Shackled to deadlines or deep in the stacks, The patron of editors, writers and hacks, And all the good work that their labour entails, Is the Genovese bishop, Saint Francis de Sales. Convivial, mystical, pious and skint, God’s love was the liquor he poured into print; In the Great Reformation he did rather much (While [...]
In the book of Ecclesiasticus it is written: “Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.” Today I propose to honor the memory of a famous man, a man who earned his fame by writing about those who, in an intellectual and spiritual sense, were our fathers. In the great chain of being [...]
Ellis Sandoz In my previous post about Eric Voegelin, I wrote how Voegelin became a model of thinking devoid of ideological rant in the student’s quest for the true, the beautiful, and the good. One of those students was Ellis Sandoz, who in turn became a master teacher himself in the mold of Eric Voegelin. [...]