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John Henry Newman on a problem he noticed roughly 200 years ago ... It is very much the fashion at present to regard the Saviour of the world in an irreverent and unreal way—as a mere idea or vision ... [offering] vague statements about His love ... [and] while the thought of Christ is but a [...]
There are universal experiences everyone has and then forgets, over time, either willingly or willfully. Or maybe the experience sticks with them but they don’t know it for what it is. I remember a friend, an English jazz musician in New Orleans (whom I’ll call Peter) telling me that he’d once been a part of a [...]
Every three years the Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Lent is the well-known story of the raising of Lazarus (John 11:1-44). Center stage stand his sisters, Martha and Mary, and since the late sixth century and the writings of Saint Gregory the Great, Christians have seen them as representing the active and the contemplative lives. [...]
Here's a brief outline of Eric Voegelin's lecture "In Search of the Ground", with quotations. I. THE GROUND (Greek: αἴτιον) is the source of our being and our particularity (THE GROUND is GOD, viewed as a philosophical concept and not as a Person.) There the quest of the ground has been formulated in two principal [...]
In his sermon "The Christian Ministry", Bl. John Henry Newman lays out for us a possible chain of unbelief. Note that you can start this chain anywhere, but Newman starts it from the point of view of someone who doubts the Priesthood. Doubt that Christ commissioned the Apostles, and set aside a group of men as [...]
In his essay "Democracy and Industrial Society", Eric Voegelin (alluding to Ernest Renan) speaks of three foundational elements in Western society: Hellenistic Philosophy, Jewish-Christian Religion and Roman Administrative Order. In shorthand, this means our society has the constituitive elements of Reason (studium, the School) Revelation (sacerdotium, the Church, priests) Power (imperium, the administration of justice [...]
Somehow in this corrupt and disappointing institution, there is at least one really great priest. Obviously, there are many. But today I met with a man who cannot be explained. This crooked Church filled with crooked sinners (like me), a Church which can legitimately be prosecuted as a criminal organization under the RICO statues in the [...]
Guess what? There's this really great online book club, started by my friend Brian Daigle of Sequitur Classical Academy in Baton Rouge. It's called The Pillar and it features online discussions of current books, classics and everything in between. Last night The Pillar hosted a live webinar with Anthony Esolen, author of Out of the Ashes - Rebuilding [...]