It’s 27 December 2023 and it is the Wednesday in the Octave of Christmas and the Feast of St John the Evangelist. Some time ago, I saw a movie called News of the World in which years after the Civil War a former confederate officer eeks out a living going about and reading to people who pay a dime a head (about $2.50 today) various newspaper stories from all over. The idea caught my imagination and here I am, a gazetteer.
An audio “gazette” of Catholic things. With comments and interjections.
00:14 – Init
01:17 – Latin Liturgy Newsletter – Why Liturgy Appeals To Men
7:22 – In Coenaculo – Benedictines of Silverstream
14:24 – Dowry – FSSP in England
22:17 – The Guardian – 8 Year-Old Prodigy
24:34 – Regina Coeli Report – SSPX
29:27 – First Things – Priests, Military, Clericalism
37:14 – St. John Eudes – Exit
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Terms like clericalism are pejoratives to get people to stop being what they are, or to move them from a position by framing what they are in a bad light. To make way for the “new and improved”, the old has to be dismantled. So very much of what we hear today is propaganda from all directions, it takes a strong mind and will to be aware of it and resist it. A priest and a military person needs those today, or they will just have to redefine their entire existence to fit the unsightly mold the church and the world now creates for them.
As a female, I agree with the right brain/left brain theory. We’ve got a lot of reasons for our general deterioration, but the suffrage movement did not help. What the US could very much use is fact-based and common sense decision-making. We’ve got the opposite of that in a distorted, feminized culture.