Category Archives: Roger’s Weblog

What is a Counter Revolution?

By roger | Published: 11 May 2012

This website is a call – a call to Counter Revolution.

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Valentin Tomberg, Catholic France and the Sacred Heart – More Very Personal Reflexions Part IV

By roger | Published: 4 May 2012

From Valentin Tomberg on Charles de Gaulle of France, Pope Paul VI and averting chaos in the Catholic Church in 1968.

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Valentin Tomberg, Catholic France and the Sacred Heart – More Very Personal Reflexions Part III

By roger | Published: 4 May 2012

Very personal thoughts regarding Valentin Tomberg and the French Counter Revolutionary tradition of the Sacred Heart.

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Valentin Tomberg, Catholic France and the Sacred Heart – More Very Personal Reflexions Part II

By roger | Published: 28 April 2012

Further reflexions on Valentin Tomberg and the Catholic Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus which commenced in Paray-le-Monial, France through the Apparitions to St Margaret Mary.

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Valentin Tomberg, the Sacred Heart and Catholic France – More Very Personal Reflexions

By roger | Published: 21 April 2012

Catholic France, the Sacred Heart, Valentin Tomberg and Paray-le-Monial … some very personal reflexions.

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What Findhorn Could Never Give Me

By roger | Published: 16 April 2012

Once long ago, I lived at the New Age community of Findhorn in northern Scotland. What to say of this Findhorn community? Well, according to a Vatican document on the New Age, Jesus Christ the Bearer of the Water of Life: ‘The two centres which were the initial power-houses of the New Age, and to a [...]

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Portals into the Catholic Mystery: A Very Personal Hello Again

By roger | Published: 12 April 2012

Hello again Friends, Known and Unknown, This weblog starts up again … after months of winter. And although most of the time, I resist the temptation to very personal and informal writing at this blog – I’ll make an exception here. (Note the contractions I wouldn’t normally use). Many personal events have sharpened my awareness [...]

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O Eliphas Lévi …

By roger | Published: 11 April 2012

O Eliphas Lévi, how I struggle with your legacy! Eliphas Lévi, born in Paris in 1810, ordained a Catholic deacon in 1835, later author of books on esotericism and dubious magic, later penitent and lover of Christ, who not only knew that Christ established the way of tears in the world of the serpent, but [...]

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Briefly, this Christmas

By roger | Published: 24 December 2011

First, a brief, personal note. Some weeks ago a little illness – nothing serious – interrupted the regular weekly flow of this website. By the Spring at the latest, this regular flow should resume. The illness has led me into a period of fallowness – at least regarding this site – which feels as though [...]

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Bleeding Heart Conservative

By roger | Published: 10 October 2011

There are delays with numerous things at this end. I am sorry to be slower than perhaps indicated in resuming certain series here, particularly the one on Valentin Tomberg. For the nonce, I am going to rip a small section from my upcoming book to present here. The section comes from early in the book [...]

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Tectonic Shifts in the Vatican

By roger | Published: 17 September 2011

Earlier this week we said the following: “We briefly interrupt our series on the New Age to note this possibly landmark day. It is the fourth anniversary of the implementation of Summorum Pontificum and if rumours reported in the French press (Le Figaro) are to be believed, a day of potential earthquake (English translation here). [...]

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The Tide is Turning …

By roger | Published: 14 September 2011

We briefly interrupt our series on the New Age to note this possibly landmark day. It is the fourth anniversary of the implementation of Summorum Pontificum and if rumours reported in the French press (Le Figaro) are to be believed, a day of potential earthquake (English translation here). If such reports have truth, they suggest [...]

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Apologetics) – Part VII

By roger | Published: 10 September 2011

So far in this series, we have been quoting material from 2005 – from a letter I wrote back then to old New Age friends of mine. But now a little interjection or interlude to this series … But before this injection, let me reference the following from last time: “Some … may be astonished [...]

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Apologetics) – Part VI

By roger | Published: 4 September 2011

Foreword 2011: As has been explained previously, this is a very personal series, which is drawn from a letter originally written in 2005 for old New Age friends of mine. As I touch on below, my writing and thinking today differs considerably from six years ago, which was significantly less traditional. Still with amendments I [...]

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Apologetics) – Part V

By roger | Published: 21 August 2011

Foreword 2011: We continue with my serialisation of a letter originally written in 2005 mainly (though not completely and entirely) for New Age friends – who could not comprehend how I could leave my Findhorn-New Age past behind in favour of the Catholic Church. The series is subtitled “A Still Hesitant Apologetics”, because in 2005 [...]

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Apologetics) – Part IV

By roger | Published: 14 August 2011

Foreword 2011: I am convert to the Church after twenty years of New Age faith and activity – in Findhorn, among other places. Recently I have been serialising a long letter originally written to old New Age friends of mine back in 2005. Traditional Catholic readers of this weblog could be mystified by my approach [...]

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Approach) – Part III

By roger | Published: 7 August 2011

Foreword 2011: In the previous material (from 2005), we have been contrasting William Bloom’s upbeat New Age approach with a very different approach – one where instead of New Age denial, Robert Sardello encourages us to feel – feel the pain of the world. Between William Bloom’s call for a supposedly all-embracing universal “holistic” spirituality [...]

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Apologetics) – Part II

By roger | Published: 31 July 2011

Foreword 2011: As explained before, the following material was originally written in 2005 in an attempt to reach New Agers. For this and other reasons previously explained, more traditional Catholics may find the language and even the content here different to the norm at this site. In part, this stems from my being a more [...]

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Apologetics)

By roger | Published: 24 July 2011

Foreword 2011: As announced last time, this weblog will be re-presenting older material for a short period, while I am in the midst of relocation and transition. I will be serialising a long letter from 2005, which I originally wrote mainly for British New Age friends of mine – from my New Age past. If [...]

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Musings on an Antithesis: Catholic England

By roger | Published: 8 July 2011

From the opening to Dennis Sewell’s Catholics: Britain’s Largest Minority: “When I was sent away to the Jesuits at the age of eight, my paternal grandmother plotted to have me abducted. Family legend has it that her co-conspirator was Great Aunt Mary, a strict Presbyterian with a booming voice and a developed propensity to meddle. [...]

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