About Christ or Chaos

This website, which was launched in February of 2004, continues the work of the formerly printed publication, Christ or Chaos, which was produced in printed form from August of 1996 until June of 2003. Christ or Chaos originated as an eight page monthly when it debuted, expanding to twelve pages by third issue. It expanded to sixteen pages by 1997, staying at that length (with an occasional twenty page issue) until we went to a twenty page monthly in July of 1999. The journal was produced on a monthly basis with a twenty-four page issue from July of 2000 until June of 2002, at which point printing and mailing costs dictated going to a seventy-two to seventy-page quarterly. Six such issues were published between July of 2002 and June of 2003, by which time a grant that had subsidized the printing and mailing costs had expired. This website thus continues work that has been read by a small number of paid and complimentary subscribers since August of 1996.

Christ or Chaos has been dedicated from its outset to the restoration of the Social Reign of Christ the King and the restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass. The whole thrust of my writing in the past decade has been to help people view the world more clearly through the eyes of the true Faith and to see that the new Mass has made it more difficult for them to do so. Major treatments of Pope Leo XIII's Testem Benevolentiae and of the General Instruction to the Roman Missal have been presented to readers, among other long works such as "Catholicism and the State" (which reviewed the corpus of the Church's teaching on the State). If there is one thing I have tried to hammer home in Christ or Chaos it is this: that we cannot fight secularism with secularism. We can only fight secularism with Catholicism. Alas, the novelties of the past forty years have convinced many believing Catholics that it is neither doctrinally correct nor prudent to insist that the true Faith be seen as the solution to all personal and social problems.

Christ or Chaos was created in 1996 to give air to many articles of mine that did not meet with the editorial approval of a major national Catholic newspaper. Although our subscribership was loyal, it never exceeded over 300 paid subscribers at any time in the journal's printed life. A lot of subscribers expressed dissatisfaction over my criticism of Pope John Paul II and my criticism of the Novus Ordo. We were down to under 200 paid subscribers by the time the last issue was mailed in June of 2003. I note this in order to alert website readers that the articles I will post hereon will not be written to seek popularity or approval. I am interested only in presenting the truths of the Faith and how they apply in our own contemporary circumstances as best as I am able, and that means I will be critical, as countless saints have written that lay Catholics must be in times of crisis, of ecclesiastical officials, including Vatican officials.

Thus, Christorchaos.com does not elicit and will not publish reader comments. My work is fair game for those who desire to critique it, criticize it, attack it, or rebut it in whatever forum they choose to use. The purpose of this website is to provide food for thought and reflection. Christ or Chaos was not as a printed journal-and will not be as a website-a public marketplace of disparate ideas. There are plenty of websites and journals where disparate voices can make themselves heard.

The links provided on this site are included to guide readers to good traditional Catholic sources. I do not agree always with everything that is on some of the sites that are linked hereto. However, the links are provided because those who run the sites are committed traditionalists who understand that God is best worshiped and human souls better sanctified in the Mass of our fathers than in the synthetic concoction known as the Novus Ordo Missae. Links to articles of mine that have run on the Daily Catholic, Remnant, Seattle Catholic, and Griffin Internet Syndicate websites will also be provided.

It is to Our Lady, therefore, that the work of Christ or Chaos and of all of our educational endeaovors in behalf Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen are entirely dedicated. She is the vessel through which the World was made Flesh and dwelt amongst us. She is the vessel through which flows all of the graces won for sinful men on the wood of the Holy Cross by her Divine Son as He paid back in His Sacred Humanity what was owed to Him in His Infinity as God: the blood debt of sin. It is to advance her reign as our Immaculate Queen that this work is entrusted, understanding that it will not be until some Pope actually consecrates Russia to Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart with all of the world's bishops that the errors or Russia, which are the errors of modernity, will cease and the Reign of Mary Immaculate will begin.

ABOUT THOMAS A. DROLESKEY

Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey is a Catholic writer and speaker . He is the publisher-editor of Christ or Chaos.com, a site that has featured over 210 articles in calendar year 2006 alone, many dealing with his embrace of sedevacantism. Hundreds of his articles appeared in The Wanderer, the oldest weekly national Catholic newspaper, between 1992 and 2000. He was a contributor to The Latin Mass: A Journal of Catholic Culture between 2001 and 2003. Droleskey's articles have appeared in the American Life League's Celebrate Life magazine. He also contributed articles to The Remnant and for Catholic Family News. His articles now appear in The Four Marks.

Dr. Droleskey was an adjunct professor of political science at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University between January of 1991 and July of 2003, reprising his association there for a winter intersession course, which was taught between December 28, 2006, and January 11, 2007. He had taught political science around the nation since January of 1974, receiving numerous awards for excellence in teaching. Many of his students have converted to the Catholic Faith. He founded Christ the King College as an online traditional Catholic college in 2004. It did not generate enough support, however, to sustain its program.

Formerly a pro-life activist, Droleskey was the candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York on the Right to Life Party line in 1986. He was the party's candidate for Supervisor of the Town of Oyster Bay in 1997, and he challenged then Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato for the party's senatorial nomination in 1998, receiving over 37% of the primary vote. Droleskey has campaigned for pro-life candidates around the country. He is now retired from all involvement in partisan politics, concentrating instead on the promotion of the Social Reign of Christ the King and of Mary our Immaculate Queen.

Dr. Droleskey has lectured extensively around the nation for the past twenty years, driving nearly 800,000 miles in the last twenty years of his lecturing around the nation. His thirty-six hour lecture program, Living in the Shadow of the Cross, has been given in twenty different venues across the United States. His current lecture program, "To be Catholic from the Womb to the Tomb," has been given in eleven different places across the nation. His work is dedicated to the restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass and of the Social Reign of Christ the King.

Droleskey is devoted to the establishment of the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ and the Queenship of Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. His first book, Christ in the Voting Booth, was published by Hope of Saint Monica, Inc., 1998. His second book, There Is No Cure for this Condition, was published by Chartres Communications in 2001. G.I.R.M. Warfare (The Traditional Latin Mass versus the General Instruction to the Roman Missal) was published in 2004; Restoring Christ as the King of All Nations, Droleskey's compendium of fifty-three articles about the immutable doctrine of the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ, was published in June of 2005. Volume II of Restoring Christ the King of All Nations, a compendium of 107 articles, will be published at some point in 2007, if all goes well.

Droleskey served for some years on the Board of Advisers of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. He serves presently on the board of the National Association of Private and Independent Catholic Schools and on the board of 100% Pro-Life Pac. He is listed in the 2001-2002 edition of the Marquis Who's Who in America.

Droleskey, who was born on November 24, 1951, is married to the former Sharon Collins. Their first child, Lucy Mary Norma, was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on March 27, 2002. A native of Long Island, Droleskey and his family now live in their motor home with his wife and daughter as he travels the nation to give lectures in behalf of the Social Reign of Christ the King and Mary our Queen.