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THE ATHANASIAN e, Publication of Traditional Catholics of America + Editor: Fr. Francis E. Fenton, STL + Volume XII, No. 5 + July 15, 1991

The War Against The Family John Kenneth Weiskittel

Imighty God has given a great dignity to the family by The Communist Manifesto of 1848 they advocated the making it the cornerstone of society. Even more “abolition of the family.” Slorious is the stature He has bestowed upon the Christian family. The love of the husband and wife is to be a mirror For the past thirty years in the United States and in other of the love of Christ and His Church (Ephesians 5:22-23), Free World countries the family has found itself under while God commends children to honor their parents and constant attack from all sides and is now at a stage where it Promises a long, fruitful life if they do so. (Ephesians 6:1-3) may truly be called an endangered species. The open Although God allows all couples to participate in the hostility shown to the family unit in Communist nations miracle of life, He adds to this in Catholic homes by gives way to a subtler form of oppression in the West, but a permitting parents to be the first to teach their children the form that is moving closer to the Marxist model. A healthy rudiments of the Faith. So dear to His Sacred Heart is the Roman Catholic Church would have led the resistance to family that it pleased Our Savior to be born into one and to such impositions (as it had in the past), but the confusion be subject to Mary and Joseph. resulting from Vatican II — out of which the true Church became a remnant of believers — rendered such an effort ‘Since the family is the object of particular affection by God, impossible. The traditional family is rapidly becoming a it comes as no surprise that Satan has always hated it and thing of the past. does all that he can to sow discord in individual families and to discredit and dishonor the very concept of the Troubles In The Neighborhood family. After the attack on the proper worship of God Nostalgic Americans may end up searching in vain for the which the devil provoked in the Garden of Eden, he neighborhoods in which they grew up a generation ago. Oh, instigated Cain’s murder of Abel, which is doubly they can find them, but the transformations are often so significant as an assault on the family unit. The same drastic as to render them all but unrecognizable. There are pattern has been followed down through the ages: changes that will be obvious, such as the price scanners at wherever a wave of rage has beset the Church, a siege the supermarkets’ checkout lines or the shopping mall built against the family has been attendant. on the lot where kids once played ball, but the deeper ones More than four centuries ago, when the hell-spawned are hidden away in the homes, apartments and housing revolt against the Church reached epidemic proportions, projects. And these latter changes are quietly tearing away the family was the indirect target of the barbs hurled at the at the very fabric of society. Sacrament of Matrimony. The schism of King Henry VIII What kinds of changes? Well, consider the following items: occurred because of his refusal to accept Rome’s ruling that he was validly married and could not lawfully put away * Stable marriages are essential for healthy his wife to remarry, while Martin Luther and other heretics families, yet U.S. couples are yielding to the rejected the Catholic teaching on the sanctity of marriage temptation of divorce with disturbing frequency. and made divorce an option for their followers. The next The 1991 World Almanac reports that in the salvo came from Voltaire and other Enlightenment writers twelve-month period ending with March, 1990, 0 centuries later and intensified in the 1800’s with the 2,423,000 couples married and 1,177,000 machinations of the secret societies, including the divorced. (p. 834) When the children are included Communists, whose theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich in the divorce figure, more than three million Engels went far beyond other revolutionaries. In People’s lives are adversely affected. Commenting virtually between 1970 and 1983 the proportion in 1985 on the remarkable statistic that about half er two- doubled, climbing to 38 percent. Today ov of current American marriages will end in divorce ds are in a thirds of all three- and four-year-ol court, one researcher states that, “for the first sc ho ol or pr ek in de rgarten day- ca re , nu rs er y time in our history, two people entering marriage jority program.” (p. 223) Although the overall ma are just as likely to be parted by divorce as by vately, the of such arrangements are handled pri death.” Equally startling is the projection that by er of 1990 only 40 percent of the children born in the authors state that “(t)he single largest provid ich United States will spend their entire childhood day care now is the federal government, wh living with both natural parents. (Dr. Lenore J. offers child care, health and educational services Weitzman, The Divorce Revolution, Free Press, to some 400,000 low-income children through the 1985, p. xvii) Head Start program and which subsidizes private day-care facilities through child care tax credits, * A World Almanac graph, labeled “Household state block grants, and tax breaks for employers Composition — 1960 to 1988,” shows the findings who subsidize day-care services.” of the U.S. Bureau of the Census. In 1960, homes identified as “Married couples with children” These are a few of the symptoms that point to a cancer accounted for 44.2 percent of all households but eating away at the American family. In addition, the by 1988 the figure had fallen to 27 percent. following can be cited: adultery, birth control, abortion, Conversely, over the same time frame, the total for spouse abuse, child abuse, runaways, an estranged spouse “Other families with children” has risen from 4.4 “kidnapping” offspring from his (or her) mate and a percent to 8.0 percent. (p. 841) plethora of teen woes, including the alarming rise in suicides. Repairing the damage done to the family unit + The immorality of premarital sex has become so from the neo-pagan onslaught would be formidable enough acceptable that “(b)y 1988, more than one-quarter if the above problems were the only ones, but now the of all American births — more than one million friends of the family must also combat efforts to blur even babies — were out of wedlock, up four-and-a-half the very definition of the word family. times since 1960.” (Carolyn Lochhead, “Cradle to Grave,” Insight, May 6, 1991, p. 15) Such births What Is A Family? represent 18 percent of total births for whites and The question contained in the section heading is a staggering 63 percent for blacks. (p. 14) The ridiculously obvious. Or so it would seem. The traditional likelihood of neglect, malnutrition, child abuse and sense of the term is well expressed in the fourth definition other dangers are far greater for such babies. under the heading in Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary: * Also important in any consideration of the “A group comprising immediate kindred; especially, the plight of the family is the increasing number of Sroup formed by parents and children.” In generations past women who work outside the home, necessitating this unit would also include any grandparents for whom in many instances the placement of their children care was required (observance of the fourth commandment in day-care centers and the change of their older was taken more seriously than it is by today’s adult ones into “latchkey children.” In Domestic children who, if they do anything, are apt to send their Revolutions: A Social History of American Family aged parents to nursing homes rather than open their Life (Free Press, 1988), Doctors Steven Mintz and doors to them), Susan Kellogg write: “The proportion of married women with preschoolers who were in the labor And yet this clear understanding of the term has become force jumped from 12 percent in 1950 to 45 Greatly obscured in only a few decades. The following percent in 1980.” (p. 218) As for preschoolers’ excerpt from Domestic Revolutions brings the perceptual care, they observe: “…Back in 1970 just 21 changes into focus: percent of all three- and four-year-olds were cared A generation ago Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ric for in day-care centers or nursery schools. But ky Nelson epitomized the American family. Over 70

THE ATHANASIAN JULY 15, 1991 Percent of all American households in 1960 were as “Leave It To Beaver” and “Father Knows like the Nelsons: made up of dad the breadwinner, Best.” Those who accept the reality of single- mom the homemaker and their children. Today, parent families in our society believe that such less than three decades later, “traditional” families families should be judged on their quality and consisting of a breadwinner father, a housewife strengths, not whether households are headed by mother and one or more dependent children one or two parents. (/bid.) account for less than 15 percent of the nation’s households. As American families have changed, Gay mentions the perception of single-parent homes as “a the image of the family portrayed on television has new family form” but what can she mean since, through changed accordingly. Today’s television families death, separation or illicit sex, such fragmented families vary enormously, running the gamut from are age-old? Those in this new category are unwed traditional families like “The Waltons” to two- mothers who, unlike teens who accidently conceive as a career families like the Huxtables on “The Cosby result of fornication, do so deliberately. Regarding this Show” or the Keatons on “Family Ties”; shocking development, Gay explains: “blended” families like the Bradys on “The Brady Some single women are so convinced that they can Bunch,” with children from previous marriages; raise healthy, emotionally stable children on their two single mothers and their children on “Kate own that they have made decisions to become and Allie”; a homosexual who serves as a pregnant but not to marry. During the years of surrogate father on “Love, Sidney”; an unmarried social upheaval in the 1960’s, some young women couple who cohabit in the same house [sic] on chose single parenthood partially as a rebellious “Who’s The Boss?”; and a circle of friends, who act against the establishment. Today it is the think of themselves as a family, congregating at a women of the established middle class that are Boston bar on “Cheers.” (p. 203) making decisions to become mothers but not wives. According to a December, 1985 Newsweek A common denominator of most of these programs (all situ- report, “an increasing number of single women in ation comedies except for “The Waltons”), and a good their thirties, women with good jobs and financially example of the reason that television is such a mine field for secure futures who have everything except a those trying to lead a life based on Christian morality, is husband,” are becoming mothers” either through their nonchalant depiction of sinful — even in some cases artificial insemination or with a male partner, often mortally sinful — behavior as acceptable or at least funny. one who has been carefully chosen.” (pp. 64-65) Households that have grown in recent years include single- Newsweek helpfully notes that this is “not a way of life that parent families and DINKs (double income/no kids). In will work for everyone,” while Gay calmly reflects that there Changing Families: Meeting Today’s Challenges (Enslow, may be certain legal and personal difficulties that may crop 1988), Kathlyn Gay writes that “a single parent heads one up from such arrangements. What is evident is Gay’s out of every four U.S. households with children and that commitment to the familial destruction going on in society. number is expected to double by the end of the centyry.” One need only read through the list of “Organizations (p. 61) She goes on to bring up the controversy Helpful to Families” that she carries at the end of her surrounding such homes: book. Where it would seem that groups such as Focus on The rapid rise in single parenthood is a subject the Family, American Family Federation and various pro- that sparks heated debate. Some say the trend is a lifers should be found, Gay’s incredible directory includes sign that our society is falling apart; they call for such organizations as the American Civil Liberties Union, more concerted efforts to preserve the traditional American Friends Service Committee, (Conciliar) Catholic family structure. Others view single parenthood as Social Services, Gray Panthers, National Abortion just a new family form — a type of family that is Federation, National Abortion Rights Action League, here to stay. They see little chance that family life Planned Parenthood, Women’s Legal Defense Fund and will be like that depicted in such 1950’s TV shows the U.S. Department of Health and Human Senvices.

THE ATHANASIAN JULY 15, 1991 (By some oversight, and surely it must be one, Gay has The (Anti-) Family Plot neglected to include such stalwart “family help” groups as ‘As indicated at the beginning of this article, Satan has an the National Organization for Women and People for the abiding hatred for the family, reflecting as it does the love American Way. Perhaps she will correct this in some of God. And as also has been shown, his war against it has@) future edition.) proceeded to an advanced stage and has taken many And yet even the deliberately unwed mother phenomenon casualties. There follows a brief examination of how the is not the outermost limit in new “families.” Media human militia of this army has succeeded in inflicting so watchdog Joseph Farah, writing in the June 4, 1991 issue much damage on the family unit and how the #rue Roman of The New American, states: Catholic Church responds. The latest trend by liberal crusaders in the At about the same time as Marx and Engels were news media has newspaper publishers and editors advocating the abolition of the family, the Masonic super- printing announcments of “gay bonding Lodge Alta Vendita’s instructions, which had been seized ceremonies” on the traditional wedding page. by Italian authorities, were published at the order of Pope If you have any doubt that this is a deliberate Pius IX. The instructions were secret plans on how the effort by those who would like to transform lodges sought to weaken the influence of the Church in traditional family newspapers into counterculture society, to infiltrate the Church and to eventually destroy it rags that promote alternative lifestyles, read what from within. Proof of the diabolical cunning of the group is the Washington Journalism Review had to say evident by its goal to debase woman who, as faithful wife about this trend: “The weddings page, that and mother, is the heart of the Christian home. The anachronism of newspaper journalism, is finally instructions state: “… since we cannot suppress woman, moving, albeit slowly, into the 1990’s — but not let us corrupt her along with the Church… The best without a fight from some readers. poniard with which to wound the Church mortally is Announcements of gay bonding ceremonies corruption.” (Cited, Father Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp., The recently appeared in two mainstream West Coast Kingship of Christ & the Conversion of the Jewish Nation) newspapers.” (‘Between The Lines” column, Christian Book Club of America, 1987 edition of the 1953 p. 29. The WIR remarks are classic examples of work, p. 21) In 1884, when Pope Leo XIII condemned liberal “‘moralizing” in favor of evil: marriages are Freemasonry’s wicked doctrines in his immortal encyclical ridiculed as anachronistic and opposition to the Humanum Genus, he foretold with astonishing accuracy “gay’’ announcements is seen to come from the consequence of nations adopting them as the basis for people who are behind the times.) law (as is today the rule for virtually all nations): “(T)he Since the WIR piece, a third small West Coast newspaper time is quickly coming when marriages will be turned into has begun this practice, as has a daily in a large another kind of contract — that is, into changeable and metropolitan area — the Minneapolis Star Tribune. In uncertain unions which fancy may join together, and the March the Star Tribune published two announcements for same when changed may disunite.” (From complete text lesbian “domestic partnerships” and changed the name on reprinted in Cardinal Jose Maria Caro y Rodriguez’ The its society page from “Weddings” to “Celebrations.” An Mystery of Freemasonry Unveiled; no publishing article from the New York Times News Service reported: information given, p. 274) “In announcing the Star Tribune’s new policy last week, By the early 1920’s, the situation had worsened to the spokeswoman Bette Fenton [no relation, as far as we can point that the Chilean Cardinal Caro y Rodriguez, determine, to a certain well-known priest-editor — JKW] in his critique on the Masons, could write: said it was ‘a natural response’ to a new Minneapolis ordinance allowing homosexuals to register their The attack of Masonry upon the family relationships with the city.” (‘Paper publishes gay has been one of the most dangerous to society. Starti partnerships with weddings,” Miami Herald, March 24, ng with laws of civil matrimony, deprecating ma trimony in 1991, p. 27a.) the eyes of the pernicious or igno rant masses, @

THE ATHANASIAN JULY 15, 1991 Masonry has deprived it of consecration, that has made significant gains in the intervening years. And, character of sacramental institution endowed by when the plans to merge the U.S. and Soviet systems as a Our Lord Jesus Christ, and has reduced it to the step toward a New World Order are considered, it can be character of a human contract, similar to many seen how important it is to the conspirators that the family others, whose strength depends on human law. be dissolved in favor of a soulless collective. It may very The evils that have been caused in the Christian well be that the force of government may come to bear on society we live in are a first attempt against those who insist on upholding traditional family values (for matrimony and against the family are unfortunately example, in the not too distant future newspapers may be visible to all, they are so enormous, that they have obliged to print homosexual “wedding” announcements almost destroyed family life among the popular for fear of being charged with “discrimination”). classes of the cities. (/bid., p. 184. Grammar and punctuation are the translator’s.) Defending The Family The defense of the family is one of the greatest challenges The contribution to this corruption by the various forms of facing traditional Catholics today. Not only must its entertainment and information (books, films, radio, etc.) sanctity be upheld but there is also the long and arduous was castigated by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical on process of overturning the anti-Christian laws and cleaning Christian Marriage (Casti Connubii) in 1930. His Holiness up entertainment as part of the restoration of a Christ- lamented that in far too many of these sources “the centered society, of which the family is the very essence. sanctity of marriage is trampled upon and derided; divorce, adultery, all the basest vices are either extolled or The task at hand certainly seems difficult, almost too are at least depicted in such colors as to appear free of all difficult to achieve. The enemies of God are confidently reproach and infamy.” And, he further noted, even the proclaiming that the changes are part of an inevitable more “moderate” advocates of such ideas “more or less movement and that all efforts to resist it will be futile. They wittingly are emissaries of the great enemy who is ever forget, however, that the only thing inevitable is the seeking to sow cockle among the wheat.” (Five Great Providence of God and the only ultimately futile effort is @ Prevelicals, Paulist Press, 1939, p. 90) Seven years later, that of the soul who resists God’s will. in his Divini Redemptoris (the encyclical condemning Communism) the same pontiff attacked a Marxist teaching We must fight with every lawful means at our disposal that has gained considerable favor in the United States those whom Pope Pius XI called “the latter-day subverters under the guise of “equal rights.” The Pope wrote: of marriage.” May Catholics consecrate their families to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, ever keeping in mind ..-Communism is particularly characterized by the that Father Peyton’s “the family that prays together stays rejection of any link that binds woman to the together” is more than a slogan. And may they pray often family and the home, and her emancipation is and devoutly, as should all traditional Catholics, to the proclaimed as a basic principle. She is withdrawn Holy Family in reparation for the manifold offenses from the family and the care of her children, to be committed against the family. ¢ thrust instead into the public life and collective production under the same conditions as man. PEEEEETE TTT TT ETT TT The care of home and children then devolves upon the collectivity. Finally, the right of education is Grant us, O Lord Jesus, faithfully to imitate the denied to parents, for it is conceived as the examples of Thy Holy Family so that in the hour exclusive prerogative of the community, in whose of our death, in the company of Thy glorious name and by whose mandate alone parents may Virgin Mother and Saint Joseph, we may deserve exercise this right. (Ibid., p. 181) to be received by Thee into etemal tabernacles. The unmistakable conclusion reached after reading this (Indulgence of 200 days, once a day — Pope Leo XIII, February 6, 1893.) and the other quotes in this section is that every front & upon which Satan has directed his might against the family PEEEETTE TTT ttt ttt ttt tt

THE ATHANASIAN JULY 15, 1991 “That they al l m a y be on e. .. th at th e wo rl d m a y bel iev e tha t Tho u has t sen t me. ” ( J o h n 17 , 2 1 ) _ e Fr. Oswald Baker (England) l wa s pas tor al, not dog mat ic, an d so not disposed he Church founded by Christ has never been disunited. Cou nci e term was It has always been a unitary, compact body of believ- to insist on definitions. In one instance a vagu clear. The ers, completely unanimous in faith, morals, essential form of actually substituted for one that was too had worship and obedience. If it lost its unity it would cease to original draft of the Constitution on the Church rch.” exist. The Church of Christ is one and united, not because Christ’s “Church in the world is the Catholic Chu in.” Christ prayed that it should be so, but because it cannot but The word “is” was later changed to “subsists n be so. The reason for this is simply that it is an organized Although the Council warned that “nothing is so foreig society of divine foundation, with a divinely ordained to ecumenism as the false attitude of appeasement which purpose, divinely appointed means and divinely guaranteed is so damaging to the purity of Catholic doctrine,” it went permanent survival. If it were not thus guaranteed by God on to encourage joint prayer, discussions on an equal but were a merely human institution, it assuredly could not footing and united services. have survived its many crises. No matter the upheaval, the Ecumenical dialogue aims, not for an agreed discernment of Church has always unfailingly come through, stately, truth, but for the promotion of mutual respect and fellow- resplendent, displaying — after temporary obscurity — the feeling. Ecumenism has been substituted for evangelization. striking, superhuman unity for which Our Lord prayed. It Ecumenists are so obsessed with their task that they have was not for mere unity that He prayed but for a con- lost interest in preaching the Gospel. In seminaries the spicuous, instructive, convincing unity, indicating the interchange of Catholic and Protestant lecturers has divinity of the Church’s Founder. Since that time, hundreds produced a crop of newly-ordained priests (?) who do not of separate Churchs have been founded, claiming the title Christian and, claiming it, they have in courtesy been ac- know the authentic Catholic Faith. In parishes, difference in gy corded it. But the original, one Catholic Church has always religious beliefs is overlooked and mutual goodwill @ insisted that salvation cannot be attained by non-Catholics emphasized. Loyal Catholics are easily represented as through membership in any of their sects, but only in spite bigoted, discourteous and uncharitable. Criticism of of it. It must have been the most revolutionary volte-face of ecumenism is made to appear as opposition to the will of all time when Vatican II, purporting to speak for Christ for unity. The new belief is that there is not, after all, Catholicism, declared that heretical sects, set up in opposi- one true Catholic Church but a higher institution, the tion to the Church of Christ, are divinely approved vehicles Christian Church, in which all persuasions and traditions of salvation. To accept this declaration is to deny the unity are on a par, baptism being the all-important factor and the of the Church of Christ, to repudiate a vital Catholic tenet — basis of unity that really matters. A new, federalized Church and so to cease to be a Catholic. Even if there were no other has emerged. Intercommunion is practised. reason for condemnation, this pronouncement marks and All the wretched changes inflicted on Catholics within the damns Vatican II as not Catholic. past twenty-five years are directed towards a senseless, This attempt to change Catholic doctrine gave a gossamer ecumenism. Ecumenism is a sentimental fiction. It tremendous boost to the “ecumenia” which had taken root destroys the boundary between truth and falsehood. It even before the Council. In 1962, Cardinal Heenan of mixes the truth of God with the errors of men. The only England observed that the Dutch were making a veritable religious association founded by God is the Holy, Catholic, religion of “ecumania.” One of the Council members, Apostolic Roman Church. Catholicism is to be accepted not Bishop Carli, complained of ecumenical excesses, noting by way of approval but by way of submission. Recognition of that it had become scarcely possible to speak, for example, the divine authority of the Catholic Church, of Our Lady lest non-Catholics take offence. The Council acknowledgement of previous error, total submission — used vague, ambiguous terms. One bishop, objecting to this these have always been and remain for all time the only and demanding a clear definition of terms, was told that the possible conditions for Christian unity. +

THE ATHANASIAN JULY 15, 1991 Hope Springs Eternal! Fr. Francis E. Fenton

@ he Athanasian is now in its twelfth year of publication, Most fortunately, moral right and wrong, truth and the first issue having appeared in January, 1980. falsehood are not determined by the number of individuals Throughout the course of those years it has remained what on one side or the other. If this were the case, The it was intended to be from its beginning, a thoroughly Athanasian would be extremely presumptuous in the stand traditional Roman Catholic journal in every respect. it takes because it is hopelessly outnumbered by those it However, while I certainly had grave doubts on the subject confronts in the present matter. The Wanderer, for long before, it was not until 1984 or 1985 thatI arrived at example, has a circulation of some 35,000; the New Jersey the conviction that John Paul II was not, and could not Catholic New is sent free to all who request it; the Spring, possibly be, a valid Pope. That conviction has been 1991 edition of The Fatima Crusader (whose editor, Father exceedingly strengthened over the ensuing years to the Nickolas Gruner, persists in referring to non-Pope John extent that it is today totally beyond my comprehension Paul II as “the Holy Father”) had a printing of 400,000 how any other stand relating to John Paul II can copies of a recent issue and was also sent free (as it always conceivably be logically and honorably taken except that of is, I believe). In stark contrast, the current list of paid sedevacantism. In all of the confusion and turmoil and subscribers to The Athanasian totals approximately 900. chaos that prevail relating to the Church, the stark fact that John Paul II is a bogus Pope is the bottom line. A few years back I had hoped that this newsletter would have at least some 4,000 – 5,000 subscribers by now and But it is not my intention in this article to discuss once thereby perhaps be able to make some impact upon the again the subject of sedevacantism. That topic has been American scene in general and upon the Church situation treated and analyzed and rehashed over the past several in particular, specifically through its becoming an effective years in the pages of this newsletter more often, I am sure, force in counteracting the conservative organizations and @= it has been in any other publication in this country — publications associated with the Conciliar Church such as and, in any case, there is probably nothing more that I can those mentioned previously. While I still fondly entertain say on it, While there are, I am strongly inclined to think, that hope, it will never be realized if subscriptions to The a relatively sizable and increasing number of individuals Athanasian remain at the pitiably low number of 900. No who are sedevacantists, I do not have even a remote idea matter how important and how strong the stands we take of how many that number may be nor of how many of them and no matter how right we are, we will simply continue to may have become such by way of The Athanasian. As I be ignored because, as I see it, our influence is negligible read, however, as I regularly do, The Wanderer, The and our impact minimal. As proud as we are of The Remnant, the writings of the Society of Saint Pius X, the Athanasian and as well as it is received, the fact is that we New Jersey Catholic News, The Fatima Crusader and are getting nowhere. We get so many, many letters from other publications of a similar kind, there is not the our subscribers telling us how very much they appreciate slightest hint in any of them that they are about to turn TheAthanasian and the uncompromising positions we take sedevacantists. Indeed, I, for one, cannot escape the on the various issues of the day — and for such letters of conclusion that, no matter how logical and forceful are the commendation and encouragement we are assuredly most arguments that John Paul II is a non-Pope and that the grateful. But, I ask myself, what have we to show in terms Conciliar Church is not Catholic, such publications are of concrete results, what impact have we made, what have hell-bent on remaining aligned to that Church and John we accomplished? I don’t know. Paul Il and that no amount of realism and common sense One thing I do know, however, and that is that our is likely to change their position. And how presumptuous financial condition leaves much to be desired. The total of so more or less insignificant a newsletter as The expense involved in the operation of the TCA averages out Athanasian to challenge that position! True enough, to about $5,000 per month while, for some time now, the Perhaps, if one were to put aside the essential monthly income has averaged around $4,000. The amount Q oxrsideration of right and wrong, of truth and error. we receive by way of newsletter subscriptions (included in

THE ATHANASIAN JULY 15, 1991 the above $4,000 figure) actually covers less than a envelope for that purpose which is enclosed with each quarter of the TCA expenses over the period of a year. For issue of The Athanasian. | assure one and all that I would some time now I have been supplying from my own funds never be asking for additional income for the TCA unless the amount needed each month to pay the balance of it was very much needed — and it is. Please God, ne expenses. However, as willing as I have been to do this, additional income will be forthcoming in sufficient amour there is one problem which could soon become an so that we may thereby be able to guarantee the insurmountable one — and that problem is that I don’t continuing life of our newsletter. Despite the pessimistic have much money left. tone of this article, perhaps somewhere down the road My plea, then, is simply that more of our subscribers will publication of The Athanasian may prove to have been Support us financially on a regular basis by using the white eminently worthwhile. Hope springs eternal! +

Of the several secular magazines and newsletters of national circulation which regularly come to our TCA office, there are two which invariably impress me very favorably: The New American (TNA) and The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor (MIA). Dealing primarily with current events, both of them are highly informative and, in their accuracy and straightforwardness, are a striking contrast to the dishonorable controlled mass media with whose disinformation the minds of multitudes of Americans are incessantly polluted. In a word, what TNA and MIA do, in my opinion they do very well indeed andI take no exception to most of whatI read therein. It is rather to whatI don’t read therein that I would and do take vehement exception. Given the excellent coverage which both publications devote to the exposure of so many of the subversive individuals and organizations which today abound nationwide and worldwide (many of which are allied in the planning and formation of the horrendous and atheistic One World Order) — two of the most powerful and most dangerous of these have long been, and continue to be, consistently ignored by TNA and the MIA, namely Freemasonry and John Paul II. Surely these are glaring omissions. Why is this? How come? To my mind at least, they are impossible to justify.

— Fr. F. Fenton

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