THE goal of the Trump administration is to discredit American conservatism once and for all. This is what Communists do -- sabotage economies to weaken all resistance so they can take control. (Video source)
"TRUMP’S actions towards Ukraine are catalyzing the European Union to organize into a cohesive, socialist government with a standing army. Russia and China are becoming closer and are emboldened to unite along with the central Asian countries and become a third geopolitical Communist big space. Thus, under Trump we are seeing three of the socialist multipolarity powers rise with the others soon to emerge. These transnational socialist governments will and are completely divorced from their ethnos and only serve as a stepping stone towards unified world Communist government. "Trump is rabidly pro-immigration. Deportations are down; the last statics show that deportations have been halved since he took office. Trump’s shadow-consiglieri, Musk, is on record as saying he will die for H1B1 visas. Many in Trump’s presidential clique are Indian, including the director of the FBI, Czar of AI, Vivek Ramaswamy, and his Vice President James Downsyndrome Vance. Trump is on record saying he will sell off American citizenship. These are not the actions of a fascist, but rather the actions of a Communist who is rebelling against the races and peoples diversely created by God. It is a rebellion which seeks to de-legitimize the natural authority a people should have over themselves through their government and replace it with very smelly mercenaries. It is the Communist who seeks to miscegenate his own people to evolve them into something lower than what God has created them to be." Read more here.…
"[A]LL kinds of satisfaction are reducible to three heads: prayer, fasting and almsdeeds, which correspond to three kinds of goods which we have received from God, those of the soul, those of the body and what are called external goods." --- Catechism of the Council of Trent
"LAY not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust and moth consume, and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through and steal. For where thy treasure is, there thy heart is also. ---- Matthew, 6:19-21
LENT is often mistaken for a grim season. The truth is that, when observed well, it can be not only the happiest time of year, but the path to a generally happier life. Behold, thou art made whole, sin no more. John 5:14 Many people practice Buddhist-style meditation or "mindfulness" today, seeking to empty themselves and draw closer to an ambient, mindless force. Lenten meditation and repentance, by contrast, involve filling oneself up with the divine existence of God. He is mindfulness itself. Happiness consists in meaning. Happiness is loving the truth, even the truth of our own depravity. "Man can be made happy, not by things, but by life," Fr. Edward Leen wrote in Why the Cross?, "Mere existence cannot give him beatitude. He becomes happy when existence is transformed into veritable life by being brought into contact with Life itself. Without the Saviour man would exist, but would not live. Hence Jesus states that the purpose of His coming is that man might have life and have it in ever increasing measure. Life expresses itself in appropriate activity." “Lent” is from an Old English word “lencten” meaning spring. As this French Lenten hymn reminds us, Lent partakes of gladness: To bow the head In sackcloth and in ashes, Or rend the soul, Such grief is not Lent’s goal; But to be led To where God’s glory flashes, His beauty to come nigh, To fly, to fly, To fly where truth…
SUPPORTERS of Vatican II, when faced with its shocking fruits in the West, sometimes point to growth and success in Africa as a hopeful contrast to disastrous decline. The numbers are up by many millions in Africa, they say. Some even argue the “reform” was all necessary because the Church needed to be de-Westernized. Africans and Asians being incapable — so they say — of appreciating the solemn and ancient liturgies, only the great watering down and “evolution” of Vatican II could have accomplished that de-Europeanization.
The writer George Neumayr visited Africa in 2022 and 2023, hoping to write a book on this very subject. What he found was contrary to this idea of a “vibrant” Africa.
Writing in American Spectator, he described his visits to Côte d’Ivoire, the former French colony where the faith was robust and growing in the first half of the 20th century. His observations are collected in a new book published by Os Justi Press, Is African Catholicism a “Vatican II Success Story?” with co-authors Peter Kwasniewski, Claudio Slavucci and an “African seminarian.” While I cannot recommend these authors on the general meaning of Vatican II, this book is a perceptive glance at Africa since the robber council.
Neumayr wrote:
But all that momentum is now gone and the Church in Côte d’Ivoire is a shadow of its former self. Today’s Catholic priests offer not unvarnished Catholicism but its pitiful “social justice” variant, a blend of socialist politics, modernist theology, and ecumenical babble. (more…)
BELOW is a list of reading possibilities for Lent, including familiar classics and lesser known works — all of which are secondary to the most important books of all: the Old and New Testaments. If you don’t mind reading on a screen (or listening to audio versions), you can obtain any of these books below for free.
LENTEN READING
Perfect Contrition: The Golden Key to Paradise, Fr. J. de Driesch
The Passion and the Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ, St. Alphonsus de Liguori
A Catholic commentary on Holy Scripture; Bernard Orchard, ed.
Haydock’s Bible Commentary,George Leo Haydock
Of Prayer and Meditation, Ven. Louis of Granada
The Sinner’s Guide, Ven. Louis of Granada
Meditations for Lent, St. Thomas Aquinas
Lenten Sermons, Fr. Augustine Wirth
Pope St. Leo the Great’s Sermons on Lent
The Mystery of the Crown of Thorns, A Passionist
What Jesus Saw from the Cross, Fr. A.G. Sertillanges
A Doctor at Calvary: the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ as described by a surgeon, Dr. Pierre Barbet
The Foot of the Cross, by Fr. Frederick William Faber
Spiritual Conferences, by Fr. Frederick William Faber
The Sacred Passion of Jesus Christ, Rev. Richard Clarke
The Sufferings of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Fr. Thomas Jesus (more…)
"DONALD Trump has paid roughly $30 million to settle child-sex complaints brought against him since 1989, according to a D.C.-based investigative journalist. "Wayne Madsen Report (WMR), which is a subscription site, describes the settlements in a Jan 14-15 post titled 'Why is Trump so afraid of Cohen's testimony?'" Read more.
"UNLESS we ponder and consider the mysteries of our faith, our faith is as it were a letter closed up, and sealed." --- Ven. Louis of Grenada, Of Prayer and Meditation
FUNNY and true comments from J.D. Hall:
These men choose their political beliefs like they choose their theology; they choose whatever belief that is least likely to bring controversy to their door step, as close to the middle as they can possibly get, so as to offend the least number of God’s enemies as is humanly possible while still keeping up the facade that they’re conservatives. (more…)
S. writes: I hope this finds you well. I remember a few months ago there was a discussion on your blog about the flooding in Western North Carolina and other areas from hurricane Helene and whether the weather could actually be modified to make storms more severe. I thought I would send this old short film I just found. It seems they have been working on this technology for a while.
“When the shepherd becomes a wolf, the first duty of the flock is to defend itself. It is usual and regular, no doubt, for doctrine to descend from the bishops to the faithful, and those who are subject in the faith are not to judge their superiors. But in the treasure of revelation there are essential doctrines which all Christians, by the very fact of their title as such, are bound to know and defend. The principle is the same whether it be a question of belief or conduct, dogma or morals.”
— (The Liturgical Year, Dom Guéranger Vol. 4 Septuagesima, p. 379-380)
THE man the world recognizes as pope and supreme ruler of the Catholic Church, who proclaimed in the first year of his pseudo-reign, “I want a mess,” is gravely ill. While Francis may recover from this latest health crisis, his remaining days on earth are clearly to be few. It is likely his condition is worse than is being publicly let on today.
As he lies ill at Gemelli Hospital in Rome, may God have mercy on the many victims of this audacious vulgarian, head not of the Catholic Church but of the One-World Ekumenik Church. As an indicator of just how bad off the institution he led is, the city of Boston, once a stronghold of Catholicism, now has one seminarian per nearly 30,000 nominal Catholics, while the city of Chicago has one seminarian for every 67,000 parishioners. (And sadly, those seminarians will never be true Catholic priests, no matter how well-intentioned they are.)
Highlights from his false pontificate in 2014 alone include:
Held the first Muslim/Jewish prayers and Koran readings at the Vatican; Sent an iPhone message to evangelicals through prosperity-gospel TV preacher Kenneth Copeland; Peace doves attacked; Said to ‘scold the Lord‘ and also that he would baptize aliens; Cover of Rolling Stone; Accidentally said ‘the F word’; Cardinal Dolan claimed Francis said ‘Catholic Church should not dismiss gay marriage‘; Mentioned re-thinking celibacy for priests; Said he’s ‘not interested in converting evangelicals to Catholicism‘; Initial synod document suggested shift in Church’s position on homosexuality, but was revised; Said man is ‘the king of the universe!‘; Told a woman in invalid marriage it’s alright to take Holy Communion, saying ‘A little bread and wine does no harm‘; Compared Islamic terrorists to Christian fundamentalists…
But, the purpose of this post is to focus on the countless casualties, not on the state of Francis himself. The people harmed by this outrageous imposture that a man who joked about the Crucifixion, who said “Communists think like Christians” and who rejects key doctrines of Catholic belief and its sacred rites can be head of the Church include the following:
*Protestants repelled by his clearly immoral, anti-Christian statements, his eager support for the flooding of Western countries with immigrants, and his enthusiasm for every globalist U.N. agenda, including the Covid fraud. Francis has scandalized them and confirmed many in their obstinate blindness against the unshaken spiritual authority of the papacy which comes from Christ himself.
*Muslims, Maoists, Buddhists, voodooists, Jews, and assorted pagans who have been led to believe they worship the same God as Catholics. They too have been confirmed in their errors and continually given the impression that objective truth in spiritual matters does not exist. Francis went so far as to wish Muslims a Happy Ramadan: “I also think with affection of those Muslim immigrants who this evening begin the fast of Ramadan, which I trust will bear abundant spiritual fruit.” (Homily given at Lampedusa on 8 July 2013 with illegal Muslim immigrants)
*The people all over before whom Francis has insulted and apologized for the martyrs and saints of the past, dragging the name of Christ’s Church through the mud.
*Sincere, would-be Catholics deceived into believing Francis is a true pope when he is not even so much as a member of the body he claims to govern. The spiritual harm to them is incalculable and most have lost the true faith. Many are woefully uneducated about their faith and do not even know of the many anti-popes in Church history.
*Would-be Catholics offended by Vatican II apostasy who yet believe a heretic and apostate such as Francis can somehow be a true pope and that it is permissible to refuse him submission, thereby destroying all honor due to the papacy. (This is known as the “recognize-and-resist” position.)
"FAITH is always asking people to do things that are unusual, and out of the ordinary. This must happen if men deal with God. God can never be ordinary. He must always be outside of order as we know it and can see it and can measure it. God is within his own limits, which are limitless. Therefore, God is always breaking in on things that men have settled -- not really settled but only observed." --- Bede Jarrett, O.P., Returning to the Lord