being Catholic forces you to think in terms of centuries and realize how comically absurd it is to talk about the US Capitol or other related civic institutions in quasi-religious terms like “sacred” or “temple”, so much of which will relegated to historical footnotes at best

if Twitter had been around during the great western schism the same people who think the Francis papacy spells the end for the political and cultural potency of Catholicism would have been incessantly tweeting about how there’s no way papacy will survive the 15th century

Check out the most recent episode of Kafe! In Taberna where Night Errant and I separate the wheat from the chaff in E Michael Jones’ take on Francis’ Latin Mass Motu Proprio Traditiones Custodes

YouTube: https://youtu.be/9UK5CvFYSR4

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potential good outcome (even if relatively unlikely) to pray for in the next conclave is Cardinal Péter Erdö of Hungary being elected and helping to form a soft Central European coalition against the Globalist American Empire/the secular anglosphere

one reason I stay whitepilled about the church is that the conditions under which a young man is drawn into the seminary have changed

there’s no cultural pressure to join, and deviants no longer have to infiltrate an institution of celibate men to climb social ladders

this means the type of man who would be willing to sacrifice marriage/family life in order to join the priesthood is much more likely to do so for genuinely devout and spiritual reasons

and in 40 or 50 years, the pool of candidates for the Episcopate will necessarily become purer

reminder that the most authoritative magisterial document on immigration, Pius XII’s Exsul familia, explicitly states that a country must consider “very carefully” its public wealth and sovereignty as preconditions for discerning its moral obligations pertaining to migration

if you’re not praying the imprecatory psalms (mainly 109 and 69) against the biden admin and the natsec apparatus you should start today (of course each psalm should be prayed in conjunction with a desire for their salvation)

others are 7, 35, 55, 58, 59, 79, 137 and 139

also recommend the Lorica of St. Patrick (https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/lorica-of-saint-patrick-349)

New Video: Aquinas and Pseudo-Dionysius on the Metaphysics of the Good
https://youtu.be/THS1OmDuJ90

reminder to regularly pray the imprecatory psalms (particularly 109) against the biden administration

(while praying for the conversion of all its members ofc)

very important to remind Catholics and even certain priests on Twitter that the Magisterium does in fact have something to say about these mandates and it isn’t in their favor

this for example is taken from paragraph 70 of Pius XI’s Casti connubii

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because of the participatory way in which grace deifies the soul, the soul’s offering of praise and worship to God not only renders to Him His due honor, but also reflects back on the soul those divine perfections the soul itself will enjoy by way of participation

whether a pope invokes pagan deities in the Lateran palace and dies in the arms of a mistress (john xii) or whether a pope actively or passively aids and abets murderous enemies of the Church (the present pope), the fact remains they need our prayers and we can still save our own souls despite them

think I’m gonna suspend current YouTube projects to work on a video addressing Pope Francis and what I think is the best way of approaching this Pontificate without sacrificing your critical faculties like a lot of post-trads do, while also avoiding some traditionalist excesses

garrigou-lagrange on the absolute incomparability of the beatific vision of God

Pope Blessed Pius IX declaring the dogma of the Immaculate Conception ex cathedra, December 8 1854

also go to mass

the doctrine of the Trinity is in a uniquely befitting position to make sense of Creation insofar as the motive behind the free act of Creation (divine self-communication) is already accounted for within the inner Life of God Himself, ie the eternal generation of the Son, the Father’s own self-Image

noticing that most “tradcaths at it again” posts are actually in response to orthos posting about how adam and eve didn’t have sex organs or something

it’s simply not rational to believe that God would manifest Himself fully in concrete visible flesh and yet leave His mystical Body of the Church devoid of a visible presence and external, identifiable structure

the Protestant conception of the Church as merely reducible to the community of believers is a bit like conceiving of the human body as merely reducible to a collection of bodily organs, bones and skin

what’s missing here for the body is the soul, i.e that internal principle whereby bodily members are unified as one, irreducibly whole living body.

for the Church, what’s missing is the Holy Spirit, Who as Pius XII beautifully remarks is the soul of the Catholic Church, the mystical Body of Christ