Status Without Merit?
Men who aspire to honor should fear status without merit.
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The Fruit of the Virgin
Michael Aguilera
Nov 85 min read
The Decay of Catholic Sense and "Luce"
We cannot assess the new "mascot" of the upcoming jubilee without understanding Catholic Sense and aesthetics.
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Michael Aguilera
Sep 153 min read
Nobility, the Composers of Civil and Cultural Unity
Elites play the strings of society to produce a harmonious whole.
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Michael Aguilera
Sep 32 min read
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...
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Michael Aguilera
Aug 182 min read
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...
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Michael Aguilera
Jul 93 min read
Local Artists, Craftsman, and Small Farmers Are Keys to Restoring Catholic Regional Character
Local refinement becomes national character.
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Michael Aguilera
Mar 63 min read
We Are No Longer Charmed by Babylon...
Super flumina. The lamentation of the people of God in their captivity in Babylon. A psalm of David, for Jeremias. For the time of...
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Michael Aguilera
Jan 153 min read
Ideological Warfare Through Interior Design: The Aesthetic Impact
If ideas either true or erroneous can be diffused into the foundations of institutions and their respective ambiences and customs then we...
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Michael Aguilera
Dec 14, 20232 min read
The Warrior Understands the Counter-Revolutionary Campaign is Generational
It is proper for the Warrior to assume his enemy's plans are cunning and determination adamantine. It is upon this assumption that he...
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Michael Aguilera
Nov 30, 20233 min read
We are Aware of Serving the Common Good But What About the Common Beauty?
Every man has a duty to practice the virtue of magnificence, by it he produces works magnificently (meaning "not easily surpassed") in...
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Michael Aguilera
Nov 15, 20232 min read
Adding Rhythm and Harmony to the Speech and Movement is to Angelicize Oneself
Cultivate good taste in sound by pondering upon the kinds of movements a certain melody married to a rhythm can elicit. When a man of...
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Michael Aguilera
Nov 12, 20232 min read
The Metaphysical Chastisment and Our Disposition in the Face of It.
Emitte Spiritum Tuum et Creabuntur et Renovabis Faciem Terrae. Our circumstance is exceptional. Society has not collapsed and yet every...
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Michael Aguilera
Nov 2, 20231 min read
Beginning a Traditional Family is Like Beginning a Religious Order But in the Temporal Sphere
Dear brothers and sisters in Mary, To form a family is to form a religious order in the temporal sphere. The patriarch, its crown, by his...
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Michael Aguilera
Oct 25, 20232 min read
Restoring Aristocracy: The Lower Classes Transfigure Society and Stimulate the Economy
Dear brothers and sisters in Mary, In times past the demand of the workplace forged refined citizens. Not a demand necessarily of...
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Michael Aguilera
Aug 9, 20232 min read
A Beautiful Harmony, the Father's Authority, and the Mother's Piety.
God created two marvelous melodies-- the father's authority and the mother's piety. And both have distinguishing notes, finely tuned by...
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Michael Aguilera
Jul 21, 20233 min read
Faith Without Beautiful Works is Dead... A Culture of Beauty Has Great Faith
The notion of beauty in all of our works from our gaze to the building of a cathedral is not merely extrinsic to faith but intrinsic.
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Michael Aguilera
Jul 8, 20235 min read
If the Upper Classes Ensure a Virtuous Society, What is Done When They Grow Lax?
Pope Pius XII in his allocutions to the Roman Patriciate and Nobility shares a well-known fact. "Society progresses and raises itself up...
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Michael Aguilera
Jun 29, 20234 min read
Recovering from a Society of foolishness
The Society of Foolishness When we reflect on behavior in media and society we notice they mirror in many respects. For example, we...
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Michael Aguilera
May 28, 20232 min read
Virtuous Comportment, The Reflection of an Enlightened Mind
Virtuous comportment, the reflection of an enlightened mind. Those ornaments of the mind—maxims, doctrine, wise sayings, and so on— if...
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Michael Aguilera
May 3, 20233 min read
How Philosophy Places Food on the Table and the Table under the Food.
Why is there an aversion to philosophical discussion? It is most practical. Well here lies the problem most don't find it to be so. But...
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