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The Force of Scepticism Grows
I have already written on this subject, and I remind the reader that for me, scepticism means having an open mind because truth, which is transcendent, cannot always be perfectly known. You are most welcome to peruse my old articles … Continue reading
Post-Institutional Catholics
Update: this article of mine inspired another blog article Is the Pope Catholic? Who cares!? I have already criticised Pius IX’s infallibilist ideology as something that is intellectually absurd, and which is in fact the basis of sedevacantism. I find … Continue reading
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Tagged Mystery of Evil, New Goliards, Politics, Reflections, Roman Catholicism
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Ceremonies of the Sarum Missal
A very kind friend bought and sent me a copy of R.J. Urquhart’s Ceremonies of the Sarum Missal. It is not a book I would have bought myself given its high price set by the publisher T&T Clark. I was … Continue reading
A Glimmer of Light
I have made a new discovery whilst looking through my notifications on Facebook. I found some comments mentioning my writings, but of a singular shallowness. The original poster of the thread gave a link to a page of a site … Continue reading
Oscar Wilde
This is an extraordinary film from 1960 about the downfall of Oscar Wilde in the 1890’s. We are very lucky to have the whole film available on YouTube. I find it very well acted. I first saw it more than … Continue reading
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Tagged Homosexuality, Literature, Moral questions, Mystery of Evil, Oscar Wilde, Reflections, Romanticism
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O for the Wings of a Dove
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory … Continue reading
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Tagged Hermetism, Hermits, Monastic life, Romanticism, Solitude, Spirituality
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Limits and Change
I begin this year in earnest with some reflections on my own experience of life. For quite some time, I have sought a philosophical way of discussing the autism spectrum or what used to be called Asperger’s syndrome. Most of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspergers, Autism, Liminality, Personal life, Suffering, Vocation
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New Year 2021
One side of me is tempted to join the chorus of those who are glad to see the back of 2020 in order to hope for something better in this new year. I might think of our present time becoming … Continue reading
Macron the Philosopher King?
When considering political figures, it is almost a “new orthodoxy” to think and say the opposite, and even see a plot. Something President Macron said a couple of days ago struck me in contrast to his usual fashion of expressing … Continue reading
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Tagged France, History, Humanism, Ideology, Macron, Nihilism, Philosophy, Politics
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My Country
All I seem to have left of my country is to listen to Vaughan Williams and this lovely movement from his Bucolic Suite: The reality is somewhat different, and it brings tears to my eyes as I make the best … Continue reading
