The story of the current subversion of Chile must begin, I believe, at the establishment of the 1980 Constitution which was brought about mostly through the influence of the Catholic thinker and man of action, Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz. This Constitution was very well thought out and tried to prevent a new rising to power of the totalitarian movement know as Communism.

Thirty years ago, almost to the day, I spoke at Hillsdale College, the bastion of conservative academic thought nestled in the woods and hills of southern Michigan. My speech took place one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and one year before the collapse of the Soviet Union, at what we can say with hindsight was the high noon of the conservative era in American history. As the English conservative William Wordsworth put it when he was a young and enthusiastic supporter of the French Revolution: “Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven.”

On March 5, 1980 I was received by a Jesuit priest into the Catholic Church. I had always had a great regard for the Jesuit Order. This was probably, I now see, because I read a great deal of the Jesuit history that took place during the English Reformation. Subsequently I wrote two books on converts. One of them, having the unimaginative title of Roads to Rome, dealt with notable converts from Great Britain and Ireland. A goodly number of the converts described were either heavily influenced by Jesuits and/or later on became Jesuits themselves. In fact, one of the publisher’s most experienced proof readers, known to me only as “Cathy,” went so far as to write the following in her report, making reference to men, most of whom were Jesuits:

Argentina has been quarantined more than 160 days since early March 2020 to fight the so called COVID-19 pandemic, an undeclared etat d’siege which none of the military dictatorships in its history dared enforce. In violation of constitutional law, the present quarantine has done away with basic constitutional rights and liberties by means of an illegal executive order from President Alberto Fernandez, the corrupt Peronist chameleonic alter ego of Cristina Wilhelm Fernández de Kirchner, alias “the thief” (la ladrona), former president of the country in 2007-2015, who now presides the Senate and still has to face the tribunals, criminally accused of laundering and stealing billions of dollars from the Argentine State in her previous administration.

Edmund Mazza begins The Scholastics and the Jews: Coexistence, Conversion, and the Medieval Origins of Tolerance by citing what he calls Jeremy Cohen’s “classic work,” The Friars and the Jews, in which Cohen argues that “the Dominicans and Franciscans developed, refined, and sought to implement a new Christian ideology with regard to the Jews, one that allotted the Jews no legitimate right to exist in European society.”[1] That “new Christian ideology” involved “an organized and aggressive mission to the Jews.” And what was involved in this form of aggression? Raymond of Penaforte, then general of the Dominican order, “committed himself to making contemporary Jews believing Christians.”[2] Working for the conversion of the Jews as a way of bringing about their eternal salvation qualifies in Cohen’s mind as “stirring up hatred against Jews.”[3] Full of rage at the very idea of conversion, Cohen concludes his diatribe against Raymond of Penaforte by claiming that “This Jew-hater was later made a saint.”[4]

The tragedy of Venezuela could become a hemispheric tragedy. Little is known about the strong connections between the subversive movements working within the USA, financers, the subversive governments and movements in Spanish America, and the new world Powers which the plutocrats have been puffing up since the end of World War II. Some point out one side of these connections, but few comprehend the whole network and the real goals they are after. We will try to unveil to some extent such connections and goals. We will also try to warn the American public concerning the immeasurable threat which is very likely being positioned in Cuba.

“Be strong in battle,” we are told. But what sort of battles, and what does that strength look like in practice? And what does the canon law of the Catholic Church have to do with it? Does the history of rights and law in the Catholic Church have anything to offer in today’s spiritual and cultural crises? In a word, yes. This ought to give us hope during these tumultuous days, where there is little doubt of “spiritual and cultural warfare.”

Streatham has something of an identity crisis. She’s greener than Brixton but not quite as edgy. Though statelier and leafier than Clapham, without a Tube connection she’s just a little cut off from the center. You can don your wellies and waxed raincoat and take your dog for a walk on the common – you’re in the country, but with a clear view of the city. She used to be in Surrey but feels even grander as a metropolitan suburb of London, with the “architectural merit”1 of 19th century gentrification…

We live in a time of desecration. We also live in a time when people are seeking or offering Redemption precisely through such acts of desecration.

In order for something to be desecrated, it has to have been in some sense sacred or consecrated. As I write, antinomian iconoclastic mobs are seeking to desecrate that of which they disapprove, including a statue of St. Louis in Missouri.1 For them, a godless and immanent Redemption is achievable or already secure, not through worthy reception of Divine Grace, but through a kind of moral athleticism of destruction without the need of moral standards from which they believe themselves largely exempt.

There is no question that Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa are essentially pernicious movements which seek opportunities or “good crises” to disrupt the social order. In fact, the movements themselves were not formed on the basis of practical reason. As we shall see, both movements can easily be placed under the umbrella of the Jewish revolutionary project, a categorically diabolical activity which has been around for centuries.1

The battle over the statue began as an exercise in identity politics, and before long it degenerated into an example of identity theft. The main protagonist in this story is Umar Lee, who was born Bret Darran Lee in 1974 to a southern Presbyterian family and grew up in Florissant, Missouri just outside St. Louis. Lee may or may not be Black, which is an ideological marker based upon but independent of biological fact, because he claims, according to The Jerusalem Post that he “has two younger siblings who are half African-American.”[1]

Up until the publication of Sir Charles Lyell’s grand work on the Principles of Geology in 1830,[1] geologists held that the earth had been convulsed, in the not-too-distant past, by immense forces, orders of magnitude greater than those acting today. The upheavals had caused the sea to transgress over land and vice versa not once but several times. Early geologists, in a word, were catastrophists. They held that the earth’s violent motions had produced prodigious quantities of heat; that thousands of cubic miles of water had evaporated from the oceans and re-precipitated, after cooling, into torrential rains that had washed millions of tons of soil into the sea; that the earth’s rotational axis had repeatedly tilted, on occasions causing the poles to change place with one another, etc. What such early geologists could not do was to assign a reasonable cause for their catastrophes: no force originating from within the earth could possibly cause its upturning.[2]

If you can contract Covid-19 more than once, can someone please tell me what good a vaccine is going to do? Anyone can see the war is on.

A crucial weapon in the attack is Roundup (glyphosate), a widely used herbicide that’s being used for something for which there was never any long-term safety-testing: the forced ripening of crops, called desiccation. This practice all but guarantees that this pesticide will wind up in our food,[1] as well as the animal byproducts that are used in vaccines.[2] It also happens to be a highly questionable agronomic practice.[3]

Pope John Paul II ignored the rise of the homosexual mafia in the Catholic Church. When Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger became his successor, the problem had become too big to ignore. As Pope Benedict, he tried to rein in the homosexual mafia in the Church: Ratzinger’s resignation tarnished the legacy of Pope John Paul II, who valiantly held the line on sexual morality, and emboldened those cardinals who had been longing since 1978 to make a separate peace with the American empire’s promotion of sexual liberation.

God has a plan for your life. You've probably heard me say this before. I've talked about my own life, about how getting fired from my job as an assistant professor at St. Mary's College was the best thing that ever happened to me, even though it didn't seem that way at the time. I've written a long book called Logos Rising: A History of Ultimate Reality which claims that there is a plan for all of human history. Yet sometimes I wonder if that plan is a category of reality or a category of the mind, my mind.

Bishop Rhoades was inspired to write his statement after attending a “Violins of Hope” inter-faith prayer service at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, celebrating the arrival of “violins that were played by Jewish prisoners at concentration camps during the Holocaust.” Listening to those violins brought tears “of both sadness and joy” to Bishop Rhoades’ eyes. He felt “joy at the love we share as brothers and sisters, drawn together by a common spiritual patrimony” but sadness at the “rise in recent years of anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic rhetoric in our society,” as well as “incidents of violence incited by hateful speech about Jews.”[15]

The town of Echt, close to the southern tip of Holland, has a Carmelite convent and a railway station. It was from here, in 1942, that Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce (born Edith Stein) was taken by the Gestapo to her death at Auschwitz, following a statement by the Dutch bishops denouncing the Nazi invaders’ treatment of the Jews. She had just that morning finished writingThe Science of the Cross. “We go for our people,” she is said to have told her sister Rosa, who had joined her in the Carmel, and who with Edith and 40,000 other Jewish converts to Christianity were killed in the Nazis’ monumental act of spite.

This is the first Sunday with no public Masses. The new Archbishop of Southwark, the Right Reverend John Wilson, wrote on Wednesday:

A major change is the cessation of public celebrations of the Mass and the dispensation of the Obligation to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days. We will, however, endeavour to keep our churches open wherever possible so that those who wish can visit to pray before the Blessed Sacrament.[1]