The following comes from a July 18 Christian Newswire story.
The little-known 1920s persecution of Mexican Catholics that reached a fever pitch 87 years ago this month — and the civil war that followed — are the subjects of the newly-released book La Cristiada: The Mexican People’s War for Religious Liberty by Jean Meyer. (Square One Publishers: 2013).
Long-forgotten in the United States and little-known even in Mexico, the history of the Cristiada movement is well-documented and preserved within this book with an authoritative text amply illustrated by more than 300 photos and illustrations, many of which are from that forgotten time period.
The book follows the release of a major motion picture on the time period; For Greater Glory, starring Andy Garcia and Eva Longoria, was released in theaters last summer.
Popularly known as the “Cristero rebellion” or La Cristiada, the uprising and civil war that engulfed Mexico lasted for three years and reignited occasionally for decades thereafter. The situation escalated quickly in 1926, when in July of that year all Catholic religious services in the country were suspended.
The suspensions were in reaction to a severe government crackdown that curtailed the freedom of the Catholic Church, as well as that of members of the clergy and religious communities in Mexico. Public displays of religion were banned and foreign priests were expelled. Under Mexican President Plutarco Elías Calles, the government repression in the 1920s turned increasingly vicious as many clergy and lay Mexican Catholics were summarily murdered for their faith.
In the United States, the increasingly brutal persecution of Catholics by the Mexican government was opposed by American Catholics and the Knights of Columbus. By contrast, it was endorsed by the then-powerful Ku Klux Klan.
The violent nature of the crackdown quickly resulted in a popular uprising chronicled in this new book, portions of which were first released by Meyer in Spanish.
Based in the United States but with members in Mexico since 1905, the Knights of Columbus worked hard to bring a peaceful end to the Mexican persecution in the 1920s by waging a public information campaign to inform Americans of the atrocities occurring just across the border. The organization also lobbied President Calvin Coolidge, seeking his help to end the violent persecution. Several members of the Knights of Columbus were martyred at the hands of the Mexican government, including six priests who were declared as saints by Blessed Pope John Paul II in 2000.
“While we in the United States are blessed to be in a country ruled by law where our differences are decided in courtrooms and voting booths, we should not forget that not all are so fortunate,” said Carl Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus. “It is heartening that this forgotten chapter in North American history is finally getting the attention it deserves.”
The Knights of Columbus commissioned the book’s English edition, and Anderson also penned its Foreword.
To read original release, click here.
This looks like a book worth getting and reading. But I’m reminded here of some blasts from Ken Fisher re the Knights of Columbus, wherein he has made some allegations involving Rep. Roybal from Los Angeles, but I’ve forgotten all the details. I note that the above book has a forward by Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights, and I know Fisher has reserved some choice remarks for his handling, I believe, of the Roybal affair. I know Ken is an honorable man, and I know enough about Roybal to ascertain Ken’s probably right about what went on. In connection with the book under discussion, to change direction, I’ve had evidence of far more sinister undercurrents to the Cristiada / Cistiano affair than perhaps even the book has reported on. And that is the presence of a lucifer-worshipping cult within or part of the Grand Orient Freemasonry crew that were the ultimate power behind Plutarco E. Calles, the head of Mexico at the time of the Cristero rebellion. An exceedingly nasty and brutal bunch, as one would imagine. An astonishing power grab as well. (I wouldn’t at all be surprised if that someday the real power of the demoncrats and Obama is revealed as having been connected to hard demonic elements too.) But so far I can’t find the evidence. (I had it for many years, but somehow misplaced it.) . I’m forced to revert to my memory of it for now. And it was the story of a highly placed assassin, long having left the Catholic church in Mexico, and now working directly for the luciferian bunch. He knocked off priests, laymen, Cristeros, anyone who defended the rebellion or was devoutly Catholic in Mexico at the time. But the Blessed Virgin somehow got miraculously to him, and he was reformed, did penance and started to try and reverse everything he had evilly wrought before. The most astonishing part that he brought out about this satanic cult was that the demons would at times be VISIBLE to those in it. Very scary stuff. I’ll continue to try and find it, and see how good my memory is once located. Y’know, we should never forget: in the 20th and 21st century, the devil is ESPECIALLY a ROARING LION SEEING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR. We have ample evidence for this throughout these centuries, primarily from within our ONE TRUE CHURCH. GOD BLESS ALL, MARKRITE
The PRI “government” went to great strides to keep the Mexican people who lived after the Cristiada from knowing it. I just met a fellow from Mexico that told me he knew nothing about it, and he is a graduate Electronics/Computer Engineer from Mexican Universities. I am loaning him “On Blood Stained Altars”.
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Mr. Fisher, I just came to a realization. When I first came to this site, I was upset that you called people sodomites. I was upset that you referred to me as a sodomite. I felt that way for so long. But today I finally realized, that when you call me that it is a compliment. So you can call me all the names you want and think all the bad thoughts about me that you want. I may be ugly on the outside to some (and when I was a teen I actually felt that way about myself) but God made me beautiful inside and that is what is most important.
Mr Fisher, a couple of my comments yesterday came out as Anonymous and the one above 7/24. 8 PM was one. I was following this but didn’t really comment much. Been busy looking after my dad and busy at work so not so much time.
Mark
PA, from all your posts extolling your saintly virtues, I would never want you as my father.
Again, Skai, I never said that I was a saint and I am younger than you are so I couldn’t be your father.
So, PA, I neither have to obey you, rebel against you, or pray to you … this is a big relief for both of us, and calls for a few stiff rounds of … say imported Russian vodka.
LOL
I only drink when I pick up my son at his favorite taverns. He doesn’t drink and drive so I am a designated driver. I usually have ice tea, which he finds funny but every once in a while he talks me into getting a drink. It is fun because my son is very quiet but when we are out together he is talkative and says what he thinks. He told me that he never drank until he was 21 because it was against the law. His favorite is beer and he said the he learned not to mix beer and whiskey too much. I never had a beer which is funny because all my male relatives loved it and were heavy drinkers so I grew up around it.
Had a great time volunteering at our annual parish festival today. Worked most of the day. It was great to get out as I rarely get out. We have an American Idol contest and the boy that won had such a beautiful voice. I almost teared up hearing him sing. Of course I voted for him and he won by 2 votes.
Skai, I take it you are not boycotting Russian vodka.
you are so sensitive PA,,, ugh….
Jesus says “know the truth and the truth shall set you free”; He does not say “feel” the truth, PA.
Anony sounds like you need therapy. I am not saying this to insult you, don’t take it that way but you have some wounds that can not be fixed here and taking it out on Mr. Fisher is not gonna change things.
I don’t know who you are, but Ill keep you in my prayers….
It’s a real problem for many techies, especially the younger ones, Kenneth, that they are so absorbed in their work that they do not study important spiritual truths and facts.
Markrite, that is very scary, indeed. DHLawrence lived in Mexico around that time, and wrote a book called The Plumed Serpent (1926)…he found it very dark and dangerous there, I think, but I think he may have favored the socialist (of course) but in the end he was really put off by the evil there. I know that one can innocently open doors to evil with even seemingly harmless things, and one wonders what led these various men into such darkness? The behavior of the beastly women in the anti-life demonstrations in Austin Texas recently shows how these women are involved in really evil things and I think probably many of them even think they’re just calling on satan as a joke to shock the policians, but they’re already in over their heads. Remember those Carlos Casteneda books in the 70’s? When I read those, all sorts of weird things began happening in my life, and I threw them out and started going to church again. Thank you Jesus!
The “beastly women”, Dana, are like chickens running around with their heads cut off. They have no sense, which puts them under the power of the flesh, the “sarx” explained by St Paul, or “concupiscence” a more familiar term that the Church uses. These women divorce themselves from the mind of Christ and from reason, and they end up adorning themselves with all the vile images and symbols and words they can find … one such public figure woman, MSNBC show host Melissa Harris-Perry, has crafted earrings out of tampons: Read the description in the Book of the Apocalypse of the Whore of Babylon.
Yes, Skai, we know well your attitude towards women. How many women have you used and how many women have you married? My answer to that is 0 and 1.
PA that was uncalled for….two wrongs don’t make a right. You need to apologize to Skai.
Now Skai, I was always taught that even if a woman was the worst of all, that a gentleman still does not speak so ill of her, he may privately correct her as a gentleman but not publicly cause scandal. We can be disgusted with their sinful choices and that is reasonable and right but to express oneself to their level of trashy descriptions is no way a holy man should behave himself.
Abeca Christian, people lead by example. By how they have lived and how they live their lives. So if Skai has never committed a sin and never sins now, I apologize. I certainly have committed many sins in my life so I am not perfect and do not expect others to be perfect. But it would be nice to treat people with kindness and consideration. So if anyone is offended by my implying that Skai might have sinned, I apologize.
Here is a story: One night in 1973, during our two week party to begin the college year, the house and back yard was packed. Well into the night I was told that some girls were in the house and had asked for me. I staggered through the sardine dense crowd, I felt like a zombie, like Frankenstein, and then as I walked into the lighted living room through the sliding glass doors, suddenly I lurched to a stop, and tried to make sense out of what was there. A small clearing in the center of the pack of people, with three amazingly pure looking young women, with Catholic school plaid skirts and radiating undefiled faces. I had never seen any of them before. I guessed they were freshman girls who wandered into this wild party. As they looked up at me, they all suddenly looked terrified, wheeled around and ran out the front door. Nobody else there seemed to be aware of this event, of me or of these three “angels”. I lumbered after them. It only took a moment to reach the door and step outside … they were nowhere to be seen. The entire rest of the street was empty and quiet. There is no way they could have disappeared around the corner in that brief amount of time. I listened and heard nothing, quiet, completely quiet. What was that all about, I wondered. But the looks of horror they gave me contained a message. It took months for me to act on that message, but I succeeded in moving away from that environment permanently, five months later. I found a large contingency of Jesus people, most of whom had run away from various other extreme social debaucheries, and a few of whom had not but had worked their ways through various Bible colleges. Then it was the Bible 24/7 for 8 months. Five more years of continuing that study, and adding more and more Christian study, working only enough to support what I was studying. Then I realized the Bible was directing the reader into something that was not available in the Evangelical churches. One day in a phone call, a Catholic priest quickly said the right thing, clinched what I had discovered in the Gospels, and which the Evangelicals did not want to acknowledge, and within a couple months I was brought into the Catholic Church by the late Fr John Taggert following many one on one instruction sessions. I had launched then into Catholic philosophy and theology by reading those who had developed it. It took a few years to get a grip on the Protestant enculturation I received growing up … which surprising to cradle Catholics was not indoctrination but non verbal attitude transference. I then succeeded in seeing the subtle reformation ideologies that do not hold up to any Scriptural analysis and defy Catholicism’s roots. I learned considerably more than I find in the knowledge bank of most cradle Catholics … I have no sympathy for such people who do little more than presume they know what they are talking about, and then exhibit the laziest slothful attitudes towards religion and non Catholic neighbors. If I diss people and it makes them whince, so what … it’s nothing. Wait til they are put to the test, and fail miserably. We are already witnessing it on a massive scale with abortion and sodomy promoting bishops and a curia rife with the most extreme corruption. If any reader thinks I’m judgmental, just wait til you run into Jesus, because evidently you’ve denied this so far even though you go to Mass. Many of you are not good readers, but from what many post, you’re not good Christians either because you don’t do anything to either become holy or bring in converts. There is no other reason for our existence; so hop to it. Pope Francis called out for help in ridding the Church of the corruption of the sort we read from PA, YFC, and others. Do something about it because your Pope has asked you to do something about it. You have to first turn from the sleaze and then follow Jesus.
I was never a “gentleman”. I ran around with all sorts of women. Then one day, I took up with Jesus, who came not for the righteous but for the rest of us. PA, I ran around with some of the most sexually liberated women that would boggle your pure mind. Jesus saved quite a few of those women. There is nothing you can say to me that I have a problem with. I’ve seen horrible wretches saved by the grace of Jesus Christ. Your constant tune of how pure a sinner you are makes a lot of people puke. You’re so pure a sinner that you have never had to turn away from any sin … you simply confess the same trash over and over, decade after decade. That is the way your posts come across. Your theology is junk, not even Catholic. Instead of telling sodomites to turn from their sins, you encourage them by telling them it’s ok because we’re all sinners. God has called us all to perfection, and you spit out that spinach in His Face, PA. You simply have no shame … because you’re the purest of sinners.
I never have claimed that I wasn’t a sinner. I have known many good nuns. They were pure but they also had their faults and were sinners. I saw kids hit by nuns and I considered that a sin when I was young.
Skai, I am with you man. In my time in the legion especially I engaged is some really bad behavior. When I was in the Balkans time away from the fighting we would generally go the nearest cat-house… never thinking at the time how close I was to Hell. Towards the end of my time there I was strongly influenced by the Orthodox liturgy and for a time consider converting, but something held me back. When I got back home I discovered the TLM via the SSPX, thankfully. Still struggling but never giving up, people like PA don’t understand what a normal man can go through when it comes to women. He considers normally heterosexual men to be predators against “oh so innocent” women, he is the poster boy for modern emasculated man… Keep up the Fight!
Skai, I find you adventures with the Jesus people to be interesting. I remember meeting a few when I was in college and I thought that they were cool.
Canisius, I don’t consider most heterosexual men to be predators and I realize that not all women are innocent. However in society, it is accepted that most older teen boys are sexually active and more and more people are accepting this for older teen girls also.
Dana, I read Casteneda’s main book, his doctoral or was it masters thesis in anthropology at UCLA. I was a Baptist at the time, a few years shy of uniting with the Catholic Church. But I did not get freequed out by that book, as I had already read the whole Bible twice and the NT many many times, and much of the OT over many many times. I used reason and faith in what the Bible says about each point found in the Casteneda book … If you know your Bible well enough, you can blow any other religion’s writings to smithereens. Eg, some Jehovah Witnesses came by a few times and at some point, using their own translation … a very faulty one … I nailed their theology on a couple of their key points … they young couple simply blushed deeply, got really nervous and scampered away fast. The word of God in combination with faith and commitment is powerful … and that is w/o the other Sacraments; so, a Catholic who knows what God has done and said has no enemy who has more power, authority or presense. Those Catholics who do not know the Bible much, and always argue that it is not necessary really have no clue. They are like ignoramouses (ignorant mouses). So, all you folks out in Catholicland, do yourselves a favor and respect what God has provided for you: He provided the Bible. Every saint I’ve ever read relies greatly on the Bible. Oh I forgot, you have the CCC which you can adhere to. Well, even that will somewhere reveal to you what St Paul says about graduating from the “milk of the word, to the meat of the word”.
The Cristeros did not have the CCC2ndEdition to adhere to. Neither did St Teresa of Avila who simply talked in very familial terms, rather directly, with God: “Lord, if you treat your friends so badly” (she fell out of a carriage and into a mud puddle) “then no wonder you have so few of them”. Does the CCC2ndEd. enable one to do this?
Will the CCC2ndEdition stop the bullets from knocking over the faithful in the same manner experienced by the Cristeros who had no CCC?
Skai in those times people did fear the Lord more…(there were more souls who did and more humble folks too existed) they didn’t have the modern conveniences and even the modern day temptations that tempt our youth and elders as well. Pornography is even easier for any age now to get a hold of or even fall accidentally on the web.
They had their own issues back then but they still held common ground for the common good. I heard of stories that if (for example) Billy was smoking and having sex, someone would surely go straight to their mum and report it, now people turn the other way and pretend they didn’t see it. Kids privacy to do bad is much protected from good sensible parents. So yes while they didn’t have the CCC back then…..at least there were more God fearing men today is not the same….so I can see why more than ever it is important to encourage many to read the CCC as a tool/reference.
There are so many books and tools that work towards the opposite and lead souls astray…there are more bad influences than good and if someone refuses to open their Bibles or read writings from our earlier saints…I do hope that they at least give the CCC a chance and may they be in good will so they can then expand their spiritual growth to be lead to discover other precious tools/references that our Lord has given us through His church.
NOTE TO YFC yes read Archbishop Fulton Sheen….His preachings are approved by the church and are faith filled!
Abeca, I like the “modern conveniences” idea: When I was a kid, before modern conveniences took off, women stayed at home with their kids. I remember the commercials in the movies and on TV for gadgets that saved women buku time around the house … in fact so much time that they were then able to go and work 40 hours per week for a paycheck. Ladies, remember that next time you turn on your dishwasher.
Skai I thank God that He saved you from those harmful days and that you said “yes” to His ways. God bless you for rejecting those sinful things. That took a lot of courage and love for Jesus on your part.
Blessings. : )
An interesting video of interviews with Cristero suvivors is found here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pxqlhH0cp0Y&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DpxqlhH0cp0Y
“While we in the United States are blessed to be in a country ruled by law where our differences are decided in courtrooms and voting booths, we should not forget that not all are so fortunate,” said Carl Anderson
I would have to disagree…..we are no longer fortunate because even when the people have voted..the supreme court seems to have the power to void it.
The liberal anti-God agenda’s of this country are also telling. Christians are being slowly trained to an ultimate new tolerance to these sinful agenda’s. The laws in place also have enslaved us, they bring forth fear as well, it is a united effort from the secular with their like minded folks. Christianity is not protected as it should, they expect tolerance and approval in their own terms/definition but “gays” are truly the protected appetite.
Those of us who are law abiding, they know how to play us. Yes we are slaves to current laws in place. Our tax money is used to support immoral things that offend those of us of faith and morals. The enemy has got us to rethink things out and slowly have they gotten us on the corner, cornered to fend for ourselves….. they have taught the thinking that “wrong is right and right is wrong.” Confusion is now on the menu more than ever….I don’t think we will have modern day Cristero’s because many lack the balls, lack fear of the Lord to help them pull that courage from and because of current thinking it would be wrong to stand up for our believes and we may be outnumbers because we are outgunned.
It takes certain graces to help many unite for what is right, it takes a people of common ground for common good but today many have “their own” opinions not united with the faith, and most dangerous many are now preaching the “faith” as if they know it from ground up but in actuality they are deceivers and misleading. Holy things are not treated as such and therefore causing this great desensitizing we are now experiencing.
Abeca,
As a Latina, you should know that the Cristeros were outnumbered and outgunned, but they had a not so secret weapon, a Woman of Jewish ancestry, and more powerful than any Army on the face of the earth even today!
Go to the Site Gratias recommended above and you will read of battles in which NO Cristeros, shot at at point blank, fell, but many Federalistas fell to the point that that devil Calles had to threaten his Generals who wanted to quit.
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Mr. Fisher I didn’t know that….The Cristeros are new to me, I only learned about them through here and also through the movie. : ) But good to know, praise God. I just feel that there were more people with common sense for the common good back then, I would think that but today, I can only speak for what I experience myself.
Whos is She who comes forth like the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array.
From the Song of Solomon (applied to Our Lady)
Abecca, thank you for your response to Carl Anderson. I read his post somewhere myself and wanted to respond to his naive statement but couldn’t at the time. As for the notion that we don’t have Christeros today, I believe that we do. Look at the boldness of some of our young pro-life activists or those youth who frequent Eucharistic Adoration. They may be few in number given the population at large, but they are changing hearts and minds no differently than a small band of apostles did. Keep speaking the truth, pray, and don’t loose hope!
Tracy thank you for letting me know that there is still good folks like the Cristeros today…I pray that they cross my path and that we unite in friendship. I’m grateful for your perspective of hope. That is what I needed to hear. Thank you : )
Abeca,
What else would you expect from a man who collects 1.14 Million Dollars/yr for protecting pro-abortion, pro-sodomite members.
I will sing for JOY if they finally prove me wrong this coming August 6-8 at their luxurious hotel in San Antonio, TX. But I won’t hold my breath, suicide is till considered probably serious matter!
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
What is the point to the Knights of Columus today? I have heard nothing that they have done or influenced significantly by way of Catholicism. Their image is of a bird with a plume of feathers on their hats … that’s about it. The one breakfast meeting I attended one time by invitation was stuffed with men and some wives who were afraid to be ardently against abortion. They displayed a kind of fear of rocking some boat. Buncha chumps.
I know Skai….it’s sad. It’s just a social gathering now for men to support one another..in what? Who knows….I know that there a few of the elders in it that are very pro-life and do care but I don’t see it growing much with youthful young men….I don’t know, we will see how the elders there reach out to younger men….I am a female, I really can’t help with that….it is a man’s job to reach out to the younger men.
I did travel up to Sacramento, San Francisco etc to sprinkle holy water…returning we passed by Solvang and stopped to look at the dutch tourist area, my son was in a shop for teens, there were some teenage boys, I started talking to them, giving them a message against drugs and such and even of faith. When I encouraged the young man to stay away from bad influences and drugs, he said that it wasn’t easy, that many do drugs. I told him that drugs would destroy you and right now you need to endure and survive these teen years and look to securing his future in good things that will better him. I made sure to encourage them. It sounded as if the young men didn’t have many adults speaking to him away from those dangers.
I was saddened by the reality and used that opportunity to remind my son not to take for granted the blessings God has placed in His path.
Abecca, what a beautiful story. I myself tend to be shy in public. Your story encourages make sure I pray everytime before I walk out the front door, asking our Lord tp use me anyway he wants.
Tracy, what if the Lord tells you to go running out the door, climb to the roof and shout the good news of Jesus Christ???
Tracy but you see you are doing God’s will also as well here….I have read your comments in the past and your love of the faith truly shows. I appreciate your love in Christ that you take to reply to PA and others.
I use to reach out more to people, and lately I’ve shy’ed away from reaching out to teens but that day, they were talking to my son and then me and then we started to have those conversations. The opportunity came and I took it. I praise God for giving me the courage to do so. I figure I don’t live in the area and i will never see these young men again, so I have nothing to lose…so that was the push I needed from our Lord to do so.
I hope and pray that others of good will, will do the same for my kids when I am not around. : )
Skai well I’m sure Tracy will be happy to honor that….you are silly Skai.
Skai, your sarcasm is pointless.
Abecca, thank you for the kind words of inspiration.
Not sarcasm, Tracy. You need to read the New Testament.
The Pope just yesterday told youth to mess up the Church, meaning to get back to living the Gospel. Guess I pre-empted His Holiness.
Abeca, last I knew, Solvang is of a Danish ambiance, not Dutch. The Dutch typically walk around with milk cows, while the Danish walk around with battle axes and horned helmets.
Thank you Skai for the correction, I am confused of what is Danish and Dutch so glad to be corrected so I won’t sound silly.
Love the comparison, Skai. and yes, Solvang is Danish. They sell some Finnish items, though, too. In other words they were mostly settled by the extreme Northern Europeans. (Extremely north that is.) Ha! Ha! the Dutch are too far south.
The Dutch wear wooden shoes and have windmills; the Danes eat split pea soup and live on an island/peninsula combo. The Dutch speak low German, and the Danes … well, Danish language retains some elements of tonality, like Chinese language(s). Dutch culture is closer to German (eg, fatherland); Danish closer to Russian (eg, motherland). These brush strokes I’m using are very broad, it that makes any sense.
Skai that makes more sense…no wonder in Solvang they had those mounting dolls. I had to buys a few cute souvenirs. Thanks for the info. I didn’t even know that the Danish were closer to Russian. Wow, it’s interesting. Are they Christian or are some of them atheist? I always wondered. There is a Christmas store there that is open all year long and they have nice Nativity scenes and even a sticker that says Merry Christmas in their own language.
Abeca, from Wikipedia, ” the Danes were united and Christianised about 965″. Officially Denmark is Lutheran. Linguistically it is related to Sweden and Norway. The Danish language was once tonal, like Chinese, where the meaning of a particular sound depends on the tone used to make the sound. Also of note, the Silk Road has a northern route that includes Scandanavia. The Vikings penetrated far into many European regions. The photos of the last Russian emperor’s family resemble those of my Danish ancestors.
Anne T., the language of the Finns has no known linguistic connection to any other language. Scandanavia does not include Finnland, but when we analyze cultures, civilizations and language groups, we can only do so with respect to eras. These eras tend to be defined by massive changes such as large scale migrations that might take place over centuries or millenia depending on the time frame, or even decades … the closer to out time, the shorter the period for the change to take place. Back in college days, a roomie from the Netherlands was speaking his language, Frisian, on the phone while I was sitting around reading a book … suddenly it dawned on me that I was hearing English being spoken only with words that I did not recognize. It might be like a non European language person hearing an English speaker and also a Frisian speaker and it sounding identical.
I was driving a narrow country highway through some twist and turn hillls, when a military convoy coming the opposite way passed. The young troops in camo and I looked at each other to great astonishment … I know instinctively that they were Danes, and the surprised looks on their faces told me that they had the same take. That was a time when Denmark was sending some troops to the Middle East, and there is a base nearby, and evidently their convoy was headed to another base where lots of training takes place.
I look forward to reading this book.
The Knights of Columbus probably did more to stop the anti-Catholic KKK in the 1920s than any other organization. When the Klan threatened a Josephite priest and the Sisters of Blessed Sacrament in Beaumont, Texas in 1922 because the SBS operated a school for African American children, local members of the Knights of Columbus came to their defense. The KC guarded the priest’s home, and one KC member even gave the priest a pistol to defend himself.
Thanks for this review.
Richard Fossey
Richard good for you…the more people read good books like these or even watch good movies like the movie they made about this subject at hand, hopefully it would encourage more towards the better good for mankind. I also recommend you read up more more on what Archbishop Fulton Sheen preached about tolerance, here is a small sample:
Christian love bears evil, but it does not tolerate it.
It does penance for the sins of others, but it is not broadminded about sin.
The cry for tolerance never induces it to quench its hatred of the evil philosophies that have entered into contest with the Truth.
It forgives the sinner, and it hates the sin; it is unmerciful to the error in his mind.
The sinner it will always take back into the bosom of the Mystical Body;
but his lie will never be taken into the treasury of His Wisdom.
Real love involves real hatred:
whoever has lost the power of moral indignation and the urge to drive the buyers and sellers from the temples
has also lost a living, fervent love of Truth.
Charity, then, is not a mild philosophy of “live and let live”;
it is not a species of sloppy sentiment.
Charity is the infusion of the Spirit of God,
which makes us love the beautiful and hate the morally ugly.
“the urge to drive out the buyers and sellers in the temple”: Wow, Abeca. Pope Francis just announced that the bishops need to get out of their churches … I wonder if it’s the same thing.
Richard,
As far as the Knights of Columbus then are concerned you are right, but what will the modern day “Knights” do if and when Obama imitates Calles, especially if resistance will cost them $$$$$$?
Viva Cristo Rey!
God bless, yours in their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Really it was specific people in 1920 who stopped the KKK. The name of that group of people has no power in itself, which is obvious when we look at those who use it today.
Skai, Finnish is closely related to Estonian and a few other small languages. It is also related to Erzya and Mari languages in the Volga region. The Sami people (Lapps) also speak a language related to Finnish. The Finno-Ugric language with the largest number of speakers is Hungarian which is also related to Finnish. I wasn’t aware of the Volga Finnish languages (I looked it up) but knew about the others.
Finally, PA, a topic you have knowledge of! There is hope for you yet.
I knew about some of the languages but when I looked at the map I was amazed at how many of these languages there are. Most are in Russia but in the language family 56% speak Hungarian, 20% speak Finnish and the others languages combined are only 24%. Most people have probably never heard of those languages, most of which only have a few thousand speakers. The Sami language covers a large area in Northern Scandinavia but has few speakers. Most people have probably heard of Lapland.
Skai, I actually got out of taking a final exam in college because I knew the answer to this question. I had an elderly professor for 19th Century European History. I took this with one of my best friends, I was very close to this girl and she used to share stories of her boyfriends (who lived out of town) with me. The professor asked me if I knew the name of the Slavic peoples who lived in East Germany. The answer is the Wends. Since I knew the answer I didn’t have to take the final. These people, also known as Sorbs (they call themselves Serbs), were the original people of eastern Germany before the Germans moved in. They have a very interesting language which is a western Slavic language related to Polish, Czech and Slovak. Look up Serbksi Dom. Since I know Polish, the language is familiar to me and looks easier than German to me.
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Wow….that is all I have to say about all this journaling from reading others….
Well, Skai, I was talking with my son last night. He said that the Boston bomber should be tortured to death. His views are similar to yours, he is for the death penalty. He is a big sports fan, especially the Patriots, the Red Sox and the Bruins. I told him that a lot of the people on this site think like he does. He was the best baby and little boy. He was always smiling and happy. He went to Catholic grade school and did well. He wanted to go to public school for junior high so he went there. He was an honor student and liked school. When he got to senior high in 10th grade, he hated school. He was bullied, we got crank calls at home and several times we had large numbers of pizza delivered to our house. A lot of his friends got into groups that used drugs and he was shunned. He said that school was so crowded and the people were so mean that he was happy just to go home and be by himself. His whole attitude towards people changed. He became a C student and really didn’t care. Now as an adult he thinks most people are bad and just out for themselves. When I say that I like a certain person, he tells me that what I say doesn’t count because I like everyone. He doesn’t have a lot of faith because he thinks that if God loved him, that people would treat him better. He doesn’t think the world is a good place. His heroes are his sports stars. He actually talks about women like you do, Skai, saying that most women are like the way you say (but he only say this to me when he is drinking), Skai, using that word you like so much that I won’t repeat. He misses my mom a lot. He thought she was perfect and one in a million.