A Páscoa Empírica – 2022
Uma concepção comum sobre o Cristianismo dirá que ele consiste em crer em uma série de verdades abstratas com respeito a um Deus que é um e três, uma pessoa que é Deus e homem, e um pão que não é pão. No entanto, as dimensões mais teológicas desses artigos de fé serão elaboradas tão […]
God is not a god (nor is any angel)
The Creator God who was revealed to the Jews, and the Incarnate God revealed to Christians, is not a “god,” nor even the greatest and most powerful of the gods. We refer here instead to a Reality that is, quite simply, not in the class of “gods” to begin with. A related category mistake […]
Relation – The Weakest Category with the Greatest Implications
I was invited to participate in the International Open Seminar on Semiotics 2022 on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the death of philosopher and semiotician John Deely (1942-2017). My Indian friend and colleague, Banzelão Teixeira, was also invited and on March 18th delivered a very solid paper on “The Supra-Subjective Nature of Relation: […]
Shakespeare – a Comedy and a Tragedy
“A Comedy and a Tragedy” – as far as life goes, another word for it might be status quo. To round off our Great Books mini-course, we allow Shakespeare to serve us a comedy and a tragedy, as always, with the insightful, and often surprising commentary of Dennis Quinn and John Senior. Comedy, of course […]
The Canterbury Pilgrims Have Arrived
After a long break, the Humanities lectures of Quinn and Senior have just caught up with Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales of the 14th century (scroll down here). The cycle of recorded lectures I commissioned in the late 1980s is now nearly complete. Only the bard of Stratford is still waiting in the wings. With him, […]
O dia em que fui entrevistado por Mgr. Marcel Lefebvre
Foi no mês de abril de 1975. Eu, com 22 anos, tinha viajado para Suíça, acompanhado por meu estimado mentor, John Senior, para visitar o seminário renomeado de Écône. Esse foi a sede da famosa (e, na época, ainda canonicamente legítima) Sociedade de Sacerdotes de São Pio X. Apesar de Senior ter preconizado a versão […]
The Day I Was Interviewed by Msgr. Marcel Lefebvre
It was in the month of April of 1975. At the age of 22 I had traveled to Switzerland, accompanied by my beloved mentor at the time, John Senior. We were going to visit the (in)famous seminary of Écône, seat of the controversial (but at the time canonically legitimate) Society of Priests of Saint Pius […]
“A Tradução” – a única língua sacra da Igreja
Mais de trinta anos atrás, eu escrevi um artigo sobre a importância da língua latina cultivada na Idade Média (recentemente traduzido aqui). Ainda mantenho a posição que lá apresentei, a qual considerava a importância de qualquer língua clássica – ou seja, aquela que não é mais utilizada no discurso popular – na preservação de um […]
To readers of SEVEN ISLANDS
As with most new publications, the English edition of my book, Seven Islands, displays a few typographical errors, and a true blooper at the very beginning. The latter is on page 6 of the printed edition, towards the top (or on the second page, or second paragraph of the Introduction, in the Kindle edition). I may be […]
Rescuing the Obvious – On Truths that Should Be Truisms
“Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.” G.K. Chesterton Nothing unites people more than sharing what they hold to be obvious, even if only tacitly and implicitly. Disputed questions, controversies and unresolved problems inevitably divide us, but the sure things – those that “go without saying” – are what make us feel that […]