Tag Archives: voltaire
What was 1789?
May 3, 2016 … Continue reading
Part 2: Voltaire
April 20, 2016 The name Voltaire loomed large over the gathering darkness of the middle to late 18th century. His importance has largely been forgotten in our own day, an era that is as amnesiac as it is short sighted, … Continue reading
The legacy of the Suppression
March 10, 2016 The Suppression of the Jesuits was the first act of a revolution. This revolution unleashed an age of immense barbarism unprecedented in human history that we are still living through. The revolution’s purpose at this point was … Continue reading
The Suppression of the Jesuits in Spain
January 18, 2016 The case of the Suppression in Spain is the strangest of all. Here is what happened: At midnight between the first and second of April, 1767 sealed royal orders were opened by the governors of each of … 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
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
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
The Jubilee Year of 1750 and the peace that was not to be
The Feast of Saint Peter Claver (United States) In the late spring of 1749 the Catholic world seemed to be at peace. The fervor of the Protestant revolt a quarter of a millennium earlier had worn thin and the disasters … Continue reading
Vexillum Immaculatae 