Our Recurring Dreams of Utopia
It was in the 18th century that the idea emerged that we humans can create something like a heaven on…
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It was in the 18th century that the idea emerged that we humans can create something like a heaven on…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 4, 2022 | American Revolution, Catholicism, Columns, Features, Fourth of July, French Revolution, Hobbes, independence, Locke, News, Pope Leo XIII, Rousseau, The Past Present | 0 |
July is the first full month of summer, a time for lazy hazy days of going on vacation, cooling off, doing nothing. For historians, it is the month when things really start to heat up, […]
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David Carlin: Had the Church placed herself at the head of an insurgency against the Sexual Revolution, she might have coalesced dissenters.
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The failure of the Church to adapt her policies to the new spirit of liberalism, culminating with Pope Pius IX’s condemnation of “progress, liberalism and modern civilisation” in his 1864 Syllabus of Errors, came to be seen by Catholics in in later centuries as paranoid, mistaken, even embarrassing; but the eradication of Christian values among Europeans was to lead in the next century to atrocities far exceeding those of Jacobin France.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 5, 2020 | Christmas, COVID-19, don Henley, Easter, Features, French Revolution, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther, News, Opinion, Pope Francis, Rousseau | 0 |
“Stab, smite, slay!” roared Luther. Such was his advice to the German aristocracy during the notorious Peasants’ Revolt. Some of the latter doubtless had it coming, and Luther could justify his advice theologically with his […]
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After her election as Carmelite prioress in 1786, thirty-four-year-old Mother Teresa of St. Augustine learned of a mysterious document in the monastery’s archive, dated from the previous century. It recorded the strange mystical dream of a partially paralyzed young woman who had lived at the Compiègne monastery for years as a paying guest. In 1694, […]
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David Carlin: The decline of Christianity is found not just in those who claim no Christian faith, but also in those who claim to be liberal Christians.
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Bevil Bramwell, OMI: The alternative to the Gospel is Jacobinism. And, as history shows beyond question, fanaticism never ends well – for anyone.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 22, 2020 | Art & Culture, Communist Poland, Featured, French Revolution, News, Protestant Reformation, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
According to one sage observation: he who gets to name names, wins. Why do we talk about the Protestant Reformation and not the Protestant Revolution, for example? After all, Martin Luther commenced his journey as a reformer, repulsed righteously, as most of us would be, by the corruption and decadence of the Rome of his […]
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There is a curious and intriguing passage in the third chapter of St. Paul’s letter to the Romans, which in the context of the missive seems almost tossed-off, but which has proven to be a […]
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