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Month: September 2018

Reform: Fidelity, Law, Humility

by Aquae RegiaePosted onSeptember 27, 2018September 28, 2018

One of my main complaints regarding the reactions to the current crisis is that many good people are high on anger but low on ideas.  Moreover, most people, with the best of intentions, tend only to be able to look…

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The Manchurian Papacy

by Aquae RegiaePosted onSeptember 23, 2018September 23, 2018

The average person today is awash with information about events all over the world.  A person in Nebraska can with a flick of his finger see what a friend is having for dinner in Nepal.  The endless stream of novelties…

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The Voices of Misery

by Aquae RegiaePosted onSeptember 20, 2018September 23, 2018

Discouragement is a powerful and dangerous thing.  Whenever we as Catholics revisit the Liturgical Season of Advent, we recall the powerful words of the Prophets such as Isaiah, “Comfort, comfort my People” (Isaiah 40:1), and the description of the Messiah…

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Episcopalis Communio: Invoking the Monstrous Owl

by Aquae RegiaePosted onSeptember 18, 2018September 18, 2018

If you asked a Pope, especially one in the Middle Ages and even up till Trent, what was the number one thing they feared, most Popes would have said their greatest fear was a General Council.  Many secular princes, when…

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The Church has a right to be herself

by Aquae RegiaePosted onSeptember 17, 2018September 17, 2018

The modern world in which we live is replete with references to rights.  We claim rights to free speech, to religion, to assembly, and more.  These seem to most, who live in liberal democracies, to be part of the basic…

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Twenty One Pilots: The Pill in the Hamburger

by Aquae RegiaePosted onSeptember 9, 2018December 24, 2018

  As readers may already have guessed, I love all sorts of music.  Beauty in all its forms has a way of bypassing all the typical rational and even affective resistances which we have built up in our minds and…

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Room for Redemption

by Aquae RegiaePosted onSeptember 8, 2018December 24, 2018

Recently I found myself working most of the day at a Church Food Pantry, which is always an eye opening experience. It reminds me of how lucky I am, and also how so many “ordinary” people lack some of the…

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