Albert 🇻🇦🇧🇪

Here's an edit I made about the last "Huzzah!" of the Catholic Church in Belgium: "The School War". A war between the Catholics and the government about who should control education. Won due to the political genius of Théo Lefèvre.

Alright, I’ll admit it. I have become scared of AI. Not for the singularity or anything, but for the effect it is already having on us. Asking Grok to explain something simple should be looked upon as chain smoking.

That feeling when you realise that, despite the fact that you’re an inadequate Catholic, God still loves you and you’re still contributing to his plan.

That feeling when you realise that you’re, in fact, a woefully inadequate Catholic: (At least I know, the fog of pride isn’t completely covering my vision.)

My great-great-grandfather was a coal miner in the Borinage. As a victim, I think I am entitled to a membership in the communist party. @pvdabelgie, where is my membership card?

Flemish Nationalists and non-Patriots will claim this picture of King Albert flying over Brussel is fake, they're wrong. Don't be fooled!

How I feel today:

Today on the Belgian national holiday we remember the oath swearing of our first King after independence. After the many centuries of foreign rule by the Burgundians, Spanish, Austrians, French and Dutch, we were finally “home-ruled” for the first time since Charlemagne.

Just came back from mass, I prayed all I can for the country. The Te Deum was GLORIOUS! We are blessed to have this tradition.

Belgian Catholics, non-Catholic Belgians or Catholic Flemish Nationalists! I urge you all to go to your local parish today or tomorrow, and to join the Te Deum to pray for our country and her monarch!

“If God gives me a long life and allows me to carry out my task, then Brussels will become a city of exceptional category.” - King Leopold II of Belgium Modern politicians should be like this.

The Belgian cavalry officers were also finely dressed for the enemy. Weirdly, in this period the Belgian cavalry performed somewhat better than their French counterparts, achieving great victories at Halen and Burkel. (Mostly because they thought to dismount now and then.)

I’m reading a book talking about Belgian history that is so biased (even though it claims to be “neutral”) that it doesn’t even mention the insane economic growth after the revolution of 1830. That’s like writing about British history without mentioning the Royal Navy.

His holiness has the opportunity to do the coolest thing now. “The Holy Bible may preach peace, but when it is Christendom itself that is threatened, all Christians must defend all that is holy.”

You should cast your gaze more often towards heaven, it makes life much more transcendental.

194 jaar geleden kwam Leopold Van Saxen-Coburg en Gotha naar België, 4 dagen later was hij de eerste Koning der Belgen. Vive le Roi ! 🇧🇪

To the contrary of what Hollywood would tell you, nuns are some of the most lovely, compassionate and caring people around. Their commonly associated trope is both disturbing and a sign of the devils work to destroy that which is good.

Gentle reminder that the Belgian duchies and counties in the Middle Ages were already united in their history, trade (the only reason why Brabant existed by the way) and origin, be it politically disunited. On the contrary to the Dutch fiefdoms, which were more “isolated”.

Me trying to contain my anger in seeing all the idiotic Flemish Nationalist posts today and yesterday... (Next week I'll get my revenge, then it's the actual National holiday.)

Can we please normalise cloaks again? They have way too much aura and practical benefits to be banished to the realm of the "social outcasts closets".

One interesting benefit about going to daily mass is that even though you lose ~an hour of time you are so much more productive throughout the rest of the day that it more than makes up for it. Is the Eucharist the miracle you've been waiting for? Yes.