Saturday, April 12, 2008
Noonan - WSJ
Peggy Noonan's eloquence on two men: Nothing is ended, something beautiful has begun, we just won't understand it for a while. [h/t: New Advent]
Friday, April 11, 2008
BXVI at Ground Zero
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict will pray for the conversion to love "of those whose hearts and minds are consumed with hatred" when he visits New York's Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade towers destroyed on September 11, 2001. [h/t: Real Clear Religion]Who says John Paul II was more in touch with the theatrical than Benedict XVI? Nay, say not 'theatrical' - say Theodrama.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Excalibur or the Grail
Watching John Boorman's film Excalibur (1981) about once a year, as is my wont, I note the singular downward spiral inherent in the primitive Sacred. Boorman's version of the Arthurian legend has not even a trace of the original Christian tales, but is solely based on a Nietzschean motif of Eternal Return.Boorman's Merlin bids the king and knights remember their originary founding event (the destruction of their rivals and enemies). Lancelot catches his desire for Guenevere from Arthur. Morgana lusts after Merlin's spell of making as well as her half-brother's throne. And what was once built upon a transcendent sword, Excalibur, perishes in the mimetic swirling maelstrom of desire, lust, villainy, and mutual destruction.
So what? It appears for all the world that you and I are caught in the same maelstrom ourselves. The western mandarins of power, the United States of Can-Amer-Mexico and the E. U. -- those mavens of multiculturalism -- are following a steady but inevitable course of tearing down all the prohibitions that keep such sacrificial flames from spreading and setting fire to all that was good, true, and beautiful.
Meanwhile, our greatest numerical foe -- the Scimitar -- wants nothing so much as to aid by heaving bombs, planes, and Molotov cocktails into the crackling mess of the West. Why? Ostensibly to make way for Dar al-Islam. However ... that cannot happen, for Islam itself is in the midst of its own sacrificial preparation and downward spiral. Can you think of any single place where such "peace of Islam" can be viewed as exemplary? Pakistan? Indonesia?
The reasons given for its failure is, of course, Jews, Christians, and other infidel. But the truth is, Islam's falling into the same dry and ready-for-burning condition.
Our only hope is the hope engendered by the Gospel vouchsafed by the "one holy Catholic and apostolic Church" that recognizes, decodes, and provides the antidote for the satanic power which is the primitive Sacred. Can the Church avert the coming catastrophe we see coming toward us?
It can and will -- in a way that no mere parody, self-help, nationalistic entity may or can. Peter's Barque is still the Way, the Truth, and the Life -- the Body of Christ -- through the maelstrom. Cling to it, receive grace through the Blessed Sacraments, and practice the Two Great Commandments and the virtues in fealty as a knight to the One true Lord.
Do not trust in the vain promises of the false transcendence. Pro Christo et Ecclesia +
With Allies Like This ...
The Islamist known as “Osama bin Laden’s right hand man,” Abu Qatada, is now on the permanent dole, courtesy of the British government. [h/t: LGF]
Shire Strategy? We don't need any such thing in this multicultural utopia!
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
The Strange Liberal-Scimitar Connection
Hey, Minnesota! I know a great Catholic school that use some support if there’s any left after your supporting a Muslim school at taxpayers’ expense. [h/t: Maggie's Farm]
No Greater Love
Matt Archibald at Creative Minority Report - whose motto is, "We Laugh Because We Believe" - tells the brave and chivalrous story of Michael Monsoor, I will go in their stead.
Updated Version - Fitna
The newly-edited version of Fitna here, courtesy of Red at Ironic Surrealism II.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Atheist Shakes Hands with Vatican
Self-avowed athiest, Giuliano Ferrara, has become pro-life (somewhat - calling for 'moratorium' on abortion), conservative, and friendly with the Vatican. These guys, like Oriana Fallaci, get a glimpse of the light, and make make interesting allies:
For his part, Mr. Ferrara says he remains an atheist. “I’m not a converted Catholic,” he said. “I’m still a nonbeliever, even though my idea of reason is the idea of a reason which is open to mystery.” Whatever his motivations, his new crusade says as much about the power vacuum in Italy as the power. After all, as the critic Nicola Chiaromonte observed in the late 1940s, “In Italy, the Church offers not heaven so much as protection from the sheer impact of history.”
Church Roof Leaks (But So Do Mosques)
Apparently, it isn’t just Henry VIII who stole the lead from churches and monasteries. A sad commentary.
On the other hand, mosques have similar problems with “leaks”, as it were.
On the other hand, mosques have similar problems with “leaks”, as it were.
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