Did Western Civilization Burn Along With Notre-Dame?

Rich Terrell

The Loss of Notre Dame Reawakens the Heart of the West  . . . "In the last few days, the world has been considering what it would mean to lose one of the masterpieces of medieval Christendom for all time. There is widespread agreement that such a loss would be profound. And there is reason to hope that the near loss of something that people have come to realize is so dear to them will cause at least some to reflect upon their attachment to Notre Dame and, as a result, come to cherish the civilization that built her.

"The civilization that built Notre Dame was the result of the Western Church's sustained effort to unite the Gospel with Greco-Roman culture and the folkways of the barbarian tribes, including the Goths who gave their name to the architectural style so memorably embodied by Notre Dame de Paris. May the near loss of one of the greatest monuments of Western Civilization and an irreplaceable treasure lead us back to the faith without which the West would not have come into existence, and without which the West will not continue to exist."

The Three Colors of Martyrdom  

Although the fires that damaged the Notre Dame in Paris and almost started at St. Patrick's in New York City during Holy Week seemed to underscore the disaster that had overtaken the Church,  Rod Dreher points out that the flameless burning of the Western world's secular cathedrals has been happening for some time.

 The End of Cathedral Culture . . . "Fox's Laura Ingraham underlined his point with a depressing quote from Rolling Stone: "Any rebuilding should be a reflection not of an old France, or the France that never was -- a non-secular, white European France -- but a reflection of the France of today, a France that is currently in the making."
"What's "in the making" is the world remade by the left, with a secular orthodoxy that's mercilessly rigid. History is suspect. What has been called "Western civilization" is seen as white, patriarchal, superstitious and European -- not "inclusive.' " . . .

France: Statue of Virgin Mary Decapitated  "A statue of the Virgin Mary was decapitated in a small French village yesterday, the latest in a deluge of anti-Christian attacks in France which numbered almost 900 in 2018 alone."

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