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I know that I put up a rather large post last p.m. but I need to get this below information out to you, my dear and loyal readers.
As I have stated on numerous occasions on this blog, I sense that there is a massive DEMAND for Catholicism in the secular world. I have been linking to these individuals who I think exhibit this characteristic. Stefan Molyeux is one of these individuals who is functionally Catholic yet does not know this.
On the other hand, another individual like Milo Yiannopoulos, who has some serious moral and personal issues, yet still explicitly acknowledges that not only is he Catholic, but that Catholicism is right on everything. As per the video above.
As it now turns out, this… let’s call it the “DEMAND FOR CATHOLICISM” is being picked up at some of the finest research universities in the world. A professor from the School of Divinity at the University of Chicago has just put out a brilliant post that drills down into just this phenomenon.
What’s more, she uses Milo Yiannopoulos as the subject for her observations and explains the wider phenomenon.
Simply brilliant!
Below is the Breitbart News abridged republication (see here) of the original post on the U of C’s Divinity School’s website HERE. Please visit the later and give them some traffic since we definitely need to support brave scholars like Rachel Fulton Brown.
Note bene: This is just the last in what is becoming an overwhelming set of academic publications that support the contention that all roads lead to Catholicism and that the Traditional Catholic Faith is in fact the ONE TRUE FAITH.
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University of Chicago: Why Milo Scares Students, and Faculty Even More
An article published by the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, entitled “Why Milo Scares Students, and Faculty Even More,” explains exactly why Breitbart Senior Editor MILO causes panic on college campuses across the country.
Rachel Fulton Brown, an Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Chicago, writes about why MILO is feared on college campuses in the article published by the University of Chicago:
The issues that Milo talks about are usually considered political, but in fact have to do with people’s deepest convictions: the proper relations between women and men, the definition of community, the role of beauty, access to truth. Milo professes himself a Catholic and wears a pair of gold crosses around his neck. He speaks about the importance of Christianity for the values of Western civilization. As he put it in one interview: “[Western civilization] has created a religion in which love and self-sacrifice and giving are the highest possible virtues… That’s a good thing… But when you remove discipline and sacrifice from religion you get a cult.”
None of these issues, most especially the civilizational roots of culture and virtue in religious faith, are typically addressed in modern college education in America. Rather, they are, for the most part, purposefully avoided. Judging from my own experience of over 30 years in the academy, it is considered a terrible breach of etiquette, horribly rude even, to mention your religious faith if you are a Christian, never mind suggest that it in any way affects your work as a scholar. This relic of the self-censoring of the late 19th century is now so deeply embedded in American academic culture that most people are not even conscious of it. The real problem, however, is that while discussion of Christian theology may no longer be at the center of university education, religion still is—we just don’t call it that anymore.
Not to address these issues openly does not allow students to keep an open mind. Their minds are already open—and being filled with what they are given in place of religion: multiculturalism; race, class, gender; the purportedly secular ideals of socialism and Marxism. Particularly for those students, and faculty, who have little to no religious education outside of school, these ideals have become their faith. This is why students and faculty find Milo so threatening. He not only challenges them to examine beliefs they have never been taught to question. Thanks to his near charismatic appeal as a speaker, at least for those who attend his talks rather than stand outside protesting, he holds out the possibility of conversion, of changing hearts and minds.
You can read the piece in its entirety here.
Professor Rachel Fulton Brown previously wrote “An Establishment Conservative’s Guide to MILO,” for Breitbart News.
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Oh, and while I’m here, the we might need to step back from St. Thomas Aquinas just a wee bit and start with St. John of Damascus. The “Fount of Knowledge” is the work that is most promising. St. John is the nearly unknown forerunner of the Scholastic method.
It must be taken into account that the best minds working on the Thomistic revival were not able to sustain the effort. There is a reason for this. Could be in the revivalists. Could be in St. Thomas’s work itself. Could be with both. Just saying.
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To be perfectly honest, I use Thomism as a point of reference. I just don’t have the time to do a study of Thomism justice.
I see that the value proposition that I can add to my readership is one of a practical application nature. We are in a crisis and we need boots on the ground to rectify it. So anything that I can do to help in this effort, I am all for it.
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….excerpts from ‘University Teaching’ by Cardinal Henry Newman:
“Knowledge is capable of being its own end. Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.”
Cicero, in enumerating the various heads of mental excellence, lays down the pursuit of Knowledge for its own sake, as the first of them. “This pertains most of all to human nature,” he says, “for we are all of us drawn to the pursuit of Knowledge; in which to excel we consider excellent, whereas to mistake, to err, to be ignorant, to be deceived, is both an evil and a disgrace.” And he considers Knowledge the very first object to which we are attracted, after the supply of our physical wants. After the calls and duties of our animal existence, as they may be termed, as regards ourselves, our family, and our neighbours, follows, he tells us, “the search after truth. Accordingly, as soon as we escape from the pressure of necessary cares, forthwith we desire to see, to hear, and to learn; and consider the knowledge of what is hidden or is wonderful, a condition of our happiness.”
“……..still it is simply unmeaning to say that we seek Knowledge for its own sake, and for nothing else; for that it ever leads to something beyond itself, which therefore is its end, and the cause why it is desirable;e moreover, that this end is twofold, either of this world or the next; that all knowledge is cultivated either for secular objects or eternal; that if it is directed to secular objects, is is called Useful Knowledge, if to eternal, Religious of Christian Knowledge; in consequence, that if, as I have allowed, this Liberal Knowledge does not benefit the body or estate……. it ought to benefit the soul……”
“Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor is largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy, however enlightened, however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life; but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness……..Taken by themselves, they do but seem to be what they are not; they look like virtue at a distance……and hence it is that they are popularly accused of pretense and hypocrisy, not, I repeat, from their own fault, but because their professors and their admirers persist in taking them for what they are not, and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim.”
“Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants……the passion and the pride of man.”
‘TRUTH FROM TRUTH IS BEST RECEIVED.’
St. Thomas Aquinas
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Thankyou for this Halina. 🙂
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Thanks. S.A. Thanks. Most enlightening and encouraging in most ways.
Observations:
—Trump should cut all Federal aid to campuses that do not allow free speech.
—Milo is outstanding. And so is Professor Brown.
—I see the current management of the Catholic Church as the enemy of Catholicism as they trend more and more towards secularism.
—The Catholic Church resigned it’s leadership role at Vatican II when they turned left rather than right. As a consequent they have given up their leadership role to Catholic traditionalists, selected bloggers like yourself, people like Milo and Stefan Molyneux who is Catholic only in his general philosophy.
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Hi:
The post-conciliar sect is actually drifting toward paganism.
As to Milo, I am amazed by him. He is intelligent enough to know that what he is doing is wrong. Yet he realizes that only this sort of “outwardly appearance” is able to break through the leftist sensors. You can see it in the look of his hosts, who can’t believe that he is saying the things he is saying.
It is as if Milo is sacrificing his soul for the greater good. And he knows it.
We need to pray for him and ask the Almighty to keep him in His care.
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PS I am so proud of the U of C. I am an alumni. I stopped donating years ago. Maybe I should reconsider…
On second thought, rather donate to the SSPX. They need it more… 🙂
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Isn’t there a holy prophecy in the treasure chest of the Catholic tradition, that, in the ‘latter days’ young men and women will wander the Earth searching for the Faith and not be able to find it!? I think I read that somewhere.
~Ite Ad Thomam.
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I am not familiar with that prophesy but it sure appears that the “young men and women” wandering the Earth searching for the Faith is becoming empirically supported.
What is amazing is how the behavioral sciences are supporting the Catholic biblical interpretations as handed down through Traditions. In the 3rd Molyneux Gene Warfare video, he presents Epigenetic (physiological) evidence for the case for “tradition”.
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Here it is:
Amos 8, Douay-Rheims
[11] Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send forth a famine into the land: not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord. [12] And they shall move from sea to sea, and from the north to the east: they shall go about seeking the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. [13] In that day the fair virgins, and the young men shall faint for thirst. [14] They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: Thy God, O Dan, liveth: and the way of Bersabee liveth: and they shall fall, and shall rise no more.
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Thanks for this.
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