Liturgical Conservatism and the Modern Novel
The greatest Catholic writers of the 20th century drew on the deep riches of the liturgy to speak to the secular age.
The greatest Catholic writers of the 20th century drew on the deep riches of the liturgy to speak to the secular age.
Reports of a Christian satyr coming to St. Anthony for guidance tell us something about Halloween—about the ‘fairy-folk’ and those fiends whose form may yet be redeemed.
While we need not succumb to Adorno’s demoralizing miserabilism, we might agree with him that modern life is profoundly damaged in ways both subtle and overt.
University campuses are merely magnifying glasses of ongoing, wider societal dilemmas.
Malory, like Galahad, understands an important truth: that the ultimate end of the political common good is the spiritual common good.
Media-friendly illegal immigrants [are] quick to make a practice of blaming France and the French should anything unfortunate befall them. …. One thinks of burglars who sue a landlord because they break a leg in his poorly lit stairwell.
FROM THE FALL 2023 PRINT EDITION: In crossing the threshold into Middle-earth, I stepped into a moral cosmos unlike the relativist world in which I resided.
The complex and controversial legacy of Miklós Horthy defies translation.
A blind adherence to old forms is the path to sterility and death, we must instead act as emissaries of the living flame we possess by virtue of our singular relationship with its past.
VOX’s Jorge Buxade argued that the state cannot exercise a power not expressly recognized by law.
Cayalá should encourage both our traditionalist and voluntarist instincts. Its prosperity is a testament to traditional design principles, while the speed with which it was built shows us what is possible.
Percival’s sister’s bleeding out is instructive. It stands for the scattering of energies released from their proper, ordered course within the organism, in order that another may feed on them.
Uncertainty faces us more regularly than certainty. What are we to make of this?
As in most of the great classics, the essential nature of gratitude in difficult circumstances is constantly emphasized.
The fact that demonstrating pride in one’s country is considered ‘fascist’ speaks to the utter insanity of the current ethos.
When America sneezes, the world catches a cold. Ireland is now paralyzed by an involuntary expulsion of ‘woke’ air that managed to travel 4,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.
This is what it means to have a leader who believes that the faith that was inseparable from the founding of the nation is vital to its survival.
If we each operate as insulated, atomic individuals, with our own private concepts of human flourishing, then the great work of civilisation-building is impossible.
Steffani’s Stabat mater is the resounding counterpart to Bernini’s overwhelming “L’Estasi di Santa Teresa d’Avila,” even though that sculpture was created almost 80 years earlier.
The disappearance of the fear of hell, Arendt tells us, leads directly to the institutionalization of immorality, and the transformation of the deviant will of a Hitler or a Stalin into state policy.
If the ‘M’ word is uttered, the malefactor’s hearers often reply: “So, you want to be a lord or something? If we had a monarchy again, you’d be nothing!” My favourite response: “What makes you think I’m something now? Do you think the chancellor cares if you or I live or die?”
It is ironic—and ultimately tragic—that in Spain, as across the West, the popular imagination increasingly fails to distinguish between ‘memory’ and facts.
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