tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71260492024-03-14T00:24:35.979+08:00FideCogitActio : omnis per gratiam»ἕως θανάτου ἀγώνισαι περὶ τñς ἀληθείας, καὶ Κύριος ὁ θεὸς πολεμήσει ὑπὲρ σοu.« • »Pro iustitia agonizare pro anima tua, et usque ad mortem certa pro iustitia: et Deus expugnabit pro te inimicos tuos.« (Sir. 4:28/33)Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.comBlogger2277125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-84190143545222756312021-07-03T14:30:00.001+08:002021-07-03T14:30:50.742+08:00Upton Sinclair...He was an incredible author, but, at bottom, a boob.<div><br></div><div>I recently began reading his 1927 <i>Oil!</i> and instantly fell in love.</div><div><br></div><div>I have never read anything by him before, but now I have a slate of his more than one hundred books that I'd like to read. </div><div><br></div><div>My first gleaning was that Sinclair died in the mid-1920s, but today I learned that he actually died in 1968 (oh, thw irony). </div><div><br></div><div>Thusly Sinclair went from being a useful idiot to a dangerous book. </div><div><br></div><div>Assuming he had died in the tender years of the Bolshevik Revolution, and that <i>Oil!</i> had been posthumously published, I gave Sinclair's unabashed Socialism a pass. "It was a simpler time; he didn't know any better; he hadn't seen what Solzhenitsyn had seen."</div><div><br></div><div>Alas.</div><div><br></div><div>As it happens, he really did have the opportunity to know better, and he could have heeded the prophet Solzhenitsyn. </div><div><br></div><div>But, instead, he preferred to enjoy the benefits of his crony capitalist motherland (America) so that he could be an apologist for his dreamy Soviet heartland, whilst millions of Russians would have instantly traded places with Sinclair.</div><div><br></div><div>The upside of trudging through Sinclair's Leninist water-carrying in the midsection of <i>Oil!</i> is that I am now aware of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0817359494?pf_rd_r=D9YH90M2NG4TJDXQEX8X&pf_rd_p=89879054-2e37-4233-9fd7-bd5a93dd076a&pd_rd_r=084bcb39-05d8-4d01-a14b-09190c06e063&pd_rd_w=oVXV3&pd_rd_wg=fBgbg">America's audacious, largely unknown, but sadly predictable expeditionary intervention in Siberia near the end of WWI</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>It is an ugly tale, penned with the ink of American soldiers' blood. It is also a tale of how oligarchic capitalism can be just as ruthless as the communism against which it is allegedly pitted. </div><div><br></div><div>Just because two stray dogs are fighting over the same bone, doesn't mean the older one is more to be trusted. </div><div><br></div><div>Capitalism and communism share one soul, animated by the spirit of secular internationalism. Essence is finality, which is to say that a thing's proper end is a thing's proper nature. As such, capitalism and communism partake of the same nature—namely, that of oligarchic material concentrationism (to coin a term).</div><div><br></div><div>Ask a capitalist what values besides the just distribution of money bespeak a healthy social order. </div><div><br></div><div>Now ask a communist the same thing.</div><div><br></div><div>You will get the same answers.</div><div><br></div><div>This is because neither ideology includes a conception of society that necessarily favors the nuclear family as the fundamental social unit and the well-being thereof as the primary social good.</div>Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-41883780326478881882019-07-16T11:55:00.004+08:002019-07-16T12:08:12.603+08:00Nothing can defeat a people...<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"When men revolve to cooperate with the grace of God, the marvels of history are worked: the conversion of the Roman Empire; the formation of the Middle Ages; the reconquest of Spain, starting from Covadonga; all events that result from the great resurrections of soul of which all peoples are also capable. These resurrections are invincible, because nothing can defeat a people that is virtuous and truly loves God."</blockquote>
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Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-55328922853134347082019-07-15T11:40:00.005+08:002019-07-15T11:40:50.013+08:00Conservative cowardice...<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“Through 1789, 1917, and 1945 the ‘substance of inner life,’ as Salazar put it, evaporated, although after each date some, always fewer, old forms still survived, creating the impression that the loss had been tolerable. Thus after each turning point, the domain of what the counter-revolutionaries considered as _essential_ diminished, while increasingly more had to be jettisoned as _inessential_. This was not a philosophical choice, but a political one, enforced by necessity. Counter-revolutionaries know that a civilization decays in proportion as it consents to jettison more and more of its substance, which it then calls a no longer useful ballast, or ‘inessential.’ But from the point of view of Western civilization it is hard to tell which of the two losses is greater, more ‘essential’: the communization of Eastern Europe or the elimination of Latin from curriculum and liturgy.”</blockquote>
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-- Thomas Molnar, <i>The Counter-Revolution</i> (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969), p. 158. </div>
Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-78113060611378442012019-07-15T11:39:00.004+08:002019-07-15T11:39:39.841+08:00An American Caesar...<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“The post-1945 counter-revolutionary generation, while retaining through family piety and comradely loyalty a certain monarchist coloration, was nevertheless ready to accept other channels to the sacred than the person of the king. … Thus emerges a new type of counterrevolutionary ‘hero,’ the embodiment neither of the ideal restored monarch of the nineteenth century, nor of the twentieth-century ‘strong man.’ … </blockquote>
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If a portrait were to be drawn of him, it would show a figure born or educated in a counter-revolutionary milieu, or otherwise understood to have counter-revolutionary convictions. Public opinion classifies him as a counter-revolutionary, and, accordingly, he has partisans and opponents, a definite political profile. This impression becomes the more firm as his style of life and style of thought, things deeper than intellectual judgments, automatically divide people into his friends and his foes, sympathizers or adversaries. Yet, a considerable ambiguity prevails around him since the style and content of his thought are often in disharmony: until power is firmly in his hand, he does not disclose where the real weight is. In the period prepatory to power, this ambiguity grants the counter-revolutionary ‘hero’ a great freedom of action: only in the decisive moment does he show his hand: he accepts the leadership counter-revolutionaries offer him, but his policies will follow the revolutionary pattern, and will, in the last analysis, favor the revolutionary cause. Thus his success follows from his timing, and indeed he dominates the time factor precisely in that neither his natural partisans nor his natural adversaries are able in advance to calculate and evaluate his moves; while they are confused, the ‘hero’ gains time, the most important element for his complicated maneuvers.<br /> <br />The phenomenon is so universal – although rare – that it would be an error to find it on the counter-revolutionary side only. What the communists call ‘Bonapartism’ is its revolutionary version. …<br /> <br />The period since 1789 has known, however, more such phenomena on the counter-revolutionary side. It would not be entirely inappropriate to the phenomenon ‘Caesarism,’ over against the revolutionary phenomenon of ‘Bonapartism.’ Julius Caesar, member of the class of <i>optimates</i>, brilliant aristocrat, sensuous, luxury-loving, even effeminate in his youth, became the leader of the <i>populaires</i> by a political choice, the result of acute views about the situation of Rome. Caesar’s views were … consciously and masterfully chosen, to be sure, as the best means to promote his own career, but also as the Realpolitik of the moment.<br /> <br />The contemporary counter-revolutionary ‘hero’ resembles Caesar in that he too belongs to the ‘optimates,’ and he too decides, after a careful analysis of the situation, that he needs a popular base. This situation has two facets: one, as it appears to the counter-revolutionary hero himself, the other as it appears to the counter-revolutionaries accepting him as their spokesman and leader. Briefly put, the counter-revolutionary hero, although his personal tastes and style are shaped by counter-revolutionary convictions and values, reaches the conclusion that in the post-1945 world power is in the hands of the communications media, acknowledged representatives of the <i>populaires</i>. His policies, over against his deeper preferences, will aim at acceptance by these media so that his natural opponents might be neutralized in the course of carrying out his plans. </blockquote>
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- Thomas Molnar, <i>The Counter-Revolution</i> (1969), pp. 154-157.</div>
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The interesting lapse in foresight comes near the end of the passages cited, where Molnar says the 'hero' will need to appease the revolutionary media in order to succeed.<br />
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Yet, Trump follows the pattern Molnar limns by admitting, by his actions, how important the media are for accessing and influencing public opinion, even if the gatekeepers of those media are themselves hostile. As estranged as he may be towards "the mainstream media," he could not have succeeded, paradoxically, without their hostility. It is in this sense that Trump "relies on" Twitter and combative interview tactics so much: he literally needed the media to give him constant exposure even if it was negative. That being said, Trump's master stroke was recognizing that the media were so deeply "bolshevized" (as Molnar would put it) that he had to make its figureheads into enemies just to get their unwitting broadcast support.Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-1356913043885804742019-07-15T02:29:00.002+08:002019-07-15T02:29:53.060+08:00The media of persuasion cry out in pain...<blockquote>
“The counter-revolutionary restoration has regularly failed, not because of some intrinsic weakness in the counter-revolutionary position and philosophy, but because counter-revolutionaries were largely unable to make full use of modern methods, organization, slogans, political parties, and the press. The process of ‘image making’ was abandoned to the revolutionary media, so that counter-revolutionaries have regularly appeared in unfavorable light, if they were indeed known at all. …<br />
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"The year 1945 represents both a defeat and a victory for the counter-revolution, although, while the defeat seemed to be complete, the victory was, to say the least, ambiguous. Contrary to tendentious insinuations, the counter-revolutionary's defeat is not identical with that of the bourgeoisie, of fascism, of the corporate state, or of Hitler's 'New European order.' One of the points this book seeks to emphasize is that the counter-revolutionary is not a radical rightist, and that only a century and a half's frustrations have led him into despair and panic; his anti-democratic stance is one with his loyalty to the monarchic principle, so that it was natural for him to make the following reasoning: in proportion as democracy and the parties weaken the nation and undermine its spirit, one must search for a monarch or for a temporary substitute, who will abolish the parties, limit the sphere of democracy, and restore national unity. Writers as different as Renan, Bernanos, and Simone Weil were exasperated by the party system, and were calling for an elite to redeem national existence. They are only three, chosen at random, among the deepest consciences of Europe, expressing the same conviction and the same hope. <br />
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Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-7698860374478205862019-02-20T11:11:00.002+08:002019-02-20T11:14:45.682+08:00The Eastern Orthodox Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, Part 5<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Unfortunately, it has not yet become axiomatic to accept the Byzantine tradition as a consistent harbinger of the Latin tradition, one lagging centuries behind Byzantine theology of the Immaculate Conception."</span></blockquote>
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-- Fr. Christiaan Kappes, <i>The Immaculate Conception</i> (2014), p. 15.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"In negotiations with the Greeks in Constantinople, emperor John VIII [d. 1448] had to choose between two rival Councils for corporate reunion with the West. The Conciliarists at Basel wished to slight Pope Eugenius IV and receive the Greek contingent there. However, the Orthodox tradition was too conscious of the traditional presence of the Pope of Rome at an Ecumenical Council. As such, it was [<i><b>sic!</b></i>] beyond their ecclesiology to seriously consider convoking a Council that intentionally excluded the virtual presence of the Pope."</span></blockquote>
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Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-72354966120832872842019-02-20T11:01:00.000+08:002019-02-20T11:01:01.231+08:00On feminizing the world...<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"C. S. Lewis asserts the feminine character of the Christian worshiper as consequent upon the transcendent masculinity of the God who is worshiped, a notion also echoed by H. U. von Balthasar, as in the last century by Matthias Scheeben. For Lewis, see <i>That Hideous Strength</i> (New York: Macmillan, 1965) 316: 'What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it.' ... This quite common and quite unreflective reservation of the reality of masculinity to the Creator, over against a relatively feminized creation, implies a reversion to a cosmological dualism radically incompatible both with Catholic sacramental realism and with the doctrine of the Good Creation which underlies that realism."</span></blockquote>
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Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-6605929225700677892019-02-20T10:57:00.000+08:002019-02-20T10:57:08.279+08:00The only acceptable and viable economic theory...<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The only acceptable and viable economic theory is one that roots all conventional economic factors in the stability and fecundity of the pious nuclear family.</span><br />
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Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-30630125595623093012019-02-19T12:01:00.000+08:002019-02-19T12:01:03.097+08:00Notate bene...<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keefe, unlike many Jesuits of his day, is not trying to "update" or "reform" or "reinterpret" Catholicism, but is, rather, trying to convince fellow theologians to stop explaining the Faith through the ventriloquist dolls of non-Christian metaphysics and presuppositions.</span></span>Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-2325004166769848672019-02-19T12:00:00.000+08:002019-02-19T12:00:06.136+08:00Worship is sacramental or it is not Christian worship...<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In non-Keefian terms, this passage demolishes the notion of someone being "spiritual but not religious," because literally <i>every-thing</i> in the world is rooted in the Eucharist; and because the Eucharist, in turn, is irreducibly <i>sacramental</i> (i.e., historical), everything in the Catholic life is irreducibly sacramental. This is why we must not trifle with liturgical worship but must see it as one of the primary ways that we "image" God.<br /><br />Keefe was not a "traditionalist" but he does at times countersignal the cosmological flabbiness of what Vatican II officially taught, and gives no quarter to the immanentist excesses to which that Council's contested claims exploited.<br /><br />Suffice to say that the obscurity, if not outright ignominy, of Keefe's genius is itself yet another argument against what post-Conciliar Catholicism has become. </span></div>
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Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-70000204501173558522019-02-19T11:46:00.001+08:002019-02-19T11:46:53.450+08:00Our Christocentric dependence upon revelation...<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-7859409314789795222019-02-09T11:24:00.004+08:002019-02-09T11:24:48.709+08:00What is said of the Church...<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Following Paul in Ephesians 5, the patristic tradition has understood what is said of [Mary] to be said of the Church. The degree of this identification is disputed, particularly in the context of the 'co-redemptrix' title, whose legitimacy was debated in the 1940s and 1950s, and resisted as if implying a species of synergism.... The relegation of Mariology to ecclesiology at Vatican II did nothing to settle the issue.... Much of the criticism ... of the thoroughgoing commun<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">ication of idioms between Mary and the Church, bears finally upon this emphasis of a Mariology then [ca. the 1960s] perceived to be old-fashioned and now perceived also to be an affront to the ecumenism taught at Vatican II. Nonetheless the Marian piety associated with the ascription of a redemptive role to the <i>Theotokos</i> had and has a better base than has the criticism made of it, and is far more deeply grounded in the analogy of faith than it has been given credit for by either side of the debate."</span></span></blockquote>
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Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-68433075783739411792019-02-09T11:20:00.000+08:002019-02-09T11:20:03.904+08:00Wait, what?<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-14366526585906486462019-02-09T11:19:00.000+08:002019-02-09T11:19:04.244+08:00Hail to "one and the same" Son...<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Mary is not the <i>Christotokos</i> in Nestorius' sense of the term ... but is rather the <i>Theotokos</i>, the mother of the <i>one</i> Son who is at once her Son and the Son of the Father. She is the mother of Christ the man, not of his human nature: to require, with Nestorius ... <i>anthropotokos</i> in addition to <i>Theotokos</i>, as its necessary corrective, or to prefer <i>Christotokos</i>, is inevitably to deny the unity of Christ. <i>Theotokos</i> is properly said of Mary only because of the historical unity of her Son; she is the mother of a human Son, a human Person, not a human nature—which does not at all imply a 'two Sons' doctrine, for it is as Son that Christ is 'one and the same,' the eternal Son of the eternal Father, and the historical son of Mary, in the unity of one Person who is not 'two sons' but one."</span></blockquote>
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Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-65555806183817703992019-02-09T11:14:00.000+08:002019-02-09T11:14:04.214+08:00The pre-Anselmian Ontological Argument for God's existence...<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-88898361351662053912019-02-09T11:04:00.001+08:002019-02-09T11:04:28.555+08:00This happened to my SCOTUS one time...<div style="text-align: center;">
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Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-73860060755192293362019-02-09T10:55:00.002+08:002019-02-09T10:55:36.309+08:00Sinlessly on a cruciform tree...<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">The First Adam </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">consumed </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">sinfully </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">from the tree of the knowledge of good </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129;">and of evil, </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline;"><br />while the Second Adam<br />was consumed<br />sinlessly<br />on the cruciform tree,<br />to impart knowledge<br />of the victory of good<br />over evil<br />to Old Adam's heirs,<br />whose heirs are we all.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Where the reality of the sin <i>originans</i> is rejected, the reality of an original moral agent for the fall is immediately abandoned, and with this, the moral character of the fall. At this point, the fall itself becomes a metaphor for the materiality of the created order. ... It is curious that attempts to avoid the supposed 'pessimism' of Paul, and of Augustine's reliance upon Paul, so regularly conclude in the definitive pessimism of metaphysical dualism, in which the root of evil is not sin but our material dispersion in space and time."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Five qualities are generally attributed to Adam's transgression. It is <i>seriously </i>culpable, <i>personal</i> with Adam, technically original originating (<i>originale <b>originans</b></i>), implied total <i>aversion</i> from God, and conversion or turning to creatures. ... It is sin as something habitual and not actual, <i>natural </i>and not personal, involving a <i>moral state</i> of soul and state of <i>culpability</i>, implying both the <i>reatus culpae</i> and the <i>macula peccati</i>, and properly described as original originated (<i>originale <b>originatum</b></i>) as distinct from the personal sin of Adam.</span></blockquote>
Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-53478535655603325592019-02-09T10:32:00.000+08:002019-02-09T10:32:03.029+08:00Say what you will...<div style="text-align: center;">
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The recent SOTU was reason enough, among many other reasons, why NeverTrump cuckservatives should eat shit and die (in Minecraft, that is.)</div>
Codgitator (Cadgertator)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00872093788960965392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126049.post-6658904594970225172019-02-09T10:30:00.003+08:002019-02-09T10:30:53.632+08:00Immigrant Catholicism and affronts to modernity...<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"[C]urrent revisionist theology is concerned with the 'retrieval' rather than the exploration of the doctrinal tradition, with political therapy rather than redemption [cf. Bergoglio], and the eschatology in view is invariably monist, a ritual flight from the hazards of the historical order to the immobilist security of the ideal. Uniformly, the sexual symbolism expressed in sacramental marriage is discovered to be radically incompatible with this ancient fear of historical r<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">esponsibility, and the symbolism which marriage underwrites is everywhere under attack by those who recognize in it the fundamental barrier to a renewed gnosticism—whose <i>dévots</i> <b>[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9vots">irony alert!</a>]</b> proclaim the demise of that 'immigrant Catholicism' characterized by its commitment to such affronts to modernity as the reservation of priestly orders to me, clerical celibacy, virginity outside of marriage and life-long fidelity within it, as well as by a clear eye for the distinction between the criminal homicide which is abortion and the lawful homicide which vindicates the symbols of public order by the execution of salient offense against the public decencies."</span></span></div>
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