Author’s Note: The defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English in 1588 was not the immediate disaster many British historians mistakenly assume. Spain was
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The St Bartholomew Day’s Massacre (1572)
‘During the night of August 23/24, 1572 on the eve of St Bartholomew’s Day, Catholics engaged in a mass slaughter of thousands of Huguenots in Paris – men and women, old men and infants. Catherine de Medicis is to have said that it was kind to be cruel to the Huguenots and cruel to be kind. The Spanish ambassador reported elatedly to Philip II: “As I write, they are killing them all, they are stripping them naked, dragging them through the streets, plundering the houses, and sparing not even children. Blessed be God who has converted the French princes to His cause! May He inspire their hearts to continue as they have begun.” And Pope Gregory XIII exclaimed that the massacre pleased him more than fifty victories at Lepanto. That night of carnage staggered the imagination of contemporaries and descendants.’
Leon Blum’s Anti-Soviet ‘Socialism’
Leon Blum (1872-1950) was a prominent leftwing politician in France, who occupied a number of important political posts over a number of decades. He described
Pope John Paul I and the Crimes of the Roman Catholic Church in Perspective
On June 22nd, 1941, Nazi Germany (and her allies) invaded the USSR. On June 30th, 1941 the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church – Andrey
Free Catalonia – Down with Fascist Spain and the EU
George Orwell – as a well-known Torotskyite – would surely have approved of this treatment, as during the Spanish Civil War, he joined a Trotskyite militia whose sole purpose was to assist the fascists (under Franco) to defeat the Marxist-Leninist International Brigades supported by the Soviet Union. Away with the fascist EU, fascist Spain, fascist Orwell and fascist Trotsky!
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 