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What is the purpose of tradition?
Tradition demands constant conversion. It's no easy task! Tradition requires a perpetual effort. And even the most important effort of all: that of not forgetting. Tradition is of little use for remembering; its primary purpose is to prevent forgetting. It loses its... Continue reading
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The family's tasks
Why do we think it's easy to have a family? We think it's easy what is natural. Yet, the sense of what is natural has evaporated by forgetting its law. So it is with love. Love is born of the law, it dies when it is trampled underfoot. Love perishes under the blows of anarchy, which confuses and conceals love. Love takes on other guises. How can we believe that it is enough to... Continue reading
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Social gathering at the Vatican
It's always a surprise to discover, as this morning, an interview with someone, whether well-known or not, but representative of our time, admitting that their meeting with Pope Francis was one of the most significant moments of their life, yet drawing no action from it. As if this encounter were meant to be just another moment among many… Continue reading
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Sundays
Is it Sunday? It's Sunday! Breathing in the dawning day as if speaking casually, Savoring a hearty breakfast, it's a day of celebration, let's not forget it, or rather, let's remember it. Getting ready for a big day, the big day! Listening to a grumpy taxi driver complain about the world and how it's not doing, Distracting oneself from this conversation, as from any discussion, Go upstairs Continue reading
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An outline on authority, or a definition of the progressive.
Following the article, "Why this hatred of authority?", I received numerous reactions. The first was to confuse, or ask me not to confuse, power and authority. Here, we can observe one thing: many people on social media still accept this distinction. It even marks, for them, Continue reading
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Exile, migrants and the Holy Father (2)
Reflections on the Holy Father's various statements concerning migrants: The migrants arriving in Europe today are not all fleeing a catastrophic situation. They often arrive with broad smiles. They do not all appear destitute. They show no nostalgia for their homeland and arrive in large numbers to find a new life. Continue reading
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Exile, migrants and the Holy Father
One only needs to listen to the captivating music of a few tangos—Carlos Gardel, of course, Astor Piazzolla too, and others—who sang of exile, of distance, of the inaccessible, to dispel their melancholy and live, for the duration of a song, in the combined happiness of their memories and their hopes, to feel the distress. Continue reading
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Identify
Identity is divided, on the one hand, into a foundation that is within us, without which we can derive any particular merit—our nature and the education (culture) we have received—and, on the other hand, a constitutive movement of life that discovers elements not listed by our nature or our education, but which must continue reading
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Postscript (by Georges Mathieu)
If France's misfortunes are exemplary, it will take us thirty years to recover from the latest: that of the laxity of the right combined with the sectarianism of the left. For nearly half a century, we have been subjected to the terrorism of an intelligentsia successively corrupted by Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, socialism, and social democracy, without... Continue reading