Church Choristers Must Be, & Must Be Male
We cannot do without Church choristers – and acolytes – and they must be male: If cult is to form the culture properly, men must be involved in its hierarchy, at all levels. Where men are not involved...
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Burroughs’ Amtor – A Satire of Ideologies
Roy Krenkel (1918 – 1983): Cover for the Ace edition of Pirates of Venus Once upon a time – I believe it was twelve years ago – I published an article at the Brussels Journal, defunct since 2009 but...
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Eliade on the Sacred and the Profane
Michael Willman (1626 – 1679): Creation of the World (1668) The Romanian born anthropologist Mircea Eliade (1907 – 1986) led a hectic life in his thirties. Embroiling himself in politics on the...
View ArticleTraditionalism is the Reductio of Modernity
The tradition of modernity is to repudiate tradition per se. It’s right there in the term: ‘modern’ is from Late Latin modernus, from Latin modo, “just now.” So ‘modern’ means “what is just now.”...
View ArticleSuperstition & Subscendence: An Essay in Honor of Tom Bertonneau
Bear with me here. I hardly know where I am going with this, although I feel I have caught the spoor of something Tom would find delightful – that he would join with me joyfully in this new hunt. I’m...
View ArticleRomantic Christianity versus Christianity Proper
To my recent post about Finding the True Way to Life, Bruce Charlton commented: @Kristor – I find your post and comments both surprising and confusing! Your post concedes pretty much all the ground to...
View ArticleGod Save the Queen! Long Live the Queen!
May the Queen live forever! Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, Amen! Alleluia, Amen. O Lord, succor now thy servant Elizabeth. May thine angels carry her unto thine everlasting rest. May she live forever...
View ArticleKill Them All, & Let God Sort Them Out
This is how social deliquescence appears concretely. One faction or another – or, all factions – throw up their hands, give up negotiations, and resort to civil war. As soon as the percentage of those...
View ArticleHow to Increase Priestly Vocations
I heard the other day driving along and listening to Catholic Radio that in some diocese or other, the Catholic Church had one priest for every 12,000 laymen. The mind boggles, right? I can’t cite to a...
View ArticleConservatism is (Slowly) Changing: From Protecting the Existing Order to...
Protecting the existing order is usually good. But the current Western orders are toxic. By “order” we mean the orders religious, social, economic, intellectual and political. The comprehensive Order...
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