profdanrober.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University. Theology, Film, Music, Urbanism, Culture.
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This particular matchup bringing out insane reactionary sides of a lot of people who probably voted for Garcia but now act like Cuomo is the only option.
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The oracle said that if you invade Persia a great empire will fall.
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like this is the terrain we have to fight on now and it's a rare moment where 'what tiktok zoomers want' and 'what is morally right' actually lines up
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That’s where historical contingency comes in.
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Hard to tell since it appears to be a livestream on Substack and so doesn’t list topics or summaries, just guests.
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Still has a podcast.
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Tammany ward heelers checked in on widows.
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People unaware of the Yankees gonna think this is a very unexpected take on Clinton endorsement of Cuomo.
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Even with Musk’s bluster, a good case for retaining physical media. They want a Star Wars Special Editions of reality.
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This reminds me of our post-college neighbors’ reactions in my old rental building when we would ask them to turn down music. “It’s 11:00 on a Friday!”
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Bill Portier: www.communio-icr.com/files/Portie...
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This essay of mine gives an overview of related matters that deals with the totalizing methodological claims of G-L's type of Thomism: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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A useful Substack post linking to a good article on this from Crisis (earlier version) of all places: betterpolitics.substack.com/p/yves-simon...
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Kerlin: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
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Always important to refer to him as Garrigou as his relative Marie-Joseph Lagrange founded modern Catholic Biblical studies. I treat this in the first chapter of my book, relying on John Sullivan’s essay on Blondel/Garrigou as well as Michael Kerlin’s discussion of Vichy. I will link sources below.
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There’s kind of a tablesetter on Dignitatis Humanae and integralism in this volume: litpress.org/Products/892...
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We can touch base further on this but gonna be shards of Catholic theology and politics (and their combination) from the immediate pre-war era to the present. Centered on Vatican II and its reset but radiating out in both directions.
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I have work hopefully forthcoming in this area.
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This brings me no pleasure to report as it comes from years of watching people who have to know better somewhere deep down either keep silent or do versions of the anti-anti dance.
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Yes I agree and these are difficult to distinguish in practice due to incentives against an explicit antifash position in many right Catholic spaces.
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The issue with G-L today is the people trying to revive him don’t want to acknowledge any of this stuff.
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Giving this First-Things-in-2002 level response shows he has learned nothing.
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My mother was instructed by her conservative Brooklyn parents in the early to mid Sixties not to be alone with a priest or sister.
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Look up Thomas Williams and Jonathan Morris for different examples (both connected to Legionaries) of how this game can burn people out of the priesthood.