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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?
We’ve been bombarded recently with people claiming that we should be ashamed of associating ourselves with the Catholic Church after it was determined that the Church forcibly assimilated Natives in Canada and killed a bunch of children in the process…. Continue Reading →
I’ve been studying a lot the life of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, not because I agree with him or his ideas (which, on the record, I oppose by principle), but because as a fellow Hispanic, a student with revolutionary ambitions, I have felt that my trip, my stay, my travel to a foreign land, has changed me forever and has developed my ideas to extents I would have never thought of.
The Pope has offered a harrowing vision of the future, saying he has seen signs of an even darker time for humanity. At a Mass at the Vatican, the Pope, 85, said on Sunday that he has a dire vision… Continue Reading →
We are conservatives because we see these little platoons, these intermediate bodies, these sovereign spheres as the living tissue of society, we see these little platoons, these intermediate bodies, these sovereign spheres, in which the virtues to sustain civilization are promoted and taught in each generation, building traditions based on moral principles and institutions that are meant to preserve the historical common good for future generations. We are also classical, for we firmly believe that there are different spheres of class to which each individual person belongs, fulfilling different roles and exercising different rights in each; a set of mutually inclusive allegiances that allow the free development of the best in our nature, both individually and socially.
Hillary Clinton recently appeared on Christiane Amanpour’s show likening saving babies from abortion to soldiers raping women: “We have come along way on so many fronts but we are also in a period of time where there is a lot… Continue Reading →
As early as the fifth century, St. Augustine of Hippo was considering the moral consequences of war. He was one of the first people to articulate a philosophical statement on war and justice, known as the Just War doctrine. St…. Continue Reading →
As the world descended into medical fascism during the COVID pandemic, Mattias Desmet was one of the voices providing an explanation. He asserted that much of the world had been primed for totalitarianism through a sense of alienation from fellow… Continue Reading →
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