Saint Augustine, this Arab born in current Algeria and who, after becoming convert became bishop in current Tunisia knew well the vegetation of the desert. The vegetation of the desert is mainly thorns. Thorns produce nothing, and they choke the other plants on their passage. I say "passage", because thorns in the desert are not static plants. Once grown into a bundle of sharp needles, the brush separates from its root, and is then pushed afar by the wind. Here in the Nevada high desert we call them tumbleweeds, because they tumble every afternoon under high wind, and while covering great distances, they spread their seeds so new roots can grow new thorn plants. The thorn is really the plant of the devil. It is parasitic. It produces nothing. It spreads, and the only trace left, after having killed the other plants is a root left buried under the ground, and a dead vegetation around a radius of sometimes several miles.
 
Saint Augustine would surely identify a thorn of the desert at work among the news and counter-news that are currently affecting the very survival of the Church. The latest news -or counter-news- is that Bishop Williamson has joined the Accorditos! Bishop Williamson has replied that he has not joined the Accorditos. One older news was that Bishop Williamson is a Rosicrucian -because of his family ancestry- and what better proof is the cross and the rose that adorn his coat of arms! Father Schoonbrood seemed to have fallen for this one. The brave Father went on to accuse both Bishops Fellay and Williamson to have played a double-card-Monty role during the "Williamson affair", where one tarnished the reputation of the SSPX as being neo-nαzι's, while the other one worked at forming the Accorditos, a camp of turn-coats within the SSPX, in order to disintegrate the phalanx in hoping for some favor from the consiliar heretics. As in the desert, the thorn cannot be incriminated because it has moved away, we only know that it passed-by because of the devastation. We simply knows that evil was here, as is the case within the succession of disasters within the Society of Saint Pius X.
 
The Bishop of Hippo, who had been an attorney, would suspect that the timely death of Father Schoonbrood is a direct act of the devil. He would know for example that King Hassan II of Morocco was murdered by means of a car accident, and that the heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Morocco was showing signs of being highly favorable to the new church of Rome, that after a state visit to the Vatican during the time of JP2. Father Schoonbrood, the Saint might also deduct, was likely, if murdered by car accident, not murdered because he denounced some treasons within the Society -small fries- but because he exposed the loss of the Apostolic Succession -a really big fish. But was he truly murdered? Well yes, and it becomes more and more obvious that Father Schoonbrood was murdered, and this is how one can come to this conclusion: For some times came, mainly through the blog, the suspicion of a classic case of assassination. The rumor must have alarmed the adversary, because it has reacted in the big way to-day on the big media!
 
Dear reader, I dislike cliff-hangers as much as you no, but please bear with me. I am talking of a diabolically intelligent adversary, in the likes of let's say Cohn Benditt, whose plots are so convoluted that they always require some explanation. This "Cohn Benditt" is in his dark room at plotting his next misdeed. He has at its disposal the devil's gold and the most powerful means of communication which he uses essentially as a tool of disinformation. Suddenly comes a glitch that could expose him to the limelight. Question: What does this "Cohn Benditt" do when the truth is getting too close to him? Answer: Propaganda101: create a canard, a bogus story big enough to act as a smokescreen in order to erase the real story. For example if there is a growing clamor of a murder, which might start an investigation asked by a mass of people, then the response is to prop-up a bogus investigation that is bigger. In this case, the "Cohn Benditt" sensing that the murder of a poor priest needs to be covered-up before the whole gets out of hand, then prop-up a senseless investigation that a former head of state was murdered... Well dear reader, this has happened to-day! To day on the feast of Saint Augustine, by noon time PST, the BBC has announced that Yasser Arafat might have been poisoned! This is the timely canard that "Cohn Benditt" has concocted through the big media that is at his disposal. This is a further evidence that Father Schoonbrood was murdered.
 
What can be said more about the devastation of the thorns? Here in Nevada, at about five days walk from my cave is currently occurring the annual event of the Burning Man. The BM, as it is commonly called, is a celebration to the pagan god Baal disguised as a big a big party for about fifty to eighty thousand people. The devil will kill most of those souls by the next week-end, or as they say, by the passing of the full moon, the devil will act as a thorn, it will kill and go away. After the BM is over, an organized clean-up team passes and not a trace of the bachanal is left. The Black Rock Desert becomes pristine again, as if nothing had caused devastation. The same thing is happening to the Church, we are killed, and often we blame the wrong individual, because the real killer leaves no trace but a root buried underground, such as a diabolically intelligent Marxist University alumni whose sole external manifestations are misinformation that are hardly detectable.
 
Sancta Monica, ora pro nobis.

Acc to Christopher Dawson( What The World
Owes Italy), St Augustine was an Italian who migrated to N Africa.

Why are there so many in this Forum who are trying to steal our Catholic heritage?

Acc to Christopher Dawson( What The World
Owes Italy), St Augustine was an Italian who migrated to N Africa.

Why are there so many in this Forum who are trying to steal our Catholic heritage?

I never heard that St. Augustine was Italian before.

Augustine was born in 354 in the municipium of Thagaste (now Souk Ahras, Algeria) in Roman Africa.[14][15] His father, Patricius, was a pagan, and his mother, Monica, was Christian. Scholars believe that Augustine's ancestors included Berbers, Latins and Phoenicians.[16] Augustine's family name, Aurelius, suggests that his father's ancestors were freedmen of the gens Aurelia. Augustine's family had been Roman, from a legal standpoint, for at least a century when he was born.[17] It is assumed that his mother, Monica, was of Berber origin, on the basis of her name,[16][18] but as his family were honestiores

*honestiores / humiliores - during the Empire, the populace was divided broadly into two classes. The honestiores were persons of status and property, the humiliores persons of low social status. Only the latter were subject to certain kinds of punishment (crucifixion, torture, and corporal punishment).