Setting The Record Straight

There is little awareness today about the sadistic treatment of Catholics women and men  during the centuries of Islamic occupation of the Iberian Peninsula before 1492. Instead of the truth our academics teach our children the British anti-Catholic propaganda known as “The Black Legend” in which the glorious record of Catholics and their Church is omitted and any opposing force, even cruel Muslim domination, is falsely praised. The truth is that Catholics were enslaved. Boys to be lifelong soldiers.  Catholic  women were the preferred sexual slaves of wealthy Muslims, some had thousands of them in their harems.

More Fake History to make straight. The history of Spain and France under Muslim rule from 711 to 1492 AD has been widely misrepresented. The version we are taught in the USA is simply false, little better than British war propaganda, reflecting a heavily anti-Catholic and pro-Islamic prejudice. The suppressed truth is that the Muslim occupation was an era of cruelty and intolerance in which Catholics were viewed as inferior subjects, called dhimmis, who were required to support non-taxpaying Muslims by paying a Jizya, a special tax collected in a manner designed to humiliate Catholics. There is worse to tell. Catholics were left alive only if they were useful to the Muslims. Multitudes of Catholic women were made useful as sexual slaves.

Uncomfortable truths such as the almost certain validity of that greatest of all relics the True Cross Of Christ are often ignored because they just cannot fit into the mind sets of those that reject Catholicism. Non-Catholics sometimes get mental indigestion when they hear the amazing stories describing how carefully preserved and documented are Catholic relics of every type. Calvin ridiculed the Catholics who claimed to have of relics of The True Cross. Much as he ridiculed other more important parts the Catholic Church inheritance from Christ. Listen to hear how Calvin’s careless opinion was exposed as ridiculous itself.

Whatever you call it, it is basically the same philosophy. Atheist and secular historians try to disguise it by changing its name so people can be talked into  implementing it again. Maybe in the USA. It has been called  Marxism, Communism, Progressivism, and/or Trotskyism. It always produces a cruel inhuman catastrophe yet its intellectually elite  proponents think that maybe it was not implemented correctly the last time. Let give it another try they say and let me run it this time.     It is the flawed totalitarian philosophy that animated the brutal suppression of Catholicism in Mexico and Spain. Is it an experiment in secular government or atheist government or it is actually an intolerant religion in its own right? You decide.

How deep are the roots of the urge to Tango? Far deeper than you might suspect. Tango draws upon both our sensual and spiritual natures.  When we Tango our sensual passions and spiritual passions join and hover in a refined balance.  Our bodies and souls embrace and dance.  But what does Tango have to do with Catholicism? Well...everything. Ask Pope Francis who sometimes used Tango in his Masses in Argentina. The thoroughly Catholic Culture of Montevideo and Buenos Aires gave birth to this music and dance. And the end of this podcast you will hear a little story about two Altar Boys and the Tango.