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02/18/2012
How can a modern artist like T.S.Eliot be praiseworthy? Because while facing modern man’s disorder, he never gives up on God’s order.
How can a modern artist like T.S.Eliot be praiseworthy? Because while facing modern man’s disorder, he never gives up on God’s order.
Central to true religion is a certain response to life and to God which pagans can have and which Catholics can lose.
A remark of Brahms concerning his Violin Concerto shows that even without the Catholic Faith a man can appreciate God’s objective order.
The ugliness of modern art argues for God’s existence. God is not a policeman, but a liberator of the good in man.
The key to the problem of Gauguin and Maugham is modern society’s making war on God. Modern art cannot be serene.
By its disharmony, modern art points to some prior harmony, as harmony points to God. Despite itself, modern art points to God.
The mass of people are living in a fantasy-land. The endless piling up of debt must come to an end before long.
To a doubting French journalist the author of “Eleison Comments” expresses confidence that the imminent Motu Proprio will do much good.
Indeed, it both declares that the Tridentine Mass was never banned, and permits Latin rite priests to use it, whenever and wherever.
By overloading our eyes and ears, said Kafka, the cinema overwhelms our minds. Minds being overwhelmed means that lies triumph.
In his outstanding Encyclical of 100 years ago, Pius X nailed the deadly error of modern times: minds’ independence from their object.
Despite many Catholics’ reservations as to the content and motivation of the Motu Proprio, one may still believe it will do good.