vulgarity
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The foam of lives
Inner life versus the emptiness of the modern world Continue reading
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Paradise Lost by Sebastien de Courtois
There is a nostalgia for a lost paradise. We all feel it, more or less; it connects us to Original Sin and the Fall. This illness torments pure souls. It languishes and agitates. A youthful illness if ever there was one, a romantic madness, this nostalgia is at the heart of Sébastien de Courtois's novel, Continue reading
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Identify
Identity is divided on the one hand into a base that is within us without us being able to derive any particular merit from it, our nature and the education (culture) that we have received, and a constitutive movement of life that discovers elements that are not listed by our nature or our education, but which must Continue reading
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What is it to be above ground?
The most illuminating example of human nature is found in the New Testament when Peter and Jesus Christ are talking together and Peter insists that his master believe his devotion is completely sincere. Thus, Jesus tells him that before the rooster crows, he will have denied him three times. The first place Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (3/7. Destiny)
Part 3: Destiny Man descends from the tree. Man, like the tree, is defined by his roots as well as by his fruits. Man, like the tree, depends on external and internal elements to reach maturity. Man resembles this trunk sculpted by trials leaning on its roots and bearing fruits more or less Continue reading
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News from Hyppolite Taine
He is a pedant, the pedant is the hollow and inflated mind which because it is full of words believes itself to be full of ideas, enjoys its sentences and deceives itself to rule others. He is a hypocrite who believes himself to be sincere, a Cain who takes himself for Abel. In this shrinking brain, given over to abstraction, and Continue reading
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Which saints to turn ?
The Marcial Maciel affair forces us to ask the question of Evil. Our era avoids dealing with it. What do we know about the devil's work, and what can we do to protect ourselves from it? After trying to hide the good in life, should we be surprised that evil is coming to light? The works of the devil are Continue reading
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Christian testimony – 2
When I started this blog, the idea of writing about the liturgy quickly came to me. Not to claim expert status, but to share my experience of what represents the heart of a Christian's life. So there were two paths that had to merge: I had to tell the Mass (and Continue reading
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A short history of Envy, from hero to scapegoat
The modern world is constantly presenting us with scapegoats. Lance Armstrong, Richard Millet, Jérôme Kerviel, John Galliano, to name but a few, each in their own field, with completely different causes and reasons, have recently embodied the scapegoat, the rightly punished culprit, the troublemaker put in his place. Continue reading
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What death for the West?
It is increasingly sweet to me to hear these speeches from Westerners gargling about the death of Catholicism, the death of this old skin of religion, when it is not simply the death of God. Continue reading
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Emmanuel Todd or intellectual vulgarity
Emmanuel Todd was on France Culture the other morning to deliver his good word. Emmanuel Todd is a prophet. He has the eloquence. He has the pretension, above all. He lacks the honesty. Indeed, one cannot be a prophet and an ideologue. Continue reading
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Tribute to Jean-Marie Domenach
Rereading notes taken years ago while reading Jean-Marie Domenach's The Return of the Tragic, I remember our meeting. I see him arriving at my small studio in La Fourche, asking me for a glass of wine, and me starting to explain to him in detail the direction I'm taking. Continue reading
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Philia, agapê and other little things…
The Greeks used three words to describe love: eros, carnal love; philia, friendship; and agape, mature, accomplished love. Is love only there to comfort us? Shouldn't we seek to give meaning to love, as to every event in life? Only meaning saves the human condition. Meaning... Continue reading
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The chronicler's hatred
I call this article "The Hatred of the Columnist." The French columnist—because it is indeed a French evil—is how he invents himself master of time, of the world, and above all of how it is. It is unbearable. Expunge the columnists and pluck the buds! All these columnists gathered together form nothing other than a Café du Commerce. Continue reading