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Victory for the Day, is that not enough?

18 Tuesday Apr 2017

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom, Tower of Ivory

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christendom, Civilization, Courage, Death of Civilization, Hero, the Long Defeat, The War for Christendom, Tower of Ivory, Victory

Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

In this fallen world, there is no such thing as lasting victory. Yes when Our Lord Jesu returns, His ultimate victory over evil will be made manifest. Yet until then we remain in a world not yet remade and sanctified by the Logos, evil can never be wholly destroyed, only held back for a time. It may then be tempting to ask, why do we even fight? Why fight against nationalism and racialism if you are the only one who believes in supranational patriotism? Against reactionism on one hand and leftism on the other? Why continue if you stand but few together, surrounded on all sides?

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The Freedom of Authority

05 Sunday Mar 2017

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom

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Authority, christendom, Civilization, Emperor Conrad II, Freedom, Holy Roman Emperor, Liberty

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If we were slaves of our king and Emperor, subjected to him by your jurisdiction, it would not be permissible for us to separate ourselves from you [our duke]. Yet now, since we are free, and hold our king and Emperor the supreme defender of our liberty on earth, as soon as we desert him, we lose our liberty, which no good man, as it is said, loses save with his life. Since this is so, we are willing to obey whatever honorable and just requirement you make of us. If, however, you will something which is contrary to this, we shall return freely into that position whence we came under certain conditions to you.

-Anselm and Frederick, Counts of the Holy Roman Empire, Gesta Chuonradi II Imperatoris

Blessed Carolus, Holy Roman Emperor

28 Saturday Jan 2017

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom

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Carolus Magnus, Charlemagne, christendom, Civilization, Father of Europe, History, Holy Roman Empire, Imperial History, Politics, Sacred Ages, Sacretemporal

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On the most Holy Day of the Nativity of the Lord when the King rose from praying at Mass before the tomb of biased Peter the Apostle, Pope Leo placed a crown on his head and all the Roman people cried out, “To Carolus, pious Augustus, crowned by God, great and peace giving Emperor of the Romans, life and victory.” And after the laudation he was honoured by the pope in the manner of the ancient princes and, the title of Patrician being set aside, he was called Emperor and Augustus.

Of all the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire the most renowned, the first to receive the golden Imperial Crown from the hands of the Roman Pontiff, no Emperor has so captured the Catholic imagination as Carolus Magnus, the Emperor Charlemagne. The beginning of the Sacred Ages might truly be dated to his coronation on the feast of the Nativity of Our Lord. Born on the second of April in the year of Our Lord 742 in the realm of Austrasia, Karol (as he was named in old Frankish) was the oldest son of Pippin the Short, King of Francia and Patrician of the Roman Empire. Upon the death of King Pippin in A.D. 768, Karol and his younger brother Karloman jointly ascended to the Frankish throne, in the midst of a rebellion in Aquitania.

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A Restorationist in the Age of Racialism

07 Wednesday Dec 2016

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom, Hapsburg Restoration Movenment

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christendom, Civilization, Holy Roman Empire, Nationalism, Racialism, Restorationist, the Fall

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The first of these pernicious errors, widespread today, is the forgetfulness of that law of human solidarity and charity which is dictated and imposed by our common origin and by the equality of rational nature in all men, to whatever people they belong, and by the redeeming Sacrifice offered by Jesus Christ on the Altar of the Cross to His Heavenly Father on behalf of sinful mankind.

– Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus

Encouraged by certain “victories”, the world is triumphantly entering a New Age of Nationalism… or so we are told in shouts of jubilation or despair. The sad truth is that the world has never left the downward spiral that is Nationalism; it has merely entered beginning the last phase, Racial Nationalism. That the world has fallen to such lowness is not surprising; such was always the Fate of the Fallen world, and yet we are not bound by that fate, but by Divine Providence alone. With God’s grace we can fight against this marring of the world.

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On the Current Crisis

11 Tuesday Oct 2016

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom

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"Gens", Civilization, Country, Culture, Holy Empire, Ius Gentium, Mankind, Nation, Politics, Sovereignty, State

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One can readily understand what the dread of passing evils can do, and what great eternal evil follows!

-Pius XII, Exsul Familia Nazarethana

The current crisis to which I refer is not what one would expect, the displacement of peoples, the present wars in which neither side is really “the Right side”. Rather it is the crisis of ideals and definitions, of right and proper relations; not so much what is happening as how it is dealt with- and how it ought to be dealt with. What is at stake is the Right Order of the World, of Human Society, the proper and just relations of beings and of states of being, and the solution is to be found, following the example of the ancients, by looking at the Right Order of the Human Person and Soul to which earthly things are ordered.

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“One Monarch Sufficed for the World…”

29 Wednesday Jun 2016

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom

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christendom, Civilization, Holy Roman Empire, Universal Empire

The Theory of the Universal Empire

A king could not be universal sovereign, for there were many kings: the Emperor must be, for there had never been but one Emperor

–James Viscount Bryce, The Holy Roman Empire

Christendom, true European Civilization, has always held Universality and the Common Good as its ideals. The heresy of Nationalism, the corruption of the virtue of Patriotism, has always been opposed by those wholeheartedly seeking the restoration of Christendom throughout the world. Yet what solution can we offer the world as it sinks slowly back into a kind of sham identitarian and barbaric tribalism, in the face of the Civilizational threat of Islam?

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The Glory of Christendom

29 Sunday May 2016

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom

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christendom, Civilization, Emperor, Holy Roman Empire, Pope

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In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have conquered the world.
-St. John 16:33

Amidst the lawless of the Great Interregnum, God’s Providence raised up a lowly Count to receive the Crown of his forefathers and bring about the Restoration of the Heart of Christendom. From this seemingly simple act of devotion to the Holy Eucharist, those who were to be the greatest defenders of Christendom, arose to spread its glory across the world. And it is in this that the Glory of Christendom chiefly consists, that it reflects in this fallen world God’s universal Good, that it is the highest and greatest Common Good that our still-fallen nature can obtain, an imperfect vision of Universal Peace, Justice, Charity, Mercy, Right Reason and Virtue.

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The Evil We Face: the Death of Civilization

04 Wednesday May 2016

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom

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Civilization, Death of Civilization, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Identitarianism, Left, Politics of Emotion, Politics of Reason, Reason, Right

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Reason rather than sentiment is the distinguishing mark separating man from beast. Naturally reason, wrongly employed, perverted and under the yoke of emotions, is worse than mere sentimentalism-and this, precisely, was the “rationalism” of the Enlightenment. God created man, after all, in such a way that his head is above his heart.
–Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism

Politics have long ago ceased to be about reasonably serving the Common Good, and if anything the general trend of politics these days only proves this. Not only has the rejection of reason influenced the political sphere, but every other important aspect of life as well. Reality is constantly being denied and in its place our “feelings” are enthroned, when we know that this is clearly wrong. Yet how can we know what is Right when it certainly seems that these mass movements of emotional politics are our last hope?

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What made the West Great?

23 Tuesday Feb 2016

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom

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christendom, Civilization, Divine Providence

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What is it that made Western Civilization the greatest of Civilizations? The short answer is Divine Providence. For some, however, the this short yet profound answer might require longer explanation.

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Does the World need a “Global Policeman”?

01 Tuesday Sep 2015

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom

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America, christendom, Civilization, Global Policeman, International Good, Politics, UN

Defensor Gentium

Since the downfall of Christendom, the UN, the EU, and the United States have attempted fill the void. America in particular has stepped into the role of protector of the common order against the growing threats of terrorism. This has drawn much criticism from those who believe the American government is acting out of less altruistic motives, and has prompted the question: Does the World really need a nation acting as the “Global Policeman”?

It is essential to the International Common Good that order be maintained, and that lawful authority maintain it. So in a limited sense the answer is yes. The US, however is not a legitimate authority in this sense- even less so as the country roles down the slippery slope of immorality at breakneck speed. And really, this shouldn’t be surprising. As a nation attempts to wrestle with responsibilities that were not its own, it becomes unable to fulfill the responsibilities which it is truly bound to.

While the US tries (or had tried in the past) to protect the common order in the face of the vast collapse, this is still a pale (and unsuccessful) substitute for the tradition of Christendom. The threat which we struggle to face was very successfully countered; countered by the legitimate authority. The Holy Roman Emperor, the Defender of the Nations of Christendom, did know that his mission was to protect the Common Good, and true Morality was integral to his office. The Emperor, the Commander of the Armies of Christendom, could and did lead the West to victory, and certainly did this better than any “Global Policeman”.

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