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- Billy Bishop on 27 July 2010
Roger – You can’t be expected to fill in every gap in my education, can you?... - roger on 27 July 2010
Billy, several things to say. First of all I had no idea that you had a blog! If it is public, I... - Billy Bishop on 27 July 2010
I could go on and on about this and maybe I will on my own blog. I hope I may be... - roger on 25 July 2010
Epsilon, I am very OK with this and thank you deeply. It is very good to know that people... - epsilon on 17 July 2010
I ‘ve dedicated a post to this today – hope you’re OK with this this is the... - roger on 17 July 2010
Epsilon, very good to hear from you as well! I did not know the link you gave, but am glad to... - epsilon on 12 July 2010
“the Hollow Men, who knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing, had lost... - roger on 10 July 2010
Very good to have your voice and insights back here, Edwin! As you may see from upcoming... - roger on 10 July 2010
Well, thank you Irish Cicero! - Edwin Shendelman on 4 July 2010
We can hardly think our society is the least bad so far. Lately, I’ve been... - Irish Cicero on 28 June 2010
This is an excellent post! Very well done. We linked you: http://washingtonrebel.type... - roger on 12 June 2010
Dean, Annig … First Dean, I am sorry to say I can do no more than wish you luck with your...
- Billy Bishop on 27 July 2010
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Author Archives: roger
King of Hearts
Cor Jesu, Rex et Centrum omnium cordium
(Heart of Jesus, King and Centre of all hearts -
From the Litany of the Sacred Heart).
It is frequently asserted in certain Catholic Traditionalist circles that the religion of the so-called “Spirit of Vatican II” is a new religion, so different to what preceded it, that it must be considered [...]
Looking back a Year – A List of Ten Personally Important Entries
As has been indicated, these Webbursts are reserved for more casual and/or personal things, which may be of less interest and merit than those posted elsewhere, but which we’d still like to say anyway.
Along those lines, we’ll note that in terms of sustained regular writing, this site is now about one year old. Also the [...]
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The Day of Cosmic Re-Generation
Since Easter night, I have found myself repeatedly wishing my friends: “Happy Easter!”
But I ask myself, are not these words altogether too mundane for the Unutterable Cosmic Enormity betokened by this Feast?
And I who write a weblog critiquing the banalisation of the Christian Mystery found everywhere in the post-Vatican II Church, I must ask myself [...]
Confirmed into Joy
The great joys of my life: Marriage. Fatherhood. Entry into the Holy Church …
This Church – when exactly did I enter her, I wonder? Was there even in 1997 on the threshold of my 34th birthday, somehow a partial entry into Her Mysteries – when I had a set of unexpected experiences which [...]
Memory and Forgetting: From Liberal to Traditional
The journey from Liberal to Conservative …
This is a subject on which I ponder a great deal, having made a long trek in my lifetime across a number of stations, from New Age to liberal Protestant to liberal Catholic to finally a Catholic who feels he must do all he can to defend the Tradition.
Although [...]
What IS this site, anyway?
Dear Friends, Known and Unknown,
Not so long ago, I took the decision here to occasionally write very personally about myself.
This is one of those exceptions where I want to speak very personally and frankly. And I mark it now as a “personal exception” in order that those interested in less personal fare can easily leave [...]
Blind Faith in the Dogmatic Authority of Secularism
There is a book I am preparing to review: Priests, Prelates, People – A History of European Catholicism since 1750.
It is a tale of tragedy. For gathered under one cover, one finds 250 years of the Faith in retreat from wave upon wave upon wave of secular and rationalist destruction.
Gathered under one cover in several [...]
Book Review: Marian Apparitions, the Bible and the Modern World – Donal Anthony Foley
The Miraculous Medal, struck in Paris after 1830 Apparition in the Rue du Bac.
I wonder …
Do I simply call this a book? Or would it be more accurate to call it an unexpected trove of treasure I have discovered by the Grace of God?
But to be prosaic for a moment, this is of course, [...]
This Joy
If people only knew …
For two days running, circumstances led me to miss Mass. This is very unusual for me and accustomed as I am to daily Mass, its absence was very noticeable.
I suppose some reading this might consider my going to Mass daily as some kind of zealous pious dutifulness. If they only knew [...]
The Death Cult Progeny of the Enlightenment III
At the end of preceding segment, I turned to the subject of hope. For I share a world with many who are losing hope as to the sustainability of our present civilisation.
And as I have written earlier in this little series, I myself have little hope in the prospects of creating an ultimately sustainable civilisation [...]
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Book Review: When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten
A Great Tree Trunk for understanding Corporate Control and the Idols of Modern Secular Civilisation.
Thank you, Friend(s) Unknown (You know who you are)
Just a little whisper now …
We have links to Amazon with a request to help this work.
Until lately, these were hardly used, but just recently someone or some ones, presumably in America, started using them.
Whoever you are Unknown Friend(s), I want to say: we are grateful.
This site is being born in real difficulty, which by so-called first [...]
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Valentin Tomberg: The Impoverishment of Protestantism
I have warned here that these webbursts may be very fragmentary, even cryptic at times. Here is an example of what I mean.
Recently some unpublished notes by Valentin Tomberg were released. They contained a single sentence which HIT me very, very deeply.
“The impoverishment of humanity caused by Protestantism: without the Mother the Word is not [...]
The Death Cult Progeny of the Enlightenment II
Stripped and naked, we die.
Were you to ask me dear Reader, for a five word précis of my last entry at this weblog, I doubt I could do much better than that.
For the point of that entry was that the fruits of the Enlightenment had left us stripped, stripped of the very things needed for our survival.
These include [...]
Every Secret Misery and Silent Agony
Bursting:
I have mentioned at this site before Paray-le-Monial, where His Most Sacred Heart once was seen, blazing like the sun. And I have mentioned before, how while bearing heavy suffering, how held and bathed I felt in the love of that Most Sacred Heart, which still can be felt beating there … beating at Paray-le-Monial in France.
And there, there I had experiences [...]
Just What Pray Tell is a Webburst?
Well, a little while ago there was an announcement saying a new blog called Webbursts would be starting here.
And just what pray tell is a Webburst?
It is first of all, an experiment. I don´t know if these webbursts will succeed. I just want to play a little …
A confession: with much of my writing I tend to be what [...]
The Death Cult Progeny of the Enlightenment
Is the only means for saving human civilisation through the restoration of the lost authority of the Church?
Is the only means of restoring the lost authority of the Church through the undoing of so, so much that happened in the wake of Vatican II?
Whatever the merit of these questions and however bizarre they will no doubt appear [...]
The Lost Piety of Catholic France II – Our Lady of La Salette
Our Lady of La Salette – 1896 French postcard image
Since the period of the French Revolution, there has been a series of Marian Apparitions, eight of which – as is commonly known - have been approved by the Church. This is to say that among untold hundreds of alleged apparitions, the Vatican after prolonged and exhaustive [...]
The Sanctifying Fire of Frequent Communion II