In an article which appeared recently in the National Catholic Register, Father Raymond J. de Souza announced that the Church had a “German problem.”1 The indisputable evidence for this problem could be found in the results of the German synod, which announced that the main problem facing the Church lay in lack of tolerance for sexual deviance. Whether that was construed as a celibate clergy, prohibitions against the divorced and remarried receiving communion, or disapproval of homosexuality, the German “Synodal Weg,” made it clear that it was the Church which had to change, not the Germans who had acquired a lot of bad habits over the past half century. The flagrant use of Church structures to undermine Church teaching provoked outrage among a group of “more than 70 bishops—led by four cardinals from three continents”—who “issued an open ‘fraternal letter’ to the bishops of Germany stating that ‘the potential for schism … will inevitably result’ if they do not repent of their ‘Synodal Path.’”

As Dr. Thomas Dalton has also stated, “Holocaust revisionists are often called ‘Holocaust deniers’ by mainstream writers. This appellation is both derogatory and, technically, almost meaningless.”9 What is needed, as was stated in the earlier article, is a recognition that an objective investigation of empirical issues can arrive at the truth, and that it is essential to state the truth in love. What follows is an attempt once more to do exactly that, setting it in the context of two lives and two struggles, those of Germar Rudolf and of Eduard Wirths….

The case of Fr. Prof. Dariusz Oko began in July 2021, when the District Court in Cologne convicted him of allegedly “inciting hatred.” The Polish clergyman and scientist was to pay a fine of EUR 4,800 or spend 120 days in German arrest. The court’s decision took the form of a sentence in absentia – that is, one in which the convicted person did not even have the opportunity to defend himself. In fact, Fr. Oko learned about the trial itself only after receiving the sentence. Thanks to the quick response of Ordo Iuris lawyers, the sentence was overturned and a regular trial began in which Fr. Oko received professional support from a German lawyer – a longtime associate of Ordo Iuris. The alleged “incitement to hatred” was a scientific text, published in the renowned scientific journal Theologisches, which has been published for over 50 years. The article was an excerpt from the book Lawendowa [Lavender] Mafia. In it, Fr. Prof Oko reveals the activity of a group of homosexual priests who – using their position in the Catholic Church – hide the crimes of priests molesting children and clerics in seminaries. The text was supplied with a rich bibliography and footnotes and cited, among others, Benedict XVI, who during the pontificate of St. John Paul II dealt with the investigations of sexual crime cases in the Church, and who spoke outright about “homosexual cliques which arose in various seminaries.”

In an exquisite example of Providence’s comedic wit, Pope Francis announced the self-referentially named Synod on Synodality two years ago during the annus horribilis. Last year “the synodal process” began slouching its way toward Rome. This October, the world’s dioceses will begin the process of tabulating and synthesizing the results of their listening sessions. In October of next year, the world’s bishops will gather to be midwives at the birth of what has already been hailed as the newest “new Pentecost” (yes, really).3 What is the Synod on Synodality? What implications does it have for an already divided and ailing Church?

The media hype surrounding the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade brought back memories of my engagement in the almost fifty years of America’s abortion wars. Eleanor Smeal, who was then head of the National Organization of Women, had just given a talk on abortion at the University of Notre Dame in what must have been the 1980s. The room was packed with feminists from that university and St. Mary’s College, the soi disant Catholic institution which had fired me for being against abortion a few years earlier. As my attempt to inject some reality into what was obviously a pep rally for what St. Paul referred to as silly women obsessed with their sins, I asked Ms. Smeal during the Q & A “Does the fetus have sex?” Seeing that Ms. Smeal was taken aback by the question, I rephrased it: “Is the fetus identifiable as either male or female?” Expecting a realistic answer to the question, I was ready to follow it up with asking how the National Organization of Women justified the murder of unborn women, but what I got was unexpected. “The process of sexual differentiation,” the president of NOW opined, “begins at birth.”

Nader Talebzadeh passed away last week. I got an e-mail a few days earlier asking for prayers. He was in the intensive care unit. His heart, weakened by the effects of a poison gas attack which damaged his lungs during the Iraq-Iran war, was functioning at five percent of its normal capacity. A week later I learned that he had died…

Watered in turn by powerful hurricanes and the blood of martyrs, Florida continues to be the scene of epic battles. Today, my home state of Florida is the site of the crucial battle between representative government and big-tech oligarchic rule. The man elected by the people to promote the common good is Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who is “not the kind of Roman Catholic who draws cheers from journalists who admire progressive Catholics.” On March 28, 2022, DeSantis signed into law The Parental Rights in Education bill to combat the grooming of small children in Florida’s classrooms. This daring act landed him astride the broad back of Bucking Bull Bob Chapek, Walt Disney’s CEO, who was immediately roused out of the gate by the Left to, according to DeSantis, mobilize his “considerable corporate resources out of the coffers” of his “Burbank, CA-based corporation to overturn the rights of parents in the State of Florida, and effectively commandeer our democratic process.”

Desert Island Discs is 80 years old this year. The BBC Radio 4 favorite owes a great deal of its enduring popularity to the simple perfection of its interview form. To make desert island existence more endurable, each guest is permitted eight pieces of music, one book and one luxury. The same two books are given to every guest — the Bible and the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Each guest gets to choose a third. When you, dear reader, get your D.I.D. 45 minutes of fame, may I suggest that you choose E. Michael Jones’ latest book. If you insist, as the ideal complement to the Bible and the Bard, to go for one of Jones’ other tomes — any one of which will double very nicely as a desert island coffee table – then I suggest this simple solution: take, let’s say Logos Rising as your book, and take The Dangers of Beauty as your luxury.

Want to read something about Ukraine? A great lost Catholic thriller from the early 20th century, The Supreme Crime, is set there. Elite newspapers publish annual recommended summer reading lists (“Hottest Summer Reads,” “Ultimate Beach Reads,” etc.), which are usually books on current events, or, alternatively, are scorching page-turners that are easy to read while on vacation? This book is both.

Biden is giving expression to what could be called the a priori school of foreign policy, according to which he can deduce a statement about reality from abstract principles. So, there can be no Nazis in the Ukraine because its president is Jewish. Another member of this school of foreign policy is Catholic neocon pundit George Weigel, who said much the same thing, dismissing any references to actual Nazis in Ukrainian army units like the Azov Brigade as chimeras evoked by conspiracy theories.

By the summer of 2018 I began researching why the Japanese invaded Korea, why comfort women issues are so sensitive in the same region, why the Nanking (or Nanjing) incident has been so simplistic, and to what extent Soviet communism influenced Korean revolutionaries from the early 1900s up until the late 1940s.

What became unquestionably clear to me throughout my studies was that what was true in the United States and much of Europe with respect to subversive movements, the deconstruction of the moral and social order, and messianic politics was a fortiori true in much of Asia, most specifically in China under Mao, in Cambodia under Pol Pot,1 in Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh,2 in Korea through the communist movement,3 and in Japan when the feminist movement began to assault the nuclear family in the 1970s.4

The Ayatollah Sayyid Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi was an important figure in recent Iranian history. Widely recognized as the Ayatollah Khomeini’s heir apparent, Shahroudi was an Iranian-Iraqi dual citizen whose job was to unify Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon under a Shi’a alliance based on anti-imperialism and anti-Zionism whose ultimate goal was the elimination of Israel in collaboration with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Shahroudi was also involved in Iran’s Ostpolitik—or perhaps Nordpolitik would be a better term—which began on January 3, 1989 when the Supreme Leader, as one of his last acts, sent a delegation which included Abdollha Javadi-Amoli, Mohammed Javad Larijani, and Marzieh Hadidchi to Moscow bearing a letter in which Khomeini warned Mikhail Gorbachev of the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union. Marxism, in Khomeini’s opinion, could not deal with the world situation because its materialistic ideology could not resolve a spiritual crisis brought on by lack of belief in spirituality, which he considered “the prime affliction of human society in the East and the West alike.”

“At the beginning of the Dark Ages the great pagan cosmopolitan society now grown Christian was as much a slave state as old South Carolina. By the fourteenth century it was almost as much a state of peasant proprietors as modern France. No laws had been passed against slavery; no dogmas even had condemned it by definition; no war had been waged against it, no new race or ruling caste had repudiated it; but it was gone. This startling and silent transformation is perhaps the best measure of the pressure of popular life in the Middle Ages, of how fast it was making new things in its spiritual factory. Like everything else in the mediæval revolution, from its cathedrals to its ballads, it was as anonymous as it was enormous. It is admitted that the conscious and active emancipators everywhere were the parish priests and the religious brotherhoods; but no name among them has survived and no man of them has reaped his reward in this world. Countless Clarksons and innumerable Wilberforces, without political machinery or public fame, worked at death-beds and confessionals in all the villages of Europe; and the vast system of slavery vanished. It was probably the widest work ever done which was voluntary on both sides; and the Middle Ages was in this and other things the age of volunteers. It is possible enough to state roughly the stages through which the thing passed; but such a statement does not explain the loosening of the grip of the great slave-owners; and it cannot be explained except psychologically. The Catholic type of Christianity was not merely an element, it was a climate; and in that climate the slave would not grow."

On Thursday, January 28th 2022, at a press conference the Vatican organized with members of the newly formed International Media Consortium from Catholic-factchecking.com, Pope Francis complained that: “in addition to the pandemic, an ‘infodemic’ is spreading: A distortion of reality based on fear, which in our global society leads to an explosion of commentary on falsified if not invented news.” Was Pope Francis referring to the suppression of stories about Robert F. Kennedy, Dr. Mercola, Dr. McCulloch, and others who were banned, de-platformed or defamed for challenging the mainstream media COVID narrative? No, he was complaining about the exact opposite, siding with the fact checkers who were being paid to promote Big Pharma’s biowarfare against the 1.2 billion Catholics. “To be properly informed,” the pope continued, “to be helped to understand situations based on scientific data and not fake news, is a human right.”

Like many, I was stunned by the Canadian trucker protest, not because I knew the world was fed up with COVID, but because the protest began in a country whose people were known for their politeness, if not docility. If the Canadians are hitting the road and heading for Ottawa, you know things have gone too far. And that seemed to be the verdict of the rest of the world as well. Faced with career-ending scandal, Boris Johnson, England’s prime minister, saw a political opportunity and seized it when he effectively ended the pandemic by fiat, thereby taking back the political power which he had handed to the medical bureaucrats and showing that he stood with the people of England, who had had enough. Other European nations followed suit, as a pandemic weary world edged toward normal.

A treasurable sentence by Evelyn Waugh (Spectator, March 22, 1957) epitomizing Randolph Churchill, Sir Winston’s scapegrace heir, warrants remembrance regarding Australia’s Keith Windschuttle: “No one,” Waugh said, “who knows Mr. Randolph Churchill and wishes to express distaste for him should ever be at a loss for words which would be both opprobrious and apt.” As a historian, Windschuttle possesses merits, of which more below. As publisher, Windschuttle made available at least one impressive contribution to scholarship, James Franklin’s Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia (2003). As editor since 2009 of the Sydney-based monthly Quadrant, Windschuttle has himself been all too prone to misadventures of Randolphian proportions…

In almost all events where human beings are involved, there will be differences of opinion regarding how to interpret these events. In this connection we also see vastly different characters at play, each trying to put his or her own particular perspective on what happened. The case of the Nuremberg trials is no exception to this. We see in that event tragedy, comedy (perhaps surprisingly), courage, cowardice, irony, naivety, and even commonsense.

What follows is a review of the law and process governing both the trials and the lead up to them. To examine things in this way can be somewhat abstract and regulatory. It is very important to look at the interplay between the participants and to examine the human personalities involved and, of course, the fact that individuals were on trial for their very lives.

There is NO God! It’s a tale told to keep people in line and to enslave them to an invisible non-existent entity! Religion is the root of all problems and evil, just look at the amount of unnecessary bloodshed it has caused over the years. We are the future. We will ensure justice and equality for all and the entire world will come together as one happy family in a utopia where no borders exist. The concept of nation-states will make way to an enlightened, global, universal community of people who will proudly call themselves “humanists.”

From late January to early February, A & E ran what it called a “documentary event” called “Secrets of Playboy,” which in their words, explored “the hidden truths behind the fable and philosophy of the Playboy empire through a modern-day lens.” Secrets of Playboy, we are told, “delves into the complex world Hugh Hefner created and examines its far-reaching consequences on our culture’s view of power and sexuality.”1 After watching the first four episodes, I learned that Hefner was a ruthless exploiter of young women and that he used one of his favorite bunnies to purchase drugs for him, recklessly endangering her life. Needless to say, I was shocked. Who knew that Hugh Hefner exploited young women? Who knew that Hefner used drugs? Sondra Theodore, who is now in her sixties, made this admission a year ago, four years after Hefner’s death in September 2017. If she had made it in 1973, Hefner would have gone to prison…

It should be obvious to the American people who America’s real enemy is, especially given Mearsheimer’s past work on, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. 2 The state of Israel has proven itself time and time again that Israel’s political lobby has used the U.S. government and military to further Israel’s interests in the Middle East.
We at the New Horizon organization have been holding conferences for over 10 years where various personalities, such as journalists, political activists, American anti-Zionists, American anti-Zionist Jews, and others come and meet and make contributions and presentations to expose Zionist power in the U.S. and the Western world develop strategies on reducing or breaking this power. We have never made any threats against the U.S. government or America’s national or security interests in any of our conferences…

Decided in an era when Supreme Court Justices were rationalizing their decisions by searching “penumbras” that were “formed by emanations from” explicit constitutional guarantees, the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade created a constitutional barrier to state action to protect human life. We can envision the Roe majority not in conference but in séance, searching penumbras and emanations to locate a basis for their decision. Not all Justices were impressed when the decision issued, a disquiet shared by some of their successors. Years later Justice Clarence Thomas would hang a sign in his chambers: “Please don’t emanate in the penumbras.” And the search goes on. Is that right to abortion based on privacy? Equal protection? Gender equality? Liberty? Autonomy? Something else?

“Indians are crazy about three things; films, cricket and marriages.” This was a catchphrase of a Bollywood movie which I watched as a teenager and having grown up and lived in India all my life, I can’t help but agree with this. Films or movies shape the way we think in India to a large extent. They exert a disproportionate amount of influence in our lives and while that can be harnessed as an important tool for the Good, it seldom is. One of the first things or changes that came about in Indian cinema post economic liberalization was the unashamed displays of affection on the big screen and a complete shift in the demeanor of the films which had hitherto been largely Indian with most or all of the scenes depicting India. Films produced post 1990s often featured song and dance in foreign locations often completely unnecessary to the storylines, crass consumerism, heroines in skimpy clothes with provocative dance moves and lyrics something which until this point had been unthinkable.

In a classic expression of the deliberate obstruction of communication which communications directors get hired to engage in, Thierry Bonaventura, communications director for the General Secretariat of the Synod announced on December 12 that he had taken down a video promoting homosexuality by “New Ways Ministry” for “internal procedural reasons.”1 A more likely reason is that Bonaventura had either taken the initiative on his own or had been instructed to do so by a Vatican bishop who suddenly learned that New Ways Ministry had been condemned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2010 for undermining the Church’s teaching on homosexuality. In the upside-down world of the current Vatican, where the transvaluation of all values is the regnant ideology, the American bishops’ condemnation is reason for commendation from the Jesuits, who now rule Rome with an iron rod firmly within their limp-wristed grasp. Our suspicions about the Jesuits’ involvement in homosexual subversion deepens when we learn that the New Ways Ministry site contained a link to a “75-minute video . . . by Fordham University theologian Robert Choiniere, who is also the director of adult formation at St. Francis Xavier Church in Manhattan.”2 Fordham is the Jesuit university in New York City, and St. Francis Xavier is the Jesuits’ church in Manhattan. By the way, in case anyone didn’t already know, Pope Francis is also a Jesuit.

Jones: his videos are missing from YouTube, his books are absent from Amazon, powerful organizations have called for his voice to be legally silenced. The effect has been to attract the attention of many people who would otherwise never have heard of him. The doors of the academy are shut to him: the effect has been to propel him away from the over-specialized minutiae that occupy today’s best minds, into wide-ranging reflections on culture and society as a whole. He now writes books of a scope and ambition he could never have attained in a career guided by the exigencies of academic advancement, and his work probably reaches a wider readership than the most prestigious of professors.

I was eleven when it all went wrong. Before, I’d been in charge. I’d stamp, scream or look sad, and the world seemed to jump. But this was different. Suddenly the sea was more powerful than I ever realized, and all the strength in my body was nothing to the forces surrounding me.

I’d started my new school. A week into the term, I panicked and started to cry. I fell sick and made tearful phone calls, anything, just to go home. And at home I cried all the more. My parents tried everything they knew, but in the end they gave up, and I stayed at home wandering round the house with nothing to do, but wonder what was happening to me…

“The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you.” — Polish proverb
The wicked flee when no one pursues. . . . — Proverbs 28:1
The murderer always returns to the scene of the crime.

As in the culture wars, there are no truces in the war on Christmas. Although he didn’t start it, former Fox pundit Bill O’Reilly played a major role in popularizing the idea that someone was waging a war on Christmas when The O’Reilly Factor ran a segment on “Christmas under Siege” on December 7, 2004. “All over the country,” O’Reilly complained, “Christmas is taking flak. In Denver this past weekend, no religious floats were permitted in the holiday parade there. In New York City, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled the ‘holiday tree,’ and no Christian Christmas symbols are allowed in the public schools. Federated Department Stores—that’s Macy’s—have done away with the Christmas greeting ‘Merry Christmas.’”2 Within days, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan joined the fray when he claimed that banning Christian symbols from public events during the Christmas season constituted “hate crimes against Christianity.”…

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber, Farrar, Straus & Gioux, 2021)
Reviewed by Sean Naughton

There is an intriguing passage in Beautiful World, Where Are You (no question mark) about the topography of Dublin city. Dublin, I was tickled to learn, is flat, literally speaking, excessively horizontal as main character Alice Kelleher sees it, with neither hills nor hollows – nor even an underground railway system. Having lived there from 1982 – 86, I’m well aware that Dublin has no underground train system, but the flatness of the city itself never dawned on me, which is why people like me should read books like this – just to get a sense of how blind we are…

What is the number one taboo subject today in Western society? At different times the average person would perhaps have singled out the topics of homosexuality; the relations between the different races; illegal immigration; even questions of sex generally. Today, to cast doubt upon global warming/climate change is almost out of bounds. However, the present writer’s nomination for number one goes, without a shadow of a doubt, to the Holocaust.

On March 22, 1999, an AFP dispatch announced that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’s bombing plan was finally ready. The NATO countries had initially envisaged a light attack followed by a respite so that the Yugoslav government could reverse its position and sign the Rambouillet agreements. But this hypothesis was ultimately deemed too risky. NATO opted for a massive bombardment; 400 planes were mobilized, including 250 Americans. Many testimonies suggested that NATO officials expected President Slobodan Milosevic to surrender quickly.1 This was not counting on the patriotic consensus that was immediately established in Serbia in the face of Western interference.

So much for the plot. When it comes to character, another crucial component of drama, we get to know Officer McLaughlin better through a shameless example of a “Save the Cat” scene. The term comes from Blake Snyder’s book of the same name. Snyder refers to it as a “basic” principle in establishing character in film, and the moral values we’re supposed to attach to that character. The “Save the Cat” moment occurs in “the scene where we meet the hero and the hero does something—like saving a cat—that defines who he is and makes us, the audience, like him.”1 When Al Pacino in Sea of Love lets a parole violator off with the witty line, “Catch you later,” because he showed up at a Yankees game with his son, it is impossible not to like the character Pacino is paying. Or as Snyder puts it, “I don’t know about you, but I like Al. I’ll go anywhere he takes me now and you know what else?