An exclusive first interview with the author of Inferno: A Journey Through Modern Hell in Search of Eternal Truth, Augustine Virgil

I am joined by Augustine Virgil (Fourth Eclogue Substack - https://goodvirgil.substack.com/) for a first look at his new book on the modern media hellscape, published by Stabat Mater Press.

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We explore the outer rings of the infernal landscape; the quasi liturgical and religious nature of false political movements; the discordian officially-approved conspiracy sphre; the Neo-Nietzschean ‘land of sun and steel’; and the gnostic spheres of the light magicians and the perfecti.

LA COMMEDIA MODERNA is a full length trilogy that is to be published by independent Traditional Catholic publisher Stabat Mater Press, with the INFERNO released on the 8th of December 2025, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It will then be followed by the two sequels: PURGATORIO and PARADISO.

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A major feature of contemporary politics, media and culture is the humiliation ritual. Will Tucker and I explore Aristotle's writings on Tyranny and its means of preservation, including humiliation of the subjects.
Mr Tucker presents his research on the occult metaphysics of ritual humiliation; Noahidism as 'decapitation through humiliation'; Nicholas de Cusa's concept of "learned ignorance" and the relations with kenotic theology, personalism and kabbalah. Will Tucker traces the humiliation ritual as a heterodox form of esoteric mystagogy to condition the intellect and will towards "divine nothingness."

Mr Tucker's substack: https://analogia.substack.com/

The Analogia Entis channel: https://www.youtube.com/@analogiaentis

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The recording of a talk I gave in London for a study day on the institution of the Feast of Christ the King by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925).

It is an extended elaboration of the essay advocating a positive vision and strategy for the laity in realising the Kingship of Christ over societies today.

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Pope Leo XIII taught: "It is a most sacred law of nature that a father should provide food and all necessaries for those whom he has begotten... by the ownership of productive property, which he can transmit to his children by inheritance."

In the first of a two-part episode on property and inheritance law, I draw from the writings of Côme de Prévigny, Frédéric le Play, Oscar Mendez and modern studies to examine the importance of primogeniture inheritance for the conservation and flourishing of family patrimony and its corollary: diffuse economic and political power.

I compare the case studies of historic inheritance regimes in France, the United States of America and England to extract the perennial Catholic economic principles that we may apply today and in the future.

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'Philip II' is an historical work written by William Thomas Walsh, published by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1987. All rights acknowledged.

Back cover:

"Philip II by William Thomas Walsh is one of the crucial books for Catholics today and for all who would understand how our world came to its present state. For this monumental life-story, Walsh's greatest book, is far more than the definitive biography of the man considered to have been Europe's most powerful king ever. It is besides a virtual panorama of Christendom in the 16th century, the pivotal century that gave birth to Protestantism - which out of the 15 major heresies that have confronted the Catholic Church, was the first which the Church did not overcome. Not only is Spanish history covered in this fast-paced biographical masterpiece, but also the interrelated events simultaneously developing in England, France and Europe in general, so that the reader comes away with a global view of an entire era and of the forces which the Catholics of that day were facing as the Protestant Revolt, with its seductive rebellion against all authority, both human and divine, was carried from country to country, purposefully destroying the Ancient Faith and the Christian social fabric."

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'Philip II' is an historical work written by William Thomas Walsh, published by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1987. All rights acknowledged.

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'Philip II' is an historical work written by William Thomas Walsh, published by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1987. All rights acknowledged.

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In the first of a projected irregular series on Traditionalist Economics, I draw from the writings of John Lane, Pius XI and other Catholic economic thinkers to consider the first question of political economy: who is responsible for the money supply?

I consider: the fundamental causes of inflation; the sovereignty of money creation; fractional reserve banking; the gold standard; the nature of our current usury money versus Medieval economic stability and leisure, before proposing some initial Catholic solutions to these essential problems.

With particular thanks to John Lane for his insights.

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