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Contra Gentiles: Integrism-As-Slur
Contra Gentiles: Integrism-as-Slur
W. H. Marshner
Triumph
Vol. VIII, No. 8
October 1973
Having argued for something that can be defended, hopefully, as a just semantics of “integrism” in two recent columns, one turns to the complementary task of resisting a widespread but unjust semantics of the same, slippery term.
The Americanization Of J. Christ
The Americanization Of J. Christ
New Mass for Independence Day
W. H. MARSHNER
Triumph
Vol. VII No. 4
April 1972
It was only a matter of time before we should be given this new Mass for civic occasions, because by now the liturgy club is really interested only in politics. Recall, for example, that the last meeting of the Liturgical Conference was devoted to the topic of revolution, the rationale for which was an elaborate business about liturgy expressing the needs of contemporary men in concrete situations of injustice. But the reason for it, of course, was the simple fact that politics is the ersatz religion of our time, and those who lose supernatural faith most commonly turn to the going ersatz. Continue reading “The Americanization Of J. Christ”
A Mass At The Valley Of The Fallen
A MASS AT THE VALLEY OF THE FALLEN
W. H. Marshner
Triumph
Vol. VI. No. 3
March 1971
Sensible, modern governments work democratically for the betterment of all citizens by bringing the resources of science to bear upon the ancient woes of mankind and by waging occasional wars which are not really wars but wars against wars. When the wars are over, they build sensible memorials for the war dead. Continue reading “A Mass At The Valley Of The Fallen”