“TO have a good will is to have something far more valuable than all earthly kingdoms and pleasures; to lack it is to lack something that only the will itself can give, something that is better than all the goods that are not in our power. Some people consider themselves utterly miserable if they do not achieve a splendid reputation, great wealth, and various goods of the body. But don’t you consider them utterly miserable, even if they have all these things, when they cleave to things that they can quite easily lose, things that they do not have simply in virtue of willing them, while they lack a good will, which is incomparably better than those things and yet, even though it is such a great good, can be theirs if only they will to have it?”

— St. Augustine, On the Free Choice of the Will (more…)

"THERE can be nothing more dangerous than those heretics who admit nearly the whole cycle of doctrine, and yet by one word, as with a drop of poison, infect the real and simple faith taught by our Lord and handed down by Apostolic tradition." --- Pope Leo XIII (Satis Cognitum)  

"NO sin in the world grips the soul as the accursed sodomy; this sin has always been detested by all those who live according to God. Deviant passion is close to madness; this vice disturbs the intellect . . . this is the greatest sin." --- St. Bernardine of Siena Source (Note: The Church has never taught that sodomy is the greatest of sins, but a "sin crying out for vengeance.")  

On May 27, 2021, the Kamloops Indian Band announced “the confirmation of the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School”, asserting that some of these children “were as young as three years old”. This resulted in a national outpouring of grief, and Canadian flags were flown at half-mast across the country. Dozens of churches were burned or vandalized and Canadians were convinced that this was evidence that Canada had committed genocide against the indigenous population. Canadian politicians defended the arson as “understandable”. (more…)

IN RESPONSE to interrogation by a listener, Gerry Matatics explains in this talk last night why the Vatican II Church is not the Catholic Church, why Robert Francis Prevost's ordination is gravely doubtful, and why he is  is not a valid bishop or pope. No formal trial for heresy is needed for lay Catholics to recognize and act upon these facts. Starting at minute 38:00, a roughly hour-long discussion takes place.  

“FROM Russia with Love” examines interesting connections between neo-Soviet Communism and figures on the American Alt-Right.

“If you’ve heard of them, they’re controlled opposition.” (more…)

“…[THE] Nottoway Resort, the largest remaining antebellum plantation in the U.S., went up in flames. The 64-room mansion was built between 1857 and 1859 for its wealthy owner John Hampden Randolph, who enslaved 150+ people to work his sugar cane farm. As news and images of the blaze went viral, reactions were starkly divided. While some lamented the loss, others cheered with cries of ‘Good riddance!’ and ‘Burn, baby, burn!'” (Source)

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“They came with trash bags, with trucks,” she said. “They weren’t here to help, they were here to take.” Nash said once nearby business owners left the scene, groups of people began pulling metal siding off buildings and hauling away stolen goods, including hair products, nail polish, and even full-size safes. Some were armed. Some brought children. “This wasn’t an opportunity to take. It was an opportunity to give,” she said. “We had people still trapped in buildings, and others handing out bags to loot.” She called the police multiple times. Officers responded, but the looters always returned. She says the hardest part was seeing how quickly the devastation turned into exploitation. Source  

"HUMILIATION is the road to humility, as is patience that to peace, and study to knowledge. If you desire the virtue of humility, do not refuse the road of humiliation, for you cannot be brought to humility without suffering shame." -- St. Bernard  

FROM Holy Family Publications on Novus Ordo clerics (including “Pope” Leo XIV) and Traditional Movement clergy who do not possess jurisdiction in the Catholic Church:

Do you agree that the Apostolic See is the sole source of legitimate power?

Do you agree that unless a bishop received a papal mandate and jurisdiction through a vicar of Jesus Christ, he does not have legitimate power?

Dom Guéranger continues to teach by providing these quotes from some saints and other learned men: “She (the Catholic Church) says to us, by Tertullian: ‘Christ gave the keys to Peter, and through him to the Church.’”

“By St. Optatus of Milevis: ‘For the sake of Unity, Peter was made the first among all the apostles, and he alone received the keys, that he might give them to the rest.’”

“By St. Gregory of Nyssa: ‘It is through Peter that Christ gave to bishops the keys of their heavenly prerogative.’”

“By St. Leo the Great: ‘If Our Lord willed that there should be something common to Peter and the rest of the princes of His Church, it was only on this condition, that whatsoever He gave to the rest, He gave it to them through Peter.’”

Dom Guéranger here provides the unanimous teaching of Catholic tradition: (more…)

"MISSIONARIES and travellers report that human flesh was offered for sale at markets 'in many parts of Nigeria'. According to clergyman and archdeacon George Basden, who spent more than 30 years in the country, in some southern regions, it had a well-established market price and was sold much like any other commodity; it usually came from war captives, kidnapped strangers, and purchased or bartered slaves.While travelling near Onitsha around the year 1900, Basden found out that his servants and carriers had all repeatedly eaten human flesh. Once they were sure that he bore them no ill will, they talked freely about the custom, including their preferred body parts. He noted that they were 'quite good-natured folk', with one of them later becoming 'a much-respected evangelist'." --- "Cannibalism in Africa," Wikipedia  

FROM Negros in Negroland, a compilation by Hinton Rowan Helper (1868, 278 pages)

“It is plain, from all history, that two abominable practices, – the one the eating of men, the other of sacrificing them to the devil, -prevailed all over Africa. The India trade, as we have seen in very early ages, first established the buying and selling of slaves; since that time, the eating of men, or sacrificing them, has so greatly decreased on the eastern side of the peninsula, that now we scarcely hear of an instance of either of these that can be properly vouched.

On the western part, towards the Atlantic Ocean, where the sale of slaves began a considerable time later, after the discovery of America and the West Indies, both of these horrid practices are general.” — Bruce’s Africa, Vol. I., page 393 (more…)

“THE Immaculate Mother of God is the model for every mother; her motherhood is the ideal, the basis, the heart, and the goal of all creaturely motherhood. Here in a surprising new way the nature of woman proves once again to be the expression and image of God on earth. The polarity and complementariness of man and woman, which in the interdependence of their different and often opposite characteristics reflects the all-encompassing Oneness of God, appears here in the special relation of mother and child. This is probably the most intimate relationship that there can ever be between human beings. (more…)

Rock Me To Sleep

                  Elizabeth Akers Allen

Backward, turn backward, O time, in your flight;
Make me a child again, just for tonight!
Mother, come back from that echoless shore;
Take me again in your heart as of yore —
Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care,
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair,
Over my slumbers your loving watch keep —
Rock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep!

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