The Broken Binnacle

A platform of writers exploring culture, history, faith, and a slew of other human affairs | Catholic | Established 2022 | Find us on Substack

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What is The Broken Binnacle?

We are a platform of Catholic writers seeking to:

➡️ Explore the riches of Revelation and the depths of human nature

➡️ Cultivate community and culture

➡️ Inspire others to join us in this adventure

Learn more here 👇🏼
https://t.co/o7aYLSuWP1

[The Broken Binnacle @BrokenBinnacle]

The poet, the artist, is not simply one who speaks or expresses beautiful things but is, more importantly, one who has first and foremost learned to see.

[The Broken Binnacle @BrokenBinnacle]

"She laughed that he looked up at the stars and fell down into them.
For the stars were in the well.
He met the stars and he splashed and spluttered among them."

Matthew McShurley writes for our poetry tab at The Broken Binnacle ⬇️

https://t.co/Ea2Sa8lpLj

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"The great material progress of recent times, coming in a world where false philosophies already reigned, has distorted men's sense of proportion; the material has usurped the sovereignty that is the right of the spiritual."

~ Eamon de Valera, "Among the Nations" speech

[The Broken Binnacle @BrokenBinnacle]

"In much the same way that G.K. Chesterton called St. Francis the antidote for the 19th Century and St. Thomas Aquinas the antidote for the 20th century, St. Augustine is the antidote for the 21st."

~ Matthew McShurley

Read the full essay ⬇️

https://t.co/ML2grTIxra

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"Like the deep calm before the storm
Eternity crouches in a tiny cell
Awaiting apocalypse and morning mass
While a small light left burning
Welcomes a stranger in the night"

~ The Cathedral (a guest poem by Mark McShurley)

Read the full poem here:
https://t.co/38zQCQH8Lq

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The Broken Binnacle squad will be there (but probably in the back row like your classic Catholics).

@ccpecknold
@DouthatNYT
@SpencerKlavan

[Gibbons Institute @GibbonsCUA]

Join the IHE and @CICDC on February 6, as IHE Media Fellow @DouthatNYT and @SpencerKlavan pose the question, "Is There a Religious Comeback?", moderated by IHE Scholar @ccpecknold.

Register here: https://t.co/lBuApGLvYR

[The Broken Binnacle @BrokenBinnacle]

Happy Feast Day of St Thomas Aquinas! @opeast @godsplaining

[The Broken Binnacle @BrokenBinnacle]

"St. Thomas was making Christendom more Christian in making it more Aristotelian. This is not a paradox but a plain truism, which can only be missed by those who may know what is meant by an Aristotelian, but have simply forgotten what is meant by a Christian."

— G.K. Chesterton

[James O'Reilly @JamPadraig]

"The amoral framework we associate with modern capitalism is a result of an unmooring of the scholastic & ancient account from its original grounding in human nature & the pursuit of virtue."

Peter Cermak from @BrokenBinnacle. Read here 👇🏼

https://t.co/fN7L2zre8T

[The Broken Binnacle @BrokenBinnacle]

The poet, the artist, is not simply one who speaks or expresses beautiful things but is, more importantly, one who has first and foremost learned to see.

[James O'Reilly @JamPadraig]

"What our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health--and create profitable diseases and dependences."

~ Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America

[The Broken Binnacle @BrokenBinnacle]

"I don't remember her very clearly...But she read the Scripture to me like a daily newspaper and I suppose that's the way she thought of it, as something going on happening eternally but always exciting and new."

— John Steinbeck, "The Winter of Our Discontent"

[The Broken Binnacle @BrokenBinnacle]

"To resolve the epistemological crisis, one must return to the primacy of the real—to the singular, the limited, and the concrete—to see which of one’s abstracted schemata remains in the least conflict with it."

— @JamPadraig in our latest essay 👇🏼

https://t.co/BsNu80YK47

[The Broken Binnacle @BrokenBinnacle]

To name a few...

St. John Henry Newman
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Ven. Augustus Tolton
St. Francis de Sales
Pope St. John Paul II
St. Catherine of Siena
St. Philip Neri
St. Thomas Aquinas (brownie points?)
St. Thomas More

[Godsplaining | Catholic Podcast @godsplaining]

Happy Solemnity of All Saints! Who are some of your favorite saints?

[The Broken Binnacle @BrokenBinnacle]

"In what manner do we know and experience the natural law? Not in the manner that we know propositions, but in the manner that we know and experience a person, namely the person of the Word."

— Peter Cermak

Read the full essay here 👇🏼

https://t.co/faCPExsuaX

[The Broken Binnacle @BrokenBinnacle]

“Proof in concrete matters does not lie on one line, as the stages of a race course, (as it does in abstract) but is made of momenta converging from very various directions, the joint force of which no analytical expression can represent.”

— St. John Henry Newman

[The Broken Binnacle @BrokenBinnacle]

"The Communist Party appealed not because of...any believable programme of action within the existing order. It appealed because it addressed the inner disorder of the intellectual class, in a world where there was nothing real to believe in."

— Sir Roger Scruton

[James O'Reilly @JamPadraig]

"The question is not whether we are bound—we must be bound to something—but whether we are bound to what is true and good or bound to what is false and evil."

My article about James Madison and religious liberty on The Broken Binnacle substack ⬇️

https://t.co/AYKw0npdam

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Happy Feast Day of St. Augustine of Hippo!

[Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP @PatrickMaryOP]

“Haste, Lord, and act; stir us up, and call us back; inflame us, and draw us to You; stir us up, and grow sweet unto us; let us now love You, let us ‘run after You.’”

- St. Augustine of Hippo
Confessions, Bk VIII

[The Broken Binnacle @BrokenBinnacle]

"After having put aside God in order to become self-sufficient, man loses his soul; he seeks himself in vain, turning the universe upside down in his effort to find himself again. He finds only masks, & behind those masks, death."

— Jacques Maritain, "Twilight of Civilization"

[James O'Reilly @JamPadraig]

"We are made not only by what we love but, more importantly, by whom we love. Which, again, is always a matter of the will, of choosing to live and to love rightly in every instance."

~ Regis Martin