Category: Catholic Corner
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Are Trad Catholics a Protestant Sect?
One of the more interesting blog posts I have run across recently.
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“How I Joined the Resistance”
J. D. Vance on becoming Catholic. I wonder if David French has read this.
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An Argument for the Preservation of the Latin Rite
Étienne Gilson, writing in 1962: Latin is the language of the Church. The sorry degradation of the liturgical texts by their translation into a gradually deteriorating vernacular emphasizes the need for the preservation of a sacred language whose very immutability protects them from the decay of taste. (The Philosopher and Theology, Cluny Media, 2020, p.…
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The Treason of the Clerics
Rod Dreher: It’s a hell of a thing to realize that the leader of the one institution responsible more than any other for creating Western civilization — the Roman Catholic Church — is now actively working to dismantle that very civilization by opening the city gates, so to speak, wide to the invaders. What do…
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Mysticism with Monica
Top o' the Stack.
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Philosophy and Christianity
Substack latest Ruminations on Ratzinger
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Franz Brentano, The Teaching of Jesus and its Enduring Significance
An old book recently translated. Reviewed here.
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No Church for Old Men?
Good news, if true: The American Catholic Church is seeing a prolonged surge of conservative young priests, leaving the aging and far more liberal Vatican II generation with no replacements. According to a nationally representative survey conducted by the Catholic Project at the Catholic University of America, of 3,500 priests ordained since 2020, “More than 80 percent of…
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Am I an Intellectual Glutton? Evdokimov, Jackson, Precepts, and Counsels
Study everything! proclaims the first half of my masthead motto. I live by it. Am I an intellectual glutton? The self-critical and conflicted Tom Merton asked himself that very question in a journal entry. I put the question to myself. Example. I am up from a nap and enjoying an iced coffee. I will soon…
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Novus Ordo?
Giving a Latin name to the destruction of the ancient Latin rite smacks of mockery.
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Trads on Offense
I especially liked the section on the Boomer nuns of Benedictine College who were not happy with the Butker speech and are described as crotchety farbissinas. A farbissina, I take it, is a person who is farbissiner, a Yiddish word that means sullen, mean, embittered, of a sour disposition.
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Is Hegel the Protestant Aquinas?
Substack latest. UPDATE (5/8/2024). This from Kai Frederick Lorentzen: You write: " . . . It does annoy me, however, that Kainz doesn't supply any references. For example, we read: Hegel was critical of Catholicism at times, in his writings and lectures. For example, he once made a scurrilous remark about the Catholic doctrine of…
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Two Termites: Bergoglio and Biden
I sometimes refer to the current pope as Bergoglio the Termite to underscore the destructive effect he is having on a once-great institution. Early this morning it occurred to me that I might write a post comparing the various termites undermining our institutions. Of course 'President' Joe Biden immediately came to mind. Just now, an…
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Legutko on Entertainment
Legutko tends to exaggerate, as witness the final sentence in the following quotation, but the point he is making is true and important. In today’s world entertainment is not just a pastime or a style, but a substance that permeates everything: schools and universities, upbringing of children, intellectual life, art, morality, and religion. It has…
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A Quasi-Kierkegaardian Poke at Paglia, Catholic Pagan
This Stack leader has her stuck at the aesthetic stage. I'm on a Kierkegaard jag again. I've been reading him all my philosophical life ever since my undergraduate teacher, Ronda Chervin, introduced him to me. For an easy introduction to the Danish Socrates, I recommend Clare Carlisle, Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of…