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Podcast Interview with Larry Chapp and Zac Crippen on Zac’s show, “Creedal.” Topic: “The Diary of a Country Priest” by George Bernanos.

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Topic: “The Diary of a Country Priest” by George Bernanos. October 25, 2021. Miscellaneous. Podcast Interview with Larry Chapp and Zac Crippen on Zac’s show, “Creedal.” Topic: “The Diary of a Country Priest” by George Bernanos. Larry Chapp.…

The Constantinian Heathenism of the Church: Joseph Ratzinger and the Crisis of our Time

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One of the thinkers who also raised the alarm was the French novelist George Bernanos. I am currently reading a new reprint of an old book by Bernanos called “The Great Cemeteries Under The Moon.”…

The Universal Call to Holiness: Part One. Political Liberalism, the Public Unreality of God, and the Bored Catholic

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Witness, for example, the opening lines of “The Diary of a Country Priest” written by George Bernanos in 1936: “Mine is a parish like all the rest. They’re all alike. … My parish is bored stiff; no other word for it. Like so many others!…

The Choice: Bourgeois Well-Being or Conversion to Christ: Beige Catholicism and the Challenges of the Young Priest

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George Bernanos, in his masterful novel “The Diary of a Country Priest”, begins his narrative with the following words from the Curé d’ Ambricourt: “My is a parish like all the rest. They are all alike. … My parish is bored stiff; no other word for it. Like so many others!…

The McCarrick Report and the De Facto Atheism of the Church

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The Diary of a Country Priest. , which was Bernanos’s way of saying that nobody really believed anymore.…

The Weirdness of Christ and the Authenticity of the Church

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How refreshing it would be if a majority of bishops were to rise up and say to the Pope, paraphrasing the young Curé of Abricourt in Bernanos’ novel “The Diary of a Country Priest”: “Holy Father, our dioceses are bored. Like all the others.…

Ressourcement Theology: A Personal Narrative

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There were also literary figures like Bernanos and Mauriac, and philosophers like Pieper, Gilson, Maritain and Marcel. In my intellectually immature state, it was like trying to get a sip of water from a firehose.…

A Married Priesthood? A Meditation on Mandatory Celibacy: The Witness of Damien Alfonso Bergman

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But there is, as Bernanos points out, also a mysterious simulacrum of that communion in a communion of sin and evil. It is all really beyond me at this stage of my life. I want chickens again, but I really don’t know what to do about those damn raccoons.…

In Defense of Vatican II: Beauty Will Save the World.

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And by that he means what the priest at the beginning of Bernanos’s “Diary of a Country Priest” means when he says: “My parish is bored.”…

Apologetics and Evangelization Part One: Vatican II and Why Radical Traditionalism is a Dead End

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You see the same alarm bell ringing in such trifling figures like Guardini, Bouyer, de Lubac, Mauriac, Bernanos, Pieper, Gilson, Dawson, Balthasar, Danielou, and many others. But how can this be since the Church back then had the old Mass, meatless Fridays, and Garrigou-Lagrange?…

I Blossom On The Grave Of The God Who Died For Me: Evangelization In An Age Of Unbelief

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And her message is similar to that of other, more mainstream, Catholic thinkers of her time such as Romano Guardini, George Bernanos, and Francois Mauriac.…

The Falsification of the Good. Part Three: Mr. Cogito's Monster and the Prolepsis of Heaven and Hell

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And her message is similar to that of other, more mainstream, Catholic thinkers of her time such as Romano Guardini, George Bernanos, and Francois Mauriac.…

A Lecture in Baltimore at the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Assumption

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You see it in literary figures like Bernanos whose Diary of a Country Priest was a literary exploration of the theme of the lonely holiness of a single priest within an ocean of Catholic boredom and disbelief.…

Flipping the Script: The False Immanence of Modernity

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It is Lewis’s dystopian technocracy of “the conditioners and the conditioned”, McCarraher’s “Enchantments of Mammon”, Bernanos’s “boredom”, Illich’s “institutionalized bureaucratization of the elites”, David Hart’s “Christ or Nothing”, Cavanaugh’s “modernity as a simulacrum of the Church”…

Evangelization Part Three: The Christological and Cruciform Nature of Evangelization.

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