Showing posts with label Pope Benedict. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pope Benedict. Show all posts

THE CATHOLIC CRISIS AND THE WESTERN CRISIS

The children of Fatima
In a series of connected vlogs, self-declared Catholic Andy Nowicki weighs in on the mega-scandal that is rocking the Catholic church right now.

His conclusion: what currently ails the Church and what currently ails the West are to a large extent one and the same "rough beast."

PAPAL ATTRACTION: "THE YOUNG POPE"

Jude Law as Pius XIII

by Alex Fontana

The new television drama series, The Young Pope, created and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, started off strongly. 

For the first two or three episodes I felt that Sorrentino was cementing his reputation as one of the greats, but, alas, less than halfway through, the HBO series lapsed into the formulaic bathos of a common melodrama. It slowly revealed itself incapable of being the traditionalist critique that it seemed to promise at first. This was a far worse failure for me than The Great Beauty (La Grade Bellezza).

RUBBER SOULS


The ideology of sexual liberation continues to be the abiding obsession of high-profile opinion shapers in the post-modern Western world. Indeed, in the mindset of today's ruling class, the drive to undermine traditional notions of libidinal restraint trumps all other agendas, including such familiar standards as the avid celebration of "diversity" and the fierce fomentation of white self-hatred. If, as the saying goes, the Puritan's greatest abiding fear was that somebody, somewhere was having a good time, our contemporary societal elite's most visceral apprehension stems from the notion that somebody, somewhere may be learning to be—horror of horrors—sexually repressed.