IN contrast to Jorge Bergoglio’s criticism of the economy in his apostolic exhortation, in which he suggests that inequality is inherently evil, I offer the balanced insights of Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira: (more…)
PHILIPPA CROSS, a South African expatriate who lives in Australia, describes the anger she feels whenever she is asked for money to aid African charities. She writes:
JOY has been a major motif of the phony post-Vatican II Church since the 1960s and you’ll come across some nauseating version of this happy-clappy love fest in almost every Catholic church today. It is no surprise then that Jorge Bergoglio’s first official writing as pretender to the papacy is an apostolic exhortation titled Evangelii Gaudium, or The Joy of the Gospel. Here we have the Pope of the Balloon Church, the Prince of Hot Air, exhorting Catholics to be ever more joyful and to abandon true Catholicism.
Balloon Theology requires a great deal of rhetorical helium, and that’s largely what this apostolic exhortation is. But it is also a serious revolutionary document, masking hostility toward Catholic tradition behind a posture of openness. With statements such as “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence,” Francis burnishes his credentials as a revolutionary. He proposes a “revolution of tenderness” — a brilliant and ominous expression if ever there was one, something that is sure to strike terror in the heart of the jihadist. Even deeply-rooted aspects of Catholicism must be changed in this “revolution of tenderness.” Evangelii Gaudium calls for re-evaluation of “certain customs not directly connected to the heart of the Gospel, even some of which have deep historical roots.”
Many Catholic commentators are no doubt saying that this exhortation is “oh, so different” from the Francis of the infamous interviews. Don’t believe it. All the elements of Balloon Theology and Catholic apostasy present in those interviews are here. They are just not as readily accessible in this 48,000-word document.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all the readers of The Thinking Housewife. Among the many things I am thankful for are your wisdom, common sense and support. You are in my prayers, today and always.
ALEX writes:
IN AN interview at Breitbart, Colin Flaherty, author of White Girl Bleed A Lot, talks about the refusal of the mainstream press to disclose the full nature of black crime:
The author said that for years he was seeing such crimes dismissed as “kids blowing off steam,” but when he began seeing regular Americans talking about these crimes more and more on social media and Youtube he knew it was time to speak out about his [sic] the media is refusing to report the truth. (more…)
MARK MONCRIEFF writes from Australia:
I have a question about American culture. We see it so much on TV and in the movies that sometimes it’s easy to forget it’s not the same as ours. It mostly is, but say about 20 percent isn’t. My question is, would an American family that could only get together for one holiday prefer to get together for Thanksgiving or for Christmas?
We don’t have Thanksgiving in Australia and on TV and in the movies it seems like basically the same holiday with different titles…..or has TV lied to me?
THE transparent fraud of same-sex “marriage” becomes more transparent by the day. A federal judge in Illinois has ordered Cook County to issue a “marriage” license to a terminally ill pervert and her pervert friend immediately, months before the legal absurdity of same-sex “marriage” becomes official in June. Aw, shucks. Isn’t that sweet? What a caring judge. What a beautiful couple. Presumably, this “marriage” will come with material advantages for the pervert left behind after her friend’s death. Expect to see many of these “marriages” in the future. Want your friend’s Social Security benefits? Just get married.
Look yourself in the mirror, my friend. And say to yourself, “I live in a society in which the institution of the family has been destroyed.”
THIS is the second of a series of four essays by Thomas F. Bertonneau on T.S. Eliot’s writings on the decline of higher education. The first part is here.
Thomas F. Bertonneau
When the reader encounters in T. S. Eliot’s Notes towards a Definition of Culture (1949) references quoted from Harold Laski to such things as the building of a “new civilization” based on “social justice,” he might excusably muse to himself that he has the feeling of having met with these phrases before – only before would not be exactly right because he will have met with them recently in the twenty-first century whereas Eliot wrote his Notes sixty-three years ago. The Notes – which figured along with books by Nicolas Berdyaev, José Ortega-y-Gasset, and three others in a seminar that I taught in the fall semester of 2012 – put in order a number of disconcerting intuitions that plagued Eliot with redoubled urgency after the Allied victory of 1945. (more…)
DANIEL S. writes:
The southern African nation of Angola has reportedly outlawed the practice of Islam within its borders, declaring it not a religion, but a subversive cult. It is also being reported that several mosques and minarets were demolished.
If this story is confirmed, it will be interesting to see what international reaction will be. (more…)
T.D. writes:
JAMES N. writes:
With regard to the “Negro Question:” Everything we have believed is wrong. All of it, without exception.
Anyone who, in 1963, was a supporter of “civil rights,” knowing how society would change by 2013, would have predicted – paradise. They would have predicted – did in fact predict – that if we followed their counsel, things would be better. Maybe not all better, maybe not completely better – but better than they were in 1963.
What a disgusting farce. Things are not only worse, they are much, much worse. And Philip Chism is the messenger, bearing the message that is the refutation of every … single … thing that white “people of good will” believed, that Colleen Ritzer undoubtedly believed.
“I hate you all.” That’s the answer to 50 years of struggle. I hate you all.
White America. He’s talking to you.
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DIANA writes:
The newest viral video is yet another example of Hunger Games America. That is my new little personal invention: Hunger Games America, or HGA. Some have BRA, I have HGA. It’s the America where butt-kickin’ babes rule and sensitive boys let them do the heavy lifting.
It makes my head want to explode. The U.S. invented the notion of popular culture, and the complete degradation of popular culture in the U.S. says something deep. I’m not saying the old days were sheer genius – but Hollywood films did reflect something real, albeit in a funhouse manner. Today’s popular culture has jumped the shark – a whole school of sharks.
So here’s the video, and a Times article on it.
When I see stuff like this, I become enraged, and all I can do is write to The Thinking Housewife!
MANY of you plan to spend grueling hours next week making turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie — the whole shebang. I can understand your wanting to adhere to time-honored traditions, but have you thought of making a Thanksgiving pizza instead? Pizza Today has a recipe. Combine all the essentials in one lovely and creative dish. The Pilgrims just didn’t think of this.
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KOLIA KARAMAZOV writes:
I’m really glad to see that you are close to reaching your fundraising goal. I’m not rich, but I’ve no family and no wife to pay for, so I don’t need much money and thus I am sending another donation to you. My mother would tell me that in order to have a wife someday, I have to save money now. But I think I have better chance to end up with a wife if I can get a woman to read your website. :-)
Anyway, as Christmas approaches, it’s the right time for a donation. All I give now, I won’t spend during the consumerist orgy that will start soon.
I know you don’t need additional reasons to continue your work, but here is one anyway: the seeds you plant and water are growing into plants, fruits and flowers. Here is one of them. That’s the blog I began last January.
A reader made a very good and obvious suggestion regarding the American Traditionalist Society. He recommended that readers start forming chapters. You know what the issues are. You want to find other people like you. There are distinct advantages to not being part of a public, controversial organization. Organizing away from the public sphere of the Internet, at least initially, may be a better way. Several readers have volunteered to help. Perhaps we could create a directory of names that would allow people to find others in their area. This is a big country.
SAM writes:
Black hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons claims that Obamacare has “already saved the lives of millions.” This is the kind of magical thinking that abounds among black public figures. Obama can do anything and he is a saint, and if it appears that he can’t, it is because sinister occult forces of racism are stopping him from doing it. This message is constantly parroted by black figureheads like Spike Lee and Oprah Winfrey and Michael Eric Dyson, and is believed by a significant plurality of the black population. And yet white Americans continue to wonder why black America is implacably hostile to the culture of the majority.