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Dec. ’19

New Year Resolution

Join up with the Friends of St. George

In the last financial year The Saint George Educational Trust awarded nearly ninety-two-thousand pounds to associations of Catholic laity who are developing all sorts of exciting social, cultural and educational projects aimed at rebuilding and restoring Christendom.

The Friends of St. George play a vital auxiliary role in this important work of the Trust and help make these actions possible

Friends of St. George help SGET fund projects, raise grant monies, and publish materials aimed at planting seeds to encourage the conversion of lost generations of socially-bewildered and spiritually-blinded souls.

By becoming a Friend of Saint George you can help us this coming year and beyond to fund a new endeavour aimed at creating a structured programme of university-level Christian education networked to thousands of young people in Europe and throughout the English-speaking world.

You can help us fund an exciting vision created by a world-class musical artist to bring Gregorian and Byzantine Chant to hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of lost souls still open to traditional European cultural and spiritual inspiration. And this in an electrifying and stunningly visual manner that cannot but succeed in positively stirring-up heart and soul,.

You can help us with these two immense projects and much more besides.

The Saint George Educational Trust is a U.K.-based charitable trust, registered with the Charity Commission in England and Wales, but Friends of St George can be found in any and every corner of the world. FOSG endeavour to make the small sacrifice of donating the equivalent sum of just one pound per day to The Saint George Educational Trust. This can be done by online banking, electronic transfer or by standing order. Donation can be made either once a month or annually. UK taxpayers should get in touch and request a Gift Aid form from us so that the taxman adds extra revenue to donations.

Sacrificing the price of a short-hop bus ride, a newspaper, a chocolate bar or a cup of coffee every day is surely not too much to ask for the rebuilding of Christian social order?

Help us make that social reconstruction a growing reality by joining with the Friends of St. George, and may God bless you abundantly for it.

Let us work together to build the Kingship of Christ “on earth as it is in Heaven.”

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Aug. ’19

A Forgotten Catholic Hero

Polish friends remind us that “it is the 70th anniversary of the death of Adam Doboszyński (August 29, 1949), an outstanding activist of the national camp. His death was a symbolic beginning of Stalinist terror in Poland.”

The show-trial of Adam Doboszyński began in Warsaw on 18th June, 1949. He was accused of co-operating with the intelligence services of Nazi Germany from 1933, and from 1945 with the intelligence services of the U.S.A. The prosecution was based on forced testimony given in interrogations conducted during his two-year imprisonment. During the trial he repeatedly and consistently denied co-operating with any foreign intelligence services. He explained that he was made to accuse himself under torture. In his final statement he swore by the “wounds and passion of Christ” that he had never been in the service of Germany, the United States or of any other country, and he asked for judgment based on “law, truth and justice.” At the end of the twelve-day show-trial he was found guilty and sentenced to death.

Adam Doboszyński was the author of a very important book,‘The Economics of Charity’, first published in London in 1945.

Doboszyński’s view of national economy was shaped by Catholic social doctrine and especially by the works of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, along with the social encyclicals of the popes. His critique of both the Capitalist and Communist socio-economic systems was based firmly on the teachings of the Church.

Doboszyński affirmed that Capitalism and Communism, Liberalism and Marxism, seemingly so different from each other, were based on an anti-Christian and Materialistic outlook of life. He criticised Liberalism, which is the root of Capitalism, regarding it as immoral. He affirmed the fact that both Capitalism and Communism are Collectivist and Materialist in nature. According to Doboszyński, the alternative to both was the creation of a national society built like a human organism, in which an individual should not feel alienated, but be supported by the family and the homeland. The basis of this social, economic and political life in the nation was to be bodies of employers and employees, which is essentially the re-establishment of the Christian system of guilds adapted to modern conditions

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Aug. ’19

Reading from a different bible

“We are an integral part of the Palestinian people, yet we are virtually invisible for those in the White House who claim to care about Christianity,” witnesses Fr. Emmanuelle Awwad, parish priest of the Palestinian village of Aboud.

“When they talk about ‘Christianity,’ they seem to be reading from a different Bible.”

Before twentieth-century mass immigration of European Jews to the Holy Land and the vicious Zionist terror campaign that bombed, shot and murdered Palestinian civilians, British civil servants, policemen and soldiers – which eventually led to the imposition of the State of Israel upon the Palestinians in 1948, with the resulting wholesale destruction of Palestinian villages along with the death and forced exile of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families – Palestinian Christians constituted more than ten-percent of the Holy Land. Today, less than two-percent.

The Church vehemently opposed Zionism and warned, if implemented, it would lead to the destruction of Christianity in the Holy Land.

“How can we deliver up the country of our redeemer to a people of a different faith? ” – Cardinal Merry del Val (1st April 1904)

“We cannot give approval to the movement. We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem, but we could never sanction it. The soil of Jerusalem, if it was not always sacred, has been sanctioned by the life of Jesus Christ. As the head of the Church, I cannot tell you anything different.” – Pope Saint Pius X (January 1904)

“The Holy See has never approved the project of making Palestine a home for the Jews.” – Cardinal Luigi Maglione, Pope Pius XII‟s Secretary of State (3rd March 1943)

“Catholics would be injured in their religious sentiment and rightly fear for their rights if Palestine would belong exclusively to the Hebrews,” – Cardinal Luigi Maglione, Pope Pius XII‟s Secretary of State (7th April 1943)

In its issue dated 15th May 1948, L’Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Holy See, wrote that “Zionism is not the true heir to the Israel of the Bible……. the Holy Land and its sacred places belong to Christianity, which is the true Israel.”

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