Responding to an increasingly common anti-death penalty argument:

1) The death penalty is an act of paramount obedience to the 5th commandment (Cf. Catechism of the Council of Trent)

2) Given the effects of original sin and human weakness, particularly in society today, the death penalty is morally necessary to deter men from committing the most heinous crimes.

3) The death penalty profits the sinner, himself, not only society as explained by St. Thomas:

“The death inflicted by the judge profits the sinner, if he be converted, unto the expiation of his crime; and, if he be not converted, it profits so as to put an end to the sin, because the sinner is thus deprived of the power to sin anymore.” (ST II-II, Q. 25, A.6)

4) The possibility of future repentance for the sinner does not necessarily mean that life-long incarceration is better than execution as explained by St. Thomas:

“They allege that so long as a man is existing in this world he can be changed for the better. So, he should not be removed from the world by execution, but kept for punishment. Now, these arguments are frivolous. [...] Finally, the fact that the evil, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit the fact that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement. Also, the critical point of death is an opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are so stubborn that even at the point of death their heart does not draw from evil, it is a highly probable judgment that they would never come away from evil to what is right.” (SCT, bk. III, pt. II, Q. 146-8)

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ADDENDUM:

• Opposition to the death penalty, per se, is an error which is heretical

Donald Trump’s platform and the GOP as a whole, distinct from Trump’s personal views, is at variance with the immutable Natural Law on many points, and is anti-life and anti-family.

It’s easy to prove.

• Decriminalization of abortion and “legal” exceptions (rape and incest) for women to murder their unborn children
• Support for contraception and artificial birth control
• Decriminalization and normalization of sodomy, a sin which cries out to heaven for vengeance
• Normalization and support for “gay marriage”, which is vile and makes a mockery of real marriage
• Support and normalization of civil divorce and remarriage, which is adultery
• Energetic promotion of unnatural means to conceive children (IVF), which also results in millions of further discarded (artificially conceived) children
• Unwillingness to criminalize pornography, which results in its further spread and normalization
• Support for feminist initiatives, i.e. encouraging married women to leave their children for careers, or involve themselves in politics, academia or business

You only have power over Trump and the GOP, as a Christian, when you realize you can (and should) withhold your vote until they meet our COLLECTIVE demands. Without SOLIDARITY and CONVICTION, nothing will or can change.

— Don’t do this and these enemies of Our Lord Jesus Christ will continue to rape your country, hollowing it out in the most important way, which is to say morally, dragging countless souls to hell.

GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED.

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Responding to Dr. Feser’s bad philosophy and impoverished view of race: https://x.com/americanreform_/status/2005822807909741032?s=46

Dr. Feser refutation today: https://x.com/americanreform_/status/2006036627387281546?s=46

It would be an error to neatly divorce culture from a biological fact like race, as if the latter, race, had no [indirect] influence on the former.

— Yes, culture is primarily spiritual but that does not exclude the causal influence of genetic dispositions (i.e. their racial type) of various races in determining—to a greater or lesser extent—their respective cultures.

“It is now time to turn to the rather delicate question of the relation between
race and culture... Yet in fact both the teaching authority of the Church and catholic authors are unanimous in asserting a definite, and even
causal [sic] relation between race and culture. Their basic reason is the same one in virtue of which the spiritual faculties are held to be determined to some extent by racial heredity, namely, the radical unity of the human person, who as an integral whole is the author, bearer, and propagator of culture.”

- Fr. Bonaventure Hinwood, O.F.M., Race, Reflections of a Theologian, (1963), p. 125-6

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Day #3 of the Feser crashout continues apace: https://x.com/americanreform_/status/2006378433157222794?s=46

The paradigmatic dispensation of the Holocaust is over. Nick Fuentes did that, almost uniquely.

— It started following the end of WW2

— It ended in 2025

It is natural, moral and necessary to love your own people. The future, existence and hegemony of the White race in America must be totally secured.

2026 is a new paradigm, especially for those of us in the Zoomer Generation.

OUT: Holocaust mythology, White guilt, “Judeo-Christianity” and Jewish taboos like “racism”, “sexism”, “Nazism” and “antisemitism”.

IN: Catholicism, White solidarity and identity, Natural Law, progressive vision, patriarchy, Christian order, public virtue and anti-individualism.

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Responding to Michael Knowles after his response to me, along with his obfuscation: https://x.com/americanreform_/status/2006458819917054158?s=46

Part. II: https://x.com/americanreform_/status/2006457789091086848?s=46

Thomas Jefferson, in drafting Virginia's religious freedom bill (which influenced the constitution), noted it protected “the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan [Muslim].”

George Washington, in his 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Rhode Island boasted that the American project rejected the European practice of religious toleration, embracing instead the “enlarged and liberal policy” of religious liberty in which all citizens are equally free to exercise. He noted, approvingly, that the “Government of the United States… gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance”.

The Treaty of Tripoli (1797), unanimously ratified by the Senate and signed by President John Adams, included Article 11, namely that “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion” and has no enmity toward Muslims. This assured Muslim nations (the Barbary states) that religious differences would not cause conflict and the document, itself, was not met by domestic protest.

— Christian government and the United States Federal Government are ESSENTIALLY at odds with one another.

Our Constitution admits no higher law than itself, which is the revolutionary religion of man, and says that it derives its power from the people, not God who is Jesus Christ.

Further, it was the very first government in the history of mankind that divorced religion from government.

Our federal government is and always has been animated by liberalism, ecumenism and Masonic naturalism.

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ANOTHER FESER TAKEDOWN

The antiracist camp—abstracting from their intentions which are likely benign—make a number of errors in presenting the sound teaching of MBS on race which can be generally categorized:

1. Failure to actually embrace the positive racial doctrine in MBS, namely that “race” is a “fundamental value of the human community” which plays a “necessary and honorable role in human affairs”
2. Fixate on the error of excess, the idolization of race, over and above a “standard value”, to the exclusion of the aforementioned [1]
3. Obfuscate that, as a general rule today, White people have a deficiency (not excess) in racial feeling and identity
4. Do not apply the witness of the contemporary German hierarchy (see below) to understand the difference between radical and healthy racism, only the former which is condemned
5. Are unfamiliar with the relevant speeches of Pope Pius XI in 1938 discussing the race problem, or the Syllabus of 1937 on certain racial errors

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Hopefully he doesn’t block me: https://x.com/americanreform_/status/2007215101284110560?s=46

Sound familiar? This was said and recorded in The New York Times (1936) by a leader of an Austrian workers union, Leopold Kunschak.

After calling for an end to what he called “the ostrich policy in the Jewish question”, he continued “It is important that workers' leaders racially belong to the native Catholic people of Austria and that the disruptive influence of Jewry be banished from the spiritual and mental business life of the German people. If the Jewish question is not solved promptly on reasonable and humane lines, it will be solved, by unreasonable, maddened animal instincts.”

— In short, if reasonable men do not name and confront the Jewish danger and hegemony, importantly by public policy and social action, only radicals will be left to solve the problem.

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The replies to Dr. Ashendon’s Holocaust posting are refreshing, to say the least:

https://x.com/gavinashenden/status/2007837831230853531?s=46

On State sovereignty:

Walsh’s starting premise is wrong, even if he admits it only implicitly, namely that the State has a sovereignty that is absolute, i.e. outside and above legitimate sovereignty, to something that is unbounded and simply the will of the State—whether exercised by the prince, ruling party or people.

Likely unbeknownst to him, this liberal conception of sovereignty is at odds with the “traditional” understanding, which he claims to represent.

What is not in question, however, is properly understood sovereignty, which is the right of a State in realizing and protecting its common good.

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If the “authority” in the Church has for sixty years and continues to maintain these openly heterodox figures in their positions, how does one attribute the usual purpose of achieving the ultimate Good in the Church to them?

— It is not a question of a one-off troublemaker, either, rather they are allowed to *habitually* and *brazenly* spread error—without being *publicly* rebuked, punished or excommunicated, which is necessary to guard the faithful against.

To name just a few: Cd. Ratcliffe, Cd. Fernandez, Sr. Karam, Fr. Martin, Bp. Stowe, the entire German church, etc. all were in good standing with Francis I and remain so with Leo XIV.

The ultimate Good, of course, is the Glory of God through the salvation of souls.

This Good essentially includes the discharge of safe and heavenly doctrine and the simultaneous condemnation of error. Yet Catholics who are paying attention see the exact opposite in the exercise of the conciliar magisterium, i.e. a habitually unsafe magisterium which refrains from condemning the chief moral and religious errors of our age.

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Writing in the context of immigration policy, Msgr. John Ryan identifies the racial considerations a State may choose to act upon while simultaneously avoiding excesses.

Note: It should be also pointed out that the above author (almost certainly) did not foresee the immigration situation we find ourselves in today, namely the greatest mass movement of foreigners (60M+) into a country over the course of a couple of decades.

So, if anything, the racial considerations would be increased, not diminished, and the skepticism towards “severe” measures would decrease proportionately.

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