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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

I wrote "The Crown and the Republic" in April 2018

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

I wrote "Conservatism Amid The Ruins" for @Meanjin in Spring 2018 https://meanjin.com.au/essays/conservatism-amid-the-ruins/

Conservatism Amid the Ruins

And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbour, ‘Why has the Lord dealt thus with this great city?’ And they will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of...

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/

The Tory Restoration

In his final campaign in 1951, the Labour Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, concluded his speech to the Labour conference by quoting from the poet William Blake’s Jerusalem:

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

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

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.

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/

Scruton, Defender of the Past

Jeffrey Folks remembers Roger Scruton as an astute and courageous conservative intellectual.

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

May help some confused here https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1235474665671254016

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

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