Belloc warned that disbelief would hollow Europe out from within: “A civilization can survive the loss of wealth, of power, even of learning; but it cannot survive the loss of its own explanation. Modern Europe still moves by the momentum of a Christian past, but it no longer

Ads have become so nauseating, so unceasing, so invasive that they are beginning to incite in me the antithesis of their aim. Not only am I not going to spend money or attention on what you’re selling, I’m going to reduce my time on the platforms where you solicit these things.

Your audience is God. He is also the Playwright, and He built the stage.

Hoping to bring the second novel in the Trials of Oma series to you guys sometime in March or April. Something I noticed in retrospect: Suffering has more raw immediacy. Contest has more grand gravitas. Being that the world by the end the first book has experienced a mass

I answer that the priest blesses the matter and not the body of Christ. Furthermore, he does not act by his own authority, but by that of Christ, Who as God is greater than His body (Commentary on Hebrews 7).

To my Libertarian friends, I say this in refutation to the claim that the Individual is the basic unit and building block of society. Against this, I posit (as does the Church), that the Family has in it a microcosm of Society. Whereas, the Individual has no such thing in him.

Crime & Punishment was a real time refutation and dismantling of the Will to Power, and Fyodor didn’t even know Nietzsche existed. Frederick’s ubermenche was not unique.

The Saints intercede. God intervenes. And I do not use intervention strictly here, only in the sense that God is always acting. If we were to use the term strictly then we would essentially be saying God injects Himself or His actions in things which He has no part. And this is

Aquinas tells us that religious worship has something in common with poetry in that they both depict, through images accessible to the senses, things which could not be directly grasped by the reason.

Much of what’s wrong with the world comes down to the fact that those who think they know something are much louder than those who actually know it.

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I expect great things from him.

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