The ideas of the Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho provide important tools not only to analyze, but to criticize and resist the destructive current cultural currents of our time. Many of these currents spring from the ideologies that oppressed our brothers and sisters in Europe. By Fabio L. Leite THE THREE INVERSIONS Three "inversions" characterize the … [Read more...] about The Revolutionary Mentality is the Confusion of our Time
Political Philosophy
Patriarch Kirill and Russian Orthodoxy Deserve Respect Not Insults: An Open Letter to George Weigel
Patriarch Kirill and Russian Orthodoxy Deserve Respect Not Insults: An Open Letter to George Weigel* by Fr. Alexander F. C. Webster, James George Jatras, and Fr. Victor Potapov I. Introduction As longtime friendly colleagues in the pursuit of a faithful Christian public moral witness in America, we are profoundly saddened and shocked at your unfounded, … [Read more...] about Patriarch Kirill and Russian Orthodoxy Deserve Respect Not Insults: An Open Letter to George Weigel
It is Only Possible to Love Individual Persons, not Humanity in General
The more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular, that is, individually, as separate persons. [Likewise] the more I hate people individually, the more ardent becomes my love for humanity as whole. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Following in the paths of St Paisius Velichovsky and St Tikhon of Zadonsk, St Theophan (1815—1894) was one … [Read more...] about It is Only Possible to Love Individual Persons, not Humanity in General
Nature and City in the Greek East
The poet seems to suggest that we can now find the natural city only in the imagination. The bridge for the modernist poet is now an interior, and even a psychological function. It was not always so. Source: Πεμτουσια (Pemtousia) By Bruce Seraphim Foltz The beauty of the city is not as heretofore scattered over it in patches, but covers the whole area like a robe woven … [Read more...] about Nature and City in the Greek East