Dr. Robert Hickson 10 February 2021 Saint Scholastica (d. 543) Muriel Agnes Hickson (d. 2009) Epigraphs “The ecclesiastical magisterium, in teaching and guarding this dogma [as of 1958], insists that there is no salvation outside of the Catholic Church and at the same time likewise insists that people who die without ever becoming members of…
Dr. Robert Hickson 30 December 2020 Saint Sabinus (d. 303) Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. (d. 2000) Epigraphs “How many of the three infused theological virtues—faith, hope, and charity—did Christ’s Sacred Humanity possess?” (Father John A. Hardon, S.J. in a conversation with R. Hickson in the late 1980s.) *** “Christ as well as His Blessed…
Note: this essay has first been published at LifeSiteNews.com and is re-printed here with kind permission. by Dr. Maike Hickson Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has recently written a preface for a book, Gratitude, Contemplation, and the Sacramental Worth of Catholic Literature, a collection of essays written by my husband Dr. Robert Hickson over the course of…
Note: This poem was written this fall by our 12-year-old daughter, Isabella Maria. As a sort of a short respite in these difficult times, we hope you will enjoy it, at the end of this season and on the last day of November. *** The cool and beautiful fall Is like a different color in…
Dr. Robert Hickson 23 November 2020 Pope Saint Clement I (d. 100) Saint Miguel Pro, S.J. (d. 1927) To Weaken and Manipulate the Complex Human Immune System: A Strategic Objective and Desirable Application for Some Malefactors Epigraphs “Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution…
Author’s Note, 11 November 2020: After this 22-page-text from November 1997 was somehow discovered and read in early 1998 by General Peter Schoomaker himself, and by some of his General Staff at the Special Operations Command, I received a personal invitation to speak more thoroughly about these matters, especially about the strategic culture and capacities…
Author’s Note: This 8 July 1998 text (7 pages) is part of my response to the personal invitation I received from the Commanding General of the U.S. Special Operations Command, General Peter Schoomaker. The contributory text focused on the desirably strategic education of the Special Operation Forces (SOF). The 2 October 1998 Annex (3 pages)…
Author’s Note: This essay is the third essay in a sequence of strategic studies on biological and psychological warfare (see footnote 1 below). The earlier articles were written on 15 November 1997 and 8 July 1998, this third one being dated 22 August 1998. We plan to re-publish these studies in light of the current…
Dr. Robert Hickson 12 October 2020 Our Lady of the Pillar (36 A.D.) Epigraphs “Lest my title should mislead I will restrict it by definition.” (Hilaire Belloc, Who Own America? (1936, 1999), page 431.) *** “That this new worship is vigorous and real may be proved by the test of sacrifice: that which a man…
Dr. Robert Hickson 8 October 2020 Saint Bridget of Sweden (d. 1373) Epigraphs “Exoteric, as distinct from esoteric, relates in part to external reality in contrast to a person’s own thoughts, interpretations, and feelings. It is knowledge that is public, as distinct from being provocatively secretive or cabalistic. Exoteric knowledge need not be knowledge that…