Tuesday Pile of Prep

Mandeville, LA – Today’s Pile of Prep: most of the stories and research used to put together the Mike Church Show on the Veritas Radio Network’s CRUSADE Channel. 2017 is here and WELCOME to the All-New, Mike Church Show on the CRUSADE Channel, listen LIVE for Free (don’t cost nuthin’).

Sapientia et Veritas -I agree with Mr. Weigel that “the answer must be the conversion of culture by well-educated men and women who know what the West owes to Catholicism as a civilizing force.” The problem is that we need the well-educated men and women before any such conversion can take place. If such an education is impossible in the mainstream colleges, it must be sought elsewhere, even in “auto-constructed bunkers.” This is why parents seek to homeschool their children and why they want their children to go to Newman Guide colleges. – Joesph Pearce, Quarreling With George Weigel

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Why Texans Yell “Remember The Alamo” & American Catholics Don’t Yell “Remember The Tyburn Scaffold” – Saint Edmund Campion was so viciously martyred by English Protestants that the event, to remain a long-lasting yet fresh memory in Catholic’s minds, was engraved onto a piece of wood and that wood was used to press hundreds of copies, 1 of which survives in the Jesuit museum at Douay Rhiems, it is reproduced below (taken from my book The English reformation on sale here). The point of bringing it up is the approaching crossroads of the Catholic faith and practice and its English spawned ‘Murican antagonist Evangelical Protestantism. Matthew Walther at The Week thinks it is long past time to “Remember The Tyburn Scaffold!” while Rod Dreher pleads for peace and a moderation of Catholic moral teaching; both cannot possibly be correct. Dreher makes the signal point that I wish other “famous” Catholics would publish the same sentiment (being moderately infamous, my effort is offered here!).

“One thing I’ve noticed over the years as I’ve traveled in France, Italy, and other Catholic countries, is how very, very Protestant America is. It’s hard for Americans, even American Catholics, to see this from within, but it’s true. This can hardly be surprising. Our country was founded by Protestants, and its dominant culture was and is Protestant. These are historical and sociological facts.

What is more surprising — at least it was to me — is how Protestantized American Catholicism is. I say this as someone who was raised as an unobservant Protestant who came to Catholicism in his mid-twenties, and spent 13 years practicing Catholicism. Others may disagree, but whenever I’ve been to Catholic services overseas (both as a Catholic and as an ex-Catholic) or spent time in Catholic circles abroad, I’ve been made acutely aware of these cultural differences. American Catholics typically seem more American than Catholic.”

Walther has this to say on the matter and he pulls no punches.

“What has been the result of this abandonment of principles? Forty years of infanticide, economic exploitation, and spoliation of the Earth as the forces of capital and technology disrupt all our settled customs, habits, convictions, and affections, at an increasingly rapid pace.”

I’ll make my commentary on this in the audio/radio world of today’s Mike Church Show, listen here or on podcast later here.

Infinity Wars Is A War On The Cult of Death – I just saw Marvel Studios The Avengers Infinity Wars, a 2 hour 49 minute long super-hero, super villain romp that builds the viewer up for a heroic finish – I won’t play spoiler – that is actually quite shocking but contains a chilling message: the forces who promote population control are insane; whether Marvel or Disney likes it or not, this includes their favorite “minority” group the LGBTQ radicals and this generation’s most prized:L those practicing and defending abortion and contraception – see Alfie Evans. G. Shane Morris pairs the Infinity villain, Thanos, with the author of much of this madness, Thomas Malthus, a muse of Margaret Sanger’s.

“To put it simply, the supervillain schemes of Malthusian population control have killed a lot of people, left others maimed and miserable, and caused decades of panic for no good reason. We are billions of people beyond what the Malthusian masterminds of yesteryear told us the Earth could carry.”

These same schemers always retreat to population control narratives to make excuses for contraception and abortion too, who knew that abortion-lover Scarlett Johanssen would star in such a pro-life flick as Avengers Infinity War!?

Western Civilization Can Be Save By Defending The Pitched Roof – The headline is not click bait but a reference to a wonderful little essay written by Roger Scruton How to Build A Skyline At Human Scale. Read it here.

Congress Has The Nails In Hand To Finish Killing The Constitution – It is a ll about to be over and it will all end in a wave tears the world will weep. The once vaunted U.S. Constitution has survived many assassination attempts, being wounded a bit more on each attempt as the 13 colonies grew to be on monolithic empire under its organization. With the vote to update and extend the “AUMF” that Senators Corker and Kaine have concocted, the nails are in Congress’s hands to finally finish the job. The President will be granted powers no emperor in western history ever has and all evidence suggests he will use them to the detriment of the rest of the world that wishes to pursue peace and diplomacy; ultimately this power will be used domestically to subdue any entities desiring the same or desiring to leave “the party” for the same. The institutionalized, never-ending warfare state is here. Senator Rand Paul is pleading with his colleagues to not do this.

“Handing war-making power from Congress to the executive branch is not an exercise in congressional power. It is the final and full abandonment of that power. It is wrong, it is unconstitutional, and it should be stopped.”

It should be stopped but you know that it won’t. God help us.

The Evil That Is Amazon Has Banned The Saint Benedict Center From Its Smile Program – Breitbart news has athe story that Amazon has dropped the ADF from its “Smile” program because the SPLC called them a hate-group. What Breitbart didn’t reveal was that Brother André Maries Saint Benedict Center as well as Brother revealed on last Wisdom Wednesday’s show, here.

Getting The Vocational Order Correct – Watch Johnny Sauter thank the Sacred Heart of Jesus, The Blessed Mother and give it up for a First Friday win.

“Conservatism” In Crisis? Perhaps The First Thing To Do Is To Define “Conservatism” – Robert W. Merry tackles the task of trying to rescue “conservatism” from the downward spiral its been in ever since Ronald Reagan began his second term. This is a noble cause indeed, one that I would say should start with a definition of “conservatism”.

The Luck of The Irish Has Run Out As The LGBTQrstlne Zeitgeist Claims Another Country For Satan – On May 25th, Ireland will vote on whether to legalize abortions on The Emerald Isle and bring “women’s rights” inline with the already surging rights of sodomites. Crawford Gribben is an Irish writer who is watching all this play out in front of him in horror and believes the end of Catholic Ireland is finally here.

“The emigrants are returning to chip away at values that were once inviolate, forgetting to whom, and with what consequences, as the constitution puts it, “all actions both of men and States” must be referred. But on May 25, the result of the referendum will almost certainly confirm it: Catholic Ireland is dead and gone.”

This has been brought about, ironically, by the successful campaign waged by communist Satanists who infiltrated the clergy in the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s and wreaked their sodomitical havoc on children, who may now become publicly practicing sodomites. The Irish faithful still have plenty of time and recourse to the one force the evil cannot overcome, Our Lady and in Ireland’s case, Our Lady of Knock, oremus.

The Wrath of Gnon Sounds Very KingDude In Interview – I found the following passage from an interview with anonymous blogger Wrath of Gnon, wonderfully similar to what I have been counseling listeners and readers since 2014.

Q: You’ve said you hate politics. I hate politics, as well. But how do traditionalists engage with politics when it is the growth of government that intrudes into every part of life and seeks to eliminate our ability to live traditionally?

Gnon: Nothing good will come from engaging with politics. There is no way you can play their game and not suffer for it. What traditionalists should do however is to refuse to play the Left’s game (and all of politics is leftist by definition) of political correctness. The Left is constantly trying to get us to denounce, or to deny, little by little to chip away at our pride and moral stand by forcing us to make (consciously or unconsciously) “unqualified reservations”, in feeble attempts to stave off criticism. This has to stop. Traditionalists can also point out to politicians when they are doing the right thing however, and by being generally upright in our chosen communities. In this way Traditionalists make good Doctors, Teachers, NCOs, Priests, in all places where there is authority without politics.

Bingo. Yes. Katie bar the door. Lock stock, two smoking barrels. He is of course correct and I continue praying more will come to this realization and begin forming those communities needed to survive the zeitgeist the Irish et al are about to enter.

The Plane Just Crashed Into The Mountain: “Happy Birthday Karl Marx” – The NY Times carries this editorial alongside a massive, full color pic of a 30 foot tall bust of Karl Marx being erected or renovated somewhere. The author of this screed is Jason Barker who claims the mantle of “associate professor of philosophy” at Kyung Hee University. Barker ends his mal-informed critique then endorsement of Marx thus.

“Marx, as I have said, does not offer a one-size-fits-all formula for enacting social change. But he does offer a powerful intellectual acid test for that change. On that basis, we are destined to keep citing him and testing his ideas until the kind of society that he struggled to bring about, and that increasing numbers of us now desire, is finally realized.” [Emphasis-mine,]

Newsflash, professor, we already live in Marx’s world, replete with global denials of God and The Faith and global pursuits of material wealth unseen in human history. Thanks, Marx.

“Mitter Chur” DOES Do ‘Murican History – One of the knocks I’ve heard of my current radio program here on the CRUSADE Channel is that it quit doing “Founding Fathers / ‘Murican history” topics. I’ve lamented this accusation and labored, on-air, to demonstrate its falsity. I’ve also labored here to continue sharing knowledge of that most interesting topic. Such is the case of M.E. Bradford’s 1979 book A Better Guide Than Reason which I recommended to listeners last month and citing Clyde Wilson’s august review of the book, encourage reading it again. Wilson’s review is a hoot as well.

“The American tradition was bipolar. Counterposed to the predominant Old Whiggery of the South and Middle States was the Puritan inheritance of New England which implanted deeply in the American fabric a latent proclivity for destructive rebellion as opposed to the restorative effort of the original War of Independence. In laying out the fundamental differences between Jefferson arid Franklin, often thought to be on the same wing of the Revolution, liberals and cosmopolitans together, Bradford is at his most subtle and skillful. They were very different kinds of cosmopolitans and liberals. Jefferson, whatever his private opinions, was as a public man first and always a Virginian, navigating with reference to the fixed star of Virginia law and custom. Franklin prefigured the modern American—a rootless solipsist, literally a self-made man, gliding and manipulating his pleasant and benevolent way through a world that lacked any stable identity.”

So, are you a Jeffersonian or a FrankLincolnian?

What’s The Western World Good For? Well, Pretty Much Everything You Care About Conserving For Starters – Without even realizing their useful idiocy to Mammon, progressive elites continued assault on the smoldering remains of the Western world fails to recognize 2 things. The first is that the tools needed to assail and bring the West to an end were created and made part of “life” by the same West and second that West would not have succeeded if not for its being led by the heroes of the Catholic Faith, we call them saints. Robert Merry does a service by pointing out and defending the former but fails to mention the latter by name. I believe this is one of our major problems: an entity is either religious or irreligious and while we are all too eager to promote the latter we are almost fearful of the former especially if it contains the “C” word.

Who’s Afraid of Michelle Wolf? – The “comedienne” Michelle Wolf, took to the dais at the annual White House Correspondent’s Dinner to regale the Media Industrial Complex goons in attendance with standard fare they revel in promoting: adultery, pornography, contraception and abortion. Wold is under assault from the usual suspects in the “conservative” media but for what? The attendees are part of the revolving door clique that has made our imperial city imperial and soulless, what did anyone expect Ms. Wolf to crack jokes about, the lethal results of the attendees love affair with Marx, Sanger and Hefner? Pat Buchanan has another spin: the anti-Trumpers showed what kind of people are professional anti-Trumpers.

“Most of the Washington press corps at that dinner have next to nothing in common with the folks who voted for Trump and cheered him in Michigan. And Hillary Clinton surely spoke for many of the Beltway media laughing at Wolf’s jokes when she said: ‘(Y)ou could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. … The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic … (Trump) tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks—they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.’ It’s good to know what folks really think of you.”

Like I have been saying for months now, our elite ruling masters do not care what we think or even whether or not we’re on to their clearly diabolical reign. What are we going to do to stop them? Oremus….

How Did Alder Hey Get Thomas Evans To Stand Down? – If you’ve been following the Alfie Evans saga then you are familiar with Thomas Evans, Alfie’s father,. and the term “familiar” is key here because Thomas has been on every conceivable media outlet pleading his son’s case for the last 40 days. Yesterday though, Tom came to the microphone with a prepared statement about reconciling with the POW camp that has held his son and basically told his supporting cast to go home and shut up. Wow. Do these bastards in the diabolically secular UK government know how to play the game they’ve created or what? LifeSite News speculates on similar sentiments.

What did Alder Hey hospital threaten to do to Alfie and his parents that would compel the toddler’s dad Tom to read to the press what is now being called by many a “hostage letter”?

Hostage is appropriate because Alder Hey is for all practical intents, a government run prison camp for Alfie Evans. I will offer one theory: The Evans’ were told they’d live happy, stress-free lives if they cooperate with The State and vow their eternal silence on the matter and sign a diabolical, non-disclosure agreement. The evidence and history of the NHS & Alder Hey’s baby body part emporium say my theory has logic, previous disclosure and motive going for it. Thus the Truth has been  rejected yet again as the sinister power of the secular state is on display again for all to see. It’s raining and its 1936 in Berlin, all over again.

The Demons Have Come For The Children And They Now Run California – You’ve all heard me opine “the demons are ascendent, they have come for the children and they won’t take ‘no’ for an answer!” Well, if the California Senate bows to the diabolically inspired bill that has cleared its Assembly, the demons have succeeded in outlawing helpful care, therapy and READING for those children and adults suffering gender dysphoria-you just can’t make this stuff up folks. From Lifesite News.

““Sexual orientation change efforts” are defined as “any practices that seek to change an individual’s sexual orientation.” Other states have enacted narrower bans on “conversion therapy,” also known as reparative therapy, for minors, but CBS Sacramento that California’s is the first in the nation that would also prevent adults from voluntarily obtaining the treatment.”

If this bill passes, the courts will interpret it as applicable to books and other media and eventually, mark my words, religious efforts. Put another way, “going Carmelite” will basically be the only “treatment” in the form of a sacrifice and intense mortification, available. The demons have come, and they’re winning.

Superman: Saving Murican Pop Culture Since 1938 – Did you know that Action Comics, Issue # 1,000 is coming up!? A.C. Gleason has the top 10 Superman issues ever. I personally vote for the 1976 Superman vs Spiderman series, drawn by comic impresario Neal Adams.

A Civilization In 6 Words: Babies Make Families – Here is Emily Clark’s wonderful little essay Babies Make Families that so many have thanked me for reading on-air I am linking to it so you can read and share for yourself.

“After all, who among us parents doesn’t have people in their lives whom they never would have met if not for their children? These stronger connections are the very bedrock of a strong, thriving society, and our leaders would do well to encourage all of us to continue building these foundations, one baby at a time.”

Clark has written of what Christians used to know as the most important and natural part of their lives, not some anomaly that needs study and explanation.

A Quiet Place: Are Ascendent Demons, Coming For The Kids, The Monsters? – I saw the new film A Quiet Place on Friday night last and I can tell you it is a very special piece of art. A.C. Gleason has a review of it here and I generally agree with what he says about the film with some important additions. For the first time in years, John Krasinski presents a loving family as a single unit with a very strong father at its head. In 2018 this is no small achievement and Krasisnski gets away with it because of the novelty of silence he introduces in the film. I don’t want to spoil the plot but the family schemes to thwart the ravenous creatures that cause the silence from feasting on the family’s newest addition: a baby. There’s so much to like about this film I plan a full review later this week. This is 4 Reagan movie-making here, go see it!

Why You Need To Listen To The Pearcing Truth’s Series On Economics As If Families Mattered – The Federalist headline screams the current state of our civil, “economic” affairs. Yo, Big Business: Money Doesn’t Give You A Right To Manipulate Politics. It doesn’t? Then are you ready to begin implementing a system of Distributism, solidarity and subsidiarity? While ‘Murican Government has become the national religion, business and the exchange of money for pleasure and profit have become her powerful parishioners. Since we rarely know the people who grow or make our food or anything else for that matter, business has become a ubiquitous, requisite agent for exchange of what we want, mildly tempered by what we are willing to borrow to get it. Micro systems of barter exchange are gone, save for the rare entities that have carved out niche markets serving the locals, folks we used to call friends and neighbors. My ongoing feature series with the author of Small Is Still Beautiful, Joseph Pearce, delves heavily into this subject and is MUST LISTENING for anyone truly interested in avoiding Amazon et al from controlling the food supply and thus what is acceptable, secular behavior to get it. Download all 4 Episodes here.

The book’s stories are harrowing from the point of view that bodies and lives are being physically altered with no chance of repair. This is being done, allegedly, to bring about a more fairer world in which those born into the bodies of the sex they believe is not for them. But what is fair about having your breasts cut off while being doped up with drugs that get you banned from any professional sport? This is the work of Beazelbub and the boys and the poor souls who undergo these mutilations are the prizes.

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The Religion That ‘Murican Politics Has Become – When Donald Trump as President, shows up at a rally to commemorate or promote something, the event takes on a religious tone; think about it. Before the President – the priest – enters the temple – the speaking stage – prayers are recited in unison – the Pledge of Allegiance – then an opening canticle is chanted – the National Anthem – then the priest makes his procession to the altar – the dais with the holy crest of the office of the President – then the priest begins “the mass” – making the political pronouncement and explaining why it is good for the congregation. When “the mass” is finished, the choir strikes up a driving beat of a “patriotic song” which serves as the post communion hymn and then the congregation takes leave to go and evangelize the gospel they just took in to unwashed masses – let the conversions begin! Michael Davis writes of this and makes the proper conclusion: All Politics Is Religion.

“Movement conservatism, meanwhile, is a kind of Protestantism. The Constitution fills the role of the Bible. It is immutable, if not infallible, and we must hold it, as Hamilton said, in “sacred reverence.” Like Protestantism, this conservatism defines itself by what it isn’t—monarchism, socialism, etc.—just as Protestantism is a blanket term for those Christian sects that arose in opposition to the Catholic Church. Jefferson and Adams are like Calvin and Luther: united by a common enemy more than a common creed.”

Armed with my description of a ‘Murican “Conservative Church” service, next time you see this transpire on Fox News and the propagandists for the faith wait breathlessly for the priest to arrive and mass begin, see if my description above is correct and if it is, know then what the takeaway is: The Faith has been replaced in most ‘Murican’s daily lives by the faith (sans caps intentional) in ‘Murica.

It’s May 2018 And The Immodesty Is About To Go Nuclear Because It WENT Nuclear – Venerable Bishop Sheen called out ‘Muricah back in the 1960’s while speaking to a group of young Catholics on “Youth and Sex”: “8:15 in the morning, the 6th of August, 1945, when we flew a military plane over this city, when we dropped that atomic bomb on it; that bomb on blotted out boundaries. There was no longer a boundary between the military and the civilian, between the helper and the helped, between the wounded and the nurse and the doctor, between the living and the dead. For even the living who escaped the bomb were already half dead. So we broke down boundaries and limits and from that time on the world has said we want no one limiting me. … You want no restraint, no boundaries, no limits. I have to do what I want to do. Now let’s analyze that for a moment, is that happiness?”

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