"The massive dragon that refuses to be slain"

A retired cancer doctor's prescription for the corrupted priesthood

Dr. Pence, let me set up the first question this way. Toward the end of his memoir of the underground churches in China, Zhang Rongliang recalls 2003 when he and his brother Christians went through a period of great disharmony and infighting:

• "Each one of these problems festered in our wounded hearts. Even though we tried to deal with them in what we considered to be a Christian way by overlooking them, they would not be so easily ignored. They kept slowly biting at us over and over again until the small problems became a massive dragon that refused to be slain."

In our own country over the past half-century, the Catholic bishops allowed priestly corruption to grow to a stifling and omnipresent level.
What is the best way for laymen to help rebuild after being kicked in the gut by decadent spiritual fathers?

DAVID PENCE: 
"We are facing a malignancy from within that must be destroyed. But, first, we have to get our anthropology straight! The sacrament of marriage is based on the anthropological reality of males and females for reproduction. The sacrament of Holy Orders is built on the anthropological truth that human societies are built on male bonds under a male leader. Masculine brotherly love is the cement of the wide-radius trust that binds warrior bands, cities, nations, and religions into large groups needed for great tasks. The priesthood is the ultimate sacral brotherhood under the Fatherhood of God.

"While marriage is an icon of Christ and the Church, the priesthood is an icon of the love between the Father and the Son. Christ made this clear in his priestly prayer at the Last Supper. The priesthood is the template for the ordered loves which will rebind humanity in many peaceful and righteous nations constituting the Kingdom of God. Male love is not an incidental. Christ called his apostolic band of brothers 'the foundation stones' of the new organism which he instituted to reconfigure humanity as the Body of Christ. Think masculine bonds -- think big!"


But most people don't talk about the priesthood as a love relationship, right?

PENCE:
"At the foundation of truth itself is the love relationship of the eternal Father and the Son. Male love existed before time -- we are learning to express it properly here on earth. The Son has returned to his Father in heaven, this time in a human form. 

"Christ gathers His body of believers through a priestly brotherhood. It will be as a patriarchal fraternity that we will be made whole and sit with Him in the brilliant Trinitarian light. Our fitful efforts to seek his Face will be no more."


Some folks would counter this by asking: isn't it ridiculous in 2019 to be holding up the Catholic priesthood as the organizing model for all of humanity?

PENCE: 
"Well, the master races from Japan and Germany, the international proletariat armed by the Soviets and Chinese, and the liberal global capitalists and their gender ideology have not quite done the job. Only when you understand the high calling of the priesthood and its pivotal role in organizing public life will you be properly angered by the filth that has desecrated the Eucharist and the priesthood. 

"The priesthood is a real organic communion. It will regain its place as the sacral brotherhood when we defend it with pollution taboos."


What is a pollution taboo?

PENCE: 
"It is the prohibition of an act that rots the group by its performance. The act pollutes, and thus it must have the strongest kind of punishment, ostracism, and taboo tied to it."


It seems like you're talking about something more than sin, confession, and penance. Does the Church have anything like this, or are you inventing a brand-new category of punishments?

PENCE: 
"If a woman has an abortion she is, by the very act, excommunicated from the church. Sodomy in the priesthood has a similar 'power of pollution' of its own. Each act pollutes the protective duty of their respective sex. Motherhood is defiled by abortion. The brotherhood of fathers is defiled by clerical sodomy.

"Any priest or bishop who has committed sodomy -- consensual or not, adult or youth -- is by the very act removed from clerical office. He will be stripped of all sacramental authority (and lose his pension).

"The act of sodomy is a fundamental pollution. It is not a sin again the adultery commandment! Rather, it is a trampling on the first and fourth: the commands to flee idolatry, and to never dishonor one's father. The sodomite priest drags every Roman collar with him into the act which is the antithesis of the Sacred Mysteries. When he returns to the altar there is a cloud of the Black Mass about him. His sin can be forgiven as a repentant layman, but what he has done to the priesthood can only be washed out and sent away -- like Judas on Holy Thursday. Get out of here and be about your evil work! 

"The atheist culture of the modern West has subsidized abortion and sacramentalized sodomy. Right now our bishops agree on a severe ostracizing punishment for the woman who goes against the nature of motherhood. But the bishops don't defend their sacral brotherhood of fathers with a similar taboo. Why? Because so many are implicated themselves."


Why do you feel so strongly that today's Catholics misunderstand our Lord's washing of the apostles' feet?

PENCE:
"As is evident from this engraving [below], the dark figure in the back is the perfect symbol of Christ's command to keep the brotherhood clean. Pick up your Bible and read St. John's thirteenth chapter! Peter mistakenly thought it was an act of service and humiliation by Christ, and he wouldn't allow it. But Christ told Peter: 'You don't know what I am doing, but later will understand.' 

"Protestants don't think there is a priesthood so they are not going to understand this as an exorcism by a High Priest among his priests. Catholics have held their priests so high that we couldn't see that  Christ's command  to the apostles to do as He had done applied to every generation down through the ages. 

"Let's get serious. Where else in Scripture do we treat washing as an act of service, and not a cleansing? This is not Jesus trying to get in some service hours. This is a high priest washing out a horrific filth! 

"A woman with cancer is a living organism beset by another living organism made of her own cells malignantly transformed. Her doctor must face the rebellion of her parts by protecting the vitality of her whole. But the malignancy must be met with knife (surgery), poison (chemotherapy), and tactical nuclear weapons (radiation). The doctor must always keep the nurturing of the whole person clear in his mind and central to his healing efforts. But he must strike with a ferocity that makes a patient ask, 'Are you trying to kill me, doc?' There must be a killing -- make no mistake. But the horrible killing, that terrible reckoning, is to get his patient back whole -- stronger and more beautiful than ever. 

"If a bishop isn't willing to crack the whip on bad clerics -- high and low -- he should resign his office, and allow a man who will pay the price of healing to take his place." 


One of the traditional arguments in support of Vatican II is that it was the Church's "long-delayed grown-up response to the challenge of the Enlightenment."
What do you say, though, to the many Catholics who wonder whether the cure of radical re-invention was worse than the disease? To paraphrase Isaiah 25: our mighty parishes have been turned "into heaps of ruins."

PENCE:
"That's a skewed vision of the Second Vatican Council. The chaotic 1960s found the West sparking the sexual revolution, and the Chinese initiating their disastrous Cultural Revolution. But the sixties were also a great time of spiritual order. The Pentecostals were converting the global South, American Baptists were inspiring an interracial political brotherhood, and the Israelis recaptured Holy Jerusalem. The Catholics formally renewed the patriarchal fraternity of a Eucharistic episcopal-centered Church. Vatican II recast our relations with Jews, the Orthodox, and the Protestants. It also started to reconfigure a new sensibility of worldwide bishops away from the homosexual-saturated Europeans. 

"The Fatherhood of God acts through sacred brotherhoods -- of Catholic priests and free nations. Synods and conferences of bishops led by clear-speaking heroic individuals will clean out the homosexuals who took over Rome long before the sixties. The individualism of the Enlightenment has peaked in the depressing confusion of gender ideology. That happened in the Church through a homosexual clergy as surely as it corrupted Western politics through feminism and globalism. The Catholic priesthood, once it is reformed and re-sacralized, will lead us back to the patriarchy of God. The fraternity of an apostolic church will be the template for the free nations. Don't knock Vatican II -- it's just beginning to be made manifest. Many people criticized the Council for not attacking Communism as the world's greatest evil. But the fathers attacked atheism as the most serious threat to humanity, and treated Communism as one subset. The atheists have reappeared, not as armed missionary Reds, but as ideological globalist bureaucrats. The very structure of the Council and Church -- a patriarchal fraternity -- is exactly the form needed to fight the dragon of our age. But first, the apostles need their foot-washing."  

The Eastern Liturgy prayer puts it this way: “When Thy glorious disciples were enlightened at the washing of their feet before the supper, then the impious Judas was darkened …”

Religion, Nations, and Geopolitics Review: Saturday Jan 5, 2019

               By A.  Joseph Lynch and Dr. David Pence

I. POPE FRANCIS AND THE CHURCH

CONCELEBRATED MASSES: One of the gifts of the Novus Ordo is concelebration. Here a young priest talks of concelebrating with Pope Francis. Apostolic fraternity in the flesh.

COSMIC CHRIST AND SUFFERING: Christmas, Turkish nationalism, and Armenian massacre. The Coming of the Cosmic Christ to a suffering chaotic world.

HOMOSEXUALS IN THE PRIESTHOOD: Why men like me shouldn't be ordained as priests. This man with strong homosexual tendencies has a lot of good to say. But much is missing. He thinks it's too late to expel all the homosexual priests already in the priesthood. His emphasis is we should be sure seminaries, don't let any more in. True enough but not enough. He also sees clerical sodomy as a sin against a victim for whom the priest is meant to be a spiritual father. That too is true. But the sin is also against the priesthood itself the sacral Apostolic college Christ made holy to keep His Bodily Presence on earth. There is no sense in his writing that the priest is part of a sacred body that is being degraded.  It is a DESECRATION of the Eucharist and the Apostolic bond. He sees the homosexual act by a priest as a sin. That is true but even more fundamentally the act is a POLLUTION. It is as serious as the non Levite who grabbed the teetering Ark of the Covenant... except there is no good will on the part of the polluter. The writer has no idea of Christian brotherhood - the properly ordered male love which forms a group of men large enough and strong enough to do the Will of the Father which is to establish His kingdom on earth. That will take a lot of men in very masculine formation - some as priests and others as the armed citizens of "baptized nations." That is the fraternity which must be built up strong enough to extract the cancer.

IS THE VATICAN SILENT ON MCCARRICK? One of the great lies against Pope Francis is that he isn't "moving fast enough" on Cardinal McCarrick or the the Vatican is silent about him because he is such favorite of the Pope's. This of course ignores that Ted McCarrick has been humiliated and is no longer called Cardinal - under the papacy of Pope Francis. More evidence is accumulating. Does this seem like a Vatican coverup or an actual investigation? For all those who say Pope Francis was forced to act because abuse of minor was revealed, this is absolutely wrong. The victim was 16 not a minor in traditional Church law. McCarrick got nailed (with more to come) because we finally had a Pope who would exercise his authority in open. EWTN and the conservative Catholic blogs in America would help matters much more by revealing the huge McCarrick enabling homosexual network in America (in Washington DC and New York-New Jersey particularly). It is easier to use TV and the internet to attack the far away Father than expose the much more culpable close up degenerates who might fight back. It is time for Cardinal Vigano to come out of the bushes and also publicly apologize to the Holy Father without retracting his much needed expose of the homosexual infiltration of the Vatican.

MORE INVESTIGATIONS: McCarrick and the confessional - the Vatican investigation deepens. Christopher Altieri is a good source for many details. His desire to color every story with an anti-Pope Francis angle serves him poorly. In the above article he includes more about the incredible disgrace of the investigation by Cardinal Burke-led Vatican tribunal into Bishop Apron in Guam.  There is of course no word against the person of Cardinal Burke from a man freely maligning Pope Francis at every turn.  It is peculiar how that failure to punish the predatory sodomite of Guam is so whitewashed by America's "faithful Catholic media." Here is Altieri recap of 2018.

NEW JERSEY CORRUPTION: You want corruption - go to New Jersey. This isn't ancient history.

THE MASONS: Understanding the Masons - a Catholic perspective. This article is the most viewed article on the Catholic World Report website in 2017 and 2018. A wonderful lucid history. We tell our students, "Don't leave explaining the physical universe to the atheists". Let us add, "Don't leave the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Men (FOGBOM) to the Masons.

DEBATING ISLAM: Is Islam a Religion of Peace? "No," says Daniel Johnson at Oxford.  "Yes," says Mehdi Hasan at Oxford. Both very good. Hasan quite brilliant. Johnson a very articulate English Catholic. He did list as one of Islam's sins that 90% of Muslim women think they should always obey their husbands. Really? That's supposed to be a high moral criticism in a land where the ability to abort is considered the pinnacle of female freedom.

BISHOPS ON RETREAT: Pope Francis letter to US Bishops on Retreat.  Retreat Jan 2-8, 2019, Chicago.
"During our meeting, I suggested that together you make a retreat, a time of seclusion, prayer and discernment as a necessary step in responding in the Spirit of the Gospel to the crisis of credibility that you are experiencing as a Church. We see this in the Gospel: at critical moments in his mission the Lord withdrew and spent the whole night in prayer inviting his disciples to do the same...  No response is adequate..we must speak a word born of the prayer of the shepherds who, like Moses, fight and intercede for their people."

 "Clearly a living fabric has come undone and we like weavers are called to repair it." 

"If we want to be fathers, pastors, and teachers, we must also act as brothers." 

Quoting Lumen Gentium, the Church is "the sign and instrument of communion with God and of the unity of the entire human race" 

"The Lord was well aware that, at the hour of the cross, lack of unity, division and dispersion, as well as attempts to flee from that hour would distort and hinder their mission. That is why He asked the Father to watch over them so that at those times they would be one even as He and His Father  were one and that none of them would be lost."

 "Entering with trust into Jesus' prayer to the Father, we want to learn from him and with firm resolve to begin this period of prayer, silence, and reflection, of dialogue and communion, of listening and discernment. In this way we allow our hearts to be conformed to His image and help us discover His will. "

"On this path we are not alone. From the beginning, Mary accompanied and sustained the community of the Apostles. By her maternal presence, she helped the community not to lose its bearings by breaking into closed groups or thinking it could save itself.  We ask her to keep us united and persevering as on the day of Pentecost, so the Spirit will be poured into our hearts and help us in every time and place to bear witness to the Resurrection.   Fraternally, ..."

II. PRESIDENT TRUMP AND AMERICA

SENATE VS. KC'S: Feminist Senators go after the Knights of Columbus.

TRUMP AND THE MILITARY: Mattis, Trump and Civilian Control. Empires build up the military as an overreaching institution. Both the soldier and the citizen however as moral agents of some transcendent truth are evacuated of authority. The leadership of the modern American military has a lot of people thanking them for their service but they decimated the morality of the ranks by integrating women and homosexuals at every level of the warrior brotherhood. When the female senators and "gay" bureaucrats pushed, the new modern military professionals caved.

A NEW TEAM: What Trump really needs is a whole new National Security team who supports him. Here is an excellent article discussing the problem with names. President Trump tried to get the Generals to move. When they wouldn't, he did.

BUCHANAN ON THE MIDEAST: The Mideast wreckage that Trump inherited.  Pat Buchanan gives a good historical summary.

TRUMP & NATIONALISM: American Conservative looks at President Trump and nationalism.

III. THE NATIONS

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR: Learning from the Spanish Civil War. Article about great documentary on Spain in its war for religion and nation against Communism. Link to the long BBC documentary.

EXPANDING NATO: A good explanation of how aggressive NATO actions after the unification of Germany caused our rupture with Russia. Secretary of Defense Gates in last years of George W. Bush and first years of Barack Obama is an eyewitness.

ABE PROFILE: An excellent profile of Japan's Shinzo Abe from an unlikely source.

MEN MAKING PEACE: Nations and strong nation men will make peace. Turkey, Syria and Iran have a lot more firepower than 2000 American troops.

 Globalist leaders against patriarchy in religion and nations. It didn't quite work out. 

Nations and nation men are alive and well. 

A NEW FOREIGN POLICY: China, Africa and the US. It is hard to think of any area in the world that needs the John Bolton approach less. Using a cold war competition of superpowers approach to Africa is reminiscent of squeezing the reality of Latin American nations into the Soviet vs US paradigm. It is not a happy memory.

AFRICA: Five events in Africa 2018.

THE FIRST GULF WAR: Britain, Kuwait, and buying the American Right. This was the occasion when Margaret Thatcher advised George H.W. Bush: "This is no time to go wobbly George."

End of the Year 2018-the UAE is prominent in light green area

The Saudis fight the Houthis as al Qaeda consolidates the Coast. The war against Yemen is not only a humanitarian disaster, it is a strategic blunder as once again we are misled by our "Saudi allies" to help decimate Shiite forces who are willing to fight the Sunni jihadists of al Qaeda.

IRAQI SHIITES, CHRISTIANS: In Iraq, Shiite forces are ascendant - will they help or hurt the Christians?

IV. CULTURE OF LIFE, CULTURE OF PROTECTION

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Anti Trump Neocons, the demise of the Weekly Standard - where they meet these days. This is from a liberal Jewish intellectual, Jacob Heilbrun.  He knows the landscape. There is an interesting opening at an Ethics and Public Policy gala for Paul Ryan. This is the Institute front of a "Judaeo-Christian values" group associated with George Weigel among others. In many ways Weigel is the failed face of Catholic neoconservatives the way Bill Kristol is to the Jews. Like Kristol his personal pomposity and spiritual blindness to nationalism, masculinity, Orthodox Russia, and the significance of President Trump are staggering.

KC'S AND FEDERAL JUDGES: Candidates for Federal Judge and the Knights of Columbus: Finding a neutral protector of life.

DRAG IN THE LIBRARY: Drag Queen Story Hour in local library - very real.

Friday Book Review: Hitler's Religion by Richard Weikart

Was vegetarian Hitler a Christian anti Semite or a rationalist atheist? Or did he believe religion is believed by the poor, ridiculed by the educated, and useful to the demagogues. Here is a good review of Hitler's Religion by Richard Weikart.  Here is an AOA analysis of the biological Hitler-an armed Darwin. The writer who best describes the racial understanding of Hitler is Timothy Snyder in his Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning.
 Weikart correctly understands Hitler as no atheist. Hitler  believed there was a great order in Nature and the leader of a great race must align himself within that order. Nature rewards the strongest group with the most durable survival. Hitler's God was Nature and Darwin was her prophet.

Religion, Nations, and Geopolitics Review: Saturday December 29

                                            By Dr. David Pence and A. Joseph Lynch 


                                 American Nationalism is Christian Nationalism.                                   

From Brazil to Russia to Iran to Turkey different nations are emerging with their religions at the core of their national identities. Nations are spiritual covenants. Their religious ties to the transcendent allow their  full expression as political cultures. The Protestant Reformation is the religious culture that produced the American  nation. It produced a unique culture of recognizing the sovereignty of God and the liberty of men. Baptists needed religious liberty to worship God in Anglican Virginia. That free space for worship would be used by Jews, Catholics and centuries later Muslims to build large religious cultures amidst a Protestant majority. Religious men were free as communities to recognize the sovereignty of God and worship Him. This respect for the sacred fostered bonds of affection among fellow citizens. Loving one's neighbor was made concrete in the fraternity of citizenship. The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Men (FOGBOM) built a network of cities and states which made everyone safer and more productive.  Our roads, sewer systems, electric grid, clean water piped to74 million shingle family homes---all of this is a fruit of political agreement and hard work. We all live today deeply embedded in 3 centuries of Christian agreement. Our media is post Christian but our physical  infrastructure is Christian to the core. Our University professors are atheists but the University is a Christian fruit---so is literacy. Our lady leaders and their gelding party boys can mouth their gender inanities because Christian men have provided so many layers of protection they cannot see the predators outside.  

Harvard University First Seal--for Christ and Church

   The baby boomer presidents tore America away from our ever reforming Christian culture. They  combined the most extreme Enlightenment goals of religious indifference and individualism to their own sexual revolution against the customs and mores which had defined the Republic they inherited. They have now  culturally ruled for a longer period than the Israelites wandered in the desert. They have ruled several decades longer  than Mao's cultural revolution which started about the same time.  Their rule has overturned the Sovereignty of God and enthroned the autonomy of the individual. We are left an atomized and tribalized republic.  Like the Chinese cultural revolution, the sixties students cultivated hysteria and mob rule against  established authority. They took over the Universities, as well as  the legal and medical professions.  In Christian America the old line protestant churches fell first. "Smash Patriarchy" meant first and foremost, "Resist the Fatherhood of God". The Universities, media, professional clerics and law profession have mounted an attack against the sinews of Christian civilization--the sacred bond of male female marriage and the sacral brotherhood covenant of masculine citizenship. Religious Americans have been mute against this assault because we too seek approval in the social status system of the University, the established print and visual Media, the legal profession, and the medical profession. We too want to get along with the female minister on Sunday and the female human resource department during the rest of the week.

Christian civilization sacralizes male and female distinctions while downplaying racial and class differences. The diversity ideology does just the opposite. Christian countries make demands on all the men in the group to defend the group. This forms a protective bond of duty among the men regardless of their religious way of worship.  This is the fundamental bond of politics-it is male and territorial.  It is a holy brotherhood.  It is stronger than drugs, the alternative to racial tribalism and gives religious and historical significance to our masculine sports culture. It is a beautiful form of love that dare not speak its name. It is under vicious attack. It is a treasured custom which has made our borders safe and freed European and Asian nations from racial empires. The male protective national identity is attested by two centuries of our war dead-overwhelmingly young and  male. Maybe we should thank them for their service by honoring their short lives acting out a sacrificial male sex role. The patriotic masculine  protective custom has millions of beneficiaries but almost no articulate defenders. The fact there are women in the military is irrelevant. Women have helped the male fighting force since loading rifles on the frontier.
It is a great unfortunate paradox that the men least likely to defend the patriotic tradition as inherently masculine  are those who have risen to the top of military command. Exactly the men who should best explain the masculine character of national  military duty and Christian tradition are the least able. Like Catholic Bishops socialized by their internal gay lobby, our American military leaders have been severely compromised because  they sought feminist approval for career mobility and social acceptance. The generals who make it to Washington cannot talk the talk of soldiers in the barracks or battlefields. The all male brotherhood of battle is the ultimate "locker room talk" that must be banned. Everyone can mouth raunchy sexual topics but no-one can speak the high and chivalrous language of masculine Christian  knights.  The big lie that those who favor sexual distinctions in customs, practice, and law are "racist" must be exposed. The nation- an armed territorial male covenant--  is not racist by nature. Nations can define citizenship in a way that enforces racial discrimination.  Japan does that. Many of our early states did that. Christian America does not do that. Our territorial bond is our antidote to racism... not its expression.
The nation is a deeply biblical form of agreement under God. It should unite us at home and give us a new way of relating to nations abroad. Our Christian nation has become an atheist empire abroad as we leave American foreign policy to a discredited establishment of Social Darwinists, crusading sexual revolutionaries, imperial democracy advocates, and careerists. Instead of militarily encircling and threatening the regional powers of China, Russia and Iran, we should relate to them as fellow nations with their own civilizational communal lives and as fellow humans with spiritual souls. A Christian foreign policy is not pacifist. The Christian sword is meant to be held by many nations. There is One Body of Christ but many languages and nations. America is a Christian nation; so is Russia and so is Brazil. The Christian sword was divided before Christ was incarnated.  That happened when the Tower of  Babel was stopped as the first globalist building project.
 The Christian sword is a tempered blade used for protection by a mature man disciplined by loyalties to God and country.  We must wrest it away from the moral pygmies who keep us in war around the world. Lady Lindsey Graham and little Marco Rubio have joined Nicki Haley, Madeline Albright and Hillary Clinton in their hysterical war talk sending American manhood  to fight their endless wars to further their partisan careers. Their warmongering against our old allies from World War II  is a disgrace to a Christian nation and a betrayal of our fighting men. Let there be peace on earth and let the largest Christian country be a force for diplomacy and peace not boycotts and bombing raids against smaller but still sovereign nations.

The sexual revolutionaries have mounted a war against men--magnifying real sins into capital crimes. In the name of individualism, their courts have castrated the male legislative institutions of states and local policing institutions of cities. They have prevented states from outlawing abominations like abortion and sodomy. Indeed these violations of nature are subsidized and treated as status symbols.  In explaining why the empire had collapsed, Augustine told the Romans that some of their customs left men ineffectual or foolish. That will not destroy a city. Other customs though put men in service of evil spirits. Those customs no matter how cherished will ruin a people. The feminists have to shriek when accusing men of our crimes, our faults and our many disagreeable habits. They have to shriek because a calmer atmosphere would lead to a broader examination of both male and female behavior. When the dogs are yelping to tree the fox there is no time to consider the crimes of the bloodhounds. In a calmer environment what crimes would cry to heaven?  It is not good if a man slaps a woman but is it really as vicious a crime as a mother aborting her innocent child? Unresolved Moral Guilt leads to Moral Outrage at smaller crimes to conceal the deeper sins. Every man a brute and rapist and every woman a victim and sinless truth teller are threads of the same tapestry.  


                                           

  This Christmas season we are once again presented with the reality that God became man and man has a spiritual soul and destiny.  His deepest relationships with women are built around sacred monogamous marriages. His deepest relations with men are meant to form the religious bond of brotherly love under the Father and be publicly expressed in the civic brotherhood of nations. May the Catholic nations of Latin America and the Protestant nations of the US and Canada respond to the joy of this Christmas season  by reversing the sexual revolution and reconsecrating our selves and our nations to the Sacred Order. The atheists have had their turn. The Golden Calf has stirred our people to frenzy for long enough. Let us thank God for dwelling among us. Let us give Him a holy nation in which to dwell.  America will become great again when we give honor and glory to God by repenting our transgressions. Christianity is an ordered system of loves which will bring peace to mankind and expulsion to the Evil One. America as a nation is a brotherhood of men protecting a territorial community and its customs of religious worship, free work, sacral marriage and male citizen soldiers. We must reassert the ordered sexually distinctive loves that spring from Apostolic Christianity and define the American nation.  Only then will we "achieve and cherish  a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations."

                     

Religion, Nations, and Geopolitics Review: Saturday December 22

By Dr. David Pence and A. Joseph Lynch

THE WEEKLY BRIEF
President Trump, General Mattis, and the Emergence of  a Nationalist Foreign Policy. 

President Trump is withdrawing US troops from Syria and reducing the 15,000 Afghan mission by 7000 men. (Joshua Landis from the University of Oklahoma is probably the best commentator on Syria in America. He shows the key role of Turkey in this move. We apologize that RT was the only news source for Landis analysis.)The foreign policy establishment represented by Lindsey Graham and Bob Mendenz are apoplectic. They should be. Secretary of Defense James Mattis has resigned stating his reasons in a principled letter.  General Mattis said the President deserved a Secretary of Defense who shared his policy goals. There are not many men around who will fit that bill.  Very few men who have advanced in the military or foreign policy establishment in the last 30 years advocate the Trump nation to nation approach. General Mattis was very clear in stating his own views about strengthening alliances, confronting malignant actors and being wisely wary of competitors. His positions are the conventional wisdom of the last several National Security Strategy reports. (We discussed this a year ago in Globalist Generals and a Nationalist President). These conventional "bipartisan" Western goals are not the President's.
 President Trump as a nationalist wants to establish more nation to nation relations. He understands in the Mideast that it will be nation states-Turkey, Iraq and Syria that establish order where ISIS once reigned free. His desire for strong nation states to establish order in the region is in contrast with Israel which often prefers failed or civilly divided states as neighbors.  President Trump does not agree with the last three National Security Strategic assessments which saw Russia as "a revisionist power" who along with China "want to shape a world antithetical to our values and interests." Trump does not see grand strategy as the three encirclements of Russia, China and Iran. He is unfortunately very aggressive in isolating Iran. He has Republican and military support for his aggressive anti Iran coalition joined by the Saudis, Sunni Gulf kingdoms and Israel. (Hopefully this one large contradictory emphasis will be exposed and reversed by the Khashoggi--MbS affair and more investigation of the Saudi role in the 9/11 attacks.)   Trump has never wanted to encircle Russia and he is open to a competitive great power relation with China instead of a South China Sea "containment of the emerging enemy" approach. The US foreign policy experts and the "western alliance" globalists all oppose his instincts.
Most military men have been educated in the West vs the Rest worldview.  This is also true of British and Australian foreign services who want the English speaking West to prevail over a multilingual multi civilizational alliance of the great nations. {One of the reasons Fox News is so schizophrenic in its coverage of Trump is that as a news organization, they have no cultural feel for American nationalism. Their Australian roots(and their overloaded English accented white boy commentators representing "the West") have favored a "Western values, Anglo modernist white individualistic" synthesis over a territorial American nationalistic multiracial religious working man accent.
 There are almost no Fox, CNN, ABC or PBS commentators who could explain(much less advocate) the alternative vision of China, Russia and the US bandwagoning rather than confronting, encircling and power balancing. President Trump doesn't have a Kissinger to explain the larger Nixon like realignment he is formulating. Unfortunately there are no Democratic Senators who can overcome the hate Trump movement to join him in a serious  antiwar initiative. This is the bitter fruit of partisanship that found no Republican senators aiding President Obama in his reluctance  to bomb Syria and his bold initiative with Iran.
 President Trump has resisted his own party and our failed military strategists. For his first two years in office he needed loyal military men in his top offices to protect his office even more than promote his policies. Now he must initiate or perish.  He needs fellow citizens, educated journalists and statesmen to follow his lead in learning from the history of the 20th century to formulate an American nationalist foreign policy.  It will take us all to break the stranglehold  of lobby funded careerists like Sen. Robert Menendez, ambitious presidential candidates like Senator Marco Rubio and honest but mistaken patriots like General James Mattis. This is especially true in applying nationalist perspectives to Mideast foreign policy. 
 (Addendum 12/23/2018: General Mattis in his resignation suggested late February 2019 as his departure time. President  Trump a few days later said it would be Jan 1. The media exploded that Trump was "forcing Mattis out early". When a high ranking  subordinate tells his commanding officer he doesn't agree with his policy but he'd like to stay an extra two months, no commander in chief worth his salt would comply. In a corporation the human resource department would accompany you to your desk and get your personals as you surrendered internet access and are terminated immediately.
 Ask Harry Truman about the duty of Presidents to maintain civilian control over popular generals. The Hate Trump Psychosis has the Left cheering for the globalist military network continuing unwinnable wars in Syria and Afghanistan  against  an elected  President trying to extricate us. These are wars about national governance that our military can't win... but can't bring themselves to leave. Our officers need the authority of an elected president to bring the troops home. We all need the foreign nation states of  Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Syria and Afghanistan to establish political compromise and military control in their respective countries. Order follows from strong nation states in agreement about their shared boundaries. Every American nationalist and every left wing anti war progressive should be singing together: "Thank God for President Trump." )    

I. POPE FRANCIS AND THE CHURCH

A NEW INNER CIRCLE NEEDED: Pope Francis governs by trusting top allies for advice and delegation of tasks. The effectiveness of his governance depends on how well he discerns the trustworthy. Unfortunately several top cardinals who have won his trust must be convincingly exposed as part of the problem not the solution.  In America they include Donald Wuerl and Blasé Cupich. In Honduras it is Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga. If seminarian abuse isn't enough, here is a widow.  The Honduran bishops deny. Maradiaga right hand man is out. All from July, 2018.

TURN YOURSELVES IN: Pope Christmas Message: To abusers he said, "Turn yourself over to civil authorities and prepare for Divine Judgment."  He thanked journalists for uncovering crimes. He also condemned "the infidelity of those who betray their vocation"..."they hide behind their good intentions to stab their brothers and sisters in the back to sow weeds, division, and bewilderment. They resemble Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus Christ and did not repent. They find spiritual and intellectual excuses to continue on their path to perdition."  He still concludes that the light of Christmas is greater than the darkness of corruption.

MARSHALL AND MICHAEL: Interview Taylor Marshall and Michael Voris - very interesting profile. His momma's lesson on abortion was a key and the faith of his dad and their loyalty to Notre Dame. On Pope Francis, all three of these good men are off base. Voris has an impressive  background as an investigative reporter. He is one of the very few authentic reporters on the depth and details of clergy corruption. His own grievous lack of filial piety toward the Holy Father is matched by one of the co hosts who seems to revel in the  "resist authority" zeitgeist. The EWTN hosts are also guilty of stabbing the Pope repeatedly in the back while ignoring the investigative work and crimes in their own dioceses. There is no courage in attacking the Pope while running from the local stench that cries out for expose.  It is a difficult task to combine filial piety, fraternal correction, and the necessity for an exorcism  of the huge cancerous homosexual network from within the apostolic fraternity.  It is a difficult necessary task which will  require many talented, courageous and prudent bishops, priests, and laymen. Bashing the Pope is no way to establish patriarchal fraternity. Investigating by name and offense the diocesan networks and corrupt religious orders is essential. This effort will be lay led at first.  They will have an effective place to bring evidence when serious bishops appoint diocesan Eliot Ness like promoters of justice to coordinate the inquisitions.  Michael Voris is a very wounded warrior but he is a warrior in a time of war. His betrayal of Pope Francis just when we need to unite many Catholics against our most corrupt clergy is sowing great confusion. Marshall Taylor is a good teacher swallowed by his own pomposity in betraying the Pope. Both of these men are opening to an alliance with Catacomb Catholics who oppose Vatican Two, the Luminous Mysteries, the Novus Ordo, and Pope Francis. This is the wrong coalition. These men can not  provide a glue for a priestly fraternity and a Maccabean brotherhood of laymen. Their misdirection is feeding the power of chicken hawk enablers like James Martin. The Pope must be our axis of unity not a paternal punching bag.

WHAT'S IN A NAME? The Ukrainian government nears passing a new law that would force the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to add "Russia" to its title since it recognizes Patriarch Kiril as its spiritual head and prays for him accordingly in the liturgy. Under the new law, Ukrainian Orthodox priests would be banned from visiting and ministering at Ukrainian military installations. Meanwhile the "Ukrainian Orthodox Church" title would be transferred to a schismatic church separate from Kiril. After Christmas the Ukrainian parliament will begin to consider a law that would be used to transfer church property...

II. PRESIDENT TRUMP AND AMERICA

PRESIDENT-LED REFORM: Real Criminal Justice Reform - a Trump-Kushiner bipartisan triumph. The First Step Act.   The Trump consensus in 2020 will not be forged by a plea to "suburban women". It will be a nationalist "work and protect" appeal to black, brown, yellow, and white men to come together as fellow citizens and strengthen our common identity as Americans again under God. Men bond by territory even more deeply than race, class, or party. Christianity orders us to be brothers.  Each particular nation gives men a practical historical and territorial form to express and live out the public love of brotherhood. Public interracial cross-class brotherhood is as fundamental a form of Christian love as male-female marriage. It turns out the nationalists pay more attention to the imprisoned males than the feminist lavender coalition on the left or the war party tough on crime gang on the right. This was a serious reform that made a reality out of two favorite chants: "black lives matter" and "love trumps hate".  It was bipartisan in the best tradition. There is a group of Democrats who could help him considerably in both his infrastructure building agenda at home and his empire dismantling abroad.

FAREWELL WEEKLY STANDARD: Weep not for the Weekly Standard.

NAZIS IN AMERICA? A famous German reporter for the country's largest newspaper came to America to find the rural supporters of Donald Trump. He wanted to show the Nazi specter that is alive and well in small town America. Actually the largest ethnic group in America is German if you don't lump all the Hispanics. The State of Minnesota has the 4th largest Germanic proportion (38%). The German scribe came to Fergus Falls, Minnesota and spun quite a yarn. Trouble is those Minnesota yokels found out about his fairy tale. The rural-big city divide found the truth tellers from the country exposing the big city reporter who has lost his job. There really aren't a lot of cryptic Nazis in Fergus Falls but there is a William Tell-like resistance to tyrants and liars.

APOLLO 8 AT 50: This Christmas marks the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Apollo 8 mission - the first time man orbited the moon. When three American men made the journey, they brought their Bibles with them and delivered a Christmas message the world would not have heard had the Soviets beat us there first.

III. THE NATIONS

ISIS IS GONE - TIME TO GO HOME: The US is in Syria to help Israel against Iran. Time to leave? 
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Excellent review of UAE and their young ruler MbZ who is a serious influence on Saudi MbS. The UAE is aggressively pro-monarchy, anti-populist, and anti-Muslim Brotherhood. They see Qatar and Al Jazeera as an enemy.

MORE LITTLE WARS TV: The guys from Little Wars TV teach us this week about little-known yet pivotal battle from the American Revolution at Princeton.