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Tag Archives: Pope John Paul II
Good Riddance Castro: How Cuban Church-State Relations Needs Tocqueville
It shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with the nature and origins of political regimes to acknowledge Latin America’s susceptibility to the corrosive social, political effects of republicanism. Ideas matter, but functioning institutions matter more. The Caribbean, Central and South American regimes … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Uncategorized
Tagged Castro, JPII, Miguel Diaz-Canel, Pope John Paul II, Tocqueville
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Spinoza, Kant, Solomon Maimon & Jewish Secularization In 18th Century Europe
‘The Road to Modernity’ by Gertrud Himmelfarb, the wife of Irving Kristol and mother of Fox News contributor and founder/editor of Washington’s ‘The Weekly Standard’ William Kristol is the most significant public contribution to any understanding of the European Enlightenment … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquity, Conservatism, John Paul II, Philosophy, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Uncategorized
Tagged 18th Century Enlightenment, Benedict XVI, Catholic, Guardini, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri De Lubac, Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jewish Intellectuals, Jews, Kant, Modernity, Pope John Paul II, Ratzinger, Road To Modernity, Second Vatican Council, Secular, Secularization, Solomon Maimon, Spinoza, William Kristol, Yves Congar
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John Paul II: The Defeat Of Modernity & A New Birth Of Freedom
Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Winston Churchill and Pope John Paul II had much in common. Aron and the French left were ardent in their support of a secular humanism that had its birth in 1789, Berlin was a deracinated Jew … Continue reading
Posted in Arnold Toynbee, Eric Voegelin, John Paul II, Morality, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Huxley, Isaiah Berlin, Liberty, Modernity, Morality, Orwell, Pope John Paul II, Raymond Aron, Winston Churchill
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Fascist Islam: History & Prospects
Although Malise Ruthven is credited with coining the term ‘Islamofascism’ while writing for the British Independent in 1990, the term was coined by Maxine Rodinson. Nevertheless, we have throughout the west a vast intellectual reserve providing antecedents for us to … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, Constitution, Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Hans Urs von Balthasar, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Kant, Morality, Near East, Oriana Fallachi, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Sexual Ethics, Sociology, Terrorism, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Fascism, Hitler, Idealism, Kant, liberalism, Malise Ruthven, Maxine Rodinson, Pope John Paul II, Sharia Law, Totalitarianism
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Karol Wojtyla: The Challenge of the Enlightenment & The Death of Kant
The vast majority of Catholics simply do not understand a very serious truth about their own faith: it fell to the Church to take up the challenge posed by the Enlightenment, namely, the nature, authority and scope of reason. After … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, Ethics, Hans Urs von Balthasar, John Paul II, Kant, Morality, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Theology
Tagged Enlightenment, freedom, Hegel, Kant, Mill, Morality, Pope John Paul II
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