Category: Liberalism & Secular Democracy

A Perspective on Freedom

Freedom is achieved when one realizes the qualities of shame and humility, and empties oneself of their opposites (shamelessness and arrogance). With these qualities come true freedom, wealth and dignity, which require manumission from the bonds of one’s whims. People may claim to be “free”, yet cannot control themselves […]

Liberal theocracy

In reality the modern state is as confessional as its predecessors – it is just that the secular and materialist humanism which it actually promotes does not have a coherent or recognized label by which it can be identified. For all the declamations about choice and pluralism made […]

Monsters on the cultural landscape

The prestigious Catholic weekly The Tablet reports… Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor said that tendentious notions of equality, freedom and tolerance are “three monsters on our cultural landscape” that formed part of a new and “very, very dangerous” secular religion. Speaking in Leicester Cathedral, the Cardinal said: ‘What worries me today is the development of […]