WE live in such a sexualized culture that even Christmas songs are lewd. Just go to my supermarket, and you will hear them. Everywhere people are induced into the Cult of Lust.

The sex hype isn’t a cause of progress, but a regressive force. Sexual license isn’t liberating; it’s animalizing. In reality, it causes mental and spiritual decline, and we see that everywhere.

Lust is so normalized, people don’t even use the word anymore because of its negative connotation. From The Spiritual Life: A Treatise on Ascetical and Mystical Theology by Adolphe Tanquerey, S.S., a reminder on what an overly sexualized existence does to human beings:

From the point of view of perfection, there is, next to pride, no greater obstacle to spiritual growth than the vice of impurity. a) When it is question of solitary acts or of faults committed with others, it is not long before tyrannical habits are formed which thwart every impulse towards perfection, and incline the will towards debasing pleasures. Relish for prayer disappears, as does love for austere virtue, while noble and unselfish aspirations vanish. (more…)

“It is evident, from what we have said, that Advent is a season specially devoted to the exercises of what is called the purgative life, which is implied in that expression of St. John, so continually repeated by the Church during this holy time: Prepare ye the way of the Lord! Let all, therefore, strive earnestly to make straight the path by which Jesus will enter into their souls. Let the just, agreeably to the teaching of the apostle, forget the things that are behind (Phil. iii. 13.), and labour to acquire fresh merit. Let sinners begin at once and break the chains which now enslave them. (more…)

FROM Karl at his Substack Semitic Controversies:

When you routinely read the so-called ‘anti-Semitic hate crime’ incidents that are regularly covered by jewish media outlets as well as more occasionally by the mainstream media – jewish-owned and operated or otherwise – you begin to notice that they tend to fall into three general categories:

1) Homeless/drug-user/drunk/mentally ill person (or people) ‘attack(s)’ jews – usually these are either drunken/drugged up brawls and/or actual/attempted muggings – or vandalise jewish property in some way (often disused or isolated jewish communal graveyards). (more…)

THE FRENCH professor Paul Rassinier (1906-1967) was one of the earliest scholars on what is known today as the Holocaust. What made Rassinier’s study invaluable was that he had been an inmate at Buchenwald himself and, as a Communist opposed to the Hitler government, his impartiality was not in doubt. He had no vested interest in defending the National Socialists.

In his book Did Six Million Really Die?, Richard Harwood describes Rassinier’s work for English-speaking readers:

Without doubt the most important contribution to a truthful study of the extermination question has been the work of French academic Paul Rassinier. The pre-eminent value of this work lies firstly in the fact that Rassinier actually experienced life in the German concentration camps and also that, as a Socialist intellectual and anti-Nazi, nobody could be less inclined to defend Hitler and National Socialism. Yet, for the sake of justice and historical truth, Rassinier spent the remainder of his post war years until his death in l966 pursuing research which utterly refuted the Myth of the Six Million and the legend of Nazi diabolism.

From 1933 until 1943, Rassinier was a teacher of history in the College d’Enseignement General at Belfort, Academie de Besancon. During the war he engaged in resistance activity until he was arrested by the Gestapo on October 30, 1943, and as a result was confined in the German concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dora until 1945. At Buchenwald, towards the end of the war, he contracted typhus, which so damaged his health that he could not resume his teaching. After the war, Rassinier was awarded the Medaille de la Resistance and the Reconnaisance Francaise, and was elected to the French Chamber of Deputies, from which he was ousted by the Communists in November 1946.

Rassinier then embarked on his great work, a systematic analysis of alleged German war atrocities, in particular the supposed “extermination” of the Jews. Not surprisingly, his writings are little known; they have rarely been translated from the French, although some of his writings appeared in English in 1978. His most important works are: Le Mensonge d ‘Ulysse (The Lies of Ulysses’, Paris, 1949), an investigation of concentration camp conditions based on his own experiences of them; and Ulysse ‘trahi par les Siens (1960), a sequel which further refuted the impostures of propagandists concerning German concentration camps. His monumental task was completed with two final volumes, Le Veritable Proce’s Eichmann (1962) and Le Drame des Juifs Europ’een (1964), in which Rassinier exposes the dishonest and reckless distortions concerning the fate of the Jews by a careful statistical analysis. The last work also examines the political and financial significance of the extermination legend and its exploitation by Israel and the Communist powers. (more…)

MODERN nations have been conquered not by armies, but by the hidden power of financiers.

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“PRAYER is man’s richest boon. It is his light, his nourishment, and his very life, for it brings him into communication with God, who is light, nourishment, and life. But of ourselves we know not what we should pray for as we ought; we must needs, therefore, address ourselves to Jesus Christ, and say to Him as the apostles did: ‘Lord, teach us how to pray.’ He alone can make the dumb speak, and give eloquence to the mouths of children; and this prodigy He effects by sending His Spirit of grace and of prayers, who delights in helping our infirmity, asking for us with unspeakable groanings.

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“The prayer of the Church is, therefore, the most pleasing to the ear and heart of God, and therefore the most efficacious of all prayers. Happy, then, is he who prays with the Church, and unites his own petitions with those of his bride, who is so dear to her Lord that He gives her all she asks. It is for this reason that our blessed Saviour taught us to say our Father, and not my Father; give us, forgive us, deliver us, and not give me, forgive me, deliver me.

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“For whilst prayer said in union with the Church is the light of the understanding, it is the fire of divine love for the heart. The Christian soul neither needs nor wishes to avoide the company of the Church, when she would converse with God, and praise His greatness and His mercy. (more…)

EVEN a little spiritual reading during the liturgical season of Advent, which begins tomorrow, may go a long way toward cultivating detachment from the secular frenzy and encouraging the prayer and penance that have been the true purpose of this season for thousands of years. Good reading helps us understand why we celebrate Christmas at all.

To that end, below are three books that offer deep insight into these immense mysteries. I have quoted them often over the years and have never grown tired of them.

Bethlehem: The Sacred Infancy of Our Most Dear and Blessed Redeemer by Fr. Frederick Faber: Here is an elegant, philosophical and poetic meditation on the Nativity by this great orator, a 19th-century convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Whether it be Mary and Joseph, the beasts by the manger, the shepherds, the Holy Innocents, or the traveling kings, Faber brings it all before you with a powerful immediacy. “Old as it is, it is still new.” And so it is in this book, first published in 1860. There are nine chapters: “The Bosom Of The Eternal Father,” “The Bosom Of Mary,” “The Midnight Cave,” “The First Worshippers,” “The Infant God,” “Soul And Body,” “Calvary Before Its Time,” “Heaven Already,” and “The Feet Of The Eternal Father.”

On the helplessness of the Divine Baby, Fr. Faber writes:

All the world’s helpfulness was but a ray out of his helplessness. No man’s work, be it for himself or for his fellows, has any true strength in it, no man’s strength is any thing better than effort and gesticulation, except the weakness of Chris have touched it, nerved it, and made it manful with heavenly manfulness. What are half the literatures and philosophies in the world but gesticulation, men in attitudes which effect nothing, voices raised to screaming partly to save appearances and counterfeit strength by noise? The strong man is he who has gone deepest down into the weakness of Christ. The enduring work is that which Christ’s humiliation has touched secretly, and made it almost omnipotent.”

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FROM the article “Hatred of Facts, Misocosmia, Misologia” by W. Lindsay Wheeler:

Hatred of facts is an intellectual vice that plagues mankind and is especially prevalent among intellectuals and ideologues. Reality is of no consequence for some people and these people seem to think that they are above and beyond reality (i.e. nature/cosmos). It stems from a spirit of rebellion; hence, it is part of original sin that affects all mankind. Hatred of facts is also a contempt for reality which creates a loss of contact with nature and/or loss of respect for nature, reality, the cosmos. This is a sociopathy creating disconnected and disoriented people.

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Facts are dogmatistic; they must be obeyed. Facts are just like religious dogma; they force obedience. The very same people who decry religious dogma, Catholic dogma, are the very same people that hate facts. When presented with dogma, or facts, one must obey. People don’t have a choice. And that is against the spirit of revolution, idealism, fantasy, or just plain anarchic soul. The same methodology of rejecting of Catholic dogma is the same for rejecting facts. (more…)

SOME good analysis of the propaganda tactics used by the supposedly conservative commentator Candace Owens can be found here .

They include: “1). Anomaly overload 2). Just ask questions 3). Control the evidence 4). Use moral outrage 5). Spiritual attacks”

“This video breaks down how Candace Owens persuades millions, not with evidence, but with a powerful psychological formula that turns questions into conviction and outrage into certainty. This is how she has grown so much with her conspiracies, especially following the Charlie Kirk situation.” (more…)

MAY you, your family and friends have a very Happy Thanksgiving.

This recording of Johann Sebastien Bach’s cantata, Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, sung by the Monteverdi Choir, was recorded in the Abbaye d’Ambronay in France in 2000. The English Baroque Soloists are conducted by John Eliot Gardner. (more…)

THE secular liberal state has often been justified by the claim that religion causes war, the so-called religious wars of Europe being cited in defense of this idea.

Is it true that Christendom was more violent than the age of modern democracy? In his book Liberty, the God that Failed (Angelico Press, 2012), Christopher A. Ferrara addressed this point:

What of the “religious wars” that preceded the age of democratic revolution? As William T. Cavanaugh has shown in his magisterial refutation of the “myth of religious violence,” the so-called wars of religion in the 16th and 17th centuries were really conflicts waged “by state-building elites for the purpose of consolidating their power over the church and other rivals.” Hence “these wars were the birth pangs of the state, in which the overlapping jurisdictions, allegiances and customs of the medieval order were flattened and circumscribed into the new creation of the sovereign state (not always yet nation-state), a centralizing power with a monopoly on violence within a defined territory.” Indeed, “the very distinction of politics and religion made possible by the rise of the modern state … was itself the root of these wars.” The result was a “transfer of the sacred from Christianity to the nation-state” and “the substitution of the religion of the state for the religion of the church.” Citizens would no be expected to lay down their lives in vast numbers not for Christ or the defense of the Faith, but for the Union or the Republic or the Confederacy. (more…)

“[E]ACH SEX needs to deeply consider and be grateful for the gifts and talents of the opposite sex. In our time, what men give to the world is absolutely taken for granted. Men are disrespected by our culture and in law, are degraded in popular entertainment and by our institutions. While the world turns itself upside down to ensure the success of females and provide them help, male success and well-being are completely ignored even as men are blamed for the existence of all evils. Women need to stop and truly think about what the world would be like without men. Roads, buildings, running water, electric gadgets, centralized heat, air-conditioning, airplanes, antibiotics — as Camille Paglia put it, without men, we’d be living in grass huts. And women need to show some appreciation and respect for that fact. At the same time, we need to guard against overreaction to the brutal ways in which men’s lives have been taken for granted, and teach our children to have an ordinate respect for women, without whom men wouldn’t be inspired to build what they do, and would have no families to build for. (more…)

Part One of this essay is here.

ALAN writes:

Today, signs and brochures proclaim that the James S. McDonnell Planetarium and its neighboring Science Center in St. Louis aspire to be “inclusive”.  In other words, buildings ostensibly devoted to science are now surrendered to political sloganeering.

Observe the idiocy: Science is going to be made “inclusive”.  Legitimate scientists and philosophers would have enjoyed a rollicking good laugh at that idea in 1963, when they still had sense enough to recognize flim-flammery.

“Inclusive” science museums make as much sense as an “inclusive” Catholic Church or the “Council for Inclusive Capitalism” or your home being made into an “inclusive home” for any bums, parasites, or “refugees”-of-the-month club who choose to walk in.  “Inclusion” is part of the flim-flam industry, whose goal is to make people dumb enough not to be able to recognize intellectual-philosophical swindles.  You can be confident that any word or phrase preceded by “inclusive” is a hoax and a fraud.

“Inclusion” is Communist agitprop. Its purpose is to erase liberty and rights and expand government power, all in the name of doing good, of course.

Nothing important in life can be “inclusive”.  Life is not “inclusive”. Your body is not “inclusive”; it must exclude deadly poisons and other menaces. Private property is not “inclusive”; it excludes trespassers and parasites. Knowledge and wisdom are not “inclusive’; they exclude stupidity, ignorance, fallacies, and lies. Science must exclude fakery, pseudoscience and the countless carnival barkers who promote those things. (It should also exclude at least half of the things that are now called “scientific” but are pretentious nonsense, like the fake science called psychiatry, “climate change”, and the medico-pharmacological racket called “behavioral science” — each of which is a colossal fraud.  They have nothing to do with science and everything to do with the lust for power.)

There is nothing innocent about “inclusion” or those who promote it. “Inclusive” public policies are not life-improving; they are life-destroying. “Inclusion” means a gun held by government and pointed at your head and mine.

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FROM Gary D. Barnett:

Expect many false flag events going forward, each with the goal of solidifying more and more control mechanisms aimed at restraining populations. False flag operations can only live in the aura of perception, as they are all, whether they actually physically happen or not, meant only to cause fear, submission, and compliance. The AI monster has risen, and has become nearly impossible to recognize by the doltish masses. Since most willingly accept what they perceive, and most perceive what they are conditioned to ‘believe,’ the plotted psychological operation being used to subdue the citizenry is now the primary weapon of war against the masses. (more…)

“[T]he Church shall be scattered, driven into the wilderness, and shall be for a time, as it was in the beginning, invisible, hidden in catacombs”.

IN The Present Crisis of the Holy See, (1861) Henry Cardinal Manning, D.D, the famous convert from Anglicanism, described what the ancient Fathers of the Church had foretold: a time when the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass would be taken away from Catholic altars. We are, from all appearances, living in those times.

He wrote:

Now, first of all what is this “taking away of the continual sacrifice”?

 It was taken away in type at the destruction of Jerusalem. The sacrifice of the Temple, that is, of the lamb, morning and evening, in the Temple of God, was entirely abolished with the destruction of the Temple itself. Now the Prophet Malachias says: “From the rising of the sun even to the going down, My Name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place there is sacrifice, and there is offered to My Name a clean oblation.” (more…)

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ALAN writes:

Several months ago I had occasion to visit the planetarium in St. Louis. The James S. McDonnell Planetarium is in the same building I visited numerous times from 1963 through 1974. It stands within a cultural and metaphysical setting radically different from where it stood then: Trendy, cutesy, cutting-edge, and drenched in hip-and-cool. It is now part planetarium, part fun house, and part platform for political sloganeering.

The Planetarium in 1963:

The setting is one of traditional form and restraint. Well-attired, well-mannered grown-ups. Men wearing suits and serious hats, not blue jeans and ball caps. Women wearing dresses, not pants and t-shirts. No tattooed women. Parents in control of children. Grown-ups did not use profanity in public settings.  No screens.  Hour-long presentations.  Classical music. Nothing overly loud. Classrooms and library of astronomical books and periodicals.  No “play areas” for children.  No ideological sloganeering.  No mention of feminism, “diversity” or “inclusion”.  People did not carry amusements with them.

The Planetarium in 2025:

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THIS site has been offline for a couple of days while it was moved to a new server. Several recent posts were unintentionally deleted in the process and do not appear. I am restoring them.

The site in the future should function much better than it has in many months.

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