tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post4777006104621826680..comments2023-06-01T09:22:18.917+01:00Comments on Liturgiae Causa: A response to Fr Anthony...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-76461419790145865822016-07-11T19:28:21.441+01:002016-07-11T19:28:21.441+01:00Han, extremely well said.Han, extremely well said.Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01232162218034432274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-37199167549926432182016-07-04T20:01:43.768+01:002016-07-04T20:01:43.768+01:00Why? Does Ms. Cox's murder magically sanctify...Why? Does Ms. Cox's murder magically sanctify all her policies or opinions? Did Patrick celebrate or express joy over her murder anywhere in his post? All he did was express the opinion that the policies advanced by Ms. Cox (and others) would be the death of Great Britain. If his opinion is "strange and twisted," your rebuttal requires more than somebody-you-criticise-got-murdered to qualify as a rational argument.Hanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11449078230379488480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-37536748083844558922016-07-04T01:16:31.497+01:002016-07-04T01:16:31.497+01:00For the sake of completeness - https://sarumuse.wo...For the sake of completeness - https://sarumuse.wordpress.com/2016/07/02/a-response-to-patrick/Fr Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15521671841072661886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-42776010117893499402016-07-02T22:04:06.420+01:002016-07-02T22:04:06.420+01:00You are describing a woman who was brutally murder...You are describing a woman who was brutally murdered as a 'silent killer'? <br /><br />You have some strange and twisted thoughts.Matthew Celestinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02874430461346560520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-91652472112190494382016-07-02T16:41:15.140+01:002016-07-02T16:41:15.140+01:00"The internationalist and the imperialist are..."The internationalist and the imperialist are not only similar men, but even the same men. There is no country which the Imperialist may not claim to conquer in order to convert. There is no country which the Internationalist may not claim to convert in order to conquer. Whether it is called international law or imperial law, it is the very soul and essence of all lawlessness. Against all such amorphous anarchy stands that great and positive creation of Christendom, the nation, with its standards of liberty and loyalty, with its limits of reason and proportion." --G.K. ChestertonThe Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-77831572076602240882016-07-02T15:46:48.410+01:002016-07-02T15:46:48.410+01:00"But I have to say there is something dark an... "But I have to say there is something dark and aggressive about Germany, and I don't just mean the Nazis. Germany has been an aggressive power since the 1860's, first of all as a pan-German, pietist Protestant nation under Bismarck ..."<br /><br />I would be more inclined to agree with this if you were to substitute "Prussia" for "Germany" (or, after 1866/1871, "Prussianised Germany). If one wishes to understand Prussia, or, really, Brandenburg-Prussia, one has to go back to 1613 when its Hohenzollern ruling dynasty embraced Calvinism of a particularly militantly (in theory at least) anti-Catholic but especially anti-Lutheran kind (between Brandenburg's embrace of the Lutheran Reformation in 1540 and the beginning of its move towards Calvinism in the early 1600s it was the most liturgically and devotionally conservative of all Lutheran lands, retaining many Catholic customs and ceremonies which Lutherans abandoned elsewhere; the Elector of B'burg inherited Prussia from a cousin in 1618, and thereafter the two were united). Later rulers of Brandenburg-Prussia all exhibited, in different, and not necessarily religious, ways the "driven" spirit so often characteristic of "inculcated" Calvinists (which was just as true of the irreligious and sceptical Frederick II [d. 1786] as of his fanatically Calvinist father Frederick William I [d.1740]; and, indeed, of Kaiser Bill himself, an anima naturaliter Calvinistica if ever there was one). The "pietism" part comes in as lending a sort of moralistic emotional sense of self-righteousness to their various commitments or obsessions, however different from one ruler to another, together with an eager willingness to ride roughshod over any opposition.<br /><br />I don't think that one can find anything like this supposed "dark and aggressive" German spirit among historically Catholic or Lutheran German states or dynasties - but one can find it in places like the 16th/17th century Palatinate (the first German state to embrace Calvinism) and among leading elements of the Dutch United Provinces in the late 16th/17th centuries - and amongst French Huguenots, Scottish Calvinists, and English Puritans (Oliver Cromwell, anyone?) as well. What these all had in common was an aggressively "crusading" Calvinism.<br /><br />The name "Prussia" came to eclipse "Brandenburg" because the elector of Brandenburg was allowed in 1701 by the Holy Roman Emperor to take the title "King in Prussia" (Prussia being, unlike B'burg, outside the Empire); in 1772 Frederick II altered it to "King of Prussia," meaning by "Prussia" the entirety of his territories, which by that point had been administratively unitedWilliam Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16634494183165592707noreply@blogger.com