Ibsen’s Rosmersholm
Moderns will often get the darkness right,
But if they miss Christ, still they have no light.
Moderns will often get the darkness right,
But if they miss Christ, still they have no light.
The American film-maker, John Ford, comes maybe as close as modern times can to that greatest of popular entertainers, William Shakespeare.
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.
The 20th century’s most outstanding poet in English, T.S.Eliot, sets an example of not pretending that modernity is angelic.
A former University Professor recommends Catholics to avoid today’s “universities,” lacking all truth and authority, except to get a job.
Modern art, like many revolutionary movements today, may express the problem, but it moves still further away from the solution.
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.
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