The Vatican’s Nuclear Diplomacy from the Cold War to the Present by Aaron Bateman
 A Reflection on the Resurrection of the Superfluous Man
By Miles Smith on Dec 06, 2019 09:59 pm Russia’s nineteenth-century literary luminaries all found themselves wrestling with a particularly Romantic archetype: the Superfluous Man. Bored, confused, dissolute, yet noble and aristocratic, the Superfluous Man experiences tragedy in his reckless pursuit of passion. And I can’t help but wonder whether there is any hope for these characters—both the Russians in the novels, and ... Read in browser »  Who helps former ultra-Orthodox integrate into Israeli way of life? Israelis who leave the ultra-Orthodox way of life find themselves without basic education, psychological support or career prospects. Instead of forced enlistment, Israeli leadership must dialogue with ultra-Orthodox Instead of demanding that the ultra-Orthodox enlist in the army — like the secular parties insisted during election campaigns — Israel’s political leadership must open a dialogue with the ultra-Orthodox leadership about academic studies and the labor market. Learning to Love Again: Dante’s Descent in the “Inferno” By Paul Krause on Dec 04, 2019 10:00 pm That there is much depth to Dante’s “Inferno” is an understatement, and the poet’s descent into the abyss is perplexing at first glance. However, by invoking the muses of poetry and in being guided by Virgil, Dante tips his hand and reveals to the astute reader that the journey into—and through—hell will require the flowering ... Read in browser » The Romantic Theology of Charles Williams
By Bradley J. Birzer on Dec 04, 2019 10:00 pm Just as we consume the Eucharist at Mass, recognizing the holiness of the act, so some marriages become profound examples and witnesses of holiness. By habit and faith, Charles Williams contended, the serious Christian begins to see all meals as a shadow of the Eucharist and all love as a shadow of Holy Matrimony. ... Read in browser » Reno assumes the alternative is between the weak loves of neo-liberalism and the strong loves of a revivified European conservativism. Read More »  Return of the Small Gods? By Dwight Longenecker on Nov 16, 2019 09:01 pm Rusty Reno’s recent book, Return of the Strong Gods is an excellent explanation of the roots of relativism. The short version is that two world wars left Western civilization with a huge societal case of post-traumatic stress disorder. With heads in hands, the thinkers concluded that we kill one another because of dogma. We say, ... Read in browser » A Course Reversal? On R.R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods By James Kalb on Dec 10, 2019 05:06 pm Many people today, especially conservatives and Christians, find it alarming that basic human connections and loyalties keep weakening in favor of impersonal economic and administrative arrangements. The tendency has been going on for a long [...] Read in browser » The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Truth By Joseph Pearce on Nov 16, 2019 09:00 pm Books are liberating. Not all books, to be sure. Not the sort of books that are as bad as the fads they serve, the sort of books in which vanity vanquishes verity, and in which the passion for fashion crucifies truth. Not the sort of books that turn their readers into prisoners of the ... Read in browser » Globalization and Our National Anomie by Nayeli RianoGlobalization has become an ineluctable reality. Technocrats and cosmopolitan politicians are abetting globalization for political influence, economic gain, and utopian delusion. We might add another incentive: A forgotten or deliberately ignored reverence for civic life. Might a hyper-focus on global advancement be contributing to a growing state of national anomie in liberal democracies worldwide? [MORE] Tolkien & Anglo-Saxon England: Protectors of Christendom by Bradley J. BirzerJ.R.R. Tolkien believed that the Anglo-Saxon world might offer us strength to redeem Christendom. The hero of The Lord of the Rings, after all, is an Anglo-Saxon farmer turned citizen-warrior. The myth became one of universal—rather than national—significance and import. The Christian should embrace and sanctify the most noble virtues to come out of the northern pagan mind: courage and raw will... [MORE] Where, Then, Is Time? by Eva Brann If it is the case that time never makes its appearance out in the world but only motion is in evidence, then either time is not or it is in the only other venue of which I can think, inside our soul—to be internally imagined rather than externally projected. When physical time has been shown to lack all physical evidence and therefore to be scientifically void, it might still be theologically real... [MORE] History’s Answer to Modern Despair Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. “Having trivialized the past by equating it with outmoded . . . fashions and attitudes, people today resent anyone who draws on the past in serious discussions of contemporary conditions or attempts to use the past as a standard by which to judge the present… A denial of the past, superficially progressive and optimistic, proves […] The choice is not between a Spartan communitarianism or Brook Farm-style collectivism, and contemporary liberalism. Read More »
 Why Pop Music Is So Bad These Days
By Jon Henschen on Nov 07, 2019 09:59 pm Today’s pop music is designed to sell, not inspire. Today’s pop artist is often more concerned with producing something familiar to mass audience, increasing the likelihood of commercial success. With less timbral variety, and the same combination of keyboard, drum machine, and computer software, and with only two songwriters writing much of what we hear, ... Read in browser »  "Too Many to Count": The Global Persecution of Christians by Raymond Ibrahim Algeria: Persecution of Christians Continues Unbroken by Uzay Bulut The High Risks of Soleimani's Solution for Iraq by Amir Taheri The Fate of Christians in the Current World by Denis MacEoin Egypt: Christian Churches Burn "Accidentally," or Have "Terrorists Changed Operations"?by Raymond Ibrahim Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán: Europe's Solitary Defender of Persecuted Christiansby Giulio Meotti • Another Ignored Genocide of Christians Plagues Burkina Faso by Raymond Ibrahim Nathaniel Allen writes: Defeating Boko Haram will require a fundamental shift in how the Nigerian government has handled the insurgency. To date, policymakers in Abuja have relied on a combination of neglect, ruthlessness, and over-confidence, downplaying the scale of the problem and relying on military force to substitute for a broader political strategy. A growing acceptance within Nigeria’s armed forces and governing institutions that the insurgency is once again a rising threat provides an opportunity for policymakers to change course. – War on the Rocks "The war against Christians: It hit a peak in the last century but it's ongoing in the Middle East, Africa and Asia," Clifford D. May, The Washington Times
 Understanding Hegel’s Theory on Time By Eva Brann on Nov 04, 2019 10:00 pm Time, it will turn out, is a kind of intuiting, indeed the matrix of all intuiting, but it is not therefore to be intuited, that is, looked at, rather than thought out. The moving pictures that Hegel himself suggests to illustrate the emerging determinations of thought are only concessions to our ordinarily representational minds. This ... Read in browser » Liberalism and Idolatry Go Hand in Hand Michael Pakaluk “Considered in itself, idolatry is the greatest of mortal sins.” So begins the old Catholic Encyclopedia’s entry on the topic. I was surprised to read that this is the greatest of all mortal sins. Was it worse than murder? Worse even than the sexual abuse of minors? “For it is, by definition,” the entry continues, […]Read More Our Lady Is the True Guardian of Womanhood, Not Feminism Donald DeMarco On the night of October 29, 2019, Meghan Murphy, a freelance writer, spoke at a Toronto library to an audience of roughly 100 people, mostly women. Her topic, entirely unwarranted just a few years ago, was “Gender Identity: What Does It Mean for Society, The Law, and Women?” Her main point was that “allowing men […]Read More Pre-Socratics or First Philosophers?
By Eva Brann on Nov 25, 2019 09:59 pm The Pre-Socratics may be thought of as deficient, lacking something, primitive in the derogatory sense. But there is also the opposite perspective: These men were not primitive, without sophistication, but primeval, deeper, more receptive to origins. Think how peculiar this appellation is: “Pre-Socratics.” A whole slew of thinkers, poetical, aphoristic, prosaic—condemned to be known as ... Read in browser »  Turkey: Arming Genocide of Christians in Nigeria?
by Raymond Ibrahim  This military base is getting its own exorcism horror movie, and it’s ‘based on a true story’ (Army Times) “Incident at Fort Bragg" is “inspired by the true story of Irish priest Malachi Martin, who was brought in by the U.S. government to perform a sanctioned exorcism on a young soldier. REVOLUTIONISM REDUX, PART I By EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman The New Criterion If it takes one kind of Holy Madness to drive out another, dissenters from the identity politics of the newly socialist and liberationist left may be driven to join the Trumpites under the banner of nationalism. Read More THE IDEOLOGICAL HIJACKING OF POPE ST. JOHN XXIII
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel Syndicated Column Today, the living parts of the Catholic Church are those committed to a truth-centered evangelization that manifests itself in compassionate witness as well as compelling proposal. Read More
Why did the Wall fall, 30 years ago?
By George Weigel on Nov 20, 2019 03:01 am November 9 marked the 30th anniversary of the peaceful breach of the Berlin Wall — the symbolic high point of the Revolution of 1989, which would be completed seven weeks later by the fall of [...] Read in browser » 
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When the Wall Came Down Thirty years on, a reminder of the truth about all totalitarian regimes
Why Did the Berlin Wall Fall?
by Barbara J. ElliottThe Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain seemed to be permanent fixtures of the political landscape of Europe after 1961. But to everyone’s surprise, the Berlin Wall opened on November 9, 1989. This stunning event triggered a chain reaction throughout Eastern Europe, accelerating a process that had begun a decade earlier. As it turns out, I was an eyewitness to much of this chapter of history. I was there in Germany when the Berlin Wall opened up in November 1989 to great jubilation, and I helped people who fled communism start a new life in the West... [MORE] Remember, Remember the 9th of November by Bradley J. BirzerSocialism did not kill merely the body—it sought to extinguish the soul and all belief in anything transcendent in the human person. As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is time to remember and reclaim man’s oldest faith, a faith in one Almighty God who make each of us in His glorious image. Only then can we challenge the so-called wisdom of this world... [MORE] Candles Behind the Wall by Barbara J. ElliottIn this video, Dr. Barbara J. Elliott remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall, and draws attention to the individuals who, through faith and love, made this momentous event possible. Having interviewed many of those who were imprisoned, beaten, ostracized, and forced underground during the rule of the communist East German regime, Dr. Elliott tells with passion the stories of the triumph of these tireless souls. They were the ones who chased away the darkness with the light of their hope. They were, as Dr. Elliott so aptly puts it, the candles behind the wall... [MORE] The Infinite Imagination by Paul KrauseThe Christian imagination, unlike the imaginations of the Far East or the pagans, calls the mind upward into the vast expanse beyond the stars to meet with God face-to-face. For man, differentiated from the rest of the animals, has his head situated to gaze upon the infinite expanse of space and be called to communion with the God of inexhaustible abundance... [MORE]
The 30th Anniversary Of The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
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A Century Of Ideas: Labor And Capital Market Policy: From Ideas To Actions Over One Hundred Years
via The Hoover Centennial Nowhere are good economic ideas more important for growth and stability than in labor and capital markets. Enormous technological, political, and demographic shifts in the past one hundred years have changed what is feasible and what works in practice. Panelists will discuss how ideas about the roles of government and private enterprise have changed, how good ideas stressing economic freedom can be advanced into action, and the influence of globalization on the ability of governments to apply good ideas to capital flows and immigration.  John Henry Newman: Conscience of the Age By Glenn Arbery on Oct 31, 2019 10:00 pm What John Henry Newman says about conscience shocks the modern secular sensibility, which treats it (if at all) as the “socially constructed” result of any number of cultural influences. The conscience is a messenger from God: giving saints courage to resist tyranny, even unto death. The canonization of John Henry Newman was momentous for ... Read in browser » The “Confessions” of Bruce Springsteen: “Western Stars,” the Film By Stephen M. Klugewicz on Oct 31, 2019 10:00 pm Bruce Springsteen's unrivaled stage presence comes across remarkably well in the film "Western Stars," as he performs his recent album in its entirety. But it is the brief, meditative, and confessional vignettes he uses to introduce each song that reveal just how much the entire album serves as his own version of St. Augustine's "Confessions." ... Read in browser » Shakespeare and the Saints By Joseph Pearce on Oct 31, 2019 10:00 pm When most of us think of Shakespeare we don’t immediately connect him with the saints. We might think of the play Sir Thomas More, on which he collaborated with other contemporary playwrights and which was banned during his lifetime for its volatile pro-Catholic perspective. We might connect him with the positive portrayal of Edward ... Read in browser » Why Ireland Snubbed St. John Henry Newman
John P. McCarthy Ireland, particularly its government, is now in the strange position of being simultaneously hostile and indifferent to Catholicism. An indication of the seemingly indifferent attitude toward the Catholic Church by Irish officialdom occurred in connection with the recent canonization of John Henry Cardinal Newman. Newman was the founding rector (or president) of University College Dublin. […]  Schooling for an Empire
By George Stanciu on Oct 28, 2019 10:00 pm Many Americans refuse to acknowledge that the United States has become an empire; however, virtually, no one doubts that America’s contribution to humankind is material prosperity for all founded on political freedom, technological innovation, and free markets, in effect, an empire of consumer goods and physical comfort. John le Carré, the acclaimed author of ... Read in browser »  Women: To Work or Not to Work? By Carrie Gress, Ph.D. on Oct 22, 2019 05:44 pm Since the 1960s, women have been encouraged to throw off the shackles of home and dive into careers. The regnant wisdom has been that a career is far more satisfying than homemaking. As I’ve outlined [...] Read in browser » The lessons of St. John Paul II By Joanna Bogle on Oct 22, 2019 04:18 pm Next year, 2020, will see the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the most remarkable men of our times. In today’s West, it is almost standard to assume that anyone whose life has [...] Read in browser » Infantile America By Chilton Williamson on Oct 25, 2019 10:00 pm Around the middle of the last century, children dressed like their parents. Nowadays, parents dress like their children. Has infantilism, or perhaps simply Peter Panism, become epidemic in America? Several years before his death last spring, the Hungarian-American historian John Lukacs remarked to me, in reference to 21st-century America, that “this is what a proletarian ... Read in browser » William Shakespeare: Poet, Playwright—Catholic?
Joseph Pearce A recent film, All Is True, released this past May and starring Kenneth Branagh as Shakespeare and Ian McKellen as Shakespeare’s patron, the Earl of Southampton, purports to be a depiction of the Bard’s final years in Stratford-upon-Avon following his retirement from the London stage. Making no effort to remain true to the known facts […]  On Misreading Marx By Maxwell Bindernagel on Oct 24, 2019 10:00 pm Marxism can only be forced into a marriage with Christianity if it is misinterpreted. Christians and conservatives can and should read Karl Marx carefully, and even develop an appreciation for his genius. But there is no Christian case to be made for Marxism. My students often balk when I mention the enjoyment I take ... Read in browser From Marx to Gaia By Dr. Samuel Gregg on Oct 23, 2019 02:12 pm Thirty years ago, the world rejoiced as the crack-up of Communism’s grip on Eastern Europe, forever symbolized by the Berlin Wall, began. This, however, created enormous dilemmas for prominent representatives of a theology which had [...] Read in browser » Bill Barr Is Right. That’s Why He Terrifies the Left Robert R. Reilly Attorney General William Barr was excoriated by the mainstream press and the social media offenderati for his speech at the (Roman Catholic) University of Notre Dame last week. Yet the A.G. was simply spelling out the reality of life in modern America: here is what we have lost, here are the reasons why, and here’s what’s happening as […] Bill Barr's Point About Religion Is Underscored by His Critics Editorial of The New York Sun | October 25, 2019 https://www.nysun.com/editorials/bill-barrs-point-about-religion-is-underscored-by/90884/ Beware the Neo-Marcionites Fr. Tim McCauley Throughout his papacy, Pope Francis has warned of the return of the ancient heresy of Pelagianism. Pelagius was a fourth-century monk who believed that the human will is capable of attaining perfection apart from God’s grace. In Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis writes of the “self-absorbed promethean neo-pelagianism of those who ultimately trust in their own […] Getting the Right Side of History
by James Bruce In a nutshell, if history is doing the heavy lifting, it’s important to get the history right. Read More » THE ROOTS OF RUSSIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PROTESTANT UNITY?? AND WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LIBERAL NATIONALISM10/23/2019  Out of the Ruins: Walker Percy Explains
Walker Percy Editor’s note: in this fascinating interview with Crisis Magazine, the acclaimed novelist Walker Percy discusses the vocations crisis, abortion, Vatican II, popes, and (of course) literature. The interview originally appeared in the July 1989 print edition of Crisis. It has been edited for brevity. CRISIS: There is tremendous intellectual opposition in the Church to Pope […]  Santa Muerta, Don’t Pray for Us Sean Fitzpatrick When godlessness reigns, it’s not surprising to see false gods rise in response to the human hunger for spiritual fulfillment. It is surprising, however, to see people turn to death to fulfill their lives. In recent decades, a cult has risen out of Mexico with an unholy rival to the Virgin of Guadalupe: Nuestra Señora […] Ryan Hanley's Our Great Purpose gives the reader a taste of the depths of Smith’s thought as well as his words in an inviting style. Read More »
Brexit: Boris Becomes Charlie Brown. . . While, Our Diarist Reports, Lucy Plays for the Remainers By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun | October 23, 2019 https://www.nysun.com/foreign/brexit-boris-becomes-charlie-brown/90879/  Brexit: Could Britain's Bid for Freedom End in Tragedy? Editorial of The New York Sun | October 20, 2019 https://www.nysun.com/editorials/brexit-could-britains-bid-for-freedom-end/90874/ The rejection by Britain's parliament of Prime Minister Johnson's deal in respect of Brexit makes us wonder whether the denouement to this drama is going to end up like the last scene of "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold." That involved the desperate flight to escape East Germany by Richard Burton and his disillusioned girlfriend. Inches from freedom, they are gunned down at the Berlin Wall. Continue Reading Brexit: Boris Lands In Same Trap As Mrs. May
Our Diarist Calls for a Clean Break for Britain By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun | October 19, 2019 https://www.nysun.com/foreign/brexit-boris-lands-in-same-trap-as-theresa-may/90873/  Waiting for God in Absurd Times By Emina Melonic on Oct 19, 2019 10:00 pm Whether one is an atheist or a believer, all of us can agree that there is certainly something missing in our society. By entering into a dialogue with a variety of texts, the authors of “The Terror of Existence” wrestle with the idea of meaninglessness and absurdity with the seriousness and it deserves. The ... Read in browser » The Beauty and Mystery of the Unaccompanied Violin Seeing the West as a Millstone: Sketches of Solzhenitsyn in Exile Conservative Credo
By Barbara J. Elliott on Oct 21, 2019 10:00 pm The conservative believes that that the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are interrelated, and that all things are measured against these three transcendentals. Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords our readers the opportunity to join Barbara J. Elliott, as she considers and outlines the framework of Conservatism. —W. Winston Elliott III, Publisher ... Read in browser »  The Hunger for Fathers in Joker and Ad Astra by Mark Judge While critics and fans have compared Joker to the gritty films of the 1970s and early 1980s, the movie it actually has most in common with is Ad Astra. Read More » “Celibacy isn’t the problem” By Mary Jo Anderson on Oct 16, 2019 08:11 pm October 16—The general congregation of the Pan-Amazonian Synod was suspended for a day to permit participants to work in circoli minori, small groups divided by language. Following 10 days of statements, interventions, and presentations by [...] Read in browser » Joker, amoralism, and the nature of violence By Thomas S. Hibbs on Oct 16, 2019 02:51 pm Because of scenes of graphic violence and because it is a film about a character whose own violence inspires violence, Joker, directed by Todd Phillips (best known for the Hangover trilogy) and starring Joaquin Phoenix, [...] Read in browser » Seminaries and formation: One priest’s perspective and suggestion By Fr. John Chalny, STD on Oct 17, 2019 11:23 pm It appears that few today believe the Catholic Church should continue business as usual. Loud voices on one hand call for movement—walking or running in the “paths of the Spirit”—toward a “new Church”. On the [...] Read in browser » Historical clarity and today’s Catholic contentions
By George Weigel on Oct 16, 2019 03:13 am One of the curiosities of the 21st-century Catholic debate is that many Catholic traditionalists (especially integralists) and a high percentage of Catholic progressives make the same mistake in analyzing the cause of today’s contentions within [...] Read in browser »  Contending with Demons by Scott Yenor Dostovesky suggests an appeal to the nation untouched with a concern for eternity itself will prove insufficient to defeat ideology. Read More » The Lost Art of Classical Education
By Randall Tumlinson on Oct 17, 2019 10:00 pm Graduates sallying forth from the ivied halls need to be free men and women. That is the claim and purpose of the liberal arts. Having had a significant time to ponder and pursue and practice the virtues of freedom, these students can join the ongoing conversation of the ages and continue to refine the ... Read in browser »  A Thomist’s Perspective on the Church in Crisis Josef Pieper Editor’s note: in this far-ranging and prophetic interview with Crisis Magazine, Josef Pieper discusses the vocations crisis, the failure of catechesis, liberation theology, feminism, and something very much like the Benedict Option. The interview originally appeared in the March 1990 print edition of Crisis. It has been edited for brevity. Crisis: Some people claim that St. Thomas is […] Soul, World, and Idea: Interpreting Plato
By Eva Brann on Oct 14, 2019 10:00 pm “To save the phenomena” of heavenly motions by undergirding them with rational, that is, mathematical, hypotheses—that is said to be the problem Plato set for astronomers in a passage from the “Republic” frequently referenced by Daniel Sherman. His own project is, as I understand it, the inverse one: to save the Platonic ideas by ... Read in browser »  Eyes Wide Shut and the Moral Bankruptcy of the American Elite by Titus Techera If we wish to understand what's happening to some of our elites, we had better turn instead to more durable sources of wisdom—poetry and film, above all. Read More » Sex, Sexual Orientation, and the Separation of Powers by Thomas Ascik Three cases that deal with a powerful federal law pervasive in its influence pose the opportunity to the Court of the takeover of legislative power. Read More » What we’re up against: Confronting our Gnostic empire of desire (part 2) By Dr. Leroy Huizenga on Oct 03, 2019 01:14 pm Editor’s note: Part 1 of this essay was published on September 28th and can be read here. This essay is adapted from Behold the Messiah: Proclaiming the Gospel of Matthew (Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Road, 2019 [forthcoming]) [...] Read in browser » Hell Is Real—and It Isn’t Empty Casey Chalk Bishop Robert Barron, the auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles and a pioneer of online evangelism, is hardly prone to controversy. Yet the telegenic prelate stirred something of a firestorm back in June that continues to spill ink today. In fact, it isn’t a new debate at all. Commenting on the Gospel reading for June 25 […] Europe Without Europe
By Glenn Arbery on Oct 09, 2019 10:00 pm Europe would not be Europe without the current of tradition once inculcated by classical education. It is such an education we must seek to preserve. Though its immediate effects are not manifest, without it the culture would be ceded to those who wish to shape it for a radically secular agenda, perhaps even a posthuman ... Read in browser »  The Islamicization of Public Education Continues Apace Fr. Mario Alexis Portella On October 15, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition presented by the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) to hear Wood v. Arnold, a case brought by Caleigh Wood, a Christian student in the 11th grade at La Plata High School in Maryland. Wood refused to take part in a school exercise she felt would […] In Whitewashing Islamism, K-12 Programs Advance Jihad by Mitchell Bard The Daily Wire September 30, 2019 https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59483/in-whitewashing-islamism-k-12-programs-advance Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is Upon Us reveals Buckley’s and Baldwin’s longstanding positions on civil rights and race. Read More » Clarion Call: Islamic influence on America’s universities By William Kilpatrick on Oct 10, 2019 07:54 pm In a recent, insightful First Things piece, Peter Hitchens reiterates the not so well known fact that Hitler was, in many respects, a progressive. And like progressives everywhere, Hitler saw young people as the vanguard [...] Read in browser » Breaking the Silence on Nigeria’s Christian Genocide
Fr. Mario Alexis Portella Most of us in the West have heard of the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from northeastern Nigeria in 2014 by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram. Yet that was only the most infamous instance of Christian persecution in Nigeria, which can be traced back to the 19th-century Sokoto caliphate. Sharia law was officially established in the […]Read More The Paleoconservative Eminence? Cardinal Sarah On Identity, Nationality, & Roots By Jerry Salyer on Dec 28, 2019 10:00 pm Though counter-globalist, Cardinal Robert Sarah’s “The Day Is Now Far Spent” is not anti-Western, but is an emphatic rejection of liberal anthropology—which strikes him as blasphemous, positing a decontextualized individual, one who needs neither family nor neighbor nor even God Almighty. The Day Is Now Far Spent, by Cardinal Robert Sarah (385 pages, Ignatius ... Read in browser »  Cardinal Sarah: “I believe that we are at a turning point in the history of the Church” By Carl E. Olson on Sep 23, 2019 02:56 pm Robert Cardinal Sarah’s new book The Day Is Now Far Spent: In conversation with Nicolas Diat is now available in English from Ignatius Press and the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the [...] Read in browser » Pitting Conservative Empiricism Against Reason and Revelation by James R. Rogers If Hazony's traditions are just accidents of cultural evolution or history, then we’re back to full blown relativism. Read More » Crisis, Church Reform, and the Lay Vocation Francis X. Maier A dozen or so years ago, a colleague gave me a little wooden plaque for my office. I’ve had it on my bookshelf ever since. On it are carved these words: “It is as bad as you think, and they are out to get you.” The colleague who gave it to me is a Capuchin […] St. Augustine and J.R.R. Tolkien By Bradley J. Birzer on Oct 13, 2019 09:00 pm As with St. Augustine as the barbarians tore through Rome’s gate on August 24, 410, at midnight, J.R.R. Tolkien looked out over a ruined world: a world on one side controlled by ideologues, and, consequently, a world of the Gulag, the Holocaust camps, the Killing fields, and total war; on the other: a world ... Read in browser » Cardinal Sarah’s Guide to the New Counter-Reformation Michael Warren Davis In 1577, St. John of the Cross was taken prisoner by a group of Carmelites from Toledo who were opposed to the reforms of the Order he was undertaking with St. Teresa of Ávila. For eight or nine months, he was held in a six-by-ten-foot cell. The ceiling was so low that John (not a […] Read More Abandoning Apostolic Celibacy Would Be a Mistake
Eoin Cronin In the eighteenth-century comic poem Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (“The Midnight Court”), the narrator expresses frustration at her lack of marriage prospects, berating the young men of her day for their scheming, selfish ways. In spite of an abundance of attractive young women eager to marry and start families, these lazy men would rather chase […] Read More  The First Virtue of Old Whigs: Prudence in Burke and Lincoln by Daniel E. Ritchie Weiner’s Old Whigs offers a persuasive account of how Burke and Lincoln negotiate the tensions between principle and prudence. Read More » Traditional Education & the Future of Europe By Glenn Arbery on Oct 02, 2019 10:00 pm Near the end of his recent book, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (highly recommended), the English philosopher Roger Scruton makes a very interesting observation about what is possible in America but not in Europe. As he puts it, the burden of American conservatism has been to define the customs and traditions most ... Read in browser » Russell Kirk Reconsidered
By Bradley J. Birzer on Oct 04, 2019 10:00 pm Russell Kirk gave voice to a myriad of persons, personalities, and ideas circulating in the decade after the Second World War, just as the West was trying to understand what it stood for, rather than what it stood against. The latter was easy. Communism and fascism were evil. But, what exactly did the West stand ... Read in browser » |
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