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A self-declared "king" of Germany and three of his senior "subjects" have been arrested and their group banned for attempting to overthrow the state. Peter Fitzek, 59, was among those arrested in morning raids across seven states on Tuesday, which involved about 800 security personnel. The government banned their group, the Reichsbürger, or "citizens of the Reich", which seeks to establish the Königreich Deutschland, or "Kingdom of Germany". Alexander Dobrindt, German's interior minister, accused the group of attempting to "undermine the rule of law" by creating an alternative state and spreading "antisemitic conspiracy narratives to back up their supposed claim...

Welcome to today’s Traditional Latin Mass in which we honor Blessed Karl of Austria, who is a candidate for sainthood.  Emperor Karl (also known as Charles) died at the age of 34 on April 1, 1922.  This month marks the 96th Anniversary of his death.  He was beatified in 2004.We welcome all those from ‘The Emperor Karl League of Prayer’ who are with us here today.  The Emperor Karl League of Prayer promotes the canonization of Blessed Karl of the House of Austria, who reigned as Emperor and King in Austria-Hungary from 1916-1918. I would like to thank the Knights of...

The latest edition of UK-based current affairs magazine the Economist has been banned in Thailand, amid local anger over its coverage of the royal family.

Seattle Catholic is not affiliated with the Archdiocese of Seattle A Journal of Catholic News and Views 15 Feb 2005 King St. Louis IX's Last Instructions to his Eldest Son Then he [Louis] called my Lord Philip, his son, and commanded him, as if by testament, to observe all the teachings he had left him, which are hereinafter set down in French, and were, so it is said, written with the king's own saintly hand: "Fair son, the first thing I would teach thee is to set thine heart to love God; for unless he love God none can...

As the holidays descend upon us, so do the unfortunate encounters with our vacuous relatives. On Thanksgiving, for instance, my uncle stated that he had "no idea" whether or not we lived in a constitutional republic; and of course he didn't know who Senate minority leader Harry Reid was. However, he did know that taxation was necessary to keep people from getting too rich. Otherwise poor people would become angry and revolt; because after all, as he knew, European nations were overthrown constantly in the past millennium by peasant revolts led by the disenfranchised poor people. When asked to name...