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A convenient pretext: the death of General Duphot
August 24, 2016 … Continue reading
Act I: the Suppression of the Jesuits in Portugal
December 3, 2015 … Continue reading
Catholic Europe on the eve of the Suppression Part 2
November 25, 2015 … Continue reading
Catholic Europe on the eve of the Suppression
Why did Catholic Europe fall apart during the 18th century? Some historical perspective. Continue reading
The Litany of Saint Faustina to the Blessed Sacrament: a prayer for our broken and disintegrating world
November 16, 2015 … Continue reading
The Suppression of the Jesuits
November 12, 2015 … Continue reading
Where did it come from?
October 20, 2015 So we have examined the writings of the mid to late eighteenth century popes, during those decades which preceded the French Revolution, and it seems clear that from the early 1760s on they knew that something was … Continue reading
An homage to the Roman Pontiff
A homage to the endurance of the Roman Pontiff Continue reading
They behold a false light which is worse than the very darkness
Our Lady of Sorrows The years between 1766 and 1775 were kind neither to the world nor to the Church. Pope Clement XIII passed on to his reward, apprehensive of the future, on February 2, 1769. And the six year … Continue reading
Christianae Reipublicae: an urgent but unheeded warning of the coming disaster
The Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary If Almighty God grants a man the grace to open his eyes there are two points in the course of events when he is most likely to realize that he is … Continue reading