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Nationhood or Nihilism: Identity as Philosophical Combat

Carlos Perona Calvete March 28, 2023

Defenders of ‘the nation’ often fall back on practical issues of scale and power balance, ignoring the Biblical and Platonic tradition that celebrates the diversity of nations as an aesthetic good.

Catholicism, Communism, and the Ideal of Universal Recognition

Jonathan Culbreath March 6, 2023

Few contemporary Marxists, and even fewer Catholic theologians, have delved deeply into any likenesses in their worldviews on a theoretical level.

Conservatives Cannot Be Ideologically Dependent on the Left: An Interview with Fr. Matthieu Raffray

Solène Tadié February 3, 2023

Left-wing activists hate us no matter what we do or say. They want us gone. We must therefore stop trying to please our enemies. Not only is it useless, but this attitude leads us to compromise and the loss of our principles.

Tragedy and the Cross: The Role of Suffering in Michael D. O’Brien’s Novels

Clemens Cavallin December 19, 2022

From O’Brien’s perspective, Christian civilization and the Church are failing in critical ways, inducing a sense of collective kenosis, and the temptation to social despair. The raw pain of collective suffering puts supernatural hope to the test.

The Theology of Chesterton and Tolkien: An Interview with Alison Milbank

Carlos Perona Calvete May 8, 2022

“Tolkien’s understanding of creativity is that God gives us the things out of which to create. The clay, the leaves, the words, even the language. And we use those to make things by arranging them into new combinations. But in one sense, all of those combinations are possibilities already present in the mind of God. And Tolkien believed we would go on to do that in Heaven.”—Alison Milbank

“We need a Christian rebirth of Europe”: An Interview with Elio Gallego García

Editorial Staff February 28, 2022

The main objective of this conference is to facilitate an awareness that could be summarised in the following phrase from Isaiah: If you do not stand firm in your faith, you shall not stand at all.

Ecclesiastical Newspeak and the Hatred of Catholic Tradition

Sebastian Morello January 14, 2022

Catholics are surrounded by the upside-down chatter of ecclesiastical newspeak, and it is here to stay, that is, until a rediscovery that the Church derives her purpose from the Great Commission—the mandate to make disciples of all nations, and this cannot be substituted.

Doth not Wisdom Cry?: Thoughts on Martin’s Sophia in Exile

Carlos Perona Calvete January 8, 2022

It is no wonder that an un-Sophianic culture would promote enmity between men and woman, viewing history as a protracted conflict of the genders and marriage as a procrustean bed, with procreation contradictorily thought of both as unnecessary burden and selfish environmentally-harmful indulgence.

Tag: theology

Nationhood or Nihilism: Identity as Philosophical Combat

Catholicism, Communism, and the Ideal of Universal Recognition

Conservatives Cannot Be Ideologically Dependent on the Left: An Interview with Fr. Matthieu Raffray

Tragedy and the Cross: The Role of Suffering in Michael D. O’Brien’s Novels

The Theology of Chesterton and Tolkien: An Interview with Alison Milbank

“We need a Christian rebirth of Europe”: An Interview with Elio Gallego García

Ecclesiastical Newspeak and the Hatred of Catholic Tradition

Doth not Wisdom Cry?: Thoughts on Martin’s Sophia in Exile

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