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Thursday, 28 November 2019

The Revolution against the Father



 With thanks to Non-Possumus and a supporter of the blog for a better than google translation!

The Dominicans of Avrillé just published an excellent article about the destruction of the paternal role. It agrees much with the statement made recently by HE Williamson.  A day does not pass, not even an hour, without us witnessing a very serious and unthinkable facts against the father: delusional feminism, procedures and persecutions against the fathers of family by means of revolting wives (even among Catholics of Tradition!) etc .... These poor women do not realise that their fatherless children will be the future slaves of the republic. It is not a simple moral decadence linked to usury but the logical product of the "revolution" organized by the Lodges. To each of us to take the measure and fight against this evil machination.

 The Revolution against the Father
Source: Website of the Dominicans of Avrillé

Fifty years ago, in 1969, Dr. Pierre Simon, a French pioneer in the contraceptive pill, was elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of France. Ten years later, in 1979, having succeeded in legalising abortion, he explained that it was only the beginning of the Masonic plan. The next step was artificial insemination (now known as IVF: medically assisted procreation), which would eliminate the father:
With the pill, one has a normal sexual life without procreation; with artificial insemination, procreation will take place without sexual act [...]. Sexuality will be dissociated from procreation, and the procreation of paternity. It is the whole family concept that is changing over here: the father is no longer the parent, but the one who raises the child. [...] [There will be] on one side the emotional and sexual couple - the procreative woman, the nonproductive man -; on the other, the society, mediated by the doctor, which brings the demand for children closer to an availability of anonymous seed, controlled and governed by the "sperm bank" [...] [1].
At the time of writing, this shift is reaching its critical point, as the French Parliament is preparing to legalize the "IVF for all". Some children will not even have an adoptive father. What will the consequences be ?

The Janissaries Syndrome

If educators have long observed the shortcomings of children deprived of a father, Bernard Gibello found a striking type in the Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire: snatched from their parents to be forcibly conscripted into the Muslim army these unfortunates became fanatical warriors, compensating for their need for a father by unconditional submission to the Turkish tyrant. André Bergevin summarises and comments on the psychologist's analyses:
Character traits presented by children without consistent paternal education were collected by Gibello as Janissary Syndrome; indeed, these elite soldiers (often homosexuals) had their peculiarities to have been taken away from their families (Christian) and to have suffered, in a Muslim environment, a religious destabilization and especially a conditioning making them replace the image of their real father, by the abstract image of the Sultan in whose service they slavishly put their aggressiveness.
[...] Similar personalities were numerous among the Hitlerites. We can also remember that Armand Maloumian who knew the Gulag from the inside, tells that in 1948, the N.K.V.D. organized sexual orgies between deportees and those deportees hitherto rigorously separated. Pregnant women were then told that they would be released after one year to take care of their offspring. Obviously it was not, but their children were confiscated by the Soviet state who raised them in specialized schools, to make, mainly, policemen fully dedicated to the cause of their only identifiable father: the Communist state. It is instructive to see how authoritarian regimes, very varied, and at different times, have perfectly exploited the domesticated and instrumentalised aggression of children without father and without family.
Do those who now demolish paternal authority want the authoritarianism that tomorrow may need "Janissaries" to impose unpopular dictates? Is it a coincidence that (in 1997) a senior officer of the Gendarmerie, in a study meeting, spontaneously and curiously defined his new recruits as: "neither God, nor father! ". The first part of the definition is commonplace in this materialistic age, but the second can surprise those who do not know the work of Gibello. [...]
Men so need a father to honour and follow, that if he is absent or simply fading away, and if God is ambiguous, they can fall back on the image of a state authority, and to be satisfied with this substitute, that with their peers, they will blindly serve the arms in the hand. Any decline of paternalism is a chance for centralized authoritarianism, that is to say, a chance for tyranny [2].
The revolutionary logic
In the Republican values ​​of France, this scenario gives rise to curious resonances. Was it not possible to say that the Declaration of Human Rights was written for a citizen "a born child found and dying unmarried" [3]? "By cutting off the head of Louis XVI - Balzac added - the Republic cut off all fathers' heads." In 1792, Rabaut Saint-Etienne, president of the National Assembly, proclaimed that the State must "seize man from the cradle, and even before his birth, because the child who is not born belongs already to the Fatherland, "while the Revolutionary Deputy Joseph Lequinio, anxious for universal fraternity, proclaimed:" It would be happy for the human species, that all the children do not know their father [6]. "

A devilish relentlessness
After the supernatural authority of the Church, nothing can oppose the Revolution more than the natural authority of the father of a family, precisely because it is natural, that is to say, independent of the State. Like any totalitarian ideology, the Revolution cannot support an authority prior to its own. For two hundred years, under the pretext of "liberating", it has worked tirelessly to isolate individuals, depriving them of all roots, all tradition, all attachment, all human links and all natural protection against the almighty state. As early as 1793, the future editor of the Civil Code proclaimed:
The imperious voice of reason was heard. There is no more paternal power. One man cannot have direct powers over another, even his son [7].
The Civil Code of Napoleon
In this methodical destruction of the family, the responsibility of the Napoleonic Civil Code is overwhelming.  Bishop Delassus noted:
This code was made to destroy families, abolish heredity, destroy local traditions and isolate individuals, annihilate and gradually destroy all territorial and industrial influences for the benefit of anonymous and cosmopolitan capital [...]. There is no more ‘our home’, legally at least, but unstable families. The spirit and the text of the Civil Code are opposed to any consolidation, to any perpetuation. It  attaches to the family,  the idea of ​​a fleeting society which dissolves at the death of one of the contracting parties.
To support his claims, the counterrevolutionary prelate quoted Frederic Le Play lamenting "the lamentable spectacle of the perpetual liquidation forced by the forced sharing of inheritances" and he stressed that this effect was planned and explicitly desired. On June 6, 1806, Napoleon wrote to his brother Joseph, who became King of Naples:
I want to have in Paris one hundred families, all having risen up with the throne and remaining dependent on it. Those who do not go along with it will be dispersed through the effect of the Civil Code. Establish this Civil Code in Naples; all that is not attached to you will be destroyed in a few years, and what you want to preserve will be consolidated [9].
This cynical plan came from England. In the eighteenth century, Queen Anne imposed on the Catholic Irish equal and forced division of the land, reserving  to the Protestants the ability to test according to English laws; the soil of Ireland thus passed inexorably into the hands of Protestant lords.

From divorce to common law
The cynicism in the legalisation of divorce. Officially, the Law of Alfred-Isaac Naquet (1881) only covered a few extreme cases, particularly painful. But little by little, all the restrictions disappear. While this law of 1881 still prohibited, in the event of adultery, the marriage between accomplices, the prohibition is abolished in 1904; the delay before a new "marriage" is shortened in 1907 and progressively everything is done to facilitate the procedure.

Is it a drift? Obviously no, since Naquet will publish in 1908 a book very clearly entitled: Towards the free union. But it was necessary to proceed in stages. Naquet confided to his friend P. Abram:
To legitimise free unions, we need a change in our mentality. Because, basically, marriage is rather imposed by our morals than by our laws ... But one does not change the mentality of a nation by a decree or a law, especially when this mentality is, like ours, also imbued with Catholic prejudices [10].
To "deconstruct" these "prejudices", one must resort to trickery and lies. Slowly bit by bit, solemnly assuring at each step that there is no question of going to the next and marking, if necessary, a break long enough to forget the promise.

In 1884, in the Naquet law, divorce was only an exceptional remedy, sanctioning a serious fault. As early as 1886, the procedure is simplified. From 3,000 divorces in 1885 to 23,000 in 1938, 35,000 in 1950 and 110,000 in 1981. In the meantime, in 1975, divorce was legalized by mutual consent.

From contraception to abortion
The same techniques of manipulation to attack the unborn child.
In 1963, to promote contraception, the French Movement for Family Planning (MFPF) presented it as the cure for abortion, and, for the sake of the cause, warned against it:
It destroys a baby's life after it has begun. It is dangerous for your life and your health. It can make you sterile.
 Once contraception is accepted, family planning "forgets" that it was supposed to block the road to abortion, and begins to seek the legalization of it. In 1970, Dr. Elton Kessel confesses to the Congress of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) in Tokyo:
If until now abortion has not been advocated by those responsible for family planning, it is because it would have damaged the reputation of the movement. Now that ideas are evolving, Family Planning can change tactics [11].
In parallel, to move public opinion, it does not hesitate to rig the figures, multiplying by six the number of clandestine abortions, and by forty that of women who died from abortion [12].

Towards the fatherless child
The major manoeuvres for the artificial manufacture of fatherless children began in the 1990s. As soon as the IVF was obtained for infertile couples (1994), the campaign for homosexual "couples" was launched.
On 3rd November 1998, Élisabeth Guigou, Minister of Justice, defends in these terms the draft Civil Solidarity Agreement (PACS) in the National Assembly:
The opponents of PACS claim that it would be dangerous for marriage. [...] Some still add a threat: the agreement would be only a first step towards the right to filiation for homosexual couples! Those who claim it involves only themselves. [...] I say with the greatest firmness that this right should not be confused with a hypothetical right to the child. A heterosexual or homosexual couple has no right to have a child outside of natural procreation. The recent laws on medically assisted procreation [...] are not intended to allow procreation of convenience on the basis of a hypothetical right to the child.

I am aware of the possible lawsuits on a possible "follow up" of this bill that would prepare more fundamental changes to our law. This text would be "a double-edged sword ". I resist with the greatest force such suggestions.

This dishonest vocabulary, which suggests that this text would hide something else and that your reporters and the Government would be acting  fraudulently in respect to the law, is unacceptable.
Fourteen years later, the same Élisabeth Guigou explains that it was a ruse:

At the time, the important thing was to pass the PACS. There was fierce resistance to PACS in the Assembly, but also in society with demonstrations, verbal outbursts  [...] So, the important thing was to dissociate PACS from marriage, legally and symbolically. In 1998, it was not possible to put the issue of same-sex marriage on the table, even within the government, I had to insist. At the time it was something that was much less accepted in society, you will not find anyone opposed to PACS nowadays. Today, I have evolved on  marriage. I considered, while speaking with the associations that, since it was about mutual consent between two adults, it was not possible to refuse an equality of  rights. Society has evolved a lot, I keep my questions about adoption to myself; it is necessary to find out how to write in the civil code how to organise the filiation of a child who is adopted by a homo- couple.
In reality, the goal had been clearly made known, as early as 1900, by the great pundits of the League (Masonic) of Human Rights, who declared, at the World Fair in Paris:
Our group is a strong supporter of the integral education of the child by the community, it does not recognize the usefulness of the protection of the parents [...] our group is revolutionary socialist, consequently internationalist anti-patriotic. In the family, we see the very beginning of the clan, the province, the nation; in the paterfamilias, the beginning of the chief, the lord, the king. [...] We want the autonomous personality in the harmonic society. There is no need for the succession of intermediaries: family, province, nation, between the individual and the community. The natural family of the individual is humanity [13].
Behind this cry of hatred against the human family, we easily recognise the revolt of the Prince of selfishness: the demon, Lucifer. Locked in the sterility of his pride, which can only bring forth lies, Satan cannot bear the thought of the God-Father, who not only, from all eternity, gives His Divine Life to the eternal Word but who, in addition, wanted to create men to raise them to this divine filiation, by incorporating them into His only Son.
"The enemies against whom we have to fight are not beings of flesh; it is the Principalities and the Powers of Hell, the leaders of the world of darkness, the evil spirits scattered throughout the universe. Take the weapons of God, to be able to withstand the hour of battle [...]. Above all, have faith; it is the shield where the incendiary arrows of the Evil one will be extinguished. [Eph 6]


[1] - Pierre Simon (1925-2008), Life before all things, Paris, Mazarine, 1979, p. 221-222. Quoted by Christian Lagrave in Salt of the Earth 94, p. 103.

[2] - André Bergevin, Permissive Revolution and Sexuality, From Tolerance as an Argument to Transgression as a Process, Pars, F. X. de Gibert, 2003, p. 366-367.

[3] - The formula is Ernest Renan, in the preface to his Contemporary Questions (Paris, Lévy, 1868, III).

[4] - Do you know, my child, what are the most destructive effects of the Revolution? You would never doubt it. In cutting off Louis XVI's head, the Revolution cut off all fathers' heads. There is no family today, there are only individuals (...). By proclaiming equal rights to paternal succession, they killed the family spirit, they created the taxman! But they have prepared the weakness of superiority and the blind force of the mass, the extinction of the arts, the reign of personal interest (...). We are between two systems: to constitute the State by the Family, or to constitute it by personal interest: democracy or aristocracy, discussion or obedience, Catholicism or religious indifference, that is the question in few words. Honoré de Balzac, The Human Comedy, Scenes from Private Life, Memoirs of Two Young Brides (1840) (Complete Works of H. de Balzac, Volume 2, A. Haussiaud, 1855, 45). - Same interpretation of the Revolution by the feminist Élisabeth Badinter (One is the other, Paris, Odile Jacob, 1986, pp. 192-198).

[5] - Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne (1743-1793), member of the Committee of public instruction of the Convention, speech to the Convention, December 21, 1792.

[6] - Joseph Lequinio (1755-1812), Prejudices destroyed, chapter XV, Bastards, Paris, Desenne, 1793, p. 160.

[7] - Jean-Jacques-Régis of Cambaceres (1753-1824), speech to the Convention, August 9, 1793.

[8] - Bishop Henri Delassus, The Family Spirit in the House, in the City and in the State, Desclée, Lille, 1910, p. 133-135. - See on this subject: Jean Gasselin, "Mgr Delassus and the family spirit" in Salt of the Earth 81, p. 23-28.

[9] - Quoted by Bishop Henri Delassus, ibid., P. 133.

[10] - Quoted by Paul Abram, The Evolution of Marriage (Paris, E. Sansot, 1908, with preface by Léon Blum), p. 117. See also the other quotations given by Christian Lagrave in Salt of the Earth 94, p. 96-97.

[11] - Quoted by Marie-Andrée Lagroua Weill-Hallé, Dad's Abortion, Paris Fayard, 1971, ch. 1.

[12] - On the rigging of statistics by INED, in France, see Bel and Lagrange, Plot against Life (SPF, 1979), and Jean Legrand's article in Routes 322 (April 1988), with INED response in Routes No. 327. - On the rigging of statistics in the United States, see Dr. Nathanson's confession ("We falsified the number of illegal abortions"), in Present of Saturday, November 23, 1985.

[13] - Lucien Brunswick (member of the Central Committee of the League of Human Rights), speech at the feminist congress organized in Paris during the World Expo of 1900 (5-8 September) with Ferdinand Buisson and René Viviani. (International Congress of the Status and Rights of Women, Paris, 1901, pp. 388-389, quoted by Christian Lagrave in "Feminism versus the Family," Salt of the Earth 94, 94.)

Saturday, 16 November 2019

The Cordyceps Pontificate of Pope Francis

Hilary White


(The current crisis in the Church is becoming more and more apparent even to those previously not exposed to traditional arguments against the errors of modernism. The Amazonian Synod, Pachamama and the scandalous comments of Pope Francis are awakening those who, even in spite of their years in the Novus Ordo, are able to see contradict Church teaching. Logically this is turning people towards Tradition which can only be a good thing. However, this brings its own problems as many are still attached to many of the erroneous teachings of Vatican II and the previous Conciliar Pontiff's. It has been pointed out by many that in some parishes of the SSPX this has resulted in a lowering in polemics in order to take the 'newbies' sensitivities into account. The following article written for the Remnant Newspaper way back in 2015 by Hilary White, makes a number of good points which are well worth reading again and passing on to those new to Tradition. As someone recently commented Conservative Catholics "are there just to make sure the Barque stays below the speed limit while headed over the cliff "  -Editor traditionalcatholicresistance blog- )

Beginning of Hilary White article -

People who know me well know that this whole rabid Traditionalist Catholic polemicist thing is mostly kept confined to my professional life. In real day-to-day life, I’m really an amateur naturalist. No kidding. Check it out on my blog where I write long posts about octopi and whelks.

One of my favourite things is going stomping about the Umbrian countryside in my wellies with a collecting basket to see what sort of things I can bring home to cook or make into booze. This year my elderflower champagne was so good, I’m already collecting more bottles and a bigger bucket for ten gallons next spring. And when the rose hips are ripened, I’m going to see how they do as liqueur.

One of the things I love is wild mushrooms, but, Russian Roulette being forbidden by the Church, I strictly confine my collecting to varieties I can be absolutely sure of. Mushrooms and fungi are among the most interesting objects of the natural world, and fungi are as important as bees to the natural world’s ability to make things grow and feed the rest of usNot actually plants at all, since they don’t photosynthesize like green vascular plants, but take their nourishment straight out of the medium they grow in, and in doing so, help to break down that medium. A fungus growing on a dead log or tree stump is doing some very important nature-work in helping to break down deadwood into soil.


This is done through a vast network of almost invisible tendrils called “mycelium,” that live under the surface and pervade every inch of the soil beneath your feet. The huge majority of fungal life is mycelium that you mostly can’t see, unless you’re turning over last year’s leaf pile in the spring.
From these tendrils of mycelium sprout the fruiting bodies that we know and love as mushrooms. But they start their life as spores…

…that shoot out in ways that sometimes defy imagination. 


Nature’s pretty cool huh? But I guess you’re wondering why I’m going on about mushrooms on the Remnant’s blog.

The other day someone made a comment about Pope Francis, (you knew we were going there, right?)“I recently read about a disastrous Pope who made many bad decisions, the Pope who succeeded him immediately upon his election nullified all the previous Pope’s decisions. I hope this happens again.”

…and the first thing that popped into my head was, “Nope. It won’t work, because of the mycelium.”

The trouble with this idea is that Francis isn’t an anomaly; he’s a predictable result of the Neomodernism that has infested the Church since the close of Vatican II. The commenter’s idea is that he is an isolated and inexplicable outlier, something like a tick that has just dropped onto the Church at random and who can be burned off once discovered by saner heads. If that were the case, if there were any saner heads available, he wouldn’t have been elected pope in the first place.
Pope Francis is not the problem. Neomodernism is the problem. Pope Francis is more like the fruiting body of the cordyceps mycelium that has infested every last corner of the Catholic Church’s ecosystem. In the natural world, in the forest floor the mycelium are pervasive, but because of all the other processes at work in the soil, the various chemical processes, bacteria, insects, temperature, etc., it isn’t possible for them to utterly take over the whole ecosystem of the forest and kill and eat every other growing thing in it. Unfortunately, the Church’s theological ecosystem doesn’t work the same way, though I think this is more or less how most “conservative” Catholics think it does.

In the analogy that, I swear, just popped unbidden suddenly into my weird brain – probably because of too many nature shows as a kid – Pope Francis is the cordyceps fruiting body that is sprouting out of the infested body of the host of the papacy. The spores of Neomodernism have been bursting out of him since his first moment on the loggia. (Remember that bow? Remember how all secularist media ate up that absurd, unCatholic, populist gesture and launched the Humble Francis Show even before he’d blessed the crowd?)

But I repeat that Francis himself isn’t the problem, and if it hadn’t been him – if he’d not made it to the Conclave or had died during Pope Benedict’s reign – they’d simply have gone to the next one on the list. In fact, I’ve been maintaining among friends that the Faith, the real Catholic religion that has barely subsisted while being systematically suppressed throughout the world for the last 50 years, would not have survived another long “conservative” pontificate. As painful as it is, Francis is really just what we need.

The last two popes, bless ‘em, created what I have come to call the “conservative Catholic middle ground,” a safe space where nice, friendly, inoffensive and politicized Catholics can live in peace with the world. By asserting that Vatican II could be embraced by the Church while retaining all the deposit of the Faith intact, the Catholic conservatism tried to square the theological circle. This was an error, but it was a comforting one that a lot of people embraced, implying that we didn’t really have much to worry about, and didn’t really have to do very much. Just keep soldiering on and being reasonable and accommodating, and all this “liberalism” in the Church would just die out like bellbottoms and lovebeads.

But the reality is now, finally, being revealed to have been much, much worse, as Traditionalists have been trying to tell the rest of the Church for fifty years. After the Council, whatever happened in the meetings, the strength the Church had to fight off the Neomodernist mycelium appeared to die, and in the intervening decades, since the problem was not rooted out completely, the deadly theological cordyceps has finally taken over everything.
The determined maintenance of the “nothing to see here” lie by the hierarchy, has come at this stage to consume nearly all the Church’s resources. To the point where our “conservative pro-life” hero bishops like Archbishop Charles Chaput have begun lashing out at anyone who points to the absurdity of inviting the pope to a World Meeting of Families that deliberately includes pro-aborts and sodomite lobbyists.

This is the result of warm, friendly, easygoing “conservatism,” in the papacy, which in reality is a slow, one-way ratchet that can finally end only in apostasy. Can you imagine what another 20 or 30 years of a John Paul II-style pontificate of slow, incremental, invisible infiltration of Neo-Modernist ideology would have done to us? Would there be any Faith in Our Lord left on earth on the Last Day?
Well, that deadly, compromised position is disappearing as fast as an ice floe under a polar bear in a Greenpeace propaganda meme, and more and more people are realising it. And it is thanks to Francis, who is making it rapidly impossible to take that conservative middle ground.

What is going to be left when he’s done? Our mycelium analogy is useful again. What would happen to a forest that got totally eaten and replaced by fungi? There would be no trees, shrubs or flowers, or any other kind of life. There would only be fungi, which would then die for lack of anything left to eat.

But what is the Neomodernism mycelium consuming? Not the Church, which cannot be touched by it. No, it’s eating the last of the Novusordoist “great façade” that came into existence and grew after Vatican II. It’s eating itself.

And more and more people are figuring it out. Our good friend the editor of this publication has many times said that since the start of Francis’s rampage, the Remnant’s readership has burgeoned. I have heard the same thing from many others who are publishing critical pieces on the pope in other venues. We know that the incredible outrages of this pontificate, not only those of Francis himself, but from his friends and chosen subordinates, are separating the Faithful from the nominal Catholics. People are at last being forced to choose a side by the most “divisive” pope in Catholic history.
In venues as far away as the neoconservative bastion of Crisis Magazine, the meek and mild English convert William Oddie wrote the other day that Francis “doesn’t do doctrine,” and came to the rather lame conclusion that if nothing else, at least he’s not going to last forever. As Dr. Oddie pointed out, even the pope’s own official spokesman, the unflappable Fr. Federico Lombardi, has said that he’s about had it with the nonsense and doesn’t have the first notion what’s going on.

We might be at the point in the Church where the only way to save the body is to amputate huge and formerly useful parts of it. Or maybe, simply, those dead branches will fall off by themselves. Certainly the increasingly hostile secular world and aggressive Islam will have a role to play.
But whatever is coming next from the outside world, Francis is doing the Church a service that perhaps no one else could; he is demonstrating that the Vatican II, Novusordoist experiment has been, to put it as mildly as possible, a complete, utter and catastrophic failure because it has produced churchmen like him. This pope, the naked, unabashed, unapologetic Neomodernist, is stamping all over the tired, half-deflated balloon of “reform of the reform,” that desperate last ditch effort by Pope Benedict and his well-meaning followers to save the hopeless contradictions of Catholic neoconservatism.

What will be left when he is done? Soon, (..) there will be only two choices. It is rapidly becoming clear that there will be the Church and the antiChurch, as we were told by the Lord Jesus Christ there would be at the end.