Christifidelis • Scholar • M.Litt. Int. Hist., Univ. of St Andrews • Nonnumquam Latine scribit, 時々日本語で.
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Quite the opposite—St Thomas’s success in doing so is the best argument for theologising out of the Vulgate alone.
Not that we should do a Catholic version of KJV-only Prots, but it’s a useful corrective for 19th century German scholarly myths such as the Documentary Hypothesis
Thomas Aquinas couldn't read Greek or Hebrew or Aramaic, which renders his commentaries on Aristotle and the Bible worthless
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Grok’s notion of what the world would look like if I were in charge…
Honestly not a bad extrapolation from my tweets.
Made with AI
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One possible (I do not say one only or principally) conclusion which could be drawn from the different way Rome reacts to mandateless consecrations by Écône and Beijing is that the SSPX’s mistake is not having a nuclear-armed wealthy Great Power with a police state as a patron…
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A certain tongue-in-cheek heuristic of ecclesiology goes: despite both claiming to strictly oppose both errors, Catholics will tolerate a great deal of heresy, but not a whiff of schism, while Orthodox will regularly schism and reconcile, rather than endure heresy even de minimis
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A sudden powerful summer thunderstorm appearing at the Écône Solemn Pontifical Mass right at the Communion and interrupting its conclusion is certainly a sign of something. Of what exactly, I am not competent to say—but it appears ‘numen inest’…
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One dimension of the AI-in-art-and-music debate that is overlooked, is its potential to circumvent censorship and cancellation. Case in point: none of the human-sung recordings of 'I Vow to Thee, My Country' include the second verse. Before AI, I had *never* heard it sung!
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Friendly reminder that Wade-Giles is the superior romanisation for English speakers who haven’t and don’t intent to study Chinese, and all alleged arguments against it boil down to either ‘it’s not what the PRC uses’ or ‘people are too lazy to type apostrophes correctly’…
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✠ Salve festa dies, toto venerabilis aevo,
Qva Deus infernum, vicit et astra tenet. ✠
〜褒め歌え、死を打ち砕かれた救い主のよみがえりの日〜
ちなみに、直訳は
「めでたし、神様が地獄に打ち勝ち星々を攻め取ったその祝日」
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Being “a poet” may well require some kind of special aptitude, insight, or inspiration.
*Writing verse* on the other hand is a mostly technical, learnable (even self-learnable) skill. Sure, your output will probably be rather mediocre, but it will follow established conventions
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One day the Law of Jante will be considered a crime against humanity and forcefully social engineering it out of the societies where it has taken root, a benevolent humanitarian intervention.
I will. Part of the reason was that my son, in his elementary school cafeteria, put olives on his fingers and showed the other kids at his table. This was considered "unusual".
When my wife was called about it, my wife openly laughed. That was considered defective.
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For students of Japanese grammar, this is a great native example of multiple embedded clauses in a complex sentence:
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Precisely because the assassins need to have the full might of the state's monopoly on violence unleashed upon them; true justice will not be done absent the political will for it.
If they’re executing political commentators who have never held legislative power in front of their children, why on earth would anyone become a politician?
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