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Hilaire Belloc, Saint Patrick and Catholic Ireland

By roger | Published: 16 May 2013

  Life, if it is to be bearable, must be filled with love. By the grace of God, I have been given great loves in my life: Love of my Lord, love of family and love of my religion. But alongside these greatest loves, my life has brought me still further loves, as well. There [...]

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Sometimes I Stammer

By roger | Published: 1 September 2012

  Another Webburst. And I warn you, dear Reader, Webbursts are a place ‘where I let my hair down’ with little expectation of coherence. Be warned then, and stop here, if you like. Sometimes I stammer … Stammer when I cannot complete my thoughts in a fullness that pleases. But even stammering may yet have [...]

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“Don’t Vote for a Frenchman and a Catholic”: The Campaign Against Belloc

By roger | Published: 15 August 2012

  Recently at this weblog, we have tried to convey the thinking of Hilaire Belloc –  first looking at his critique of the Modern Mind, before we proceed to other areas of his thought, including those regarding Capitalism, Distributism and his vision of Europe … But today for a change, we thought we would just [...]

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Hilaire Belloc on ‘Dumbing Down’ and Despair

By roger | Published: 14 August 2012

‘Dumbing-down’ … It is a popular construction of modern English (?) that no doubt the Oxford-educated Belloc would have found hideous. Nonetheless, Belloc was a prophet and visionary in so many ways – not the least, in that which regards what we now call ‘dumbing down’. Here we continue from last time, with Belloc speaking [...]

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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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On Hilaire Belloc: Fumbling in the Footsteps of a Giant

By roger | Published: 11 August 2012

  We need, I think, to more properly introduce Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) at this website – that is, say more than we did recently here – given that we will be saying so much more about him. Accordingly, I offer a little further introduction below (while I also prepare to write a forthcoming, longer introduction [...]

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That 1929 world of Hilaire Belloc

By roger | Published: 9 August 2012

    Recently, I have reviewed a book that has penetrated me like few others have done. That book is Hilaire Belloc’s Survivals and New Arrivals from 1929. And as I said in my review, truly I am reeling … Time is needed to collect myself – and read Belloc more intensively. But without saying [...]

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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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Hilaire Belloc on Catholic Ireland and Protestant England

By roger | Published: 5 June 2012

Recently, I have been musing here again about Catholic Ireland. Catholic Ireland, to whom I owe so very much. Catholic Ireland, which gave me such a shocking antipode to my native Anglo-American culture. Catholic Ireland, which now seems to be ever more dissolved in Anglo-American culture. But when I lived in Ireland, one could still [...]

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