Some politician has pronounced that "History is Watching".
What does this mean?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
was for nearly three decades at Lancing College; where he taught Latin and Greek language and literature, was Head of Theology, and Assistant Chaplain. He has served three curacies, been a Parish Priest, and Senior Research Fellow at Pusey House in Oxford. Since 2011, he has been in full communion with the See of S Peter. The opinions expressed on this Blog are not asserted as being those of the Magisterium of the Church, but as the writer's opinions as a private individual. Nevertheless, the writer strives, hopes, and prays that the views he expresses are conformable with and supportive of the Magisterium. In this blog, the letters PF stand for Pope Francis. On this blog, 'Argumentum ad hominem' refers solely to the Lockean definition, Pressing a man with the consequences of his own concessions'.
... once graced the high altar of the church of Sancta Maria in Ara Coeli on the Capitoline Hill.
Fr John Hunwicke
was for nearly three decades at Lancing College; where he taught Latin and Greek language and literature, was Head of Theology, and Assistant Chaplain. He has served three curacies, been a Parish Priest, and Senior Research Fellow at Pusey House in Oxford. Since 2011, he has been in full communion with the See of S Peter. The opinions expressed on this Blog are not asserted as being those of the Magisterium of the Church, but as the writer's opinions as a private individual. Nevertheless, the writer strives, hopes, and prays that the views he expresses are conformable with and supportive of the Magisterium. In this blog, the letters PF stand for Pope Francis. On this blog, 'Argumentum ad hominem' refers solely to the Lockean definition, Pressing a man with the consequences of his own concessions'.
Archive
-
▼
2024
(133)
-
▼
March
(32)
- MARIA CONSOLATA: O VERE BEATA ET MIRABILIS APIS!
- The Easter Vigil with Benedict XVI, 2012
- EXSULTET: the Bee (2)
- EXSULTET: some notes (1)
- Humble Access
- "So what does it SYMBOLISE?"
- Good Friday: Holy Communion?
- Good Friday: what colour is suitable for a Dies Am...
- Palm Sunday (3)
- Palm Sunday (2)
- Most Holy Mother of God, Save us.
- Num Spectat Clio?
- Palm Sunday (1)
- ORA PRO NOBIS??
- Improper liaisons inside the House
- Visiting women in their houses
- Imbolc; S Patrik; and S Bridgit (2)
- Saint Patrick and ... um ... Imbolc ... (1)
- Loss and Gain
- Farewell to Lady Raglan (3)
- The Green Man (2)
- Th Green Man (1)
- Mothering mothering mothering mothering ... but ne...
- Now what about this ...
- Don't skip the opening pages
- Homosexualism
- St. Saviour's College
- Wandregesilius ...
- My final few thoughts on FIDELIA SUPPLICIA
- MEA MAXIMA CULPA
- When is a Bishop not a Bishop? When is a Double of...
- Two points about Fiducia Supplicans
-
▼
March
(32)
Popular Posts
-
More Update: Perhaps I should have been more explicit about the complete wrongheadedness of the sort of speculations which could be triggere...
-
There are wild rumours on the Internet about News due to break tomorrow, Sunday. They are, as far as I know, all wrong. Far too wild. Far to...
-
To refresh your memories, I reprint a piece I wrote when an earlier electronic edition of the Dictator Pope was published under a pseudonym:...
-
So a correspondent wrote on one of my threads. It set me thinking. I am convinced that PF is most certainly not the worst man ever to hav...
-
Perhaps a couple of years ago, in Western Ireland, I had the privilege to be in the company of a very great prelate just after he had offere...
-
"After this Magisterium, after this long journey, we can affirm with certainty and with Magisterial authority that the Liturgical Refor...
-
Lead us not into temptation. It is unlikely that the Greek and Latin words translated by temptation meant the sort of thing we mean by ...
-
Pope Francis breaks his silence! A "In authorising regular use of the older Mass, now referred to as the 'extraordinary form...
-
The heart of the Bergoglianist error is, in my fallible opinion, to be found in such texts as the letter Archbishop Nichols wrote last year ...
Followers
Links
Raffaello's Madonna di Foligno
... once graced the high altar of the church of Sancta Maria in Ara Coeli on the Capitoline Hill.
7 comments:
"History" is a word for God used by people who are ashamed to be thought of as religious.
Maybe someone should tell him that God is watching.
It means that the politician is (or is speaking like) a Hegelian.
This reminds me of the scene in Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim in which the pompous Professor Welch, head of the history department, answers the telephone with 'History speaking.'
It's rather akin to the nonsensical statement that such-and-such 'has changed the course of history', when they really mean 'shaped'.
History is watching? Perhaps it means that saints are watching us from heaven to see what choices we make.
History? Surely not. It is in fact The Skibbereen Eagle that is watching, even yet!
Post a Comment