Tag Archives: World Tragedy

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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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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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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On the Immeasurable Softness of Her Immaculate Heart

By roger | Published: 5 August 2012

  Dear Reader, some very personal notes here … Regular readers will readily see that in recent weeks, this website has become very Marian indeed … And this Marian shift stems from a crisis, both personal and global. For several weeks ago, looking out at the global crisis, something broke down in me. Looking out [...]

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Book Review: Sister Mary of the Cross: Shepherdess of La Salette by Father Paul Gouin

By roger | Published: 12 July 2012

As these words are typed, we are in process of publishing a series of entries on Mélanie Calvat, the first of which can be found here. O Mélanie Calvat! How maligned you were, how very much you suffered. For while it happened that the Church fully approved your astonishing vision of 1846 on the holy [...]

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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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Louis Veuillot – The Liberal Illusion (Book Review)

By roger | Published: 24 April 2012

The French have a saying: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: The more things change, the more they stay the same. That paradox is most apt for this little volume. For on the one hand, Louis Veuillot’s 1866 book concerns a lost world, that lost world of Nineteenth Century Catholic France, overwhelmed by [...]

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Book Review: The Horn of the Unicorn by David Allen White

By roger | Published: 24 September 2011

Weeping. I watch her weeping. My beloved weeps, while she reads this book. This book, we read it together. Our hearts ripped. ***** The book calls itself a mosaic. It is written in an unusual style. In fragments. Shards of the life of Archbishop Lefebvre juxtaposed with fragments from the Twentieth Century, which serve as [...]

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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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On the Cathars, the New Age and the Da Vinci Code …

By roger | Published: 10 June 2011

Forenote: For various reasons, it is taking longer than expected to continue both my series on the Sacred Heart and Valentin Tomberg. Meanwhile, I rip another extract from my book in preparation: Cor Jesu Sacratissimum. Ripping such a fragment out of context is tricky business. There are references below, which may make little sense. It [...]

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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 VII)

By roger | Published: 13 March 2011

In this series, we will be turning in more depth towards both the Christian Hermeticism and the Catholic legal-political vision of Valentin Tomberg. Yes in time, we shall address these much more fully. But something is necessary first. For as we indicated in the last entry, both of the above – Tomberg’s Catholic legal-political thinking [...]

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The Great Nineteenth

By roger | Published: 13 March 2011

By Gary Potter In this Nineteenth Century window, Catholic France is represented by the weeping, penitent Mary Magdelene. She offers the Sacré Coeur de Montmartre to the Sacred Heart as penance for the sins of post-revolutionary France. There are countless such windows across France – erected by a Church recoiling in horror … Foreword (from [...]

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

By roger | Published: 10 March 2011

We have been considering the notion of the decay of civilisation in Valentin Tomberg’s writing. And in this series, it is being suggested that Valentin Tomberg’s Catholic works are a twofold response – legal and hermetic – of an authentic genius and saint (albeit uncanonised) to world degeneration. Now the idea of degeneration into materialism [...]

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Partaking in His Fatal Sadness

By kim | Published: 6 March 2011

Saint Margaret Mary before the Sacred Heart – from Tuam Cathedral, Ireland. Design: Joshua Clarke. Photograph courtesy Andreas F. Borchert under the CC-BY-SA-3.0 license. The practice of praying the Holy Hour began with the words Our Lord spoke to St Margaret Mary in Paray-le-Monial, when He said: “Every Thursday night, I shall give you a [...]

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On the Crimes of Catholics: A Response to ReXteryalizer and Mark

By roger | Published: 26 February 2011

A VERY different, hurried and experimental kind of blog entry from me here. Just in the last few hours, I have received two blog responses – from ReXteryalizer and Mark – completely unprecedented in my experience. Superficially they might look “Anti-Catholic”. More deeply, I suspect they reveal deep compassion and concern for human welfare. I [...]

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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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