The Return to Order Moment

In this episode, part one of two, eminent scholar Mr. Luiz Sérgio Solimeo, shares his analysis of Vatican II. Read the article - https://www.tfp.org/the-second-vatican-councils-new-theology/.

The noise around the elections of Two Thousand Twenty is reaching a crescendo. In this episode of the Return to Order Moment, Mr. John Horvat II focuses on the election. First he examines it in a historical context. Then he looks at three specific instances. Each clarifies the direction in which the Unites States is heading. Read the articles - https://www.returntoorder.org/2020/08/how-these-elect...

October 3, 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, the founder of the Brazilian Soci¬ety for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Prop¬erty (TFP), and the inspirer of the TFP movement worldwide. The Return to Order Moment is pleased to present this biographical sketch of the Catholic leader and thinker who was truly a model of fidelity and in-transigenc...

The Black Lives Matter movement places Catholics in a difficult situation. On one hand, the Catholic Church rejects racism, as it has for two thousand years. On the other hand, the Marxist Nature of the Black Lives Matter movement makes it impossible for traditionalists to support them. The two articles that make up this episode explore the proper relationship between the Church and this revolutio...

Some say that the events of the first half of Two Thousand Twenty may be the opening scenes of a revolution. They argue that these events are similar to those that started the French Revolution of 1789-1799 or the Russian Communist Revolution of 1917. However, many want to believe that it will just "blow over." In this episode, John Horvat explains his reasons for believing that this is a genuine...

One of its targets is the French King Louis the Ninth (1214-1270), a king so great that he was made a saint. His statue in the city of St. Louis has been under attack in recent weeks. The goal of this episode of the Return to Order Moment is to acquaint people with the great man behind the statue. Read the Articles - https://www.tfp.org/i-am-a-direct-descendant-of-king-saint-louis-ix-keep-his-stat...

The modern desire to enforce equality in all things is not only unworkable, it is against the Law of God. This podcast explores the nature of equality and the ways in which human beings are equal and way in which they are unequal. Read the article - https://www.tfp.org/the-dictatorship-of-equality-a-catholic-perspective/.

To the modern mind, nothing is worse than suffering. We go to great lengths to avoid it, and drug ourselves to dull it when it does come our way. This short-sighted attitude does great harm. God uses our sufferings to make us stronger, to keep us from temptation, and to purify us. Read the articles: https://www.returntoorder.org/2020/07/how-the-cure-of-ars-shows-how-you-can-benefit-from-your-suffe...

We have a legal system that has abandoned the idea of absolute truth and moral law. That leaves us with a confused system that bases its decisions on mere opinions and legal theories that have little relationship to reality. The only way back from the abyss is to reclaim our Natural Law heritage. Read the articles - https://www.returntoorder.org/2020/01/appealing-to-a-higher-law-is-the-only-way-ou...

Many of the elements of what may be called the Revolution of 2020 focus upon education. There are demands for sweeping changes in both the curriculum of the schools and in the ways that those schools function. This episode of the Return to Order Moment will focus upon three aspects of the demands that these dark forces have in mind for our schools. To read the articles, go to https://www.returntoo...

The series of events that could come to be called the Revolution of Two Thousand Twenty has spawned more than its share of insanity. All around the United States, unhinged radicals make demands to which no sane society would give a moment’s notice. Such actions will be the focus of this episode of The Return to Order Moment. It considers the attack on the monument of Saint Louis the Ninth in St. L...

A “Social Justice” Revolution is being imposed on the United States. The revolutionaries'goal is to overturn any remaining traces of traditional virtue that remain in America. This episode of the Return to Order Moment is designed to open the left’s distortions to public scrutiny. Read the articles - https://www.returntoorder.org/2020/06/to-the-left-stop-weaponizing-the-word-selfish/, https://www....

The Supreme Court has once again turned its back on the Christian culture that is the basis of all law and justice in its Bostock decision. While disheartening, we must draw strength from Our Lord and Our Lady and continue to fight to save the remnants of Christian culture in the United States. Read the statement at https://www.returntoorder.org/2020/06/betrayed-again-ten-commandments-americans-fi...

"Unperceived Ideological Transshipment" is a term that describes the process through which a previously unacceptable idea slowly becomes acceptable, and then commonly believed. People who live in a world dominated by the media are frequently subject to it. Leftists are especially proficient in its use. Read the article - https://www.returntoorder.org/2020/05/the-most-monumental-social-engineering-...

The Coronavirus represents the best chance that the left has ever had to radically change the world economy. Read the article - https://www.returntoorder.org/2020/05/the-most-monumental-social-engineering-and-ideological-transshipment-effort-in-history-part-1/.

The enforced calm of the Coronavirus crisis has given way to protests and violence in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. This podcast considers the effect of the Coronavirus shutdown on America’s homes and families, the revolutionary aspects of the disturbances that followed Mr. Floyd’s horrible death, and the direction that Americans need to receive from its leaders to weather the effects o...

To the horror of the progressives, many young people are discovering traditional religious practice, and find it attractive. These articles explore this connection. Read the articles - https://www.returntoorder.org/2020/05/three-counsels-for-the-unfortunate-graduation-class-of-2020/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2020/05/a-leftist-conundrum-who-could-possibly-be-young-and-pro-life/, and https://ww...

Liberals, progressives, socialists – whatever you want to call them – are trying to create an unworkable and chaotic society. Perhaps, it can best be summarized in the phrase, a world gone mad. Read the articles - https://www.returntoorder.org/2019/10/can-rivers-rice-and-orangutans-have-personhood-rights/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2020/04/government-cant-keep-acting-like-money-grows-on-trees/...

Since the rise of the Coronavirus, the Cuban government – like that of Communist China – has sent squads of doctors to other countries. Their goal is to increase their global influence. At the same time, healthcare for Cubans remains seriously substandard. That is not the only serious concern in the Socialist "Paradise" ninety miles south of Florida. Housing, food, and routine repression on basic...

Globalists and Communists know that their best chance for success in the twenty-first century is to use the Environmentalist Movement to further their cause. This is a case in which ideology triumphs over Christianity, experience, and the ideals of human rights. Mr. James Bascom explores these themes. Read the articles - https://www.tfp.org/this-is-how-the-green-ecology-movement-turned-red/ and ht...

The Catholic Church knows a lot about plagues like the Coronavirus. It has dealt with dozens of plagues during its 2,000 year history. This podcast considers the nature of the plague, how a famous Catholic Saint dealt successfully with a similar situation, and the problems inherent in the way that public authorities dealt with the Coronavirus. Read the articles - https://www.returntoorder.org/2020...

This is a statement of the TFP's position on a number of issues related to the structure of society and government after the Coronavirus passes. Read the Article - https://www.tfp.org/warning-a-virus-threatens-americas-future-and-christian-civilization/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Warning%21+A+Virus+Threatens+America+s+Future&utm_campaign=TFP200424m+-+Warning%21+A+Virus+...

In modern society, all levels of education, from pre-schoolers to adults, are hostages to a modernist world view. That world view was inspired by John Dewey in the early years ofthe twentieth century. It has produced disasterous and revolutionary consequences for the society that it was supposed to inform. Read the articles - https://www.returntoorder.org/2020/04/how-ted-talks-offer-post-modern-ma...

The Return to Order Moment offers three widely different, albeit complimentary, sorts of advice from three different authors. All of them are designed to contribute to a state of mind that will help listeners gain a sense of perspective, and, hopefully, be a source of strength. Read the articles: https://www.returntoorder.org/2020/04/californias-heavenly-patroness-a-sure-refuge-in-these-times-of-c...

Knlowledge of curent issues is only part of being an informed part of a representative democracy. The far more important part of the equasion is understanding and applying political and moral principles to the selection of leaders. Here Mr. Jolhn Horvat discusses the need for principles and then reasons that voters should cllosely examine the principles of both the right and the left. Read the art...