“IT is a wonderful thing and full of scandal, that from the time when the pure doctrine was first called to light, the world should daily grow worse and worse …. The world becomes every day worse, men are now more vindictive, more avaricious, less inclined to mercy, more immodest and undisciplined, and much worse than they were in the times of the papacy.”

— Martin Luther in Post. Evan. Dom. i. post Adv.

‘”Formerly, when we were seduced by the pope, men willingly followed good works; but now all their study is to get everything to themselves by exactions, pillage, theft, lying, usury.”

— Luther,  Serai, in Dom. 26, post Trin.

“The greater part of the people seem only to have embraced the Gospel in order to shake off the yoke of discipline, and the obligation of fasting, penance, etc, which lay upon them in the time of popery, and to live at their pleasure, enjoying their lust and lawless appetites at their content. They therefore lent a willing ear to the doctrine that we are justified by faith alone, and not by good works, having no relish for them.”

— Martin Bucer, de Regn. Christi, 1. i. c. 4.

“Those whom I once knew to have been chaste, sincere, and without fraud, I found after they had embraced this sect to be licentious in their conversation, neglectful of prayer, passionate, vain, as spiteful as serpents, and lost to the feelings of human nature. I speak from experience.”

— Erasmus,  ad Frat. Infer. Germ.

“What an evangelical generation is this! Nothing was ever more licentious and more seditious — nothing is less evangelical than these pretended gospellers.”

— Erasmus, Ep. i. 6, 4. (more…)

“The sovereign, or the parliament, that pretends to govern a country in opposition to the laws of God has no right to aught but revolt and contempt from every upright man; to give the sacred name of law to tyrannical enactments of that kind is a profanation, unworthy not only of Christian, but of every man who is not a slave.”

FROM commentary on Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost by Dom Prosper Guéranger:

The will of God!—there is the origin, there is the real greatness of all authority amongst men! Of himself, man has no right to command his fellow man. The number, however imposing it may be, makes no difference with this powerlessness of men over my conscience; for whether they be one, or five hundred, I, by nature, am equal to each one among them; and by adding the number of their so-called rights over me, they are only adding to the number of nothingness. But God, wishing that men should live one with the other, has thereby wished that there exist amongst them a power which should rule over the rest; that is, should direct the thousands or millions of different wills to the unity of one social end. God leaves to circumstances, though it is his providence that regulates those circumstances—he leaves to men themselves, at the beginning of any mere human society, a great latitude as to the choice of the form under which is to be exercised both the civil power itself and the mode of its transmission. But once regularly invested with the power, its depositories, its possessors, are responsible to God alone, as far, that is, as the legitimate exercise of their authority goes, because it is from God alone that that power comes to them.

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“APART from the happiness of the saints in heaven, I think there is no joy comparable to that of the souls in purgatory. An incessant communication with God renders their happiness daily more intense, and this union with God grows more and more intimate, according as the impediments to that union, which exist in the soul, are consumed. These obstacles are the rust and the remains, as it were, of sin; and the fire continues to consume them, and thus the soul gradually expands under the divine influence. Thus, according as the rust diminishes and the soul is laid bare to the divine rays, happiness is augmented. The one grows and the other wanes until the time of trial is elapsed. Yet the pain is not lessened, it is only the time of suffering which decreases. With regard to the will of these souls, they can never say that these pains are pains, so great is their contentment with the ordinance of God, with which their wills are united in perfect charity.”

— St. Catherine of Genoa, Treatise on Purgatory

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“THE use of moral predation — specifically weaponizing the sacred vocabulary of human dignity, justice, and Christian divine mandate as a psychological cudgel to paralyze a population’s self-preservation instinct — transforms a standard political betrayal into a despicable ethical violation.

“In the arena of realpolitik and elite theory, this strategy is the definitive signature of the “Fox” managerial class. Because these bureaucratic and financial elites lack the stomach for open, transparent confrontation, they are structurally forced to operate as text-manipulating predators.

“They do not conquer a fortress from the outside; they use an engineered moral pathogen to convince the host to open the gates willingly, making them an intensely deceptive and destructive political class.”

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“NOW We consider another abundant source of the evils with which the Church is afflicted at present: indifferentism. This perverse opinion is spread on all sides by the fraud of the wicked who claim that it is possible to obtain the eternal salvation of the soul by the profession of any kind of religion, as long as morality is maintained. Surely, in so clear a matter, you will drive this deadly error far from the people committed to your care. With the admonition of the apostle that “there is one God, one faith, one baptism” [Eph 4:5] may those fear who contrive the notion that the safe harbor of salvation is open to persons of any religion whatever. (more…)

“THEREFORE, following the example of St. Francis de Sales, we should encourage all to have hope for the deceased, no matter how impenitent a death a person may seem to have died. This saint based his principle chiefly on the doctrine that, as the first grace of justification is not merited by any previous good work, so also the final grace of perseverance need not necessarily depend upon our merits. How consoling, therefore, are those thoughts of the great and saintly son of Holy Mother Church. How comforting to those who have had dear ones snatched away suddenly, seemingly unprepared. God is infinite mercy. He would have us trust him implicitly and murmur not as those who have no hope.

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The ultimate tragedy of the Civil War is that the victorious political order that won the war on the battlefield was entirely displaced, subjugated, and disinherited in the peace that followed. The white working man who saved the Union was completely swindled by his own representative agents.

FROM burnt toast on Gab:

This comprehensive chronological and sociological analysis reveals that the ultimate structural consequence of America’s multi-generational transformation was the complete disinheritance of its white male founding population.

Through a calculated series of macroeconomic, legal, and demographic enclosures, the white men who established the republic were systematically stripped of their inherited estate.

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THIS video by Rosaria Fiore, a self-proclaimed expert on “old Italian tricks,” offers some common sense on soaking beans. It’s a little annoying because it’s too long, but you can skip around.

Everybody wishes they had a pre-feminism Italian grandma with her bag of housekeeping tricks. Some wish they were a pre-feminism Italian grandma.

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“WHEN the righteous soul has thus arrived in purgatory, losing sight of everything else, it sees before it only two objects — the extremity of suffering, and the extremity of joys. A most tremendous pain is caused by knowing that God loves it with an infinite love, that He is the Chief Good, that He regards the soul as His daughter, and that He has predestined it to enjoy Him for ever in company with the Blessed: and hence the soul loves Him with a pure and most perfect charity. At the same time it perceives that it cannot see Him or enjoy Him yet, though it so intensely yearns to do so; and this afflicts it so much the more, as it is quite uncertain when the term of its penal exile, away from its Lord and paradise, will be fulfilled. This is the pain of loss in purgatory, of which the Saint says that it is a pain so extreme, that no tongue can tell it, no understanding grasp the least portion of it. Though God in His favour showed me a little spark thereof, yet can I not in any way express it with my tongue.”

— Purgatory, Rev. Frederick William Faber

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“THIS will cause acute pain, greater pain than we have ever known; it will be like a sword going right through the heart. Were death still possible we would die for sorrow, but death is over and we have to bear it, till God relieves us. When Christ was in agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, He sweated blood and the drops of His blood fell on the ground. There was then no bodily pain, but only mental sorrow: ‘My soul is sorrowful unto death,’ He had said on entering the garden. He writhed in agony, and, prostrate on the ground, He pleaded: ‘Father, all things are possible unto Thee; let this chalice pass away; yet not My will but Thine be done.’ A picture indeed of our sorrows in purgatory, when our souls, shall be sorrowful unto death, when mere bodily death would be a welcome respite, when we would be willing to die a thousand times if thereby we could reach God one instant sooner.”

— J.P. Arendzen,. Purgatory and Heaven (Sheed and Ward, 1960)

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“7. Is it not all the same to God whatever religion a person professes?

“If it were all the same to God whatever religion a person professes, God would not have forbidden, in the First Commandment, to worship Him in any other than in the true religion. Nor would Christ have solemnly declared: ‘He who will not hear the Church let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican.'” (Matt. 18:17.)

— Fr. Michael Mueller, Questions and Answers on Salvation

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I HAVE updated and expanded this previous entry.

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“THE Prophet Daniel, in the twelfth chapter, says that in the time of the end ‘many shall be chosen and made white, and shall be tried as fire; and the wicked shall deal wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the learned shall understand’ that is, many who have known the faith shall abandon it, by apostasy. ‘Some of the learned shall fall;’ that is, they shall fall from their fidelity to God. And how shall this come to pass? Partly by fear, partly by deception, partly by cowardice; partly because they cannot stand for unpopular truth in the face of popular falsehood; partly because the overruling contemptuous public opinion, as in such a country as this [England], and in France, so subdues and frightens Catholics, that they dare not avow their principles, and, at last, dare not hold them. They become admirers and worshipers of the material prosperity of Protestant countries. They see the commerce, the manufactures, the agriculture, the capital, the practical science, the irresistible armies, and the fleets that cover the sea, and they come flocking to adore, and say, ‘Nothing is so great as this great country of Protestant England.’ [Ed., Or perhaps, ‘Nothing is so great as this great country of Protestant and Masonic America.’] And so they give up their faith, and become materialists, seeking for the wealth and power of this world, dazzled and overpowered by the greatness of a country which has cast off its fidelity to the Church.”

—- — Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, The Present Crisis of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy, 1861

This passage by Manning is a piercingly accurate description of the American Catholic as he has been for many years —  materialist and traitor. It was the Americans who were some of the staunchest foes of the First Vatican Council and Pope Pius IX’s valiant efforts to define the all-important, and much misunderstood, doctrine of papal infallibility. American bishops returned home in a huff, so taken aback that they might have to defend the faith in the face of Protestant effrontery and opposition.

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“THE Holy Fathers who have written upon the subject of Antichrist, and of these prophecies of Daniel, without a single exception, as far as I know,— and they are the Fathers both of the East and of the West, the Greek and the Latin Church — all of them unanimously — say that in the latter end of the world, during the reign of Antichrist, the holy sacrifice of the altar will cease. In the work on the end of the world, ascribed to St. Hippolytus, after a long description of the afflictions of the last days, we read as follows: ‘The Churches shall lament with a great lamentation, for there shall be offered no more oblation, nor incense, nor worship acceptable to God. The sacred buildings of the churches shall be as hovels; and the precious body and blood of Christ shall not be manifest in those days; the Liturgy shall be extinct; the chanting of psalms shall cease; the reading of Holy Scripture shall be heard no more. But there shall be upon men darkness, and mourning upon mourning, and woe upon woe.’ Then, the Church shall be scattered, driven into the wilderness, and shall be for a time, as it was in the beginning, invisible, hidden in catacombs, in dens, in mountains, in lurking-places; for a time it shall be swept, as it were, from the face of the earth. Such is the universal testimony of the Fathers of the early centuries.”

— Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, The Present Crisis of the Holy See Tested by Prophecy, 1861; pp 77-78.

Cardinal Manning continues — and please read his continued observations because he explains how the time of the Antichrist is not a time of frightening, apocalyptic bloodshed under a murderous tyrant, as is so often depicted, but a time of apostasy and heresy, of falling away from true worship of God. This prophesied apostasy, he states, will be centered in Rome itself, i.e., within the Catholic Church:

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INDIFFERENCE to despotism, submissiveness and anti-Christian values — these are some of the traits that make Indians the ruling class’s ideal immigrants to America right now. Read more at Occidental Observer.

By the way, I myself have nothing against Indians personally. In fact, I like many of them. I don’t believe in unkindness or resentment toward them (or anyone else). We just don’t need their grasping, corrupt, materialistic culture, however charming and immensely lovable many Indians are. We have enough problems of our own. They have a land of their own anyway. It’s called India. I wish them well and want all good things for them. They themselves are victims of the engineered and artificial rootlessness of modern life. They too need an organic society. We are not enemies, but in this predicament together. (more…)

I LOOKED for a few moments at the coverage of the alleged plane crash this week near Palm Beach, Florida and it instantly struck me as fake. I saw no convincing evidence of a plane, people walking casually around a fiery crater, no sign of bodies, a cute co-pilot who looked like a model or actress, and cell phone footage that emerged just in time. The needle on my hoax meter jumped.

Women shouldn’t, in general, be airplane pilots for a number of reasons, but the instant story line about feminism being to blame for the crash struck me as coming straight from a government scripting team. Since when does the media blame feminism for anything? Only when it wants to create a circus or get people fighting. (more…)

“THE existence of fire in Purgatory is vouched for also by numerous apparitions and private revelations. They demonstrate to our very eyes this fire as a material one, thus indicating that the words ‘fire’ and ‘fiery torments’ used by Scripture are to be taken in a literal sense. St. Bridget, of whom the Church, in her official prayer, says, ‘O God, who through Thy Divine Son didst reveal to blessed Bridget heavenly mysteries,’ was permitted in one of her ecstacies to witness how a soul was sentenced to a three-fold punishment: to an external and internal fire, an intense cold, and to furious assaults of the devil. Mechtildis of Magdeburg saw a lake of fire mixed with brimstone, in which the Suffering Souls had to bathe in order to be cleansed. According to St. Frances of Rome Purgatory consists of three apartments, one above the other, all alive with a clear, sparkling fire, unlike that of hell, which is dark and sombre. Bautz … relates of the Venerable Mary Anna Lindmayer: ‘Her friend Mary Becher and her mother appeared to her, and left marks of fire on one of her feet, which she saw and felt for weeks. At one time she beheld Purgatory in the shape of a torrent of fiery water, at another, as a prison of fire. The souls themselves appeared to her as sparks of fire falling about her. The appearance of some souls caused her to shiver with frost caused by the cold proceeding from them.’

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“PEACEMAKERS are all those that have peace within themselves. That is, those who have set all the passions of their souls in order. This they do by subjecting their passions to reason, namely, to the mind and spirit. Thus, by conquering their fleshly desires, they have made of themselves a little kingdom of God. In this kingdom, everything is ordered into an harmonious whole, by virtue of the fact that the element which chief and pre-eminent in man (namely, mind or reason) ruleth, without resistance, over the elements which we have in common with the beasts. And in this fashion, the element of mind or reason, which is pre-eminent in man, is made subject to something pre-eminent to itself, namely, the Truth, even the Only-Begotten Son of God. For no one is able to govern except he be subject unto the higher powers. Now, herein we have set forth the peace which is given on earth to men of good-will. This is the life of one who is thoroughly and completely wise.

“From a kingdom such as this, which is a state of complete peace and order, the prince of this world is cast out. (more…)