// Will we look back on the advent of streaming as a first step to rapid civilizational unraveling? //
The insanity that our rulers are imposing on us today began in earnest nearly five hundred years ago when western man declared himself God. Then a hundred years ago, electronic communications amplified his voice enormously. Television and the Internet have merely sealed the deal.
May be I've missed it in the past, but I don't recall any time when there have been so many cases of contemplative nuns being dismissed from religious life, thrown out of their mansteries or generally treated in a poor way by prelates. Cor Orans, which imposed a number of disagreeable things on these nuns, and made them vulnerable to Vatican takeover, seems to have been the start. You don't see the same thing happening with male monasteries, only female, which is curious. The Arlington story is a sad one which could have been defused at any time if anyone in a senior position in the church had actually engaged a couple of brain cells and said "You know, maybe we should try to talk, engage mediation, because shouting at nuns looks really bad." This is a great example of where holy obedience goes off the rails into bullying and authoritarianism. This Pope seems to specialise in that, sadly.
YouTube is a delight to me. Medieval weapons experts, ballet dancers, hand-sewers and leather-workers -- so many interesting people who never would've found an audience and income before the platform's advent are sharing their quiet and eccentric lives. I think it's a fabulous Communion of Persons.
“Is that the future for us? Was “Me at the zoo” a catalyst of cultural dystopia? Will we look back on the advent of streaming as a first step to rapid civilizational unraveling? “
I recall my grandfather commenting on the black & white television as ‘ that Devil’s box’. But then I guess there’s always someone who makes lemonade out of those devilish lemons.. Bishop Fulton Sheen comes to my mind.
You tube - and social media in general - are something like a library: you can find most anything in them. Discernment is the key to unlocking what good is available.
The real danger is ‘librarians’ - such as the real ones who deliberately display porn (in books and in things like drag shows), who often censor good out. And the controllers of the media platforms who do the same.
You tube - and social media in general - are something like a library: you can find most anything in them. Discernment is the key to unlocking what good is available.
The real danger is ‘librarians’ - such as the real ones who deliberately display porn (in books and in things like drag shows), who often censor good out. And the controllers of the media platforms who do the same.
You tube - and social media in general - are something like a library: you can find most anything in them. Discernment is the key to unlocking what good is available.
The real danger is ‘librarians’ - such as the real ones who deliberately display porn (in books and in things like drag shows), who often censor good out. And the controllers of the media platforms who do the same.
You tube - and social media in general - are something like a library: you can find most anything in them. Discernment is the key to unlocking what good is available.
The real danger is ‘librarians’ - such as the real ones who deliberately display porn (in books and in things like drag shows), who often censor good out. And the controllers of the media platforms who do the same.
Thank you for another great article JD! I enjoyed hearing (since I listened to the audio version of your article) as well as reading the poem by Joseph Plunkett. Venerable Fulton J. Sheen had quoted that poem on his program where his subject for that evening was the Psychology of the Irish - definitely one to check out … and possibly to be found on YouTube.
// Will we look back on the advent of streaming as a first step to rapid civilizational unraveling? //
The insanity that our rulers are imposing on us today began in earnest nearly five hundred years ago when western man declared himself God. Then a hundred years ago, electronic communications amplified his voice enormously. Television and the Internet have merely sealed the deal.
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https://soscalvaires.org/
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// If, like me, you believe that cloistered religious are the spiritual heartbeat of the Church, this situation probably deeply saddens you. //
Very much so.
A friend of mine set that poem to music a few years ago. Hope it's edifying for you all.
https://open.spotify.com/track/6uiNzMrFVtIxfnKdj3vzRe?si=TLqkKn2JTGOLndemTl_8bA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1J3EEE20wizqc3hrCiwoc7
--> Soooo.....Is this a soft launch for an upcoming The Pillar YouTube channel?
--> "THE AMAZING CATHOLIC ROOTS OF ‘ME AT THE ZOO" definitely sounds like a real clickbait article.
-->The SOS Calvaries story is really a good one, very encouraging.
May be I've missed it in the past, but I don't recall any time when there have been so many cases of contemplative nuns being dismissed from religious life, thrown out of their mansteries or generally treated in a poor way by prelates. Cor Orans, which imposed a number of disagreeable things on these nuns, and made them vulnerable to Vatican takeover, seems to have been the start. You don't see the same thing happening with male monasteries, only female, which is curious. The Arlington story is a sad one which could have been defused at any time if anyone in a senior position in the church had actually engaged a couple of brain cells and said "You know, maybe we should try to talk, engage mediation, because shouting at nuns looks really bad." This is a great example of where holy obedience goes off the rails into bullying and authoritarianism. This Pope seems to specialise in that, sadly.
YouTube is a delight to me. Medieval weapons experts, ballet dancers, hand-sewers and leather-workers -- so many interesting people who never would've found an audience and income before the platform's advent are sharing their quiet and eccentric lives. I think it's a fabulous Communion of Persons.
“Is that the future for us? Was “Me at the zoo” a catalyst of cultural dystopia? Will we look back on the advent of streaming as a first step to rapid civilizational unraveling? “
I recall my grandfather commenting on the black & white television as ‘ that Devil’s box’. But then I guess there’s always someone who makes lemonade out of those devilish lemons.. Bishop Fulton Sheen comes to my mind.
You tube - and social media in general - are something like a library: you can find most anything in them. Discernment is the key to unlocking what good is available.
The real danger is ‘librarians’ - such as the real ones who deliberately display porn (in books and in things like drag shows), who often censor good out. And the controllers of the media platforms who do the same.
You tube - and social media in general - are something like a library: you can find most anything in them. Discernment is the key to unlocking what good is available.
The real danger is ‘librarians’ - such as the real ones who deliberately display porn (in books and in things like drag shows), who often censor good out. And the controllers of the media platforms who do the same.
You tube - and social media in general - are something like a library: you can find most anything in them. Discernment is the key to unlocking what good is available.
The real danger is ‘librarians’ - such as the real ones who deliberately display porn (in books and in things like drag shows), who often censor good out. And the controllers of the media platforms who do the same.
You tube - and social media in general - are something like a library: you can find most anything in them. Discernment is the key to unlocking what good is available.
The real danger is ‘librarians’ - such as the real ones who deliberately display porn (in books and in things like drag shows), who often censor good out. And the controllers of the media platforms who do the same.
Thank you for another great article JD! I enjoyed hearing (since I listened to the audio version of your article) as well as reading the poem by Joseph Plunkett. Venerable Fulton J. Sheen had quoted that poem on his program where his subject for that evening was the Psychology of the Irish - definitely one to check out … and possibly to be found on YouTube.
Harambe? Was that an auto-correct from Karim?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4z1VmsSRCQ
"I see His Blood upon the Rose"