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Tag Archives: Liberty

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

“To be ruled is not contrary to Liberty”

02 Thursday Jun 2016

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom

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Hierarchy, Human Dignity, Liberty, St. Robert Bellarmine

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To be ruled by a superior is not contrary however to human liberty, dignity and equality. Only the despot offends thus . . . even in the state of innocence there would have been political subjection, there would have been a difference of sexes, faculties and power; therefore an order of precedence and subjection. Among the angels there is a hierarchy of order with precedence and succession; why not among men? Therefore it is not contrary to liberty, nor humiliating to the dignity of man to be ruled by his legitimate superiors. . . . There is a difference between political subjection and servile subjection.

-St. Robert Bellarmine, De Laicis

Liberty and Catholicism

11 Friday Mar 2016

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom

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Authority, Catholicism, christendom, Common Good, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Freedom, Integralism, Liberalism, Liberty, Pope Leo XIII, Reactionaries, Tyranny

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This post was written with the help of my good friend The Catholic Professor.

“When it is all over, will ordinary people have any freedom left or will they have to fight for it, or will they be too tired to resist?”- J.R.R. Tolkien, Letters

Pope Leo XIII called Liberty “the highest of natural endowments”¹, yet in these modern times there are those who claim to represent the Catholic Tradition who wholeheartedly reject that Liberty can have anything but a negative position in the political order, if even that. By subscribing to an artificial, indeed Leftist definition of Liberty, they defeat the own cause. In the following body of the post I hope to demonstrate the traditional Catholic and Intergralist understanding of Liberty and its place in government.

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