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
Tag: history
Book Review: The Song of Roland Translated by Frederick Goldin
“No day will pass that I feel no pain for you.”
– Charlemagne
(Laisse 207. 2901)
Book Review: The Glories of Mary by St. Alphonsus Ligouri
“When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.”
– John 19:26
Book Review: The Iliad of Homer Translated by W.C. Bryant
“The Greek epics express, with an incomparable depth and fulness, the eternal knowledge of truth and destiny which is the creation of the heroic age—the age that cannot be destroyed by any bourgeois ‘progress’.”
– Werner Jaeger
Judith Butler’s Gnostic Nonsense
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
– Ephesians 5:11
Book Review: The Confessions of Saint Augustine Translated by E.B. Pusey
“Thou touchedst me, and I burned for Thy peace.” – St. Augustine
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
Book Review: History of the Byzantine State by George Ostrogorsky
“Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”
– 1 Peter 2:17
Book Review of The Sinner’s Return to God: The Prodigal Son by Fr. Michael Müller, C.S.S.R.
“I will arise, and will go to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: I am not worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.”
– Luke 15:18-19