The flowering season’s here now
With beauty and great joy
Delightful summer’s near now
When grass and plants deploy.
The gentle sun’s warmth coaxes
Fresh growth in what’s been dead;
As soon as she approaches
Reborn life lies ahead.
The meadows’ lovely flowers
And fields of sprouting seeds
The budding plants in bowers
And all the green-leafed trees
Should serve to make us wonder
At God’s great goodness here:
On God’s grace then to ponder
Which lasts throughout the year.
We hear birds gladly raising
Their many-throated song;
Shall we then not be praising
Our Lord God too ere long?
My soul, extol God’s splendour
And joyous songs unfold
That bring delight and tender
Such benefits untold. (more…)
Central Governmment is typified by Babylon. Babylonian type World Empires, based upon the concept of Central Government, are liberally strewn throughout the records of world history. Today, the epitome of Central Government is usually thought to be the Communist government of the Soviet Union. But, in all fairness, evidence shows clearly that the Soviet Union’s government is NOT unlike other centralized governments in the world. The truth is, Marxism is merely a typical Central Government. And Marxism, like all centralized governments, is bad!
Looking at Central Government, certain recognizable traits stand out. Central Government always develops into a self-willed, self-protecting entity interested only in its own survival. Central Government is never a servant, but rather a master. lt is its own master, with its own personality. lt rules! lt never serves! lt uses every means at its disposal (including police and military force) to protect itself against the public. The people, collectively, are considered its greatest resource, and at the same time its greatest threat. Therefore, Police are employed in great numbers to enforce the Central Government’s will upon the people, and to protect it from possible public interference. lt is a continuing struggle to keep the people suppressed. (more…)
FROM British author Douglas Reed’s Insanity Fair(1938), a book about the state of Europe before World War II:
A few months after Hitler came to power I had gone to England on leave. Before leaving London for the country I sought out a certain important man and told him what I knew – that Germany was rearming day and night, that a fierce desire to stage a come-back was being instilled into the Germans, that the danger of a new war was looming larger and nearer, and that England should not delay a moment in rearming herself.
It was all true. In Germany the entire energy of the nation is concentrated on militarization. I should doubt whether a nation has ever been so completely and thoroughly reared to think exclusively of arms and warfare. You start when you wake up and stop when you go to sleep, provided you do not dream about these things. Your education in these matters begins in the nursery and finishes with the grave.
The child that learns to read gets as a birthday present a book, which might be called Little Adolf and The Big Bad World, describing how Little Snow White (Germany) was set upon by wicked neighbours (England and France) jealous of her beauty, prowess and possessions, how she nevertheless would have overcome them but that she was stabbed in the back by an Evil Spirit (Marxism), and how one day Prince Charming (Adolf) freed her from her abasement. Adolf (Ah, the lad was doughty!’) had been accustomed in his youth to play war games with his comrades, and the other boys played the Frenchmen and Adolf and his friends the Germans, and Adolf always won! (more…)
"Captain of English cargo vessel reports French navy for 'migrant' trafficking across the Channel. He is told that the governments of France and UK have an arrangement and not to worry about it. We are not voting our way out of this." Source
"ALL these cries of having 'abolished slavery,' of having 'saved the country,' of having 'preserved the union,' of establishing 'a government of consent,' and of 'maintaining the national honor,' are all gross, shameless, transparent cheats—so transparent that they ought to deceive no one—when uttered as justifications for the war, or for the government that has succeeded the war, or for now compelling the people to pay the cost of the war, or for compelling anybody to support a government that he does not want. "The lesson taught by all these facts is this: As long as mankind continue to pay 'National Debts,' so-called,—that is, so long as they are such dupes and cowards as to pay for being cheated, plundered, enslaved, and murdered,—so long there will be enough to lend the money for those purposes; and with that money a plenty of tools, called soldiers, can be hired to keep them in subjection. But when they refuse any longer to pay for being thus cheated, plundered, enslaved, and murdered, they will cease to have cheats, and usurpers, and robbers, and murderers and blood-money loan-mongers for masters." -- Lysander Spooner, "The Ruling Class and the State," 1870
False Pope Paul 6 during his visit to the UN symbolically sits below the dais.
I DON’T pay much attention to the documents issued by the anti-Catholic Vatican in Rome these days. Lacking the sublime clarity of Church teachings, cleverly mixing truth with error, reassuring the simple with denunciations of abortion while simultaneously undermining the very moral and economic foundations of the family and unabashedly employing Marxist buzzwords and slogans, these statements are depressing, boring and far too long. They do not emanate from the Catholic Church.
I have, however, read the recent, highly-publicized Vatican declaration, Dignitatis Infinita, On Human Dignity — out of a sense of possibly misplaced duty. At 15,000 words with just eight mentions of Jesus (one more mention than the seven of “migrants”), this document, steeped as it is in ambiguity, is arguably dangerous to the free exercise of human dignity. But I won’t go there. Let’s just say, it was a slog. I did it and I would like to make a few comments here, for whatever they’re worth. Perhaps I have a point to make that no one else in the extensive news commentary has made.
Most important regarding this document, as is stated from the beginning, is that it was written to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, issued by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. The mere fact that a body that claims to be the Catholic Church is promoting a secular, world parliament that explicitly denies the rights of God is so immensely significant, so overwhelmingly meaningful that most people can’t even see it.
From Dignitatis:
As we commemorate the 75th anniversary of that document, the Church sees an opportunity to proclaim anew its conviction that all human beings—created by God and redeemed by Christ—must be recognized and treated with respect and love due to their inalienable dignity. The anniversary also provides an occasion for the Church to clarify some frequent misconceptions concerning human dignity and to address some serious and urgent related issues. [bold added]
This is the single most important thing you need to know about this expensively-publicized declaration.
Paul 6 stood before the UN in 1965 in one of the most significant acts of his (false) pontificate and declared that the parliamentary body — not the Catholic Church — was “the greatest hope of the world.” And so it has been ever since. Dignitatis is part of a stream of revolutionary, Vatican II verbiage all dedicated to the same idea: the Religion of Humanity. “We too, more than anyone else, have the Cult of Man,” said Paul 6 at the closing session of Vatican II. Sadly, what claims today to be the Catholic Church has become the religious wing of secular world government founded on utopian, Marxist ideas and financial control of the weak — a super-government never dreamed of even by the most ambitious of emperors and pharaohs of the past. (more…)
A FORMER MEDICAL coder who was responsible for filling out patient hospital bills for insurance reimbursement describes her experience under Covid protocols. She claims that financial incentives and government mandates led to many unnecessary deaths in the hospital where she worked. Having worked with the case histories of thousands patients over the course of years, she was able to see remarkable differences. The role of money in all this, she reports, is staggering.
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A PHARMACIST describes her tragic story, including the sudden death of her 29-year-old daughter, in an interview at Children's Health Defense. The pharmacist has left her job, refusing any further involvement with government-enforced medicine.
Timewise, the 1962 motion picture The Music Man is only seven decades removed from the filth and junk that Americans today agree to accept in the name of entertainment. Morally, metaphysically, and esthetically, it is light-years removed.
It is from the summer of 1962 that I recall seeing advertisements on our black and white television for that new motion picture. It seemed the ads were shown repeatedly. One brief scene showed Robert Preston marching toward the camera in front of a large brass band.
But for whatever reason, at that time the promotional blurbs did not inspire my desire to see the movie. At age 12, I had yet to develop an appreciation for such entertainment; that would come several years later.
The movie was released that summer and played at the ornate Ambassador Theater at Seventh and Locust Streets in the heart of downtown St. Louis. (It was demolished in 1996. Architect Robert Powers wrote: “….the Ambassador was, in its day, perhaps the most spectacular of the St. Louis movie palaces, easily in league with the Fox. It was the last remaining movie palace in downtown…..” Source)(more…)
“THE idea is the weapon. And to be a weapon it must be an idea at variance with the natural trend of life. It must be a theory opposed to the facts of life. And no theory so opposed can be expected to take root and become the ruling factor, unless it appeals to the mind as reasonable, inspiring and good. The Truth frequently seems unreasonable; the Truth frequently is depressing; the Truth sometimes seems to be evil; but it has this eternal advantage, it is the Truth, and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.”
"TEACH nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught . . . both in the rule of faith and in the observance of discipline, let the standard of antiquity be maintained throughout." --- St. Leo the Great
"WHOEVER is humiliated on earth, is in Heaven and on the Cross; whoever has the first place on earth, has the last before God. He who knows the Cross, desires it; he who does not know it, runs away from it." --- St. Gemma Galgani
"PROFESSOR Dr. Margrit Kennedy describes how flaws in the money system cost us all about 40% extra for everything - interest costs. Interview by Dimitri Devyatkin."
WHERE Eve was pride, she was humility. Where Eve was assertion, she was surrender. Where Eve was revolution, she was eternity. Where Eve was outward, she was inward. Where Eve was earthward, she was heavenward. Where Eve was death, she was birth. Where Eve was self, she was compassion. Where Eve was shame, she was modesty. Where Eve was materialism, she was love of poverty. Where Eve was fallen, she was mystical rose. Where Eve was suspicion, she was trust. Where Eve was folly, she was wisdom. Where Eve was liberation, she was restraint. Where Eve was impulse, she was contemplation. Where Eve was confusion, she was clarity. Where Eve was virtue-signaling, she was virtue. Where Eve was slave, she was queen.
Fifty-seven years ago, I sat alone in a high school auditorium during the noon hour and tried to read — not reading required for classes, but books of my own choice. It was hard to do that because elsewhere in that auditorium at that hour were other students who took delight in being loud and boisterous. I was never one of them. I purposely chose a seat on the other side of the auditorium to get as far away from them as I could.
I was not a joiner or a “group person”. By 1967 I had graduated from loud and boisterous and never regretted it. I found something much better: Silence and solitude in which to think, read, question, weigh and consider in realms of knowledge, history, philosophy, science, and current events.
I did not realize it then, but I had discovered (and preferred) the interior voice at a time when cultural forces like the “mass media” and mass entertainment were doing their best to overwhelm or extinguish the interior voice.
I was not the only such individual in that school, but we added up to a tiny percentage of the school population. In the 1930s-’40s, most of that loud and boisterous crowd would have been working at some productive job. But in the 1960s they were reveling in a form of prolonged childhood made possible for them by their too-lenient and too-accommodating parents, those in the so-called “greatest generation”.
Most of those in that generation said little and did even less to oppose the conversion of high schools, colleges, and universities into playpens for prolonged adolescence.
Those in the “greatest generation” believed in the 1960s that the future for their children looked bright and promising. I heard them say so at the New York World’s Fair in 1965. (more…)
