Originally published here Oct. 3, 2021. By Gary Potter. “The Enlightenment” is the name by which are known both an intellectual movement and an historical period usually considered as having begun in the 17th century and reaching their height in the 18th. However, insofar as ideas spawned by the movement — ideas about God, authority,… Read More The Enlightenment Is Not Over
“Never be discouraged, and no matter what fault you happen to commit, say: Though I should fall twenty times, or a hundred times a day, I will arise at every fall, and pursue my course. What does it amount to, after all, that you should have met with some accidents on the way, provided you… Read More St. Francis de sales’ on the Great Battle
If Frank Sinatra’s music, which I obviously enjoy, entertains and only rarely is, in a sense, contemplative or thought-provoking (e.g., The album Watertown), Joni Mitchell, whose mid-to-later recordings which I have been listening to lately, tends to reflect a more serious or at least more interesting perception of the world and cultures along with music… Read More Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Joni Mitchell
Monsignor Karel Kasteel Talks About His Experience and thoughts throughout that long period. His reflections are his own. CNS: Now 92, Monsignor Kasteel has witnessed some of the most consequential moments in the modern history of the Catholic Church, including the Second Vatican Council, the 2005 conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI, and decades of change… Read More He worked in the Vatican for 70 years. Served 8 Popes.
Conversion to Truth, while totally fulfilling, is never a light matter (Jn. 14:6; Mt. 11:28-39), because the Truth is the Cross, and the Cross is no picnic. “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” — Jn. 16:33 Jn. 15:20,21 “Remember the word that I said to you,… Read More Converts who take root learn fast that the Church and the Cross are one.
Musk will lead a Pentagon study alongside Palmer Luckey, the 34-year-old co-founder of defense technology company Anduril Industries, and Newt Gingrich, the 83-year-old Republican former House speaker AFP – Tech billionaire Elon Musk will make a return to officially advising US President Donald Trump’s government by co-leading what the Pentagon called a study on the… Read More Elon Musk to advise Trump government on the future of warfare.
Updated. Can there be any doubt Carlson and Candace are friends or admirers of the pseudo scholar who scribbles Big Books faster than the speed of thought? As if brilliance in error equals good and true judgements! Have you noticed that Carlson, Jones and certain Big Trads won’t even breathe the name of this website… Read More Crazy Carlson: Utterly Indifferent to Der Fuhrer
“Someone said, drink the water, but I will drink the wineSomeone said, take a poor man, rich folk don’t have a dime Go fool yourselves if you will, I just haven’t got the timeYes you can drink the water (yes you can drink the water)But I will drink the wine Someone gave me some small… Read More Time Out: Favorite Son, Bad Boy Brother Frank
And why others leave it for the same. From his masterpiece, Witness 1952: “I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time. You will ask: Why, then, do men become Communists? How did it happen that you, our gentle and loved father, were once a Communist? Were you simply stupid? No, I was… Read More Whittaker Chambers: Why men become Communists for moral reasons…
Aldous Huxley on the Technocratic Dictatorship seeking to be born. “…democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old… Read More Aldous Huxley on an Emerging ‘Scientific’ Dictatorship…
Marriage, children and grandparents. The reason men have always, when necessary, fought and died to protect the women they love is not only romantic or sentimental. It is, rather, because, in her mystery, woman carries the future. She is that sacred gift who sustains a people and life itself. To encourage women to join the… Read More She Carries the Future
“In the context of Christian liturgy, a canticle is a psalm-like song with biblical lyrics taken from elsewhere than the Book of Psalms, but included in psalters and books such as the breviary. — Wikipedia. St. Paul says, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in… Read More The Gift of Canticles for One Another
