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The Fruit of the Virgin


We Must Infuse Catholicism Into Civil Society. Here's a Strategy.
THE MONEY PROBLEM In Money Manipulation and the Social Order , Rev. Denis Fahey C.S.Sp. highlights the cause of civil society's economic...
Michael Aguilera
Mar 183 min read
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Pius XII has already proclaimed: "There is no time to be lost."
"Never before perhaps has the salvation of society depended on the efforts of so few people."
Michael Aguilera
Mar 104 min read
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A Defence of Aristocracy
"Beauty, Art, Will, Conscience and Spiritual Strength to face and to endure even the inevitable pangs and pains of a full life—nay, the...
Michael Aguilera
Jan 22 min read
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A Handful of Maxims for the New Year 2025
Contend valiantly, let not the slightest impatience, the beginning of disordered wrath interfere your deliberation, countenance, and...
Michael Aguilera
Dec 312 min read
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A Taste of Elite Byzantine Rhetorical Education
Circassian Cavalry Awaiting their Commanding Officer at the Door of a Byzantine Monument (1880) Alberto Pasini (Italian, 1826 - 1899)...
Michael Aguilera
Dec 29, 20243 min read
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"“A brother, that is helped by his brother, is like strong city..."
Venice, a view of the Grand Canal with Santa Maria della Salute (1878) François Antoine Bossuet (Belgian, 1798-1889) EXCERPT FROM PART I...
Michael Aguilera
Dec 15, 20245 min read
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Cicero on Manliness: Historical Sense, Ruling, and Aesthetics
Excerpt from Cicero's On Duty: But the most marked difference between man and beast is this: the beast, just as far as it is moved by the...
Michael Aguilera
Dec 5, 20242 min read
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Modernity and Cicero On The Origin of Eloquence
"If we wish, says Cicero, "to consider the origin of this thing that is called eloquence—whether it be an art or a study or some sort of...
Michael Aguilera
Nov 29, 20243 min read
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Status Without Merit?
Men who aspire to honor should fear status without merit.
Michael Aguilera
Nov 9, 20242 min read
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The Decay of Catholic Sense and "Luce"
We cannot assess the new "mascot" of the upcoming jubilee without understanding Catholic Sense and aesthetics.
Michael Aguilera
Nov 8, 20245 min read
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Nobility, the Composers of Civil and Cultural Unity
Elites play the strings of society to produce a harmonious whole.
Michael Aguilera
Sep 15, 20243 min read
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Militancy and Elegance, The Harmonic Contrasts of Gentleman
A man must cultivate potency, a sub-virtue of Militancy, to the highest degree he can. Once he has he will notice greater alertness,...
Michael Aguilera
Sep 8, 20242 min read
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Hook-up "Culture", Rape, and Abortion. A Common Link?
Does rape dispense the mother from bringing a child to fruition? Rape, we argue, does not. The simple reasoning is that it is never licit...
Michael Aguilera
Sep 3, 20242 min read
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Man is a Walking Ambiance
Man is a walking ambiance. As the various elements of an ambiance—music, lighting, aromas, colors, furniture, and the like—produce...
Michael Aguilera
Aug 18, 20242 min read
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"All the legislations of the ancient peoples rest on the fear of the gods."
Theology, because it is the science of God, is the ocean that contains and embraces all sciences, just as God is the ocean that contains...
Michael Aguilera
Jul 20, 20244 min read
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Local Artists, Craftsman, and Small Farmers Are Keys to Restoring Catholic Regional Character
Local refinement becomes national character.
Michael Aguilera
Jul 9, 20243 min read
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ON PERSUASION: OVERTAKING
The Demons of the Air seek to make men in their image; wild, rough, vulgar, rude, and silly...
Michael Aguilera
Jul 4, 20241 min read
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“The Warrior Doesn't Talk Too Much...”
“The warrior never acts to reassure himself that he is as potent as he hopes he is.” “Through clarity of thinking [he] realistically...
Michael Aguilera
Jun 7, 20241 min read
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What is Seriousness?
The man who is most serious among you is not the most fit, the most non-chalant, nor the most eloquent. Seriousness is not reducible to a...
Michael Aguilera
Jun 6, 20241 min read
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Three Elements Necessary to Be Successful in the Reconstruction of Christendom
The following advice is adapted from a French Counter-Revolutionary named Jean Ousset (1914-1994) taken from his book "Action," a manual...
Michael Aguilera
May 6, 20243 min read
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