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Hello Roger – have just re-read this post – it is so profound! Are you still... - roger on 5 March 2010
Philip, thank you for this unexpected kind encouragement again and prayers! After finding your... - philip johnson on 3 March 2010
your faith is strong .you are in my prayers.god bless you and god bless the pope.... - roger on 28 February 2010
Thank you Benjamin for this beautiful quote and for your warm words. They help, for much the... - roger on 28 February 2010
Thank you so much Philip. This kind, warm encouragement means a lot to us. For this internet... - roger on 28 February 2010
Yes Edwin. Catholicism is a living, growing tradition. I cannot help but feel that part of... - Benjamin on 25 February 2010
Revisited your blog; I am thankful for your journey and witness to me. I will revisit... - philip johnson on 24 February 2010
great writing.you are true followers of the one true faith. god bless .philip. - Edwin Shendelman on 24 February 2010
“For I really have come to believe that a de-sacramentalised,... - roger on 23 February 2010
Yes Edwin. There is a favourite quote of mine that makes old friends of mine yawn by now.... - Edwin Shendelman on 23 February 2010
I guess what I am trying to get at here is the need to hold two different ideas... - roger on 22 February 2010
Thank you for this Edwin. My original post invoked the word STRUGGLE quite consciously I...
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Tag Archives: Dictatorship of Secularism
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Lost Piety of Catholic France (Part I)
For years I have been grieving the Lost Piety of Catholic France.
But really, the title of this new series here is euphemistic. Because when one knows the history of post-revolution Catholic France and when one has faith, it is hard to avoid stronger titles, such as the Destroyed or Murdered Piety of Catholic France.
Still I will [...]
Book Review: Puritan´s Empire by Charles A. Coulombe
A Very Personal Review of a Very Catholic Deconstruction of America.
Remember Christ Our Saviour …
God rest ye merry, gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember, Christ, our Saviour
Was born on Christmas day
To save us all from Satan’s power
When we were gone astray …
How profoundly different is this old English hymn from so many of the dominant narratives of secularism!
Satan - are we not meant, in this modern day and age, to have moved beyond such [...]
Ireland, O Ireland!
I have been hoping to continue from the themes of my last entry. That is to say, I have wanted to further explore the profound questions of what is the response called of a traditional Catholic to Global Warming … Global Warming as the latest fruit of an increasingly materialistic society.
Unfortunately many pressures are keeping [...]
Book Review: The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern World by Gilles Kepel
A secular book to give hope to traditionalists...
Lead Us Not into Media Temptation …
Some time ago, I was at the St.Pius X Priory in Caussade, France, when a Franciscan brother celebrated Mass. In his homily, he spoke of the importance of prayer in times of temptation. Of how we, as children of God, become like babies in such times, and as such, need to cry to our parent [...]
It´s the Epistemology, Stupid!
There is a very fine book by James Kunstler, called Home from Nowhere. It is about the tragedy of the American built environment. That is, it tells of how virtually every American town and city tends towards losing its distinct identity, its sense of being a special place in its own right.
Instead of existing as sites [...]
Materialism, Truth and the Catholic Mystery
Recently here, I reported how moved I once was by the words of Latin Mass priest in Ireland who regretted a contemporary tendency in the Church to de-emphasise the need for the Sacrament of Confession. His point was that people who availed themselves less often of this Sacrament, availed themselves less of the “Sanctifying Grace” [...]
What Happens?
What happens?
When life’s most profound and important matters … matters which all people variously name as beauty, morality, love, mystery and the Sacred …
Are no longer treated as such by the culture around us? Because they cannot be empirically proven and established as having anything beyond relative, subjective or private value?
What happens …
When, because of [...]
DVD Review: Circle of Friends
A Flawed, Fond and Important Evocation of Catholic Ireland
Book Review: Ugly As Sin: Why They Changed Our Churches from Sacred Places to Meeting Spaces and How We Can Change Them Back Again – Michael S. Rose
A powerful and accessible account of how Catholic Churches are succumbing to ugliness.
Blind Faith in the Dogmatic Authority of Secularism