Wisdom in the Willows (Oct 11, 2025 00:16)
It is precisely because of our weakness that we need friends who will not encourage us ...
Against the Grain (Oct 11, 2025 00:16)
You never find the prophet exalted in his own times. If you do speak what is true and d...
DiversityWatch (October 10, 2025) (Oct 10, 2025 13:36)
~~~ A by the numbers look at the current Hispanic population in the United States More ...
Prophet versus Church-maker, versus Church administrator - Spirituality versus Psychology. Examples of Joseph Smith and Rudolf Steiner (Oct 10, 2025 08:10)
To "follow" Jesus - an exercise (Oct 10, 2025 07:06)
Empathy is Bullshit (Oct 10, 2025 05:32)
Charlie Kirk got a ration of flak for saying that empathy is an illusion. Perhaps we ca...
Thomas Honegger on Tolkien (Oct 10, 2025 01:18)
Thomas Honegger Born in Zürich (Switzerland) in 1965, Dr. Thomas Honegger is a speciali...
Main Street of Days Gone By (Oct 10, 2025 00:26)
The sun rose steadily over main street in the mornings. The air was cool and light. The...
DiversityWatch (October 9, 2025) (Oct 9, 2025 15:56)
~~~ The End of the Race Hustle After being overused, the race guilt terms like “r...
Why politics has become negative - loss of the unconscious, spontaneous, naturalness of communal values (Oct 9, 2025 07:44)
Is it “Consumerist” to Collect Movies, Books, and Music? (Oct 9, 2025 05:32)
Someone asked on The Other Site if it was consumerist to amass music, video, and texts....
Socrates, Cicero, & the Meaning of Citizenship (Oct 9, 2025 01:01)
We modern defenders of the liberal arts have to choose between Socrates’ vision and Cic...
Christian theories should be understood as like scientific theories - Even when judged True, they may be improved, or replaced (Oct 8, 2025 21:15)
The Life and Legacy of John Henry Newman (Oct 8, 2025 20:30)
John Henry Newman was born in 1801, at the beginning of a century that would see the ri...
DiversityWatch (October 8, 2025) (Oct 8, 2025 15:26)
~~~ Cash-strapped Police Scotland spend big on ‘diversity’ training for cop...
Romantic Christianity is not Only negative and reactive... (Oct 8, 2025 06:59)
Air Quality, Water Quality, and Silence Are the New Bitcoin (Oct 8, 2025 05:32)
In the recent form of America — created by the need to make enough money to pay o...
Hawthorne’s Darkening American Vision: “The Blithedale Romance” (Oct 8, 2025 01:12)
"The Blithedale Romance" conveys Nathaniel Hawthorne’s disillusionment with Brook Farm,...
Be True to Yourself? (Oct 8, 2025 01:11)
Should we be true to ourselves—or is this a meaningless cliche? In the great Hamlet, Po...
Trump's Martial Law in a New Civil War? (Oct 7, 2025 16:33)
“Please, Sir, I Want Some More.” (Oct 7, 2025 15:10)
“‘Please, sir, I want some more.’ The master was a fat, healthy man; ...
Parasitic destruction - Increasing local order, by increasing total entropy? The Neo-Darwinian assumption of Western geopolitics (Oct 7, 2025 14:59)
DiversityWatch (October 7, 2025) (Oct 7, 2025 13:07)
~~~ Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and ration...
Yes, You Voted For This (Oct 7, 2025 05:32)
People are fond of saying, “We never voted for this!” Like most easy answer...
What is the “Furthest Right”? (Oct 7, 2025 05:32)
A short guide to escaping the mental ghetto of modernity: Your thoughts you can know, b...
The Unnatural & Inescapable Involution of the Modern Cult of the Self (Oct 7, 2025 04:03)
I wrote the other day: Indeed, so far as it is about this-worldly concerns at all, the ...
Empires of the Mind: The Work of Culture (Oct 6, 2025 23:00)
What is it that makes life worth living when the temporal aspects of life are taken car...
“Lepanto” (Oct 6, 2025 21:00)
White founts falling in the courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling a...
DiversityWatch (October 6, 2025) (Oct 6, 2025 18:18)
~~~ How Europe crushes innovation The unions staged a Heckler’s Veto. The Committ...
Why engage with mass media At All? (Oct 6, 2025 07:27)
Liberals Have No Understanding of Conservatives (Oct 6, 2025 05:32)
We built the philosophy behind this site around the idea that the eternal human failing...
The Catholic Theory of War and the Soldier (Oct 6, 2025 05:05)
One has hardly arrived at this conclusion when a great problem arises quickly in our mi...
October 6 – Princes and popes coveted the advice of this silent man (Oct 6, 2025 05:00)
St. Bruno Confessor, ecclesiastical writer, and founder of the Carthusian Order. He was...
October 6 – Henri Delassus (Oct 6, 2025 04:55)
Msgr. Henri Delassus (1836-1921), ordained a priest in 1862, served in parishes in Vale...
Pope Saint Pius V has a vision announcing the victory of Lepanto (Oct 6, 2025 04:50)
In the afternoon of that same day, the 7th of October, 1571, the Pope was walking about...
In Forming the Holy League, St. Pius V Prepares for Victory at Lepanto (Oct 6, 2025 04:45)
The Holy League agreement announced on 25 May had been solemnized five days earlier in ...
Catholic and Muslim Reactions to the News of the Turkish Defeat at Lepanto (Oct 6, 2025 04:40)
[King] Philip was attending vespers in Madrid—or the Escorial—when the Venetian Ambassa...
Don John of Austria used an ivory crucifix to inspire his men before Lepanto (Oct 6, 2025 04:35)
Calmness in the presence of danger had always been one of D. John of Austria’s great qu...
Lepanto: Turkish might buckles in the grandest naval battle of History (Oct 6, 2025 04:30)
The Turkish fleet came on imposing and terrible, all sails set, impelled by a fair wind...
October 8 – St. Keyne (Oct 6, 2025 04:25)
Keyne was a princess, one of the many children of King Brycan of South Wales. Growing u...
We Are All Leftists; All Men Have Always Been. Or No, Wait … (Oct 6, 2025 02:50)
I was first a bit alarmed, then charmed, then tickled to learn the other day that I – a...
Something New Came: Allen Mendenhall’s Hilarious & Ominous First Novel (Oct 6, 2025 00:30)
In a very short novel, Allen Mendenhall manages to combine a great deal of philosophica...
Balthasar and the Machine (Oct 6, 2025 00:30)
The Vatican has issued an official document on AI. The Church is willing, in the face o...
DiversityWatch (October 5, 2025) (Oct 5, 2025 16:08)
~~~ Google lays off dozens of workers in Sunnyvale Tech is betting on a future recessio...
Is it a contradiction that modern people are so aggressively moralistic; while rejecting purpose, meaning and personal significance in reality? (Oct 5, 2025 07:58)
A Call to Eternity (Oct 5, 2025 00:07)
For centuries, Benedictines have safeguarded the soul of civilization. Now, the monks o...
Love in the Western World: René Girard vs Denis de Rougemont (Oct 4, 2025 17:40)
Denis de Rougemont’s Love in the Western World has many appealing features. It has a lo...
One of These (Beatitudes) Is Not Like the Others! (Oct 4, 2025 17:02)
To be poor in spirit is to acknowledge our creatureliness and our radical dependency on...
DiversityWatch (October 4, 2025) (Oct 4, 2025 15:29)
~~~ The under-representation of white people on TV adverts is more serious than it seem...
Nothing like a ball: Instead of appointing mediocre middle managers or psychopaths as leaders; what should churches do? (Oct 4, 2025 07:43)