Much thanks to Bishop Williamson for another excellent Eleison Comment!  I would just mention, however, that Putin's speech was not  given "one year ago," as stated in the EC, but was actually given on September 19, 2013, some 4 years ago and interestingly enough exactly 167 years to the day after our Blessed Mother is said to have been found weeping by two shepherd children.  In a sense we might say that Putin was also weeping for the West in his speech.  And just as Our Lady's message given at La Sallete has been tragically ignored by so many, so too for the riveting message given by Putin in his speech.

Putin?

Without the moral values that are rooted in Christianity and other world religions, without rules and moral values that have been formed and developed over thousands of years, people inevitably lose their human dignity. As for ourselves we think it is right and natural to defend these moral values coming from Christianity. We must respect the right to self-determination of every minority, but by the same token there cannot and must not be any doubt about the rights of the majority.

1. The "Orthodox" are schismatics, not Catholics.
2. Non-Catholics can only be said to be "Christian" in a very loose, secular sense.

What is quoted here is not Catholic/Christian, but it 'sounds nice".

"The enemy of my enemy..." ... gets the bottom of the mag, and as much as this will tick people off, assessing a Putin to be such an enemy verges on the Pollyanna at best.


This is just more Hegel and a bagel, so don't be so hungry that you eat poison, or thirsty that you drink bleach.

Blessed are the peace makers.  A strong argument can be made and certainly has been made by a good number of fairly knowledgeable people that Putin has more or less prevented World War III on more than one occasion.  No small accomplishment!

To equate "peace" with "world not at war" seems more that a bit sophistic.

If I abstain from shooting you in the face, does that mean that I prevented your murder?

Also, even granting that, relevance please?

Additionally, "... moral values that have been formed and developed over thousands of years."

What, exactly, does that mean, to what does this refer?

The monthly newsletter Catholic Candle ran a big article in their October 2017 issue titled "The Fake Resistance Bishops Refer to Godless and Heretical Russia as “Holy Russia”

Okay?

1. The "Orthodox" are schismatics, not Catholics.
2. Non-Catholics can only be said to be "Christian" in a very loose, secular sense.

What is quoted here is not Catholic/Christian, but it 'sounds nice".

"The enemy of my enemy..." ... gets the bottom of the mag, and as much as this will tick people off, assessing a Putin to be such an enemy verges on the Pollyanna at best.


This is just more Hegel and a bagel, so don't be so hungry that you eat poison, or thirsty that you drink bleach.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49oPuI54eEGTF92S2laQVNtWFE/view
Seems Catholic Candle agrees heartily with you.
It seems more in the line of Bishop Fellay than Bishop Williamson to argue that schismatic Orthodox Catholics are ‘Christians’ and therefore to be called “Holy”. Or rather, more in the line of Pope Francis who calls the Lutherans the same. 

Just an opinion, but I think when Russia is correctly consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, there will be conversions and Baptisms, en masse.

It will be miraculous and hit them hard!  None of this graduated process stuff.

The precedent for en masse conversions is Mexico under Our Lady of Guadalupe.



 It all happened in a very short period of time... going to 9 million souls, replacing Europe's apostates and heretics.

The Franciscans in Mexico were so overwhelmed by the queue at the Baptismal fonts, men had to hold their arms up, so they could continue administering the gateway Sacrament.

That's right... no BOD for them.   

Fr. Denis Fahey, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jєωιѕн Nation (1953), p. 52: “The Jєωs, as a nation, are objectively aiming at giving society a direction which is in complete opposition to the order God wants.  It is possible that a member of the Jєωιѕн Nation, who rejects Our Lord, may have the supernatural life which God wishes to see in every soul, and so be good with the goodness God wants, but objectively, the direction he is seeking to give to the world is opposed to God and to that life, and therefore is not good. If a Jєω who rejects our Lord is good in the way God demands, it is in spite of the movement in which he and his nation are engaged.”

I read all of Fr. Fahey's books. I remember when I read this line, I thought "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema" Gal 1:8. It served as an example that we follow truth, not personalities.