Anglo-Gaullist. Writer, school governor, charity trustee, volunteer w/
@orderofmaltaGB
| Southwark. Formerly of New York, Buenos Aires, Fife, the Western Cape.
Tim Farron, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the late Queen “was a constant to us all… but the constant in her life was her faith in Jesus Christ.”
Her religion was neither perfunctory nor ceremonial but “a living, active faith in a living Saviour”.
It is barbaric that we used to print books in a size and format actually convenient and usable for readers and that this stopped without any explanation whatsoever.
Man in a biohazard suit riding a unicycle playing the Rhodesian national anthem on flaming bagpipes.
“… Give us strength to face all danger, and where challenge is to dare��”
Communists are good at hiding that the USSR spent the first third of the war effectively allied to the Nazis.
The 1941 May Day parade in Red Square included a delegation from Nazi Germany.
Remembering the late Michele Ferrero — invented Nutella, Kinder Eggs, Tic Tacs, and Ferrero Rocher.
The richest man in Italy, he had a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes in every company office and factory and paid for his workers to go on pilgrimage to the Marian shrine.
Hero.
On behalf of the King of the Zulus, the venerable Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi has sent condolences to the House of Windsor following the death of our late sovereign Elizabeth II.
Find yourself a country where the charity private schools have students dressed in Tudor uniform whose band plays Soviet songs about Polish fields at an annual parade honouring the Lord Mayor of the semifeudal square mile in the middle of the capital city.
Aesthetically ideal solution to renovating the Palace of Westminster: make a temporary Parliament at the
@ORNCgreenwich
.
Put the Commons in the Painted Hall and the Lords in the Chapel.
Nipped in to the gallery of the House of Lords today for the Prorogation.
Heard the old Norman French words ‘Le Roy le veult’ uttered in Parliament for the first time since 1951.
Few things are sadder than that all the proud brick Edwardian schools across London have been turned into luxury flats while children are now forced to study in New Labour plastic boxes.
"The Poles were made free by their Catholic faith, their patriotic feelings towards their country, their sense of history, and their courage to face up to the terrible system that had been imposed upon them. And they set an example to the world." —
@Roger_Scruton
in
#Poland
Here's wishing a very happy birthday to Mother Dolores Hart – Hollywood actress turned Benedictine abbess.
This year is also the 50th anniversary of her solemn profession at Regina Laudis Abbey in Connecticut.
As an AMPAS member, she's the only nun with a vote in the Oscars.
Christopher Lee was attached to SOE during the Second World War and lived to 93 — he saw a fair bit of the world.
Here he gives his admonition not to get involved with the occult:
"I warn all of you: never, never, never. You will not only lose your mind, you'll lose your soul"
"The Archbishop of York said, ‘Jesus was a black man.’ The trouble is, it isn’t true. Jesus wasn’t a black man. He wasn’t a northern European either. He was a Jew. A Jew from the Middle East." –
@WalkerMarcus
🔥🙇♂️👏 So, so right Marcus.
Today at Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, Mass was offered using the Westminster Chasuble warn by Cardinal Wolsey at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520.
It was brought back by Thomas Arundell 500 years ago and kept by his descendants to this day.
#fieldoftheclothofgold
America has the Oval Office and Great Britain has Downing Street but the Prime Minister of the Netherlands has his office in the Torentje ('turret') of the Binnehof.
Brits used to get congrats for going to university.
It’s become such a scheme that now if someone’s 18 and we hear they’re not going on to uni people say “Good for him!”
The best response is to the mosque-ification of the Hagia Sophia is to commission an absolute baller of a Netflix series recreating the visual glories, intrigues, and beauty of Byzantium to reawaken awareness of the Christian Roman Empire.
On starless nights the inhabitants of Paris would cower in fear as the giant I. M. Pei would come to select another innocent to imprison in his pyramid of despair.
Hearty congratulations to Gavin Ashenden, Honorary Chaplain to the Queen 2008-2017, who will be received into the Catholic Church this Sunday by the Bishop of Shrewsbury. 🙏
“The successful Catholic churches in this country are those which are increasingly rooted in our ancient Catholic traditions. Many many young people are flocking to Catholic churches which are resurrecting the ancient Mass and its beauty.” —
@EdwardLeighMP
This past week I witnessed national treasure Peter Hitchens (
@ClarkeMicah
) cycling down my street in Chelsea and then 20 minutes later Gordon Ramsay driving a supercar down the King's Road.
I know which side I'm on.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Deirdre T., who died last week.
A veteran of more than two dozen pilgrimages to Lourdes with
@orderofmaltaGB
, she was incredibly patient and kind.
Of the many minorities who call the land of Israel home, I think the Circassians are the coolest.
Concentrated in Rehaniya and Kfar Kama in northern Israel, they are certainly the best dressed. The King of Jordan has Circassian guards.
#Circassians
#Adyghe
#Israelis
#Israel
Switzerland’s democracy, Solzhenitsyn points out, “did not spring from the ideas of the Enlightenment, but directly from ancient forms of political life”.
#switzerland
#solzhenitsyn
The mayor of Columbus announced today that the city will be renamed Huītzilōpōchtli, and the explorer's now-empty plinth will be used as an altar on which to sacrifice the conquered inhabitants of other Ohio cities to satiate the sun deity's bloodlust.
A 22-foot-tall statue of Christopher Columbus was removed from outside the Columbus, Ohio, city hall after the city's mayor called for it to come down.
Imagine wanting to become an architect to make the world a more beautiful and better place — and then ending up designing this.
If you can figure out how this happens and fix it, you can prevent a lot of harm.
When the wartime Grand Rabbi of Rome converted to Catholicism he took as his baptismal name Eugenio, the name Pius XII was baptised with, in gratitude for the Pope's widely praised efforts for the Jewish people during the War.
#PiusXII
@si_rubinstein
At St Andrews there would be perpetual tourists asking you “Where is the campus?” that you’d have to explain to that’s not how it works here.
Deeply irritating when the French term 'banlieues' is translated into English as 'suburbs'.
The two terms have roughly the opposite connotations: one dystopian, gritty, brutalist; the other leafy-green, safe, and comfortable.
Just import banlieue into English. Let people learn.
I expect
@holland_tom
is familiar with the Chinese prime minister who became a Benedictine abbot.
Many don’t realise Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek were also Christians.
Christianity is not foreign to China.
Theresa May:
"My concern is that the Government today making it illegal to conduct an act of public worship for the best of intentions sets a precedent that could be misused for a government in the future with the worst of intentions."
@theresa_may
Your house being burgled? Your child being threatened? An offence in progress? Sorry: our officers are busy — there's a woman standing in a street who might be praying.