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Tag Archives: Sovereignty

A Note on Sovereignty and the Knights of St. John

26 Thursday Jan 2017

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom

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Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Empire, Knights of St. John Hospitaller, Loyalty to the Pope, Order of Malta, Pope France, Sovereign, Sovereignty

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This post is in part a response to a very recent article by the Modern Medievalist, whom I respect highly (and yet nonetheless disagree with in this case), and partly as a general response to the distortion of the concept of Sovereignty in Modern times. This has been brought to the forefront by the investigation of Holy See into the Religious Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta. As the investigation is still on-going, it would be unwise to comment on specific situation of the Order today, so this post is mainly confined to the general principles involved.

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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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