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I am starting a thread below that will expand to link together all of the traditionally Tory, Catholic (and other faiths), and historically conservative, writing that I have found interesting, as well as some of my own pieces. "In My Defens God Me Defend"
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I wrote "The Catholic Church In Opposition" in January 2019.
http://strategycounsel.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-catholic-church-in-opposition.html
http://strategycounsel.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-catholic-church-in-opposition.html
I wrote "The Crown and the Republic" in April 2018
http://strategycounsel.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-crown-and-republic.html
http://strategycounsel.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-crown-and-republic.html
I wrote this on "Tridentine Conservatism" in April 2016
http://strategycounsel.blogspot.com/2016/04/tridentine-conservatism.html
http://strategycounsel.blogspot.com/2016/04/tridentine-conservatism.html
I wrote "Conservatism Amid The Ruins" for @Meanjin in Spring 2018 https://meanjin.com.au/essays/conservatism-amid-the-ruins/
I wrote "The Tory Restoration" for @Meanjin in December 2019 https://meanjin.com.au/blog/the-tory-restoration/
To be continued....
Link to PDF of "Catholic Political Thought: 1789-1848" by Bela Menczer, which includes Joseph de Maistre, de Bonald, de Chateaubriand, Metternich, Donoso Cortes, etal
https://ia801905.us.archive.org/4/items/catholicpolitica00menc/catholicpolitica00menc.pdf
https://ia801905.us.archive.org/4/items/catholicpolitica00menc/catholicpolitica00menc.pdf
Program for any “principled conservatism” conference:
- Papal States restored
- Holy Roman Empire restored
- Iran’s Shah restored
- Trianon repudiated
- a Spanish & Carlist California
- Republics done right: the Venetians
- Lvov & Konigsberg: Whither?
- getting liberals sober
- Papal States restored
- Holy Roman Empire restored
- Iran’s Shah restored
- Trianon repudiated
- a Spanish & Carlist California
- Republics done right: the Venetians
- Lvov & Konigsberg: Whither?
- getting liberals sober
Excellent chart explaining why Catholic social teaching & its political thought cannot easily fit the reductive political and especially party labels of our times. It has, though, informed a good deal of traditional conservative & Christian democratic thinking for centuries now.
My periodic reminder:
A/ using law & the state to promote virtue & punish vice is conservatism.
B/ using law & the state to make virtue & vice indistinguishable is liberalism.
C/ allowing 'the market' to decide which vice is the most profitable is libertarianism.
A/ using law & the state to promote virtue & punish vice is conservatism.
B/ using law & the state to make virtue & vice indistinguishable is liberalism.
C/ allowing 'the market' to decide which vice is the most profitable is libertarianism.
Wonderful appraisal of the late Sir Roger Scruton ~ "I remain what I have been since May 1968"
(via @ubookman ) https://kirkcenter.org/essays/scruton-defender-of-the-past/
(via @ubookman ) https://kirkcenter.org/essays/scruton-defender-of-the-past/
Apropos ongoing debates on Catholicism vs liberalism: Successive Popes preached against slavery for centuries. The Popes also preached for reparations to be paid to those enslaved. All long before any 'liberal enlightenment' & its guillotines.
http://www.churchinhistory.org/pages/booklets/slavery.htm
http://www.churchinhistory.org/pages/booklets/slavery.htm
May help some confused here https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1235474665671254016
"Imago Dei"
One of those days in which one can only lament the needless and catastrophic demise of Germany's Centre Party & its tragic consequences for the rest of German history.
Whatever all our small squabbles, a Christian and esp Catholic politics should always try first and foremost to be a bridge - one may even say it should make for a 'pontifex' - for all & esp those who would otherwise be trapped between the monstrosities of Red and Brown. #Zentrum
