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The Suffering of the Heart of Sacred Humanity

By roger | Published: 7 October 2012

How the Sacred Heart of humanity suffers …

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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 ‘Dumbing Down’ and Despair

By roger | Published: 14 August 2012

The great Hilaire Belloc would have found our modern term dumbing down hideous – but his was a prophetic voice of cultural decadence.

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On Hilaire Belloc: Fumbling in the Footsteps of a Giant

By roger | Published: 11 August 2012

Bullet points on Hilaire Belloc to introduce the thinking of a giant of the spirit …

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Hilaire Belloc: Survivals and New Arrivals (Review)

By roger | Published: 9 August 2012

Hilaire Belloc was a prophet. His book Survivals and New Arrivals remains very relevant today in regards the threats to Catholicism.

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St. John-Marie Vianney Comes to the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

By kim | Published: 8 August 2012

On the first Friday of July, the Archdiocese of Liverpool welcomed a very special guest. A relic of the heart of St. John-Marie Vianney, the Curé d’Ars,  – whose Feast it is today – came to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Liverpool in the city centre. Hundreds of pilgrims, including myself, flocked to the Metropolitan Cathedral to […]

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On Mélanie Calvat: Sr Mary of the Cross: Shepherdess of La Salette by Fr Paul Gouin (Review)

By roger | Published: 12 July 2012

A haunting biography of Mélanie Calvat, shepherdess of La Salette.

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Catholic Counter Revolution, the Land and the Enlightenment Myth of Progress

By roger | Published: 27 June 2012

Pauls Kingsnorth does not belong to the Catholic Counter Revolution – and yet his writings about land and the Enlightenment myth of progress will speak to Counter Revolutionaries everywhere.

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

By roger | Published: 23 June 2012

On the Blessed Virgin’s tears for the overthrowing of the Cross, at both the Rue du Bac and La Salette …

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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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On Dechristianisation: Priests, Prelates and People – Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett (Review)

By roger | Published: 2 May 2012

Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett write a well-rearched, but flawed account of Catholicism since 1750. It contains a sobering account indeed of the de-Christianisation of Europe.

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Louis Veuillot – The Liberal Illusion (Book Review)

By roger | Published: 24 April 2012

An invaluable insight into the Catholic France of 1866 by Louis Veuillot – which is still very relevant today in terms of the Liberal Illusion.

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Bleeding Heart Conservative

By roger | Published: 10 October 2011

Bleeding heat liberal is an unfortunate term indeed. A little suggestion that the Catholic origins of this term point to a need for bleeding heart conservatives …

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Musings on an Antithesis: Catholic England

By roger | Published: 8 July 2011

From the opening to Dennis Sewell’s Catholics: Britain’s Largest Minority: “When I was sent away to the Jesuits at the age of eight, my paternal grandmother plotted to have me abducted. Family legend has it that her co-conspirator was Great Aunt Mary, a strict Presbyterian with a booming voice and a developed propensity to meddle. […]

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Witnesses to the Wind of Death: Valentin Tomberg and Malachi Martin

By roger | Published: 26 June 2011

  For my part, it has been striking to note a metaphor used in common, by both Valentin Tomberg and Malachi Martin – those two great defenders of the Catholic Tradition who witnessed and deplored the changes in the Church during the 1960’s. For regarding the Second Vatican Council and its outcomes, both of these […]

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Easter in England: The Anglican Ordinariate and Catholic Tradition

By roger | Published: 21 April 2011

A Catholic convert and former Anglican looks at the Easter advent of the new Ordinariate as a historic moment for England – and for tradition.

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Googled

By roger | Published: 13 April 2011

What is it to be googled? It is to be re-directed from the Sacred to the Profane.

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Robbed

By roger | Published: 9 April 2011

Your culture told you what aspirin was …

Your culture told you what heroin was … Your culture told you what psychotherapy was … Your culture told you of countless different ways to address suffering: some good, some not-so-good …

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

By roger | Published: 17 March 2011

In the last entry, I quoted Valentin Tomberg as to the following: “The French Revolution was but a stepping stone – a stepping stone that demonstrated with alarming clarity the great trend of revolutions which began with humanism in the Fourteenth Century, then resulted via the Reformation in the Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century, which […]

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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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