Wednesday 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. 2016 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 -“The Catholic Church carries a sort of map of the mind which looks like the map of a maze, but which is in fact a guide to the maze. It has been compiled from knowledge which, even considered as human knowledge, is quite without any human parallel. There is no other case of one continuous intelligent institution that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years. Its experience naturally covers nearly all experiences; and especially nearly all errors. The result is a map in which all the blind alleys and bad roads are clearly marked, all the ways that have been shown to be worthless by the best of all evidence: the evidence of those who have gone down them.” – G.K. Chesterton, Why I am A Catholic

The State of Washington To Christian Pharmacists: Drop Dead – Have you noticed that Washington state has of late become a hive of diabolical activity? From dispensing suicide drugs via doctors (remember Brittany Maynard) to now forcing a family run pharmacy to dispense contraception drugs that are billed as abortifacients and are at best really powerful contraceptives. There is so much wrong with this story, the least of which is “conservatives” insistence that the SCOTUS has a duty to protect the family’s “first amendment rights” when in fact it is the Washington Constitution that must be invoked in their defense and that document says the family is correct. “SECTION 11 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. Absolute freedom of conscience in all matters of religious sentiment, belief and worship, shall be guaranteed to every individual, and no one shall be molested or disturbed in person or property on account of religion; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness or justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the state.”

MBD: The Dark Pessimism of American Christians Scratches The Surface of The REAL Crisis – MBD reviews Mary Eberstadt’s new book: It’s Dangerous To Believe. Eberstadt’s conclusion is that Progressives have taken aim at driving Christian behavior from every nook and cranny of public life and will then move onto private life that there is a “moral panic” at work. Eberstadt then offers a solution that is actually the CAUSE of today’s moral confusion and heresy: Both sides need to agree to disagree. But wait! when one sliver of one side has Truth on its side then there can be no agreement that produces anything other than either A. a continuation of the confusion and heresy or B. an evolution of a new heresy that will build upon the prior error. Folks this is NOT the way to solve the problem; the problem of the power grabbing moral code that is actually amoral. When moral certitude can be known and expressed and it can then THAT is always the point on which all agreement must proceed.

Brexit WAS The Shot Heard Round The World and The Squeals of the Ruling Elite Are The Proof – Patrick J Buchanan predicts that Brexit fever will spread across the European Continent and will also be the catalyst to vanquish the evil globalists behind Mrs Clinton’s march to (what I predict) is a humiliating effect.

Brexit Has Resurrected The Faintly Glowing Embers of Christendom, Whether The Heretics Like It Or Not – The “last best hope” for the West and indeed humanity never was ‘Muricah despite Ronald Reagan’s cheerful claims; it always was and now remains on the horizon that a return to the paradigm begun by Consantine in the 4th century-perfected through the 12th and then benevolently guiding the affairs of European men through the Enlightenment Revolt led by desCartes, Hobbes et al in the 16th century. That’s 1200 years of INTERNAL guidance of the affairs of men (yes, there were warts, heretics, a few wars and even a plague) but the good, the True and the beautiful abounded on The Continent. Now comes Brexit and a stiff rejection of the order of Locke as I have maintained. Stephen Turley reaches the same conclusions on the pages of The Imaginative Conservative. “It is true that British national allegiances have yet to exemplify anything remotely akin to a Christian revival; indeed, church attendance in the UK has long been on the decline. Nevertheless, there seems to be a decline to this decline. Most people in the UK still think of themselves as Christian, and immigrants from Africa and Eastern Europe, Catholic Poles in particular, have made Britain more, not less, religious.”

Attention Peasants of The West: You Will Obey Your Ruling Masters And Return To Being Globally Governed! – The Washington Post demands that the world’s surviving corrupocrats rally around the NATO flag and defend that “august institution” from the alleged ravages of subsidiarity which are actually ravages against sloth and usury. The Post’s hissy fit is FUN: “…the result of Mr. Cameron’s last and most calamitous misstep, the promotion of an unnecessary referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union, should logically lead to an acceleration of an existing trend in U.S. foreign relations, rather than an abrupt shift.” Yes, acquiring the consent of the governed is always “unnecessary” when the fortunes of Jeff Bezos and the Clinton Global Initiative are at stake. I am no fan of Democracy and in fact am inclined to agree with the Post’s revulsion at a turn toward democracy, in its purest sense, however, the Brexit vote was a vote to reject the secular, external method of governing the affairs of men. The Post also demands that YOU bow before NATO & hold Trumpzilla to account if he doesn’t!: “Mr. Obama should take the occasion to reconfirm U.S. commitment to NATO — and presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump should be judged on whether they do the same.” When the Muslims ascend and go Orthodox on the British Isle, and they will, to what force then will the Brits turn? Hint: if conversions of the Saxon hordes happened once, that land can be reclaimed for Christ, again. Not even the WaPo can stop that.

The Progressives Are Coming The Progressives Are Coming – There is no better indicator of the folly of today’s “conservatives” than comparing their successes to the successes of what is their opposite: Progressives.

Will You Go Trans/Gay/Queer Or Will You Go Carmelite? – It is odd that we see Baptist ministers like Dr Russell Moore saying things about the Gospels and the requirement that Christians choose Gospel teaching on sexuality over the convenience and secular comfort offered by modern heretics. Why is it odd? For starters does Dr. Moore identify this teaching as singular and unified and if so where might we find it written or even as part of a Tradition? These are not knocks on Dr. Moore so much as they are frustrations from his Catholic cousins; where are our Bishops to be as bold as Moore? Bishops have the upperhand on these matters if they would choose to take them public, roll their vestment sleeves up and perform some old fashioned Catechism. Still Moore has said what needs to be said, Deo Gratias!: “The Gospel that you preserve is not meant to end with you. It’s meant to go forward. If we recognize that and know that, we work for the common good, we work for human flourishing, and all good things. But we hold them with a certain looseness, because we know that the United States of America is temporary, but the Gospel goes on.” Amen.

Pope offers Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa but offers it in Babylonian – Pope issues clarification on apologies to gays but the clarification is even more rambling, incoherent and dangerous to the Faith:

The Establishment, Criminal Class, Is Brexit Panicked Because They Know, Secession Will Make Their Crimes, Criminal – This opinion piece is a great example of why “the sky is falling” after Brexit is so loud and  panicked today. The ruling elites know that the carefully designed system of obscene wealth transfer they have built is now threatened for the first time since 1776. The Constitution was brought forth to squash the American Confederation Order and the same Constitution was used to lethally subdue a 1776 revival in 1861. What tool do the globalists criminal class have to wield now? Don’t laugh, but the LGBTQ heresy IS that cudgel because it is a currently accepted assault against the one force needed to re-found the Old Order: Christianity and Christendom.

Brexit For The Rest Of Us Means Subsidiarity, NOT Blobism – Globalism is out and nationalism is in says the National Interest’s Robert W. Merry, but he is not correct. The “nationalism” Merry refers to is jingoistic and has as its animating character the current ‘Murican flag, the horribly corrupt Pledge and the military industrial complex mindset that places mortally sinful thinking and behavior as a net public good because it is wrapped up in “national security”. These people are what I call “Blobists”. They believe that the Blob that is the land mass twixt Baja CA and Bangor Maine HAS to be “America” without ever explaining or defining why.

No, The Pope Is NOT Infallible, Especially When He Denies His Own Church’s Teaching – One of the most consistent knocks, insults and or calumnies hurled the way of any publicly faithful Catholic is that “you have to obey your Pope and he’s an (insert insult here)”. I always try and explain that “no, I do not have to follow him or any man for that matter that counsels heresy or assaults against Revealed Truth dogma. This story is a textbook example of this, Pope Francis is just plain wrong about homosexuals and the Church’s teaching which he apparently has not read or he has chosen to ignore it. Catholic Family News Editor John Vennari counters: “This is the last straw. No, I’m not a sedevacantist, but Francis has shown himself to be an enemy of the Catholic Faith, of natural law and of Christian civilization. Once again, he quotes the 1993 Catechism that says homosexuals should not be discriminated against (a line subject to broad interpretation) but studiously avoids quoting the Catechism’s teaching: “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered” (#2357).”

The Brexit Vote Has Shocked The Parisitian Monk World. GOOD – Tim Stanley at the UK Telegraph nails the appropriate headline: This Was The Day The British People Defied Their Jailers. “There were two referendums on Thursday. The first was on membership of the EU. The second was on the British establishment. Leave won both, and the world will never be the same again.” Stanley is correct and now all of Paristitedom is in a panic and this will come as a shock, I caution temperance on the Brexit vote because democracy, unrestrained will lead to anarchy. While it is true that Brexit signals a moment the hoi polloi have only dreamed of through films like V for Vendetta, we must channel this momentum into a movement to return to [r]epublicanism and subsidiarity.

Why Brexit Makes President Trumpzilla Inevitable – The BREXIT vote is a harbinger of things coming to ‘Muricah: the Parisitian Monk criminal class is being served notice their era of raping and pillaging the fruits of OUR labor are numbered. Trumpzilla’s rise is a visible symptom of the hoi polloi’s rejection of the democratic order and those who have mined it to their opulent advantage.

The Brits Fled Secession Because A NeoNazi Was Discovered In London!? – According to this writer, BREXIT will fail because the British people have become intoxicated with the odor of political correctness-that they must stay in the EU otherwise the neo nazis win!? Not even residents of Vermont are that imbecilic and shallow. Just when you think ‘Murciah can’t sink any farther down the Road to Perdition, the UK puffs up our pride!

Today’s Special Guest, American Conservatives Scott McConnell “Why Trump Wins” – Scott McConnell’s new AmConMag cover story “Why Trump Wins” is perfectly in line with my #Trump = 48 States, Mrs. Clinton = 2 prediction. McConnell’s flavor is much more erudite and empirical but still spot on: “Donald Trump became the presumptive GOP nom- inee because he won the GOP’s untapped residue of nationalist voters, in a system where the elites of both parties are, as if by rote, extreme globalists. He won the support of those who favored changing trade and immigration policies, which, it is increasingly obvi- ous, do not favor the tangible interests of the average American.”

Libertarian, Chirping Sectaries: Not Much Different From Aztec Savages – [my comments while watching last night’s CNN-#Libertarian Townhall forum]: I am watching with sadness a young woman demanding to know if ‪#‎Libertarians‬ Gary Johnson & William Weld will protect “my right in all 50 states to choose”. I thought Internationally televised, drooling fantasies about human sacrifice went out with cable TV showings of “Apocalypto”? The Chirping Sectaries are as diabolically obsessed as the Progressives, but don’t worry, we still need a few “survivors” to teach economics.

What To Do When Your MOTHER Goes LGBTQ? Protect Her Grandkids From Evil – One Peter Five has published a rare, candid and I believe charitable letter from a woman named Alice. Alice’s mother decided to leave the family and find “true happiness” by shacking up with her lesbian lover. What Alice tells her mother is precisely what Apostate, dysfunctional thinking sinners NEED to hear from their families instead of “its OK honey, [mom, son,brother etc] you have to do what is right for your happiness,” …rubbish. Alice: “But, something happened. Something evil. You chose Satan and all his lies. He proposed to you and you said “yes.” Your God-given gift of free will did not have me in mind that day. I don’t know when this moment took place. It could have been from the very beginning and my guess is that it was, but little did I know then it would be the saddest day of my life; a cross thrust upon me to carry for the rest of my life. How completely unfair for children to be blindsided by evil. But, that is what Satan does — divide and conquer….I cannot have a relationship with you while you are choosing to cooperate with and live in sin.”

Oregon Court To Almighty God: Drop Dead, There Are NO Sexes, Just “non-binary” – A judge in Oregon has declared that a mentally dysfunctional man, suffering from a chronic case of gender dysphoria, can claim, legally, that He/It/She is not a male or a female but just is “non-binary”. I have been warning for 3 years now, that the apathy most ‘Muricans feel toward these gender and sex preference wars, and make no mistake this is a war, will ultimately lead to the complete removal and the outright ban on all things religious in our public affairs and then the law will have to be made to conform to it. When that conformity comes, ‘Muricah, for all “non-juring” Christians will resemble France in 1791, where the State will “approve” of what “religions” and orders it will at the expense of outright bans against any pretenders. This is what lead to the executions of tens of thousands of priests, nuns, monks and others who refused the “juring” oath.

It’s June 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 limitsI have to do what I want to do. Now let’s analyze that for a moment, is that happiness?”

The Tragedy of Post Christian, Philosophia Perennis Devoid Thinking – Read this piece from AmConMag writer Noah Millman to get a closeup view of why Philosophia Perennis is so desperately needed to corral the erroneous thinking Men are sure to engage in when NOT grounded in the eternal quest for True Wisdom i.s. Sapientia. The issue Noah, is not whether “only the Saints” can live by the Magisterial code, it is that by God’s Grace the Saints DID live the Tradition WHILE receiving the Graces needed to do so. You cannot approach Grace as zero sum, mathematics, as in if I do ______ I will receive ______ “Grace credits” but if I do ______I will have deducted ______ Grace Credits. Grace is present in the world and we are given the supply needed at Baptism, the suffering of the Christian Faithful is simply to maintain the state you enter at Baptism, using the Gospels and the Traditional Teaching as MEANS to that END. As Padré Gaetano tells us in Humility of Heart: “And has not a saint abundant reasons, from the thought of his own weakness, to live always in a state of great humility, when he knows that from one hour to another he may lose the grace of God and the kingdom of heaven which he has merited by years of laboriously-acquired virtues? “Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.”

For an audio version of Jefferson’s [r]epublicanism via Project ’76 Webisode, click here

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