@_CLancellotti@Kin_Loch@JamesWHankins1 Absolutely. I thought Damian Thompson on the “Holy Smoke” podcast covered this very well. The Pope seems genuine in reconciling and uniting the Church post Francis; the SSPX not so much.
@_CLancellotti@MattPolProf Didn’t de Tocqueville and Chesterton see those Protestant societies in the US as pathways to a more secular/capitalist society, and hardly a source of solidarity?
@_CLancellotti@MattPolProf Hopefully some of them can actually differentiate between “your” and “you’re” prior to unleashing their intellect on the unwashed masses.
@ctindale@neils888 Spot on. It’s very dangerous.
“If you know with certainty what is true, should you not enforce the truth? If you see your poor subjects struggling and suffering in their error, how can you rightly forbear to impose the necessary corrections?” Wendell Berry
@_CLancellotti And…
“One must know oneself to have descended from ancestors to experience being called to become the progenitor of a posterity.” Remi Brague.
@_CLancellotti I think Brague gets it right.
“The disappearance of man, therefore, could just as well arrive by extinction, following lack of interest on his part for the future.” Remi Brague
@_CLancellotti How do you interpret the difference (more support for the reform) within the medieval city centres?? I’d doubt there would be that sort of pattern difference in cities of other western countries.
@samhaselby To me one of the strangest things about American conservatives is how they conflate under the moniker "capitalism" two opposite phenomena: economic freedom and large corporate power.