The unqualified promotion by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski of pagan and occult authors continues unabated. In this article of our series, Vinicius exposes a set of authors who are perhaps the most blatantly anti-Catholic to be so far recommended by Kwasniewski, making his position as one of the most high-profile the ‘traditional’ apologists of our day completely untenable.
“I cannot recommend Soothsayer highly enoughโ. 1
It is time Peter Kwasniewski manned up to the views he uses others as sounding boards for. His open endorsement of a site teaching paganism and promoting satanism means sincere Catholics must takeover from Pax Orbis and directly ask him to do so, and to retire from the field of Catholic apologetics altogether.
Soothsayer is published by Brian Scarffe. Of the articles so far posted, there is not one that is not grossly offensive to the Catholic faith, yet Peter Kwasniewski has plugged the site several times. His recommendation that traditional Catholics put their head in this sewer is no oversight. This article examines the siteโs articles.
Satanist encouragement
To get the most unsightly sludge out of the war first, letโs examine Scarffeโs article, โThe Last of the Book Lovers – On Reading Catholicallyโ (27/10/26) which publicises four publishing companies as examples of how to โproduce books for book-loversโ, describing them as โnicheโ publishers. The four companies he carefully links are dedicated to promoting satanism:
- Black Letter Press, which sells a spellbook naming โsixty-nine demonsโ, with โthe best times and ritualsโ to invoke them;
- Scarlet Imprint, which cheerfully promotes โThe foundational myth of magic and witchcraft [which] is that of the fallen angelsโฆHow can we encounter, understand and work with these maligned powersโ;
- Anathema Publishing, which sells a โheretical medalโฆ Made from a vintage devotional medal depicting the Virgin Mary and Christ, rework[ing] these two Christian figures into the heretical Witch God and Goddess of the Craftโ, โAzazel [Satan] pendantsโ, and “Babylon the Greatโ T-shirts;
- finally, Three Hands Press, with works on โNecromancy. The Witch as intercessor between living and deadโ, and โChristian imprecatory Artsโ.
Scarffeโs excuse for promoting this trash is so Catholic publishers copy the โqualityโ of occultist productions,
โlest copies of Aleister Crowleyโs work be more likely to survive the next sack of Rome than those of Valentin Tomberg. Let not the pagan occultists be the last of the true book loversโ.
Hardly convincing, as Scarffe is a pagan himself (below). Nor were Tombergโs views “Catholicism” – they were close to satanism.
Scarffeโs ‘Catholic publishers’, like Angelico Press which he profusely praises, are just occultist pagan publishers. No Catholic in his right mind can accept Scarffe, or Kwasniewskiโs, promotion of sites that sell material expressing hatred for Our Lord, Our Lady, the Church and the faith. โSoothsayerโ published this article just days before Kwasniewski told Catholics to immerse themselves in the site.
The publishing sites Scarffe promotes with such jolliness contain hundreds of works and images of extremely evil anti-Christian content and aspect. It is to be hoped and prayed that Scarffe and Kwasniewsky recover a Christian horror of such images and ideas, for they seem, at the very least, desensitised to them completely. Those who know them would do an act of charity to alert them to the danger of these associations.
Soothsayerโs androgynous Christ
This article is exceptionally offensive to the Catholic faith. Scarffe preaches the heretical doctrine that male and female are not the perfection of Godโs creation, but a โpunishmentโ. It makes God the author of evil, by creating male and female.
Scarff thinks this terrible aberration will be solved by humans literally becoming hermaphrodites. For Scarffe, Christ has already shown the way:
โThe resurrected Christ could not properly be recognisedโฆ because something deeper within his structure had come to the surface, his Divine androgynyโ.
Scarff says this is not โtranssexualismโ – โregenderingโ is only bad because it seeks to amputate parts, whereas Peter Kwasniewskiโs favourite site affirms that in โheavenโ humans will have โparts addedโ to them.
Needless to say, Scarffe cannot source any of this sickness in the faith. Instead, โChristianityโฆ takes its wisdom from Egypt via the patriarch Joseph and the prophet Mosesโ. Help is on the way for the deluded Church of Christ:
โ[the Church] has barely begun to properly contemplate the nature of erotic union both for man and woman (the Hindu, Taoist and Tantric traditions have a richer tradition here)โฆ it struggles to be captured by the pen with only the ecstasies of the mystics treading these lofty pathwaysโ.
This is exactly the kind on nonsense found in Cardinal Victor Fernandezโs โHeal Me with Your Mouthโ โmystical theologyโ. The Church is still primitive, however,
โThe Tantric practices of the east may well have pushed the exerciseโฆ to a further degree than the more bestial paradigm which has unfortunately clung to the Westโ
Salvation in gender reassignment
Scarffeโs solution is a return to being โprimordial hermaphroditesโ: โIt is only this restored human nature, with the fullness of the male and female principles reintegrated, that we can truly know God or enjoy the beatific visionโ because humans will โno longer struggling in the putrefaction of desiring [their] missing parts in the separated sexโ.
Soothsayer pronounces,
โin the Eschaton a repair will be made binding [each person and his or her double] within one resurrected bodyโฆ This would be a fitting entry into the revelation of our divine nature as gods, separating us from lower creationโ.
So heaven really means becoming androgenous Hellenistic gods. In pre-Enlightenment times, the only Catholic dialogue with such insults to the faith was flaming torches and pitchforks.
The post was a dialogue with an article on his site by Carlos Perona, which was entirely devoted to praising Hindu and Islamic notions of sexual activity in โHeavenโ, and promoting Tantric โmeditationโ and its depravity:
โThe Islamic image of Heaven, in which the male believer may engage in sexual congress with heavenly maidensโฆ is actually the subtler doctrine compared to the understanding of spiritual elevation as indistinct formless entropic blissโ.
This is code for a supposed โsuperiorityโ to the beatific vision. The article links Islamโs paradise of 72 maidens with the seventy-two nations of Genesis.
Scarffe publishes an article by Sebastian Morello (whose work promoting paganism was highly praised, and published by Kwasniewski) teaching the heretical pantheistic doctrine of the โworld soulโ.
Morello pontificates at length on the occultist concept of โegregoresโ, evil spirits โpossessingโ countries and even the Church, citing the near- satanist apologist Valentin Tomberg as the one authority for this – Tomberg says the “Mystical Bodyโ of Christ โhistoricallyโ takes on the form of its evil โegregoreโ.
But the Church, Christโs mystical body, can never be subdued in this way. Human group spirits do not exist, nor can such โspiritsโ be brought into being by humans. Yet Tomberg teaches precisely this in his Meditations on the Tarot, cited by Morello.
Such heresies deeply offend the true faith.
Christianity validated by paganism, not revelation!
This article by Scarffe asserts pagan ritualism as a more important validation of Christianity than revelation :
โThe pre-Christian peoples understood that Mother Nature and the cosmos were speaking to themโฆ We should understand that Christianity is not based on some distant historical fact which requires argumentation from evidencesโฆ the reign of Christ and the life of the Gospels live through the calendar in the here and now. The immanence of the Gospel narrative is in the liturgyโฆ as married to the perennial insights of all peoples who contemplated the great cosmic timepiece of the planetsโ.
This is the end of the Faith. When St Paul wrote โIf Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain: and your faith is also vainโ, that โhistorical factโ was already well in the past; the Church ever since has made the historical witness to this fact the validation of our faith.
What is worse, Scarffe preaches that all historical proofs of our faith will be lost with time (the opposite is true โ more proofs are being uncovered), asserting matter-of- factly โthe future loss of historical fact veracity to the life of Christ Himselfโ.
How does he think a Christian liturgy can have any sense without that, unless he believes it is essentially merely a โreflection of the never-ending cosmosโ?
The truth is that Catholics will never lose the ability to know the faith is true. They wonโt be forced to rely on evangelical-style feelings, let alone cosmic rhythms. This is part of Christโs promise to remain with his Church always.
Back to the high church modernist Synodal Way 2
But for Soothsayer, โmysticismโ is more important than the historical, โpropositionalโ truth of the faith: For Scarffe, in line with pagan โmystery religionsโ, Christianity was โfar less about propositional truth [doctrine] than it was about the transformation of the initiateโ. He even claims the Our Father was a โsecretโ formula given only to
โinitiatesโ, when it was part of scriptures and daily practice and the liturgy, which was not held in โsecretโ as he claims.
Without mentioning the Novus Ordo disaster (which was a monumental let-down on those unimportant โpropositionalโ issues of doctrine), Scarffe asserts that Pius XIIโs reform of Holy Week โcaused massive spiritual harm to the lives of the faithfulโ instead. Wacky and untrue, but perfectly in line with Kwasniewskiโs obsession with Pius XII. Ritualism and the โcosmosโ come first it seems.
Soothsayer provides the model for the Churchโs future,
โ[pagan Mithraism did not] conceive of its mysteries as being efficacious based on any kind of historical assertion or propositional truth. It just was an engagement with the deep grammar of the cosmos in such a way that those who partook gained alignment with these vast cosmic powers and sought the blessings of the gods for the great ends of human endeavour. Christianity likewise sat in a similar categoryโ.
This is not faith or the liturgy, but paganism. Some people need to stop wasting money on exquisite leather-bound books and buy a cheap, orthodox catechism and memorise it.
Hanging out with the wrong crowd
An article (2/9/26) on rock bands supposedly influenced by the Lord of the Rings is the excuse for Soothsayer to wax lyrical about a series of satanist โmusicโ bands. Without endorsing them, Scarffe claims they are useful by allowing those who live in the post-industrial West to see themselves as they โtrulyโ are: โorcsโ.
But there is a profound difference between fallen humanity and those who have committed themselves to satanism as Scarffe admits some of these bands have. It is very, very wrong to try to have Catholics project upon themselves the self-image of these poor individuals, as Scarffe does in this article. Orcs in Tolkienโs trilogy were evil beings without hope of redemption, like devils, and this explains why they could be the self- image of satanists like those in Scarffeโs bands.
It is shameful to put this forward as the Christian view of humanity. Instead of the โfruitfulโ yin/yang, Church/beast counter-thesis and synthesis which is at the heart of Kwasniewskiโs Tombergian religion, the Catholic attitude towards such โculturalโ blights is avoidance or eradication, not โengagementโ.
Below is the logo of the site Peter Kwasniewski insists upon:
Why does its style mimic the logo of the satanist, virulently anti-Christian band, Slayer?
Scarffe is cranky3 about โcelebrity exorcistsโ who refer to crystal healing as New Age. But a lot more seems to be threatened by exorcisms: The โepistemically unbalanced position of the celebrity exorcist becomes quite clear: to ignore magic is to ignore not only a vital element of reality, but an essential aspect of the Divineโ; what poor, deluded exorcists miss is that:
โModern cultureโฆ has perverted the alchemical image of the hermaphrodite by a disunion of the masculine and feminineโฆ This war on human nature is ultimatelyโฆ a rejection of the World Soul (Sophia)โ.
But for the Christian, who is not a pantheist pagan, the universe cannot be not one living, thinking being.
On to the siteโs next aberration, Morello โs defence of King Charles IIIโs neo-paganism.4 Charles does not speak of salvation or the afterlife, but โhumanityโs spiritual role within creationโ. Morello summarises:
โFor Charles, principles conveyed not didactically or catechetically, but symbolically, convey to us – in a way thatโs deeper than language -our spiritual vocation and how to live in right relation with the rest of the created orderโ.
Once again, symbol, ritual, living in tune with the cosmos and paganism, comes before โpropositionsโ, โhistoryโ of salvation, โcatechismโ and creeds.
Morello teaches the unwary Catholic his true purpose in life, the pagan one of โsacralis[ing] realityโฆ the execution of which is the vocation of man and the finality of the whole creationโ.
As with paganism, the object of religion is not God but the material cosmos. Morello praises Charles for being fixated on the ideas of (occultist freemason) Guenon. His only criticism is of Charlesโ penchant for Islam. But the kingโs paganism is fine, apparently.
Superstitious helplessness in the face of โsorceryโ
An article authored by Scarffe and Morello attributes irresistible efficacy to superstitious rituals based on geographic features. They are so in awe of the power of โmagicโ that they think Englandโs free will (and therefore that of โthe worldโ) since the sixteenth century has been bound by a โhexโ administered by Elizabeth Iโs court occultist, John Dee; the English have effectively been zombies for four centuries, and this has enabled โAnglosphereโ to run the world.
In their haste to attribute success to this โwizardryโ, they make a joke of history: โBy the 1610s Elizabeth had colonies across north America and the Caribbean. By the mid-17th century, Britain was indirectly governing India. After a century, it had Oceaniaโ.
But Deeโs wizardry didnโt work. The queen died in 1603 with no colonies, while his Catholic Majesty Philip III was world hegemon. There would be no English supremacy until after the Napoleonic wars, two centuries later. Perhaps mad King George had a better witch.
Morello and Scarffeโs fatalism before the power of โblack magicโ is not put off by facts, however: John Deeโs occultist ritual took place at โa significant location for druidic rituals two millennia ago. Ley line crossings are places where the veil between the corporeal world of our experience and the aeviternal realm of angelic operation and energy is especially thinโ.
Morello and Scarffe confuse the natural and the supernatural, just as paganism does, and validate a superstitious ritual by ascribing pseudo-scientific and pseudo-religious efficacy to druidism, an evil religion practicing human sacrifice and demonology.
Scarffe and Morello leave the door open to a โniceโ version of what Dee is supposed to have done because good and bad โangelsโ can operate through โley linesโ. In fact, Morello argues that our liturgy and Churches wonโt โworkโ properly unless they are located according to a kind of feng shui. This is not Catholic belief and practice, but animism.
Shinto Christianity
Scarffe insists on paganism in another article, โShinto Christianity. The Logos meets Japanese Animismโ.
โ … I have come under the spell of the Japanese exceptionโฆ the Japanese nationโฆ worship[s] Kami. Kami can be the spirits of a particular place or they can be natural forces like wind, rivers, and mountainsโ.
Scarffe asserts that Christian revelation is incomplete:
โThe reality is that the revelation which we in the West were given through the incarnated Logos [sadly] does not share categorical space with the structured, ritual reverence for nature found in Shintoโฆ Christ and his cult [lack the]โฆ base which I believe we once had and are now missingโฆ [Japan] offers us, perhaps, a model for recognising the sacrality of the natural worldโฆ a truly re-enchanted Anglo-Celtic Catholicismโฆ [building houses according to a sort of feng shui] is as important for keeping away evil spirits as the exorcisms of priests and holy waterโฆ we must restore our own tradition of Christian animismโฆ the cosmos is a great animal animated by a soulโ.
Scarffeโs paganism and pantheism confuses good and evil with the forces of nature. For the Catholic, even if โnatural energies of the earthโ existed and affected health, they have nothing to do with good and evil, or religion. He tries to use a quote from Cardinal Henry Newman supporting this paganism, but here Newman refers to mistaken views from his past which he had abandoned.
Christianityโs โsimplisticโ view of good and bad spirits not โShintoistโ enough
Scarffe explicitly refers to โspiritsโ that are not angels or saints, or God.
โChristianity risks, at times, holding an overly simplistic black and white binary vision of the cosmos and its spirits, those which are wholly good and those which are wholly evil, which does not fit quite so well in a landscape of Kami capable of mischief and ambiguous goodnessโ.
In fact, Shintoismโs โkamiโ are quite capable of evil. Next Scarffe proposes a paganism that can easily fall into diabolism:
โWe honour the good angels of course but we also honour our nations which are governed by flawed spiritsโ,
โIf therefore the world is filled with good spirits and other spirits which are good but flawed why can we not honour them?.. It seems to me no great leap to put up a shrine to the great and difficult spirit of the Thames, of Nottingham Forest or Snowdenโ.
But how do Scarffe and Kwasniewski distinguish a โflawed spiritโ from a devil? They are certainly not discussing angels or saints here. Nowhere in our Catholic faith are we told of such things.
Catholicism teaches instead that worship of โflawed spiritsโ is satanism. How dare they preach that our nations are โgovernedโ by such demons? The Church teaches that people, even whole nations of them, are ultimately responsible for their good and bad choices. At any moment they can reject what is wrong because Christ is long victorious over evil. Scarffeโs insistence that hills, rivers, the world and its peoples are governed by โspiritsโ which can be evil, yet who must be โhonouredโ is paganism of the worst kind. Hopefully, Scarffe, Morello and Kwasniewski are not conducting rituals to appease the nameless โgoverning spiritsโ of England or the United States, because this is exactly what is proposed in Scarffeโs article:
โIt would be no offense to the Christian religion to perform rituals of blessing and exorcism at these shrines [to the spirit of the Thames, of Nottingham Forest or Snowden]โ.
Evil rituals to get rid of evil?
Soothsayerโs editor says he participated in a Sumo wrestling match in London which was also a Shintoist ritual:
โAs I sat in the hall I became drawn in to the rituals of exorcismโฆ with [Shinto] priests and holy [!] salt. Each fighterโฆ would throw blessed salt onto the platformโฆ to scare away evil spiritsโฆ Londonโฆ [thus] under[went] more exorcisms than at perhaps any other time in its history!โ.
Most unwise. Shintoism believes in devils and fears them, but also engages in rites to appease them and seek their protection. Shintoism cannot exorcise devils. It would be extremely dangerous for any Christian to take part in its rituals. Why doesnโt Peter Kwasniewski warn Scarffe of his predicament instead of recommending it to Catholics?
Note to readers. In this paragraph, Scarffe validates this paganism by throwing in three routine buzz words: The Shinto ceremony expressed โa sacred cosmos and the sacramental nature of the embodied worldโ. These terms, along with โenchantmentโ are being rehashed by practically all occultists and modernists to justify their arguments (von Balthasar and de Lubac made it fashionable). One of
their favourite devices is using words like โsacredโ, โsacramentalโ and โincarnationโ to mean things which are opposed to Catholic doctrine. Watch out for these tell-tale terms when not applied in their strictly Catholic sense.
Catholicism is โnot completeโ. It lacks a pagan base
Scarffe demands recovering โour animist Christianityโ. Religion is reduced to an expression of the nation,
โOur own natural spiritual genius analogous to Shinto as Anglo-celts. Of course this would be Christian. Christianity is the capstone and purifying agent of the natural [national] geniusโฆ This does not mean that there cannot be an incorporation or synthesis of foreign elements of genius …โ
England must:
โl … earn and adapt the spiritual insights of this great and ancient animist civilisation [Japan]as we turn to the task of restoring and inventing anew our own veneration of and reintegration with the Nature which God has given us to serve and to guardโ.
This may be a great definition of paganism, but it renounces revealed religion, which is not the โservingโ of โnatureโ or the worship of any evil โflawed spiritsโ falsely believed to be in command of rivers, mountains and peoples. It also validates Christianity for England only because of the historical accident that the English adopted it.
Another article 5 teaches that Adam was a pagan: โThe pagan pastโฆ has been healedโฆ The past is retroactively convertedโฆ Christ has redeemed Adamโ. For Soothsayer, โThe cure is in the outside, in death (the chaotic waters; idolatrous nations; the Hades to which Christ descends after his crucifixion). By extracting the cure from chaos, chaos is defeated, transformed, abolishedโ. But โthe cureโ does not come from evil. This is another example of the obsession of occultists with the necessity of โdarkness/lightโ, yin yang, Church/beast synthesis which was examined in the article on Kwasniewskiโs Tombergian religion.
In occultist doctrines good and bad elements must interact with each other in a Hegelian synthesis. Hence the never-ending โneedโ for the Church to incorporate โwhat is goodโ from paganism. Kwasniewski says he is only โstealing gold from the Egyptiansโ but, as he is an โEgyptianโ himself, are Catholics wise to trust what he offers?
Echoes of Hitlerian โreligionโ?
Brian Scarffe publishes two articles by a quite modernist monk from New Norcia6, Fr. Robert Nixon: Christ and the God of Europe. The Continuity of Divinity and Was Jesus really Jewish.
Fr. Nixon argues that Christ was not a Jew, asserting that Our Lord and the apostles were considered โGoyimโ by the Hebrews because they were from Galilee. This is not serious. The Jews who lived in Galilee were not Gentiles who had adopted traces of the true religion; this is the discredited thesis of the Protestant scholar, Emil Schรผrer (1844-1910). However, the whole New Testament teaches that Christ came unto his own and that His own did not accept Him.
Nixonโs thesis seems to regurgitate the nineteenth-century Darwinist view of the inferiority of semitic peoples and a profound aversion to the Old Testament because it was not a product of Europeans. These foolish racial theories of religion are expressed in Hitlerโs distinction between โpositive Christianityโ, โfreeโ of โsemiticโ Old Testament influence. But Catholics believe the Old Testament is also the history of the Catholic Church! It is the same religion.
The article claims the New Testament references to the opposition of Jews to Christ mean Christ was not a Jew. But not once does the New Testament affirm this. Nixon infers that the Jews opposed Christ because they were being faithful to the religion of the Old Testament. But the Church has always affirmed that the Jews who opposed Christ were radically unfaithful to the religion of the Old Testament. Nixon
concludes that Christ was a Jew only โif the definition of Jewishness [is] extended to the point of simply believing in one God and teaching a system of ethics broadly congruent with thisโ.
Chamberlain and Wagner, Nixonโs authorities for an Aryan Church
Nixonโs authorities for this nonsense are not the Doctors of the Church, Saint Benedict the founder of his order, or the Bible, but Houston Chamberlain and Wagner, men who did not believe Christ was God. Chamberlain was bitterly anti-Catholic and preached that Christianity was the creation of โGermansโ living in Galilee and viewed Kaiser Wilhelm and his Lutheranism as messianic. Wagner was virulently anti-Catholic. He was a pagan and syncretist who only accepted an โAryanโ Christ as another inspirational figure like Buddha.
Nixon quotes these โauthoritiesโ favourably:
โ[Wagner] โFor us, it is sufficient to derive the ruin of the Christian religion from its drawing upon [the Old Testament]โ Chamberlain likewise described Christianity, in its true and original form, as โa negation of [the OT]โ and characterised the mission of Christ, who โtransformed [the OT]โฆ into its antithesisโ.
But the Catholic knows that the whole Old Testament is the preparation for Christ, and that Christโs family are not pagan people who have adopted some practices of the Jews, but that Our Lady and Saint Joseph are descended from King David. St Paul insists that Our Lord, the Apostles and the first Christians are of the same race as those who persecute them.
National religion at the base of this error
Why do Scarffe and Nixon make a fuss about this issue? The reason is that paganism is a secular religion based on societies and their history. Therefore it has always had a massive problem with universal religion that rides roughshod over local deities and โgodsโ of rivers, trees and peoples. The pagan does not need or want God to speak, and in his religion He never does. The notion of one universal religion to the exclusion of all others chills the pagan to his heart. It kills his universe.
The horror of the Old (and New) Testament for the gods of the nations was reciprocal; the persecutions against Christians in antiquity were not because they honoured Christ (who was always welcome to join the Pantheon), but because they refused to honour the spirits of the wood, the nation, or the men who had been declared gods. Pagan societies make up their religions. Paganism canโt understand why its religion should be communicated to others, and viscerally hates the reception of the true religion from outside itself.
This is where Scarffe and Nixonโs anxieties come from. For Nixon, the only acceptable outcome is to give up on the idea of โconvertingโ the nations at all:
โthe acceptance of the Christian faith would not have involved any abandoning or renunciation of Deus/ ฮฮตฯฯ or Godan/Woden/Odin, but rather an essential continuity, a process which was natural and evolutionary, rather than revolutionary and disruptiveโ.
This is insulting and blasphemous. Odin and Zeus cannot possibly be
representations of God. They are not omnipotent and not creators. They are part of squabbling pagan mythological families. In true false Asissi style, Nixonโs argumentation makes pointless the missionary work of his spiritual ancestor, Bishop Salvado: He declares:
โIf the hypothesis that the God of Christ was understood as the same as the Supreme Deity already believed in by the European peoples then it follows that the authentic European spirit finds its fullest and truest expression, rather than an abnegation or suppression, in the Christian faith – and that this faith is not a โforeign impositionโ but rather an expression of its own highest and holiest aspirations and valuesโ.
But the pagans never worshipped a supreme deity, only collections of
โmorally ambivalentโ or noxious spirits, real or imagined.
Worst of all is Nixonโs notion of a โGod of Christโ, who has more in common with the religions of the pagans than with the God of the Old Testament:
โThe view that the God proclaimed and incarnated in Christ was different, and even in diametric opposition to, the deity of the Jews had considerable currency in the early Christian period. It was adopted by many of the Gnostic sectsโฆ it does point to a genuine
disparity in values between the God of Christ and laws and practices of [Old Testament] traditionโ.
Appalling.
A paganised, anti-Hebrew, human Christ
Nixon describes Christ as a human figure developing a religion under the influence of thought fashions of the day,
โ … the sources which shaped Christโs own thinking and language of the Deityโฆ cultural and intellectual influences were not irrelevant to his understanding, and therefore cannot be disregardedโฆ there was a discernible movement towards the theology of a unique, transcendental Supreme Being, reflecting, without doubt, a Hellenic influence, and fully consistent with the approach of Christ; but on the other hand, remnants of the jealous, tribal โdesert deityโ, requiring blood sacrifices for appeasement and imposing arbitrary laws of sabbath observanceโ.
Nixon quotes another โauthorityโ, [Lutheran] Kaiser Wilhelm II:
โOur Christian God, the merciful, forgiving God, the personification of eternal love, our father, as Christ has taught us, had absolutely not the slightest thing in common with the vengeful bloodthirsty, angry old Jahweh of the Jewsโ.
This blasphemous narrative has nothing to do with Christโs words and actions. It is instead the nineteenth-century fiction that animated the neo-paganism of the ideologues of Germany between the wars. Modernism, including high church modernism, is indeed the synthesis of all heresies.
If readers of this article have anything to do with guidance of souls, Catholic bookstores, or are raising intelligent and curious children, they should in conscience avoid works by Peter Kwasniewski, Angelico Press, Sebastian Morello and other occultist authors.
By Vinicius. Vinicius is a Melbourne-based historian-researcher focussing on early modernity as the Christian Western alternative to ideological, Enlightenment modernity.
FOOTNOTES
- Peter Kwasniewski, Facebook, 3/11/26 โฉ๏ธ
- See Vinicius’ article at Pax Orbis, The high church modernist Synodal Way to โcompleteโ Vatican II โฉ๏ธ
- Scarffe, Soothsayer, 6/8/26 โฉ๏ธ
- 10/6/26 article. โฉ๏ธ
- Carlos Perona 9/11/26 โฉ๏ธ
- Editor’s note: New Norcia is well-known for its tolerance of homosexuals. โฉ๏ธ
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