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Catholic Tradition, Charles Taylor and the Final Triumph of the Hollow Men (Part IV)

I had started writing this series, when a poem arrived in my e-mail. Yes I had started writing about the Hollow Horror of Modernity, the Hollow Horror that Charles Taylor, it seems to me fails to do justice to in A Secular Age, when this poem arrived. This poem – was its arrival just a coincidence? Or was [...]
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Catholic Tradition, Charles Taylor and the Final Triumph of the Hollow Men (Part III)

In the last entries I have been reviewing, after a fashion, Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age. As I say, the book furnishes an extraordinarily comprehensive and complex sociological history, regarding the transition from Catholic Western Civilisation to our atomised, contemporary society. The book is brilliant on countless levels. I have even dared to ascribe a certain [...]
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Catholic Tradition, Charles Taylor and the Final Triumph of the Hollow Men (Part II)

Today I am continuing from thoughts last time on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age – an 800 page narrative, as to how we exited the Medieval worldview and entered our fragmented, post-modern age. As I said before, this is a masterpiece I hope to review fully in time and these are entries toward that final review. [...]
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Catholic Tradition, Charles Taylor and the Final Triumph of the Hollow Men

In 1930, Evelyn Waugh, the British Catholic novelist (most famously of Brideshead Revisited), wrote: “It seems to me that in the present state of European history, the essential issue is no longer between Catholicism, on one side, and Protestantism, on the other, but between Christianity and chaos. “Civilization — and by this [...]
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Acceptable Loss?

This entry like a number of mine, you will see, is tagged Dictatorship of Secularism. And these tagged entries refer to my growing conviction over years, as I study the rise of secularism, of how we are being manipulated, robbed, co-erced and ultimately controlled. Now in terms of these webmusings, there is a book that I [...]
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