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Sovereignty is not merely a bad political ideal; it is simply, in the end, impossible.
Understanding “political Catholicism” as a species of bossbabery sheds light on the movement as a whole.
Socialism only emerges from the logic of Liberalism.
If “the Church came to assume Roman political forms” it is equally obvious that she then came to discard them.
Now that postliberalism has become a brand in the virtual public square, it no longer stands for a wholesale critique of the founding assumptions of modernity.
We are not led by great men, but by experts.
Fundamental reading for the restoration of Christian politics.
For Schmitt enemies and potential enemies are all that really exist. We must assert the very opposite, that friends and partial friends are all that exist.
Reilly’s argument rests upon a questionable methodology and upon ignoring the profound transformations to the meaning of “nature,” “reason,” “God,” and “Christianity” in early modern mechanistic philosophy.
Children contradict all the major anthropological assumptions of liberalism.
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The trouble with liberalism is the trouble with all heresies—it has no idea that it is a heresy.
The liberal criminal has no common thing to return to.
America can often be an ugly place, but the field sobriety test is a flower of its field.
The Social Teaching of the Catholic Church is the only real, living, alternative to a world of unreality.
The meaning of identity is the question that now roils societies.
One is either of a people who forget or a people who remember.
Well, the pope has spoken. And the Church has lost its ever-loving mind.
Sovereignty is not merely a bad political ideal; it is simply, in the end, impossible.
Recently a YouTuber—one of us whose “You” is intimately involved with a “Tube”—meandered down to God’s Own Steubenville, Ohio.
The essential thing is not government but what government serves, which preexists and causes it: before we can have a proper government, we need a proper mind, heart, and conscience—those things in which the principles of government exist.
Christianity has always redeemed politics by surpassing it, fulfilling it beyond itself. It defeats violence through peace and not with more powerful violence. This is not to say that Christianity leaves the tyrannies of the world alone. When I say it defeats them, I mean that literally, concretely—Christianity brings tyrants to their knees.
Goliath represents the impulse to put all our hope in man; to stockpile; to amass; to find salvation in the strength of a singular Giant. This is why Goliath is so very big. David represents the Jewish impulse to put all our hope in God. This is why he, David, is so very small.
Gawk at an idea with me, an idea so basic to our thought that its wackiness goes undetected: gawk upon moral progress.
It is stupid to name generations; furthermore, it is tasteless; also, I think it mean-spirited.
Understanding “political Catholicism” as a species of bossbabery sheds light on the movement as a whole.
Socialism only emerges from the logic of Liberalism.
If “the Church came to assume Roman political forms” it is equally obvious that she then came to discard them.
“Medietas, this living-in-the-proper-middle, is not to be confused with mediocritas, with a lukewarm mediocrity that remains simply beneath the demands placed upon man.”
The Right and Left are the fragments of a shattered Christianity.
The marriage vow says, “Virtue or death.”
Now that postliberalism has become a brand in the virtual public square, it no longer stands for a wholesale critique of the founding assumptions of modernity.
To wake up in a society in which children cannot be killed is to wake up differently.
We must expect wars to result, not inevitably from the hand of God, but as the bitter fruit of the world's sin.
A Christianity that is an “option,” even if it is the correct option, is not Christianity.
Crisis Magazine recently published an essay by James Baresel, in which he attacks the idea of Christian community and proposes the ideal of “Benign Misanthropy” instead. His article is certainly misanthropic, but it is hardly benign. Rather, it presents a deeply anti-Christian philosophy under the cover of a supposedly “traditional” Catholicism. Properly understood, the concept of community is an essential part of the Catholic Faith.
We are not led by great men, but by experts.
Fundamental reading for the restoration of Christian politics.
If public health is the goal, we’re doing it wrong.
What does the average American think of the vaccine? The answer may surprise you.
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The meaning of identity is the question that now roils societies.