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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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The Tragedy of an Opportunity Missed

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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“You keep using that word…” – the dangers of sloganeering

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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The Carmelites of Compiègne: Martyrs in the Age of Enlightenment

The Carmelites of Compiègne: Martyrs in the Age of EnlightenmentAfter 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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The Cultural Revolution and Us

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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Reflections on the Protestant Revolution

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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