After the most blessed servant of God had been anointed king, he was not satisfied with the anxieties of his realm; so, in order to attain the crown of immortality, he determined to campaign for the King of all, for to serve him is to rule. (From a Life of Emperor Saint Henry, +1024)
Day: July 13, 2020
The Precipitous Prelate and the Prudential Pope
Newton’s Third Law has many applications, as does Hegel’s dialectic of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, in that eternal struggle of the World Spirit – even in the ecclesial and theological realm. For the Church, in her earthly manifestation, reels from crisis to crisis, seeming to totter, even approach collapse, but rising stronger, like a phoenix from the ashes,[…]
Fatima’s Third Vision and Avoiding Hell
Today, July 13th is the a 103rd anniversary of the third vision at Fatima – no, not the third secret, which is another story – to the three shepherd children, the one in which they were given a glimpse of hell ‘where the souls of poor sinners go’, which terrified the children, and prompted them[…]
Saint Henry, King and Emperor
Today we remember Saint Henry, Emperor of the Romans and King of the Italians, the last of the ‘Ottonian’ line – deriving from the original Emperor, Otto I. Henry was from Bavaria – whence Josef Ratzinger would also hail a millennium on – who became Holy Roman Emperor in 1014 until his death on this[…]