Tag: David Warren

The Bifurcated Brain – The Catholic Thing

One of the best ways to keep everybody angry, and thus to let us share in the modern experience, is to use words in a left-brained sort of way. I refer, of course, to Iain McGilchrist, the writer who has given us the most thorough and accessible…

Defeating Modernism – The Catholic Thing

Among the most distressing things about the Catholic Church is her (really, OUR) failure to take advantage of the many opportunities that the “modern world” accidentally offers us. We have made ourselves smaller and more inconsequential by…

For a More Manly Catholicism

Edgar Allan Poe mentioned three things, in connection with the Earthly Paradise, or perhaps there were four; I don’t pretend to be a Poe expert. But so far as I remember, they were: life in the open air, the love of a good woman, and the…