Ireland in Uproar; the Reality of Population Replacement: Irish Edition

A Chairde, Friends, Amici,

Ireland is a microcosm of Europe.

And as with France a few months ago, Ireland, specifically Dublin, is in chaos.

A broad daylight knife attack on a woman and three children (and a man) has started riots in North Dublin.

1. And it is brought on by the insane government policy of stuffing the country full of "immigrants" from far-flung countries having completely different cultures and religious beliefs.
   
2. All Western Europe is roiling with this utter insanity, this Replace the Indigenous Population Program that is swamping the USA, as well. 
3. But the Globalists are insisting on replacing native populations in a Great Migration 2.0 (the last one occurring after the fall of the Roman Empire). And no matter what the original citizens think, they are being steamrolled. That's true wherever this phenomenon occurs.
   

It is truly insane. Unskilled, backward, Muslim invaders into Europe – for the most part, though this does involve others, such as Chinese and sub-Saharan Africans, etc. – and into the USA, an endless torrent of mostly Meso- and South Americans, but lately with a very large dose of Chinese and Islamists. Why?

1. Extreme numbers of immigrants not only overwhelm culture, they overwhelm the economic system. 
2. They drive wages down but social costs of every kind up. It's nuts. 
3. This program only makes sense as a Civilization Snuffing invasion scheme, of course: Crash the nation-state, crash national identity constitutes the over-all program while traditional Western family structures are also trashed out via carnal perversions – mainly by Marxism in Entertainment and psychology, and in large part by bewildered and befuddled Social Gospel Protestant Churches and a hideously faux-Catholic Church that Bergoglio is flooding us with like an overflowing septic tank. See this story for an example of how Bergoglio and his creatures work. This story is the ecclesiastical mirror image of what the secular governments are doing to their people. The mirror image.

The Irish Story

If you've been following the news, you know that Irish people are rioting in Dublin about this stabbing attack on children (and two adults) by a Muslim immigrant, said to be Algerian. Algeria is a backward, brutal Islamic hell. This individual is a naturalized Irish citizen, apparently, and has been in the country some 20 years. Yet even so the officials are reticent to release information about him. They desperately want to control the narrative yet people are fed up with the manipulation.

Three children were knifed, and a woman who worked at their school. Ironically, it was an Irish-language school, ‘Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire’. That's Mary Mother of God's Irish school. The image of a Muslim maniac knifing Irish-language primary schoolers at a school named for the Mother of God – whom you may remember Muslims teach Muhammad daily rapes in Allah's paradise – is a sign that signifies. If you know Dublin, this is in the near north Dublin, just off Parnell Square, close to the northern end of the city’s main thoroughfare, O’Connell Street. The attack occurred a little after 2 p.m., and the knife, which passersby wrestled away from the lunatic, was thrown into the greenery of the Garden of Remembrance (An Gairdín Cuimhneacháin) that commemorates the various Irish "Risings" against the English. How ironic. How symbolic. The Garden features a wonderful bronze, The Children of Lir. See photos here of it. 

Again, the significance! What with three children harmed in the attack, one critically wounded, a girl, this couldn't get more poignant. If you don't know the legend of the Clann Lir, look it up. Three kids. The oldest a girl. Lost nearly forever.

Rair has more info. Apparently one of the passersby was a Brazilian. This follows the death over a year ago of an Irish woman, a teacher, one Aishling Murphy, killed by a Slovakian immigrant. It took them a year to convict this murderer and he'll reside in incarcerated splendor at the largess of the Irish taxpayer for the rest of his damnable life.

When I was there 16 years ago or so now (tempus fugit), some Lithuanian immigrant got drugged up and used a knife to try to slit a young woman's throat because he wanted to rob her for money pay for his drug habit. The judge tried to get her to forgive her attacker so he wouldn't spend so much time in jail. I'm not making this up. You can imagine what I would have liked to do to the judge, 1500 years of Christianity or no; or to the assailant. That's a father of kids writing.

Another link to the current story exists here. And two older headlines to give you an idea of what Ireland is like now:

• African Gangs Attack Irish People After Knife-Wielding Criminal Shot Dead By Police
• An Irish teen protects a friend from an invader's knife attack.

An Irish sports hero, Conor McGregor, has been commenting on this current atrocity, and he is exactly right. For example:

Conor McGregor: Isn’t that something. The absolute picture of weak and feeble. The most divisive of all is the weak man. One of the most horrific crimes this nation ever seen has occurred, we do not care anymore what you sad cases have got to say. In a war you are nothing. We are not backing down, we are only warming up. There will be no backing down until real change is implemented for the safety of our nation. We are not losing any more of our woman and children to sick and twisted people who should not even be in Ireland in the first place. Call it what you want. We do not care. May God help us all. Ireland for victory.

Commentary

Look, everyone. This evil is intolerable. It's happening everywhere. The occurrences are increasing rapidly. The Mainstream Media howls that anyone who opposed this population replacement and indigenous demoralization and civilizational alienation scheme is a "Right-wing Extremist." This is standard, but the level of lies is rising now to a Krakatoa-level reaction.

• They're saying about Geert Wilders new electoral victory in the Netherlands that this mainstay of the Dutch political scene is a right-wing fanatic...
  
• And they keep repeating the same about Javier Milei's victory in Argentina. 
• And not just Milei. Javier Milei's vice-president happens to be a SSPX Latin Mass devotee, and the press is saying, according to Fr. Z, "Victoria Villarruel, 48, who was elected with the recent victory of her running-mate Milei, has been described as a member of “a marginal and ultra-conservative Catholic faction” and someone who engages in “secret rituals” (the ancient Latin liturgy) by the Argentine press. She particularly drew criticism for her reported attendance of a Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) chapel in downtown Buenos Aires...". Fr Z links to the original story in the Catholic Herald.
  
• If you read the American Mainstream Media, you get all sorts of crazy lies about Donald Trump mass arresting or shooting people en masse when he is re-elected. 

N.B. I worked for a while as a substitute teacher in Columbus, Ohio's public schools, back when Bill Clinton was dumping Somalian "refugees" in Milwaukee and some in Columbus. The African-American teachers were in utter despair. Most of them were women and they could not control these "kids", the boys, who thought women were slaves and cretins. These "students" would just wander from room to room during class. Rape was common. I remember one lady saying to me in despair, "They don't even know what a toilet is for!" Right, the USA or European nations need "immigrants" like these?

The Crescendo

The tide seems to be turning, what with important elections in The Netherlands and in Argentina. Unless they murder him or try to steal the election again, Trump will triumph over any Democrat who runs. The Left is truly "freaking out". They are using Saul Alinksy's program to the point where everyone who is not a zombie is laughing at them. Remember the four years of lies about Trump we had to endure? And three (was it three?) impeachments, and now four indictments or so. They want that man destroyed. This is how unhinged the Left is.

Or is it the Left? Who is running the show? The World Economic Forum? Klaus Schwab and Yuval Harari are pathetic. They're jokes. Look at them. Listen to them. James Bond movie villains. So who? Xi, the dictator-for-life of China? Is it the big bankers, or BlackRock and Vanguard, who own the world? Is it the Intelligence Services, like the CIA, FBI, Mossad, or whatever the Chinese call their version of these? 

Whatever else these Hidden Big Shots are, they are Globalists, and they control Western governments. Neither the USA nor Canada nor the countries of the EU rule themselves, except scattered bits here and there, and for a handful of outlier nations, such as Hungary under Viktor Orbán. He's kept Hungary from being inundated with crazed foreigners, as Ireland is.

I lived in Ireland off and on for years. Met a few politicians. The national-level ones were store mannequins, like the media and police and bureaucrat idiots that Conor McGregor excoriates today. They gave every indication of being actors, front men, playing roles written for them.

Irish History

The whole point of having an independent Ireland, so thought all those idealists and revolutionaries and statesmen of the past, was that an Irish government would govern FOR the Irish people, and not exploit them. Certainly not REPLACE THEM. The English tried to do exactly that a number of times, such as the infamous Plantation of Ulster, and finally allowed the 1840s potato blight to create a famine while withholding food from the starving Irish. That, finally, worked. Sort of. 

They wrecked the country, killing one million out of eight, and forcing another million to immigrate. The psychological trauma was profound. Mass EMIGRATION became the norm. The population fell to five million for the next 100 years. The Irish gave up (not entirely, but to a large extent) their language and their identity. Even laid as low as that, however, the people still forced the creation of the "Free State" in the 1920s, and post-World War II, the "republic" (never called that; merely "the state"). 

But the English had spent hundreds of years centralizing Ireland and creating a centralized and very British bureaucracy. That stayed behind after the English left; only a handful of bureaucrats exited, and Ireland became a purely bureaucratic state run in such a way to keep the people from developing the country themselves, and forcing continued emigration. Then they joined the EU, started up the "Celtic Tiger" economy, developed a lot of jobs and imported more, but even then, the system was sick. I remember seeing a government pamphlet addressed to the Irish who had emigrated in the previous few decades asking them NOT TO COME BACK! Telling them that although the economy was better, they would not be welcome because Ireland had changed since they left, and they would not fit into the "new Ireland."

It is going to take a true revolution to drive such evil manipulators from the Irish government, and a true revolution to exorcise the demons Ireland has let in. But the people won't get help from the Irish Church. That's a wound that keeps on cursing.

   An Préachán 

Irish-language film garners attention...

Friends, a Chairde,

Wow!

Everyone remotely interested in Ireland and things Irish ought to check this article out!

An Irish-language film nominated for an Oscar. Basically, the Oscars per se have always been useless in terms of actually choosing a good film, infamously skipping over famous movies. (Citizen Kane being a notorious example of that.) But they do garner attention for a film! I've not seen it and cannot speak to its quality, except for online previews, such as here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7V-kDz4NWg

It looks lovely and poignant, a family film, indeed. No dicey moden-day quasi-porn madness, at least. So, this is good news. An excerpt from the article:

Competing for best international feature, "An Cailín Ciúin" (The Quiet Girl) last year became the first Irish language film to gross more than 1 million euros ($1.06 million) at the UK and Irish box office. It has remained a fixture in cinemas across English-speaking Ireland.

An Préachán

In Ireland, an insane increase in ER visits over a year ago...

A Chairde,

Some bad news as Éirinn.

The Covid "vaccines" are truly causing health havoc among those who took them. A new study says "Scientists from Harvard & Johns Hopkins Found Covid-19 Vaccines 98 Times Worse Than the Virus". (That's a bizarre metric considering the virus has never been proven to exist in the first place, though the "vaccines" are all too easy to prove.) This is one of those elite type of Big Media "approved" PhD research studies that usually kowtow to the Covid "party line". That this one doesn't, and that it got published at all, is amazing in itself. (Either the death toll is out of control for hiding it any longer, or the Powers-that-Be are only allowing it some airtime because they're setting the stage to bring Trump down for his "Trump-time" approval of "killer vaccines". Just watch for that.)

But take a smaller example, this one from the once beloved Ireland. 

In Ireland, 719,000 people visited the emergency room between January and June 2022, up from 115,000 the previous year.

In Ireland, the proportion of the fully vaccinated population is 81.1%. This share of vaccinations places them at the top of the most vaccinated countries in the world.

Talk about cutting off yer nose to spite yer face! Same thing is happening in The Netherlands, as the amazing Eva Vlaardingerbroek reports here.

All of this is just staggering. And remember, all this is just the beginning.

Just.

The.

Beginning.

So heavy is the mortality rate, something like more deaths in one year than all vaccine-related deaths in the past 50 years combined (and that's only the official count), that it indicates entirely new parameters for human health for those who foolishly took the damned jabs. We've seriously compromised our general national health across the Western World for all age groups with these potions, and illnesses and earlier mortality will be commonplace now. Deaths and currently appearing health issues will just multiply over time, wrecking health care and health (and life) insurance massively, even were all "vaccinations" stopped immediately. And we're only beginning to get a notion of how widespread sterility will become. Nothing, my friends, will ever be the same again. So at least, get to Confession while you can, if you're inclined that way (and even if you're not).

Not least of the ramifications must be that we can never trust government or Big Med again. Or Big SCIENCE! Never. As someone wrote on Steve Kirch's Substack column:

Yetimonster
5 hr ago

I’m sorry Steve. I think you do fantastic work in bringing this information to an audience who may be ‘on the fence’. But naïveté does not help and this has never been about anyone's health. Logic will not change these people’s minds. Loss of income/profit/power might still afford us some leverage and allow us to affect some change for the better. Our opposition has game-planned this for decades (longer in my opinion). Our only hope is Resist. Build community. Be self sufficient. Opt out of their $hi!!y systems.

And that grand "opt out", my friends, shall be the absolute necessity of life in the "modern" world.

An Préachán

PS Is it any wonder I am now officially "anti-vax"? But honestly, just consider the "Meek who shall inherit the earth" Amish. They do not, never have and never will, vax. And of course they're perfectly healthy. They certainly never had Covid. And I read a report the other day that when the lockdowns were in full force, the number of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) deaths fell off. Was it because fewer children were receiving their usual "vaccines"? Of course today we're swamped with a new issue: SADS, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. "Correlation does not equal causation" is the old chestnut, but what it should say is "correlation does not necessarily equal causation, but it cries out for investigation!"

         AnP 

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.

Luan Cásca

 A Chairde,

Today is Easter Monday, a rather portentous date in Irish history. I recognize it with a column (below) from LifeSiteNews. The author is Michael Haynes.

Another Easter without Mass: What happened to Catholic Ireland?

May the blood of the Irish martyrs serve to inspire the Church, so that the Irish clergy may once more fulfill their vocation to lead souls to God instead of away from Him, and may the underground Church continue to grow in size and fervor.

Fri Apr 2, 2021 - 6:00 am EST

 

DUBLIN, Ireland, April 2, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) –– For the second year running, the Irish government has brought about something which would have made the previous persecutors of Irish Catholics so very proud: The prohibition of public worship during Holy Week and Easter.

Yet the blame cannot fall solely at the feet of political legislators, as this occurrence is something which is due also to the Catholic hierarchy in Ireland. And so, as churches will be empty once again for the most sacred time of the Church’s year, the question must be asked — what happened to Catholic Ireland?

COVID and the Church in Ireland

Ireland has a special place in Catholic history as the land of saints and scholars, the land to which St. Patrick famously came and from whence missionaries and monks left to convert the world. In parishes across the world, very often the stalwarts of daily Mass are Irish themselves, or of Irish families. The culture has for generations been steeped in the faith. Life revolved around the practice of Catholicism in a way that must have angered the increasingly secularist world.

But for the past number of decades, this happy situation has no longer been reality. Catholicism in Ireland has become watered down to little more than a folk religion, where people attend Mass infrequently at best, the faith is rarely taught, and scandal after scandal is used to undermine any remnant of authority and respect which the Church used to command.

Certainly, any church one passes will almost always be Catholic, but even this is not set to last. For many years, there has existed a faux Catholicism — an image of a Catholic country, but, in reality, one which is propped up merely on remnants of the past, and with little that is actually flourishing.

The arrival of COVID-related restrictions provided the long-awaited impetus for this projection to collapse and crumble.

The government and the Irish bishops worked in tandem to close Catholic churches across the country, so that from March 13, 2020, public worship had ceased, and for the first time since the days of Catholic persecution, which began under Henry VIII, Catholics were once again prevented by the authorities form worshipping God.

This time, there was no St. Patrick, none of the numerous priests and bishops who happily endured prison, torments, and death rather than bow to similar encroachments upon the rights of the Church as enforced by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

One by one, bishop after bishop suspended public Mass, attempting to reassure their flock that they were not abandoning their duty since Mass would still be said in private, but that the people would be barred. Clergy interpreted the government advice, which banned indoor gatherings of more than 100 people, as the excuse to demonstrate their subservience to the state, in a manner which would have made ashamed their brother clergy from previous centuries who were martyred for the faith.

As Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam said: “I regret the disruption and inconvenience that this will cause to children, parents and priests, but I take this decision in the interests of public health and in the common good.”

So also spoke Bishop Brendan Leahy of Limerick, who called the closure of churches “necessary” to “protect the elderly and those with underlying health conditions.” Sadly, Bishop Leahy did not follow the example of Hugh Lacy, bishop of Limerick, in 1578, who was driven out of his see and imprisoned twice for refusing to abandon his flock to persecution.

Days later, a Catholic priest from Archbishop Neary’s diocese allowed a Muslim imam to deliver the Islamic call to prayer in the parish church. Catholic parishioners were kept out, by order of the hierarchy.

Then, in August, the clergy abandoned the spiritual health of Irish Catholics once more, as Ireland’s national Marian shrine of Knock was closed for the feast of the Assumption, due to fears that people would flock there as in previous years. On a day that usually saw hourly Masses starting at 6am, for the 20,000 plus pilgrims, the shrine was closed, not on the order of the state, nor even in an act of Catholic persecution by officials, but by the clergy, whose duty it is to lead souls to heaven.

Ireland, a nation once so devoted to the Mother of God, thus saw its priests turn their back upon Mary — something which Oliver Cromwell himself would have welcomed.

Ireland saw its churches closed once more in October, as the government raised the alert level for the virus and ordered worship to take place online. In the spring, the bishops had demonstrated that they were willing to close the churches, and thus set the way for the state to do so a few months later.

Weeks after, images of Catholic persecution returned once more, as a new law was passed (in direct violation of the Constitution), threatening imprisonment for priests who dared to say a public Mass. A €2,500 fine or 6 months in jail were the potential punishments for a member of the clergy exercising his vocation.

It seems that at this point, the four archbishops in the country did begin to realize the dangerous precedent which was being set, and issued a half-hearted statement in an attempt to demonstrate action. They called for constructive engagement with the government in order to have access to the sacraments, but continued to “fully support the guidance of the public health authorities.”

Renewed attack on the Church

The country that once was so predominantly Catholic now appears utterly foreign to those of previous generations. While some faithful few made recent public demonstrations of piety, the state has ramped up its persecution of Catholics. In recent weeks, the attack against the Church and Catholics has rapidly gained pace, while both politicians and clergy (on the whole) avoid calling the situation as it is — namely, a persecution.

Three men were arrested while praying and broadcasting Mass outside Waterford Cathedral. Police have been gathering information of people who are merely praying outside churches, and even set up check points around Fr. P.J. Hughes’s parish in order to prevent people from going to Mass.

The brave priest welcomed what he described as “anti-Catholic and anti-Church” behavior: “In a way, I felt privileged to be persecuted by the guards because the story today in the gospel is about the Passion of Jesus Christ, how Jesus was crucified, mocked, scourged. I wasn’t scourged or mocked but I was probably insulted and persecuted by the guards.”

On that same day, Palm Sunday, the government responded to questions about the current legal status about saying Mass, insisting that priests were committing an offense if they left home to celebrate a public Mass.

Pockets of resistance

Yet the faith is by no means completely dead. Priests, mindful of their primary duty to souls, have continued to offer the sacraments to their flock.

Fr. Hughes said Mass, without turning away those parishioners who came, and was promptly threatened with prosecution by the police. In scenes directly from the 1600s, Hughes had been “reported.” Yet in scenes very different from the days of persecution, he was without the support of his bishop.

There are certainly determined groups of faithful souls up and down the country, both lay and clerical, who are imitating their martyred predecessors in the faith, and going underground.

They are, no doubt, drawing on the example of Catholics such as Sir John Burke, Fr. Patrick O’Derry, and Donough and John Olvin, all of whom were hung, drawn and quartered for their faith in the early 1600s.

AnP

Is Ireland finally going to throw off the Covid "party-line" brutal idiocy?

 A Chairde,

I highly recommend this article, by Gary Jordan, from Dublin (hat tip to a friend for sending it to me) about Sunday's protest against the continued lockdown. Highly recommended. 

An excerpt:

On Sunday, an irate Irish society finally said 'no more'. For a year they had been subjected to a criminally long lockdown to the detriment of their physical, emotional, and financial well being.

Thousands of them took to the streets of Dublin to display their dissatisfaction with a Davos-owned political class and the police state they were held hostage in. Besides one or two trouble-makers the protests were peaceful and the message was loud and clear.

Enough is enough. The Irish did what they do best - demanded freedom, stood up to their oppressors and sang songs.

The oligarchs winced. Butterflies were doing somersaults in their overfed bellies. Panic set in and beads of sweat dripped down their deranged little heads. Their biggest fear was realised; the people refused to comply. As a result, what followed was an onslaught of desperation from every political party and establishment sycophant in the nation.

The usual rhetoric was thrown out; anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, far-right, etc, etc.

Yawn!

In fact, the head henchman of the political Fianna Fail and Fine Gael cartel, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, was in such a desperate state of mind that he screwed up his lines and said that the far-left were involved as well - much to the outrage of the far-left radicalised mainstream media, forcing him to withdraw his statement later.

It sure was a sight to behold, watching their faces as the reality dawned on them that at any point the people could, with the click of a finger, take back their power and there was absolutely nothing they could do about it. It was only the inaction of a remaining portion of the population, consisting of indoctrinated zombies, rejecting any effort to reclaim their livelihoods, who saved their backsides.

But for sure it showed them, in case they needed confirmation, that if large enough numbers of people refuse their dictatorial, arbitrary mandates it crushes their illusory power. How would they explain that to the banking and pharmaceutical dynasties that they exist to serve?

In the fallout, widespread establishment media condemnation followed - for the greatest enemy of the tyrant is the advocate of liberty.

The act of peaceful protestors speaking out against elitist Fascism, the medical mafia and the Church of Scientism was too much for the Fourth Estate. It was a sin against the Cult of Covid and there was no excuse for any Irish person demanding the most basic of liberties, according to them.

With the millions and millions of dollars that disgraced Irish state broadcaster, RTE, have been receiving from the pharmaceutical and government vaccine PR institutes, the idea of peasants marching through the streets against the kakistocracy risked putting an end to the lucrative pandemic illusion.

No way could that be allowed to happen. The age-old Bolshevik tactic of using psychiatry to stifle resistance had to be rolled out.

An P again:

Great news from Ireland. We have all of us got to keep pushing. For example, share this video of a series brief comments from doctors around the world discussing Covid, mostly about the vaccines, but Covid in itself, as well.

Some commentators are more believable than others, as there's an acupuncturist and a homeopathy person included, but most are standard M.D.s from first-world nations. Their cumulative effect is very strong.

It opens with well-known American Dr. Andrew Kaufman, and includes the also very well-known author Dr. Tom Cowan in a brief appearance. Some highlights are:
Dr. Hilde De Smet comes after Kaufman and is very effective: 0:49-1:50
She's followed by Dr. Nils R. Fosse
Dr. Vernon Coleman     3:50-4:36
Prof. Delores Cahill, the one Irish doc, at 4:39; then the Americans
Dr. Carrie Madej     12:47-14:13
Dr. Rashid Buttar    17:58-18:25
and then the Swedish Dr. Mikael Nordfors and the Dutch Dr. Elke F. De Klerk.
The latter four are quite powerful, I think, in their absolute conviction. Dr. Carrie Madej is outstanding.

So, please pass it on.

Other than that, all I can say is, the cracks in the Covid lockdown narrative widen every day, as reported here at Lockdown Sceptics. At some point, people simply won't take it any longer. How can any sane government expect them to? Maybe this can be the government program in China or North Korea, but where else? That's especially true as the weather will fast improve in the northern hemisphere now that we've reached the Ides of March.

At the point when people have had enough, either the repressive authorities must simply force, at gun-point – and I mean, straight-out shooting – a lot of their own people and utterly subjugating entire nations, or the people win. It's the governments that are pushing it so far that there will be no middle ground, just as this article relates about Ireland. But of course, it is "Big Pharma" and the Chinese who benefit, the former by getting richer and the latter by wrecking their opponents for world domination.

If the people do rise up, it would be an absolute house-cleaning, politically speaking. But we'll see. The clearly orchestrated, never-ending "fear porn" about Covid is both unrelenting yet absurd. The more it is pushed, the closer we get to an "emperor has no clothes" revelation. When you have Sweden and Florida and Texas and a few other nations/states with large populations (Florida has 19 million, for example, as big as Sweden and Hungary combined, Texas itself has about half the population of Italy and a little less than half that of France) prove the entire lockdown narrative to be false, or in effect false (i.e. statistically "helping" very little, as per the lockdownsceptics article above), then people are going to be enraged. As Lincoln famously said, you can fool all of the people some of the time and some of them all of the time, but never all of them all of the time.

That's especially true should the vaunted "vaccines" prove either harmful or less than useful. Many authorities, like Fauci, insist merely being vaccinated won't end lockdowns or mask wearing. But the vaccines may fail in themselves. See this article, or note that even CNN had to make such a report. If you can't stand CNN, there's the UPI reporting the same thing. (Germany, by the way, rejects the blood-clot risk. Just peachy.)

My friends, it is just common sense that complicated drugs designed by computers (almost entirely) in programs already set-up to take advantage of a "pandemic" (the major pharmaceuticals have done just that, you understand, years ago) and rushed into production and not as thoroughly tested as they have been in the past are therefore not reliable. They'll lead to all sorts of problems. From this to God only knows what else

It all illustrates the cost of the whole Covid madness being the world's first social media plague. I've been researching the idea that germs (by which they meant bacteria) – and later the add-on idea that viruses – cause disease, and will write at length later on that. (N.B. The 19th century invention of the microscope led to the former idea; the 1930s invention of the electron microscope led to the latter.) Yet there's always a minority report. But for right now, I hope the Irish, a naturally contrary sort, will throw off this Covid-yoke.

Tiocfaidh ár lá, as certain Irish rebels used to say.

An Préachán

Reflections on the UK EU Election...

There's no reason England (sans Scotland if necessary) can't be like Switzerland or Singapore. I say "no reason" in the sense of economics and trade; in the sense of the UK political class "thinking outside the box" of course, they're stuck -- maybe Nigel Farage can effect some real change.

Scotland could have used its oil money to become itself a Singapore, but instead is a Lolland-speaking version of Vermont: an all white, totally socialist, and increasingly childless satrapy of the EU.

What really irks is Ireland, stuck snug up the EU anus. If I could have three wishes, one of them would be to take Connacht out of Ireland. Oh, well.

After World War II, I suppose the English-speaking nations should have formed some sort of Delian League Against the World, but that half-feline half snake FDR was a Commie tool, Churchill was thrown out of office, and General MacArthur made sure Australia was sidelined into irrelevance.

Muise, as the Irish used to say.

"There will be Civil War in the Catholic Church"

Indeed. A "Civil War" has been silently waged, what we call a "War of Position" as opposed to a "War of Maneuver" since the rejection of Humanae Vitae in 1968. (Similar to the Communist "Long March" through the Western institutions, of which, of course, this is a part; see the story of Bella Dodd.) In a sense, the Gays and Bergoglio have done us a favor, in effect, as it were, by finally coming out of their dugouts and trenches into the open field. We can all see now what they're up to, and it "stinks to high Heaven", to "coin a phrase".

We don't know the details of how this will turn out, and so much depends on how Bergoglio resists the growing pressure, and how long he holds on to the papacy, and whether the homosexual "Lavender Mafia" can be expunged. If that doesn't happen, it is clear that a Schism (which de facto exists now) must occur. The "official" Church, sort of like the "Official IRA", will wither on the vine, and end up joining the Anglican Communion or the mainstream German Lutherans. How long it will take to get the Vatican itself back, we'll have to see. But surely, God is letting this occur so we can clean the Augean Stables, though admittedly without Heracles. (With God on our side, we don't actually need ol' Herc, of course. :) But one thing is certain sure, once the majority of the laity understand that the "Lavender Mafia" in effect call all the shots, they won't tolerate it. The Church is made up of families, and few fathers and mothers want to be in a Church of the Gays, run by the Gays, and all for the Gays. (If I may conjure up that old atheist, Abe Lincoln.:)

Excellent essay below, one full of history that I didn't know.

(Paul A. Rahe holds The Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, where he is professor of history. )

An excerpt:

This past weekend, the chickens finally came home to roost. We had already learned of the predatory conduct of Theodore McCarrick, Wuerl’s predecessor as cardinal-archbishop of Washington. The evidence showed that he had buggered altar boys and seminarians while auxiliary bishop in New York, bishop of Metuchen in New Jersey, and Archbishop of Newark. Formal complaints had been lodged against him as the 1990s and continued to be lodged in later years, but they were ignored, and he was nonetheless promoted.

On Saturday night, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who was the papal nuncio in Washington from 2011 to 2016, released an 11-page testament, revealing that Pope Benedict had learned of McCarrick’s conduct, had acted against the man in 2009 or 2010 by silencing him, prohibiting him from travel, and forbidding him to say mass in public; that in 2013 he had himself personally warned Pope Francis against McCarrick, spelling out in detail the man’s misdeeds; that Francis had reversed the restrictions imposed on McCarrick by Benedict, taken him as his chief American advisor, and ignored the advice of the Papal Nuncio and accepted that of McCarrick in choosing archbishops and bishops for the United States. This includes Blaise Cupich, the cardinal-archbishop of Chicago, and Joseph Tobin, the cardinal-archbishop of Newark.

Viganò also did something on Saturday night that, as far as I know, no high-ranking prelate has done in more than six hundred years. He called on the pope to resign.

In the meantime, Monsignor Jean-Francois Lantheaume, former first counsellor at the apostolic nunciature in Washington D.C. has emerged to confirm that Viganò‘s predecessor had been instructed to confine McCarrick by Pope Benedict, that he had witnessed the confrontation with McCarrick, and that everything else that Viganò had said was true. To this, we must add that Viganò named names in the Vatican, specifying which high officials had obstructed the investigation into McCarrick’s conduct.

As all of this suggests, we are now at a turning point. The Lavender Mafia controls the papacy and the Vatican overall, and Pope Francis is packing the College of Cardinals, who will elect the next pope, with sympathizers. Pope Francis and his minions have now been exposed, named, and shamed; and there will be a civil war within the Roman Catholic Church.

Either Francis leaves and his supporters and clients are purged, or the church is conceded to those who for decades have sheltered and promoted the pederasts and those who regard their abuse of minors as an indifferent matter. It is time that those bishops, archbishops, and cardinals who are innocent of such conduct stand up and force a house-cleaning. In the meantime, the laity should speak up loud and clear.

How bad are things in the U.S. Church? Check this out:

Cardinal Wuerl on the run? Using the Vatican to escape justice?

And this from Archbishop Charles Chaput:

An excerpt:

 Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia told a conference that had met to discuss the “young people” of the Church that in light of the abuse crisis in the Catholic Church he had written to Pope Francis asking him to cancel the upcoming Youth Synod set to take place in Rome.

“The bishops would have absolutely no credibility” in the upcoming Youth Synod, Chaput told the Cardinal’s Forum, an annual gathering to provide academic formation of seminarians and continuing education for lay people, yesterday. The synod's planned dates are set for October 3-28, 2018.

And then there's this by Rod Dreher, which overviews and links to this: 

Francis and the Journalists, by John Waters

(Clearly, the entire Irish episcopate should resign; what few good men are left haven't "stood up and been counted", so they should go, too.)

An excerpt:

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/08/francis-and-the-journalists

Three questions to begin:

1. Why did the World Meeting of Families, which took place in Ireland last week, all but exclude from its panels and speakers people who had been active in recent Irish referenda relating to family and children?

 2. Why did virtually every panel of commentators covering the World Meeting of Families and papal visit on Ireland’s national radio and television station comprise at least 50 percent LGBT activists?

 3. Why did the Irish media play down the explosive intervention of the former Vatican diplomat Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò until Pope Francis was preparing to leave Ireland on Sunday afternoon?

The answer to the first question has two parts. One is that the Irish Church hierarchy, having more or less avoided involvement in three referenda—on (so-called) children’s rights (2012), same-sex marriage (2015), and abortion (2018)—seek to ensure that those who tried to do the job they abandoned become non-persons within the Irish Catholic world. More and more, the Irish bishops appear to wish to curry favor with those who despise the Church, and to dismiss and disparage those who defend Christ’s proposals for humanity.

I was one of just three people who fought prominently in all three referenda on the side that the Catholic Church might have been expected to lead. Though I had gained a reputation as an arch-apologist for the Catholic Church, I was not invited to speak at the World Meeting of Families or even to attend it, and so I watched and listened from a distance.

To the second question: Media panels are stuffed with LGBT activists in order to protect the dominant narrative concerning clerical sex abuse in the Church. That narrative insists that sex abuse was perpetrated by pedophiles; that the main cause was clerical celibacy; and that the coverups were conducted by Church leaders to protect the Church from bad publicity. 

We have known since the John Jay Report published by the US bishops in 2004 that the overwhelming majority of abuse in the Church was carried out against teenage boys. The levels of pedophilia in the Church are shown by this report to be below those of the general population—whereas the levels of homosexual abuse were many multiples of the general situation. 

In Ireland, anyone who tries to state this case is immediately attacked by both journalists and LGBT activists. For this reason, the truth has never been fully reported, nor has its significance been absorbed even by the Church at the official level. Most Irish people have no sense of the true meaning of the child abuse scandals, and both the media and much of the Church’s priests and leadership seem anxious to retain the narrative that implies the victims were all “little ones.” 

See also: Thousands of Catholic Women Sign a Letter Pleasing with the Pope.

This is a "pathetic" piece in the sense that these people "don't get it" about Bergoglio, but at least they'll "get it" soon when he brings on a full-scale "civil war". In essence, it is a sort of last gasp of the Vat2 laity, the leftovers from JP2's days, the "conservatives" who are bewildered by the people running the Church off a cliff. 

An Préachán

Lamenting the Irish Americans and the Irish 19th Century Church

Irish Americans.

Irish Americans.

What is an Irish-American (formally spelled with a hyphen, and thus Theodore Roosevelt's "hyphenated American" put down)?

Good question. 

Most Irish Americans don't know they're Irish. Where I grew up (by odd circumstance) was on the Appalachians borderlands, where Catholics were rare or, if found, German or Italian. (Not many of either of those, to be sure). But a great many of the people had red hair, drank whiskey, fist-fought at the drop of a pin, and told wondrous stories. They were the Ulster Scots, of course. 

Ulster Scots, with a good mix of non-Ulster Scot Irish, too (I knew Casey's and so on with Irish-names who were as Protestant as John Knox).

"The Peopling of Ireland" is a complex tale, We don't know even when the Celtic language arrived, or where from. It has been there so long, however, as J.R.R. Tolkien once noted, as to have done most of it's evolution there. Unlike English, which was a mostly evolved language when it came to Prydain (Britannia, Britain, Alba, as the big island in the archipelago is known; the Welsh call England Lloegyr, the lost territories).

And if you travel about The West in Ireland, you'll note -- if you've traveled in Spain -- how many of them look like Spaniards or Portuguese. Once, in Donegal at the great Irish course in Gleann Colm Cille, a drought was on, and the whole area turned brown. It looked exactly like Galicia. And it made the black-haired locals look all the more Iberian. All that because Ireland, Brittany, and Galicia/Portugal are "Atlantic Europe", and you can see on a globe (a flat map won't do it) how close they are to each other.

But as for the Irish Americans, in the sense of what I'd call the "city Irish," who were, originally, mostly Catholic, it's easy to disparage then. I've been disgusted with them far more often than not. I well remember an Irish priest of my acquaintance, an old man, Irish-born, you understand, berating a guy dressed in a pathetically outrageous Irish leprechaun costume (this was years ago) at the Dublin (Ohio) Irish Festival.

But as a blogger One Peter Five wrote, "The Irish should be Catholic, not Irish, the latter being." as the blogger wrote: "...largely a filth culture which emphasizes wicked practices such as drunkenness, immodest dancing, and a permissiveness to blatant paganism under the guise of 'culture', because it's 'Irish'. "

Assume for a moment that is mostly true, and alas, it too often is, on both sides of the Atlantic. But I would stress where we got that miserable culture of drink, dance, and the devil. Take dancing for example; Traditional dancing in Ireland was group dancing, and when one danced, one danced with the whole village, in essence. Who invented modern dance? A person gyrating in sexually suggestive gyrations, alone, in a mass of other zombies doin' the same, all to "music" so loud it would deafen a basalt rock?

The Irish embraced "rock and roll" but they didn't invent it.

We got that foreign, outside culture from the Outside, and the Church in Ireland, the 19th century Church, now, facilitated that, all in order to remove from the Irish their own culture and language, all in order to make them "West Brits". And it was THAT Church that drilled into us the Three Unbreakable Commandments: Pray. Pay, and Obey. It was that Church, a materialistic one, a promoter of "prosperity" and "modernism" before even the Protestant  Germans got around to inventing "Modernism" in the 1860s (the Tübingen School of theology) that laid us low and removed our defenses and ancient cultural immunity against foreign contagion.

And, friends, is it now a wonder at all that their "spiritual descendants" of Vatican II and that Ilk (both in Ireland and the largely Irish-derived American Catholic Church) left us with this mess of an abortion regime coming to Ireland?

“So in the Libyan fable it is told

That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,

Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,

With our own feathers, not by others' hands,

Are we now smitten.”

―Aeschylus

RC

Ranked Voting Comes to Maine and the Best Form of Democracy?

News that Ranked Choice Voting has come to Maine is making a bit of (small time) political news. Ireland has it. Alas, I know Ireland only too well. Oh, I'm fine with Maine trying it, and I wouldn't mind some states trying a unicameral legislature (as Nebraska has, only note that it is also "nonpartisan") only on the British Parliamentary model. The states are supposed to be "laboratories of democracy". after all. Go for it.

That said, Ranked Choice Voting is a disaster because it gives us a mish-mash of professional politicians, making for crazy-quilt, small party legislatures in which the embedded, unextractable Bureaucrats are the only ones to rule.

If you want TRUE democracy, (as the Ancient Greeks found, who tried just about every form of "people rule" possible) chose legislatures by lottery, much as you'd chose juries. I.e., choose by lottery people who passed certain basic qualifications (no criminal record, etc.) to represent districts. As William F. Buckley famously put it, "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."

For the simple truth is, AS LONG AS YOU HAVE "professional" politicians, you'll have a class of buffoons who only look out for their re-election. They "represent" only themselves. It's as simple as that.

More on the Irish abortion vote

The following is a post I left at this article on the Irish abort vote at One Peter Five.

The author notes: 
"The RTE exit poll indicated that 87.6% of 18-24-year olds voted for abortion. The majority of these young men and women were educated in Catholic schools in Ireland under the patronage of Irish bishops. They were not properly catechised."

An ea? Is that so? I do NOT doubt it, but dar Crom (by Jove) where in all the round world were these kids' parents? Where? Ireland? Earth? Mars? Vacationing on Pluto?

In a major way, I am glad I was raised among Protestants. Old School types in a rural public school where preachers often stopped by to visit. I had to fight for the Faith from grade school, and the mainstream Church (in America now, and the same in Ireland by all accounts) taught me nothing. But something is amiss in all this, and that something is big: the parents.

My mother's only brother to have children had four, and sent them to a Catholic school in Columbus, Ohio, after the consolidation into three large schools from the old parish schools (where everyone knew each other and the nuns taught). None of this uncle's kids have the Faith today (well, one died a few years ago, an alcoholic, divorced, but I knew him the least -- he stopped by at an Irish festival when I was telling Irish-language stories once, a big guy, a classic "Mic": red-haired, mustached, looked 19th century. (Far more Irish-looking than meself, dontcha know? :) But one of his daughters was with him, and he introduced us; I gave 'em both my contact info but never heard/saw 'em again).

But my uncle often complained to my mother, his sister, how uneducated in the Faith his brood were, but c'mon! Where was his Faith? Didn't he dare teach them what he had learned "back in the day" at the old Aquinas High School? (That school was famous but somehow suppressed by the bishop; perhaps an early Spirit of Vat2 attack?) Apparently not. He was passive. And I can honestly say that if the Divil himself ran for mayor as a Democrat, and St. Anthony or whoever ran as a Republican, he would have voted for the former without a thought. Poor man. And you know, he never missed a Mass.

RC

Part III on the Irish abortion vote

One more bit to go...

So, an Irish-speaking country of young families – and the oldest version of Catholicism outside of the bounds of the later Roman Empire – became an English-speaking country wherein the men and women married late, if at all. And with a Church whose primary function seemed to be to encourage its members to forget the past. Historians of Ireland and the Church now that in the 1800s and into the 1950s, the Irish Catholic Church was the most Progressive, modernizing element in the country’s society. I’ve tried to explain this at Irish festivals in the U.S. (I used to teach Irish at these, and tell Irish-language folktales.) But I was usually laughed at by someone, usually a woman (with red hair, or so it seemed) at how stupid such an assertion was. That just showed their ignorance, of course.

One final point about marrying late: In my mother's mother’s people, of three daughters and one son, only one daughter (the youngest and most American) married, and in my mother's father's family, of two brothers and three or four sisters, only the two brothers married, and one of them "married late" and had no children. In other words, the people were "neutered" culturally and in family life and creation.

And the Church, <i>dar Crom</i>, it would have driven me back to the old religion of an <i>tSlua Sí</i>, the Noble People of the Hills. It was a Jansenist Church, on one hand, and on the other, materialistic. It's schools -- such as they existed, esp in the U.S. were all about attaining material progress. For example, did you know that Communists in England in the later 1800s and early 1900s said the Irish were the easiest to lure away into atheism? Engels' own live-in girlfriend (Mary) was a Byrne (she spelled it "Burns", and could have easily been related to some of my people). When she died (of alcoholism, of course) he took up with her sister.

Now, "payment is due". The "Celtic Tiger" (also known as the Emerald Tiger) made yuppies of a large portion of the Irish, and the thin gruel of their parents' religion offered little resistance.

Of course the Irish hadlittle in the way of rebellion toward Vat II and its baleful spirit, to begin with, as well-noted by Commentators here. Just some stats and thoughts. Poland Ireland ain't. Not remotely. A "Catholic Country"? Well, in many ways, here and there. Once upon a time. We'll see just how much it remains so.

An Précháin

More thoughts on the Irish vote...

This is the first section of a three-part piece I submitted as a Commentator to OnePeterFive:

I posted a similar Irish-vote essay as the one I’m sharing with you below a while ago and I’ve gone through it again for posting here. It will be in a couple of sections. Commentator LB236 wrote in a Comment below that, “I am no expert in Ireland or its history—what little I know comes from anecdotes mentioned in other books on Catholicism I have read—but I refuse to believe a nation that kept the Faith in the midst of persecution for so long would have as a nation apostasized were it not for the destruction of the Mass that nourished the faithful for so long.”

That is, to some extent, true, and it is true for not just Ireland, but the Church Universal. <b>However:</b> the "nation that kept the Faith in the midst of persecution fro so long" is not the English-speaking, post-Famine Ireland. The Penal Laws were over by the time of the Great Famine. It was an Irish-speaking Éire that kept the Faith under centuries of English Protestant persecution -- and even before England became Protestant, they kept two distinct Churches in Ireland, one for the Irish and one for the English colonists.

Yes, everyone is wringing their hands over Ireland, but it is SO important, for everyone, to know Irish history, that <i>nightmare,</i> as James Joyce put it, <i>from which he was trying to awake.</i> Two major, powerful, screamingly important things need to be understood: First, until about 180 years ago, or four Biblical generations now (three score & ten plus some overlap): is that Ireland was one kind of nation since Patrick came in the 400s all the way to 1846, and another nation entirely from the post-Famine period down to the “Celtic Tiger”. Before the Famine, Ireland was mostly Irish-speaking. Celtic realm, founded in an ancient Faith imparted over a thousand and a half years before; after the Famine, very few would admit to even knowing the language. (My great-aunts were Irish-speakers but wouldn’t teach it to my mother, for example. “We’re lace-curtain Irish,” they actually told her – but their parents spoke no English when they immigrated into the U.S. And my great-aunts were desperate to hide that fact.)

Regarding Ireland’s language shift, there’s been a complete changeover in a way unique in European history. In other words, the country you-all think of as “Ireland” is a new construct, rootless, languageless, and in a powerful way, spiritless. By that I mean the Irish Church from the early 1800s to today is <i>NOT</i> the Irish Church of any time before 1800. It was a half-Jansenist Church, promoting English and trying to eradicate anything unique Irish or Celtic about it. (There were exceptions: see Archbishop John MacHale, 1791 to 1881.) The religion my grandmother and mother had was devoid of any Irish (as in long-established Celtic) roots. It only took over Ireland in the post-Famine era, and was “a mile wide and an inch deep” for that Biblical generation who lived from the creation of the Irish Free State to today.

Second point: this Abort vote was rigged. I’m not saying it was rigged for the aborts to win but rigged to win big. Win by a ridiculous margin. And this was done precisely to stymie debate. Yes, yes, sure, Ireland of today wasn’t what it was even as late as the 1980s, but these vote totals were to do as JGP Connolly, the author of the main article here, writes, “The margin of victory for abortion was too huge for there to be any doubt.”

Exactly. Precisely. That’s the point. And I know enough Irish history, modern and otherwise, plus a tremendous amount of American history and “machine politics” to know the Irish <i>never</i> have had a proper election. Why should they? They’re clannish, as clannish as Appalachians (I’m one of those too), and they’ve never accepted the standard Western Civ meme of the importance of the individual. That’s first of all; second of all, they had the English (God help us!) as teachers and exemplars in the art of democracy (insane laughter, chocking, some minutes of restoring calm). Every time in history, from the Middle Ages on, whenever English-planted parliaments slowly evolved into true democratic institutions in Ireland, the English squashed ‘em. It happened as late at the last all-island vote ever held in the country, in December 1918, it happened in the later 1800s with Parnell and a half generation before Parnell, with O'Connell, in the 1700s when the Brits squashed the Irish parliament; it just has happened over and over and over again. So why would the Irish have any “democratic” genes?

Part 1