/lit/ - Literature

>>16972541
>>16972883
>>16973149
I have just the man for you fellows.

The Jacobins were filth and trash and I long for the day when every single thing they have ever built in France gets smashed, and broken, and ruined, and torn down.

Including the Arc de Triomphe. I would love to see a wrecking ball taken to the Arc de Triomphe. Smash it to rubble and build a church in its place. Long live the King and long live the Pope.

>>16826622
OP read Pope Bendict XVI/Joseph Ratzinger. I can particularly recommend his "Jesus of Nazareth" trilogy, as well as his book "Introduction to Christianity."

Ratzinger in particular is a very powerful thinker, yet also very easy to read.

>Non-fiction
Benedict XVI/Joseph Ratzinger
>Fiction
Jorge Luis Borges
>Poetry
William Shakespeare
>Politics
Reactionary Catholic, supporter of monarchy and aristocracy

By the way, everybody should definitely read Pope Benedict's "Jesus of Nazareth" books. I would consider them the definitive Catholic take on the Gospels, at least in the last few centuries. Benedict/Ratzinger in general is one of the greatest intellects to come out of the Church in the last hundred years, and I suspect he will be declared a Doctor of the Church at some point after his death.

>>15647248
The Church was on the verge of going completely over to heresy during the Arian Crisis. The Pope, many of the bishops and archbishops, and the Emperor all supported Arianism. Saint Athanasius was basically the sole significant proponent of Trinitarianism. And yet, in the end, he prevailed.

God ALWAYS prevails in the end. The Devil may have his day, from time to time, but the Lord has eternity.

>>15634675
>His family wasn't observant, so he was out on his own on this spiritual journey.

Another victory for the "Spirit of Vatican 2". The sooner we fucking purge the Boomers and their trash from the Church the better off we will be.

>>15618224
>I find it difficult to accept some of Catholicism's teachings and I'm no longer satisfied simply accepting the authority of the Magisterium.

What teachings do you have trouble with?

>>15592381
>>15592386
This is why ecumenism was a mistake. It was the single biggest blunder of Vatican 2. There's no point in extending a welcoming hand to Prots and Muslims if all they're ever going to do is spit in it. We should just go back to killing each other like we did in the Thirty Years War. At least we never had to compromise our beliefs back then.

>>15541831
In case you haven't noticed the Church has been a bit of a mess for about 100 years or so. We'll fix it. We always do. But it always takes at least a few decades to work things out.

Buckley refused to obey the Catholic Church when push came to shove, so fuck him. "Mater si, magister no." Fuck that. Bend the knee to Rome or get fucked. Catholics in the United States should never have joined up with the conservatives, it's brought us nothing but trouble. We should have spurned both political parties and gone independent.

The right has Ratzinger/Benedict, it wins by default.

Honest to God, has Chomksy ever had to tangle with a genuine right-wing intellectual? Every time I see him in a dispute with a right-winger it's always some dunce like Buckley.

Why didn't he ever debate a priest, or a professor? He should have debated Ratzinger/Benedict, the foremost right-wing intellectual of this age. Why does Chomsky always debate the low-hanging fruit?

By the way, everyone in this thread needs to read Pope Benedict's "Jesus of Nazareth" books. Their central thesis is that the Gospels are primarily devoted to proving Jesus is God, and Benedict lays out the case very well.

Reminder to read Pope Benedict's "Jesus of Nazareth" series if you want a really good Catholic interpretation of the Gospels and the character of Jesus in them.

>>14799046
What about Ratzinger/Benedict? He's written a ton of stuff.

America has been left-wing for its entire existence if you take a Catholic/reactionary worldview. There is no "American conservatism." To be right-wing is to reject the entire American project. To be right-wing is to support the Pope and to support the King, neither of which you can do as a loyal American. To be right-wing is to seek to destroy the entire global order that America has built.

Actually, these days, to be right-wing is to be a radical and a revolutionary. It is to seek to overthrow the established order, because the established order is terrible.

Why haven't you read Ratzinger, /lit/?

Ratzinger is the final boss of Western thought. At least for now.

Benedict XVI's "Jesus of Nazareth" book series. There are three books. Read them all. They're fucking incredible, brilliant theology that is totally accessible to the average person. And if the Catholic Church can produce something like these, why CAN'T they be the One True Church?

>>14355485
Every time I think I have it bad as a Catholic, with all the trouble the Church has been through in the last 100 years, I see something from the Prots that makes me realize they have it a thousand times worse.

>>14219166
There's a reason why de Maistre was such a hardcore Catholic. It is the Church which conveys legitimacy on houses, families, and governments. Christ gave to Peter the power of binding and loosing; therefore, the Catholic Church has in its grasp the power to make and unmake aristocracies. The Church can declare kings and emperors; the Church can raise up noble families or cast them into ruin. Popes are afraid to claim this power these days, but the Church has it, nonetheless. All aristocracy and nobility derives from the Church.

>>14126739
>>14126755
>>14128823
Moves are being made.

Christianity is older than Islam and has been integrated into Western civilization for so long that the Christian thinkers of the 20th Century, logically, thought they could adapt to the great changes that occurred in it. After all, they'd adapted to changes in the West in the past.

The overwhelming onslaught of atheism, materialism, atomization, and apathy pretty much caught Western Christianity off guard and it's taken them a few decades to come to grips with it.

You are beginning to see a more aggressive, less accomodationist streak among Christian thinkers these days, particularly in Orthodoxy and Catholicism. Look up "Catholic integralism" some time.