Aug
31
Academics as makers of bourgeoise suburbanite values
August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Academics have entirely too much influence on the formation of social and cultural values in our society. Often enjoying tenured chars in State funded Universities, these tweedy fellows, now the spawn of 1960s revolutionary Anarchism and Marxism, theorize on things they know little or nothing about- especially health care, poverrty, and labor . In the end academics [...]
Aug
27
The apt phrase for this week was spit out from the bloated lips of Mick Jagger some decades past:
“I shouted out,Who killed the kennedys? When after allIt was you and me“
Well, the nauseating posthumous lionizing of one of the arch-liberal pro-abortion socialists of the Senate, a scandal to the Archdiocese of Boston and one of the [...]
Aug
19
Beyond Being: a call for epistemological reform
August 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
The wholesale adoption of Aristotle by the medieval Church under the guise of Thomism and its resurgence after the 19th century appears to have generated a host of theological issues which limit the understanding of the Gospel and fail to address challenges which arise from the natural sciences, medicine and economics – the very things [...]
Aug
8
Beyond Being: Catholic Traditionalism at the Abyss
August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Catholic traditionalists by and large appeal to St. Thomas Aquinas as a focus of solidity in their outlook and defense of what “tradition” means in the Catholic sense and by extension the happy thoughts of G.K. Chesterton on the Saint. Traditionalists so-called rarely look much deeper than the 19th Century neo-Thomist superfice to openly investigate [...]