Showing posts with label Anti-Modernism. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Western-Eastern Roman Empire 101

- is Eastern Orthodoxy some benign alternative to the [Western] Roman Catholic Church, a sort of form of Protestant Christianity, or is it simply the Eastern form of Roman Catholicism, abet with some different appearing architecture and rituals?  Is it benign and tolerant or hateful and intolerant?

- what do the sources that label Ukraine's post February 22, 2014 pro-western government as "Nazi" have to say about Vladimir Putin and his rule?  Do they also spotlight the political assassinations of human rights activists in Russia during the past decade or so ago.


The Double-Headed Eagle of the Western-Eastern Roman Empire 
- why are web sites that present themselves as anti Rome-anti-Vatican-anti-Jesuit Order particularly The UnHived Mind pumping Vladimir Put-In?

- why are conspiracy blogs as Infowars less pro USA and more pro Vladimir Put-In?  Do they feel that Russia is somehow a superior more tolerant nation that the USA and or its allies such as the United Kingdom, Deutschland and Poland?
http://www.ibtimes.com/russia-fires-nuclear-missile-hits-target-3500-miles-away-1684390
Russia successfully tested its latest Bulava intercontinental nuclear missile Wednesday amid rising tensions with NATO over the conflict in Ukraine. The nearly 37-ton missile was launched from Russia’s new submarine, the Vladimir Monomakh, as part of its sea trials. Deputy Defense Minister Yuriy Borisov said a total of five test launches are planned.

Vladimir Monomakh, named after a medieval prince, fired the inter-continental ballistic missile from the White Sea near Russia’s border with Finland and hit its target nearly 3,500 miles away on the Kamchatka peninsula north of Japan. The Russian Navy's head, Adm. Viktor Chirkov, was aboard the Vladimir Monomakh for the launch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_II_Monomakh
Vladimir II Monomakh (Old East Slavic: Володимиръ (-мѣръ) Мономахъ, Volodimir Monomakh; Christian name Vasiliy, or Basileios) (1053 – 19 May 1125) was a Velikiy Kniaz (Grand Prince) of Kievan Rus'.
He was the son of Vsevolod I (married in 1046) and Anastasia of the Eastern Roman Empire (d. 1067) which is now called the Byzantine Empire. Anastasia is believed to be related to the family of the Byzantine emperor Constantine IX Monomachos, from whom Vladimir obtained his surname. Contemporary Byzantine naming practice allowed the adoption of a maternal surname if the mother's family was perceived to be of a more exalted origin than that of the father.[1]

Eupraxia of Kiev, a half-sister of Vladimir, became notorious all over Europe for her divorce from the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV on the grounds that he had attempted a black mass on her naked body.

Vladimir Putin August 26, 2014


Vladimir II


A basic '101' on the Western and Eastern Roman Empire represented on all those flags we see from Russia and elsewhere featuring the DOUBLE-HEADED EAGLE

330 AD- Roman Catholic Church is established in Rome, officially adopting Christianity yet clearly based upon the already established Roman universal (satanic pagan) church, with clever omissions and additions designed to ferment a fearful obedience.

880 Moscovite invasion of the Kiev of the East Polans- subsequently re-named "Kievan Rus"

988 Moscovite 'Kieven Rus' Ruler Wladimir I Sucks up to Byzantium, effectively creating Rus Orthodoxy (Eastern Catholicism)

1054 Great Schism- this effectively partitions Poland' keeping that nation-state west of the Great Schism Line, while the lands of the East Poles (Eastern Poland) are re-named 'Kievan Rus'

1240s Mongols Smash Kievan Rus, make it westward to Western Silesia

1300s- Lithuania fills the power vacuum in vanquished "Kievan Rus" - and soon joins with Poland to create the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

1517 Martin Luther's 95 Thesis

1525 1st Lutheran State in East Prussia

1572  French bow to Rome St. Bartholomew Day's Massacre

1573 Poland passes Warsaw Confederation Against St Bartholomew Day's Massacre

 "This country became a place of shelter for heretics” - Cardinal Hozjusz papal legate to Poland

late 1500s- Rome's recently created Jesuit Order seeks strategies to deal with expanding Rome's hegemony eastward

Late 1574-Early 1600s Vatican Proposal that Poland merges with Russia

1596 Uniate 'Greek Catholic' creation

1613 Russia's 2nd dynasty Romonov Dynasty established, succeeding the  Rurik Dynasty that had been established cir 862.

1650s Eastern Rome begins to take Eastern Poland (Ukraine) via the Khmelnytsky Rebellion via a pro-Moscovite Jesuit educated leader Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

Enlightened Poles seek to create the Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth by the Treaty of Hadiach which would abolish the Roman Uniate Church- is strongly opposed by Rome AND Moscow and is alas thwarted

1772-1795- Polish Commonwealth erased by Russia, Prussia and Austria..

1850- by this time Rome has decided upon a future war against Prussia-Northeastern Germany; subsequent creation of Protestant Lutheran-Pietist 2nd Reich Deutschland under Otto von Bismark, conflict with the Papacy via Cardinal Mieczyslaw Ledochowski and the revenge planning against Germany and the planned counter reformation against ‘heretical’ Germany and Poland, with the latter’s westward shift and the creation of the modern‘Ukrainian’ movement redefining the traditional East Poles-Ruthenians against Poland and favoring Moscow.

1906- Mieczyslaw Ledochowski’s nephew Wlodimir Ledochowski sets up European alliance system to engineer WW1 with Protestant United Kingdom allied against Germany and with France, which is allied with ‘Orthodox’ Russia.

Reemergence of Poland

1919 Polish Nationalist Joseph Pilsudski betrayed by political opponents loyal to Rome from western Poland primarily in the former Posen Provinz Poznan betray the drive to reunite westerly and east Poland (now re-oriented as ‘Ukraine’).
 http://www.day.kiev.ua/en/article/topic-day/pilsudski-petliura
“This does not mean, however, that he enjoyed the nation’s love and understanding. There were a lot of communities and entire regions (in particular, those of Poznan and Pomorze) where Pilsudski had virtually no political support. This naturally created numerous problems both for Poland and Ukraine.

“There is one very interesting letter written by Pilsudski to General Sosnowski in the early May of 1920. In this letter he complained that the Poznan regiments, moving across Ukraine, will not understand that they were on allied territory, and rob everyone on their way and he, the commander in chief, could do nothing to stop them. He was indignant that some men’s dishonorable and stupid behavior was ruining the entire Polish-Ukrainian concept.

Pilsudski, who sought to re-unify the western and eastern portions of Poland across the great schism line, had these efforts continuously betrayed by the papist loyalists of the political movement of Roman Dmowski, who was a vicious hater of Jewish people and who sought to alienate the Ruthenian-East Polans ('Ukrainians') in conformity with the long term strategic aims of the Western-Eastern Roman Empire via his Endecja 'National Democrat' political organization.

Such a pattern of betrayal was emulated with some of the forces under Pilsudski ally Symon Petliura during the 1920 Polish - Soviet War/Polish liberation of Kiev.  Such forces engaged in anti-Jewish pogroms contrary to Petliura's commands:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symon_Petliura
Anti-Jewish pogroms accompanied the Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing Russian Civil War. The Ukrainian state promised Jews full equality and autonomy, and Arnold Margolin, a Jewish minister in Petliura's government, declared in May 1919 that the Ukrainian government had given Jews more rights than they enjoyed in any other European government.[12] However, Petliura lost control over most of his armed forces, who then engaged in killing Jews. During Petliura's term as Head of State (1919–20), pogroms continued to be perpetrated on Ukrainian ethnic territory, and the number of Jews killed during the period is estimated to be from 35,000 to 50,000....
Historians have pointed out that Petliura himself never demonstrated any personal antisemitism, and it is documented that he actively sought to halt anti-Jewish violence on numerous occasions, introducing capital punishment for the crime of pogroming.[17][18] Taras Hunczak of Rutgers University writes that "to convict Petliura for the tragedy that befell Ukrainian Jewry is to condemn an innocent man and to distort the record of Ukrainian-Jewish relations".[19][20]

Because the Soviet Union saw Petliura and Ukrainian nationalism as a threat, it was in its interest to tarnish his reputation. A propaganda campaign to this end included accusations of anti-Jewish crimes.[21] Hunczak insists that "Petliura's own personal convictions render such responsibility highly unlikely, and all the documentary evidence indicates that he consistently made efforts to stem pogrom activity by UNR troops."[22]

 Pilsudski and Petliura 1920

WW2- extended to ensure deep penetration first eastward to destroy surplus populations then westward to destroy Warsaw, and then Eastern Germany is erased from the map, with Poland tremendously reduced and pushed westward as per design.

2017 'Greek Catholic' Rus- via a Roman Catholic Uniate Romanov Restoration!







See video at 30:30+ for discussion of future Roman Catholic Russian Czar




By Luke Wilson
Fiction as a teaching tool has a venerable history harking back to the parables of Our Lord, and even to the prophets of the Old Testament. Future fiction entails certain risks, since it has to be based on educated guesses about what will happen. While it is understood that many details of any novel set in the future will prove to be incorrect, the timeless truths taught by the story may remain relevant and worthwhile even long after the previously-future date has been passed. Well-known examples of such novels include George Orwell’s 1984, and Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson’s Lord of the World.
     Russian Sunrise takes place between the years 2015 and 2017 A.D., and is based upon the outline of future history provided by Our Lady of Fatima: the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in union with all the Catholic bishops of the world; but he will do it late. In the end, the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph, Russia will be converted, and the world will be granted a period of peace. The novel argues that the conversion of a nation, as promised by Our Lady, can only mean that the nation becomes Catholic. The rather sudden conversion of the vast majority of individual souls in Russia would be a spectacular public miracle -- so great that the world could neither miss nor deny the obvious connection between a recent public papal consecration of Russia, and the unprecedented religious revival that soon followed.
Those who grew up during the Cold War era have long been accustomed to think of the United States of America as the world’s protector, and of Russia as the enemy. Russian Sunrise attempts to explore a different, Catholic perspective: that Russia has been heaven’s chosen vessel for the chastisement of the world, by spreading her errors and persecutions of the Church, for as long as the Holy Fathers continue to delay exact obedience in performing the requested consecration. But in the end, Russia is to become heaven’s chosen vessel of peace for the world, as the modern world’s first powerful Catholic Confessional State. The corrupt monetary and banking systems of secular America are seen as the cause of the Global Financial Crisis. In contrast, future-Catholic Russia’s return to the Social Kingship of Christ provides the world with a new example of distributive justice and cultural cohesion. Interestingly, the modern secular humanist state religion of ‘democracy’ is challenged by converted Russia’s voluntary return to autocratic Catholic monarchy at the national level, thereby keeping local democracy free from corruption by moneyed interests. Reinstatement of a precious metals monetary standard ensures economic justice for all, and together with hereditary Christian monarchy spells an end to “government of, by, and for big money.”
      In Russian Sunrise, it is converted top Russian leaders who privately plead with the fictional Pope Nicholas VI to please consecrate their nation in obedience to Our Lady of Fatima. Grace -- obtained through multi-million rosary campaigns by traditional Catholics -- has changed the leaders’ hearts to see that there is no hope for Russia, or for the world, except through papal obedience to heaven. To escape the “spiritual wickedness in high places” that infests the Vatican, Pope Nicholas goes on a sudden secret retreat to the tradition-oriented Fatima “Cova” parish in inner-city Detroit. Father Kiril Romanov, the Cova’s pastor, is a solidly-orthodox Catholic priest and a talented musician who keeps the classics of great polyphonic Catholic music alive in the context of a weekly high Tridentine mass. Father Kiril’s older brother, bachelor Mikhail Romanov, is also a talented musician, a Professor of Medicine, and a decorated war hero. And, through miracles of Divine Providence, Mikhail is the legitimate crown prince of Russia, born expatriate of uncompromised Russian royal lineage in the United States. Mikhail enters into a chaste romance with Mariya Peterson, a young music prodigy from the Cova parish, who has recently learned she and her parents are also of Russian royal descent. Prince Mikhail and Princess Mariya appear together on the world stage at the Romanov Nobility ball in New York City, on the very evening before the Pope and all obedient Catholic bishops are to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Soon, Russia is converted, clamors to restore her monarchy, and through a referendum calls upon Mikhail to ascend the Romanov throne as the new Tsar of Catholic Russia. A Ministry of Catholic Social Reorganization is established, working to re-structure Russian society from top to bottom, to bring it into conformity with the social teaching of Christ and His Church. As just monetary and economic policies are implemented, dark and powerful forces become enraged, and plot to undermine the new freedoms for the common man and for large families, which are “dangerously” on display in Russia. But other nations begin to stir, wanting to emulate the blessings demonstrated by the new Catholic Confessional state.
     The author, Bruce W. Walters M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist and former columnist for The Latin Mass magazine. He sings tenor in the Latin Mass Choir at Assumption Grotto Church in Detroit, and is a former parish organist and organ-builder: Russian Sunrise contains extensive imagery of organs and classical music. During his lecture in Rome at the recent Consecration Now! conference on Fatima, Dr. Walters asserted that, while much emphasis has been placed on the chastisements threatened if Our Lady of Fatima is not obeyed soon, it is also important to contemplate what wonderful blessings could follow for Russia -- and for the whole world -- after the pope and bishops do finally obey Our Lady by performing the consecration of Russia precisely as requested.
Russian Sunrise is a creative and unusual approach to proclaiming the full truth about Fatima. It is a well-written, captivating, and uplifting story, packed with detailed information about Catholic social teaching, the Orthodox Church, classical music, economics, the Global Financial Crisis, and Russian history. The novel seems designed to reach a much wider audience than just traditional Catholics already convinced of the urgency of the message of Fatima. Russian Sunrise may be an important new tool to spread the full message of Fatima, to inform good minds previously confused by the “Vatican party line,” and to enkindle renewed zeal for the Consecration of Russia in good hearts previously stifled by “false obedience.” A copy for oneself, and a few extra copies to pass along to friends, is to be recommended.

Incidentally, the name of Vladimir means "great ruler"? Kievan "Rus" ruler, Vladimir Great, therefore, entered into an alliance with the Byzantine Empire and created the Russian Orthodox Church.

Then we have Vladimir II  (1053 – 19 May 1125) - a Velikiy Kniaz (Grand Prince) of Kievan Rus'.

Then we have Wlodimir (Vladimir) Ledochowski who perfected the evil squeeze of WW1 and particularly WW2 upon north-eastern Germany and Poland - born October 7, 1866, died December 13, 1942, days after the war battle-lines turned against Germany at the Battle of Stalingrad.

Then, whether Russia will soon becoming the new Catholic ruler, Vladimir Romanov, or "roman a great ruler."

Ironically, Putin and Ledochowski, happened to be born on the same day, October 7, with Putin born exactly 14 years before the 100th anniversary of Ledochowski's birth.



Also see:

http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.it/2014/06/jesuitical-masonry-in-russia-and.html

http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.com/2014/09/bridges-east.html

2 Blogs I highly Recommend:

http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.com/

Jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.com

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

B 16 Recalls ADOLFO Nichols's Childhood Era Franco Spain

Adolfo Nichols born April 29, 1936, in northern Spain, weeks before the July 17, 1936 Spanish Civil War, ending April 1, 1939- in recalling Wlodimir Ledochowski's anti-modernism, one's got to wonder about what they have coming for us next...
http://peoplesworld.org/springtime-for-franco-and-pope-benedict/

Springtime for Franco and Pope Benedict
Norman Markowitz
December 9 2010

A friend sent me a troubling story from Spain. Pope Benedict, the former Cardinal Ratzinger, once a conservative theological brain-truster for Pope John Paul in his battles against liberation theology and progressive forces in the Roman Catholic Church, said in a speech that "in Spain, a strong aggressive lay mentality, an anti-clericalism and secularization has been born as we experienced in the 1930s."

Benedict was condemning the social legislation of the Socialist-led Spanish government, which has permitted abortion, liberalized divorce, and even legalized gay marriage.

He went on to say that Spain was a major center for a return to faith because Spain had played such a central role in "reviving" Christianity in past centuries. He didn't say what he meant specifically. Was it the Spanish Inquisition, Spanish colonialism's destruction of tens of millions of native peoples in the Western Hemisphere, the maintenance of a feudal social order that made Spain by the 19th century a weak backward nation, an example of what no one wanted to be?

My friend was outraged by the Pope's implicit defense of the fascist dictatorship that ousted the Spanish Republic and ruled Spain from the end of the 1930s until the death of the fascist dictator, Francisco Franco, in 1975. Let's look at what really happened.

In the 1920s and '30s Spain was at its core a feudal society without effective civil rights and liberties, a society in which the higher orders of the Catholic Church controlled vast amounts of land and other resources, making the Church a key component rather than a mere servant of the Spanish ruling class.

After five years of political struggle, in which the church supported reactionary forces and parties in Spain, a people's front coalition of liberals, socialists and communists defeated conservative and reactionary forces in a national election

In its 1931 constitution the Spanish Republic established religious freedom, which had never existed in Spain, as well as the separation of church and state and an end to the Catholic Church's control of education, and most importantly, placed restrictions upon church property.

It also sought to institute land reforms which would have returned poor church-controlled lands to the poor.

The most reactionary sectors of Spanish capital then supported General Francisco Franco's coup against the government. When the coup faltered in the face of worker and peasant resistance, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy entered the conflict to provide troops, weapons, planes and funds to Franco's forces.

In the bloody three-year civil war which followed, only the Soviet Union provided significant aid to the Spanish Republic. The global Catholic Church supported Franco's armies, not openly in defense of fascism, but on anti-Communist grounds, often countering the accounts of the atrocities committed by Franco's forces against workers and peasants with stories of attacks on monasteries and church-controlled feudal estates and the killing of clergy by the poor and other supporters of the Republic.

Following Franco's victory in 1939, a single party fascist state was established, property was returned to the upper classes and the church, and civil liberties and religious freedom were abolished (the latter for all non- Catholics, including Protestant Christians).

Hundreds of thousands of anti-fascist supporters of the Republic were murdered in the years which immediately followed Franco's victory, when Pope Benedict as a German teenager was a member of the Hitler Youth and then a draftee in the German Army.

Most commentators on the Pope maintain that he came from a passively anti-Nazi conservative Catholic family and was never an active supporter of the Hitler regime. But the crimes of German fascism and its central role in the establishment of Spanish fascism are still there. The German government, for example, provides Holocaust reparations to the victims and families of Spanish Republican fighters whom the Nazis captured in France and other countries and murdered systematically.

The Spanish Civil War served as a dress rehearsal for World War II, for the European fascist forces and the destruction of the Spanish Republic was their first major military victory.

The development of the Cold War and U.S. support beginning in the Eisenhower administration permitted Franco's regime to survive for 30 years after the 1945 victory over German and Italian fascism. The hopes of exiled Spanish anti-fascists for Spain's liberation, which the Soviet Union called for at the end of the war, never materialized.

If Benedict wanted to deal more seriously with Spanish history, he might take a page from Judaism and find his own Yom Kippur, a day of contemplation and atonement for the sins of his church against the Spanish people, in its hoarding of wealth and support for exploitation and oppression over the centuries.

He might atone for the Spanish Inquisition, the church's support for Spanish fascism during and after the Spanish Civil War, and perhaps its attempt to use the state to interfere in the lives of women and gays today by its call for state bans on abortion, contraception, divorce and gay marriage.

The Pope's official statements proclaiming mystical love and faith in Jesus through the Catholic Church as a road to peace and salvation can only be seen as smug and arrogant when they turn a blind eye to the institutional inequality and injustice which creates violence and hate and then feeds on it. Fascism was and is an expression of the violence and hate that lives through and feeds on inequality and injustice.

The Pope's statements in Spain should be seen as an insult not only to the Spanish people but to secular and religious people everywhere who seek knowledge which will help them fight social injustice rather than use ideology to preserve and protect wealth and power.

Photo: Nazi SS Reichsfurer Heinrich Himmler, second from left, and other Nazi officials, with Gen. Francisco Franco, second from right, in Spain, October 1940. (wikimedia/German Federal Archive CC 30.0)

Friday, August 21, 2009

Wlodimir Ledochowski's Anti-Modernism & Militant 'Marianism'


From Amazon Customer Reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Heel-Mary-Nicholas-Perry/product-reviews/0415012961/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?ie=UTF8&coliid=&showViewpoints=1&colid=&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Militant Marianism: Mary as Church defender, May 27, 2006
The provocative title of this academic study makes the book sound more controversial or biased than it is. Mariolatry in its various forms is exhaustively surveyed from the early Church on. Most of the study's focused upon the last couple of centuries, as they have seen the rise in claimed apparitions and revelations accompanied by mass media--as opposed to pilgrim-centered or clerically propagandized methods--publicity and dissemination. Perry and co-author Loreto Echevarria argue that this rise in "militant Marianism" can be tied to a largely right-wing backlash against modernity and liberalization. They chart the rise of Mary and that of repressive regimes in the West and the colonial world, and how Marian intercessions are employed as weapons in the Cold War and the campaigns against socialism, liberation theology, and secularization.

The book's very well documented, with hundreds of sources. The authors, especially in the rather too densely compressed and massively compiled narrative of the earlier chapters that review the early and medieval Church and Marian movements and doctrines, tend to favor too often the "two-dollar" fancy adjectives and esoteric vocabulary, that, although correctly used, tends to draw attention too much to the prose style rather than better illuminating the content. My rating is between 3 and 4 stars, but I round it up for effort, although content's often buried under much research but not enough interpretation.

A grounding in Church history and theology is necessary to grasp this book, as a beginner may be overwhelmed by the contexts explored meticulously that in previous centuries prepared the way for modern acceptance of the Immaculate Conception, papal infallibility (the authors astutely note how the "ex cathedra" fudge recently used to counter critics of this assertion does have itself a loophole that allows infallibity a wider realm of territory than is publicized by contemporary apologists for the Church), and Catholic alliances with strong-arm dictators recruited to defend Western capitalism against Communist subversion.

As this book was published in 1988, just prior to the Soviet collapse, the Cold War theory would be intriguing to follow since in how those proponents of Fatima would react to the post-1989 scenarios that have unfolded--do these "prove" visionaries' claims, or are these warnings of apocalypse still heeded as portents that may come to pass? Back to the study, more in-depth investigation, in my reading of this book, is needed for the authors to support their militant Marian thesis. The details, on the other hand, are pretty much included, but their relation to the larger argument and political-clerical intrigue needs a bit more follow-through. The study so abundantly collects Marian data in its earlier chapters that by the time individual visions and movements are discussed, the book staggers along simply keeping up with so much amassed evidence, and the energy that could have been spent on analysis seems less than I would have expected.

Still, a satisfying starting-place for interested scholars and educated readers, and those wanting to find out how Opus Dei intersects with its Spanish falangist roots and papal affirmation can find out valuable references and overviews here. For more accessible accounts (both also rated by me) on Medjugorge and related claims of 1980s/90s era visions, Randall Sullivan's badly proofread but stimulating "The Miracle Detective." (2004) For another scholar's survey of modern apparitions from a more phenomenological viewpoint, Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, "Encountering Mary"--whose notes led me to "Under the Heel." (published 1992 but seems to go only up to circa 1988 in text.)

Monday, June 30, 2008

Roman Catholicism: The New Medievalism/Neo Feudalism

According to Avles:
http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MIND/index.php?showtopic=25346

(excerpt)

The principles of Catholicism are based on the denial of the rights of men. In the Feudal Middle Age you had not something like a ‘right’ which belonged to you ‘naturally’ and ‘from the birth to death’.

You were a simple TOOL of your master. This is the goal of RC church and Jesuits. Kommunism and Nazifascism were only a disguised forms for the realization of this plan, the return to middle age. [such as stuff as this]

According to a paper SPIRITUAL GEOPOLITICS: FR. EDMUND WALSH AND JESUIT ANTICOMMUNISM, by Gearóid Ó Tuathail / Gerard Toal, Department of Geography, Virginia Tech:
By the early twentieth century, the leadership of the Catholic Church was at war with the modern world. The tone was established by the papal declarations of Pius X condemning "Americanism" in 1899 and repudiating the heresy of "modernism" in 1907. Within the Jesuits, the anti-modernist creed was lead by Father Wlodimir Ledochowski who governed the society as its Superior General from 1915 to his death in 1942. The son of Polish nobility serving the Habsburg court, Ledochowski embodied the reactionary sentiments of old regime Catholicism (MacDo nough 1992, 65-68). Writing after the collapse of the Habsburg empire in 1919 he argued that "all is tottering in modern society..., modern society resembles in its wretchedness the poor paralytic of Bethsaida in that it has no strength within itself to rise from its sick bed..." (Ledochowski in Schmidt 1945, 380). "Freethinkers," those with a contempt for God and religion, "promised that science would solve all the problems of life, becoming the provident and generous dispenser of happiness to the generations of mankind so thirsty for perfect happiness." However, science and the state have proved to be false gods. Now "the souls of men are feeling ever more and more the terrible void created by the conspiracy of governments to tear away modern generations from Christ and His Church" (Ledochowski in Schmidt 1945, 382).
Note that Ledochowski uses terms as “God and religion” and “Christ and His Church” as synonyms for the Roman Catholic Church, he decries the independence of secular governments from the Roman Catholic Church, and for freethinkers.


Wlodimir Ledochowski- 26th Jesuit Order Superior General
born October 7, 1866
elected February 11, 1915 - served until his death December 13, 1942

A Buried Standard

New UN General Assembly President: About The Black And The Red
Wlodimir Ledochowski: Goals Via Goals

A Beholden Doctrine

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Wlodimir (Vladimir) Ledochowski Goals Via Goals


According to a paper SPIRITUAL GEOPOLITICS: FR. EDMUND WALSH AND JESUIT ANTICOMMUNISM, by Gearóid Ó Tuathail / Gerard Toal, Department of Geography, Virginia Tech.:

By the early twentieth century, the leadership of the Catholic Church was at war with the modern world. The tone was established by the papal declarations of Pius X condemning "Americanism" in 1899 and repudiating the heresy of "modernism" in 1907. Within the Jesuits, the anti-modernist creed was lead by Father Wlodimir Ledochowski who governed the society as its Superior General from 1915 to his death in 1942. The son of Polish nobility serving the Habsburg court, Ledochowski embodied the reactionary sentiments of old regime Catholicism (MacDo nough 1992, 65-68). Writing after the collapse of the Habsburg empire in 1919 he argued that "all is tottering in modern society..., modern society resembles in its wretchedness the poor paralytic of Bethsaida in that it has no strength within itself to rise from its sick bed..." (Ledochowski in Schmidt 1945, 380). "Freethinkers," those with a contempt for God and religion, "promised that science would solve all the problems of life, becoming the provident and generous dispenser of happiness to the generations of mankind so thirsty for perfect happiness." However, science and the state have proved to be false gods. Now "the souls of men are feeling ever more and more the terrible void created by the conspiracy of governments to tear away modern generations from Christ and His Church" (Ledochowski in Schmidt 1945, 382).

Remember that Ledochowski uses terms as “God and religion” and “Christ and His Church” as synonyms for the Roman Catholic Church, he decries the independence of secular governments from the Roman Catholic Church, and for freethinkers.

During the German invasion of Poland (1939), special action squads of SS and police (the Einsatzgruppen) were deployed in the rear, and arrested or killed civilians caught in offering resistance against the Germans or considered capable of doing so, as determined by their position and social status. Tens of thousands of government officials, landowners, clergy, and members of the intelligentsia — teachers, doctors, journalists, and others (both Poles and Jews) — were either murdered in mass executions or sent to prisons and concentration camps. German army units and "self-defense" forces composed of Volksdeutsche also participated in executions of civilians. In many cases, these executions were reprisal actions that held entire communities collectively responsible for attacks on German forces or the murder of ethnic Germans. More than 20,000 members of the intelligentsia were murdered in Operation Tannenberg alone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_atrocities_in_Poland

Poles, Victims of the Nazis

Did perhaps Ledochowski target the better educated Poles via the brutal 3rd Reich occupation as a result of his anti-modernist creed?


Wlodimir Ledochowski's Plausible Counter Reformation Strategy