Post by Séamus on Apr 29, 2024 5:38:59 GMT
' A mayor in Brussels on Tuesday sent police officers to break up a gathering of prominent, self-described "anti-woke" conservatives from across Europe, including Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, declaring "the far right is not welcome" before the authorities quickly retreated.
Emir Kir, the Socialist Party mayor of the central Brussels neighborhood where the gathering took place, issued the order to close the National Conservatism Conference on grounds of "public safety." But critics said that Mr. Kir's order only amplified one of the gathering's main themes: that cancel culture targeting conservative voices has run amok.
"This is what we are up against. We are up against an evil ideology. We are up against a new form of communism," declared Nigel Farage of Britain. ' NewYorkTimes
The alliance apparently included royals and a bishop, identities not mentioned.
What can make interesting history is who and what become the foot soldiers of choice in desperate times. John Paul's tenure possibly created a unique situation in church history where religious orders were both declining and putting themselves at odds with Rome, sometimes with Christianity itself, as the pontff turned more and more to unusual lay movements, almost as a replacement, the Spanish origin of many of these causing mockers to label it the Pope's Armada.
A book of Dominican heroes that I've been reading through slowly the last while has a couple of Irish entries- the role that the Secular Third Order had in the penal era is probably greater that many would expect in a time associated either with either clerical dominance or Brideshead-style Catholic manor houses. Lay martyr Sir John Bourke was undoubtedly one of the latter- but two third order Dominican ladies who were vowed to celibacy (apparently a common way of being a religious at the time) and who were burnt to death for hiding him are not even named by history.
In an era where consecration would probably suggest full conventual life, similar women get mention in the passage about Fr Richard Barry, who the author had trouble believing really defended the Rock of Cashel with a sword in his Dominican habit;Sr Dorcy suggests that the sword was really a rosary.
Unfortunate.
It would be a bit of a stretch to suggest any influence on the Gandalf character but I should think the sight of an armed Fr Barry the white would give the wizard a run for his money.
Emir Kir, the Socialist Party mayor of the central Brussels neighborhood where the gathering took place, issued the order to close the National Conservatism Conference on grounds of "public safety." But critics said that Mr. Kir's order only amplified one of the gathering's main themes: that cancel culture targeting conservative voices has run amok.
"This is what we are up against. We are up against an evil ideology. We are up against a new form of communism," declared Nigel Farage of Britain. ' NewYorkTimes
The alliance apparently included royals and a bishop, identities not mentioned.
What can make interesting history is who and what become the foot soldiers of choice in desperate times. John Paul's tenure possibly created a unique situation in church history where religious orders were both declining and putting themselves at odds with Rome, sometimes with Christianity itself, as the pontff turned more and more to unusual lay movements, almost as a replacement, the Spanish origin of many of these causing mockers to label it the Pope's Armada.
A book of Dominican heroes that I've been reading through slowly the last while has a couple of Irish entries- the role that the Secular Third Order had in the penal era is probably greater that many would expect in a time associated either with either clerical dominance or Brideshead-style Catholic manor houses. Lay martyr Sir John Bourke was undoubtedly one of the latter- but two third order Dominican ladies who were vowed to celibacy (apparently a common way of being a religious at the time) and who were burnt to death for hiding him are not even named by history.
In an era where consecration would probably suggest full conventual life, similar women get mention in the passage about Fr Richard Barry, who the author had trouble believing really defended the Rock of Cashel with a sword in his Dominican habit;Sr Dorcy suggests that the sword was really a rosary.
Unfortunate.
It would be a bit of a stretch to suggest any influence on the Gandalf character but I should think the sight of an armed Fr Barry the white would give the wizard a run for his money.
