It's the feast of St Dunstan, one of the greatest saints of Anglo-Saxon England, who died on 19 May 988 - multi-talented archbishop, statesman, musician, metal-worker, and devil-fighter https://t.co/HblFsbRp5o pic.twitter.com/8LbzK81SaW
— Eleanor Parker (@ClerkofOxford) May 19, 2020
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
St. Dunstan, Pray for Us and for England!
Being a SJW is an Identity
Sociological studies have found that white liberals have a bias against other whites. This is how their views on immigration and the patriarchy, marriage, and third wave feminism intersect https://t.co/gYOYB6xQl3 pic.twitter.com/ok8Q7M2sYk
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) May 19, 2020
An Introduction to IF
Check out the article below from Katie Melville, Ph.D., to learn how #intermittentfasting (IF) is in tune with ancestral health, how to implement IF while #Paleo, and get six tips to help you get started and troubleshoot through potential problems.https://t.co/s4vQMIGKGc
— Chris Kresser (@chriskresser) May 19, 2020
Studio Ghibli Still at Work
Hayao Miyazaki's new Studio Ghibli movie is years away from completion, because it's entirely hand-drawn and takes one month to create one minute of film: https://t.co/3JPVIMAqbQ pic.twitter.com/K3MY477D7P
— Empire Magazine (@empiremagazine) May 15, 2020
A Movie We Don't Need
Another Mad Max movie, maybe. But a Furiosa prequel? It will probably be even more fempowered than the last one.
George Miller confirms he's developing a Furiosa prequel, but starring someone other than Charlize Theron: https://t.co/ugMZugpr8K pic.twitter.com/bBfvLXZZZC
— Empire Magazine (@empiremagazine) May 15, 2020
American Catholics Discussing American Republicanism
Catholic Herald: The US Church and liberalism: a failed friendship? Two writers discuss - James Patterson and Brandon McGinley
If non-Catholic Americans, especially paleocons, were to read this exchange, what would they make of it?
If non-Catholic Americans, especially paleocons, were to read this exchange, what would they make of it?
Monday, May 18, 2020
Cuckservative Mansplaining
Here's one more example to illustrate how out of touch cuckservatives and Straussians are. "Let me explain your subjective reality to you."
The Promises and Perils of Identity Politics by David Azerrad
“The key to understanding identity politics is to realize that it is primarily a politics of oppression and victimization rather than identity.” - David Azerrad https://t.co/rSj6l5s7pI— The American Mind (@theammind) May 18, 2020
The Promises and Perils of Identity Politics by David Azerrad
"We'll just keep cucking along!"'
I have been looking at stuff from American Mind only recently because of the discussion of Vermeule, so I wasn't aware of this piece which was published in Dec. 2019, written by a Straussian, I presume.
A Reconquista of American Culture? by Jeremy Carl
In it he talks about "conservatives" undertaking a decisive action in the culture war but it ends up being just self-promotion and an attempt at gate-keeping.
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Tea kettles and pots.
A Reconquista of American Culture? by Jeremy Carl
In it he talks about "conservatives" undertaking a decisive action in the culture war but it ends up being just self-promotion and an attempt at gate-keeping.
Indeed, this is true, but one should add that those Americans will need leadership from intellectuals and other leaders within the corridors of power who are brave enough to stand up against the Left’s cultural tyranny. It is to these people that Claremont can speak when it refers to “Recovering the American Idea”—understanding, as Don Pelayo did, that something has been lost and must be recaptured.
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Institutions such as Claremont represent this Covadonga in the mountains: perhaps outnumbered and outgunned, but willing to fight smartly and fiercely from our redoubt, picking up allies along the way and targeting our message to talented people marginalized by the increasingly tyrannical and hysterical reign of the left.West-coast Straussians are not the culture warriors we are looking for. After all, what have the Straussian done to capture institutions (other than poli. sci. departments) or mass culture from the revolutionaries?
But Hearns wisely does not simply lay the blame for these defeats at the feet of Trump—instead, he lambasts conservatives’ poor to non-existent efforts to win over the organs of cultural transmission (media, Hollywood, schools and universities, etc.) that influence the preferences of high-status individuals from whom average citizens, too busy to involve themselves with politics, determine their own views. And he points out, correctly, how anomalous this particular affectation of the American Right is, observing that “Practically every significant movement—whether ancient or modern, religious or secular, totalitarian or liberal—knew that to succeed in the long run it needed to gain control of the institutions that manufacture public opinion.”
Tea kettles and pots.
Fr. Z on John Paul II
Fr. Z: 100th Birthday of St. John Paul II. Wherein Fr. Z muses and reminisces.
Fr. Z gives his opinion about the legacy of John Paul II, even though he did not agree with that creation of Divine Mercy Sunday in the Roman rite. I don't know if he would judge it a problematic papal modification of the Roman rite, but I do think that it was, symptomatic of problem with how the authority of the patriarch of Rome is conceived.
His body of writings, including his encyclicals, must be individually separated into dogma and theological opinion.What the patriarchate of Rome wants to do with the conferral of honors to be recognized by the patriarchate of Rome is up to the patriarchate of Rome. However, calling them doctors "of the Church" is beyond the scope of its authority, though ultramontanist Latins continue to believe that it isn't.
I don't even think that Ratzinger's theology should be promoted in such a manner, and I think Ratinzger's theology will have greater staying power. What should be promoted is a true habit of theology among the priests and bishops of the patriarchate of Rome, one which enables them to distinguish properly between dogma and theological opinion. Chances of this happening in the next ten years on a wide scale? Very small.
alternate at Shalom
Fr. Z gives his opinion about the legacy of John Paul II, even though he did not agree with that creation of Divine Mercy Sunday in the Roman rite. I don't know if he would judge it a problematic papal modification of the Roman rite, but I do think that it was, symptomatic of problem with how the authority of the patriarch of Rome is conceived.
At one point, back in 2016, I said that John Paul should be declared Doctor of the Church, with the nickname, Doctor Misericordiae. His teaching contributions to the Church are numerous. Also the movement to have him declared such would surely slow the obvious systematic erosion of his body of teaching as Pope. For the last few years, what John Paul upheld and clarified about, for example, objective truth and morals, has been under attack at the highest levels. I cannot shake the idea that Benedict wrote what he wrote to the Polish bishops in part because of the manifest attack on John Paul’s magisterial writings. There has also been a methodical purge of the last Woytlians and Ratzingerians in the Curia and Roman school. It seems to me that Divine Mercy Sunday would be a good day for such a declaration. Perhaps it’s time to jump start that project. I resonate also with the position that it takes some time to absorb the impact of a saint’s writings. Still, given the offensive against his magisterium, sooner could be better than later.
When you read Papa Ratzinger’s aforementioned letter, don’t skip over his description of resistance to plastering over the ancient Sunday “in albis” with the modern innovation of “Divine Mercy” Sunday. I share that resistance. I have nothing against the modern devotion, but I don’t think it’s promotion should be at the expense of something so ancient and deeply rooted. But I digress.
His body of writings, including his encyclicals, must be individually separated into dogma and theological opinion.What the patriarchate of Rome wants to do with the conferral of honors to be recognized by the patriarchate of Rome is up to the patriarchate of Rome. However, calling them doctors "of the Church" is beyond the scope of its authority, though ultramontanist Latins continue to believe that it isn't.
I don't even think that Ratzinger's theology should be promoted in such a manner, and I think Ratinzger's theology will have greater staying power. What should be promoted is a true habit of theology among the priests and bishops of the patriarchate of Rome, one which enables them to distinguish properly between dogma and theological opinion. Chances of this happening in the next ten years on a wide scale? Very small.
alternate at Shalom
Church Militant Still Gunning for the FSSPX
Dr. John Lamont appears to be one of those few Latin traditionalists who are willing to question whether everything should be continued or passed on as tradition. SSPX and Infiltration of Sex Abusers:
There were problems with the institutional practices and culture within the patriarchate of Rome. What Latin can deny this?
And then there is this article: SSPX and Fascism by James Baresel
The editor of a respected French Catholic journal told me once that Abp. Lefebvre made the mistake of choosing quantity over quality when he set up the Society. This is true, but itself requires explanation.
The starting point for this explanation is that Abp. Lefebvre never seems to have done a postmortem on the preconciliar Church. He did not identify the weaknesses that caused it to collapse so quickly and thoroughly. He seems just to have thought that the preconciliar systems of training and theology were good ones that had been wrongly abandoned because of weakness, folly or treachery among the ecclesiastical leadership, and that what was needed was for them to be restored. Indeed he thought that they would be restored within a reasonable timeframe and that the postconciliar changes and problems would not be a lasting condition.
He also seems to have overestimated the number of Catholics who thought as he did on religious subjects out of mature understanding and conviction and to have been willing to take at face value the men who came asking to join his Society. It is as if he considered such men to be like seminarians in the 1920s, when the population of Catholics who were committed to the systems and beliefs of the preconciliar Church were much larger, the opportunities and status on offer for seminarians of this sort were far greater and the backing of ecclesiastical authority for these systems and beliefs was solid.
He did not see that in his own totally different situation, the motivations and character of the men who came forward to join his enterprise would have to be radically different from those of the seminarians of the 1920s, and that their professions of faith and commitment would often spring from motives and personality traits that did not appear on the surface and that were less than ideal.
Nor did he take into account the implications of the fact that the preconciliar system of priestly training was built on the inculcation of blind obedience and conformity. It is one thing to have such a system for training leaders in an important, powerful organization that is a dominant force in many countries. In that sort of situation, you can still attract serious, capable people who are willing to put up with the training and will survive it somewhat intact. There is also a corrective to the effects of this training, resulting from the fact that the senior leaders eventually have to discharge important responsibilities.
The pressure of these responsibilities does at some point select for men with character and initiative. The situation of a small, marginalized, despised community where leaders are trained and selected for blind obedience and conformity is very different. Sociologically, this kind of community has the characteristics of a cult. In consequence, the men who come forward as seminarians for a Catholic community of this kind will often be ones who want to be leaders in a cult. Richard Williamson, whom Lefebvre ordained as a bishop, is a clear example of this phenomenon, but there will have been many others.
There were problems with the institutional practices and culture within the patriarchate of Rome. What Latin can deny this?
And then there is this article: SSPX and Fascism by James Baresel
Dreher Talks about His Forthcoming Book
And he talks about the QAnon stuff in a Dreherian way... Going to skip over that.
QAnon & Living By Lies:
QAnon & Living By Lies:
As you regular readers know, this book is about the creeping “soft totalitarianism” in our society, and what Christian dissidents who lived under Soviet bloc communism can tell us about how to recognize it and resist it. In its most simple definition, “totalitarianism” is a word used to describe a state in which all things are politicized. The key difference between authoritarianism and totalitarianism is in the first, the state only seeks a monopoly on political action, whereas in the latter, the state wants to command all aspects of life, and — this is key — to compel not only obedience, but internal assent. As Winston Smith was told, you must learn to love Big Brother.How far does resistance go? In this respect perhaps Herbert McCabe was more daring -- I will get that post published soon.
The word was invented in fascist Italy, but has been applied both to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and its vassals. One consistent story that we have heard from anti-communist dissidents is that the entire system was built on lies — that is, on the willingness of people to assent to lies. Vaclav Havel (who was not a Christian) said that the only resistance available to people under communism, where it was impossible to build political opposition, was to seek to “live in truth” — that is, to refuse to participate in lies. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was even more emphatic on this point. The title of my book is taken from his final message to the Soviet people in 1974, on the eve of his expulsion from the country. That essay, “Live Not By Lies,” urged readers to engage in passive resistance to the regime of lies: that is, to refuse to say, or to appear to say, something that they believe is untrue, just to keep the peace.
許靖韻 Angela Hui & 林奕匡 Phil Lam《別為我好 (我未夠好版)》[Official MV]
From what I can make of the plot of the MV, the female is dissatisfied with the shiftless male, who seems to actually be jobless. Maybe he should have been out protesting...
Trying to Keep Up with the Latins
The patriarch of Constantinople...
As a reminder, "Towards a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church," was a multi-year project involving a team of international Orthodox theologians (including @atpapanik and @GDemacopoulos) and published by @goarch this Spring. You can read the document here:https://t.co/j8TDeHMsF9
— Fordham OCSC (@FordhamOrthodox) May 18, 2020
Kant's Categorical Imperative Is Irrelevant
The ADL is against replacement migration.. But only in Israel. pic.twitter.com/4DNJ62srpH
— Arminius (@ArminiusThe) February 16, 2020
Created Equal
*Goosebumps* https://t.co/uTZnX1GLfV
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) May 18, 2020
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A Conversation with the Justice Clarence Thomas
UVA interview
So Soy
Definitely not in the same class as Christian Bale. What an embarrassment. I agree, they might as well cancel the movie and try to get Ben Affleck back.
Robert Pattinson is refusing to work out for The Batman
Robert Pattinson is refusing to work out for The Batman
Girl Power Always
Kids should be using the time away from public indoctrination centers to learn some real skills, but the girl power slant to this is obvious. "We want 50/50 representation, unless we get more than that, and that's ok too!"
Take a look at some of the entries from the Let Grow Independence Challenge. Wow! Kids are so resilient, creative, and amazing. Let's celebrate kids stepping up right now! #LetGrow #LetThem #IndependenceChallenge pic.twitter.com/BO5hEbsFuI
— Let Grow (@LetGrowOrg) May 18, 2020
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