“WE speak of the things which you see with your own eyes, which We both bemoan. Depravity exults; science is impudent; liberty, dissolute. The holiness of the sacred is despised; the majesty of divine worship is not only disapproved by evil men, but defiled and held up to ridicule. Hence sound doctrine is perverted and errors of all kinds spread boldly. The laws of the sacred, the rights, institutions, and discipline — none are safe from the audacity of those speaking evil. Our Roman See is harassed violently and the bonds of unity are daily loosened and severed. The divine authority of the Church is opposed and her rights shorn off. She is subjected to human reason and with the greatest injustice exposed to the hatred of the people and reduced to vile servitude. The obedience due bishops is denied and their rights are trampled underfoot. Furthermore, academies and schools resound with new, monstrous opinions, which openly attack the Catholic faith; this horrible and nefarious war is openly and even publicly waged. Thus, by institutions and by the example of teachers, the minds of the youth are corrupted and a tremendous blow is dealt to religion and the perversion of morals is spread. So the restraints of religion are thrown off, by which alone kingdoms stand. We see the destruction of public order, the fall of principalities, and the overturning of all legitimate power approaching. Indeed this great mass of calamities had its inception in the heretical societies and sects in which all that is sacrilegious, infamous, and blasphemous has gathered as bilge water in a ship’s hold, a congealed mass of all filth.”

—- Mirari Vos, On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism
Pope Gregory XVI, 1832

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“BUT with what pain must we purchase such a light of the Holy Spirit! It must needs be, in short, that our mind is interiorly dislocated, that it opens wide to the point of stretching itself out, in order to make contact with the Infinite as he is himself. That is a terrible moment; the mystics call it the great desolation of the great darkness. That which gave the light to our eyes, none of that is with us any more. We must give up the natural movements of our mind when faced with facts; we must, as it were, annihilate the act of the mind taking pleasure in what it sees. It is painful, but this pain engenders a great joy. This entire docility, going to the limit of renouncing even the forces of the mind, renders to God the only homage worthy of his majesty.”

— — The Holy Spirit in Christian Life, by Père Gardeil, O.P (Blackfriars, 1953)

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FROM Racism, Guilt, Self Hatred, And Self Deceit by Gedaliah Braun, PhD (2007):

I am an American who from 1976 to 1988 taught philosophy at universities in Nigeria, Kenya and Papua New Guinea, since which time I have lived in South Africa … With very few exceptions, blacks in Africa regard it as an obvious, commonplace fact, needing no argument, and provoking no ‘offense’ whatsoever, that the white man is superior to the black man. ‘Blaming’ this inferiority on whites or colonialism (‘externalism’), therefore, is obviously a nonstarter.

This claim about black attitudes is based on conversations with hundreds of blacks in Africa and Papua New Guinea. That indigenous blacks so matter-of-factly believe this does not make it true; but it does establish that for them, the question of racial differences is not a ‘sensitive’ issue. Where does this idea come from – that racial difference is a despicable idea, so disgraceful that the mere suggestion of it can end careers? I believe it comes from whites rather than blacks, which is why, in black Africa, where there are few whites and remarkably little Western ideological influence, the idea that all races are the same and that it is morally bad to say otherwise is almost unknown. (more…)

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FROM Racism, Guilt, Self Hatred And Self Deceit: A Philosopher’s Look at the Dark Continent by Gedaliah Braun (2010):

I have long suspected that the concept of rape cannot mean the same in Africa as elsewhere. And now (over the Internet, MSNBC Home), I find this from Newsweek (“Breaking The Silence”, by Tom Masland, dated 9 July 2000; emphases in original):

According to a three-year study [in Johannesburg] … more than half of the young people interviewed – both male and female – believe that forcing sex with someone you know does not constitute sexual violence…. [T]he casual manner in which South African teens discuss coercive relationships and unprotected sex is staggering.

Masland is stunned by blacks’ behaviour, asking ‘Why Has The Safe-Sex Effort Failed So Abjectly?’ Well, aside from their profoundly different attitude towards sex and violence and their intense libido, a major factor has to be their diminished concept of time and their inability to think ahead, resulting in a ‘just-don’t-give-a-damn’ attitude. (more…)

FROM Racism, Guilt, Self Hatred, And Self Deceit (2010) by Gedaliah Braun:

In August 1976, when I left America to teach Philosophy at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, I did so somewhat reluctantly. On the subject of blacks and Africa, I was a tabula rasa [a ‘blank slate’]. I grew up in a typical ‘liberal’ environment where one was taught never to use the word ‘nigger’ (the American equivalent of the South African term ‘kaffir’) – and until 1969, in New Orleans, I don’t think I’d ever heard the word actually used. I was not involved in the civil rights movement but was certainly not opposed to it. My hometown in upstate New York had few blacks, though in the mid-fifties our high school did have a black cheerleader. While I had no black friends as a youth, this was not by design, and when, in 1968, I met a black man (a fireman), I had no difficulty in forming a friendship – a friendship which has remained to this day.

So when I went to Nigeria I was neither anti-black nor an afrophile (a ‘lover’ of things black). Nevertheless, I immediately felt ‘at home’ there and because I went without prejudices, I was able to observe things with an unjaundiced eye; and I made some remarkable discoveries.

First, African blacks were not at all uptight about race; second, it was obvious to them that the white man was ‘cleverer’ – and, they were not the least bit uptight about this. Only later did I realize that racial ‘sensitivity’ was essentially a Western phenomenon with its roots in white guilt.

Few things I’ve learned in Africa are more important than this lack of racial sensitivity. Much of our ‘Western perspective is based on the ingrained assumption that blacks are deeply offended by any suggestion of racial differences; this in turn is based on the equally unquestioned belief – never examined – that the idea of such differences is morally offensive. To acknowledge that throughout Africa people are not uptight about race must have a profound impact on one’s thinking.

I spent the next five years at the University of Nairobi, where I began to observe things more carefully and eventually to formulate certain ideas. Everything I had noticed in Nigeria (about the lack of racial sensitivity, etc.) was confirmed, but it was in Kenya that I learned (e.g.) how Africans distrust each other, how little they confide in each other and how rarely they form real friendships.

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AS readers of this site know, I don’t embrace racial utopianism and the belief that all races are the same. This utopianism is an ersatz religion, a form of idolatry, that has brought chaos to people of all races. Replacing belief in the true God and eternal reward with belief in an earthly paradise — a Tower of Babel condemned by God himself — has in fact created an earthly hell.

I point out the crimes and shortcomings of other races to help smash this idol to pieces.

Nevertheless, as pointed out in this recent post, I know and believe that all races have their own role to play in God’s divine plan and all have their inherent tendencies toward evil. None is exempt from the crushing burden of original sin.

You might say I’m a white supremacist who rejects the white race and truly thinks it’s rotten to the core. I do not idolize whiteness. For of all the races, the white race has committed the greatest evils in modern times. Given great graces by God, it has collectively erected idols — Judeo-Masonic idols of ‘liberty’, ‘equality’ and ‘fraternity.’ It has toyed endlessly with nihilistic, philosophical novelties — all for the thrill of it — and amused itself to death. It has squandered its intellectual resources, gifts and instincts, gorging on Jewish propaganda and cheering to the point of zombification black-draped, Satanic celebrities, flashing their hideous tongues and devil’s horns. It has allowed other races to simmer and boil over with revolutionary resentment all because it is afraid of being unpopular and because it has “liberated” women, who naturally fight for the celebrated underdog and are mostly incapable of governing wisely. It has scorned the sacred laws of marriage and created vast wastelands of domestic dementia. It has created cold and heartless societies, where sentimentality and sex replace true love and where financial enslavement of the masses is the norm. It has turned its back on its ancestors and heaped impieties upon their sacrifices. It has elevated ridiculous “scientific” superstitions to the level of unimpeachable dogmas. It has grown stupid and fat, ugly and repulsively vulgar. It has turned old age into a fantasy of fun and a rejection of wisdom. It has spurned the Cross out of nothing but culpable boredom and plunked its collective fanny down on the barren yoga mat of Eastern mysticism. It has reeled under the intoxicating spell of “Christian Zionism” and thousands of similarly impudent experiments in religious and political insanity. It has laughed at God, and indeed hated him, and then has had the nerve to bask in self-pity.

It is what a race does with its inherent weaknesses and strengths that matter. Having great and incomparable civilizational abilities, the white race has used these to immense harm.

God appears to have left it as a result in a stupor of mass blindness, culpable gullibility, demographic decline and what now appears to be irreversible vulnerability to total defeat in its historic lands.

Modern white guilt is directed at the wrong crimes. It is not that they were “racist” that was the problem with whites in recent centuries, it was that they were happy to exchange the eternal truths for materialism, apostasy and utopianism. And of all the races, whites have thus committed the greatest sins, having abnegated their responsibilities to all the peoples of the world to protect, preserve and promote these sacred truths.

Nothing good will come to the white race — it will not be miraculously rescued — by a reversion to pagan philosophies and a continuing rejection of God’s will. White guilt is justified, but not because of Jim Crow or slavery or reasonable forms of racial segregation. The white race will not rise without its only true defender, and that is the Catholic Church, the true Church that has been decimated by whites themselves and could now only be revived by the miraculous intervention of God.

Whites threw it all away. And if you can’t see the evidence for this all around you, then I would say you yourself are in a truly remarkable stupor.

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ACCORDING to this 2007 article in The Guardian, Pope Pius XII was apparently guilty of “racism:”

The Italian liberal daily La Repubblica has reported evidence to suggest that, even if the wartime pope was not anti-Semitic, he may have been colour prejudiced.

While researching a new book on the Allies’ policy towards bombing Rome, the historian Umberto Gentiloni Silveri stumbled across an intriguing telegram sent to London by the then British ambassador to the Holy See, Sir D’Arcy Osborne (later Duke of Leeds).

Dated January 26, 1944, it reported the substance of a conversation with Pope Pius XII just days after the landings at Anzio and Nettuno, south of the capital.

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Please see discussion below, particularly my clarification of Schweitzer’s remarks:

“It is not wrong to speak of sub-classes, sub-races or sub-groups when it comes to civilizational abilities. The Catholic Church (as opposed to the modernist Counterfeit) never embraced modern egalitarianism, which holds that everyone has the same abilities and all races are the same. Nevertheless, the Church believes that all races have their strengths and their role in God’s divine plan. All races have their weaknesses and their own tendencies toward evil. Indeed, look at the immense harm the white race has brought upon the world in its utopian ideas and apostasy.”

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FROM Ben Wehrmann:

We are done being the babysitters of the entire world.

White countries are for White people; the rest need to go.

Multiculturalism, while great in the movies, was a Jewish attack on White European civilization from the beginning, and therefore, now that we’re working from this shared foundation of knowledge, Whites have every right to implement the steps required to see this malevolent agenda completely reversed, and ended permanently.

Back to the way nature intended.

Whether you believe in a Creator/God, or evolution, the races clearly have major biological/genetic differences. It’s what makes us all beautiful in our own, unique ways.

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ALAN writes:

It was in 1958 when I first heard about the shoe repair shop on Meramec Street, a street that I crossed every weekday. My second-grade classmates were talking about something they called “potchees”. I couldn’t figure out what they meant. At age eight, it was slow to dawn on me that they were talking about “Potje’s Shoe Repair Shop”. By the time we talked about it, the shop had been there for 25 years.  It was in the Dutchtown neighborhood of south St. Louis.  It was across the street from St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church and rectory (TTH, Aug. 9, 2019), two doors down from Behrmann’s Tavern (TTH, Sept. 3, 2019), two blocks from the building that had been Maryville College (TTH, June 13, 2023), and one block from the red-brick school building where we attended classes from 1958-’62.

The neighborhood was largely German, clean, and orderly. It was a neighborhood of many families, schools, and churches.

In our grade school years, we walked past Nick Potje’s shop nearly every day. Neighborhood families depended on Nick year after year. I can remember riding past his shop with my mother on that rainy Friday in 1963 when President Kennedy was killed, and walking into his shop many times in the 1960s-’80s.

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“I DO NOT know what, if anything, can be done to preserve a species that some judicious observers believe to be driven by a largely subconscious, but irresistible, death-wish.

“In 1914, although we had the Jews on our backs, we were indubitably the dominant race on earth; we are now a despised and degraded species of anthropoids on whom all other species, including the very lowest and most brutish, joyously feed. When I see that our people are either too doltish to perceive their degradation or too craven to care, I am close to despair.

“Even a few decades ago, I should not have believed it possible that here in the United States Aryans would willingly see their children hauled to ‘schools’ to be defiled by enforced association with savages and to be robbed, beaten, raped, and mutilated by the animals.

“Even today, I am almost incredulous when I hear chiefs of police on the radio urging the white rabbits to minimize the chances that they will be mauled or killed by the savages whom they tax themselves to nourish and whom they subsidize to breed faster: in the jungles that were once our large cities, the cringing white inhabitants are told they should not venture out of doors after dark, should walk only in the middle of sidewalks so that Congoids are less likely to pounce on them from doorways or from automobiles in the street, and must not show themselves in large areas of their own cities. Are creatures that accept such degradation capable of survival or even fit to live? Is it only that they have been enslaved by foul superstitions, or have their brains been so clotted by centuries of systematic poisoning that they have been rendered permanently and irremediably imbecile?”

— Revilo P. Oliver, 2002

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“THE gift of counsel is absolutely indispensable in the spiritual life if we are to persevere. We have to guide our spiritual life: it is not enough for that to have a strong nature, built for temperance and justice. We must have a directing faculty for the whole thing: conditions of life change, plans are altered, our own personal life does not remain the same, we vary with the age, we change, we advance, we fall back. We have to adapt these powers of strength, justice, temperance, to a material essentially malleable, difficult to mould in the art-pattern of saints. By ourselves we shall not know how to succeed.

“Moreover, we are short-sighted, we do not see far within ourselves, and we possess a tool well-fitted to cover up our eyes — self love, which hides from us the ways of prudence. Life, people and things, turn endlessly around us. We do not see well, or if we do see well we have not the firmness necessary to impose on ourselves our own judgment. Sometimes we squint, if the right course seems too hard; in order to take care of our attachments, our habits we use stratagem against the inspirations of the love of God. Such is often our psychology in the ruling of ourselves.

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“The Holy Spirit makes the light of our conscience twice as bright by his inspirations. Now in a soft manner: a whisper, a murmur, but persuasive and insistent. At other times, a hard reproof, when we do not listen and are obstinate. He works in such a way that we are illumined in all circumstances. The gospel teaches in a general way. The Holy Spirit makes the gospel counsels come to life before us at the right moment, in face of difficulties.”

— The Holy Spirit in Christian Life, by Père Gardeil, O.P (Blackfriars, 1953)

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“THE gift of Knowledge enables the soul to evaluate created things at their true worth — in their relation to God. Knowledge unmasks the pretense of creatures, reveals their emptiness, and points out their only true purpose as instruments in the service of God. It shows us the loving care of God even in adversity, and directs us to glorify Him in every circumstance of life. Guided by its light, we put first things first, and prize the friendship of God beyond all else. ‘Knowledge is a fountain of life to him that possesseth it.'”

— Novena to the Holy Spirit

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Dialogue I’ve had with practically every one of my Jewish friends over the past year: 

They send me a wall of text about how horrible of a person I am for asking neutral, logical questions about the strange details surrounding the holocaust (wooden door, swimming pools, 3,000 babies born, etc.), that they have X family members who survived the “death camps”, and that I should be ashamed, arrested, and/or kill myself 

I recommend that they politely ask said family members how much free money they’re receiving from being on the “holocaust survivor” subscriber list (any Jew can go online and do this whenever they want) 

I get blocked, and they never talk to me again. Friendship over. Has anyone else had the same experience?

— Ben Wehrman

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‘TIS by thee that clouds glide in the firmament, that air wings its flight, that rocks yield springs, that waters flow, and earth gives forth her verdure.

‘Tis thou that leadest men to knowledge, gladdening them with the inspiration of wisdom.

“Praise, then, be to thee, O Thou praise-yielding Spirit, thou joy of life, our hope, our highest honor, the giver of the reward of light! Amen.”

Hildegarde, Sequence for Pentecost

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“THE passions of the human heart are another obstacle to our salvation and sanctification; they are the more to be feared, because they are within us. It is requisite that the Holy Ghost change our heart, and lead it to deny itself as often as the light of grace points out to us a way other than that which self-love would have us follow. What supernatural Fortitude we need in order to hate our life (St. John, xii. 25), as often, as our Lord bids us make a sacrifice, or when we have to choose which of the two Masters we will serve (St. Matth. vi. 24). The Holy Spirit is daily working this marvel by means of the Gift of Fortitude: so that, we have but to correspond to the Gift, and not stifle it either by cowardice or indiscretion, and we are strong enough to resist even our domestic enemies. This blessed Gift of Fortitude teaches us to govern our passions and treat them as blind guides; it also teaches us never to follow their instincts, save when they are in harmony with the law of God.

“There are times, when the Holy Spirit requires from a Christian something beyond interior resistance to the enemies of his soul: he must make an outward protestation against error and evil, as often, as position or duty demands it. On such occasions, one must bear to become unpopular, and console one’s self with the words of the Apostle: If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ (Gal. i. 10). But the Holy Ghost will be on his side; and finding him resolute in using His Gift of Fortitude, not only will He give him a final triumph, but He generally blesses that soul with a sweet and courageous peace, which is the result and recompense of a duty fulfilled.

“Thus does the Holy Ghost apply the gift of Fortitude, when there is question of a Christian’s making resistance. But, as we have already said, it imparts also the energy necessary for bearing up against the trials, which all must go through who would save their souls. There are certain fears, which damp our courage, and expose us to defeat. The gift of Fortitude dispels them, and braces us with such a peaceful confidence, that we ourselves are surprised at the change. Look at the Martyrs; not merely at such an one as St. Mauritius, the leader of the Theban Legion, who was accustomed to face danger on the battle-field, but at Felicitas, a mother of seven children, at Perpetua, a high-born lady with everything this world could give her, at Agnes, a girl of thirteen, and at thousands of others like them; and say, if the gift of Fortitude is not a prompter to heroism? Where is the fear of death, that death, the very thought of which is sometimes more than we can bear?

And what are we to say of all those lives spent in self-abnegation and privation, with a view to make Jesus their only treasure and be the more closely united with him? What are we to say of those hundreds and thousands of our fellow-creatures, who shun the sight of a distracted and vain world, and make sacrifice their rule? whose peacefulness is proof against every trial, and whose acceptance of the cross is as untiring as the cross itself is in its visit? What trophies are these of the Spirit of Fortitude! and how magnificent is the devotedness he creates for every possible duty! Oh! truly, man, of himself, is of little worth; but, how grand when under the influence of the Holy Ghost!

— Dom Prosper Guéranger, reflections on the “Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost”

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