tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post2099333716739267906..comments2024-01-29T08:39:40.754-05:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Ross Douthat does that againUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-53241970949566276002016-01-11T20:59:18.612-05:002016-01-11T20:59:18.612-05:00Plinio Correa de Oliveira was a prophet of a "...Plinio Correa de Oliveira was a prophet of a "lost cause," like Gandalf in <i>Lord of the Rings</i>. Perhaps that's why the Atila Guimarães' website inspired by Plinio, 'Tradition in Action,' has as its motto: <i>La plus belle aventure du monde, c’est la nôtre!</i>Pertinacious Papisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03213911570586726075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-62120015619687292272016-01-11T13:53:37.897-05:002016-01-11T13:53:37.897-05:00Plinio Correa de Oliveira was right in observing a...Plinio Correa de Oliveira was right in observing about Revolution: <i>Considered superficially, the events of our days seem a chaotic and inextricable tangle. From many points of view, they are indeed.<br /><br />However, one can discern profoundly consistent and vigorous resultants of this conjunction of so man y disorderly forces when considering them from the standpoint of the great crisis we are analyzing.<br /><br />Indeed, under the impulse of the forces in delirium, the western nations are being gradually driven toward a state of affairs which is taking the same form in all of them and is diametrically opposed to a Christian civilization.<br /><br />Thus, this crisis is like a queen whom all the forces of chaos serve as efficient and docile vassals</i><br /><br />"Revolution and Counter-Revolution"<br /><br />1962-1965 BCE (Bestest Council Ever) brought the Revolution inside the Catholic Church and that is what is now being fought on all fronts - Theological, Doctrinal, Moral, Liturgical, Musical - and the Revolutionaries are still in nearly absolute temporal control and it does not look good for the Counter-Revolutionary forces.<br /><br />However, as an Irish-Algonquin, there is no cause for ABS not to enjoy the sturm und drang of a lost cause.Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.com