Who Controls the UN?

From champion of the family to its archenemy—the tragic transformation of the United Nations https://t.co/DZblfQ5KsA #profamily #prolife #naturalfamily

— iFamNewsEN (@iFamNewsEN) January 14, 2021

Jonathan Pageau on Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Rudolph, you'll go down in history. My latest video interpreting the story of the red nosed reindeer. https://t.co/b45XV9hVPE pic.twitter.com/vGZBslBaTw

— Jonathan Pageau (@PageauJonathan) December 14, 2020

I haven't watched this yet, but I did watch the TV special again last night, and it can be interpreted as being subversive. Communists in Hollywood?

A Postchristian Age

A truly beautiful and moving piece on our emotional and physical connection to nature, its healing power, and why we need to defend it. https://t.co/5XpHcpjTBH

— Stella Brozek (@StellaBrozek) December 8, 2020

Satanism on the Rise

Can those who have a rooted life of prayer be victims of third parties (occultism)

"Yes, unfortunately....It is obvious that it is more difficult that a person who tries to live an honest life in the grace of God become prey to the devil...”@Solena_Tad https://t.co/rvbSnZvUQn

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) December 5, 2020

What Happens When a Society is Dechristianized and Sentimentalism is Left

Hell is a reality.

You can now watch the lyric video for #showmearound on @YouTube. I hope this song brings some comfort to you in knowing that those we have lost are waiting to show us around once we’re back together again 🤍 https://t.co/p7H0v8c4Zq pic.twitter.com/k6y9NwkMKu

— Carly Pearce (@carlypearce) December 4, 2020

Too Early to Celebrate Christmas

But I do listen to Christmas music even though I shouldn't...

It may be very wintry outside but this will definitely warm your heart. 🎼❄️🎄❤️❄️🎼Beautiful singing by Grace, accompanied by the fab Miss Kelly and a fab video and stunning stills by @stephenlatimer. 👏👏👏Love it 💙 https://t.co/YtWTvzy8yk

— Maria G Lindsay (@mariemccolgan) December 4, 2020

What Have the Spanish Bishops Accomplished in 45 Years?

As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops holding a virtual fall assembly, the bishops of Spain are also holding their fall gathering.https://t.co/jUUlpHC4IL

— Crux (@Crux) November 18, 2020

Crux:

Seeing the rising unemployment and recession in Spain but also in most of Europe, Omella said this is “not the moment for divisions, it’s not the moment to allow the irresponsible and ideological populist sprouts to sneak in. This is the moment for cohesion, for cordiality, working together, of looking to the long term, freeing ourselves from the short-termism of elections or the stock market.”

With what competence does he have to dictate on political matters?

During his remarks, Omella also called on politicians to avoid causing further stress to society with matters that are not a priority and which require a “serene and profound debate,” and called on Spaniards to “recover the spirit of concord that made it possible for our elders, after a very hard war between brothers and the long period of the [Francisco] Franco regime, with politics for the common good, to reach agreements that demanded sacrifices, generosity and mutual trust.”

Useless.

Speak for yourself. The West wasn't founded upon liberalism.

But of course the IDW liberal doubles down on... liberalism.

This is something *everybody* in the West should agree about. We don't apologize for the values of the Enlightenment. We are proud of them. And we're open and welcoming if you accept and abide by those values too. https://t.co/qP42CncP2e

— Bo Winegard (@EPoe187) November 1, 2020

Even though his brother recognizes the truth about diversity:

I don't think the woke realize how difficult it is to sustain liberal pluralism in a heterogenous, multiethnic society. To do so requires high levels of trust, a sense of shared fate, and soft nationalism.

Instead, wokeism has increased the salience of subnational identity. pic.twitter.com/gFNk6vnD7o

— Ben Winegard 🌲🌲 (@BenWinegard) October 31, 2020

How Much Secularization Is Left?

A cardinal has suggested that the coronavirus pandemic may have accelerated the secularization of Europe by a decade. https://t.co/rd5s7mKfOI

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) September 4, 2020

A Reply to the Anarcho-Primitivists

CR Hallpike reviews Humankind: A Hopeful History

History by a Liberal Democrat

Who is a stooge of the oligarchs. She may be a liberal ideologue, but she serves at the pleasure of those who have even more power than the power she wields in academia.

OUP: Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day by Sheri Berman

Journal of Democracy





A review: The Making and Unmaking of European Democracy by Samuel Gregg (Acton Blog)

It seem that she has an incomplete picture of the rise of bureaucracy and other instruments of the centralization of power that enabled the rise of the state, even before the regime of the state changed to "democracy," but really, "oligarchy" is the more appropriate term.

What was central to the ancien régime—and Berman demonstrates this convincingly—was the confirmation or granting of legal privileges to particular groups, most notably the nobility and clergy, by European rulers. This sanctioning of legal privileges (such as noble and clerical exemption from taxation or giving the aristocracy a formal monopoly of appointments to the officer corps and the civil service) was an effective way for monarchs to gain such groups’ acquiescence in, and even support for, the ruler’s centralization of power.

Who are the oligarchs who facilitated the rise of "democracy"? Should we be looking at the usual suspects, the mercantile and entrepreneurial class, lawyers, and so on? After all, we are not talking about individuals but families and extended networks or alliances seeking to promote their private good in the name of the "people."

Samuel Gregg, liberal, is like Sheri Berman, another liberal, though they may have different beliefs about individual morality. (I don't doubt that Berman is some form of feminist.) Both of them believe in the illusion that is "liberal democracy" which is actually oligarchy, just as Gregg cucks for "free markets."

Douthat on Secularism and Religion in "America"

Globalist Secular Humanism

Whence will the antichrist arise?

The first public event hosted by the Higher Committee implementing the Document on #HumanFraternity takes place at the #NewYorkCity Public Library on Friday, bringing together hundreds of people from different religious and cultural backgrounds. https://t.co/oSwYSu6ogy

— Vatican News (@VaticanNews) September 21, 2019

The Combox Reveals Much About the State of the American Church

Inconceivable!

CWR: Notre Dame de la France by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
Is it conceivable that the first country to loose ideological revolution on the world could be the same that launches the most intelligent and thoroughgoing intellectual counter-revolution in 230 years?

The Hand of God?

66 million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor (via Steve Sailer)

More on Japan by Linh Dinh

Unz: A More Colorful, Diluted and Dying Japan

From 2016

Was just reminded of the article...

Metro: How Satan Became the New Face of Secularism
A meet and greet with Silicon Valley's Satanists.
January 27, 2016 by Jennifer Wadsworth

Witness to a Dying Local Church

A bishop reflects on 45 years of priestly ministry by Jim Graves
“I like to say that I was not ordained to be irrelevant,” says Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island. “The Church, and bishops in particular, have a prophetic role.”

Secularism gets the blame, but how about the infiltration of heresy (like liberalism and feminism) into the Church? No mention of how the Church has become feminized and men have been emasculated, while any sense of community has been destroyed from without but also from within.

Archbishop Chaput at It Again

Pushing his erroneous immigrant myth about the United States -- Things To Come: Faith, State, and Society in a New World

The full text of the inaugural Religion and Public Life Lecture delivered today at the Matthew J. Ryan Center at Villanova University.