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“The deritualization of social life invites struggles for power. Far from being an enlightening process, the destruction of ritual in...

Lent begins this year, as always, with the imposition on worshiper’s foreheads of the ashen remains of burnt palm...

In a lecture on the work of historian Christopher Dawson given in 1993, Russell Hittinger wrote: “From his first published...

“Cultures are constituted by the union of the living and the dead in rituals of living memory. Never before …...

“The appeal to tradition is not a mere remembrance of the past; it involves rather the recognition of a cultural...

Charles Péguy “It is one and the same movement which makes people no longer believe in the Republic and no...

“It is precisely the hard truths of our faith, those which the culture ignores and even despises, that have the...

Ten years ago Gil Bailie spent time reading University of Pennsylvania scholar Philip Rieff’s works with the following results… To...

The word “tradition” and the word “treason” come from the same root. The very name “modernity” self-consciously used to describe...

“That a man should think he’s Napoleon, or that he’s a woman, may be no surprise, for humans may imagine...

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