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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on May 26, 2015 10:33:05 GMT
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Jun 3, 2015 12:24:24 GMT
I don't know who can read Irish here, but this is another piece not typical of the Irish Times: www.irishtimes.com/culture/treibh/an-fealsamh-in-%C3%A9adan-na-bhfaisistithe-1.2234493 . It's about Dietrich von Hildebrand, in particular his memoir "My Battle Against Hitler", which coincidence has it, I am reading just now. Breandán Ó hEithir was married to Catherine von Hildebrand, who was not Dietrich's daughter as stated in the article, but I suspect she was related.
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Post by hibernicus on Jun 5, 2015 23:07:40 GMT
There was a piece in the IRISH TIMES recently on Dietrich's grandson Martin who is an environmental campaigner in the Amazon region. It says he was a brother-in-law of O hEithir, which suggests Catherine was Dietrich's granddaughter. (Dietrich's only child, by his first marriage, was a son.) I wonder how O hEithir and Dietrich got on? From what little I know of O hEithir's political and religious beliefs, they would have been poles apart. I also wonder how Alice von Hildebrand gets on with her step-grandhildren. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishwoman-s-diary-on-martin-von-hildebrand-a-hero-of-the-amazon-1.2225516
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Jun 8, 2015 10:16:46 GMT
There was a piece in the IRISH TIMES recently on Dietrich's grandson Martin who is an environmental campaigner in the Amazon region. It says he was a brother-in-law of O hEithir, which suggests Catherine was Dietrich's granddaughter. (Dietrich's only child, by his first marriage, was a son.) I wonder how O hEithir and Dietrich got on? From what little I know of O hEithir's political and religious beliefs, they would have been poles apart. I also wonder how Alice von Hildebrand gets on with her step-grandhildren. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishwoman-s-diary-on-martin-von-hildebrand-a-hero-of-the-amazon-1.2225516Yes - it seems Catherine von Hildebrand was Dietrich's daughter-in-law; the biographical information here fits in.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Jul 16, 2015 11:02:41 GMT
A couple of defence/neutrality related issues in both The Irish Times and the Phoenix. These are not morally neutral. We can argue the pros and cons of neutrality or its abandonment, but it is a matter of interest. NATO by stealth is not something anyone wants.
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Post by hibernicus on Aug 14, 2015 19:16:14 GMT
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Post by hibernicus on Aug 14, 2015 19:28:18 GMT
The PHOENIX'S Hot Air Brigade column leads off in their current issue by noting a crass SINDO piece by Miriam O'Callaghan declaring that Hillary Clinton is "our light, our sweetness and our hope". Not only is this both disrespectful and ignorant in its parody of the SALVE REGINA (it should be "life", not "light") but to present Hillary Clinton as our hope implies pessimism of an intensity which makes HP Lovecraft resemble Pollyanna.
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Post by hibernicus on Aug 14, 2015 19:37:43 GMT
Goldvulture himself, or perhaps his religious correspondent, has a piece in the current issue of the PHOENIX contrasting Endanias Kenny's past denunciations of the Church with his turning up at Knock in a feigned odour of sanctity to welcome a party of US pilgrims led by Cardinal Dolan. The quotes from HErod Endipas's speech of welcome are truly bloodcurdling if they are accurate; apparently Endanias, having recently declared that he doesn't believe in a personal God, is now waxing lyrical about how the Virgin Mary definitely appeared at Knock. They used to joke that an Irish atheist was someone who believes there is no God and Mary is His mother...
Meanwhile Goldvulture makes himself equally ridiculous by portraying Cardinal Dolan as a stern Grand Inquisitor, supposedly in the mould of Pope Benedict XVI who is visiting Knock in pursuit of his rigorist agenda. Anyone who has seen the number of US Catholic blogs denouncing Cardinal Dolan for opportunism in such matters as agreeing to a gay group marching in the NEw York St PAtrick's Day parade might beg to differ
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Post by Young Ireland on Aug 14, 2015 19:54:20 GMT
They actually want to legalise prostitution? Do they not realise how many women have their rights violated because of this? Unbelievable...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2015 20:27:22 GMT
They actually want to legalise prostitution? Do they not realise how many women have their rights violated because of this? Unbelievable... There are women sex workers who want to have it legalised, and apparently some people support it. Ray D'arcy had such a woman on his radio show before, and apparently she wasn't happy about whatever he said at the time. Some other people apparently weren't too happy about it either. He didn't say anything particularly rude, he was just obviously against the sex industry I don't particularly care if people want it legalised, it's still a disgusting industry that should never be supported by the State.
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Post by hibernicus on Aug 19, 2015 21:11:52 GMT
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Post by maolsheachlann on Aug 20, 2015 8:15:40 GMT
I like Mark Dooley a lot, and he's a very nice guy, but I do find myself increasingly wary of the kind of conservatism whose principal spokesman is Roger Scruton (a big influence on Dooley); that is, one that is heavily aesthetic, based on a reverence for high culture, nostalgic, etc. Peter Hitchens falls into this category in many ways.
I'd like to know what other people think. Is high culture really all that important? Is it a humanising and civilizing influence? Is pop culture and technology a dehumanising influence?
I'm reminded of C.S. Lewis's correspondence with a writer for the magazine Scrutiny (I think), who seemed to see aesthetic appreciation as a barometer of spiritual health-- something which Lewis completely rejected.
It seems to me that Christians (myself included) are always in danger of taking on excess baggage, and getting distracted from Christianity itself.
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Post by maolsheachlann on Aug 20, 2015 9:51:33 GMT
The quotes from HErod Endipas's speech of welcome are truly bloodcurdling if they are accurate; apparently Endanias, having recently declared that he doesn't believe in a personal God, is now waxing lyrical about how the Virgin Mary definitely appeared at Knock. They used to joke that an Irish atheist was someone who believes there is no God and Mary is His mother... I suppose they are just about compatible, with sufficient mental acrobatics... One of the reasons creed and dogma have to be so precise is because they are so easy to wriggle out of. I wonder when the last Church of England cleric to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles went to his reward?
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Post by hibernicus on Aug 20, 2015 19:59:56 GMT
I agree that the religiose high culture associated with Scruton's influence can be overdone. One point to bear in mind about it is that it originated in late C18-early C19 Germany as an offshoot from forms of liberal Protestantism which maintained that traditional theology and traditional religious belief were impossible to take at face value, and basically tried to replace theology as Queen of the Sciences - that which teaches us how to be human - with aesthetics. (A similar process can be seen in Britain - quite a few late Victorian aesthetes were influenced by the Oxford Movement or Evangelicalism but couldn't face the leap to Rome. Matthew Arnold, who to a considerable extent is Scruton's role-model, explicitly tried to give to art the function which NEwman gave to theology in IDEA OF AN UNIVERSITY. SCRUTINY was run by FR Leavis, who took up the Arnoldian view of art and the academy as central to the experience of being human in a rather more restricted and puritanical way, as befits the descendant of Puritan tenant farmers from East Anglia.) Another problem is that it creates an "ideal type" religion, which prettifies and sanitises the actual historical experience of religion. (I remember one reviewer pointing out that you would never think from Scruton's eulogies of the Victorian Church of England that if the political views of its bishops and the majority of its clergy had prevailed, all the major nineteenth-century reforms would have been defeated and there would probably have been a revolution. Similar episodes in Catholic history are not hard to come by.)
That said, Scrutonism is useful in the same way that some other non-Catholic schools of thought are useful, in calling to attention underlying truths which are neglected and not comprehended outside the Church (and too often within it). But it's not a very incarnational outlook.
The Thirty-Nine Articles are not a good example because they are a patchwork deliberately created to keep different schools of thought within Elizabeth I's Church of England; in places they actually contradict themselves. The Westminster Confession of Faith, which the Presbyterians themselves drew up but have never been able to get more than a small minority - if that - to accept, would be a better bet (and there have been actual Presbyterian schisms over the Confession, including in nineteenth-century Ulster).
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Post by Ranger on Aug 22, 2015 11:11:17 GMT
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