Maryville College art class

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ALAN writes:

It stood on high ground, and the domed cupola atop the administration building was a landmark for river boat pilots on the Mississippi River. Its roots extended back to post-revolutionary France and a group of women who committed themselves to a love of God and the education of women, both rich and poor.

The Maryville Academy of the Sacred Heart in south St. Louis was a Catholic boarding school for girls — and later a college — that occupied four square blocks in what is now called the Dutchtown neighborhood. Though it attracted wealthy students, a separate school on the campus was free and open to the poor.

“With its educational roots in France, the school was based on a six-year French Lycée pattern — which included the equivalent of junior college work at the two highest levels,” according to the official history of what is now Maryville University (an entirely different institution). “Many French customs prevailed throughout the school, from the celebration of traditional French holidays (congés) to the games students played after school hours (a glorified hide and seek known as cache-cache) and even the daily snacks, or goûter. The French language was taught at all levels, and girls were encouraged to speak it at all times, especially during meals.

“School activities included lectures, recitals, concerts and even early ‘moving pictures.’ So complete was the education taught at the Academy, that—by 1900—women who continued their education after leaving the school were receiving college credit for their last two years there. By 1910, enrollment had reached 181, more than double its original.”

The school was in Dutchtown from 1872 to 1961, becoming a four-year college for women (and later men) in 1923.  Photographs can be viewed here and here. They include this photo of the college’s main building: Read More »

“EARTHLY riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.”

—- St. Anthony of Padua

“MEN will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be up to date and made meaningful to the day’s problems.”

—- St. Anthony of Padua

FROM The Toronto Sun:

Certainly, foul play is not suspected in all of Quebec’s fires. But the ones which began in the small village of Chapais — in the northeast section of the province — are being probed.

“It is suspicious,” said one business owner there. “It is believed that some of these fires here were deliberately set.”

[…]

“As we speak, we think that certain elements that stand out may suggest that these fires may be linked. There are a few things that seem suspicious,” Mayor Isabelle Lessard told the local le Quotidien newspaper. “The SQ is investigating in order to make validations, then to see what is happening and if there is a criminal cause behind it, but we are still in validation.”

While police have been told of unexplainable movements of people in the town, police stress the need for everyone to be patient.

ALMOST every time a middle-class, white American walks into a major store and makes a purchase, he is paying people who despise him.

The corporation that owns that store despises the family that created him (not to mention the very biological order of procreation), the race he belongs to, the way of life of his ancestors and the innocence of his children. The corporation makes no effort to hide this disdain. It advertises it relentlessly. In fact, it is an unspoken law that no ad must contain a visible majority of the people who made this country and most ads must promote the diminishment of that race through intermarriage.

Every time a middle-class American walks into a major bank he encounters the same smile-cloaked hostility. The levers of power, of which that bank is a part, have moved hundreds of thousands of often illiterate, non-English-speaking foreigners into this country to provide cheap labor — or simply to live on welfare — and hundreds of thousands of the compliant educated from around the world to take good jobs. The former constitute an immense underclass of ethnic groups who soon will be battling each other, subsidized by the hated white middle-class American. Read More »

“FLY from the world, and commence by trampling under your feet all human respect. Do not blush to be a servant of Christ. Regard this world with the same horror that the sight of a criminal suspended from a gibbet would awaken in you. Know that the atmosphere of the world is polluted with the foul odor of thousands of sins that are constantly committed, and which can be washed away only by tears of blood.”

— St. Paul of the Cross, Flowers of the Passion

CORPORATIONS celebrate homosexuality because it is good for business. It’s that simple.

When moral probity and rootedness in family are lessened, people are more likely to find consolation in things. They will buy and borrow more.

The more people stumble in the dark of uninhibited desires, the less likely they are to see and identify the great evil of usury, the system of debt that progressively disarms all opposition.

The less people apply reason to the control of their strongest instincts, the less likely they are to use reason at all. The morally compromised cannot oppose evil, including blatant and systematic theft. Here is an artful scam, using the language of love and tolerance to pull the wool over its victims’ eyes.

Get everyone in the club — and you control them. The rainbow is a symbol of tyranny. Those snared in the trap of homosexuality are only pawns.

The modern world is the devouring, apocalyptic Beast — and almost everyone is being ripped off. Indeed, we are all in this together.

From an elderly woman’s letter to the editor:

One of the saddest vistas I know is that of the beautiful rainbow flying as a flag to welcome and encourage the extremely dangerous behavior of homosexuality. Each time I go through the center of my town of Carlisle, I see such a flag and my heart cries out—why, Why?

Indeed, why is this flag being used to speak well of homosexuality and encourage the behavior? Where is the caring for people who for one reason or another have gotten into this behavior? And homosexuality is a behavior; no one is born homosexual.

Where is the truth? Where is the help for such people? It seems they are only helped down the garden path to some of the worst diseases known to man. Just look at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website for information as to how devastating homosexual behavior actually is. Then look at pfox.org for personal stories where ex-homosexuals speak out.

AN amazing scene at a “pride event” in Reading, Pennsylvania.

A news article says Damon Atkins was arrested for quoting the Bible, but actually that’s not true. He merely said the word “God” through a megaphone and the police officer came bounding after him.

Great comments are posted with the news article.

By the way, “Pride Month” is so well-named. Arrogant, unfathomable, hateful pride.

ROBERT MANNING writes:

After seeing another female athlete press conference, I sent an email to a small group of friends who are well aware of my views. It’s been several days and only one response. She said “I don’t want to talk about it”. From the email:

Are females as dumb and as weak as they now act?

It’s a fair, albeit, a risky question, whether you like it or not.

Every day more news stories herald the mildly annoyed frustrated female athlete complaining that she is “forced” to compete against male athletes. The overwhelming majority of these females and their lawyers and their spokes-“persons” talk nonsense. It’s linguistic gibberish. Read More »

No image of today’s fashions is appropriate for this website — here’s a butcher instead.

THE clothing women wear today is often just as bad or worse than nudity. In fact, it may draw more attention to the flesh than not wearing any clothes at all. Nothing is left to the imagination. We live in an open air meat store. I am truly tempted to envy the blind. Think of the many things they do not see.

Isn’t it endlessly ironic? Feminism, which so objected to the “objectification” of women, brought on stunning objectification. All women are free — oh, what exhilarating freedom — to look like whores or slabs of beef. It’s okay to degrade women as long as women do the degrading, right? Even little girls are dressed as streetwalkers, conformist slaves to indecent “fashions.” Any one who complains of this abuse of the young, promoted by Marxist corporations, is considered an outrageous prude or a public enemy of human freedom. There are few things more appalling than the mothers and fathers who have no problem with their daughters being sold on the butcher blocks of fashion. There is one thing almost as appalling — and devastating to the eye — and that is, the grandma who dresses the same way.

What’s next? Grass skirts and bare breasts? Whatever it is, we know it will be worse and will further lower the dignity of women and the entire tone of what’s left of society. Ugliness — it’s not the human body that is necessarily ugly, but its promiscuous display, violating all the civilized terms of intimacy — surrounds us. It is so pervasive most people can’t see it. We are drowning. We are suffocating. We are choking. Ugliness and immodesty this bad must be fatal. Immodesty tears out the very heart of civilization, which is founded on the sacredness of even human flesh and the maintenance of intimacy in a whirlwind of commerce and depersonalizing lust. Feminist, thy name is traitor. Handcuff thyself.

In closing, here are some relevant thoughts from the late Dolores Rose Morris, writing in 1990 when things were better than today:

Most girls today wear some of the most hideous clothing in public and even in church. They paint on blue jeans which are so tight, it appears that they have blue skin instead of any clothing on at all. Their mothers defend these fashions by saying, “Well, they are covered up, aren’t they?” Then these mothers wear the same styles to “keep up” with their daughters, compounding the insanity by giving bad example, and by degrading themselves. Girls wear shorts and leotards which reveal everything and leave nothing to the imagination. They wear the latest beach styles which make lingerie appear modest. Nearly naked is now accepted as “modest”, or even “cute”. Read More »

“IT is not possible for the human body to manufacture and reproduce animal cells and tissues because animal DNA and RNA are not compatible with human RNA/DNA. The only way to introduce animal tissue into the interior of a human body (i.e. to cross the mucous membrane barrier), is by injection or transfusion. Traces of it can then be observed in the blood. This is why animal viruses cannot be transmitted naturally to humans and vice versa. Exit the specter of bird flu, bat flu and other exotic varieties.

“The same is true between human beings. The organism recognizes only those viruses produced exclusively by its own cells and containing their DNA/RNA, a communication system with locks and keys, unique and incompatible with another organism. All external viruses, whether of animal or human origin, are considered by him as foreign substances to be eliminated. Let us remember that viruses are not living and cannot reproduce, replicate or mutate by themselves. For these reasons, there can be no majority viral strain in nature that could hack our cells. Exit the specter of contagion.

“On the other hand, if the body physically produces the viruses it needs, it also learns from other living organisms through a resonance effect, powered by our emotions and amplified in case of collective hysteria. The information carried by our five senses, by electromagnetic currents and vibratory phenomena is an energy that circulates through the nervous and connective tissues and influences cellular behavior. This is how microbial functions can be enriched under the control of cellular DNA, but they will only be activated in the presence of a toxic accumulation.”

— Catherine Courson, “From Virofolly to Virosophy,” Neosanté (June 2023)

“I WASN’T a good mother because I was away so much. I tried hard to be the perfect mother, the perfect wife, and a great performer. I thought I could do it all but it can’t be done. Sorry, but it just can’t. I had a good stab at it, but being a parent and married is a full-time job.” 

— Singer Petula Clark speaking at age 80

BlackRock’s Larry Fink on ESG and Diversity Equity Inclusion:

“You have to force changes. It has to be imbued in the culture of a firm. Behaviors across the entire firm in every region have to be similar, and every citizen of the firm has to understand what are acceptable and unacceptable behaviors.”

(Thuletide on Telegram)

SOME Canadian provinces, with the full support of Justin Trudeau, are encouraging doctors to prescribe highly addictive opioids to drug addicts and British Columbia has decriminalized the use of hard drugs, including fentanyl, cocaine and heroin. Children as young as 13 are becoming addicts through the legal prescription of the opioid, Dilaudid. Canadian city streets from Ontario to Vancouver are filled with homeless addicts and crime has skyrocketed. Cheap fentanyl and crack are available like never before.

Learn more about the devastation caused by drugs in this documentary by Aaron Gunn. He doesn’t probe the most important issue, which is where these drugs are coming from, but it’s still worth watching.

#TheNoticing pic.twitter.com/rlrGwncaar

— Noble Noticer (@NobleNoticer33) May 22, 2023

RAMBUNCTIOUS “teens” bestowed honors this Memorial Day weekend on three off-duty Marines.