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@n the minds of all intelligent, honorable, informed “full of the spirit of Satan,” etc. Freemasonry is, in a word,
iL individuals, it is, I believe, safe to say that never before one of the most powerful and anti-God and anti-civil
throughout the Christian centuries have the forces of evil government organizations in the world from which nothing
been more numerous and more powerful on a worldwide less than “the total dissolution of human society can be
scale than they are at the present time. Nor is it any expected” (Pope Pius [IX — 1873) unless this diabolical
exaggeration to say that never before have those forces of conspiracy is totally unmasked and crushed. And its
evil been closer to ultimate victory in the pursuit of their. horrendous aims “just happen” to coincide very nicely with
abhorrent objectives than they are in this our day. Although those of the conspiratorial Insiders (many of whom are
most of them have been, and continue to be, identified and undoubtedly Masons themselves) now fashioning the One
exposed for what they are by sound conservative publications World Order. Hardly a coincidence, of course.
(as well as by other means of communication), the vast
Why is it then, I ask, that even someof the best of the
majority of the morally good people of this country remain —
nationally circulated, conservative, secular publications (four
even at this late date — in various degrees of ignorance of
of which | regularly receive and read) very rarely even so
those diabolical forces (an ignorance duein large part to the
much as mention, muchless give any significantattention to,
lying American mass media which itself is under enemy
the “foul plague” of Freemasonry whichassuredly is playing
control). While the utterly immoral, criminal, atheistic
a prime role in the ongoing destruction of Christian
powers that be proceed systematically to destroy Christian
civilization so evident today to so many of us? While the’
civilization, the average good citizen continues to live his
publications to which I refer do a very commendable job of
daily life in a “business as usual” fashion, seemingly all but
exposing numerous organizations and movements and
totally oblivious to the awfulreality of what is happening and
individuals in the enemy camp, they virtually ignore the
to the dire fate that may well be his in the very likely event
conspiracy of Freemasonry. Because these publications are
that developments on the American and world scenes
so very honest and straightforward in their treatment of so
maintain their present course. _
many other similarly hostile forces, why do they consistently
As indicated above, most of the evil forces so diligently and bypass one of the most powerful forces ofevil in the world —
successfully working today against God and religion and Freemasonry? Andare not they thereby contributing by their
morality and freedom and for the One World Order have silence on this vital subject to the advance of the satanic
been, and continue to be, identified and exposed by sound forces which they otherwise so rightly and so well oppose?
conservative publications (their reach and effectiveness, of I hate to think that this silence is, in fact, a cover-up
course, exceedingly limited by their relatively small of Freemasonry but I must say that it certainly appears.
circulations). There are, however, two major evil forces to be.
which are no? given the attention they mostcertainly deserve
And the same conservative secular publications which ignore
by those publications. And those two are Freemasonry and
John PaulII. | Freemasonry do likewise regarding John Paul II. Obviously,I
am not referring here to the question ofhis invalidity, a sub-
Since the conspiracy of Freemasonry has been expertly ject which is rather exclusively a Roman Catholic one. But
treated in seven different articles in this newsletter by Mr. John Paul II, in addition to being the head of the Conciliar
Weiskittel over the past several years, there is no need to Church,is also one of the major figures among the conspira-
discuss the subject in any detail here. It is an indisputable fact torial forces at work today in establishing the One World
that the ultimate objective of Freemasonry is to destroy Order, being, I firmly believe, as deeply involved in that
completely the religious and political order of the world. nefarious project as are his two friends and coconspirators,
Over the past two-and-a-half centuries numerous Popes George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. And yet, not so much
have condemnedit in the strongest language, describingit in is the slightest hint ever given of this in those conservative
such terms as “ill-famed,” “ultra-criminal,” a “foul plague,” publications to which refer. (continued on page eight)
“ditorial Note: The foilowing article was written during the latter part of November, 1990. The reader should
keep this in mind because there have been since that time some changes relating to the Persian Gulf situation.

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John Kenneth Weiskittel

7@hanksgiving Day 1990. Families around the nation have “We are now in sight of a United Nations that performs as
4 an unexpected reason to be thankful this year. So far, envisioned byits founders.”
the 230,000 U.S. troops stationed in Saudi Arabia have yet
to see any combat action. Before leaving for the 34-nation As this article is being written, Bush has maintained this
Conference on Cooperation and Security in Europe and position although he still attempts to temper it by talking
talks with Arab leaders, and for his carefully orchestrated about “national security” or “innocent lives.” In an
Thanksgiving pep talk to the troops, President George Bush exclusive essay, “Why WeArein the Gulf,” published in the
talked to reporters in the Rose Garden. “Perhaps their November 26th issue of Newsweek, he writes of the
sacrifice,” he said, referring to American hostages and “immediate and unwavering” response by the “international
soldiers in the Persian Gulf, “will make those of us at home community” and of his Administration’s promise “to
this Thanksgiving Dayreflect even more deeply…” continue the effective implementation of the United Nations
sanctions.” The President expresses confidence that with
What has deepened in the minds of Americans in the nearly the success of Operation Desert Shield:
four months since Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait is confusion.
Confusion over why the defense of a tiny sheikdom 6,000 …We will have invigorated a United Nations that
miles away concerns us. Confusion over what precisely are contributes as its founders dreamed. We will have.
our objectives in launching Operation Desert Shield. established principies for international conduct and
Confusion over who is benefiting from our presence there. — the means to enforce them. In short, we will have
Confusion over when our troops will be returning home. taken a major step toward a community of nations
Confusion over what flag they are actually serving. bound by a common commitment to peace and
And confusion over where this operation is leading our restraint. This is something Americans and peace-
country — and the world. loving peoples have long sought. Out of this difficult
time of testing, we have the extraordinary opportunity
Evidence of this confusion is everywhere. Ask Americans to make this dream a reality.
why our troops are over there and you’re apt to get a
variety of responses. Oil. Jobs. American interests. To lraq’s invasion “is not just a case of petty aggression,” he
free the hostages. To push the Iraquis out of Kuwait. To argues. “We stand now at a singular moment. Thecivilized
defend Saudi Arabia. To defend Israel. To prevent Iraq’s worid is now in the process of fashioning the rules that will
dictator Saddam Hussein from realizing nuclear govern the new world order beginning to emerge in the
capabilities. To overthrow him. To act as aftermath of the Coid War.” :
“regional security” police. To do Japan’s and Europe’s
The meaning of these wordsis lost, no doubt, to a majority
“dirty work” for them. And no doubt there are other
of Americans, as is the fact that the phrase new world order
variations as well. But the single most important reason for
is similarly favored by Bush’s Soviet counterpart, Mikhail
U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia — and, in all probability, the
Gorbachev. What is not lost on them is the anxiety that
only genuine one — is likely to be the one you're least
grows every day. The tenor of the couniry is well captured
apt to hear (that is, of course, unless you happen to
by Steven V. Roberts, a Senior Writer for U.S. News &
know someone in the Council on Foreign Relations — the
World Report, when he notes:
CFR). When, on September lith, President Bush
addressed the nation to announce the deploymentoftroops, …In hundreds of thousands of homes this year there
he gave as one of five objectives the following: will be an empty chair where a soldier usedto sit, and
“The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a nobody knows when — or if — it will be filled again.
rare opportunity to move toward a historic period of The correspondents, who proclaimed months ago that
cooperation. Out of these troubled times our fifth objec- the “post-Vietnam syndrome” was buried in the sands
tive — a new world order — can emerge.” To this he added: of Saudi Arabia, may well have spoken too soon. The

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parents of today’s soldiers belong the the Vietnam Searing up for a sirike against Kuwait? This is what George
generation, and for them the memories have not “Read My Lips” Bush expects us to believe. But don’t believe
faded. They remain deeply suspicious of any President i warns conservative reporter Jane H. Ingraham. In her
who talks about war and, as they give thanks this week article, “Iraq and the New World Order,” published in the
for their blessings, they are also asking increasingly October 8th issue of The New American, Ingraham writes:
urgent questions: Why have their children been sent
to that distant desert? Whatvital national interests are The first deception put across by George Bush was his
really at stake there? (November 26, 1990, “The claim of having been surprised by the Iraqi invasion.
growingcall to talk turkey on the Gulf,” p. 9) So important was it for him to appear to have been
taken off base that he even ran the risk of sacrificing
And the same questions are being asked in that “distant the reputation of the CIA and appearing to be a naive
desert.” Father (Lt.) Jim Ingram, a Conciliar “Catholic” fool himself. On the morningfollowing the invasion,in
Navy chaplain aboard the USS Raleigh in the Persian Gulf; a remarkable interview with reporters, he said that he
reports that the morale of servicemenis low and says one of had “trusted” Hussein’s “promise” to two Arab
the major questions being repeated is: “Are we being presidents that he would not invade. “But,” Mr. Bush
supported back in the U.S. or is this another Vietnam? blurted out, “he lied!” (p. 5)
(Cited, Mary K. St. Pierre, “Mail means ‘home’ for
servicemen overseas,’ The Florida Catholic, October 19, Remarkable, indeed, is the peculiarity of the suggestion that
1990, p. 1) While it is anyone’s guess whether another no- a man later compared to Hitler could have been perceived
win war is on the horizon orif our troops stationed there as honorable and worthy of our confidence. Somehow,we’re
will even see combat, certain disturbing facts are known. In led to believe, this “responsible” leader was seized
the pages that follow we will examine some of these and overnight by a demon of conquest and transformed into a
their implications on our nation’s future. power-hungry, frothing-at-the-mouthlunatic.

Hussein’s Hostages… Or Bush’s? Could Mr. “No New Taxes” be so politically ignorant as to
believe such a thing? Are our undercover operatives over
During the [ran-Contra hearings two questions that were there for the sun and sand? Are our spy satellites merely
heard coming from the lips of Congressmen and television surveying a site for the next domed stadium? Hardly.
news anchormen was: “How much did the President know? Ingraham states that “it would be difficult for Saddam
And when did he know it?” These are queries that tlussein to surprise Mr. Bush” and asserts: “There is no
Americans, with their country teetering on the brink of question that Mr. Bush knew the invasion was coming well
another undeclared war, ought to be asking about the in advance; there is even more evidence that he knew much _
present crisis. The answers are available, though, as is so more than this…” (/bid.) Before examining the evidence
often the case, ignored by the mass media. They are concerning what was known concerning the Kuwaiti affair, —
answers, however, that should alarm and infuriate because let's consider what Bush and others in our government
they suggest that our government is callously using knew about Hussein.
American lives as pawns to advance an internationalist
agenda in the manner of such classic deceits as the What is often swept under the rug when the Hitler
Lusitania and Peari Harbor. | comparisons are being made is that Saddam Hussein’s
political lineage is such as to make him, more accurately,
On more than one occasion, President Bush has likened another Josef Stalin. Donald S. McAlvany, in the October,
Hussein to Adolf Hitler, and no one who has any 1990 issue of The McAlvany Intellignce Advisor (M.LA.),
acquaintance with the Iraqi tyrant’s career will object to tells us:
such a characterization (aside from pointing out, perhaps,
that Saddam is strictly a minor leaguer in the “naked It should be remembered that Saddam Hussein is a
aggression” game). His use of poison gas in the war with hard-core Marxist-Leninist communist revolutionary,
iran and in subduing the Kurdish segment of his own trained by the Soviet General (Military) Staff (in
country has helped identify him as such, as has the summary Russia) as was Kim II Sung (North Korea), Daniel
executions of an estimated 300 military officers who Ortega, Fidel Castro, etc. Hussein is Soviet to the core
protested against the attack on Kuwait. — right down to the red flashings on his Red Army-
like uniform. Hussein, like Fidel Castro (in 1958),
Now, we know about these executions from our intelligence Colonel Kadafy (in 1969), and Daniel Ortega (in
network in the Middle East. Are we supposed to believe, 1979), was placed in power as a Soviet puppet by the
then, that our government had noidea that the Iraquis were Soviets in 1979. (p. 13)

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We've already mentioned the warwith Iran,initiated in 1980 July24 — The CIA is aware “that iraq has moved
by Hussein, which lasted eight years and left one million ) enough battle units that a strike at Kuwait
dead, 1.7 million wounded and 1.5 million refugees. appeared imminent.” (Ingraham,p.5)
McAlvany writes: “(Hussein) recently executed a British
journalist and he once shot one of his own cabinet members Ausust 1 — Secretary of State James Baker, while
who disagreed with him, at point-blank range during a conducting talks in the U.S.S.R. with the
cabinet meeting. When an lfranian-backed Shiite Soviets’ Foreign Minister Eduard
organization was formed to disrupt his rule, he executed Shevardnadze, tells him that the CLA was
600 membersin 1984.” (W_/A., August, 1990, p. 2) monitoring the lraqi troop buildup. “We
hope you'll try to restrain those guys,”
Given such a record, how could George Bush have been Baker reportedly said. (Margaret Garrard
shocked at Hussein’s deceit? Afterail, the U.S. already Anew Warner, “The Moscow Connection,”
that he was a bloodthirsty Soviet surrogate with oneof the Newsweek, September 17, 1990, p. 24)
worst human rights records in the world. Such knowledge
means that our government must have already opposedthis August 7 — In the six months preceding the
vicious terrorist regime long before the current crisis — invasion, Soviet arms sales to Iraq were
doesn’t it? Guess again. Ingraham states that not only had the at double the rates typical in the 1980’s.
New York Times correspondent Peter
Soviets sustained it but America and other nations now
supporting anti-lraqi sanctions sustained it as well: Schweitzer observed on August 22nd
that “…photoreconnaissance and other
…oince 1983, lrag has received $5 billion in vital food intelligence sources showcritical Soviet
subsidies, $141 million in direct export subsidies since military shipments reaching Baghdad as
1985 and $2.5 billion in export loan guarantees since late as August 7 ~ a full five days after
1988. Iraq has been the largest single export market the invasion was launched and the
for U.S. rice, while the Commodity Credit Corporation (Soviet-endorsed) embargo was
has lent $2.3 billion. The British, too, were a major announced…” (October Summit
trading partner, while the French sold him fighter Journal, pp. 7-8)
planes (at U.S. urging) and the nuclear reactor that
was destroyed (to world condemnation) bytheIsraelis All the signs were there for the Bush Administration to be
in 1981. The Germans made him mustard gas. (Op. on guard. Could it be that somehow this information was
cit, p. 10) not reaching the President’s desk? Not likely. Jane
Ingraham reminds us:
In other words, we knew full well of his brutality and yet,
while doling out billions, we conveniently looked the other … The two top Insiders in charge ofintelligence, CIA
way. (Note that the loans continued to flow even after 37 Director William Webster (CFR) and National
sailors were killed aboard the U.S. frigate Stark when it was Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft (CFR), were hand
hit by [raqi missiles on May 17, 1987). delivering information to the White House for days
beforehand. Whatever was goingon covertly, we know
Presumably, Bush was convinced that all of this aid had there was a long string of overt warnings, with Hussein
succeeded in making for a “kinder, gentler” Iraq. Whatever advertising his intentions at least three weeks in
the case, he had plenty of advanced warning about the advance. Although these were brushed aside as
present danger. Consider the following chronology of the “plusterings,” the movement of tens of thousands of
events surrounding Saddam’s August 2nd invasion: troops and war equipment cannot be camouflaged, nor
accomplished overnight, even in this day of modern
July 17 — According to French intelligence
miracles. (p. 5)
sources, Colonel General Albert
Makashov, one of the Soviets’ top So, how much did President Bush know and when did he
General Staff planners, arrives. in know it? From the foregoing, it is evident that he knew the
Baghdad to meet with Iraqi leaders. He sort of ruler he was facing and that in the days prior to the
is a specialist in tank and_ tactical invasion there was sufficent proof that the 3,000 Americans
wartare. (October M.LA., p. 12, and the in Kuwait and 600 in Iraq were in harm’s way and neededto
August 23rd Washington Times article be immediately alerted. “Yet the trusting President sounded
carried in the Octoberissue of Dr. David no alarm,” writes Ingraham, “nor was there a word of
Nobel’s Summit Journal, p. 7) warning to (Americans in the region — JKW) while there

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was still time to get out. As a result of Mr. Bush’s inaction, literally. As we write — late November — hehas furthered the
the fate of thousands of men, women and children has cause of “peace” by authorizing Soviet troops stationed there
become the most inflammatory issue of the crisis and is to shoot into any “disruptive” groups protesting the presence
determining the type of response Mr. Bush can pursue of the occupying Red Army.) In November he was jetsetting
against Iraq…” (Ibid. About 1,100 U:S. citizens are still in his way around Western Europe:first to Rome, where he was
Iraq and Kuwait [as of November 28, 1990] and Hussein has “chumming it up” with John Paulfl (a “papal” visit to Russia
threatened to use them as “human shields” to prevent air is planned for 1991), and then on to Paris, where he took part
strikes on military bases,oil fields, etc.) in the Conference on Cooperation and Security in Europe.
Lost in all this euphoria is the unsettling truth about the
If syndicated columnist Joseph Sobran is correct (as he
Soviets playing both sides of the fence in the Iraqi invasion.
likely is in this case), the U.S. embassy personnel in Kuwait
aren’t really “hostages,” as the news media (and the We've already alluded to the fact that Soviet arms shipments
President) have insisted. According to Sobran: continued to Iraq even after the invasion. While Gorbachev
is being touted as anti-Hussein in the Western press, the
…The President is keeping them in our embassy in
Soviet press has excused the Iraqi strike and quoted the
Kuwait to make the point that the United States
Comrade Peace Prize winner as unswerving in his support
doesn’t recognize Iraq’s annexation of Kuwait, but
of Iraq. Don McAlvanyreveals:
they are free to leave at any time. Iraq isn’t torcing
them to stay; Bush is. They constitute the chip on his On August 3, Moscow’s Red Star (p. 3) said that
shoulder (“Destruction Ahead,” The Wanderer, “Hussein would not have acted as he did toward
November 15, 1990, p. 6. Emphasis added) Kuwait without the precedent of America’s ‘criminal’
invasions of Grenada and Panama.” On August 10,
George Bush takes umbrage at such charges, stating: “!
while Bush and the whole Western media were
don’t think anyone — even the most cynical — would ever
describing Gorbachev as “wholeheartedly pro-West in
suggest that a President would play politics with thelives of
his stance on Iraq,” the Soviet leader told Pravda (p..
American kids halfway around the world. I’m offended that
1) that he sought to “enhance Moscow’s traditional
anybody would suggest that, and I don’t think that any
support of Iraq” and “there is nothing anti-fraq in
decent, honorable person would.” (Cited, ibid.) Decent?
Soviet policy on the crisis.” Page one in Moscow but
Honorable? Like Bush’s buddies — Gorbachev, Nelson
the U.S. media completely spiked it!” (October
Mandela and Deng Xiaoping? Sadly, the history of our
MIA., p. 12)
nation demonstrates that Presidents Aave played politics —
with American lives and we are forced to speculate with Jane And yet we see the Soviets supporting U.N. sanctions —
Ingraham when she writes: “As George Bush keeps what gives?
reminding us that the hostages are his ‘constant concern,’
one begins to wonder whether they are Saddam Hussein's Don’t ask George Bush; the last we heard he was parroting
Red propaganda. Such as? Such as on the numberof Soviet
pawns or George Bush’s.”
advisers still in Iraq. Commenting on the September summit,
Gorbachev — Whose Ally? Rowland Evans and Robert Novak state the Soviet claim:
One of the most detestable, though thoroughly predictable, “President Bush chose to look the other way at more than a
developments emerging from the Persian Gulf crisis has mere 193 Soviet advisers that Moscow admits keeping on in
been the growing U.S./Soviet partnership. Fifty years ago Iraq. Indeed, Soviet-Iraq continuing military ties involve
was the last instance of such open cooperation — we joined shared intelligence and new contacts since the invasion of
the U.S.S.R.in battling Hitler. Now Bush has publicly called Kuwait that the Kremlin has so vigorously condemned in
Gorbachev an “ally” in battling the Iraqi Hitler, even public…” (Cited, October Summit Journai, p. 8) So how
suggesting he send troopsto fight next to ours! many are really over there. According to McAlvany:

The propagandablitz for Mikhail Gorbachev has moved to a The State Department quietly acknowledged in the
new stage in recent months. In early September he met with New York Times (September 22, 1990) that before the
Bush at the Helsinki Summit to establish a “joint peace- invasion the Soviets had 10,000 advisers in Iraq and
keeping venture” in the Persian Gulf. A month later, that they still have at least 5,000 advisers there.
Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (We aren’t Western intelligence sources believe the number is
sure why he wonit. Perhapsit had something to do with the presently 8,000-9,000 advisers, with 3,000-4,000 of
way he “kept the peace” in Lithuania by roiling the tanks those military advisers, and manyofthe rest (so-called
into Vilnus when the natives took perestroika a bit too Soviet citizens) are KGB… (October M.ZA., p. 12)

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Couid it be that the President was also in the dark about the that Baghdad was preventing them from leaving.”
$25 billion in military aid that the Soviets have provided to (“Resolution gives lraq deadline,” Novemer 27, 1990, p. 1)
Hussein or about the “estimated 400 Soviet specialists And if you believe that Hussein is really holding these
(who) actually readied the key weapons systems employed in “citizens” against their will, Gorby has a nice piece of
the invasion of Kuwait? Gohn F. McManus, “Our ‘Ally,’ beachfront property in Siberia he’d like to sell you.
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1990, p. 17)
The greatest tragedy of the Persian Gulf crisis — aside from
Don McAlvany, for one, doesn’t think so. In fact, he the human lives that may be lost — is that its primary
charges: objective appears to be to further the utopian One World
sovernment dreams of the CFR schemers and their cohorts.
There has to be a hidden agenda. Bush’s intelligence Or, as the President puts it, “a United Nations that performs
(brains or spy network, Don?) is not so bad that he as envisioned by its founders.” He has forgotten
does not know about the magnitude of the Soviet {convenientiy?) that his oath of office binds him to
involvement in Iraq. He has deliberately covered up “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the
that involvement and ited about the number of Soviet United States,” not the Charter of the United Nations.
advisers involved (he claims there are only 150-200).
Why? (October M_ZA., p. 14. Recall that the Kremlin Some have speculated an apocalytic (in the literal sense)
admits to 193 advisers.) scenario emergingfrom the crisis, while others are fretful
over a possible Communist invasion of America while our
Anotherharshcritic, Jane Ingraham,states: defenses are down. Our ownview is that it is still a bit early
Although reports of the 8,000 Soviet advisers and in the endgame for either of these events to happen very
technicians greasing the iraqi war machine to kill soon. (Just the same, don’t give up your guns!) What we do
Americans had been denied by the Pentagon as early see as certain is the continued glorification ot the Insiders’
as August 15th, it was not until September4th thatit goals: in general, the furthering of the new world order
became clear that Mr. Bush had known about this agenda of a unified global political system and, specifically,
“minor detail” ail along. Perhaps, it was speculated, calls for the strengthening of the United Nations as the
he might ask for their withdrawal when he met withhis vehicle for world government. And Gorbachev most likely
good friend Gorbachev; but not to worry, for the only will be a winner, his selection as Peace Prize recipient given
reason the Soviets are there is because they are under additional phony luster by his role as “mediator” in the
“contract”; they had nothing to do with the invasion, crisis. A prompt cessation of hostilities, amounting tolittle
the Soviets assured us. Later, at their meeting in ~ or no American fatalities, will win him new friends here as
Helsinki, Mr. Bush didn’t even ask for their removal as the man who prevented another Vietnam from occurring.
he pledged billions in U.S. aid to the Soviets; they are And it will pave the way for more U.S.-Soviet joint “crisis
“nota major irritant,” he said. (Op. cit., p. 12) management” ventures. Any prolonged U.S. presence will
undoubtedly be exploited as the pretense by which Moslem
She follows this up by bluntly declaring, “Mr. Bush knew — extremists call for a jihad (hoiy war) against the “Great
and lied about — the crucial Soviet presence before the Satan” and its imperialist lacky, Israel. Our objective shouid
invasion…” be to free the hostages and then withdraw as soon as
possibie. While Iraq’s army is young (with many in their
A new wrinkle has entered the picture as these last pages
early teens) and their weapons old, their sheer numbers
are being written, and may well have begunto play itself out
could mean costly casualties for us. And those figures could
as you read this. On November 26, the five permanent go up dramatically if Saddam Hussein is able to secure any
members of the U.N. Security Council (the U.S., Britain,
sizable reinforcements from other Arabstates.
France, China and the Soviet Union) unanimously voted to
issue an ultimatum to Iraq: Withdraw from Kuwait by George Bush ran, among other things, on a pledge tobe an
sometime in January or be evicted by “all necessary means.” “environmental president,” but what we desperately needis
Perhapsit’s puzzled you why we only hear of U.S. hostages, an “energy president” (not to mention a Red, White and
British hostages, German hostages, etc.,… but never Soviet Blue one!). We need to be energyself-sufficient, yet Bush
hostages! Well, wonder no more. According to an article in has spent the first two years in the Oval Office placing
the Tampa Tribune, at the time of the U.N. resolution “the further restrictions on domestic explorations and
Soviet Union demanded that Iraq release more than 3,000. production. We need to continue to speak out against the
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that efforts are being made to distract our attention fromit.
And we must continue to argue against another no-win war,
against aid to the Soviets and against a policy that places “The coming of the worid state is longed for, and
U.N. goals above U.S. interests. confidently expected, by all the worst and most distorted
elements. This state, based on the principles of absolute
“In God We Trust” equality of men and a community of possessions, would
banish all national loyalties. In it no acknowledgement
Our prayers must continue for Bush, Gorbachev and other would be made of the authority of a father over his children,
worid leaders. All things are possible with God, even the or of God over human society. [If these ideas are put into
miraculous conversion of a George Bush. And it may well practice, there will inevitably follow a reign of unheard-of
require a miracle with Bushfor, as John McManus laments, terror.” — Pope Benedict XV July 25, 1920)
“he continues to refer to the smiling Gorbachev as his aily
and good friend. In an eerie way, the two really have become
allies, both openly seeking ‘a new world order’ under U.N.
control. God help our troops in the Middle East; and God
help America!” How much more readily would that divine
help arrive if our beloved Republic would only give its heart
freely to the merciful reign of Christ the King. t Amid all the features of greatness and grandeur that Al-
mighty God has bestowed upon His Church, there is nothing
more glorious, nothing more sublime, nothing more awe-
some than the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is the supreme
“The unholy trinity”: act of man’s worship of God, a spiritual treasure of inestima-
ble worth, a supernatural drama of unsurpassedbeauty. It is
George Bush
the heart and center of our divine Faith, the prayer par excel-
Mikhail Gorbachev lence of the Roman Catholic Church, the focal point around
John Paul if which the entire life of Christ’s Mystical Body revolves, “the
fountainheadof all the blessings of redemption.” 7
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@ t is not easy to give a precise and complete definition of individual. It is possible to neglect development of the
holiness. One could faithfully keep ail the Ten intellect and will andlive a life of sensual indulgence, or a
Commandments and so have moral rectitude. He could be Jife stunted by absorption in the goods and affairs of this
humbie, kind, selfless, generous, a model citizen — and yet be worid. The cares of this world, Our Lord warned us, are the
without holiness. The essential factor which makes mere weeds that stifle our higher, fully human yearnings, which
goodness into holiness is the motive prompting you to live a will never find complete satisfaction except in God. It is a
good and virtuous life. Holiness requires that your motive be perversion of right order and progress when man makes any
— love for God. Holiness consists essentially in the union of creature the uitimate object of his energies. He will exhaust
your will with the will of God, by love. Truly to love Godis to his energies in vain, finding only failure.
cleave to Him with ail your strength,to find your endearingjoy
Here as well as hereafter we find no true satisfaction but in
and delight only in Him, in Whom aloneall our love must
God. No object less than the Infinite and Eternal is worthy of
terminate. Creatures, howsoever beautiful, good, attractive,
the service of an immortal soul. God aloneis the true goal of
holy, are yet properly destined only to help us towards a closer
human development. In the Sermon on the Mount Our Lord
union with God, our Supreme End. To be attached to any
deals mainiy with the love of riches as the obstacle to our
creature for that creature’s own sake, without reference to
undivided service of God, but what is true of moneyis true
God,is to fail short of the order willed by God. We shall con-
also of every other possible object of human devotion that
form to that order so long as our ‘ove for any other human
might divert us from the love and service of God. Whether
being remains predominantly a benevolent love, a positive,
the competition comes from weaith or ambition or human
active desire for that person’s well-being and happiness. The
affection it is always to be set aside if it cannot be reconciled
true, noble, godly love that we cail charity means seif-
with love for God, our Creator and our Last End. +
abandonment to God, with self-sacrificing, benevolent love for
all our fellowmen for God’s sake. A soul imbued and vitalized
with such love will be a sanctuary of imperturbabie peace.

Perfect interior peace, tranquility of order in the soui, is
assuredly one of God’s greatest gifts to man. Unless the soul be
at peace the action of Ged within us is impeded. Peace of soul
requires that we use God's gifts only to lead us to their Giver,
refraining from any perversion of the goods of this world to (continued trom page one)
merely selfish purposes. To see self and the world in true
If John Paul If is not one of the top Insiders, he is, I have no»
perspective, in relation to God and eternity, is to lay the
doubt, one of their very close confidants. Assuredly, heis in
foundation oftrue peace of soul and true happiness. the camp of the enemy. But, if 1 and many others know this,
certainly the highly informed and very capabie conservative
So varied are men’s notions of happiness that we might be editors and writers I have in mind must likewise know it.
tempted to think that no one standard of happinessforail can Why, then, do they remain silent about it? (The same point
be defined. But this is not so. What makes for human happi- can readily be made regarding the conservative journals
ness is no more a matter of individual choice than is what — aligned with the Conciliar Church. They never so much as
makes for good health. The diet that a man personaily con- hint — and they must know — that their “Holy Father” is a
siders to be healthy may prove his poison, and where he looks wolf in sheep’s clothing.)
for happiness he mayfind only wretchedness and sorrow. Man And so, even the best of the current, nationally circulated,
must live according to the requirements of his physical nature, conservative, secular publications (dealing with the
his bodily constitution,if he is to be healthy; and according to Conspiracy, world government, etc.) are, I submit, open to
his whole nature, but especially his mental and moral grave criticism by their failure to identify and to expose two
of the principal evil forces on the world scene today. For
constitution, if he is to be truly happy. And human natureis
whatever reasons, Freemasonry and John Paul II are
specifically the same for all. Also universally, the desires of apparently immune from attack, exempt from exposure in
human nature are insatiable. Our aspirations are unlimited, the pages of those publications. Why? Can this silent
the human mind and heart reaching beyond what this life treatment of two of the enemy’s major instruments of
holds for us. This is not, of course, consciously so with every destruction be justified? Of course not. t

THE ATHANASIAN JANUARY 15, 1991