thoughts in and out of season
My answer is no, at least if conservatism is to be more than the view of a few comfortable intellectuals. “Conservatism” can mean many things, but it always involves a sense that in the most basic ways life can’t be understood or controlled. At bottom, we have to accept and cooperate with things as they … More ...
At times the distinction between moderate and paleo conservatism seems too ill-defined and polemical to be useful for analysis. Still, there’s something important in it worth discussing. At bottom, it’s the distinction between conservatism as a pure principle of caution, so there’s no limit to what can be negotiated or naturalized as part of the … More ...
From a traditionalist conservative point of view, the modern world looks doomed. Its insistence on rooting out all social institutions not based on free-floating choice and formalized expertise—that’s what “inclusiveness,” its highest moral principle, is all about—leaves no place for the settled informal connections and understandings that make possible decent human relations or even ordinary … More ...
Separation of church and state. Freedom of thought. Legal divorce. Democracy. Is Roman Catholicism incompatible with the USA?
Not a silly question. In the 1930’s, the Pope endorsed heirarchy as the best form of government. I suspect he meant fascism.
I say Catholicism and the USA are barely compatible, if at all. (not to say … More ...
As a RCIA team leader, I am looking for some comments as to how to address the following questions which came up last night. I answered them last night, and all I got was some strange looks, so I’m looking for some other ways to address them.
Why is the Catholic Church so out of … More ...
I’m back from a couple of weeks away, and mostly recovered from a mild but annoying virus, so I’ll be posting once again. To get things started, here are some comments I posted on Dawn Eden’s weblog on why I think there’s a problem with contraception.
As I see it now (my view hasn’t always … More ...
Hello. I am very new here and wanted to post something on the thread about the Left’s self-definition. However, being a dotty Aristasian blonde, I can’t work out how it works. Instead here is something I wrote to a friend on the question of what we might mean these days by the terms “right and … More ...
Should Paleo Conservatives attempt to take over the Republican Party and turn it into an American Conservative Party?
In the real world of politics would this be possible?
See [url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,11717092,00.html]here[/url].
So now, Australia joins [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20020701203539/http://report.ca/archive/report/20011105/p16i011105f.html]Canada[/url] in [url=http://www.theambler.com/dec16-31_02.htm#svend]punishing Christian critics of Islam[/url]…
Archbishop Phillip Hannan, former Archbishop of the New Orleans Archdiocese, roughly about 2 million people and 1.5 million Catholics made an important statement. He is very active despite his age; he was a frontline Chaplin in Europe during WWII.
He said the death penalty was justified in certain cases such as terrorism. I don’t think … More ...