James Lindsay: Communists have to get inside institutions to subvert and transform them. Getting into them requires tactics. The name for these tactics is entryism, or sometimes just entrism, and it describes how a hostile ideological force goes about getting inside an institution that wouldn’t normally accept it. It’s a key concept for stopping Woke… Read More The Long March Through the Institutions
Rod Dreher. “It’s possible to miss the onslaught of totalitarianism, precisely because we have a misunderstanding of how its power works. In 1951, poet and literary critic Czesław Miłosz, exiled to the West from his native Poland as an anti-communist dissident, wrote that Western people misunderstand the nature of communism because they think of it… Read More The “Gentleness” of “Soft” Totalitarianism
The Catholic Herald. The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to revisit its 2015 ruling that legalised same-sex marriage across the country. The court turned away an appeal by Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples on religious grounds. The decision, made without comment… Read More US Supreme Court refuses to revisit same-sex marriage ruling
Has Oxford Awakened from its Wokeness? Not Yet. “Oxford University is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world. It was founded in the 11th century, and its history is closely linked to the history of Christianity in England. At the time of its founding, the university was primarily a religious institution, and… Read More God and Man at Oxford
By Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., Providence. . No matter who we are, or who we think we are, we will all fulfill God’s plan; and we walk freely in that direction every day. “Everything which comes to pass has been foreseen by God from all eternity, and has been willed or at least permitted by Him“. ”Many… Read More The Symphonic Universe: Darkness and Light, Justice and Mercy
The New Criterion October 2005 Rediscovering Matisse by Hilton Kramer On Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954, by Hilary Spurling. Even those of us who have loved Matisse’s work since we began to look at paintings as a serious interest could not have suspected what it had cost this great artist… Read More Rediscovering Matisse. Hilton Kramer.
And today. How Mamdani Won. Who he is and where is he going? See hére
Well, unless you’ve found a good and sound school (and they’re certainly out there), in your first theology courses you may not learn much about the biblical Jesus, but you’re almost guaranteed to come out knowing what these early 20th century theological neologism’s mean: formgeschicte, heilsgeschichte, eschatologiegeschichte, Menschheitsgeschichte, Gottesgeschichte, Heilsgeheimnis… I personally never found them edifying… Read More Going to Seminary?
James Bishop’s Encyclopedia of Religion, Society and Philosophy Dan Brown in his book The Da Vinci Code (2003) writes, “Nothing in Christianity is original.” In recent times a number of people are claiming that the historical Jesus is simply a rehash of older pagan secretive religions, and of the religions of dying and rising gods. This is a view… Read More Why we know Jesus is not a copy of pagan religions
by Dr. Tom Snyder, PhD. Joseph Campbell “didn’t have an ideology or a theology,” claims reporter Bill Moyers in his 1988 The Power of Myth television series, frequently broadcast on PBS stations across America. During the six hours of intense interviews with the late mythologist, however, Campbell proves Moyers wrong. The supposedly non-existent theology of Campbell permeates… Read More Myth Perceptions, Joseph Campbell’s Power of Deceit
Updated. What really happened on October 7?. SH Introductory Note: “… blindness in part has happened in Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in…as touching the election, they are most dear for the sake of the fathers.” The 1566 Catechism of the Council of Trent states: “This guilt [for the death of Christ]… Read More James Lindsay Goes to Israel
But did the U.S. have the moral justification that Israel had after decades of attacks?(1) Chilcot report: Iraq. Crystal clear, polite – but damning By Laura Kuenssberg Political editor It has taken longer than anyone expected. But the conclusions, reached with the weight of more than two million words, backed with evidence from thousands upon… Read More Tragic Death Tolls. Israel & the U.S. / Iraq
Afraid doctors may not do all they can to save the living if someone else is in need? Your “refusal” for organ donation must be documented. “Upon registering at the DMV your verbal decline, stating “no” when asked whether or not you wish to be an organ donor, is not honored. According to the language… Read More Not Interested in Being an Organ Donor? 🫁
The political left in shutting down the government was found targeting poor nations for population control and bringing them in line with UN “rules based” moral mayhem. 11.7.25. “The government shutdown, in its 37th day, showed little sign of ending Friday after Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana harshly dismissed a proposal from Senate Minority… Read More Congress and the Sexualization of Africa and Beyond
“He to whom the Eternal Word speaketh is free from a multitude of opinions. From this One Word are all things, and all things speak of Him; and this is the Beginning which also speaketh unto us. No man without Him understandeth or rightly judgeth. The man to whom all things are one, who bringeth… Read More From this One Are All Things
“Leading the Revolution Against Globalism, Socialism, and the Liberal Establishment” . The U.K. version of the deep state moved against Liz Truss quickly. Why is that? And the Pied Pipers cynically mock her endlessly. They have to. Why? During her ten years at the highest levels of the British government, she often found that she… Read More Why did the U.K. Deep State Move Against Her?
Interrupted by President Trump, Western world leaders(1) appear to be bent on steadily building a New World Order piece by piece, the globalist long-dreamed of federalist One World Government with each nation ceding most of its national sovereignty to the United Nations. First the monarchies were toppled, then the democracies. …NATO appears to be its… Read More “It is a big idea” –G.H.W. Bush
America… “not in any sense Christian” “….she licensed every form of lust with laws to cleanse the stain of scandal she has spread.” — Dante, The Inferno, canto V, 57. Every four years, truths in America can change from one thing to another, even as the center – left’s quest to be the global hegemon… Read More America and Seductive False ‘Liberty’.
See the video here Chilcot Report: Polite but Damning Sir John Chilcot interview BBC – Ex-Downing Street communications chief Alastair Campbell has emotionally denied Tony Blair misled MPs over the intelligence ahead of the Iraq war. Mr Campbell had to take a moment to compose himself after being asked the question on the BBC’s Andrew… Read More Tears for Tony, Campbell & 600,000+ Dead – But None for Netanyahu After October 7.
“In this two-part episode of Thinking Out Loud, Nathan Rittenhouse and Cameron McAllister dive deep into the fascinating idea of being “crypto-religious”—a term coined by Polish poet Czesław Miłosz and revived in Paul Elie’s new book The Last Supper. Together, Nathan and Cameron explore how artists like Bob Dylan, Madonna, Prince, Bono, and Andy Warhol… Read More Crypto-religous Music and Art?
Zohran Mamdani has won the New York City mayoral election, becoming the city’s first Muslim mayor and the youngest in over a century. His victory marks a significant shift in the political landscape, as he ran on a progressive platform focused on economic equality and social justice. National Catholic Register … “Mamdani embraced gender ideology… Read More Socialist Mamdani’s Goals
by Stephen Hand In Evelyn Waugh’s stunning classic, Brideshead Revisited, there is a scene which presses on my mind these days as I ponder so many forces gathering against a Church weakened greatly by the sins of her own children, both clerical and lay. All of us. It is the time when Sebastian, Lord Alex… Read More Lord Marchmain’s Long Hate
“The history of science is the history of scientists, nothing more.” “The physicist Albert Einstein did not directly participate in the invention of the atomic bomb. But as we shall see, he was instrumental in facilitating its development. In 1905, as part of his Special Theory of Relativity, he made the intriguing point that a… Read More Albert Einstein and the Bomb
St. Antoninus writes: In the Event of the Most Grave Confusion(s): “The people are not oblidged to know…” And St. Thomas Aquinas on whether one must avoid (ipso facto or otherwise) excommunicated persons before sentence has been passed Principles St. Antoninus, commenting on the Great Western Schism. (1054 A.D.) “The question was much discussed and much… Read More In the Most Grave Confusion(s): “The People Are Not Oblidged to Know…”
“Over the years I have become more and more convinced that the ideologies of evil are profoundly rooted in the history of European philosophical thought. Here I should mention some aspects of European history, and especially its dominant cultural trends. When my encyclical on the Holy Spirit was published, there were some sharply negative reactions from… Read More Pope John Paul II on Enlightenment Errors
What follows is a critique of Calvinist Apologist James White of Alpha and Omega Ministries.. “…that you may know how you ought to behave yourself self in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” — 1 Timothy 3:15 By Stephen Hand The living… Read More White Lies
Now X tells me it is “one or more” instances of warnings and consequent Shadow banning against this website. Christians should take notice. If they do this to a website proclaiming Christ which has been limited in reach to begin with, what might they do to a far more influential site? Other platforms are also… Read More “One or More”: Shadow Banning “impacting reach”
Edict of Milan Q: Did Constantine’s toleration of Christianity change Christians in any negative ways? The key points about Constantine’s toleration of Christianity and its negative effects on Christians were: 1. Loss of “outsider” purity Before Constantine, Christians were a persecuted minority, living a life defined by courage and moral rigor. Once Christianity became tolerated… Read More A.I. answers a question on Constantine’s toleration
Or, where the Left would take us. by Roger Kimball.The New Criterion. On The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller. Michel Foucault’s personal perversions involved him in private tragedy. The celebration of his intellectual perversions by academics continues to be a public scandal. The career of this “representative man” of the twentieth century really represents one of… Read More The Perversions of Michel Foucault
Excerpt from The Mother of the Savior and Our Interior Life. [+ See also, Our Blessed Mother Mary in the Order of Grace. “Fundamentalist Protestant incomprehension of the Catholic doctrine regarding Mary, the Theotokos or Mother of God, is largely and essentially an incomprehension of the Incarnation itself, whereby the Word, who is God, was made… Read More The Predestination of Mary by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
‘X has blocked a Catholic Critique article linking to an essay about Jesus as miracle worker. The warning was placed over the essay (see below) requiring any who would not turn back to press a special button on the obstacle. And while the brief piece does lightly criticize “strident empiricists,” and those prejudiced against the… Read More ‘X’ Blocks Catholic Critique Article linking to Jesus’ Saving Deeds.
When Magicians work their tricks, people applaud, are charmed, and wonder aloud how they ever did that. But with the Lord Jesus Christ it was very different. His saving deeds elicited fear, which is the sign of a real miracle occuring in the midst of sane men and women, as witness the Gospel history: “A… Read More Jesus of Nazareth vs the Magicians and Empiricists
By Carlo Carretto, 1910 – 1988 (*). Carlo Carretto PFE was an Italian Catholic and member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel. See other links at this website. His books can be purchased at Amazon.com. ~~~ “Charles de Foucauld said one day: “If the contemplative life were possible only behind monastic walls or in the silence… Read More Contemplation in the Streets
“Let Us Make Good Use of Time“. By Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D. Time passes and does not return. God has assigned to each of us a definite time in which to fulfill His divine plan for our soul; we have this time and shall have no more. Time ill spent is lost… Read More Time Passes and Does Not Return
…and Epistemology. [P]hilosophy and religion deal with the same basic questions. Christians, and especially evangelical Christians, have tended to forget this. Philosophy and religion do not deal with different questions, though they give different answers and in different terms. The basic questions of both philosophy and religion (and I mean religion here in the wide… Read More Francis Schaeffer on the Philosophy of being
The duplicitous Left wants to speak daily in the language of venom and lies, distorting and contaminating truths in any which way it can, all year long; but when we, the Center-Right, come dropping ordnance on their deceit, intellectually decapitating their leadership, and exploding their myths with facts, they cry to ‘X’ Daddy and tell… Read More Leftist Hypocrisy on ‘X’
Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.” 38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” Thomas… Read More No Kings?
NYPost: …”If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians the U.S.A will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, “guns-a-blazing,” to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” the president wrote in a post to Truth Social Saturday… Read More Trump Threatens Military Strike on Nigeria if Slaughter of Christians Doesn’t Cease
Pieter Vree, New Oxford Review “We see how the power of the Antichrist is expanding, and we can only pray that the Lord will give us strong shepherds who will defend his church in this hour of need from the power of evil.” — Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, 2015 German journalist Peter Seewald first met Joseph… Read More Was Pope Benedict XVI Holding Back the Destroying Flood?
By Solange Hertz. The world is showing all the signs normally associated with old age. If it appears to be going mad, there is every reason to believe its madness is the senile dementia of the superannuated rather than the crazed exuberance of youth. Compared with the children of adamic times and the patriarchal progeny… Read More Life Among the [Moral] Ruins
