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"His [Fortin] criticism of modern political thought was precisely that politics increasingly became organized around competing rights, interests, structures, and power claims, rather than the classical question of virtue and the common good. So Fortin might ask Wauck: Even if China is being unfairly contained, does that by itself establish that China represents the just alternative? The answer is no.... Wauck may correctly identify some genuine abuses of American power, but he risks replacing one ideological simplification with another—interpreting world history as a struggle between an “Empire” and its geopolitical opponents, without sufficiently asking whether those opponents themselves embody justice, virtue, or the common good. And that criticism would apply even if many of Wauck's individual factual claims about China, Russia, Israel, or American foreign policy turned out to be correct"

If we reconstruct the question from Fortin’s actual philosophical method , I think he would criticize Wauck less for which geopolitical side he favors and more for the philosophical framework through which he interprets politics . Fortin repeatedly criticized both the modern Left and Right when they tried to appropriate Christianity for a political program. He emphasized the distinction between classical political philosophy, Christianity, and modern political ideologies. 1. Fortin would probably object to Wauck's overarching geopolitical narrative Wauck's formulation— “the Anglo-Zionist war on the world is really all about—subjugating China” —turns a very complicated collection of international events into a single historical drama with one underlying antagonist and one underlying objective . Fortin would likely ask: What philosophical or historical evidence establishes that these diverse events constitute one coherent “war” directed toward one ultimate objective? That is c...
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Scott Greer: Biggest Disappointment Of Trump 2.0... "Greatest Letdown" of Trump 2.0 & the 2028 Strategy The Dissatisfaction: Operating from the populist, nationalist wing of the conservative movement, Greer argues that the second Trump administration has significantly fallen short of its core mandates—particularly regarding immigration enforcement, rolling back the administrative state, and enacting sweeping populist economic reforms. The 2028 "Silver Lining": He posits a controversial theory that a Democratic victory in 2028 could actually serve the long-term health of the Republican party. His line of reasoning is that another Democratic term would force the GOP out of its current complacency, disrupt the influence of establishment figures, and clear a path for a more ideological, authentically right-wing populist successor (such as JD Vance or other anti-tech populists) to reshape the party without being tied to Trump's direct legacy.

  Highly Respected's IQ Supplem… The Biggest Disappointment Of… 0:00 1:25:09   Listen now   The Biggest Disappointment Of Trump 2.0 Highly Respected Ep. 340 Scott Greer Sep 21 1. The "Greatest Letdown" of Trump 2.0 & the 2028 Strategy The Dissatisfaction: Operating from the populist, nationalist wing of the conservative movement, Greer argues that the second Trump administration has significantly fallen short of its core mandates—particularly regarding immigration enforcement, rolling back the administrative state, and enacting sweeping populist economic reforms. The 2028 "Silver Lining": He posits a controversial theory that a Democratic victory in 2028 could actually serve the long-term health of the Republican party. His line of reasoning is that another Democratic term would force the GOP out of its current complacency, disrupt the influence of establishment figures, and clear a path for a more ideological, authentically right-wing populist successor ...
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The most interesting historical question, therefore, is not whether Garrigou-Lagrange was worried about occultism—he plainly was—but whether the author can produce primary-source evidence connecting Saint-Yves, Roca, Martinism, or Freemasonry directly to the particular theologians he accuses. That is where the argument either becomes a genuine intellectual-history thesis or remains an inference from similarities.

The Masonic Infiltration of Mainstream Catholicism Christian Order https://christianorder.com › features › feature_2015-05 ... could these visions of the " New Church " of the " Divine Synarchie " infiltrate mainstream Catholicism and be proclaimed authentic " development of doctrine . Read more ... ... The Jesuits and the Lodge The question again comes back to how could these visions of the "New Church" of the "Divine Synarchie" infiltrate mainstream Catholicism and be proclaimed authentic "development of doctrine." By the end of the nineteenth century the plight of the "proletarian," or working class, a by-product of the industrial revolution, had become a legitimate concern of the Catholic Church, as seen in the Social Encyclicals beginning with *Rerum Novarum *by Leo XIII in 1891. Following these directives, by 1910, in France, the workers movements had found a hero in the Abbé Lugan, an orthodox but socially-o...
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The most interesting issue The genuinely important question is therefore not simply “Did Francis use Kabbalah?” He clearly cited Scholem's presentation of a Kabbalistic tradition. The stronger historical-theological question is: How does Francis's use of Scholem's interpretation of the Fall relate to the Catholic doctrine of Original Sin, the nature of knowledge, and the relationship between Christianity and non-Christian religions?

ChapGBT:  This article is making a much stronger claim than the underlying evidence establishes . Its argument can be separated into several distinct steps: What Francis actually did: In his January 17, 2018 address at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Francis cited Gershom Scholem's discussion of a Kabbalistic interpretation of the Fall. The OnePeterFive article accurately identifies the citation and the relevant passage. What Francis's passage says: Francis describes an ancient Kabbalistic tradition in which the rupture associated with eating from the tree of knowledge produces a situation in which knowledge comes to dominate creation. He uses this as part of a warning against reducing reality to ideological or purely conceptual schemes. The article's interpretation: Armstrong moves from Francis quoted Scholem's account of Kabbalah to Francis therefore adopts Kabbalistic theology . That inference does not follow merely from the quotation. Quot...
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Pope Francis and Kabbalah: From Jewish Mysticism to Pagan Collaboration? H. Reed Armstrong June 27, 2018 In his recent interventions, Pope Francis had repeatedly referred to a “paradigm shift” with regard to the Church’s attitude toward native cultures in different countries. It seems that he has in mind a return to rooted indigenous cultures and religions. One of his reference points for this approach is the Kabbalah, a Jewish occultist and… Read more

Pope Francis and Kabbalah: From Jewish Mysticism to Pagan Collaboration?   H. Reed Armstrong June 27, 2018 In his recent interventions, Pope Francis had repeatedly referred to a “paradigm shift” with regard to the Church’s attitude toward native cultures in different countries. It seems that he has in mind a return to rooted indigenous cultures and religions. One of his reference points for this approach is the Kabbalah, a Jewish occultist and… Read more
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