Tag: Catholicism

Ratzinger and Augustine

In Augustine, Ratzinger found a thinker who believed that the dimensions of faith and reason “should not be separated or placed in opposition; rather, they must always go hand in hand.”

In 2023, What Would St. Boniface Do?

Now is the time for European Christians who haven’t been compromised by theological liberalism to warn their American brothers in the faith about where sanctifying hatred leads.

Can Hermetic Magic Rescue the Church? Part I: Acknowledging the Crisis and Breaking the Spell

It seems to me that the paradigm of rationalism—with all its chaotic relationships, ugly architecture, shallow sentimentalism, fetishization of abstractions, legal positivism, and blindness to persons—to which the institutional Church has conceded so much moral territory, must be overcome if we are to recover the primacy of the mystical in the life of the Church.

Pursuing the Truth

Christ is the salvation for the shipwrecked. Clinging to Him will keep us afloat in a shipwrecked world. The order He brings gives the martyr the ability to lay down his life, the sorrowful to find hope, and the grieving to find peace that the world can never give.

The Real Pride Month

In refusing the Cross, we are given the rainbow. Nevertheless, in taking to heart all the proud gifts of June our fathers left us, we may in time deserve to regain the pride they had.