear friends, be inspired by his search for truth and his battles against great leveling forces. May you too fight for the “undying things.”

They know undying things, for they
Wander where earth withers away,
Though nothing troubles the great streams
But light from the pale stars, and gleams
From the holy orchards, where there is none
But fruit that is of precious stone,
Or apples of the sun and moon.

  —-   from “Baile and Aillinin,” William Butler Yeats

The De Profundis, from Psalm 130, is often said by Catholics in commemoration of the dead:

Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.
Let Your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication.
If You, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand?
But with You is forgiveness, that You may be revered.
I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in His word.
My soul waits for the Lord more than sentinels wait for the dawn.
More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord,
For with the Lord is kindness and with Him is plenteous redemption;
And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities.

If you would like to contribute to the purchase of Mr. Auster’s tombstone, chosen by his friends, please write to me and I will tell you where to send your donation. Below is the statue of St. Paul, with sword in hand, which is not far from Mr. Auster’s grave, at Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in Springfield, Pennsylvania.

Photo by Kidist Paulos Asrat

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AUSTRALIAN pizza eaters express themselves (warning: mild profanity). The complaints are combined with images of people with far less serious problems.

AT Christ or Chaos, Thomas Drolesky writes:

Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro are joined at the hip in their concern for respecting “humanitarian and international law” at the same time as they disregard the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro are, though twenty-five years apart in age, products of a revolutionary rejection of the “past.”

That is, Jorge Mario Bergoglio rejects everything to do with the “pre-conciliar” Catholic Church as being “self-referential,” too “sure of itself,” “too closed-in-on-itself.”

Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro rejects everything to do with the actual text of the Constitution of the United States of America and even of the laws passed by the Congress of the United States of America, including the provisions of the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act, aka ObamaCare, believing that “the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.” (‘I Can Do Whatever I Want’.) [cont.]

HENRY McCULLOCH writes:

While I would like to know what Francis and Barack Hussein Obama really discussed in their meeting, the traitors in the institutional Catholic Church in the United States are crowing about how their confab should create another wonderful opportunity to eliminate the borders of the United States (and any meaning U.S. citizenship still has) altogether.

The Washington Post, editorializing heavily as usual in what it passes off as a news story, is very enthusiastic about the prospect and finds plenty of multicultural “American” Catholic functionaries to gloat over America’s pending transformation.  Which for Americans, of course, means our displacement within our own country.

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Gianna Molla

A CATHOLIC MOTHER writes:

The Canonization of St. Gianna Molla has come up in several conversations with other Catholic women who use her life to defend feminism and careers for wives and mothers. I tend to be at a loss when this comes up because a sense of betrayal sweeps over me. What are your thoughts on St. Gianna Molla? I know you do not believe that Pope Francis is a true Pope, that the(Vatican II Church is not true). I do not know if I could make such a claim, but I am surely tempted to agree with you.

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ADITYA B. writes:

This little kerfuffle may interest you. A CEO allegedly forced himself on a female employee who resisted his advances and he faces criminal charges, as well as a sexual harassment suit. The story has been covered by the New York Daily News and the New York Post without so much as a hint as to the alleged perpetrator’s background. Nothing. Nada.

This omission is sufficient for an astute student of The Guru to immediately discern “the issue.” The alleged perpetrator is non-white. It is a very simple trick, really, if the news source does not provide a picture of the “perp,” especially when it is a daily paper with a crime blotter section, then the perp is non-white.

The name is distinctively Keralite Christian and the quotes, liberally peppered in the paper for titillation, are so typically Indian that there is an Indian meme about it. His alleged angry words, “Do you know who I am,” and its variants are never uttered in a non-ironic sense by any self-respecting and civilized member of the Western urban upper-classes. Read More »

DAN R. writes:

I guess I’m a little late coming to this realization, but I’ve just learned that the very word “homosexual” is regarded as a politically-incorrect slur.

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MAUREEN writes:

ANTI-GLOBALIST EXPATRIATE writes:

In China, kindergarten teachers feed tots antibiotics without the knowledge of the parents, in order to try and ensure the children don’t get sick and stay home, thus cutting into the income of said kindergarten schools, which charge by the day. I guess those high-IQ northern Asians don’t know as much about medicine, not to mention standards of civilized behavior, as Westerners think.

Zero tolerance for absenteeism! Tiger Moms everywhere should rejoice!

SHEILA C. writes:

I have neglected to mention how much I appreciate your shining light into this dark corner of ignorance. I long ago tired of reading how clever, hard working and moral all Asian immigrants are; my experiences living amongst them overseas only reinforced my earlier-formed views. In that vein, I offer you this recent article from Vdare about the theft of seed corn by Chinese immigrants.

Virgin Mary Annunciate, Fra Angelico

Providential Function of Mary in the Latter Times

It was through Mary that the salvation of the world was begun, and it is through Mary that it must be consummated. Mary hardly appeared at all in the first coming of Jesus Christ, in order that men, as yet but little instructed and enlightened on the Person of her Son, should not remove themselves from Him in attaching themselves too strongly and too grossly to her. This would have apparently taken place if she had been known, because of the admirable charms which the Most High had bestowed on her exterior. This is so true that St. Denis the Areopagite tells us in his writings that when he saw our Blessed Lady he would have taken her for a divinity, because of her secret charms and incomparable beauty, had not the Faith in which he was well established taught him to the contrary. But in the second coming of Jesus Christ, Mary has to be made known and revealed by the Holy Ghost in order that, through her, Jesus Christ may be known, loved and served. The reasons which moved the Holy Ghost to hide His spouse during her life, and to reveal her but very little since the preaching of the Gospel, subsist no longer.

—- True Devotion to Mary, St. Louis de Montfort (Tan Classics, p. 21)