A Thinking Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

Back to the Land!

This looks like a promising new blog: Caelum et Terra seems to be the successor to the magazine of the same name (see here). C&T espouses a philosophy of (for lack of a better term) Catholic agrarianism or distributism. Or in their words:

…our vision was (and is) mystical, contemplative, distributist, agrarian, sacramental, ecumenical, aesthetic, traditionalist, and progressive. Note the last two: there are significant political differences among us, but we all believe that the Catholic faith is simultaneously the most conservative and the most revolutionary force on earth. And we agree that there really is a culture of death growing in the world, and that Christianity naturally tends toward the development of a culture of life.

Sounds like a winner!

(link via ACBFP)

One response to “Back to the Land!”

  1. Russell Arben Fox

    Stupendous! I stumbled across the archives of Caelum et Terra a year or two ago, and I must have printed out dozens of articles. What a wonderfully ambitious enterprise it was, to attempt to carve out a Christian space for people who hated both economic exploitation and moral decline. There’s few enough of us as it is! Glad to see they’re producing new material; I’ll have to become a regular reader.

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