Tema: Socialist politician says Spanish bishop should be 'muzzled'.

I found another website regarding the Jacobites:

Royal Stuart Society
We are a monarchist and traditionalist organisation whose basis is defined in our objectives which are:

• to be open to all who have an interest in the members of the Royal House of Stuart, their descendants and supporters
• to promote research in and further knowledge of Stuart history
• to uphold rightful Monarchy and oppose republicanism
• to arrange such commemorations, lectures and other activities as shall advance these objects.

Ah-ha. The House of Stuart- which I'm somewhat familiar with. Catherine of Braganza, who has a thread here in the English section, was married to Charles II.

It's good to see that there's still some jacobite activity. There's an interesting documentary about the history of Scotland which dedicates an episode to the jacobite uprisings:



I also posted it here http://hispanismo.org/english/14938-...itism-bbc.html

I doubt that the typical American citizen, steeped in hostility to the idea of monarchism, could put up with the idea of a king- especially a Catholic king. The supposed superiority of the American system creates a sort-of arrogance in the minds of many here- as if US "democracy" (a form of government that the nation's founders disliked as much as monarchy). A secular government based on republicanism was set up here and, while it lasted, it worked very well since the first couple of generation of US leaders were men of high character of mixed Christian belief. The only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence was Charles Carroll:

Charles Carroll of Carrollton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The influence of Catholicism in Colonial America and the early US isn't well-known.

The Jacobite Rebellions seem to be a complex topic; they were (and are) a mixture of Catholic and Protestant and it seems that not all of them recognize the currently-accepted heir, Franz, Duke of Bavaria:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz,_Duke_of_Bavaria

Any monarchist in America would have to, say, choose between the House of Windsor or some other alternative (i.e. the House of Stuart and its heirs). Monarchism is opposed to democracy and republicanism; democracy more or less destroys itself with factionalism and a republic can only function when there are persons of morality in power and the idea of checks and balances in government are respected. I think that the American experiment has proven how incompatible democracy and republicanism are with the traditional notions of Christian kingship.

The idea of a Christian king ruling in absolutism like Louis XIV isn't a given- Theodoric as King of Italy kept the Senate in operation as an advisory body and the Byzantine Emperors were also advised by a Senate in the old form. In both cases it was still clear who the monarch was however.

What we can expect from this decrepit, corrupt, and liberal country in which an actor was not condemned in 35 years after making a video about "How to cook a Christ"