Posted in Radio Lux Lucet, tagged Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Globalism, Immigration, John Robbins, Pope Francis, Roman Catholic Economics, Roman Catholic Politics, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Roman Church-State, Rome and Immigration on February 21, 2021| Leave a Comment »
“Pope Calls on faithful to help migrants achieve ‘new life’“
“Bannon: Catholic Church needs ‘illegal aliens to fill the churches,'” Washington Post, 9/7/2017
“Bannon: Catholic Church One of the ‘Worst Instigators of Open Borders Policy,” Newsmax, 6/17/2018
“Romanizing America Through Illegal Immigration,” by Pastor Ralph Ovadal, 2006
Posted in Radio Lux Lucet, Uncategorized, tagged 2020 Presidential Campaign, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Joe Biden, John Robbins, Roman Catholic Economics, Roman Catholic Politics, Roman Catholic Social Teaching on October 31, 2020| Leave a Comment »
To see John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association click this link https://youtu.be/fU3kmkQbVhA
Choose an amount
Or enter a custom amount
Your contribution is appreciated.
Your contribution is appreciated.
Your contribution is appreciated.
DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyPosted in Politics, Roman Catholicism, tagged 2020 Presidential Campaign, Al Smith, Antichrist, Babylonian Harlot, Donald Trump, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Joe Biden, Roman Catholic Social Teaching on October 11, 2020| 2 Comments »
“I will venture to make some specific predictions…The alliance between neo-evangelicals and Romanists in the Culture Wars will…result in the election of our second Romanist president.”
In April 1927, The Atlantic ran a story titled “An Open Letter to the Honorable Alfred E. Smith.” It’s a remarkable letter, the sort of thing one would never see today from any publication of national note. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine a supposedly Christian publication running such a piece in 2020.
The letter is remarkable in that it openly questions whether Al Smith, a leading contender for, and eventual winner of, the 1928 Democratic presidential nomination would be able to support and defend the Constitution of the United States in light of his Roman Catholic faith.
The open letter, written by attorney Charles C. Marshall, raised a number of important points, asking how Smith could reconcile the political and economic pronouncements of the Roman Church-State (RCS) with America’s Constitution.
Time does not permit me to go through all of Marshall’s arguments, but the following two paragraphs are representative.
It is indeed true that a loyal and conscientious Roman Catholic could and would discharge his oath of office with absolute fidelity to his moral standards. As to that in general, and as to you in particular, your fellow citizens entertain no doubt. But those moral standards differ essentially from the moral standards of all men not Roman Catholics. They are derived from the basic political doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church, asserted against repeated challenges for fifteen hundred years, that God has divided all power over men between the secular State and that Church. Thus Pope Leo XIII, in 1885, in his encyclical letter on The Christian Constitution of States, says: ‘The Almighty has appointed the charge of the human race, between two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human things.’
The deduction is inevitable that, as all power over human affairs not given to the State by God, is given by God to the Roman Catholic Church, no other churches or religious or ethical societies have in theory any direct power from God and are without direct divine sanction, and therefore without natural right to function on the same basis as the Roman Catholic Church in the religious and moral affairs of the State. The result is that that Church, if true to her basic political doctrine, is hopelessly committed to that intolerance that has disfigured so much of her history. This is frankly admitted by Roman Catholic authorities.
Posted in Politics, Roman Catholicism, tagged Donald Trump, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, John Robbins, Roman Church-State, Supreme Court on September 27, 2020| 3 Comments »
As if 2020 weren’t already tumultuous enough, the death of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has managed to stir things up even more.
Talk, not only of Ginsburg’s death, but also of her replacement, has dominated the news since her death on Friday, September 18. Perhaps the most notable feature of the discussion has been controversy about whether Donald Trump should name her replacement now or wait until after the November election.
This is a discussion that should not even come up. The president has the right to nominate a justice to the Supreme Court and the Senate has a right to hold confirmation hearings. About this there is no question. The Democrats don’t like it, but their not liking something is not the same as it being illegal or unconstitutional.
Noteworthy but unsurprising was the reaction of many Democrats to the possibility that Donald Trump would nominate a new justice to replace Ginsburg before the election. Not only did they argue that a nomination of a new justice must wait until after the election, but actually threatened violence should the President and the Senate attempt to carry out their constitutionally mandated duties.
And the threats of violence were not coming from some dark corner of the internet or from obscure people, but from several high-profile Democrats and progressives on Twitter and other high-profile platforms. Reza Aslan, a writer who has written numerous books, produced a series on world religions for CNN and is currently a professor of creative writing at University of California, Riverside, took to Twitter and threatened that, “If they [the Republicans] even TRY to replace RBG [Ginsburg] we burn the entire…thing down.”
Canadian professor of Political Science Emmett Macfarlane tweeted, “Burn Congress down before letting Trump try to appoint anyone to SCOTUS.”
Scott Ross, a member of the Wisconsin Ethics Commission tweeted, “If you can’t shut it down [the nomination of a new Supreme Court justice], burn it down.”
Playwright Beau Willimon commented on Twitter, “We’re shutting this country down if Trump and McConnell try to ram through an appointment before the election.”
In the pages of GQ, writer Laura Bassett threatened, “If McConnell jams someone through, which he will, there will be riots.”
It’s tempting to say that such threats have become the modus operandi of Democrats and progressives in recent years. But in truth, Democrats and progressives have a longstanding tradition of using violence and threats of violence to get their way. It’s how they roll. Not for nothing did Samuel D. Burchard refer to the Democrats as, “the party whose antecedents are rum, Romanism, and rebellion.” Burchard made the comment in 1884. It was true then, and it is true today.
Since the matter of selecting a new justice is a matter of supreme importance both to Democrats and Republicans, and since the upcoming Senate confirmation hearing of Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s nominee to replace Ginsburg, promises to dominate the headlines in the coming weeks, perhaps overshadowing even the upcoming election, it seemed good to this author to take the opportunity to weigh in.
Posted in Politics, Scripturalism, tagged Coronavirus, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Epistemology, Gordon Clark, John Robbins, Roman Catholic Social Teaching on August 2, 2020| 2 Comments »
Watching the news is a painful experience. I refer here not so much to the events that flash before us on the screens of our televisions or smart phones, but to the deliberately misleading explanations of those events that are fed to the public by the mainstream legacy media.
John Robbins has noted that events do not explain themselves but must themselves be explained. This may seem strange a first. It’s tempting for us to say that such and such is just self-evident. But is it? If events are self-evident, that is to say, if events explain themselves, why is it that two people can observe the same event and come to very different conclusions?
For example, some people praise Dr. Anthony Fauci’s social distancing, lockdown and mask recommendations. Others see the response by him and other public officials as, at best, unnecessary meddling. Some may even see the calls for masks – and now the calls for face shields! – as an example of tyranny. How is it that people, even intelligent well-informed people, can interpret the Covid regulations that have been imposed on America and other nations so differently? It all starts with one’s worldview, one’s philosophy.
Posted in Scripturalism, tagged Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Globalism, John Robbins, Pope Francis, Roman Catholicism, United Nations on April 24, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Rome Watch, Uncategorized, tagged Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Socialism, USCCB on August 30, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Millennials receive a lot of criticism from older generations for their SJW snow flakery and their professed love of socialism. A lot of this criticism is well deserved.
When those who believe in capitalism discuss the origin of the younger generation’s rejection of the free enterprise system and embrace of big government, it’s not uncommon to hear them blame the education system.
There’s a lot of truth in this, of course. Thinking of my own experience in public education from thirty and forty years ago, I never learned much about free-enterprise. Doubtless, things have gotten worse in that regard since I was in school. But to blame only the schools, by which many people mean our socialist public schools, for the problem is inadequate
Socialism isn’t some new phenomenon in the United States that suddenly sprang from the ground with the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It wasn’t as if when I, or my parents, or even my grandparents were growing up that America had a fully functioning capitalist economy.
Socialism has been around in the United States for at least 100 years. That’s probably news to many people.
Here’s something else that’s probably news to a lot of folks: The Roman Catholic Church-State (RCCS) has been, during that whole period, at the very center of the socialist movement in America.
You don’t have to take my word for it either. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), actually brags about this on its website.
In a news release on 8/29/19 titled “USCCB Chairman Issues Labor Day Statement During The Centenary Year of the United States Bishops’ Program of Social Reconstruction,” the USCCB celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Bishops’ Program of Social Reconstruction, a tract written by Jesuit John Ryan and published by .
Ryan, who would later serve in the Roosevelt administration and help implement the New Deal in the 1930’s, had been a public intellectual since the publication of his 1906 book A Living Wage. According to John Robbins in his groundbreaking 1999 book Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Ryan himself described his political/economic system as “Essential Socialism” and “Semi-Socialism,” so there’s little reason to question that what Ryan advocated, and what the USCCB is celebrating, is, in fact, socialism.
The Bishops’ Program was issued by the Administrative Committee of the National Catholic War Council, which would later be renamed the USCCB, and sets forth the political and economic program the RCCS would pursue over the ensuring decades. In his piece, Ryan called for, “government unemployment, sickness, invalidity and old age insurance; a federal child labor law; legal enforcement of labor’s right to organize; public housing; graduated taxation on inheritances, incomes, and excess profits; regulation of public utility rates; worker participation in management, and so on” (Robbins, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, 84).
So just how successful was Ryan in getting his program of “Essential Socialism” implemented? According to Robbins, Catholic writer Aaron I. Abell wrote in 1963 that, “All the immediate measures set forth in the Bishops’ Program were adopted in whole or in part.” This was a mere 44 years after the Bishop’s Program was published, which is not much time at all when you consider the tremendous changes that were required to implement Ryan’s program.
Worth noting too is that Abell wrote what he did in 1963, shortly before the explosion in socialism that was to take place under President Lyndon Johnson in the mid to late 1960’s. If the USCCB was successful in implementing socialism in America in 1963, how much more is that the case today, seeing all the socialist legislation that’s been enacted in the years since.
By way of example, consider socialism in medicine. Nationalized healthcare in the form of the the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was passed in 2010. In a 2013 interview, Cardinal Timothy Dolan boasted the RCCS had been pushing for national health care since 1919. Fact checkers Politifact reviewed Dolan’s claim and, citing the 1919 Bishops’ Program that called for the state to provide insurance against illness, invalidity, unemployment and old age, declared Dolan’s statement to be true.
One of the takeaways from all this is that before we Gen Xer’s, Baby Boomers and Silents get too worked up at Millennials for their socialist leanings, it’s important for us to understand that the Protestant system of free enterprise in America has been under attack for a long time. Socialism in America didn’t begin with the elections of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. We who are older would do well to examine our own ideas to see if we ourselves haven’t absorbed some of Rome’s socialism.
Further, it’s important to understand one of the main, perhaps the main, source of the attack on constitutional/capitalism in America for the past 100 years has been the USCCB pushing its unchristian, unconstitutional, incompetent program of socialism.
Posted in Politics, Presidential Campaign 2020, Roman Catholicism, tagged 2020 Presidential Campaign, Antichrist, Capitalism, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, Joe Biden, John Robbins, Pope Francis, Roman Catholic Social Teaching on May 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden thinks Americans have an “obligation” to foot the medical bills of illegal aliens. Now where did he get that idea? AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
“I think that anyone who is in a situation where they’re in need of health care, regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented, we have an obligation to see that they are cared for.”
– Joe Biden, 2020 Presidential Candidate
It seems like only yesterday that Antifa thugs were smashing windows in Washington D.C. to protest Donald Trump’s inauguration, and here we are talking about the 2020 presidential campaign. My, how time flies. And here I am, a year and a half before the November 3, 2020 vote talking presidential politics.
Not that I mind terribly much. As readers of this space know, I’m a bit of a political junkie. Always have been. In fact, politics is one of the ways the Lord led me to faith in Christ. That probably sounds a bit odd, so let me explain.
A Scripturalist (Clarkian) podcast about Christian theology, politics and economics.
