Emmanuel L. Di Rossetti
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Notes on the History of Catholicism
Notes from Jean-Pierre Moisset's *Histoire du catholicisme* (chapter 9: *Le choc de la modernité (mid-18th century – 1870)*, p. 394). The ritual of touching for scrofula after the coronation, still practiced, is losing its prestige. Symptomatically, the formula for the laying on of hands is changing. It was "the king… Continue reading
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Notes on the French Revolution
Most of the quotes concerning the French Revolution given in this article come from Jean Sévillia's book "Historically Correct." — Solzhenitsyn: "Since men are not endowed with the same capacities, if they are free, they will not be equal, and if they are equal, it is because they are not free." — There is a revolutionary idea… Continue reading
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The slimy moralism of the West
It's always amusing and instructive to notice the contradictions of one's opponents. How, from this modern society so proud of its freedom, of its way of conceiving intimate matters, this society of sensuality (when one has carefully conflated sensuality with pornography), does a prudish, restrictive, voyeuristic society emerge?… Continue reading
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Oshio Heihachiro, samurai of the rebellion
To fully understand Oshio Heihachiro's actions, one must grasp that they were dictated by an anti-revolutionary character and will. Nothing in Oshio Heihachiro's attitude sought to challenge the established order. He knew the system could be improved, but it was also functional. What made the system less effective had more to do with the individuals involved than with… Continue reading
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Onfray's cries of outrage
So Onfray read a book that reveals the making of Ernst Jünger… Michel Vanoosthuyse: Fascism and Pure Literature. It reveals—according to the self-proclaimed philosopher of sensuality—that Jünger was always a fascist and that he spent years, a large part of his life, half a century, erasing the traces of… Continue reading
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Father de Smet
There are some incredible stories. Pierre Jean Smet's is one of them. The other evening, while chatting with my friend JB about C., I shared my idea of a priest arriving in Japan in the 1830s—something virtually impossible. Japan was completely closed off from the outside world during the Meiji era… Continue reading
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The secular and modern world
There's the beautiful Italian word "vergogna," and there's the French word, emptied of its meaning in modern times, "shame." Who hasn't found themselves in the middle of a dinner with dear friends, wanting to flee, to escape to avoid enduring the stupidity, the incoherence, the remarks… Continue reading