Roberto de Mattei

Prolific historian Roberto de Mattei unfurls the sail to help you navigate in tumultuous times through the stormy waters of worldly events, intellectual movements, apostasies, moral decay, divisions, and persecutions. In these reflections, de Mattei steers you on a voyage from the earliest centuries to the French Revolution, charting the course with fascinating historical details and true stories about key political figures and saints, masterfully relating them to our situation now.In these stirring pages, you will learn: Who the real dissidents are -- past and presentThe witness of the early Christians and ways we can learn from them todayThe twin pillars of victory according to the vision of St. John BoscoThe path to authentic reform and the heroic example of the saints throughout the agesHow the Church rose above the waves amid crises, including schisms and revolutionsDespite the changing tides and pounding waves, you will discover ways the Church weathered storms with Scripture and Tradition as her compasses. You will behold how, in moments of gloom, when all seemed lost, the valor of Catholic heroes restored calm and announced the morning dawn.

Conspiracies and secret societies exist because man, wounded by Original Sin, is inclined to evil and his social nature leads him to unite with other men in carrying out evil plans. With typical precision, historian Roberto de Mattei navigates us through this gloomy labyrinth of evil amid congiure, conspiracies, and plots -- terms often used as synonyms but which, through their semantic and conceptual differences, can each assist us in understanding better the hidden dimension of the history of the past five centuries.While the Italian term congiure indicates secret agreements limited to a few people and aimed at killing a sovereign or a political leader, often in the context of a power struggle, conspiracies are projects with a much broader scope that seek to overthrow the constituted order. The golden age of congiure and political assassinations runs from the poisons of the Renaissance to the 1700s. Then, with the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, an age opened in which the traditional congiure was bolstered by the development of conspiracies of an ideological and political character.The plot, on the other hand, is an elusive, hidden agglomerate of which neither the identity of the protagonists nor the concrete operative means are revealed. Professor de Mattei posits that the contemporary plotting spirit we see today -- from the Aquarius conspiracy, to the Great Reset, to the virus pandemic -- has nothing to do with the study of anti-Christian secret societies, which has always been part of historiography and Catholic apologetics but, in fact, plays into the hands of those intent on the psychological, intellectual, and moral destabilization of the West. In these fascinating pages, you will discover: Whether socio-psychological criteria are enough to formulate a conspiracy theory What famous political minds such as Niccol Machiavelli believed about conspiracies How fabrications of plots by individuals such as Catherine de' Medici led to bloodshed The cruelest epoch in history and its aftershocks in the schemes of secret societies The role of the occult in plots and conspiracies, and its relationship with revolution Solutions to avoid becoming lost in the matrix of evil and lies in modernityUltimately, you will find how to differentiate between true and false plots and to discern how some conspiracies lead to heresy and insidiously attempt to destroy Christianity. By reading this book, you will be equipping yourself to challenge and overcome the dark errors of our times.

Here is the book that clarifies the mystery of God's work in your life now and what will happen in the end times. Professor Roberto de Mattei opens by explaining, through the lens of St. Thomas Aquinas and other great minds, the order with which God created the world. He then reveals the disorder through which mankind attempts to rule the world and how it will be one day gloriously restored in God's Providence. In these brilliant pages you will find that nothing happens by chance. As de Mattei unpacks the roles of angels, men, and nations, you will learn how to grow in living out God's will for your life. You will also discover: What is meant by the "ladder of beings" and how to attain the heights of perfection Where the summit of love is found The real cause of evil and why God allows it Three vices of man -- and three corresponding punishments What authentic surrender to God's will consists of and how to live it each moment Seven reasons God wants to make Our Lady known according to St. Louis de Montfort You will also learn about the essence of God and His work in our lives, His attributes, divine order in the universe, and the role of the Church. Additionally, you will see what happens when we don't render to God as much as we should, according to St. Augustine. De Mattei further unpacks how disorder leads us away from God, especially in the form of moral evil and revolution and characteristics of the reign of chaos in the last days. You will see how God mercifully transforms evil into good and how the restoration of the world will come about by the power of the Holy Spirit, and you will behold the triumphs of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. You will thus learn to live with renewed hope in God and gratitude for His goodness as you testify to the words: "Do not be conquered by evil but conquer evil with good" (Rom. 12:21).

In this book, Roberto de Mattei steers us through centuries of Church history concerning some of the disastrous decisions of popes and councils. The author's rich historical narratives, deftly intertwined with dogmatic, moral, and canonical principles, make this work a potent resource for grappling with the current crises of the Church.

In this book, Roberto de Mattei steers us through centuries of Church history concerning some of the disastrous decisions of popes and councils. The author's rich historical narratives, deftly intertwined with dogmatic, moral, and canonical principles, make this work a potent resource for grappling with the current crises of the Church.

La historia sirve para recordar que aquello que ocurri ayer puede repetirse hoy y que, ayer como hoy y ma ana, una sola regla permanece en los tiempos de crisis y de dificultad para la Iglesia: la fidelidad a la Tradici n, que es la fidelidad a la Verdad entregada por Cristo a su Iglesia con estas palabras: "El cielo y la tierra pasar n pero mis palabras no pasar n" (Mt. 24, 35). El Concilio Vaticano II ha producido documentos, pero no es, en s mismo, un documento: como todo Concilio es ante todo un evento, un momento de la historia de la Iglesia que, como tal, se sit a en el plano de los hechos y no en el de la verdad. Mientras el dogma formula una verdad, que una vez formulada trasciende por as decir la historia, los Concilios nacen y mueren en la historia y pueden ser juzgados por los historiadores.

In these pages, Roberto de Mattei argues that "The best way to approach Islam is to respect it. And to respect it means to accept it for what it is, without 'reinterpreting' it and trying to make it what it is not." His is such a sensible approach that it unlikely to be taken up by our leaders, because to view Islam "as it really is" involves jettisoning illusions upon which our foreign policy has been built for decades. Our leaders suffer from a lack of understanding, a lack of imagination, and a lack of will. They are content to serve as justification for Robert Louis Stevenson's remark that man does not live by bread alone, but chiefly by catchwords. Their thinking is that, with catchwords, we can muddle along-and we can, for a while. The true catch is that, once that while is over, it may be too late to rectify things. -From the Foreword by Karl Keating, President of Catholic Answers