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Those who try to thrust modernist philosophies, often called “Woke,” present their ideas as inevitable. They proclaim, “We are on the right side of history!” All too often, more traditional Americans, who fear confrontation, yield to the progressives’ shrill demands. That is unfortunate, because most of the leftists’ favorite ideas are logically weak. When courageous citizens arm themselves with facts, the woke ideology can be defeated.

Today’s episode of The Return to Order Moment is devoted to sharing those facts, and how they can be used.

To read the essays, go to https://www.returntoorder.org/2021/03/a-fearsome-tool-for-those-fighting-the-1619-project/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2021/01/are-parents-losing-their-children-to-the-whole-child-deception/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2021/02/the-madness-of-woke-ideology-now-denounces-linguistic-racism/, and https://www.returntoorder.org/2021/03/chastity-student-blasts-sex-ed-zealots/.

Resisting the “Woke” Ideologies that Threaten Our Church and Culture

For decades, the left has peddled its own bizarre definition of freedom.

It is a freedom that denies personal responsibility.

In the real world, there can be no freedom WITHOUT personal responsibility. They deny personal responsibility while asserting that individual freedom is absolute. This is impossible. To give any person license to do whatever they want inevitably infringes on the rights of others. I cannot give you the ability to take whatever you want without taking away rights from those who already own the object of your desires. No one can have rights unless he respects the rights of others.

In the process of shifting blame from individuals, they shift it to their enemies. Society in general, conservatives, businesses, and especially the Church are singled out for their scrutiny.

Today, the Return to Order moment looks at three aspects of the left’s attempts to shift responsibility to places that is does not belong.

Shifting Sin To Other Shoulders Is The Liberal Way To Avoid Responsibility For Their Own Failures

Notre Dame of Paris is more than a historic site. It is more than a grand cathedral. It is more than an expression of a great culture. Indeed, Notre Dame of Paris is a symbol of Christian culture itself.

Since the catastrophic Two Thousand Nineteen fire, the process of rebuilding Notre Dame is becoming a focus of a massive dispute. On one side are those who want to see the great Cathedral restored to its pre-fire appearance. On the other are those who want to seize the opportunity to bring Notre Dame into line with the controversial “Spirit of Vatican II.”

This is much more than a dispute over aesthetics. The struggle over Notre Dame is a microcosm of the dispute between traditionalists and modernists that runs from the Church’s highest leaders to the smallest parish.

That is the context of today’s episode of the Return to Order moment. 

To read the essays in their original form, please use the following links - Notre Dame Cathedral: a Jewelbox of Beauty (returntoorder.org) Notre Dame Cathedral: a Jewelbox of Beauty (returntoorder.org), What is the Message of the Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral? - RTO (returntoorder.org), Who Will Save Notre Dame Cathedral from the Wreckovators? (returntoorder.org), and How Notre Dame Cathedral Converted Paul Claudel - Return to Order.

Thank you for listening.

Rebuilding Notre Dame Of Paris – Timeless Beauty Versus Tasteless Modernism

Many Catholics who style themselves as traditionalists are calling for sweeping changes to the institution of the papacy. However, as Jose Antonio Ureta explains in this essay, the problem is not with the institution, but rather with Pope Francis, himself.

To Read the essay in its original format, please use the following link: https://www.returntoorder.org/2022/09/the-pope-needs-reform-not-the-papacy/.

Thank you for listening.

The Pope Needs Reform, Not the Papacy

One of the primary activities of the American TFP is to warn our society that is destroying itself. We inherited that task from the founder of the international TFP movement, Plinio Correa de Olivera.

Professor Plinio was a man of many gifts, including great historical knowledge. His insights were so keen that he could draw lessons that other people, even accomplished scholars, missed. 

Today, the Return to Order Moment brings you a remarkable talk that Professor Plinio gave in 1970. At that time, the world was in the midst of a social and sexual revolution. That spirit grows more apparent as each year passes. This remarkable essay compares our own social and religious decline with that of the Byzantine Empire's capitol.

Some of Professor Plinio’s conclusions will be hard for twenty-first-century people to hear. Even conservatives may be momentarily shocked. However, we live in shocking times. The world needs Professor Plinio’s advice more now than it did fifty years ago.

The Fall of Constantinople Foreshadows the Crisis of Progressivism in the Church Today

Erratum: At the beginning of the podcast, Mr. Benson refers to "Saint John Hunyadi. While John Hunyadi was a great hero of the medieval Church, he was never canonized as a saint. Our apologies.

The nature of today’s Return to Order Moment will, we hope, make leftists react in despair – or at least dismay. This tale will make their hair stand on end, their stomachs to become queasy, and make them sputter as they try to express their shock.

John Hunyadi’s name is unfamiliar today. A world that adores peace has little use for this man of war. A society that promotes so-called “multiculturalism” wants to forget those who were tireless in their defense of Christian culture. Historians who want to promote the theory that the Crusades were inept and corrupt ignore the importance of the brave and self-sacrificing “White Knight of Wallachia.”

In a world beset by the “woke” ideas of the left, it is time to remember Hunyadi and his valiant struggle to keep Europe free from the Muslim invaders.

Thank you for listening!

A Medieval Hero For Modern Catholics – John Hunyadi

This episode of the Return to Order Moment looks at a modern-day controversy that should be no controversy at all. For centuries, Western Culture accepted masculinity and feminity without question. Such is the nature of humanity that most other cultures accepted it as well.

However, the leftist “deconstruction” of society has proceeded so far that it questions the basic building blocks of civilization. We have reached the time that we all must call “Halt!” before going any farther down the road to ruin.

Listeners who wish to read the essays in their original formats may use the following links: https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/07/manhood-a-catholic-look-at-a-much-needed-commentary/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2019/03/how-to-destroy-toxic-masculinity-with-catholic-manual-for-men/, and https://www.returntoorder.org/2019/02/why-chivalry-is-the-catholic-solution-to-toxic-masculinity/.

Thank you for listening.

True Men Are Neither Macho Nor Wimps

Of all of the unfortunate aspects of modern life, the style of architecture known as brutalism is, perhaps, the least humane.

This podcast defines and examines this horrible trend - one that may be returning. It pays special attention to the soul-destroying nature of brutalism.

Listeners who wish to read the essays in their original format may use the following links: https://www.returntoorder.org/2022/12/regimenting-the-body-and-destroying-the-soul-the-ugly-legacy-of-brutalism/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/05/impressions-of-a-soulless-new-airport/, and https://www.returntoorder.org/2021/03/how-the-revival-of-catholic-architecture-in-england-changed-the-way-people-prayed/.

Thank you for listening.

Could Uninspired Brutalist Architecture Be One Reason That We Have An Uninspired And Brutal Society

Until recent years, the ability to understand and explain the arguments of an opponent was vital to participation in the public debate. Without such an understanding, an advocate for a position said ridiculous things that prevented them from being taken seriously.

Those who promote the positions collectively called woke are proud of their inability to understand their opponents’ arguments. To them, this inability is a sign of their ideological purity. 

This is a dangerous position. Science exists to help humanity to discover the truths of God's natural world. Subverting the process to suit a political or ideological agenda takes us further away from those truths.

Listeners who wish to examine the articles in their original format may use the following links - https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/07/education-secretary-cardona-is-wrong-about-the-causes-of-disrespect-for-the-public-school-system/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/07/what-david-french-gets-wrong-about-the-culture-war/, and https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/06/why-cancel-the-scientists-who-follow-the-science/.

Leftists Deliberately Misrepresent Their Opponents' Positions

The word freedom has been distorted out of all relationship to its true meaning. Modernists see freedom as the ability to do whatever they want, without having any regard to its consequences, either on ourselves or others. However, that brand of so-called freedom leads to bondage. It destroys ourselves and others in a more total way than any chains or prison bars actually could.

Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, often referred to as “The Little Flower,” offers us a perfect example of the proper use of freedom.

The founder of the International TFP movement, Professor Plinio Correa de Olivera, considered this dimension of Saint Therese’s writings in a talk that he gave on April 17, 1967. The Return to Order Moment offers its listeners excerpts of that talk as published in the January Two Thousand Twenty-Two issue of the American TFP’s Saint Gabriel Bulletin.

Saint Therese’s Abandonment To God’s Merciful Love Shows Us The Road To Perfect Freedom

One of the buildings at the American TFP’s headquarters in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania has a glass covered niche immediately across the entrance hall from the main door. It encloses a statue of the Mother of God, under the title of Our Lady of Good Success. Among the members and supporters who enter the building each day, the custom is to stop and bow before this image whenever one enters or leaves the building – or even when walking from one end of the building to the other.

The founder of the international TFP movement, the Brazilian scholar, Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, had a fervent love of the Virgin Mary, and of Our Lady of Good Success, in particular.

This essay is typical of the instruction that he gave to TFP members and supporters about the importance of devotion to the Blessed Mother. So, we begin this podcast about Our Lady of Good Success by bringing our listeners Professor Plinio’s essay, “Why We Need Our Lady.” Those who wish to read this essay may use this link - https://www.tfp.org/why-we-need-our-lady/

Then we continue with an excerpt from one of our favorite books, A Spanish Mystic in Quito. It is available as a free download from the American TFP by using this link - https://www.tfp.org/free-version-of-a-spanish-mystic/

We conclude the podcast with a marvelous essay in which Mr. Norman Fulkerson related his experience on a pilgrimage to Quito in his essay, Visiting Our Lady of Good Success: A Pilgrimage to Heaven. That essay can be read at https://www.tfp.org/visiting-our-lady-of-good-success-a-pilgrimage-to-heaven/.

Thank you for listening, and pray to Our Lady of Good Success for her protection of Holy Mother Church.

The Wonderful Power Of Our Lady Of Good Success

Josef Stalin once said, “Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

Our listeners can be sure that Communists, whether they be in China, Cuba, Moscow or anywhere else have not ignored Stalin’s ideas. Throughout the world, they have diligently worked to take over education.

Unlike many other Marxist and Communist doctrines, this one makes sense. In the United States, and much of the world, education is the most socialized segment of society – the area of greatest government control. Even private schools in the United States are staffed with those who meet state certification requirements. To get that certification, teachers and administrators must attend state-approved schools of education. These often become indoctrination centers.

This podcast discusses some of the methods that leftists use that divert the schools' attention away from education and toward creating a new generation of "social justice warriors."

Readers who wish to read the essays in their original formats may use these links - https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/09/the-red-chinese-are-turning-americas-best-schools-into-little-red-classrooms/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/09/californias-controversial-math-curriculum-focuses-on-dismantling-white-supremacy/, and https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/06/should-high-school-debaters-be-forced-to-promote-marxism-and-leninism/.

Thank you for listening.

Are Activists Turning America’s Schools Into Communist Training Camps?

Society conditions us to see ugliness. The television news business thrives on it. Advertising tries to make us pay attention by shocking us. Movies and novels are deemed boring unless there is something in it that is incredibly ugly, like murder or adultery. Even many fashion trends make the people who adopt them appear ugly.

Why did we stop seeking out things that are beautiful? Perhaps it was when society stopped seeking after God. After all, if God is all beauty, then using our wills to embrace ugliness has to be a rejection of God – and an embrace of evil.

Each of the four essays that make up this podcast focus upon beauty.

The first considers the implications of a miracle that saved a beautiful place. The second describes one kind of beauty of character - and how it was found in a surprising place. The third is more philosophical - considering the ways that modern people reject beauty and how it can be recovered. The last describes a vacation in a magnificent and beautiful place - and the factors that make that place beautiful.

Listeners who wish to read the essays in their original formats can use the following links - https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/08/the-miracle-on-maui-is-god-sending-us-a-message/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/09/finding-light-in-a-walmart/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/08/the-rejection-and-restoration-of-beauty/, and https://www.returntoorder.org/2021/07/finding-a-world-of-peace-and-order-on-michigans-mackinac-island/.

Thank you for listening.

Finding Beauty In The World That God Has Given To Us

Today’s episode of the Return to Order Moment will be shorter than most. However, it is packed with importance.

Twenty-first-century Catholics find ourselves faced with a dilemma that we never expected until recently. We find ourselves torn between loyalty to the papacy while being unable to agree with many statements made by the current pope.

We will not be able to resolve all the points of that dilemma today, but a sense of faithfulness to the unchangeable truths behind Holy Mother Church forces us to respond to certain comments made by Pope Francis. In that necessity, we take comfort in the fact that the author of the essay that we read here today, Mr. Luiz Sérgio Solimeo, is a superb scholar who has been studying such questions for over five decades.

Mr. Solimeo’s essay is richly footnoted. Any listener who wishes to review his sources can gain access to that essay in its original format by clicking on this link - https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/10/at-the-height-of-the-sexual-revolution-why-does-pope-francis-belittle-those-who-defend-chastity/?PKG=RTOE1899

At the Height of the Sexual Revolution, Why Does Pope Francis Belittle Those Who Defend Chastity?

The spread of Western, and particularly Christian Civilization from Europe to the rest of the world is a magnificent story. Unfortunately, most of America’s young people never hear it. Most of those who do hear it get a doctored, out of context version written by woke so-called historians who abandon the truths of history to promote their political agendas.

This episode of the Return to Order Moment will try to set the record right. Of course, a single podcast cannot undo the years of work of that the university propagandists put into their lies, half-truths, and out-of-context conclusions. Hopefully enough people will hear this to begin to make a dent.

This podcast looks at two missionaries to the Americas and a site where much missionary work takes place.

These are only three of the hundreds of missionary stories that took place in North America during the exploration and colonization of this great continent. They are essential parts of the American story. We hope that you enjoy them, are edified by them, and use them as a beginning of your own studies of early American Catholicism. 

Listeners who wish to read the essays in their original formats may use the following links - https://www.tfp.org/saint-anthony-mary-claret-apostolic-missionary-ultramontane-champion-and-crusher-of-communism/, https://www.tfp.org/the-mystic-who-became-a-missionary-the-extraordinary-life-of-saint-marie-of-the-incarnation/, and https://www.tfp.org/a-rare-view-of-frontier-catholicism-in-america/.

Thank you for listening.

Bringing Christianity To The Americas – Missionaries And Missions

Radicals and Revolutionaries always make the same mistake. They all think that the Church is just going to roll over and die. Perhaps Josef Stalin posed this error most succinctly when he asked, “How many divisions does the Pope have?” In his mind, it was the size of the army that made you strong. Nothing else mattered. The Church had no army, except the spear-bearing Swiss Guards. Therefore, it was weak and would soon die.

Of course, today, Stalin is dead and the country that he led no longer exists. Vladimir Putin pretends to be some sort of modern-day Stalin. However, the Ukrainians are proving that Putin is more like Humpty-Dumpty than the legendary Soviet dictator.

Even though the Church today is in crisis, it is nowhere near death. It still exists and claims millions of followers, which is far more than one can say for the many enemies who predicted her demise over the centuries.

Christianity Proves Remarkably Resilient To Leftist Attacks

We Americans don’t usually think much of titles. In fact, this disdain was written into our Constitution, where Article I, Section 9, Clause 9 states, “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States.”

Not only that, but any government official must get the permission of Congress before accepting one from a foreign king.

So, we tend to turn a deaf ear to titles like marquis, duke or knight. We have a few titles for current and former office holders. We allow medical doctors and members of the clergy to put Doctor or Reverend in front of their names. Other than that, it is just plain Mister, Missus, or Miss, and even those become less common every day.

The founder of the TFP, Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, thought that this tendency was very unfortunate. In his mind, titles separated those who provided exceptional service to their nations and God – together with their descendants – from the rest of the human herd. He believed that such separations – or hierarchies – were essential to the proper order of society.

The Honor, Importance And Beauty Of Titles – A Discourse By Plinio Corrêa De Oliveira

As Pope Francis ages, he appears to become more consistent. Normally, that would be a good thing. However, the trend seems to be that the aging pontiff is consistently wrong on every new issue. He appears to be so enamored of radical leftism, that he seems willing to take the Church down every radical road. Today’s podcast will look at three areas in which that tendency manifests itself.

Listeners who wish to read the essays in their original format may use the following links - https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/11/pope-francis-the-war-and-the-holy-places/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/10/why-pope-franciss-eco-friendly-apostolic-exhortation-rings-unconvincingly-for-the-faithful/, and https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/09/pope-franciss-synodal-path-mimics-the-anglicans-route-to-self-destruction/.

Thank you for listening.

The Church Must Not Follow Pope Francis’s Left Turn Into The Future

We want to welcome you to the Christmas episode of the Return to Order Moment. In this annual celebration, we attempt to help you deepen your celebration of this Holy time by reading material that our listeners would be unlikely to find otherwise.

This year, we turn to Abbe Constant Henri Fouard (1837-1903). He was part of a tradition of priests who were best known for their scholarly work. In addition to his ecclesiastical duties, Father Fouard was a historian who traveled widely in Palestine, Syria, Greece, and Italy.

His extensive travels bore fruit in his many books, including his The Christ, The Son of God – A Life of Jesus, from which these excerpts are taken. He had the ability to write about the scenes of Our Lord’s life that could only come from one who had spent considerable time there tracing the steps that Our Lord Himself took. It is also significant that Father Fouard’s journeys took place in an age when Palestine still looked and felt much as it did during the time of Christ, without the modern traffic, industries, and tourist traps that one finds there today.

We decided to bring you this magnificent narrative over two episodes. This week, we will give you the setting of the Nativity and the condition of the people who lived there. Then, we will speak of the Annunciation, the Visitation, and the visions of Saint Joseph.

Next week, only five days before Christmas, we will hear of the Holy Family’s journey to Bethlehem, the Nativity itself, the visit of the Shepherds, and conclude with the presentation in the Temple.

The Nativity According To Abbe Constant Henri Fouard, Episode 1

We want to welcome you to episode two of The Return to Order Moment’s Christmas gift to our listeners, taken from The Christ, the Son of God: A Life of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by Abbe Constant Henri Fouard.

Last week, we brought you the events surrounding the Annunciation, Visitation, and the Dreams of Saint Joseph. This week, we will pick up Father Fouard’s narrative and take our listeners through Mary and Joseph’s trip to the City of David, the Nativity, the Visit of the Shepherds and 1the Presentation of the Baby Jesus at the Temple in Jerusalem.

We hope that you have enjoyed our attempt to add something to the Holiness of your Christmas Holidays. May God bless you all!

The Nativity According To Abbe Constant Henri Fouard, Episode 2

Usually, Americans tend to ignore foreign policy. It is messy and tricky and difficult to understand. However, the death of Henry Kissinger last month recalled one of the few periods that foreign policy was on the newspapers’ front pages.

For those born since the disastrous Vietnam War, if may be difficult to understand why Dr. Kissinger was so famous. His short stature, homely face, and thick German accent would seem to inspire ridicule rather than respect.

However, those who lived through that time wanted to see an end to the war. They also wanted reassurance that World War III would never happen. Henry Kissinger’s presence seemed to promise that these ends would be achieved.

The current situation in both China and Russia shows that Kissinger's happy talk of detente made promises and implied a future that has not come to pass. Indeed, Russia provoked the first European war since World War II and China became ever more militant.

This podcast explores those realities.

The second essay, by Mr. Julio Loredo, is richly footnoted. Interested listeners can see his sources of information by activating this link - https://www.returntoorder.org/2022/04/can-russia-and-nato-co-operate-vladimir-putin-says-no-it-is-time-for-the-facts/. The other two essays can also be read in their original formats by using https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/12/the-disastrous-kissinger-era-comes-to-an-end/ and https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/05/xi-jinpings-threats-to-taiwan-highlight-the-dangers-of-americas-fictional-one-china-policy/.

Thank you for listening.

America Needs To Sort Through The Disastrous Foreign Policy Decisions Inspired By Henry Kissinger

Today, the Return to Order Moment wants to introduce its listeners to one of the most significant men of the Twentieth Century. His significance lies in the fact that he diligently opposed the Zeitgeist that made the last century the moral cesspool that it was.

This man founded the international TFP movement. His biographer referred to him as “the Crusader of the Twentieth Century” and “the Prophet of the Reign of Mary.” I refer, of course to Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira.

Shortly before his death in 1995, he compiled this Philosophical Self-Portrait. We hope that bringing this to you will inspire you to read his books and find out more about the organization that he founded.

Those who wish to view a printable copy of the essay upon which the podcast was based may use this link - https://www.tfp.org/philosophical-self-portrait-plinio-correa-de-oliveira/?_gl=1*7dbgbp*_ga*NjI0ODI1NDY3LjE2NTgxNjYyODM.*_ga_T660L5C23G*MTcwMzg2NTI4Ni40NC4xLjE3MDM4NjU3NTkuMC4wLjA.*_ga_HFSGW18RNL*MTcwMzg2NTI4Ni4yMDcuMS4xNzAzODY1NzU5LjYwLjAuMA..

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A Philosophical Self - Portrait By Plinio Corrêa De Oliveira

As this podcast goes live, the final preparations are being made for the March for Life in Washington, D.C. on January 19, 2024.

The date for the annual event was first chosen to coincide with the anniversary of the disastrous Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. When that decision was overturned, many hoped that the pro-abortion – often inappropriately referred to as “pro-choice” – movement would dry up and blow away.

However, that has not happened. In fact, the pro-aborts appear even stronger today than they did in the bad-old-days of Roe. Many so-called conservatives are saying things out loud that they once kept under wraps – that it is time to jettison the pro-life message from the right-wing lexicon.

Today’s podcast is designed to resist that sentiment.

Listeners who wish to read the essays in their original formats may use the following links - https://www.returntoorder.org/2020/02/achieving-christendom-is-americas-best-chance-at-overthrowing-abortion-lgbt-reign-of-terror/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/11/no-the-abortion-issue-did-not-lose-its-edge-in-the-last-elections/ and https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/12/the-invincible-courage-of-paulette-harlow/.

Thank you for listening.

No Matter What So-Called Conservatives Say, The Pro-Life Movement Must Continue

Recently, many Americans have become interested in the so-called Gilded Age. The term itself comes from the title of a little-read book by novelist Mark Twain.

Today, it is easy to get swept up in the lavish clothes and elaborate social rituals of that period. It is so different from the modern age, where there are no rules and many believe that jeans and t-shirts are appropriate for any occasion.

However, there are many products of the late nineteenth century that helped to destroy the society that created them. One of these is Liberal Christianity.

Those who industrialized the world were dissatisfied with traditional religious belief. They wanted a scientific religion to accompany their technological advances. They cared little about salvation after death, what they wanted was a religion that worked to improve society. This was the development that Pope Saint Pius the tenth criticized as Modernism.

Interestingly, as Liberal Christianity grew, the Christianity part became detached. Today, many say that they are “spiritual,” rather than religious. Interestingly, their so called spirituality always fits beautifully into their “no limits” lives without rules.

This podcast examines the failings of Liberal Christianity and the reasons that it is failing. 

LIsteners who wish to read the essays in their original formats may use the following links - https://www.tfp.org/why-liberals-love-religion-without-consequences/?PKG=TFPE3222, https://www.tfp.org/the-plight-of-modernists-without-faith/, and https://www.tfp.org/the-hoax-of-atheistic-communism/.

Thank you for listening.

So - Called Liberal Christianity Satisfies Neither Man Nor God

Welcome to the Return to Order Moment. We hope that you find these weekly podcasts to be both informative and a blessing.

Today, we are going to shift gears a bit and bring you a message from the founder of the International TFP Movement, Professor Plinio Correa de Olivera. This message concerns three virtues – seriousness and serenity as listed in the title – as well as the related virtue of obedience.

Instead of talking of these virtues as part of a philosophical or historical discourse, Professor Plinio uses incidents from his own life. Many of these occasions happened in the context of his childhood relationship with his mother – a woman of great strength and love, as you will see. In the later part of the podcast, he will be answering questions about practicing these virtues which were raised by TFP members.

Seriousness And Serenity In The Life Of A Family

Other than the gathering clouds of yet another contentious election, the biggest news story of the day is the battle between Israel and the Hamas Terrorists. The media coverage of this story is telling. Israel is immediately connected with Judaism and Zionism, yet there seems to be a reluctance to draw the obvious connection of Hamas and Islam. There is an even greater reluctance to recognize that Islam is an inherent enemy to Western culture.

This podcast discusses several aspects of this broadening struggle. Listeners who wish to read the articles in their original format may use the following links - https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/12/why-are-people-ignoring-the-slow-motion-jihad-that-rages-inside-france/, https://www.tfp.org/new-book-by-catholic-scholar-islam-and-the-suicide-of-the-west-reveals-great-threat/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/10/the-west-at-war/ and https://www.tfp.org/pope-franciss-abrahamic-religions/.

Thank you for listening.

The Islamic Threat To Western Civilization Is Not Limited To Israel

As this episode goes live, Ash Wednesday is only one week away. This may come as a surprise because it has been such a short time since the end of the Christmas season.

As most Catholics know, Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent, a penitential season that lasts until Easter. Typically, most people observe lent by giving up something – perhaps a favorite food, drink, or activity. 

This podcast is oriented to finding new meanings in the Lenten experience.

Any listeners who wish to read the essays in their original format may use the following links - https://www.tfp.org/how-to-make-this-lent-sublime-by-broadening-your-supernatural-horizons/, https://www.tfp.org/real-american-men-put-on-the-armor-of-god/, and https://www.tfp.org/lenten-meditation-unconventional-ash-wednesday/.

May all of our listeners have a blessed Lent, and thank you for listening.

Make This Lent Sublime By Broadening Your Supernatural Horizons!

It is very difficult for leftists to describe their visions for the future. They will be happy to mouth the usual words, equity, inclusion and the like. However, when asked to be more specific, they are at a loss for words. There are two reasons for their speechlessness. First, many of them are so far lost in their utopian dreams that they have not transformed those dreams into useful goals. Second, those who have done that thinking can’t devise a message that attracts support.

Consider this quotation, attributed to World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab, “You will own nothing – and you will be happy about it.” One wonders if Mr. Schwab counted himself among the happy poor of the earth.

Indeed, that may sound good to some, usually the same people that describe their hopes in Karl Marx’s famous phrase, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

However, no one knows how such a culture would work. Throughout history, an individual’s economic security has been based upon how much that person or his family owns. That is his only protection from famine, pestilence, or tyrannical governments. The only people who have been happy owning nothing are nuns and monks who derive their well-being from their relationship with God. For everyone else, the idea of being poor and happy at the same time is a delusion.

The resistance to Mr. Schwab's prediction is one of three aspects of the left's overly optimistic outlook that this podcast discusses. Together these three "bumps" on the leftist road constitute a roadblock that makes their path to the future unnavigable.

Those who wish to read the essays in their original formats may use the following links - https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/11/you-will-own-nothing-blueprint-for-the-world-to-come/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/12/what-happens-when-celebrity-leftists-turn-right/, and https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/11/can-right-wing-marketing-compete-with-the-leftward-drift-of-many-giant-american-corporations/.

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Bumps On The Leftist Road To Tomorrow

China. Korea. Russia. Iran. Israel. Ukraine.

These are more than just the names of countries. Each one represents a significant threat to the world order that took shape after World War II. That order survived the Cold War, armed conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and seventy years of conflict in the Middle East – among other challenges.

On February 24th, Two Thousand Twenty-Two, Russia invaded Ukraine. On October 7, Two Thousand Twenty-Three, Hamas invaded Israel. What will happen in Two Thousand Twenty-Four? Will China invade Taiwan? Will Iran finally obtain Nuclear Weapons? Will the United States and its European Allies find themselves involved in a four-part international conflict?
On February 24th, Two Thousand Twenty-Two, Russia invaded Ukraine. On October 7, Two Thousand Twenty-Three, Hamas invaded Israel. What will happen in Two Thousand Twenty-Four? Will China invade Taiwan? Will Iran finally obtain Nuclear Weapons? Will the United States and its European Allies find themselves involved in a four-part international conflict?

Unfortunately, that same spirit is becoming increasingly popular across the land. Many Christians are taking part in it, under the misconception that believing in a poorly defined and elusive “peace” can make it happen. They find their hopes in the tired phrase “Give peace a chance,” that they inherited from the sixties.

Such an attitude is massively erroneous. To ignore the world situation because of fear would be a mistake equal to that made by Neville Chamberlain at Munich in 1938. We must remain alert and ready to support the cause of Western Christian Civilization.

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Is There A Christian Side In The Developing World Crisis?

During the sixties, so-called experts promoted something called “new math.” This spirit transformed America’s classrooms. Other disciplines soon followed. English became Language Arts. History and Government were combined into Social Studies. The library morphed into the Media Center. Science kept the same name, but instruction radically changed. Computer screens are now the sign of modern education.

Some subjects were eliminated. Handwriting instruction, Home Economics, Driver’s Education, and most Business courses are things of the past.

All of these changes were supposed to get our children ready for life in the twenty-first century.

All of these changes were supposed to get our children ready for life in the twenty-first century.

Listeners who wish to read the essays in their original format may use the following links - https://www.returntoorder.org/2024/02/important-new-research-indicates-that-students-learn-more-from-books-than-computer-screens/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2024/01/inspired-by-their-warrior-mascot-a-pennsylvania-school-board-turns-back-a-leftist-invasion/, and https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/12/even-if-schools-deny-it-children-and-adults-need-to-learn-to-write-in-cursive/.

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Now There Is Proof That Children In Traditional Schools Learn More

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Based on the book, “Return to Order” by John Horvat II, this podcast addresses the root causes of the nation’s moral decay and shows how we can return to those God-given institutions and principles that naturally regulate society and put it back in balance. 

Hosted by Edwin Benson, Matthew Miller and John Horvat II himself, the Return to Order Moment brings you insights, analysis and information for a culture in crisis.

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