FROM The Return of the King: Discourses on the Latter Days, by Henry James Coleridge, 1894:

The Christian loves his country for the sake of God’s ordinance, and for the many benefits which he receives from its laws and its protection. He loves it for the sake of conscience, and therefore not more than his conscience. He knows that he must obey God rather than man. He knows that he will lose his soul if he makes his patriotism an excuse for hatred against his fellow-men, for violence, for revengefulness, and other bad passions. He knows that he is a citizen of a higher and nobler unity, the Kingdom of God in this world and in the next. He is a Christian first, and after that, and in harmony with the duties and the charity which that name implies, he is an Englishman or an Irishman or a Frenchman.

The Pagan knew none of these qualifications to his love for his country. His country or his city was to him a divinity, it was the highest unity and polity that he knew. Its interests overrode his conscience, its commands justified sin. (more…)

THE historian Socrates Scholasticus in the Fourth Century reported the Blood Passover took place shortly after the violent uprising in Alexandria that caused St. Cyril to expel the Jews. Source  

JEWS themselves have testified to the practice of human sacrifice among an extreme minority, according to Ariell Toaff's 2007 book Blood Passover: The Jews of Europe and Ritual Murder. Toaff is the son of Elio Toaff, former chief rabbi of Rome. “The trial record, particularly the minutely detailed reports relating to the death of the little Simon of Trent, cannot be dismissed on the assumption that such records would only mirror the beliefs of the judges, who would have collected confessions dictated and manipulated by coercive means in order to ensure that they conformed to the anti-Jewish theories circulating at that time. “Indeed, a careful reading of the trial records, in both form and substance, reveals there are too many elements that correspond to the conceptual realities, rituals, liturgical practices and mental attitudes typical of an exclusive, particular Jewish world – elements that can in no way be attributed to suggestions on the part of the judges and prelates – to be ignored.” (p. 6, see also pp. 140, 141)" He cites the testimony of Jewish witnesses. Source  

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“1603. Verona. A jew was tried on a charge of killing a child to get its blood for an infamous purpose. He was acquitted.

“1670. Metz. As this was a very strongly established case, one does not find any mention of it in Strack’s book in defence of the jews! A three-year-old boy was lost by his mother on the way to a well. The boy was wearing a red cap, and witnesses had seen him carried away by a jew mounted on a horse. This jew was Raphael Levi. At first, the boy’s body could not be traced. The jews, becoming frightened, spread the report that wolves must have killed him in the forest.

“The forest was searched and eventually the head, neck and ribs of a boy were found, together with clothes which were identified as the missing boy’s, red cap and all, by the boy’s father. But as these clothes were neither torn nor bloody, it was concluded that the wolf story was a “blind,” and then witnesses came forward who had seen Raphael Levi with the boy in such places and at such times as to remove all doubt of his guilt. Levi was sentenced to death by the order of the Parliament of Metz, and was burned alive. (more…)

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“1171. Blois, France. At Passover, a Christian child was crucified, his body drained of blood and thrown into the river. A number of jews were executed.

“1179. A boy named Richard was tortured, crucified and bled white. Philip Augustus’s chaplains and historians, Rigord and Guillaume l’Armoricain, attested this case.

“1235. Fulda, Hesse-Nassau. Five children murdered; jews confessed under torture, but said the blood was wanted for healing purposes. Frederick II exonerated the jews from suspicion, but the Crusaders had already dealt with a number by putting them to death.

“1247. Valreas, France. Just before Easter, a two-year-old girl’s body was found in the town moat with wounds on forehead, hands and feet. jews confessed under torture that they wanted the blood of the child, but did not say that it was for ceremonial purposes. Pope Innocent IV said that three of the jews were executed without confessing.

“1250. Saragossa. A boy crucified, afterwards canonised as St. Dominiculus. Pius VII, 24th Nov., 1805, confirmed a decree of the Congregation of Rites of 31st August, according this canonisation.

“1261. Pforzheim, Baden. An old woman sold a seven-year-old girl to the jews, who bled her, strangled her and threw the body into the river. The old woman was convicted on the evidence of her own daughter. A number of jews were condemned to death, two committing suicide. (more…)

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“THE first known case happened in 1144; after that, cases cropped up from time to time until the Jews were expelled from the realm by Edward I. The most famous of these cases was that of Little St. Hugh of Lincoln in 1255.

“I record these cases in chronological order; and I do not deny the possibility of some of them in which details are lacking, being “trumped-up” ones, where death may have been due to causes other than ritual murder and the jews blamed for it; but the case of St. Hugh, particularly, was juridically decided, and the Close and Patent Rolls of the Realm record definitely cases at London, Winchester and Oxford. There seems no reason to doubt that many cases of ritual murder have been unsuspected and even undiscovered.

“1144. Norwich. A twelve-year-old boy was crucified and his side pierced at the jewish Passover. His body was found in a sack hidden in a tree. A converted jew, called Theobald of Cambridge, confessed that the jews took blood every year from a Christian child because they thought that only by so doing could they ever obtain their freedom and return to Palestine, and that it was their custom to draw lots to decide whence the blood was to be supplied; Theobald said that last year the lot fell to Narbonne but in this year to Norwich. The boy was locally beatified and has ever since been known as St. William. The Sheriff, probably bribed, refused to bring the jews to trial.

“1160. Gloucester. The body of a child named Harold was found in the river with the usual wounds of crucifixion. Sometimes wrongly dated 1168. Recorded in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Vol. VI (Erfurt Annals); Polychronicon, R. Higdon; Chronicles, R. Grafton, p. 46.

“1181. Bury St. Edmunds. A child called Robert was sacrificed at Passover. The child was buried in the church and its presence there was supposed to cause ‘miracles.’ Authority: Rohrbacher, from the Chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury. (more…)

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"AND now he began to make it known to them that the Son of Man must be much ill-used, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and rise again after three days. This he told them openly; whereupon Peter, drawing him to his side, fell to reproaching him. But he turned about, and, seeing his disciples there, rebuked Peter; Back, Satan, he said, these thoughts of thine are man’s, not God’s. And he called his disciples to him, and the multitude with them, and said to them, If any man has a mind to come my way, let him renounce self, and take up his cross, and follow me." --- St. Mark, 8:31-34 (Knox)  

FROM The Holocaust Encyclopedia (Academic Research Media Group, 2025):

The Auschwitz Death Books (German: Sterbebücher) are death registers prepared under the responsibility of the Political Department of the Auschwitz Camp (comprising the Main Camp, Birkenau, and all the subcamps). These books contained the death certificates of the inmates who had been admitted and registered at the camp, and who subsequently died for whatever reasons, executions included. When a maximum of 1,500 of these single-sheet certificates had been issued, they were bound as hard-cover volumes. Three copies of each death certificate existed. One remained in the camp, while two others were sent to superior departments.

When the Auschwitz Camp was evacuated in mid-January 1945, these Death Books were taken to the Gross-Rosen Camp, where they were abandoned when the Germans retreated from that town. Soviet authorities found them there eventually. From a series of communications between Soviet agencies, we know that they found 80 volumes, which were sent to Moscow with all the other archival material captured. When the Soviet Union/Russia released the German wartime documents it still had in its archives during the early 1990s, only 46 of the original 80 volumes were left, covering the time from mid-1941 to the end of 1943 with some gaps. Considering the rampant corruption in post-collapse Russia, the remaining volumes might have been sold on the black market. One more volume was recovered elsewhere. The rest have not been recovered to this day. (more…)

"GOD, who gives abundantly to all, does not refuse grace to him who does what is in his power." --- St. Thomas Aquinas  

FROM Blood on the Altar: The Secret History of the World’s Most Dangerous Secret Society, by Craig Heimbichner (2005):

Today increasing attention is being given to the role of secret societies in world affairs, due in part to the “coincidence” of the United States presidential race of 2004, in which both candidates, Republican George W. Bush and Democrat John F. Kerry, publicly admitted membership in the same secret society, known as the Order of Skull and Bones. This necromantic Order received temporary prominence in 2004 as part of the ongoing orchestration of covert control of the masses. As journalists David Wise and Thomas B. Ross wrote in their landmark exposé of U.S. intelligence, The Invisible Government:

“There are two governments in the United States today. One is visible. The other is invisible. The first is the government that citizens read about in their newspapers and children study about in their civics books. The second is the interlocking, hidden machinery….The Invisible Government is not a formal body. It is a loose, amorphous grouping of individuals and agencies…”

The control of the masses indeed possesses an exoteric level, the illusion of which is taught in civics classes and played out before us in the media in the form of elections, campaigns and public laws. The far more important side of government, however, is the esoteric, which at the highest level involves a manipulation of the mass consciousness with a watchful eye, by a network of psychological power brokers, the “Invisible Government of Wise and Ross,” later described by Walter Bowart in his 1978 classic, Operation Mind Control, as the “Cryptocracy.” The Cryptocracy is not a myth, it seeks to transform humanity through an alchemical processing of the mass consciousness or Group Mind which involves various tests and corresponding responses through channels linked to secret societies. The result is both psychological and cultural control; but more importantly, transformation. The Cryptocracy has essentially kept the mind of the masses cooking in a cauldron like a Renaissance alchemist, and occasionally tastes, adds ingredients, and stirs. (more…)

"IF we have found that any passions are profaning the sanctuary of our souls, let us dismiss them; let us beseech our Lord to drive them out by the scourge of his justice, for we, perhaps, might be too lenient with these sacrilegious intruders." - Dom Prosper Guéranger (Source)  

THE sins classified as sins against the Holy Ghost are those of pure malice. They are directly opposed to the love and mercy of God, and on that account, render conversion very difficult. (Source)

1.Presumption of God’s mercy

We continue to sin with the intention of repenting before death comes; or if we make our salvation depend upon our own strength alone and not upon God: or if we rashly expose ourselves to the proximate occasions of sin in the expectation that God will come to our rescue.

There are two kinds of presumption. Either man presumes upon his own capacities, (hoping to be able to save himself without help from on high), or he presumes upon God’s almighty power or his mercy (hoping to obtain his forgiveness without conversion and glory without merit.)

2.Despair

Despair is the willful rejection of hope in that one judges the duties necessary to obtain eternal life impossible to fulfill. Despair is a mortal sin when it arises from distrust of God’s goodness and fidelity.

“By despair, man ceases to hope for his personal salvation from God, for help in attaining it or for the forgiveness of his sins. Despair is contrary to God’s goodness, to his justice – for the Lord is faithful to his promises – and to his mercy.” (more…)

These are four very dreadful crimes, against which God expresses his anger in the most strongest terms. These four sins are said "to cry to heaven for vengeance," because we find them so represented in Holy Writ. Willful murder (including abortion) Gen. iv. 10. The sin of Sodom. Gen. xviii. 20. Oppression of the poor. Exod. xxii. 22-24. Eccl. xxv. 16-19. Defrauding laborers of their wages. James v. 4. Source  

Nine Ways of Being an Accessory to Sins of Another Person There are some persons, who concern themselves but very little about the sins which they cause their neighbor to commit; although they are as guilty before God, as if they had committed the sinful acts themselves; and even more so. 1. By counsel. 2. By command. 3. By consent. 4. By provocation. 5. By praise or flattery. 6. By concealment. 7. By partaking. 8. By silence. 9. By defense of the ill done. Source  

IF YOU want to understand a bit more about Freemasonry and the role of this secret society in the history of America, you might appreciate this video tour of the  palatial Masonic Temple of Philadelphia. Freemasonry existed since the 1700s in Pennsylvania, where Benjamin Franklin was a prominent member of the lodge. The ornate temple built in the 1800s, in the medieval Norman style, stands across from Philadelphia City Hall The massive granite cornerstone, weighing ten tons, was leveled on St. John the Baptist's Day, June 24, 1868. The ceremonial gavel used on that day by Grand Master Richard Vaux was the same gavel used by President George Washington in leveling the cornerstone of the nation's Capitol building in 1793. The construction was completed five years later, in 1873, and dedicated on September 29th of that year. This is an amateur tour from a visitor five years ago, but it's a fascinating glimpse inside this historic home of Masonry.