3/23/2020 0 Comments March 23rd, 2020Hitler planned that after he won the war "the Pope would be hanged in full pontificals in St. Peter's Square."
-- from "Modern Times," by Paul Johnson. VIVA CRISTO REY!
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3/23/2020 0 Comments March 23rd, 2020From the Angelic Doctor...
"We have the act to understand, of which the object is the true; and the act to will, of which the object is the good." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 3/23/2020 0 Comments March 23rd, 2020Quote from Albert Einstein praising the Catholic Church as the only institution that stood up to Hitler. From Time Magazine, December 23, 1940, page 38.
And from an episode of Antiques Roadshow, a letter from Einstein confirming the quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk_-0UiiauU EPISODE ON PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/12/las-vegas-nv/appraisals/1943-albert-einstein-letter--200706A19/ TRANSCRIPT OF ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/12/las-vegas-nv/appraisals/1943-albert-einstein-letter--200706A19/ GUEST: I have a letter that Albert Einstein wrote to my father in 1943. In 1940, my father read a “Time Magazine” article that stated that Einstein was quoted as saying that the only social institution that stood up to Nazism was the Christian Church. My father is a Presbyterian minister in a little northern Michigan town called Harbor Springs. APPRAISER: Uh-huh. GUEST: And he quoted Einstein in a sermon, and a member of the congregation wrote my father a letter saying, "Where did you get your information?" So my father wrote “Time Magazine” and “Time Magazine” wrote him back, and I have that letter, too, but they didn't give the source, so my father wrote Einstein and he wrote back, saying, yes, he did say that the Christian Church was standing up to Hitler and Nazism. APPRAISER: I love this story for a lot of reasons. One, it's about your dad checking his references, GUEST: Mm-hmm. APPRAISER: checking his facts, and how important it is to get your references right. He goes to the first reference—“Time Magazine.” GUEST: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. APPRAISER: He doesn't get a good answer and he goes beyond that. GUEST: Mm-hmm... exactly. APPRAISER: The second reason I really like this story is that your dad kept all the supporting material... GUEST: Mm-hmm. APPRAISER: ...behind the letter that he eventually got from Einstein confirming, "Yes, I did say this about the Christian Church. It is the only social institution that could stand up to the Nazi regime." So the first letter I have in this stack is the letter from the parishioner, who says, "Where'd that quote come from?" GUEST: Mm-hmm. APPRAISER: And then the second letter is the letter from “Time Magazine.” They're kind of hedging their bets. GUEST: Mm-hmm. APPRAISER: I love that they can't really confirm it... GUEST: Right. APPRAISER: ...but they won't deny it. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, he said it, he said it." And then the third thing. Even though he kept all of this original primary support material, your dad took the time to write a three- or four-paragraph essay in which he explains the story behind the Albert Einstein letter. GUEST: Right, mm-hmm. APPRAISER: This is terrific; I mean, if I could get one message across to people who own historical manuscripts, who own letters from famous people, who own archives, and the people who know the story behind them, it would be: please just take five minutes and write it down for the next generation. Because even though everybody knows it today... GUEST: Mm-hmm. APPRAISER: ...there is a really good chance that the oral tradition will not survive with the paper. GUEST: Exactly. APPRAISER: If you had brought this letter in without the supporting documents, I would have looked at it, and it says, "It's true that I made a statement which corresponds approximately with the text you quoted. I made this statement during the first years of the Nazi regime-- much earlier than 1940-- and my expressions were a little more moderate." And I would say, "Well, that's a nice typed letter from Einstein, says something about Nazis," but I wouldn't really know what he was talking about... GUEST: Right. APPRAISER: ...if your father had not saved all the material that is appropriate to it. Have you ever had this Einstein letter appraised? GUEST: Never. APPRAISER: Well, it's on just typing paper. He used to blind stamp his return address, and it's typed and then signed here. Normally, a run-of-the-mill typed Einstein letter from this period is about $1,500 at auction. GUEST: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. APPRAISER: But with this fantastic story behind it, a $1,500 letter becomes... a $5,000 letter. GUEST: Wow. 3/20/2020 0 Comments March 20th, 2020After the invasion of the Soviet Socialists, Father Boguchwał Tuora often criticized the regime. Attacked by the UB Communist political police (part of the Soviet criminal NKVD), he was executed, April 2, 1950, in the presbytery along with four parishioners, all accused as criminal counterrevolutionary collaborators.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 3/20/2020 0 Comments March 20th, 2020Summoned to a German Socialist Gestapo station, Father Teodor Emilian Turzyński was arrested and shipped to Stutthof death camp, where he was transported to Piaśnica execution site and murdered.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 3/20/2020 0 Comments March 20th, 2020From the Angelic Doctor...
"The action of the angel, as also the action of any creature, is not his existence." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 3/19/2020 0 Comments March 19th, 2020A chaplain in the Polish Army, Father Stanisław Tyborowski was arrested by Soviet Socialists, incarcerated in Starobielsk gulag and executed during a mass killing, in Kharkov, in April 1940.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 3/19/2020 0 Comments March 19th, 2020Days after the German Socialists invaded Poland, Gestapo arrested Father Kazimierz Tyczka while he was in the confessional. Dragged to a nearby forest, in Rożniaty, he was executed, on October 4, 1939, during a mass murder of Polish Catholics.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 3/19/2020 0 Comments March 19th, 2020From the Angelic Doctor...
"The angel's act of understanding is his movement." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 3/18/2020 0 Comments March 18th, 2020Anyone who claims that Christ was a Socialist is claiming rotten fruit from the rotten tree of Liberation Theology -- which has been CONDEMNED BY THE CHURCH!
3/18/2020 0 Comments March 18th, 2020Confused individuals claim that, because some Catholic clergy and religious share a communal lifestyle, Catholicism is very similar to life under a Socialist regime (such as the Communist Party, which is an extreme-leftwing Socialist Party).
WRONG! Communal living for some Catholics is voluntary, an exercise of their FREE WILL, living as children of God. Communal living for those in a Socialist State is mandatory, an exercise of FORCED WILL, living as slaves for the State. VIVA CRISTO REY! 3/18/2020 0 Comments March 18th, 2020It was in the Christian world where the idea developed that the individual, as an individual, has sacred value, for a simple reason: All humans are created in the image of God, as the Catholic Church has taught through the ages.
In Socialist societies, collectivism is the oppressive, dominant ideology that one does not have rights, but that rights are granted by the State, ruled by a great and glorious leader who speaks for the people. For collectivists, the group is greater than the individual, who must be crushed and sacrificed for the greater good of the greater number. Viva Cristo Rey! 3/17/2020 0 Comments March 17th, 2020Chaplain of the Polish Army, Father Michał Tyszka was taken as a prisoner of war and executed by the Soviet Socialist secret police NKVD (Naródnyiy Komissariát Vnútrennikh Del, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs), in April 1940, with a shot to the back of the head during the Katyń Massacre.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 3/17/2020 0 Comments March 17th, 2020Father Antoni Tworek, a doctor of Canon Law, was arrested and tortured by German Socialist Gestapo. Shipped to Auschwitz and then Dachau, Father Tworek perished, from starvation, exhaustion and exposure, on Christmas Eve 1942.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 3/17/2020 0 Comments March 17th, 20203/13/2020 0 Comments March 13th, 2020Soviet Socialists deported an estimated 2,636,000 Poles (mostly Catholics) - imprisoned and/or exiled - to the inhospitable wastelands of the Siberian Tundra, in the winter of 1940. The Polish deportees were called Sybiraks.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 3/13/2020 1 Comment March 13th, 2020Countless Catholics were executed via the German Socialist Sonderbehandlung 14f13 (Special Handling, the euphemistic term for execution of ballastexistenzen - dead weight prisoners), begun in April 1941 and named for the SS record-keeping system: 14 for the Concentration Camps Inspector, f for the German word deaths (Todesfälle) and 13 for the means of killing, gassing, lethal injection, etc.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 3/13/2020 0 Comments March 13th, 2020From the Angelic Doctor...
"The act of understanding is brought about by the union of the object understood with the one who understands it, as an effect which differs from both." -- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) 3/12/2020 0 Comments March 12th, 2020Massacre of political prisoners, victims of the Soviet Socialist NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), in Lviv, June to November 1941, a result of NKVD evacuation order Number 00803.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 3/12/2020 0 Comments March 12th, 2020Brought to the execution site, a teenage boy stands next to his murdered family shortly before his own death: shot in the neck by the German Socialist Schutzstaffel officer standing behind him, July 5, 1941.
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