A View of the Garden of Villa d'Este in Tivoli, near Rome Oswald Achenbach, 1881

Has the mysterious epidemic of clumsiness struck one of our most treasured churches once again?

The difference between the old and new worlds in a nutshell. Prior to the Revolution, state power, where it existed, was used to curb malign influences on society. After the Revolution, state power, now absolute, was used to facilitate them.

We remember today the 760 brave men of the Swiss Guard, who on the 10th August 1792 gave their lives defending the honour of France and the spirit of the West from godless Freemasonry. Forever shall the Lion of Lucerne honour their most noble sacrifice in haunting beauty.

They knew that a people without a sovereign is a people without sovereignty.

19th century Orientalism really should have stopped at Chinoiserie wallpaper.

A meme on here is that men think every day of the Roman Empire. If they did it with some specificity this would make sense. The Gracchi brothers from about 133-120 BC attempted to respond to massive wealth disparities - mainly concentration of property ownership. Military

The family residence, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, was also one of the first palaces in the city to be built following the Sack of Rome in 1527. It is one of the great architecture treasures of the Roman Renaissance to hide in plain sight.

The smartest people I know never fit neatly into the standard left/right political spectrum Lesson in that.

Imperial Italy within the Holy Roman Empire in 1356. HolyRomanEmpireAssociation.org

Winter Landscape with Church Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1811

"As soon as the State refuses to give to God what belongs to God, by a necessary consequence it refuses to give to citizens that to which, as men, they have a right" Pope Leo XIII, On the Church and State in France

The Spanish Armada, and its noble attempt to correct the course of England.

Pushing an entire civilisation to turn its back on its Father was never going to be a strategy that was sustainable indefinitely.