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Monthly Archives: August 2021
Orwellian Religion
I am astounded by this article Still Lost in Blunderland (PART ONE): Refuting Peter Kwasniewski’s Latest Attack on Ultramontanism and Still Lost in Blunderland (PART TWO): Refuting Peter Kwasniewski’s Latest Attack on Ultramontanism from the sedevacantist site Novus Ordo Watch. They have … Continue reading
Academy of Ideas
I have been enjoying many videos from the Academy of Ideas. In the description, we find: We create videos explaining the ideas of history’s great thinkers. We do this to help supply the world with more knowledge, to empower the … Continue reading
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Tagged Personal life, Philosophy, Reflections, Romanticism, Spirituality
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Straf! Straf! Straf alles!
A comment from Patrick Sheridan (who is open about his identity) brought me to look at his blog where he writes only rarely. I quoted the Naval officer on the subject of excessive punishment of sailors and its negative effect … Continue reading
Assumption 2021
I wish you all a joyful feast of the Assumption this day. Many of us are praying in union with Roman Catholics who are challenged by the recent motu proprio from their Pope. We pray that serenity may reign together … Continue reading
Weltschmerz
I have just watched this video from the psychologist Richard Grannon I warn you that there is a lot of swearing and not too many kind words about God or religion. I look behind the front and try to understand … Continue reading
Freedom?
This article presented by Sandro Magister and written by Professor Pietro De Marco is fascinating. Many traditionalists are joining the fight against vaccines, but in reality it is this rebellion that would bring them into subjection under a “new world” … Continue reading
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Tagged Coronavirus, Covid-19 pandemic, Moral questions, Pandemic, Politics
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Dom Alcuin Reid on Traditionis Custodes
On my daily rounds of my bookmarked websites, I often find interesting things in The New Liturgical Movement. We are indeed far from the heady days of 2005, the year when Benedict XVI was elected and I joined the TAC. … Continue reading
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Tagged Liturgy, Pope Francis, Reflections, Roman Catholicism, Traditiones Custodes
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For a New Enlightenment
I write from the point of view of living in France, and refrain from criticising policies in the UK or anywhere else. I get sick and tired of hearing demagogues like Florian Philippot complaining about the erosion of individual freedoms … Continue reading
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Tagged Coronavirus, Covid-19 pandemic, Moral questions, Pandemic, Politics
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Modernism and Integralism
In these ideological conflicts, the “other” is often grouped together into a homogenous block in order to condemn it more easily. One thing I have noticed about many traditionalists (I listened to a sermon by Bishop Donald Sanborn today in … Continue reading
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Tagged Liberalism, Modernism, Religious fanaticism, Roman Catholicism
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A Nihilist Revolution?
I was tempted to give this post the title A New Russian Revolution? – but it is not a question of Russia, either under Soviet Communism or the Putin regime. It is about my own country. The vandalism of a … Continue reading