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Secularism and the Feast of Christ the King

By roger | Published: 28 October 2012

  Today is the Feast of Christ the King. And how Kim and I have been blessed today by a high Latin Mass celebrated today by the Institute of Christ the King … Now, it is a truism that the Catholic Church has changed a great deal since Vatican II. It is also a truism [...]

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Valentin Tomberg, the New Age and the Way of the Heart

By roger | Published: 21 August 2012

Or: An Open Letter on the Salvation of the World     APOLOGIA This Page is in process of a regrettable Deconstruction. The Deconstruction will be ongoing over the days ahead. We will explain the reasons for this regrettable Deconstruction and aim for a Reconstruction with most of this material and indeed expanded on. Until [...]

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Hilaire Belloc on the Supreme Confidence of the Modern Mind

By roger | Published: 12 August 2012

Recently I observed that without even knowing it, I had been fumbling in the footsteps of a giant: Hilaire Belloc. This is to say that many of the themes of this website are themes that Belloc – as I see now! – was elaborating a century ago. There are many such themes that I will [...]

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Hilaire Belloc: Survivals and New Arrivals (Book Review)

By roger | Published: 9 August 2012

    Reeling, I am reeling … Hilaire Belloc’s 1929 book Survivals and New Arrivals has hit me with terrific force. And like all truly great writing, it has stirred up powerful questions in me. Like: who were you Hilaire Belloc? What spirit, what vocation moved your passionate, brilliant, acutely incisive writing? And where are we [...]

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The Tears of the Blessed Virgin: “The Cross Will be Despised and Overthrown …”

By roger | Published: 23 June 2012

‘The sickness of the West today is that it is more and more lacking creative élan. The Reformation, rationalism, the French revolution, materialistic faith of the nineteenth century, and the Bolshevik revolution, show that everywhere mankind is turning away from the Virgin. The consequence of this is that the sources of creative spiritual élan are [...]

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

By roger | Published: 10 June 2012

I have been writing here, a very personal series of reflexions, uncomfortably personal … I want to start picking up the threads now and drawing to a close in the next two or three entries. At the heart of this little series has been my own painful struggle with modernity. The crisis of our modern [...]

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What is a Counter Revolution?

By roger | Published: 11 May 2012

This website is a call – a call to Counter Revolution. This means, if we think of ‘to counter’ as a verb, it is a call to counter the revolutionary movements of modern times that have cost us all so very dearly. Still we need to define further what we mean by Counter Revolution, beyond [...]

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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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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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A New Miscellany of Meaning …

By roger | Published: 16 June 2011

Just an odd, little personal webburst here. And a warning: what follows dear Reader may seem like little more than a glorified advertisement. You have been warned. Stop reading if you have become overly allergic to this virus of the modern world. I certainly understand … That being said, for anyone who may be interested [...]

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Book Review: The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves – Curtis White

By roger | Published: 28 May 2011

Recently I have been re-reading a book by Curtis White, who is a penetrating thinker, though hardly a Christian one. The book is called: The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves. White is a university professor and like myself, is an American, and what he means by The Middle Mind is the generation [...]

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Symbols and Imagery in the Sacred Heart Devotion (Part IV – with Tears for Montceaux L’Etoile)

By roger | Published: 21 May 2011

We have noted that before the Second Vatican Council, devotion to the Sacred Heart formed a prominent, even defining part of Catholicism. The imagery of the Sacred Heart seemed almost omnipresent in many arenas of Tridentine Catholicism. Tridentine Catholicism – this is to say: the epoch of Catholicism after the Middle Ages, after the Council [...]

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Valentin Tomberg, Catholic Tradition and the Counter-Revolution (Part V)

By roger | Published: 25 February 2011

In the last entry, I suggested that the Catholic corpus of Valentin Tomberg may be understood as nothing less than an extraordinary one-man crusade – a crusade by an uncanonised saint and genius towards the salvation of civilisation. I suggested that there was an astonishing effort to help carry the cross of modernity – and [...]

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Book Review: The Pope’s Legion by Charles A. Coulombe

By roger | Published: 16 February 2011

This is a book about the 60’s. Yet it has nothing to do with civil rights, sexual liberation, LSD and other forms of chemical liberation … Nor is there anything to do with student riots, the “right” to abortion on demand, Woodstock and general revolt against the Establishment. Neither Hugh Hefner nor Martin Luther King [...]

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(Living at Findhorn) Nobody Told Me …

By roger | Published: 22 January 2011

Long years lived in the heart of the New Age including the Findhorn Community in Scotland and nobody told me of the Sacraments, of the Church …

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Valentin Tomberg, Charles A Coulombe and Standing Up for Vatican I

By roger | Published: 12 January 2011

Odd … and perhaps worth a webburst. This morning by complete accident – it would seem – I stumbled upon a thoroughly mainstream text that is really quite apposite. Apposite. My computer’s dictionary has for this word ap·po·site adj especially well suited to the circumstances Now the circumstances in this case are the new directions [...]

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A Brush with Evil

By roger | Published: 15 November 2010

Not so long ago, I shook a man’s hand. He was a man I barely knew. All looked ordinary, “normal” with him. I would never have guessed that something was seriously amiss. Yesterday I learned that he had stabbed his partner to death. And then he took the knife to himself. They both had children [...]

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On the Nature of this Website: Pulling the Pieces Together

By roger | Published: 7 November 2010

Ah, the soundbite. That idol of the Modern Age. Unfortunately – or rather not – the most important things of life are not easily captured in soundbites. Now this web project is very much an attempt to grapple with that which seems most important to my wife and to myself. (Though how much we succeed, [...]

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Catholic Tradition, Charles Taylor and the Final Triumph of the Hollow Men

By roger | Published: 3 July 2010

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 I do not [...]

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