Author: Thomas Fleming

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4 Dec, 2023

The Latin of the Latin Mass, III: Clarity, Correctness, and Traditions

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Then it should be obvious to all that clarity, one of the rhetoricians’ requirements for good prose, is particularly important in translations of Scriptures and liturgies.  Another primary requirement, correctness, is related to clarity, because languages with prescriptive rules are less ambiguous than languages where “I say potayto, you say potahto,” and where a majority of speakers do not know the difference between relative clauses introduced by which and those introduced by that.

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29 Nov, 2023

The Latin of the Latin Mass, II: The Problem With English

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When the Novus Ordo was imposed by the Vatican hierarchy, the biggest losers were probably the English-speakers.  As everyone knows, the official version of the NO Mass is in Latin, and the translation into English was not only poorly and ineffectively written but it was filled with errors, some of which, I suppose (to give the plotters the benefit of the doubt) was simply the result of their own poor English.

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27 Nov, 2023

The Latin of the Mass, I

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Latin has been the language of the Western Church for roughly 1500 years, but it has also been the language of western Christendom, by which I mean the Christian civilization that incorporated the best of the Greek and Latin pagan traditions, Christianized them, and created that great glory we call the Dark Ages or the Middle Ages, but which we should call the Christian Age, the age of Dante and St. Thomas.

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21 Nov, 2023

Islamophilia, the American Dream

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Many Americans, liberals and conservatives alike, have been astonished by the upsurge of support for Islam in general and Hamas in particular among leftists and members of the LGBT& “community.”  “Don’t they know that Islam subjugates women, imposes severe penalties for all deviant behavior, and  is intolerant of sexual diversity? 

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2 Nov, 2023

Putting Americans First

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If I were a Jewish American or an Arab American, I would naturally be inclined to a one-sided view of the current conflict, but I would, nonetheless, insist on putting the interest and justice of the American people and their government first. Unfortunately, I see very little evidence that either Jewish-Americans and Arab-Americans have even a sense of dual loyalty.

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2 Nov, 2023

Superior Blues

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America used to be a country with a bland national uniformity of culture and attitude that was belied whenever you entered the  bizarre world of isolated small towns.  In its own way, Superior is as strange a place as Charleston or New Orleans (the way it used to be) or the celebrated villages in the valley of the Miskatonic River

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27 Oct, 2023

The New Index: Montaigne

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We are going to launch the New Year by taking nominations for the New Index of classic books to ban.  To be eligible the book and writer must be either included in some Great Books series or, at least, be a staple of the postmodern curriculum, e.g., The Diary of Ann Frank or The Handmaid’s Tale or The Awakening.