Samuel Gregg
@DrSamuelGregg
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Friedrich Hayek Chair in Econ. + Eco.History @AIER, Con.Ed @LawLiberty + @CivitasOutlook, Aff.S @ActonInstitute Burkean Whig đșđžđŠđșđŽó §ó ąó łó Łó Žó ż Op. mine.
Joined October 2012
đ§”Itâs out! My new book, THE NEXT AMERICAN ECONOMY: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World, published by the good people at @EncounterBooks. And it has some wonderful endorsers . See the following đ§”that follows below đ.
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With respect, Mr. President, this is a mistake:.1) Unions have made American ports among the most inefficient in the world. 2) The costs of unions' Luddism are borne by all Americans in higher costs. 3) Why are we privileging 85,000 union members over 330 million American
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1. The Scottish Enlightenment.2. Magna Carta.3. Refusing to do a deal with Hitler in 1940.4. Shakespeare.5. Royal Navy ending the Slave Trade.6. Isaac Newton.7. Thomas More.8. Parliamentarianism.9. Edmund Burke.10. Single Malt Whisky. (In no order).
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Happy 545th birthday to Sir Thomas More: lawyer, Renaissance scholar, statesman, husband, father, martyr and saint who stood firm when all but one of Englandâs bishops succumbed to a tyrant. Fidelity to the Truth made him a free man.
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I am not a Latin Mass attender and am well aware of the unhealthy views of a small minority of Latin Mass attendees, but one wonders why a similar papal response has not been unleashed upon the outright heresies of numerous German bishops. 1/ #TraditionisCustodes.
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Unlike a good number of Western Europeans, Poles have always understood that the Marxism symbolized by the hammer-and-sickle is as intrinsically evil, dehumanizing and diabolical as National Socialism.
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𧔠1/ Iâm not a âtraditionalistâ as that word is commonly understood. Iâm a run-of-the-mill orthodox Catholic who attends the Novus Ordo Mass. I also think that Romeâs treatment of that very small group of Catholics who want to attend the pre-Vatican II Mass is shameful.
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As I keep saying, French Catholicism is one of the most dynamic forces in Western Christianity these days. Note how young these people are.
PARIS - PriÚres de rue devant Saint-Sulpice : les fidÚles demandent la réouverture des églises malgré le confinement. #COVID19
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World War II resolved the problem of Nazi Germany and ended the worst genocide of the 20th century.
War does not resolve any problem. It only sows death and destruction, increases hate, multiplies vengeance. War erases the future. I exhort believers to take only one side in this conflict: the side of peace â not in word, but in prayer.
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Barbarism. Nothing more, nothing less.
VIDEO: Thousands of supporters of Islamist parties take to the streets of Karachi to protest Asia Bibi's acquittal and call for her beheading. Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy was freed from jail
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Dear @EmmanuelMacron This is the Oxford and Cambridge philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. She is widely considered one of the greatest 20th century philosophers. She had seven children. #PostcardsforMacron
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Yesterday at Mass, I prayed for all priests and bishops who havenât betrayed their flocks; who live humble lives; who arenât sophists or careerists; who are faithful to their vows; who are unafraid to defend the Faith; and who have dedicated their lives to the Lord.
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This is a key point. Large swathes of the US media basically decided that they would not do their job and report what was becoming evidently 4 years ago, as the @WSJ article shows. That is one of the biggest unspoken takeaways from the article.
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EVERYONE should worry about this, not just economists. And EVERYONE - including free marketers like myself - should be asking WHY this is occurring and not be content with the often simplistic and occasionally condescending responses given to this question.
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How is it possible that a foiled assassination plot against a SCOTUS justice is relegated to page 20 of the NYT? Does anyone seriously doubt that this would be front page news for the NYT if the target had been someone from the Court's liberal wing? .
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âA Jesus who agrees with everything and everyone, a Jesus without his holy wrath, without the harshness of truth and true love is not the real Jesus as the Scripture shows but a miserable caricature.â. - Joseph Ratzinger.
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Some of #BenedictXVIâs greatest admirers, Iâve seen, are non-Catholic Christians, orthodox Jews, and thinking agnostics. Why? Because they admire his commitment to the knowability of truth, his refusal to be intimidated by the zeitgeist, and his belief that we are indeed free.
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Sometimes you just have to ignore the signaling function of prices, supply and demand, trade-offs, comparative advantage, the failures of economic planning, the workings of self-interest, the importance of incentives, etc. #TheAgeOfEconomicIgnorance
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I will never understand why, given the Catholic Churchâs beautiful depository of arts and its great artists over 2000 years, church officials/bureaucrats insist on using kindergarten-like doodlings to present the faith to people.
CCEE presented yesterday the Official Logo of Europe's Ecclesial Synodal Assembly to take place from 5 to 9 February '23. Futher info available on #synod #listeningchurch #walkingtogether #ccee
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One point that canât be repeated enough. Being pro-market is NOT the same as being pro-business. One reason I favor markets is because they force businesses to be competitive and limit their ability to play the crony capitalist game.
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The reluctance in the West to discuss the ongoing persecution of Christians in the Middle East speaks volumes about the Westâs loss of its moral compass and the triumph of political correctness.
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Actually, you have NO place telling anyone to think or not to think. Your job is to preserve public order from riots, and to do so in a way that makes it clear that you wonât mollycoddle one set of rioters while acting forcefully against another set of rioters.
Think before you post.
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One sad fact confirmed by the coronavirus and the riots is that many American religious leaders simply echo whatever they hear from the secular realm because they 1) want to be ârelevantâ (the sure path to irrelevance) or 2) they long ago reduced their faith to politics.
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Check out the madness of wokeness. I predict that a concern for reason and truth will be classified (if they havenât been already) as instances of privilege and âeurocentricism.â.
First, diversity trainers informed white participants that "objectivity," "individualism," "intellectualization," and "comfort" are all vestiges of internalized racial oppression.
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Demolish it - as we should demolish every single neo-Stalinist anti-human edifice inflicted upon the world by modernist architects and Marxist, Fascist, and nihilist intellectuals.
What should they do with the Department of Education Building after they shutdown the Department of Education?
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The Democrats already have such an ecosystem. It is called âthe universities,â âteachers unions,â âmost of the legal profession,â and â90% of the media.â Thatâs not a partisan observation; itâs simply a fact.
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A lesson from the #McCarrickReport .We donât need celebrity priests, influence peddlers, institutional managers, or fundraisers as bishops. We need men well formed in the faith, who strive for holiness, fearlessly preach the gospel, and hold their brother bishops accountable.
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Or the dismal state of so many Catholic universities in which the faith is treated as an embarrassing relic at worst or just another vaguely religious but basically secular social justice movement. 5/.
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Dear @TheEconomist: it isn't the Catholic Church's job to "move with the times." Its job is to proclaim what it believes to be revealed truths knowable by faith & reason. Sometimes those truths clash with what some people want. But you don't get to be Catholic on your own terms.
Demand for changes such as letting women be priests, allowing the blessing of gay marriages and revising teachings on sexuality has grown strong. But their pleas in Rome seem to have fallen on deaf ears
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One reason that the #ElectoralCollege exists is to remind Americans that we are a republic, not a democracy. There is, after all, a difference.
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Or the grave liturgical abuses that are commonplace with numerous Novus Ordo masses throughout the entire world and which have been going on for decades. 2/.
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Or the appalling formation of young Catholics in the West since Vatican II. 3/.
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With all due respect, Senator @JDVance1, #US trade with #China accounts for about 9 percent of total #American trade with the rest of the world. China does not make all our stuff and has never come remotely close to making all our stuff.
"The dumbest of all possible foreign policy solutions and answers for our country is that we should let China make all of our stuff and we should fight a war with China.". -@JDVance1 at NatCon 4
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The @washingtonpost doubling down on its (absolutely correct) criticism of @VP Harrisâs proposed economic policies. And not just proposals for #pricecontrols Ă la Richard Nixon. And the question must be asked: WHO is advising her on economic policy?
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đ§”3/ Whatâs especially galling is that there are outright liturgical abuses that have occurred for decades (invariably performed by boomer clerics stuck in 1973). Why does Rome not discipline them?.
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What, indeed, is wrong with these people?. -Has anyone resigned?.-Has anyone gone to jail?.-Why has this priest not been laicized?.-Why the reluctance of the Vatican and Jesuits to deal with Rupnik?. What, indeed, is wrong with these people?.
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The American right has plenty of problems right now. But then there are those sections of the American left that literally want to burn down the US Constitution .
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The contradiction at the heart of Economic Nationalism is that while its rhetoric focuses on national interest and the common good, the reality is that it invariably amounts to promoting the interests of the politically-connected at everyone elseâs expense.
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Today is the feast day of Blessed Jerzy Popielusko, the Polish priest kidnapped, brutally tortured and murdered by the Communist secret police on Oct 19, 1984. His crime? Without fear, he spoke consistently for the Truth in the face of Marxist lies and evil. A martyr for Truth.
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To be critical of #China in the current #coronavirus crisis is not to be âxenophobic.â It is to condemn a regime whose capacity for lies appears unbounded.
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This is frankly delusional. I am rather sure that 99.9 percent of young Catholics have not followed the #Synod and have not read any of the relevant texts.
In an exclusive interview with Gerard OâConnell, Cardinal Cupich says young Catholics will look back at the synod as âone of the most historic moments in their lives, for it has redirected the focus of where the church is going.â.
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đ§”4/ Meanwhile in the swamp of doctrinal and financial corruption otherwise known as German Catholicism, outright heresy is stated by bishops and priests on a daily basis. Does Rome do anything? No.
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Or the moral and financial corruption of a good number of religious orders. 4/.
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Again, I am not a Latin Mass attender (though I think priests should be free to say it) and have no problem with the Novus Ordo mass. But the force of papal authority applied to a problem afflicting a minority within a minority of people will strike many as odd, even bizarre. 8/.
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A #PersonalAnnouncement . I've accepted the Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History with my employer @aier. Grateful to work with great colleagues as we promote personal freedom, free enterprise, property rights, limited government, and sound money.
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The sad irony is that I have no doubt that the vast majority of Latin Mass attendees will obey their bishops as they implement #TraditionisCustodes - unlike church tax rich German bishops who routinely ignore or deny settled Church teaching on basic faith and moral questions. 9/.
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Another day, another jihadist terrorist attack in France. What kind of coward beheads elderly women at church while they are at prayer? #NiceAttack.
The Catholic woman beheaded while she attended Mass this morning in Nice, France was in her 70s. The terrorist shouted 'Allahu Akbar' before beheading her and another Catholic, before then stabbing another Catholic to death.
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Itâs telling that some people at the WP seem to think that this is a major problem. If there is anything that unites a very broad cross-stream of âthe right,â it is deep opposition to woke ideology, DEI, ESG etc.
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I guess Latin Americans were more interested in hearing about Christ than listening to endless political and economic commentary from German-educated clerics and theologians who thought Marxist analysis and endless political activism were the future.
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Actually he didnât. @Pontifex chose to neither confirm nor deny. There is a difference. Be journalists, not advocates. As the pope himself said, Do Your Job.
Pope Francis has dismissed claims from a former Vatican ambassador that he was made aware of sexual misconduct allegations against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick. #PopeInIreland #WMOF2018
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đ§”7/ If Rome devoted half the energy to addressing these problems that it devoted to harassing traditionalists, the Church would be in much better shape.
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When some calls your position âphobic,â itâs a sign of three things:.1) they canât refute your position;.2) they are deeply insecure about their own position; and.3) they have decided to demonize you, despite their appeals to tolerance et al.
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âEvil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.â.- Joseph Ratzinger.
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Or the fact that, for a good number of Catholic clergy of a certain age, itâs very clear that they donât believe that the Scriptures were written by eyewitnesses and the extraordinary events they saw actually happened - including miracles and the Resurrection. 7/.
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Neither Republican nor Democrat politicians will talk about our ballooning debt. Why? Because the biggest % of fed govern spending is on entitlements, and Americans simply refuse to trim these. In other words, itâs not just the political classâs fault. Itâs on all of us.
Since January 2020 the debt has ballooned by 50% from $23 trillion to $35 trillion. Interest on the debt is also skyrocketed with higher rates, averaging around 5% lately. Interest on the debt is on pace for $1.5 trillion next year, about 30% of all govt revenue collected.
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Whenever someone uses the phrase âthe right side of history,â it usually means 1) they canât refute you and are trying to bully you and/or 2) they buy into Hegelian and/or Marxist nonsense.
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One of the best things that ever happened: the end of the Soviet Union. Thank you Reagan, Thatcher and John Paul II
The U.S.S.R. was officially dissolved on December 26, 1991, 25 years ago today.
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Or the reduction of the church in many countries to an adjunct to the welfare state. 6/.
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A college education in cultural Marxism and wokery does not make one educated. On the contrary, it indoctrinates you into a world of lies and self-delusion.
Black Lives Matter protesters at the NY CHAZ brag about their college educations and mock the police for being uneducated, working class, illiterate rubes. They also call a black cop âblack Judasâ or race traitor.
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Dear Journalists: Whatever your political/theological inclinations, your job right now is not advocacy or spin. It is to investigate the veracity of these extraordinary claims (the many good ones among you already know that). Do your job.
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Ironic, given that the same Justice defined liberty in highly relativistic if not nihilistic terms when he wrote that âliberty is the right to define oneâs own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universeâ - regardless of what REASON reveals to be the truth about reality.
Ex-Supreme Court Justice Kennedy warns against moral relativism: 'This culture is becoming vulgar'.
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Things to remember on 100th anniversary of #OctoberRevolution. - Marxism is evil. - Lenin instituted state terrorism. - Che was a killer.
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No. Teaching is about imparting knowledge to people and giving them the skills they need to pursue knowledge themselves. It is not about ideological indoctrination or political activism.
âTeaching is the greatest instrument for social justice in this country.â This should send chills down your spine.
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âWherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.â.- Joseph Ratzinger.
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In other words @VP Harris wants #PriceControls. This is economic lunacy. Price controls are a SERIOUSLY bad idea. They lead to shortages, severe misallocations of capital, and distort the ability to prices to signal the information we all need to make choices.
On Friday in North Carolina, Vice President Harris intends to announce a plan to prevent corporations in the food and grocery industries from unfairly jacking up prices on consumers, by imposing the first-ever federal ban on corporate price-gouging in these industries.
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Congratulations Socialists! Yet again youâre reduced a country to economic ruin. But, hey, everyone is equal, right, in the sense of being equally destitute - except, of course, the leaders of the workers revolution. #somethingsneverchange.
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Happy 248th birthday to Adam Smithâs #WealthOfNations. A book that changed the world forever and for the better!
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đ§”5/ And then there are those religious orders who long ago abandoned any presence of holding to Catholic doctrine on faith and morals. When was the last time that Rome suppressed ANY of these orders?.
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In the 1980s when I was growing up, we had Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and John Paul II. Today we have . never mind, itâs beyond depressing.
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đ§”9/ All of which makes it very hard to take seriously the Synodal way. The blather about âdialogueâ is belied by the frankly authoritarian and brutal approach of particular clerics in Rome to that very small group aka as traditionalists.
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Western societies are in enormous trouble when putting the words "Western" and "civilization" together is considered a hate-crime.
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Thanks @nypost's Victor Nava for citing me in this takedown of the lunacy of #PriceControls. Price controls didn't work in the 1970s, and they won't work in the 2020s. Must we really relive one of the most miserable economic decades in living memory? .
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Modern architecture simply canât compete. Beauty is indeed timeless . .
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Point out that diversity today basically means that while thereâs lots of emphasis on people looking different, it also means that everyone is required to think exactly in the same monolithically #woke, politically correct and predictable way.
What's the most significant action your company could take to increase diversity awareness during Global Diversity Month?.
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đ§”6/ And did I forget to mention those particular American and West European cardinals who engage in sophistry in order to signal that they donât believe what they committed themselves by solemn oath to defend in season and out of season? Does Rome act? No.
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đ§”2/ Most traditionalists I know are good and faithful people who often come from humble backgrounds. Yes, there are a few nutters but they are a very small minority within a minority.
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đ§”11/ But Romeâs approach to traditionalists reflects all the present dysfunctionalites of Rome, including the contempt for rule of law to which far more important people than myself have referred.
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Sudan - yes, thatâs right - Sudan is joining Bahrain and the UAE in normalizing relations with Israel. That is a remarkable achievement for American diplomacy.
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âFrom the 1920s until his death in 1955, Teilhard de Chardin unequivocally supported racist eugenic practices, praised the possibilities of the Nazi experiments, and looked down upon those who he deemed âimperfectâ humans.â . No misunderstanding here.
+++ ##PopeFrancis recalled #Jesuit PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN who prayed his "Mass on the World" in the Ordos desert (Interior #Mongolia) 100 years ago. In 1962 a Monitum was imposed on him by the Holy Office. Today Francis remembers him as an "often misunderstood" priest.
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My new book, due out on June 25. It looks beyond the fracas of everyday to examine what I think is the real existential crisis facing the West. Preorders available on amazon:
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One of Liberal Christianityâs (many) incoherences is the way that (1) it absolutizes the prudential and (2) prudentializes the absolute.
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Catholicismâs Great Reformers - Charles Borremeo, Teresa of Avilia, John Fisher etc - were never in the business of mere adaption to zeitgeists or soft-peddling Christâs hard sayings. True reform always involved doing the exact opposite and never embracing sentimentalism.
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I rarely comment on politiciansâ tweets but someone should tell the Congresswoman from NY that the demagoguery and cronyism of Evita and Juan Peron helped turned a once wealthy country (Argentina) into a synonym for economic decline, dysfunctionality and corruption.
âI know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.â. - Evita PerĂłn.
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Here is the priest in Burkina Faso who was shot along with five parishioners by Jihadists who then proceeded to burn down the church. Where is the outrage - as opposed to sentimental humanitarian dialogue waffle - from Western political and religious leaders?.
Le « PĂšre Hamel de Dablo », au Burkina Faso. LâabbĂ© SimĂ©on Yampa est mort lui aussi en martyr, avec 5 fidĂšles de sa paroisse, lors dâune attaque terroriste pendant la messe quâil cĂ©lĂ©brait. Ses obsĂšques Ă©taient cĂ©lĂ©brĂ©es ce matin. Nâoublions pas nos martyrs, ici ou lĂ -bas.
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đ§”8/ And need I mention that we still donât know the full story of how much that monster who epitome clericalism at its worst aka Theodore McCarrick shaped the appointment of bishops?.
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Living proof that capital-B Beauty is real and timeless .
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190 years ago today, the last Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the only Catholic signer, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, died. The richest man in the colonies at the time, Carroll was willing to risk it all for liberty.
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This is what we have come to: one of the giants of legal philosophy in our time, John Finnis (full disclosure, he supervised my doctorate), is being subject to ideological harassment for his REASON-BASED classic natural law views about sexual morality.
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So: let me get this straight. Pumping oil in, say, Texas needs to be phased out BecauseClimateChange, but pumping oil in (Marxist-crony-dictatorship) Venezuela is somehow different?.
The Biden administration is preparing to scale down sanctions on Venezuelaâs authoritarian regime to allow Chevron to resume pumping oil there, according to people familiar with the proposal
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Liberal Christianity is just a stage on the way to Jesus-is-my-Teddy-Bear, agnosticism, bourgeois morality, and/or progressivise clericalism.
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The American Founding reflects a mixture of 1) Greco-Roman sources, 2) moderate mainly Scottish Enlightenment ideas, 3) common law influences and 4) Biblical ideas mediated by Anglican + Protestant thinkers. This order is many things, but it is not Christian nationalism.
The traditional political order of the United States is Christian nationalism. -@michaeljknowles at #NatCon3.
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This. Is. True. The right conceded culture to the left, and, in the end, culture - not economics - determines everything else. Itâs ironic that Marxists - the ultimate materialists - understand this better than most. Win the culture, you eventually win everything else.
The inability of Republicans to defend America is a direct result of the right giving the humanities up to the left in the 70s and going all in on law and economics.
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And, as per usual, there is silence from Western political and religious leaders.
Ethiopia: Over 500 Christians, including pregnant women, children and whole families, were killed in Oromo Muslim extremist attacks in the parts of the Oromia regional state, extending south, south-east and east of Addis Ababa, since the end of June.
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âA Jesus who agrees with everything and everyone, a Jesus without his holy wrath, without the harshness of truth and true love is not the real Jesus as the Scripture shows but a miserable caricature.â. - Joseph Ratzinger.
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âTruth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.â.- Blaise Pascal.
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#debate biggest winner: Chris Wallace. Biggest losers: rest of media whose preference for "activism" showed up by Wallace.
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