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Thomas Merton on Hell

on April 29, 2022

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Hegelians of the Right, Hegelians of the Left

HEGELIANS OF THE RIGHT, HEGELIANS OF THE LEFT The philosophy of nineteenth-century philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel has been tremendously influential in Western history in at least one very important respect—it is the direct origin of the two dominant totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century, communism and fascism, both of which have been massively destructive of human life and society. Moreover, communism and fascism are enormously influential today. They are not dead letters, eccentric relics of the recent past. They are living systems, organized, complex networks of ideas that compete for the loyalty and blood of billions. The Amazon.com introduction to a translation of Hegel’s Reason in History says: “The metaphysics of Hegel has exerted a strong and enduring influence upon political life. All recent political ideologies bear his stamp. …He was the most rational and religious philosopher who unchained the most irrational and irreligious move

Saint Ignatius of Loyola’s 14 Rules for the Discernment of Spirits

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1620-22) by Peter Paul Rubens SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA’S 14 RULES FOR THE DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS See: http://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/14-rules-discerning-spirits-different-movements-caused-soul/ —“The 14 Rules for Discerning of Spirits – ‘The Different Movements Which Are Caused In The Soul,’” The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, translated from the autograph by Father Elder Mullan, S.J., Discerning Hearts: Catholic Podcasts dedicated to those on the Spiritual Journey Understanding and learning the Ignatian rules for the discernment of spirits requires long experience. It takes time. A quick approach—though hardly infallible—is to apply the heuristic given below. DISCERNMENT OF GOD’S VOICE Someone who knows what God is like knows what his voice is like. As an exercise, write down a list of single words that describe what you think God’s voice is like (for example: gentle, patient, kind, forgiving, e

Non Multa, Sed Multum

Jacinta Marto and Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos NON MULTA, SED MULTUM “Non multa, sed multum.” Translation: Not many, but much. The Latin saying is a paraphrase of Quintilian: “Optimis adsuescendum est et multa magis quam multorum lectione formanda mens et ducendus color.” “It is the best writers to whom we must become accustomed; we should form our minds and take our tone from extensive reading, rather than from reading many authors.” In Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria: The Orator's Education, Book 10.1, 59, edited and translated by Donald A. Russell (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001), pages 282-83 Non multa, sed multum, that is, not quantity, but quality—it’s an adage that may be applied to life, meaning, neither a long nor a short life, but a life of quality, however long it might be. Photo dated 1917 is of two Fatima visionaries, Saint Jacinta Marto (1910-1920) and Sister Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos (190

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