News from Louis-René des Forêts
On this rainy Sunday, while rereading the notes I jotted down in the margins of the marvelous Ostinato, I came across this gem among gems: Let's not veil our figures...
Author: Emmanuel L. Di Rossetti
News about Hyppolite Taine
He's a pedant; a pedant is someone with a hollow, puffed-up mind who, because he's full of words, thinks he's full of ideas, revels in his own phrases, and deceives himself...
News from Nicolàs Gómez Dàvila
Let us call a totalitarian state the one that results from the attempt to replace social integration, destroyed by the liberal and democratic mentality, with a...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (1/7. The family)
Part 1: The Family From the very first reading of Antigone, an ambiguity arises in the reader's mind. Does Antigone embody the action or...
The meeting of Péguy and Lonsdale – Between heaven and earth
Michael Lonsdale invites us to discover a little gem with his show, Between Heaven and Earth. A delight. Such treasures always deserve to be...
Charlie's Destiny
"The enemy limits you, therefore shapes you and establishes you." This quote from Saint-Exupéry aptly expresses our condition at the end of this first week of...
Two thousand and fourteen years ago…
Christmas can be summed up in four letters: fiat. Before being an industrial symbol, it was the word, the acceptance of Mary by the angel. This acceptance...
Novena for France
What a beautiful initiative! A novena for France. A novena to express our love for the Blessed Virgin and ask her to watch over us with all the saints...
A day at the job center in 2014
An edifying story I heard this week… A far cry from the grandstanding of our leaders on television. One day….
The Humanity of Cheyenne Carron — Reflections on the film The Apostle
What astonishment overwhelmed me one recent morning when I listened to the voice of a young woman being examined by Louis Daufresne on his program, Le Grand Témoin, on Radio Notr...
In memoriam Alvaro Mutis
It was a year ago. Alvaro Mutis passed away. This great Colombian writer deserves to be read and reread. This brilliant monarchist project...
From tradition…
“We are dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; we see more and farther than they do; not that our gaze is sharp, nor our stature great, but…”.
To which saints should we pray?
The Marcial Maciel affair forces us to confront the question of Evil. Our era avoids engaging with it. What do we know of the work of the devil, and what can we do about it?.
News about humility
The human vision of humility is like the human vision of love: limited. Humility must exert its authority at all times and in all places.