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Election Day Thoughts
“Cultures are constituted by the union of the living and the dead in rituals of living memory. Never before … has the authority of the past been sacrificed with a more conscious effort of forgetfulness. Forgetfulness is now the curricular … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, forgetfulness, forgetting, Henri de Lubac, memory, mission, Phillip Rieff, society, the Church
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The Act of Contemplation
In whatever ‘fire storms’ one finds oneself in these days (and we have just come through another literal one here in Sonoma County) the following from Hans Urs Von Balthasar is offered to assist in finding freedom from our fears … Continue reading
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Tagged Eucharist, existence, Hans Urs von Balthasar, meaning
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Cancel Culture…draining the drama of meaning
“Since satisfactory answers [to the question of the meaning of human existence] have not been found apart from Christ, there is an attempt today to cancel the questions or at least to rob them of their dramatic quality. We are … Continue reading
Hostile to the very idea of human nature…
Thirteen years ago after much deliberation Gil Bailie posted the following on our old web blog. In the intervening years the cultural milieu has moved dramatically in regard to the matters of concern in this post. I am re-posting it … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, education, gnostic, homosexuality, human nature, Nicene Creed, nuptiality, sexual ethics, Western Civilization
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Human Nature
“Contrary to what our nihilists and relativists tell us, there is a human nature, and its resiliency is such that it often manages to adjust to the weirdest cultural insanities.” – René Girard
The Intoxication of Violence
“Since satisfactory answers [to the question of the meaning of human existence] have not been found apart from Christ, there is an attempt today to cancel the questions or at least to rob them of their dramatic quality. We are … Continue reading
Only the beginning…
“As unbelievers deny [the Christian] Revelation more decisively, as they put their denial into more consistent practice, it will become the more evident what it really means to be a Christian. At the same time, the unbeliever will emerge from … Continue reading
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Tagged modernity, Nietzsche, revelation, Romano Guardini, secularism
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On the Fourth of July in 2020
My thoughts in these troubled times are sober and sobering ones. Ours is a period in history fraught with peril and uncertainty. But it has been in such times as these that our faith has rekindled itself. The world is … Continue reading
Episode 7: The Truth of Poetry & the Poetry of Truth – An Introduction
This presentation by Gil Bailie was recorded in 1995 shortly after the publication of Violence Unveiled. In this presentation he introduces a series of informal talks under the heading “The Truth of Poetry and the Poetry of Truth” examining the … Continue reading
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Tagged Gospel of Luke, Howard Nemerov, truth, Virgil, W H Auden
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From Faith to Politics to Gnosticism
“When mystery no longer counts,” then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in a 1996 speech, “politics must be converted into religion.” When the Christian mysteries are lost — the loss measured most accurately by the decay into ritual triviality of the Eucharistic … Continue reading
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Tagged gnostic, Joseph Ratzinger, politics, religion
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