Frank Butler

Old School Catholic White Man

[Frank Butler @FrankButler44]

@thecathguy For what it's worth, he and another priest manage 2 parishes.
https://t.co/yJDR5zpglG
https://t.co/7aikGUcsn1

The 1st parish has the 45 min confessions, the 2nd parish has much more. Your point is still salient though.

[Christendom Quarterly @ChristendomQ]

Be the bastard that sets sail. 

Thats what the battle of Lepanto means for you, Western man.

There is much “The Church saved the West at the Battle of Lepanto” posting. This simply plays into the Catholic failing of waiting for our hierarchy and our institutions to win the battle. Nothing could be further from the truth. Lepanto is the story of how the least likely man risked everything for the sake of the Cross. 

This is the lesson we need the men of Christendom to learn. 

Here’s the story:

In 1571 as the Muslim fleet threatened Europe, Christendom was deeply divided. Protestants fought Catholics. France fought the Holy Roman Empire. Christian princes even allied WITH the Muslims against their Christian brothers. 
They were all too self seeking to see the threat and and answer the call. 

But one man—a bastard with no lands and barely even a title—takes weapons from the wall and rides to the sea. 
Don John of Austria.

Who was Don John?
He had no throne.
He was the bastard son of Charles V and a burgher’s daughter from Regensburg.
Raised in obscurity, not even told who his father was.

When his half-brother Philip II finally acknowledged him, it wasn’t with lands or title, just a name and a small allowance.

Among the princes of Christendom he was the last man you’d pick:
No inheritance, no wealth, no claim to rule.

Yet when the Ottoman fleet gathered in the waters just beyond Italy, this forgotten son was the one who answered.

Because no one else would.

Yes, the Pope called for the defense of Christendom, and that is more than we have today. 

But no one sent Don John personally.
No one gave him the wealth to outfit an army. The most likely outcome was that they’d all die. 

Don John went because someone had to. That’s the pattern of every important battle in Christian history.

One man, alone, often betrayed by his Christian brothers, under resourced, with only a small band of bedragged warriors, standing in victory against the pagan hordes.

No Crusader victory was ever a triumph of Christian unity. Most of Christendom sat Lepanto out.

France stayed home.
Protestant Europe stayed home.
Even most of Italy stayed home.
The Holy League was a minority of the willing.

A handful of ships and a handful of men who made the decision to go.

And that’s the truth.

History turns on the ones who go.
Not on the ones who wait for orders.
Not on the ones who whine about the hierarchy.

The ones who go.

Western man today stands on another shore. The pagan fleets are at pur shores again.  Our clergy are cautious, our politicians are compromised, our institutions asleep.

So what now?

You the do the same thing Don John did.

You go. 

You—yes, you.
The one drowning in debt, struggling to marry, priced out of a home.
The one nobody anointed.
The one nobody expects anything from.
You are who the West needs.
Because you’re willing.

Don’t wait for unity.
Don’t wait for permission.
Lepanto was won by those who showed up with the mind to take it.
The fleet came AFTER the resolve.

When Don John hoisted the Cross over his ship, he didn’t know if it meant victory or martyrdom.

But he knew it was his to carry.
That’s the moment we’re in now.
 Carry the Cross.
 Row into the storm.

Go.

Only you can man your galley.

Volunteer to start a security team at your church. Join your school board
Start a group chat or a fraternity and read Chesterton Lepanto together. 

It probably won’t look sexy. 

But this is your galley.
This is how Christendom is saved.

[Frank Butler @FrankButler44]

@leoinstituteCST about double standards. It doesn't do us any good to not call out hypocrisy in the leadership - how else can we give people the mental framework to push for positive change?

I appreciate your work.

[Frank Butler @FrankButler44]

@leoinstituteCST Majorian's point isn't that things are always getting worse, he's pointing out that the institutional church prioritizes immigrants above where they should be. I agree with you that many young priests heroically work for the good, but we have to be clear eyed (cont below)

[Frank Butler @FrankButler44]

@majoriansmusing Arm is getting tired of pulling the GEM ALARM Lever whenever you tweet... please make more Latinslavs content king...

[Frank Butler @FrankButler44]

@peterboghossian "You can't deport someone to a country they've never lived in."

Why not?

[Frank Butler @FrankButler44]

@DHPeat GEM

[ⓘSome Dogs have thumbs @MorlockP]

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> For years, the top 6% of Texas high school students got automatic admission to UT.

Nope.

Absolutely false.

It is not "the top" 6% of high school students.

It's "the top 6% OF EACH HIGH SCHOOL".

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[Frank Butler @FrankButler44]

@BpOlsonFW @FWdiocese @NTCatholic @TXCatholic @USCCBGovRel Your Excellency, what is racist and sinful about this post?

I would say nothing. I don't want to be replaced in my homeland, and that is not racist or sinful.

[Frank Butler @FrankButler44]

It’s not obvious that DeSantis could have beat Kamala. The last election was decided by WI, PA, MI. 2 percent or less. Does Desantis do well enough in rust belt? I’m not so sure

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

It was a catastrophic mistake that the right (and the country) will pay for for many years to come. Right-wingers of various stripes are bound to have this or that disagreement with DeSantis, but that he would at least have been better than Trump cannot reasonably be denied.

[Frank Butler @FrankButler44]

@AuronMacintyre Doesn’t split Catholics by race. Go to white Catholics and the numbers will be a bit better

[Wade Stotts @wadestotts]

Best version of the 'burrito bootstraps' message: "things are tough, but don't give up. Some of these obstacles are personal and can be fixed at the personal level."

Best version of the 'burrito blackpill' message:
"even people doing their best are having a harder time than they should. Some of these obstacles are political and can be fixed at the political level."

[Frank Butler @FrankButler44]

Pratt is Gemming TF out on the timeline, wat mean?

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Too many of you get caught in the trap of calling out commie "hypocrisy!" Read Orwell. You need to understand that the communist will frequently invert the party line from one day to the next, on purpose. The point is to test you. They want to know that you trust the state more than your own 2 eyes.

Remember in 1984: "we are now at war with EastAsia, we were ALWAYS at war with EastAsia"...then the next day it's completely inverted. It's not hypocrisy. It's deliberate. They want to see who balks at the obvious inversion of reality. If you scratch your head, you've just given yourself away...you're more invested in reality than the Party. So you will get the bullet.

It's not hypocrisy. It's hierarchy. Don't bother trying to shame them for their contradictions...that's all deliberate. This is why the modern woke communist pushes the most absurd nonsense. "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

They're not hypocrites. They're communists. And that's sooooo much worse.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Too many of you get caught in the trap of calling out commie "hypocrisy!" Read Orwell. You need to understand that the communist will frequently invert the party line from one day to the next, on purpose. The point is to test you. They want to know that you trust the state more than your own 2 eyes.

Remember in 1984: "we are now at war with EastAsia, we were ALWAYS at war with EastAsia"...then the next day it's completely inverted. It's not hypocrisy. It's deliberate. They want to see who balks at the obvious inversion of reality. If you scratch your head, you've just given yourself away...you're more invested in reality than the Party. So you will get the bullet.

It's not hypocrisy. It's hierarchy. Don't bother trying to shame them for their contradictions...that's all deliberate. This is why the modern woke communist pushes the most absurd nonsense. "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

They're not hypocrites. They're communists. And that's sooooo much worse.

[Yair Netanyahu🇮🇱 @YairNetanyahu]

Let’s make a deal, we won’t fund NGOs in your country calling you to give away Ceuta and Melilla, and you will *stop* funding NGOs in our country that calls us to give away Judea and Samaria

[Frank Butler @FrankButler44]

@goldpilledshow Kino

[Frank Butler @FrankButler44]

@goldpilledshow That’s my dream. Stunt on these hoes

[Frank Butler @FrankButler44]

@ChristendomQ 100% . The church is bleeding money, members, and is in the crosshairs of the FBI. Pro lifers go to jail, and holding Catholic views can get you ostracized from society.

In the face of this, Steuby decides to spend precious money and resources combatting "anti-semitism".

[Whitfield 🇺🇸🇻🇦🫵🏻 @goldpilledshow]

This kind of rhetoric is frustrating because instead of deporting 100 million people, we pretend they’re going to read Twitter posts. Camp of the Saints is for us, not them.

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

America is not creating any jobs. The best available solution is worksite raids on farms, factories, and warehouses to open up 3 million entry-level blue-collar jobs for young men. The current problem is much worse than people realize. A thread: