by Dr. David Marzak | Oct 22, 2016 | Africa, News Briefs
ON OCTOBER 19 MAITE NKOANA-MASHABANE, South African Minister of International Relations formally withdrew his country from the International Criminal Court (ICC) located in the Netherlands. Masganbane indicated that the ICC is overreaching by forcing compliance...
by Dr. David Marzak | Oct 19, 2016 | Eastern Europe, Slovakia
IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE COMMUNIST COLLAPSE of 1989, Slovakia, like other Eastern European countries, fell under the sway of aggressive secularism, the dominance of foreign investors, and the political, social-cultural, and economic rhetoric of neoliberalism,...
by Dr. David Marzak | Oct 17, 2016 | World Bank
THE WORLD BANK International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) was created in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference held in the United States at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The WB is an...
by Richard Chamberlin | Oct 17, 2016 | Catch Yourself Up, France, Western Europe
FRANCE MIGHT BE THE OLDEST DAUGHTER of the Church, but she is also the birthplace of the so-called “Enlightenment” an esoteric term connoting Gnosticism – the false light of wisdom promised Eve in Eden, which stealthily crept out of the Masonic...
by Dr. David Marzak | Oct 17, 2016 | Poland, Spark
POLISH DEMOCRACY HAS UNDERGONE a series of changes from the time of its modern inception during the exciting days of Solidarnosc back in 1989. Since then it has moved from a nascent democracy, birthed under Lech Walesa, to an unforeseen reversion back to socialism,...
by Dr. David Marzak | Oct 17, 2016 | Asia, Philippines Cathchup, Phillipines
IN AN ABSOLUTELY SURPRISING MOVE REVERBERATING around the globe, Rodrigo Duterte recently elected president of the Philippines (May 9, 2016), and a leader who has an unusually high 85% approval rating, has announced his rejection of liberalism and his intention...
by Brendan Shefield | Oct 17, 2016 | Eastern Europe, Hungary
HUNGARY, LIKE POLAND AND SLOVAKIA et al has recently, amid scathing criticism, began a movement opposed to the moral, economic, and political program of neoliberalism promoted by leading Western nations. Along these lines, Hungary like its Slavic counterparts,...
by Dr. David Marzak | Oct 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
August 29, 1931 (Rianjo, Spain) My confessor orders me to inform Your Excellency of what took place a little while ago between the Good Lord and myself: as I was asking God for the conversion of Russia, Spain and Portugal, it seemed to me that His Divine Majesty said...
by Dr. David Marzak | Oct 14, 2016 | Tuy Spain 1929 First Saturdays and Conversion of Russia
June 13, 1929 – Tuy, Northwest Spain at the Convent of Saint Dorothy — Sister Lucia Speaking: “I had sought and obtained permission from my superiors and confessor to make a Holy Hour from eleven o’clock until midnight, every Thursday to Friday....
by Dr. David Marzak | Oct 14, 2016 | Pontevedra Spain 1925 First Saturday Devotion
FURTHER APPARITIONS – PONTEVEDRA SPAIN: (1) December 10, 1925 – Pontevedra Spain After discerning for some time the wish to become a religious, in 1925 eighteen-year-old Lucy joined the Dorothean Sisters. She became a postulant at the Order’s...
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