The Title?

Well, the blog is not military in subject, in a direct sense.  I am certainly a part of the Church militant. Furthermore, one would have to be rather lacking in perspicacity not to be aware both of the present culture war and the current battle lines. I loved tanks and military history in my youth, and it is from this that I have derived the symbols.  The background in ambush camouflage.  The pattern involved an overall dark yellow background with dark green and red brown over-spray.  A further level of smaller spot in all three colors was added to give a sun dappled effect.  The camouflage pattern was common among German units in the later years of the Second World War, and was well suited to the defensive position the panzers found themselves in.   The blog title and URL both reference the names of operations, relating to the Ardennes Offensive, colloquially referred to as "The Battle of the Bulge".  The battle occurred in the winter and given the wintry conditions within the Church, it seems further apropos. This went poorly for the Germans and I certainly hope things will go better for the more conservative forces in The Church and in society.

The choice of a rather "panzer" theme for a catholic blog is in some sense contradictory, but not, I think, without merit .  There is nothing good  e.g. discipline, resolve..etc exemplified by the Germans late in the war, that cannot be baptized by the Church.  In fact, there is nothing virtuous that does not have its home and its fullness in the Church. Moreover, to the degree that there are defects in the Church, they are the defects of men, and ultimately found in all places where men are present. I realize there is a risk of offense, but having considered the risk, I think it is all the better.  There is a wild oversensitivity in the Church today, bordering on a self-hatred, and a dreadful fear of offense bordering on wanton cowardice. Neither of these bad trends needs any encouragement or application, for they are far to widespread and against the very spirit of this blog.  If you think this makes me some sort of Nazi, or somehow conflate Nazism and Catholicism, I would argue that such analysis would be superficial at best. I do not begrudge people a certain emotional response, but I will not give the emotional response the honor which is properly due to a more thorough logical response. The use of the sort of panzer theme does not logically imply that some of the same virtues  were not present among some soldiers in every army. That in fact, is really the whole point of the theme. Would that we manifest the virtues possessed by men in service of a compromised earthly cause in our efforts for a more perfect cause. Even if we were to hold everything of the German Army during the war to be verily  of the devil himself, it would be quite disturbing to the think that the soldiers of the devil outclassed the soldiers of Christ in any fashion at all.