The Mutilated Rosary of Nations: The Demographic Reality that Refutes the Romanticization of Latino Catholicism
How the modernist prelates’ moral justification for mass migration refutes itself.
How the modernist prelates’ moral justification for mass migration refutes itself.
“The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God.”
– Psalms 52:1
“Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?”
– Job 40:20
Why feelings matter more than facts in academia.
The soul, the mind, needs food and exercise just as the body does; but the food of the mind is not bread, and its exercise is not games. It feeds on visions of truth and beauty as supplied by the master word artists in literature; its exercise is to wrestle with ideas enshrined in noble books, even as Jacob wrestled all the night with the angel; and its reward is, like Jacob’s, to receive a joyful blessing at the dawn.
“Even if Epictetus did see the way clearly, he only told men: ‘You are on the wrong track.’ He shows us that there is another, but he does not lead us there. The right way is to want what God wants. Christ alone leads to it. Via veritas…”
– Blaise Pascal (Pensées, fragment 466)
“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”
“With his spirit at once humble and swift, his memory ready and tenacious, his life spotless throughout, a lover of truth for its own sake, richly endowed with human and divine science, like the sun he heated the world with the warmth of his virtues and filled it with the splendor of his teaching.”
– Leo XIII on St. Thomas Aquinas