Church or State-That is the question

  Keeping the Martyrs Alive https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20121130_1.htm

 

Tradition and Usury: the Perennial Conflict : “The most hated sort [of moneymaking], and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural use of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest.

  American inequality is higher now than at any time since WWII. The gap is wide and getting wider. Read what the data show and why it matters. https://americancompass.org/economic-inequality-guide/

  Who controls 90% of the world's wealth? half of the world's net wealth belongs to the top 1%, top 10% of adults hold 85%, while  the bottom 90% hold the remaining 15% of the world's total wealth , top 30% of adults hold 97% of the total wealth. How much of the world's wealth is owned by the top 1%? World's richest people now own  11%  of global wealth, marking the biggest leap in recent history. The world's richest people got a whole lot richer during the COVID-19 crisis. Dec 7, 2021 https://www.google.com/search?q=wealth+who+owns+it&oq=wealth+who+owns+it&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30j0i390l3.16772j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

  The Wealth Inequality Gap Is Leading to More Homelessness - Invisible People https://invisiblepeople.tv/the-wealth-inequality-gap-is-leading-to-more-homelessness/?gclid=CjwKCAiAmuKbBhA2EiwAxQnt78Bl6cV0RuqgRbQcxnOQ-a7t3wGdL1uPucuneaWNQJ7GR4HvLkooyxoC6LQQAvD_BwE

  One of the biggest myths about poverty in the US is that poor people don't want to work. But in fact, most American adults living in poverty who can work do work.  That is 10.7 million American adults between the ages of 18 and 64 who live in households earning below the poverty line working full or part time.This means an astonishing 59% of adults living in poverty who can work do so. Yet they still live in poverty. What are the reasons some people in poverty don't work? Those who do not work cite reasons ranging from being retired (1.3 million) and pursuing continuing education (3.5 million), to being ill or disabled (5.2 million) and taking care of family members (3.8 million). Another 1.9 million adults would like to work, but cannot find jobs they’re qualified for where they live.[1] https://atdfourthworld-usa.org/latest-news/poverty-myths-busted-poor-people-dont-want-work

 w ith the vision of the United States as the richest country in the world, the poverty myth that there is little or no poverty is all too common.  In fact, the United States has one of the highest poverty rates in the developed world . One study ranked the United States 29 of 31 OECD countries in 2012.[1] When it comes to child poverty, things are even worse. A UNICEF report found that the United States ranked 34 of 35 developed countries – only Romania had a higher child poverty rate.[2] https://atdfourthworld-usa.org/latest-news/poverty-myth-busted-us-has-no-poverty

Thank You, Fr. Sheehy https://www.crisismagazine.com/opinion/thank-you-fr-sheehy?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=novashare via @CrisisMag Editor’s Note: Fr. Seán Sheehy is a priest in Ireland who was recently disciplined for preaching against abortion, homosexuality, and transgenderism.] Dear Fr. Sheehy, Thanks to the wonder of technology, I have been able to watch the sermon you delivered to the congregation present in Listowel. I feel compelled to write to thank you for your brave, truthful, and honest sermon, in which you directly addressed the insidious nature of sin embedded within society today; a society which actively promotes, validates, and encourages abortion, same-sex relationships, and what you describe as the “lunacy” of transgenderism. You also reminded us of the consequences of such mortal sin.   ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW Orthodox. Faithful. Free. Sign up to get Crisis articles delivered to your inbox daily Your Email Addr...

  Remembering the Battle of Lepanto: 450 Years Ago https://ewtn.co.uk/article-remembering-the-battle-of-lepanto-450-years-ago/  

Those who think that the subject of heresy may be neglected because it sounds to them old-fashion are thinking in words instead of ideas. In unity we agree that all "Christians" are saved. The Protestant attack  had for its principle the denial of unity.

                              Martyrs of Nowogrodek That in the realm of morals one thing stands out,  the unquestioned prevalence of cruelty in the unbaptized world.  Cruelty will be the chief fruit in the moral field of the Modern Attack, just as the revival of slavery will be the chief fruit in the social field. Here the critic may ask whether cruelty were not more the note of Christian men in the past than it is today. Is not all the history of our two thousand years a history of armed conflict, massacre, judicial tortures and horrible executions, the sack of towns, and all the rest of it? The reply to this objection is that there is a capital distinction between cruelty exceptional, and cruelty the rule.  When men apply cruel punishments, depend on physical power to obtain effects, let loose violence in the passions of war, if all this is done in violation of their own accepted morals, it is o...

The line of cleavage throughout the world lies between what is with, and what is against, The Faith.  Hilarie Belloc says our choices are a return to Catholicism or chaos and "the crisis ... does not permit of indefinite delay."  He shows in his work's that ever since the disaster of the Protestant Reformation, our civilization has been coming apart.  Catholicism built the Western World - from Roman times through the Dark Ages to the High Middle Ages - but the false doctrine and social philosophy of Protestantism, based on Calvin, is causing a steady and continuing breakdown of that world.  Belloc shows the Reformation's evil results in the economic sphere, through the dissolving of Catholic restraints on usury and on unbridled competition.  He states that "Calvin opened the door to the domination of the mind by money."  Belloc concludes that the return of Catholicism is the only remedy for our crumbling world, because our basic principles of civilization a...

  After the Fall of Constantinople, Mehmed claimed the title of "Caesar" of Rome ( Kayser-i Rûm ), although this claim was not recognized by the Patriarch of Constantinople, or Christian Europe. Mehmed's claim rested with the concept that Constantinople was the seat of the Roman Empire, after the transfer of its capital to Constantinople in 330 AD and the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Mehmed also had a blood lineage to the Byzantine Imperial family, as his predecessors like Sultan Orhan I had married a Byzantine princess. He was not the only ruler to claim such a title, as there was the Holy Roman Empire in Western Europe, whose emperor, Frederick III, traced his titular lineage from Charlemagne who obtained the title of Roman Emperor when he was crowned by Pope Leo III in 800 - although never recognized as such by the Byzantine Empire. Steven Runciman recounts a story by the Byzantine historian Doukas, known for his colorful and dramatic descriptions,in which Mehmed ...

  PROLOGUE After the death of Constantine in battle during the fall of Constantinople, he became a legendary figure in Greek folklore as the "Marble Emperor" who would awaken and recover the Empire and Constantinople from the Turks. The only way the Emperor was later identified was by his Imperial boots. His body was then decapitated and his head sent across Asia Minor to legitimize the victory. Although it is claimed by some that his corpse was identified after the battle by his purple boots, others claim that the Turks were never able to identify his body, and that the last Roman Emperor was very likely buried in a mass grave alongside his soldiers. A legend tells that when the Ottomans entered the city, an angel rescued the emperor, turned him into marble and placed him in a cave under the earth near the Golden Gate, where he waits to be brought to life again to conquer the city back for Christians. While serving as ambassador to Russia in February 1834, Achmet Pacha prese...

  The Final assault began after midnight, into the 29th of May 1453 . Wave after wave the attackers charged. Battle cries rang out, the sound of drums, trumpets and fifes, filled the air. The bells of the city churches began ringing frantically.  Orders, screams and the sound of trumpets shattered the night. First  came the irregulars, an unreliable, multinational crowd of Christians and Moslems, who were attracted by the opportunity of enriching themselves by looting the great city, the last capital of the Roman Empire. They attacked throughout the line of fortifications and they were massacred by the tough professionals, who were fighting under the orders of Giustiniani. The battle lasted two hours and the irregulars withdrew in disorder, leaving behind an unknown number of dead and wounded. Next  came the Anatolian troops of  Ishak Pasha . They tried to storm the stockades and they fought tenaciously, even desperately trying to break through the compact ranks...

  Carthusian Martyrs starved to death in  Newgate Prison , The government continued to play a game of intimidation until 18 May 1537, when the twenty   hermits   and eighteen   lay brothers   remaining in the   London Charterhouse   were required to take the   Oath of Supremacy . Of these, the hermits   Doms   Thomas Johnson , Richard Bere, Thomas Green ( priests ), and John Davy (a   deacon ), refused. Richard Bere was the nephew, and namesake of,  Richard Bere  the  Abbot of Glastonbury  (1493–1525). The younger Bere abandoned his studies in the law, and became a  Carthusian  in February 1523. [2] Thomas Green may be the Thomas Greenwood who obtained a  bachelor's degree  at Oxford, and later a  Master's degree  at Cambridge in 1511, who became Fellow of  St John's College, Cambridge  in 1515 and the  Doctorate in Divinity  in 1532. This would associate him...