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Tag: Latin Church

  • Empathy or Anthropomorphism

    Empathy or Anthropomorphism

    Words don’t mean anything, people do. Much of the conflict we experience, observe or imagine arises from the problem every human and arguably most other mammals confront from the moment they become distinct beings—animals. While I never studied classical languages, I believe the very term “animal” designates a being, an entity, endowed with a soul. […]

  • Unbecoming American: THE Option for the Poor

    Unbecoming American: THE Option for the Poor

    Many years ago, in the previous century, an old controversy in the Latin Church was resuscitated, that of Christian poverty. Anyone who pursues the history of the Latin Church and the papal empire will find periodic disputes over the meaning of such dicta as “the poor shall inherit the Earth” or innumerable other citations attributed […]

  • Does It Really Matter Who Sits on the Throne?

    Does It Really Matter Who Sits on the Throne?

    by T.P. Wilkinson There have been recent elections in numerous principalities. The constellations by which governments — the outward and visible signs of obscured and conspiratorial power — have been formed since 2020 are not in themselves unique but have occurred with an intensity — I like here the German term Verdichtung, i.e. thickening or […]

  • Poverty and Grace

    If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame. If they be led by virtue, and uniformity to be given them by the rules of propriety, they will have the sense of shame, and moreover […]

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