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ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XION THE CHURCH AND THE GERMAN REICHTO THE VENERABLE BRETHRENTHE ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS OF GERMANY AND OTHER ORDINARIESIN PEACE AND COMMUNION WITH THE APOSTOLIC SEE. Venerable Brethren, Greetings, and Apostolic Blessing. It is with deep anxiety… Continue Reading →
Hitler and the Nazis encouraged abortions for inferior peoples as documentation shows.
Full quote: “The failure of this experiment of communal service, which was tried for several years, and by good and honest men proves the emptiness of the theory of Plato and other ancients, applauded by some of later times, —… Continue Reading →
If Cardinal Ruffo could transition from leading forefather of a fanatic reaction against Jacobinism to a skillful agent in service of the different powers of his time, ultimately not serving his faith but its institutional church, then why would his contemporary equivalents do otherwise now, when they can play the academic and political games as long as there is someone to serve?
If power corrupts, and absolute power corrupt absolutely, then what happens with passion? Does passion also corrupts, and absolute passion would also corrupt absolutely? Or can passion be a different kind of drive, one that creates a sense of trust and direction towards higher ideals?
Our passion, derived from love, would make us suffer in search of the sublime. And the sublime would be nothing but what already is beautiful but expanded to the same extreme perceptions that are already hurting and making us suffer. Enter the realm of limit-experiences.
In the years leading up to the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the Ottoman Empire was the strongest and fiercest military in the world, steadily expanding its dominion in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Venice, once a maritime powerhouse, had made… Continue Reading →
VITIUM CONSENSUS A fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos.Numquid colligunt de spinis uvas aut de tribulis ficus?Sic omnis arbor bona fructus bonos facit; mala autem arbor fructus malos facit.Non potest arbor bona fructus malos facere, neque arbor mala fructus bonos facere.Omnis arbor… Continue Reading →
The Inquisition, a term that conjures images of religious persecution and intolerance, was a complex institution that spanned centuries and continents. Often associated with the Catholic Church, the Inquisition was not chiefly the work of ecclesiastical authorities. State governments played… Continue Reading →
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