To Be and To Have
What belongs to us matters less than who we are, and we are wrong to believe, under the wing of envy, that what belongs to us can define who we are...
Author: Emmanuel Di Rossetti
Desire for recognition
The loss of all recognition in modern times, coupled with rampant individualism, leads everyone to crave any form of recognition. Everyone...
What does it mean to be out of touch with reality?
The most illuminating example concerning human nature is found in the New Testament when Peter and Jesus Christ speak together and Peter insists...
Blanc de Saint Bonnet on contemporary France
In 1851, Blanc de Saint Bonnet said: When men lose sight of moral necessities, God brings forth the light of necessities of another order. If...
Hannah Arendt on the functionalism of the social sciences
I do not believe that atheism is a substitute for, or can fulfill the same function as, a religion, any more than I believe that violence can become a...
The show “But times always return…” – 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1991)
Performance "But Times Always Return..." — 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1991) by Emmanuel Di Rossetti on Vimeo. August 31, 199...
Pius X at the beatification of Joan of Arc
On December 13, 1908, at the beatification of Joan of Arc, Pius X uttered these words that remain in our memories: "You will tell the French to do...".
Paul Bourget on France since 1789
Paul Bourget wrote: "A choice must be made; either the people of 1789 were right and the entire ancient edifice must fall; or they were wrong and it is the...".
Antigone, defiant and intimate (4/7. Freedom)
Antigone did not come to life at dusk. Antigone was born with the dawn. It is at daybreak that Antigone becomes "anti," which means facing, not con...
Bismarck against France and Catholicism
Bismarck wrote to Count Arnim on November 11, 1871: "We must desire the maintenance of the republic in France for one last, major reason. L...".
Transforming the idea into a feeling
Max Jacob to a student: Meditation is not about having ideas, on the contrary! It consists of having one, transforming it into a feeling, into a conviction...
The funeral
Funerals serve to point, with diabolical precision, a dart that bursts the abscess of grief, allowing it to flow out gently and smoothly...
The meaning… of funerals
The contemporary world is abuzz with the phrase "to make sense," a perfect translation of the Anglo-Saxon expression. It is...
The sentence
The pain resembles the languid, yet persistent, ebb and flow of the tide against the hieratic rock that serves as its scapegoat. It overwhelms him...