The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. (G.K. Chesterton, from his Orthodoxy)
Day: August 3, 2019
Sanity at John Paul II in Washington
Whatever is transpiring at the Pope John Paul II Institute in Rome – the Vatican will have a response, apparently soon, to explain what seems, for now, inexcusable – things are still stable at the sister Institute in Washington. For some inspiration, they have placed the talks of their conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of[…]
Work together in harmony: struggle together, run together, suffer together, rest together, rise together, as stewards, advisors and servants of God. Seek to please him whose soldiers you are and from whom you draw your pay; let none of you prove a deserter. Let your baptism be your armour, your faith your helmet, your charity[…]
Warmed Over Hypocrisy
The hypocrisy of the climate-change-save-the-Earth movement waxes rather warm itself these days, as it has since its incipience under Al Gore in those 90’s yore, when things seemed almost rational by comparison. Rex Murphy’s inimitable ironic prose eviscerates the millionaires and billionaires gathering for a ‘Google Summit’, private jets and private yachts gobbling up fossil[…]