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Totalitarian Democracy: The Example of the Village

Good Christian villages functioned between the 5th century and the 1970s in France… Certainly, as in all communities, some immemorial hatreds could be fierce, but everything was good-natured, and behind the body of villagers, there was the parish priest, who worked for the salvation of souls and the growth in charity of his flock.

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Exploring the Theological Heritage of Francis’s Most Recent Attack on Proselytism

“[I]n spreading religious faith and in introducing religious practices everyone ought at all times to refrain from any manner of action which might seem to carry a hint of coercion or of a kind of persuasion that would be dishonorable or unworthy, especially when dealing with poor or uneducated people.” (Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, Dignitatis Humanae )

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Pseudo Synagogues and Counterfeit Churches

These things have I spoken to you, that you may not be scandalized. They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth a service to God. And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father, nor me. But these things I have told you, that when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you of them.

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Jazz Finally at Rest

Arlington is the priciest of American real estate and is the unabridged narrative of the nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And my old friend, whose ashes now finally rest here, would stress in no uncertain terms that we need to keep it that way.

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The Chartres Pilgrimage, 30 Years Later

This will be my 30th anniversary as leader of the US Chapter of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and I am so pleased to report that the U.S. presence on the French pilgrimage has expanded considerably since we organized the very first American chapter back in 1991.

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White Pope vs Black Robe

Back in the early days of films and television, a common convention used in American Westerns to distinguish good guys from bad guys was by the color of their cowboy hats and clothing: the good guys wore white and the bad guys wore black. This practice was followed in other genres of the film industry as well. Notable examples of evil figures in black include the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, the cartoon character Snidely Whiplash with his black hat, and the evil lord Darth Vader in Star Wars.

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Let’s Bring Back the Mantilla

Saint Paul argues that men (the ordained of whom would act in persona Christi ) should not cover their heads while praying or prophesying because it dishonors Christ. On the other hand, women (who represent the Church) should cover their heads as a sign of submission to their husbands (who represent Christ) since this would maintain the proper order established by God.

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A Subterranean Nightmare

No matter what color or creed you are, there are plenty who wish a guy like Penny was sitting in their subway car when the city’s legion of whack jobs start upping the ante.

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Examining the Most Profoundly Absurd Contradictions of Liberal Catholicism

“Yes, truly, Vatican Council II is the ratification of liberal Catholicism. And when it is remembered that Pope Pius IX, eighty-five years earlier, said and repeated to those who were visiting him in Rome, ‘Be careful! There are no worse enemies of the Church than the liberal Catholics!’ — then can be measured the catastrophe that such liberal Popes and such a council represent for the Church and for the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, They Have Uncrowned Him, p. 222)

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