Thomas Colsy

Columnist and lead news writer @CatholicHerald.

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[Thomas Colsy @Colsy99]

Peaceful prayer walks in dhm

[Angloid @angloid0]

It’s never been so clear that they want us gone.

Revolt or die.

[Thomas Colsy @Colsy99]

We are probably only so timid because of the repressive Tudor and Jacobean police states. Our countrymen were whipped into taking unprecedentedly draconian "oaths" to recognise Protestant or monarchical supremacy. The alternatives to swearing these were bankruptcy or death.

For all the historiographical talk of "English liberty", as @DominicSelwood says, we may have given the would the first totalitarian states.

I wonder how humiliating this was for the regular Anglos who still had a lion's sense of justice and injustice. To be neutered. Forced to swallow their convictions.

I'm certain this is when the unhealthy "keep calm and carry on" and passive mentality (hitherto unseen in England's proud history) must have first flowered.

Enough. Cleave it away.

If the alternative is being 17% (unsafe and vilified) in your one and only homeland – something which virtually nobody gives consent to – amputate this accidental tumour on the national character.

Time to rediscover righteous anger, bellicosity, passion, action.

[Thomas Colsy @Colsy99]

If an adverse mode of thinking or behaviour is forced upon or sneaks its way into your national character like a disease, conservatives will unthinkingly lionise it.

So it is with the Briton's acquiescent, permissive temperament. It has allowed the enemies of her nation to gain and retain power.

Enough. I am swelling with pride.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 WATCH: Police come under attack at protest in Southampton over the arrest of Henry Nowak

Credit: Ay_audits on YouTube

[Illegitimate Scholar🧭 @ill_Scholar]

I don't think you have, mate

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

These are ceremonial bins

[Dan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Kingbingo_]

As unfortunate as this is - the British state has repeatedly demonstrated that voting changes nothing.
The British people voted for not being replaced for 50 years and have always been rug pulled.

[Bovril-Gesellschaft @BovrilG]

"I don't think you're having bins thrown at you, mate."

[Thomas Colsy @Colsy99]

If the police become as truly frightened of the majority ethnic reaction as they are about minorities, much will be different.

In fact, as Aris Roussinos points out, high ups in the civil service are indeed most concerned about the possibility of mass civil discontent from natives/euro whites/Christians. The only difference is, until now they have been confident with harsh prevention (hence "two-tier" policing to contain the greater perceived threat) that it can be avoided.

The reaction to Nowak may feasibly have the effect of showing them such hopes are now unlikely. They can't stamp us out. They will have to start appeasing and meeting our demands.

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[Thomas Colsy @Colsy99]

This is what we're legally obliged to say – but... (and this is a neutral observation here) violence works.

It frightens the woke into not touching Islam.

It worked after George Floyd.

It is a sin of the Anglo to be too agreeable and docile. The protests should be supported.

The professional middle classes are often the traitors, fearing loss of position or status as their home and civilisation is torn up. Bought with trinkets in some short-term Faustian bargain for a few more years on a sinking ship.

We can't leave this to the working classes through snobbery, framing our sloth as prudence.

[Landeur 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Landeur]

I fully support the protests this evening, but I want to add a comment.

The establishment would love these protests to turn into trouble so that they can move the story onto the 'far right'. The story will shift to arrests and injuries.

Don't fall into that trap. Honour Henry. Show your anger, but not with violence. Channel that emotion into making connections and getting the most right wing (and viable) party in the country elected.

In my opinion, that is Restore Britain, but who you support is your decision. The point is that the thing they fear the most is losing the power of the state. That is what we must rip away from them, and only then can the process of restoring justice and sanity can begin.

That is what they fear the most, so lock in.

[Thomas Colsy @Colsy99]

A glimpse of the possible future: being villainised as we're victimised.

It's a fact of human nature people often come to resent benefactors whose generous graces they have been, or are, dependent upon.

This happens to God, foster parents, biological parents, and recipient nations with their indigenous inhabitants.

People hate feeling indebted. They will frequently come up with stories to hate their creditors.

When they fail to flourish or put to good use the gifts they've been handed, rather than blame themselves and face their own failures, they find it is much easier to target their gratuitous gift-giver.

Which is to say, we will never be able to do enough for some of these people. Slavery, colonialism, George Floyd, a dishonest use of statistics, they will use anything to justify not feeling beholden to us.

We will be resented for hospitality. They do not want to feel like a grateful guest in someone else's home; so they will find a way to believe and argue we never deserved our own home in the first place.

[Connor Tomlinson @Con_Tomlinson]

Ayoub Khan used today's debate in Parliament to distract from the grooming gang scandal by insisting the majority of crimes are committed by white men.

He accused those discussing the ethnic and Islamic nature of the gangs of "revealing a prejudice..."

He did not take interventions from members keen to challenge his sophistry.

[Christian B. Wagner 🔫🐒 @WalmartThomist]

You don't need to be an SSPX apologist to admit the simple fact that Rome, in many ways, bears some responsibility for the unfortunate situation of the SSPX.

[Thomas Colsy @Colsy99]

@GRIMREEFZ @Monikablogs Can you let your boys from the groyper army know you've just dunked on a pro-life Catholic woman who's on the long recovery from a serious illness. Well done. This is the problem with being instantly belligerent

[The Catholic Herald @CatholicHerald]

Is Magnifica Humanitas aimed at Peter Thiel’s techno-political empire?

✍️ Thomas Colsy

Article | https://t.co/4uOfu17Hwp

[Thomas Colsy @Colsy99]

@ZoomerHistorian It's a Trinitarian grace thing, I'm sure

[The Catholic Herald @CatholicHerald]

Pope Leo calls for liturgical reform faithful to tradition: The Holy Father has insisted that no one is permitted to add, remove or modify anything in the sacred liturgy on personal initiative.

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[Thomas Colsy @Colsy99]

NEW: The Family of Mary Immaculate and St Francis, commonly known as the Marian Franciscans, will cease to exist as a canonical community with effect from 31 May, 2026, following a diocesan decision.

The community is known for its celebration of both the Traditional Latin Mass and the Novus Ordo Missae. It has flourished with a stream of young vocations and has been a rare sign of vitality on the landscape of the Catholic Church in Britain.

(Anecdotally, I have three friends – two of whom are in their early twenties, one a late teen; two men and one woman – who have pursued a vocation in the community.)

The Marian Franciscans were additionally evicted from their thriving house in Dundee, Scotland after a 2025 decision by the Diocese of Dunkeld.

@LMSChairman stated:

"I have followed the Marian Franciscans quite closely for all of this time. I attended the beautiful occasion of the ordination of four of the friars by Bishop Egan in 2019. On 15th December last year I witnessed the clothing of nine novices of the sisters in Dundee. Nevertheless there is a good deal I do not know, a good deal no one knows, and a few things I can’t say, about what has been going on, and what is going to happen next.

"I will limit myself to a few general observations.

"First, the transition, from being in a somewhat difficult situation, to leaving Dunkeld completely and dissolving their association, has been accelerated by their own statutes, and general charism, that they will not remain in a diocese where they are not welcome. Their docility is exemplary and touching. They are not passive or lacking in agency: they have been exploring all sorts of avenues, and have indeed found a new canonical home for their members. Nevertheless, they make themselves vulnerable in order to follow the will of Providence in a radical way.

"Second, they have always tried to make themselves useful to local parishes by offering cover, something communities of priests (like Oratorians) often do, including offering the reformed Mass. This has not protected them from hostility.

"Third, the inability of the Church in England and in Scotland to make use of these men should be a source of national embarrassment. No doubt their style is not everyone’s cup of tea. But there is no community or association or, for that matter, parish priest, who is everyone’s cup of tea, and the lack of priests in our countries has got to the point that many dioceses are putting up with all sorts of human imperfections to fill gaps in pastoral care. These men have their limitations, because all human beings do, but they are also intelligent, kind, and totally committed to the Faith.

"It is difficult to avoid the impression, in fact, that it is this very commitment, this zeal, which is the source of their problems. Perhaps I am wrong about that, and I don’t want to be uncharitable to anyone involved. But even the impression, let alone the reality, of this, is a terrible warning sign for the Church in our islands."

@holysmoke called the news a "strange story", continuing that it is "[i]mportant to note that Bishop Egan is an orthodox bishop whose diocese includes an FSSP parish and there appears to permission for priests involved to say the TLM".

Thompson added: "I still don’t feel we being told the whole story. Orders don’t usually dissolve themselves because they feel they’re not getting adequate support from a diocesan bishop."

However, observers have questioned the legitimacy of framing Bishop Egan as unreservedly sympathetic and friendly to traditionalist liturgical observance and belief. Theo Howard of @VendeeRadio noted that Egan in April 2025 attended the Al Mahdi Centre, Wessex Jamaat, for an interfaith Ramadan iftaar.

Pope Pius XI, in Mortalium Animos, following in the longstanding tradition of the Church, placed a strong injuctions on: "conventions, meetings and addresses are frequently arranged by these persons, at which a large number of listeners are present, and at which all without distinction are invited to join in the discussion, both infidels of every kind, and Christians... the Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics either to support or to work for such enterprises; for if they do so they will be giving countenance to a false Christianity, quite alien to the one Church of Christ."

Pius continued: "So, Venerable Brethren, it is clear why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics: for the union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it."

[Steven Edginton @StevenEdginton]

Just half of births in Britain last year were to white British. A 5.8% decline in four years from 2021.

If that trend continues, by 2050 just 17% of births would be to white Brits.

[Charlie Downes @cfdownes_]

It’s always the same.

Do something the establishment doesn’t like, and they’ll start trotting out the same old meaningless smears.

Yesterday it was “racist”, today “anti-semitism”. Who knows what tomorrow will hold?

One thing’s for sure - we don’t care.