A READER writes:

[1532: Henry VIII, after having divorced Catherine Aragon, his wife of 24 years, participates in a secret wedding service with Anne Boleyn, leading ultimately to the establishment of the Anglican Church and the severing of England from the rest of Christendom.]

1930s: Edward VIII gives up the throne to wed a double-divorcée. The abdication is necessitated by the Anglican Church prohibition on remarriage when a partner has a living, legitimate spouse. Edward’s action will eventually allow his niece Elizabeth to become queen.

1950s: Elizabeth refuses assent for her sister, Princess Margaret, to marry a divorced British war hero who has a legitimate spouse. Margaret submits. (She later marries and divorces another man.)

1990s: Elizabeth orders the divorce of her son Charles from Princess Diana. The legal action becomes final the year after Charles’s paramour divorces her own husband. During that decade, three of the queen’s four children divorce their spouses. Diana dies in 1997.

2000s: Charles marries his divorced paramour despite that her husband remains alive.

2010s: Charles and Diana’s son Harry marries a divorcée.

2020s: Charles, as king, becomes Anglican Defender of the Faith, the first divorced person to hold that title since Henry VIII, who founded the church in a series of actions stemming from his desire to escape a marriage.

So, as we can see: In some ways this timeline reflects an Anglican decline, but ultimately is faithful to that heretical religion’s roots.

Camilla Parker Bowles at her wedding to Andrew Parker Bowles, who was allegedly unfaithful to his wife and married again the year after their divorce.

IN THIS video, the British commentator “Way of the World” comes to a liberating realization. I’m not very familiar with his work and like many dissident videos, there are some amateur moments here. But his description of his personal discovery is moving.

“Way of the World” realizes there are no political solutions to the moral chaos we see or to the conquest of once Christian nations. “Our zombie civilization has fallen because men have lost sight of their divine purpose … As the West abandoned God, God abandoned the West.”

The answer, he says, is for the people of the West to return to God, especially in their hearts and minds. “God is not a distraction from the issues we face, but the key to understanding and dealing with them.”

Our purpose in this world is simple in the end. It’s not to elevate ourselves, nothing that we are, but to bring glory to God.

“IT is a law of history often verified that social egalitarianism, whether in the form of democratic radicalism or socialism and communism, is the most favorable to Big Business and money makers, because it breaks the political and social frameworks and families that impede the preeminence and the absolutism of money. Under an economic conception of civilization, egalitarianism appears both as a ransom and as a lever. It is always the middle classes, especially the rural classes, representing the largest wealth in the diffuse and fragmented state, which bear the brunt of egalitarian social movements, for the benefit of big businessmen, financial magnates and complicit demagogues. It should be added that from a strictly financial point of view, the disasters of history, the wars or revolutions, do not ever represent disasters to the handlers of money and shrewd businessmen, who can profit from everything, on the condition of knowing in advance, of being informed. This is why International Finance, placed on the very ground of [Capitalism’s economic theorist David] Ricardo, to combat him, many of his conceptions, his arguments, his theories and his conclusions.

“The mysterious bond, the secret affinity that unites despite everything the Mercantilists and Puritan businessmen with the Bolsheviks come from the fact that they have in common, while drawing different conclusions and ends, the same design and the same worldview.”

— George Batault, 1921

FROM Stewart Ogilvie:

The so-called “twin towers” were flagship structures in NY Port Authority’s new World Trade Center in which five other smaller ones were constructed. Building 7, which eventually achieved notoriety due to its “photographed” demolition late in the day on 9/11, was roughly half the height of the twin towers. The Port Authority’s 1964 cost estimate for the project was $350 million. By September 1965 it had risen to $525 million. By December 1966 it was $575 million. There was no stopping this highly touted project to construct the world’s tallest buildings despite serious financial reservations. Bid at $750 million, the final construction cost was $1.2 billion. Read More »

FROM the work of Simon Shack at September Clues:

If you have come to terms with the fact that 9/11 was a massive money-making scheme and – of course – a pretext to wage hugely profitable wars, the basic rationale behind this Grand Deception should, hopefully, become clearer. It is essential to consider all the variables which such an audacious false-flag operation would entail and what precautions its plotters must have observed: The Grand Deception plan was undoubtedly meant to be foolproof and, ideally, free of unnecessary elements of risk and opposition. There was simply no rationale for the 9/11 plotters to commit a mass murder of some 3,000, mostly white-collar professionals (brokers, bankers, financial analysts, etc.) whose families would likely have access to first-rate, ‘uptown’ legal assistance. Surely, killing that many people would have been an utterly senseless, self-inflicted aggravation on the part of the perpetrators. Since they could reliably rely on the fully compliant ‘top-brass’ of the mainstream media, they would have used this unique, exclusive asset to its full potential.

Ever since day one, the major hurdle for many people to even start considering 9/11 being an ‘inside job’ has been: “I can’t believe my own government would murder 3000 of their own people”. Once that psychological obstacle is removed, it should become apparent that the whole operation consisted essentially of a covert demolition of a redundant, asbestos-filled building complex. To kill thousands of people in the process never was an envisaged proposition as it would have encountered severe resistance among the insiders involved. The second objective was to blame this destruction on a foreign enemy; an inanely fanciful, outlandish tale involving hijacked airliners used as missiles was concocted, to be supported by digital imagery and special movie effects. How this was done is thoroughly illustrated in my September Clues video analyses. Read More »

GEORGE CARLIN, who died in 2008, was a wildly popular Irish American comedian, author, and actor who emerged as a supposed representative of the Common Man and social critic during the 60s and is still widely quoted and revered today.

Regarded as one of the most important and influential stand-up comedians of all time, he was dubbed “the dean of counterculture comedians”. He was known for his black comedy and reflections on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and taboo subjects. His “seven dirty words” routine was central to the 1978 United States Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a 5–4 decision affirmed the government’s power to censor indecent material on public airwaves. (Wikipedia)

Carlin raged against “greedy, well-fed white people” and ridiculed religion.

Wyatt Stag examines Carlin’s  legacy in this video:

[Carlin] has been heralded as everything from a sage to a prophet, attracting an almost cult-like devotion among his fan-based. These devotees, convinced of the value of Carlin’s many observations and insights, treat his words as words to live by. Carlin, however, was no authentic counter-cultural figure, but a manufactured product of the very system of power he pretended to critique. Over the course of his five-decade career as a comedian, he served as a willing mouthpiece for the subverted cultural establishment, helping to promote the tenets of the death cult that has hijacked Western civilization, all the while masquerading as a rebel …

This video is a brilliant examination of a decadent popular culture and worth watching even if you never heard of Carlin or were interested in him. Carlin despised middle class white America and came close at times to advocating its physical extermination. (Language warning: Clips from Carlin’s routines include expletives.)

To this day, Britain claims to have ‘won’ both of the 20th Century’s world wars, but together they destroyed that nation forever. After ‘victory’ came humiliation. — Tucker Carlson

“OUR Lady’s origin is wrapped in silence, as was her whole life. Thus, her birth speaks to us of humility. The more we desire to grow in God’s eyes, the more we should hide ourselves from the eyes of creatures… we should labor in silence and obscurity.”

— Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene

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FILE this under “Feminism: Suicidal tendencies” or “Feminism: Narcissism.” The Daily Mail reports:

More than 1,400 people have signed up to run through the streets of Memphis at 4 am on Friday – marking a week since Eliza Fletcher was kidnapped and murdered on her morning run, and completing her regular route she was snatched from while jogging.

The women organizers say they want ‘to emphasize that women should be able to safely run any time of day.’

Yes, women should be able to run any time of day, even in unbecoming and immodest clothing. And women should be able to swim without learning to swim. And women should be able to hold venomous snakes without getting bitten. And women should be able to jump from cliffs and fly. Women should be able to do this and that — and well, every thing they want. Unfortunately, the only likely way a woman will be able to run without risk at any time of day is if she runs with a man or if men are exterminated. Men can easily overpower even athletic women.

Some women have been stung by criticism of Fletcher’s reckless behavior. Read More »

THE BODY of 34-year-old, Memphis kindergarten teacher Eliza Fletcher was found in the tall grass near a vacant building not far from her home on Monday afternoon. Police have charged 38-year-old, convicted kidnapper Cleotha Abston with murder and kidnapping. The teacher, a mother of two small children, disappeared during an early morning jog last Friday. The cause of her death has not been released but according to police Abston overwhelmed her as she ran and dragged her into his vehicle.

This is not the first time Abston violently abducted someone.

“Cleotha Abston was sentenced to 24 years in prison in 2001 in the abduction of Kemper Durand, a well-known Memphis lawyer, as well as a charge of aggravated robbery, court records show. The formal charge in the abduction case was “especially aggravated kidnapping.” He was released in November 2020.”

Cleotha Abston

In that incident, “Durand was walking to his car around 2 a.m. on May 25, 2000, after attending a par ty on Beale Street when a lone gunman walked up behind him, took his wallet, and forced him into the trunk. The abductor, Cleotha Abston, drove around and picked up friends then, after about two hours, escorted Durand into a Mapco station to withdraw money from an ATM. A uniformed Memphis Housing Authority officer entered, Durand yelled that he had been kidnapped, and the kidnappers ran away.” (Source)

Abston was apparently a ticking time bomb, according to an article linked below by The Daily Mail: Read More »

“THE Holy Ghost is your abiding constant Companion and Friend Who knows how to joy when you joy, to sorrow when you sorrow, to understand every phase and motion of your body and soul. Constant Companion. Constant Friend. Omnipotent In-Dweller. Awake as you go forth to fight the most romantic battle in existence for the vindication of Christ! Walk hand in hand with your Captain and your Leader, the Holy Ghost.”

— The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin

[Reposted from March 8, 2015]

ALAN writes:

When interviewed by UPI reporter Vernon Scott in 1981, actress Joan Fontaine said: 

“During the golden years, movies were filled with actresses and actors playing ladies and gentlemen.  Well, there is no elegance left on the screen and there never was any in television.  Come to think of it, there’s little elegance left in our culture or society…”

She was right.  It is of course much worse today.  Elegance?  Who could find a trace of elegance today in movie theaters that look like rooms in a warehouse?  In the dreck, drivel, and depravity that Americans now accept as entertainment?  In profanity in place of dialogue?  In moviegoers who think they have a right to inflict their beeps and tweets and cell phone rings on everyone around them?  In movie patrons who prove themselves as ill-mannered and vulgar-tongued as the fourth-rate actors and actresses they have been taught to admire in the absence of such elegance?  Where are today’s equivalent of Irene Dunne, Greer Garson, Loretta Young, Claudette Colbert, Ginger Rogers, Deborah Kerr?  Of Walter Pidgeon, Fredric March, Ronald Colman, James Stewart, Fred Astaire, Randolph Scott? Read More »

“Catholic doctrine tells us that the primary duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas, however sincere they may be, nor in the theoretical or practical indifference towards the errors and vices in which we see our brethren plunged…”

— Pope St. Pius X

(H/T @TempusFugit4016)

FROM a comment by Fitzgerald posted here in 2012:

There is a quiet groaning across society from women who feel they must work to be valuable. The having-it-all lie in particular has them trapped. Women are highly susceptible to peer pressure and the feminist overlords have been able to perpetuate a web of lies that has trapped a large majority of women into wage slavery and abandonment of their families, with a resulting quiet desperation and longing for a loss most can’t quite place entirely. It is the loss of the freedom to focus on their families, churches and communities as in days of old. The “freedom” to be a wage slave is not freedom. Dare we also bring up the sexual revolution? Both sexes have adopted lies en masse, believing that sexual freedom and the resulting “necessity” for contraception and abortion equals political and individual freedom. It is of course enslaving psychologically, and often physically damaging. Furthermore, a large majority of males and females now consider it their duty to push their daughters into sports, degrees, career trajectories at all costs without a second thought.

One of the grandest lies of all that the feminist movement has pushed forward is that there are large number of highly fulfilling jobs. Most men see through this quickly. Very few jobs are highly rewarding, creative endeavors, and even those largely comprise a form of intellectual share cropping work on the company land, so to speak. True, modern information businesses have generated a few more interesting jobs, but most of those in all fields come with crushing responsibilities and demands for near complete focus and commitment, with decades of continuous education and self-driven evolution. Few women are willing to make the ongoing, demanding commitments save for pursuit of the degree initially, only to then seek for some kind of balance once they have checked the “career” box off their checklist. Women workers are typically planning for their next break or vacation while most men are driven to excel or at least seek success and respect for fulfillment. I believe the recent posting on the law profession and the cultivation of female underlings as favored pseudofamilial daughters very aptly describes this now entrenched phenomenon. Read More »

“IN any conflict where the human masses are at stake, whatever the hazards of the great physical shocks, it is always the strongest idea, the most just, which prevails. The life of peoples, like the life of men, is affirmative: a code of negations will never be able to subjugate it, especially the code that wants to force man to believe that he has no soul and no other status but that of an animal. Physical violence may exert its fury, but a strong idea will be ever stronger. And the strong idea will always be the idea of Love, essentially creative.”

— Adrien Arcand, Is Christianity Bankrupt? (Based on two talks in Montreal in 1954)