Something we like to not think about is the fact – both ongoing and historic – of persecution. This article speaks about the murder of Russian Orthodox priests, religious and laity by Soviet Communism. “Soft Christians Ignore the Hard Lessons of the Russian Revolution” “There still are Russians old enough to remember seeing priests nailed to the doors of their churches.” …And of course we are thinking now about the still unresolved conflicts in Europe brought about by the Protestant Revolution, triggered by the execrable Martin Luther.

(Hint: it’s not just the subject matter). Had an interesting exchange on FB today with a good friend back in Canada. He’s looking for a painter to commission some paintings for a church he’s in charge of. He posted one pic of a painting of Pius X and for a while I kept looking at it wondering why I didn’t like it. And then I started wondering about it in the context of the weird mania among bishops for commissioning soul-crushing anti-religious art and architecture, like the planned reconstruction of the Basilica of St.

“An adult Church; a mature people of God.”   From a short essay on the new clericalism of the “progresssives”. The description of their vaunted opinion of themselves was what I thought was funny. This is what these people think an “adult Church” looks like. And this is their idea of a “mature people of God”. (The geezer offering this appalling grotesquerie was my bishop when I was growing up, btw.

There’s really not much to say about this. A Catholic Church was hosting a “celebration” of the Reformation, the day when Martin Luther split Christendom asunder and launched the post-Catholic age of war, tyranny and chaos. A small group of Catholics attended the event and knelt down and started praying the Rosary. Hilarity ensued. The group disrupted the ecumenical service by reciting the rosary out loud. Police removed a group of young Catholics from the cathedral in Brussels after they recited the rosary out loud, disrupting a service celebrating the Reformation.

Leo XIII blessing St. Therese of Liseiux. Both saints, if you ask me. “His empire includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been led astray by error, or have been cut off from her by schism, but also all those who are outside the Christian faith; so that truly the whole of mankind is subject to the power of Jesus Christ’.

It’s Christ our King, not Christ our pal. It is a feast primarily about celebrating Christ’s ongoing kingship over all reality, including this present world, where the Church must fight for the recognition of His rights, the actual extension of His dominion to all domains, individual and social.” “Including this present world”… I was going to write a Thing about why we have the Feast of Christ the King on the last Sunday in October, and why the change of the date by the Bugnini Cabal was a way of undermining its meaning.

It’s sanctification. What does that mean? Well, you know all that floating, bilocating, stigmata-getting, raising-people-from-the-dead stuff that the Really Big Saints do? It’s that. (And the realisation dawns in 4… 3…2..) Yes. That’s why we are Catholics. If that’s not what we’re aiming at, we’re doing it wrong. The rest in my latest bit for The Skodge. The other day I had an email from an Important Monastic Personage that suggested that all our estimates about the origin of the current ecclesial crisis are way, way, WAY off.

I think a couple of re-posts could be in order, just to lay out some of our working ideas. This is one of the most important. The current crisis has nothing at all to do with marriage or divorce. It’s entirely and exclusively a purge, a means of getting rid of the remaining faithful. Some time ago, just before the opening of Synod 1, someone more or less laid out what the Church was going to look like when they were done.

~ “He drew a deep breath. ‘Well,’ said Sam, ‘I’m back.’” Unfortunately, unlike Master Samwise, though I’m back too, it’s still not the end of the story. In fact, if I were to draw an analogy, I would say that we are at the point where the smokes and reeks of the evil country are covering the sun and men are everywhere girding themselves for war.

Me watching all the dumb conservatives calling Muller a “conservative” & getting upset he was being replaced with… [wait for it…] A CONSERVATIVE!! Me discovering one of them was John Henry Westen. Me deciding not to go for a bike ride, but to stay in and school everyone instead. Though I must say I enjoyed all the wailing from the “conservatives” who thought Mueller’s removal was some kind of disaster…