The Transfiguration, Fra Angelico, ARSH 1442, Convent of San Marco Cell 6, Florence
From Dom Gueranger:
“The King of Jews and Gentiles revealed Himself upon the mountain, where His calm splendour eclipsed for evermore the lightnings of Sinai; the covenant of the eternal alliance was declared, not by the promulgation of a law of servitude engraven upon stone, but by the manifestation of the Lawgiver Himself, coming as Bridegroom to reign in grace and beauty over hearts.”
In Episode #231 I talked about a watershed essay on the intense danger of AI as a substitute for human relationships. This is already happening in Japan.
The author has removed the piece from her Substack, and it isn’t on the Wayback Machine, but I have reached out via email to see if it will be reposted. If it isn’t, I will write up my own explanation from memory, but the original piece is exhaustive in its explanation, so I’d rather wait to see if it will be available again. —AB
I mentioned this in Episode #231, and watched it last week. I watched it with a 25 year old female guest and her remark was, “Wow! All of the men are so… masculine!” It’s true. It is an undeniable, obvious observable fact that human males in the post-Christian west today are physically feminine. This is due primarily to estrogen from the mass use of the birth control pill being passed through women’s urine into the water supply. Estrogens from consumption of soy products is also a big factor.
Fun fact: the beautiful blonde horse that Maid Marian FitzWater (Olivia de Havilland) is seen riding is Roy Rogers’ horse, Trigger.
This scene hits harder in the 2025 than it used to. And spot Trigger.
And, of course I’m posting this. Arise, Sir Loin of Beef!
In this episode Non Veni Mark joins Art and Ann for a discussion of the seeming Stockholm Syndrome of the few remaining heterosexual Catholic prelates who not only refuse to fight for Holy Mother Church, but give every indication of having fallen in love with their captors and abusers. We then discuss the satanic explosion of Artificial Intelligence and its terrifying trajectory, as well as a digression on how it is that so many people in power and influence positions are being revealed as pedos – with video proof. The answer? They freely choose to give blackmail material to “the rulers of this world” in exchange for power, money and success. This is why people were lining up and banging down Epstein and Diddy’s doors. They were simply emcees of voluntary satanic initiation rituals – voluntary blackmail.
“Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended on you”
Full text of Bishop Strickland’s “letter from a friend”… I hope he reads it again today
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St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of an order referred to as the “Jesuits”, not to be confused with the horrific, horrific cancer infecting the Church and the world today, which cunningly goes by the same name.
Poor, poor St. Ignatius of Loyola. Read this simple bio and then tell me that the so-called Jesuit order of today, a wretched hive of heretics, Marxists and sodomites, is the same thing that this saint founded:
Ignatius, courtier and knight, was wounded at the siege of Pamplona. During his long convalescence the reading of the lives of the saints revealed to him that the Church Militant needed an army of glorious soldiers to fight the forces combined against it: pagans, mohammedans, protestants, etc. He founded the Society of Jesus and as first General of this new spiritual chivalry he moved to the attack under the motto: “Ad majorem Dei gloriam – To the greater glory of God!” He died with the Holy Name of Jesus on his lips ARSH 1556.
St. Ignatius of Loyola, pray for us that we may be defended against the wickedness and snares of the thoroughly infested “jesuit order” of today, which we know has nothing to do with you or the order you founded.
And while you’re interceding with the Triune Godhead, please also mention that the wretched hive of scum and villainy calling itself The Legionaries of Christ needs to be likewise pounded out of existence ASAP. 🙏🏻
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.”
–C.S. Lewis
Ann,
Podcast 230 is among your finest work.
The local archdiocesan seminary offers masters in theology programs to lay people. There were orthodox rumblings at the time. Benedict was Pope. It was pre-Francis. I was in my early 50s.
A female theology professor (then married, since divorced) taught the class that married couples can do pretty much anything so long as they’re both on board with the given act and that the session… consummated in the customary way. I challenged her in class and was told that I exhibited “pre-Vatican II antiquarianism.”
In a not-so-unrelated episode, the seminary had an auction every year to raise money. Among the biggest draws at the auction was the “Scratch Ticket Tree” where students would buy lottery scratch tickets, donate them to the seminary, and the seminary ladies would clip the tickets to this big metal table top tree like thing. It became by far the most discussed auction item. Never mind Our Lord. “All ya need is a dollar and a dream.”
The head seminary lady came in to the beginning of a class one day to make announcements, including about the upcoming auction and, naturally, the Scratch Ticket Tree. Seeing my disapproving reaction, she singled me out exclaiming in front of the class, “So, Steve! Have you brought in YOUR scratch tickets?”
I replied, “Professor, I’m old enough to remember when that was a mortal sin.”
Thank you, Ann, for your great work and a particularly outstanding episode.
God bless you.
S
