The Novus Ordo was composed under contrived urgency. Bugnini’s book is full of comments about how everything needed to happen fast.
That’s probably the main reason the final product is so poorly done, and why it’s aged so badly.
Why is there not even an attempt here to deal with the Second Vatican Council’s teaching from Lumen Gentium 16? It seems to quite clearly teach that someone can be without blame yet not have arrived at explicit knowledge of God’s existence? I’ve only seen people either try to interpret the document in some novel way or they just reject the Council’s teaching outright. But it should still be addressed, no?
Presuppositionalism, perhaps by nature, engenders the laziest and most childish debate tactics I’ve ever encountered. It kills the spirit of authentic disputation before the conversation even begins. Never engage with these people, it’s a giant waste of time and effort.
“Read dangerous books”
“Your brain is waking up”
“This is how slaves become free”
“Question authority”
“Question everything”
“Welcome to the resistance…”
The slop coming from Tucker Carlson is out of control
Distributism (or localism) is something you think is good when you are fifteen until you realize having glowing, bustling cityscapes, factories, and large-scale industrial capacity actually makes life much better, even for those who want to cosplay as Hobbits in the countryside. I obviously agree with Polanyi that social bonds have been displaced by economic bonds, but disagree that this is a bad thing. I like the idea of fluid, flexible, and mobile workers and citizens and aqueous polities that move about.
Our Lady of China Cathedral in Tainan City, Taiwan, possesses this tablet for performance of ancestral veneration rituals. The 1939 Plane compertum est, approved by Pope Pius XII, allows Catholics to respect their ancestors in such a fashion.
"The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man."
- Mishima
"When a writer begins to look back at his own works, he ends up in a dead end. I confined myself to offering a few suggestions, namely to divide my life into Four Rivers: 'Prose', 'Theater', 'Body', and 'Action', all of which ultimately pour into The Sea of Fertility"
Mishima
Mishima, just like Adorno, is right about this. The bourgeois really *consume* an opera and act like it replenished them. And while they think of this as a class identifier, they absorb it like the lower classes would do with a Netflix show. No reflection, no inspiration.
"I do not, fortunately, have the bourgeois habit of passively enjoying beauty as a kind of nourishment for the mind. Bourgeois types like to follow a typically mammalian procedure in everything: ingestion, mastication, digestion, elimination."
Mishima Yukio