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Tag Archives: Reflections
A Couple of Interesting Articles
One of my readers, who has just sent a fine comment on another post, has recently published these two interesting articles: The tides of time This one seems to complement my own posts about liturgists and terrorists. I suppose that … Continue reading
Of Terrorists and Liturgists
There is the old quip about being able to negotiate with terrorists more easily than with liturgists. The steer looks wistfully at the slaughterhouse door as discussions are held about who will be responsible for the liturgy in the Vatican. … Continue reading
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Tagged Liturgy, Politics, Reflections, Roman Catholicism, Socialism
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Another World
I took the boat out yesterday at Les Petites Dalles (cf. A Sense of Wonder. Yes I have been there before), and took a few photos, which I could not yet do the last time. I would have liked to sail … Continue reading
De spiritali amicitia
It is quite a while since I wrote Aelred of Rievaulx and Friendship on the basis of the famous dialogue by Aelred of Rievaulx. Fr Hunwicke has just written two articles in this vein with the problem of homosexual “marriage” in … Continue reading
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Tagged Friendship, Love, Medieval Catholicism, Moral questions, Reflections, Romanticism
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Taking the Flak
During World War II, many bombers carrying out raids in Germany and other Nazi-occupied territories got shot at by anti-aircraft guns. Those bullets and shells were collectively called flak. Pilots had to have nerves of steel to fly into the … Continue reading
Sincerely Searching Priest
This would have escaped me if I hadn’t been looking at my statistics page and the sites that link here. There is a very “extreme left” forum based in Australia by the name of Catholica, which seems for the most … Continue reading
Emerging Totalitarianism?
This seems to be a balanced article – Orwell, Huxley and the Emerging Totalitarianism. It is a subject that preoccupies me. I have read both 1984 and Brave New World, and have read William Shirer’s monumental The Rise and Fall … Continue reading
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Tagged Islam, Mystery of Evil, Reflections, Religious fanaticism, Religious pathology, Totalitarianism
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The Blood of the Martyrs
Here is a passionate article from a Continuing Anglican source: Aussie Military Strategist: We’ll Fight Radical Islam for 100 Years. The Australian news article itself is behind a paywall, but Capellane gives the gist of it. Indeed our natural passions would … Continue reading
Don’t Proselytize
I follow on from yesterday’s article with some stuff that is being sent out by e-mail. In particular, there is a link to a posting by the Young Fogey, our odd friend by the name of John Beeler – who … Continue reading
Analogy
A couple of weeks ago, a lady blogger had a bone to pick with me (on another blog) on account of my applying the famous image of the Industrial Revolution immortalised by William Blake in Jerusalem – dark satanic mills … Continue reading
The Blue Flower 