Saturday, December 15, 2012

"By and large, that 'what' was never the treatment of Jews"

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"especially in an area with strong leadership, substantive resistance by clergy (and some laity) could be widespread; but still the iss...

Nazism was not anti-Christian

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"as the researches of someone like Richard Steigmann-Gall seem to have demonstrated (although with not a little push back from some), t...
Saturday, December 8, 2012

Prayer before Mass / Collect for Purity

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Deus, cui omne cor patet et omnis voluntas loquitur et nullum latet secretum, purifica per infusionem sancti spiritus cogitationes cordis no...
Monday, December 3, 2012

"A rocke: how call'd? The Rocke of Scandale, Peter!"

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     Robert Southwell, "Saint Peter's Complaint," stanza 118, as quoted by Ephraim Radner.  A brutal unity:  the spiritual pol...

Radner takes, as usual, the narrow way, the hard road

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     "What [William] Cavanaugh and contemporary antiliberal revisionists do not address, then, is the fact that the [profoundly Christi...

Herbert Butterfield, Whig historian

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"If this sounds like the Whig theory revived, it is in a sense.  Even Herbert Butterfield, who first articulated in 1931 the existence ...

"Decade after decade the historians of cartography (and the historians of astronomy too) have, with barely an exception, gone on, paying no attention, assuming that because there were no medieval flat-earthers (or hardly any), medieval Aristotelians shared the Ptolemaic concept of the terraqueous globe (something of an achievement, since they had never read Ptolemy), when in fact that concept was a bold and novel hypothesis in 1492. . . ."

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"Brotton, like Woodward before him, assumes that ever since the ancient Greeks there has been a concept corresponding to our concept of...