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Paris spent $1.5 billion on its attempt to dazzle the world with a four-hour extravaganza to mark the start of the Olympic games. Yep, you read that right - $1.5 billion! And what did the world get? In the words of Gavin Ashendon:  "a hate letter that has now been signed." Those watching witnessed a full-on Woke dystopian re-creation of Jesus Christ’s Last Supper.  Thankfully it was on record whilst grandchildren and I were "otherwise engaged" - i.e. playing water pistols in the garden. The Olympic Committee claimed the burlesque performance was an “interpretation of the Greek God [of wine and festivity] Dionysus” to make viewers “aware of the absurdity of violence between human beings.” Yeah, sure, that explains those flying pigs! The scene featured some half-naked performers, one in the middle with a halo atop her head, behind a long table. Another naked, painted blue, with his/her/cis genitalia covered in fruit.  Compare and contrast: You don't need to

  Message from Anton Jack, old chap, if Ian Paul will permit a brief off-topic from me, you might like to inform regulars at your own blog that Adrian Hilton re-activated his dormant blog to repost articles he has had accepted (typically every few months) by the Spectator, Telegraph etc. He permits comments beneath them. The site:  Adrian Hilton It's a Wordpress account - so to comment you'll need to go here to create an account.

“I rarely look away from the crowd. Had I not done that in that moment, well, we would not be talking today, would we?”  - President Donald Trump “ Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and prayers yesterday, as it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening.” - President Donald Trump “One hand fired and another hand guided the bullet.”  - Pope John Paul II “In the designs of Providence there are no mere coincidences.”  - Pope John Paul II History and God's Providence Based on Scripture, the Catechism of the Catholic Church asserts: We firmly believe that God is master of the world and of its history. But the ways of his providence are often unknown to us. Only at the end, when our partial knowledge ceases, when we see God "face to face",  will we fully know the ways by which - even through the dramas of evil and sin - God has guided his creation to that definitive sabbath rest for which he created heaven and earth. There are clearly problems with confid

“We are deeply grateful to Our Lord who saved this brave warrior, who did not lack the strength to stand up and invite his supporters to fight. ” (Carlo Maria Viganò) "Trump went very, very near to having his head blown off, and they say (though I can’t really reconstruct it from the video) that a face movement was what saved him from a full hit. This, too, was the work of God. God who sees all injustice perpetrated by evil politicians against Trump (and, if you ask me, more likely than not by a criminal, murderous deep state) has allowed him to shine, turning the evil of his enemies against them. " (Mundabor) Is Trump a flawed actor that God is using to Divine ends in American politics? Many believe so. Dr. Ben Carson, former Trump cabinet member, posted that the Trump assassination attempt was just the latest in a series of trials that God will set right:  “They tried to bankrupt him. They tried to slander him. They tried to imprison him. Now they have tried to kill him,

Have not got a good feeling about this one! One can dream .... 

The Vatican doctrine office announced on Friday, 5th   July, that it had found Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò guilty of the canonical crime of schism and declared his automatic excommunication. On 4 July 2024, the Congress of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith met to conclude the extrajudicial penal process referred to in canon 1720  CIC  against the Most Reverend Carlo Maria Viganò, titular Archbishop of Ulpiana, accused of the reserved delict of schism (canons 751 and 1364  CIC ; art. 2  SST ). His public statements manifesting his refusal to recognize and submit to the Supreme Pontiff, his rejection of communion with the members of the Church subject to him, and of the legitimacy and magisterial authority of the Second Vatican Council are well known. At the conclusion of the penal process, the Most Reverend Carlo Maria Viganò was found guilty of the reserved delict of schism. The Dicastery declared the  latae sententiae  excommunication in accordance with canon 1364

Interesting insights here about the upcoming French, American and British elections and the future of Western democracy. Until Joe Biden took the stage in last week’s debate with Donald Trump, the most catastrophically stupid presidential political decision of the year was Emmanuel Macron’s calling a snap election after the National Rally’s impressive showing in European parliamentary elections. After events over the past few days, it is still uncertain as to which blunder will have been the most consequential. Whatever the outcome, we are all watching corrupt systems collapse in real time. Amid this apocalypse - literally, an unveiling - we are seeing a kind of Reformation, the messy birth of a new order. This is more the case in France than in the United States. The strong  National Rally results  in Sunday’s first round of voting occasioned an outpouring on France’s streets that could have been scripted by  Camp of the Saints  author Jean Raspail.  In some French cities, Anti