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Shawn Ryan On Spiritual Risk Of Psychedelics
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (99+ words) roddreher.substack.com Shawn Ryan On Spiritual Risk Of Psychedelics And: Why The AfD?; Rave In The Nave; Crazy Clancy Jury; AI Doomer; Aztecs Part II The popular podcaster Shawn Ryan has the traditionalist Catholic Cardinal Raymond Burke on for…...
Authority, Modernity, & Church Disintegration
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (681+ words) (Yes, this is the second early Diary you’ve had in a row. Don’t get comfortable, my dears! I wrote this one last night, because I’m traveling this morning.) Boy, I can’t recommend strongly enough Yale historian Carlos Eire’s thick book…...
Vatican: The Real Enemy Is SSPX
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (81+ words) Rod Dreher's Diary Vatican: The Real Enemy Is SSPX The Symbolism of Rome's Excommunication Of Traditionalists Woke up to the news this morning that the Vatican has excommunicated everyone in the Society of St. Pius X — bishops, priests, and lay…...
'Disclosure Day': A Gnostic Re-Enchantment Tale
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1575+ words) On Saturday night I saw Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day. Reviews have been generally positive, though audience reaction is more mixed. It was startling to see a big suburban theater on opening weekend, the first showing Saturday night of a much-hyped…...
A Butterfly Wing In A Parking Lot
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (103+ words) Rod Dreher's Diary A Butterfly Wing In A Parking Lot And: Surprise! Belfast Blows Up In Evil Violence Good morning from Starhill, spiritual capital of my clan. Thank you for all who prayed and are praying for my mother. The…...
Who's Tool Is AI Anyway?
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (527+ words) Today will be all about finding an apartment, yet despite the stress, I feel strangely relaxed. I don’t know why. For reasons I cannot fathom, it feels right to be here … which is odd, because I don’t have any special…...
Fear Of Aquinas
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (90+ words) Rod Dreher's Diary And: Queering The Church; Black Youth Crime; Vatican & UFOs; Danish Identity The great Mary Harrington has a terrific piece about St. Thomas Aquinas. I cannot do its complexity justice by quoting it; you really do have to…...
Are Pastors Being Prepared For Disclosure?
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (831+ words) Walter Kirn, I think it is, has a theory that there are different factions in the US Government who are battling behind the scenes over who will control the forthcoming disclosure, and that this accounts for the leaks, the contradictions,…...
Ben Sasse's Golgotha
5+ mon, 3+ day ago (1265+ words) I said I wasn’t going to publish on Orthodox Good Friday, so I’m writing this on Thursday. There is nothing I could possibly write that would top the testimony that Christian man, heroic in his suffering, says in the interview....
Teachings Of The Monk Of Skye
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (844+ words) It was wonderful, cheering, all the good things. At one point, we noticed a nice-looking young man sitting alone at the table next to us. We heard him speaking accented English with the server. I leaned over after she left…...