Modern Art – I
Modern art is ugly because it is out of tune with the great order of harmony established by God throughout creation.
Modern art is ugly because it is out of tune with the great order of harmony established by God throughout creation.
Religionless religion makes the painter Van Gogh popular with the crowds today, but to be happy himself he needed the true religion.
The Frankfurt School played a large part, before and after World War II, in making Western civilization lurch to the left.
A modern staging in London of a famous Wagner opera betrays a complete lack of common sense. London, where are you going?
“The Way of Divine Love” by Sister Josefa Menendez is another remarkable revelation, from the 1920’s, of God’s love for sinners.
Monarchy and monarchs cannot be the essential solution to the problems of today’s “democracies.” The only solution is Our Lord’s Cross.
Today’s post-Christian pagans are enemies of grace and nature alike. Pre-Christian classics can give special access to the human nature underlying grace.
The threat was not carried out, even though the SSPX gave nothing away. Probably this Rome-SSPX stand-off will continue.
Modern art, like many revolutionary movements today, may express the problem, but it moves still further away from the solution.
A modern art exhibition in London shows how “art” has been re-defined to serve the suicide of an anti-civilization without God.
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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