Saturday, March 16, 2019

Changed, not ended

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"Indeed, for your faithful, Lord, life is changed, not ended. . . ." "Tuis enim fidelibus, Domine, vita mutatur, non tollitu...

Western political liberalism as an establishment of religion

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Princeton University Press      "There are two fundamental ways in which states relate to organized salvation professionals.  The f...

On the right side of history

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"'Recall the French Revolution and the struggle between the Vendée and the National Convention. . . . the troops of the Convention ...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

"the painful exercise of the mystic septenary"

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New Liturgical Movement Prayer to be said before the seven canonical hours "Seven times this day will I praise Thee, O Lord, bein...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

"The reduction of [objective] bonum to [subjective] 'values'"

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     "It was Descartes who took the decisive step [in 'the entrance of the good into the orbit of subjectivity']:  'The tru...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

"the study of languages and of poetry are often more useful to the technically-accomplished natural philosopher than any work in his own department of knowledge."

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"A natural philosopher, a mathematician, a physician, may be an excellent man of science without ever having read a Greek or Roman clas...
Saturday, March 9, 2019

"Let them talk"

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     "It may be that widespread skepticism about the distinction between the public and the private made it inevitable that the recover...