Right and Might: The Reign of Christ the King and National Identity (Part I)
“We must therefore combine right and might, and to that end make right into might or might into right.”
– Blaise Pascal
Category: Articles
To Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Ethnogenesis of the American Nation
“God is my first love’s duty,
To whose eternal Name
Be praise for all thy beauty,
Thy grandeur and thy fame;
But ever have I reckoned
Thine, native flag, my second.”
– Fr. Charles Constantine Pise, S.J.,
“The American Flag”
The Westphalian Fallacy
“Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.”
– Psalm 126:1
Judith Butler’s Gnostic Nonsense
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
– Ephesians 5:11
Joseph De Maistre Against Critical Race Theory
“An indomitable pride incessantly leads them to overthrow everything they have not made; and to create anew they separate themselves from the principle of all existence.” – Joseph de Maistre
A Summary and Brief Exposition of Joseph De Maistre’s Theory of Language
“In the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days prudence.” – Job 12:12
How Aristotle Helps Us to Understand Spiritual Slavery to the Virgin Mary and to her Son, Jesus Christ
“And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.” – Matthew 23:12
On the ‘Sleeping Hero’ Legends
Some thoughts about a very moving element of European folklore.
The Death Penalty Abolition Movement and Modernism
“Pistoia! Pistoia! why have you not decreed
to turn yourself to ashes and end your days,
rather than to spread the evil of your seed!”
– Inferno, XXV. 10-12 (trans. by Ciardi).