tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post1241214449094858076..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: ParisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-24257341138350371792014-12-02T17:52:09.852-05:002014-12-02T17:52:09.852-05:00Re Sacre Couer: "Sacred Heart" and the l...Re Sacre Couer: "Sacred Heart" and the later Marian mvmts (bordering on Mariolatry) both epitomize the reactionary anti-Enlightenment tendencies of modern French Catholicism [EWTN, the (pre-Francis!) Popoid channel, periodically shows a series called "The Eldest Daughter of the Church", about French Catholicism, which is utterly cringe-tastic in its undiluted *monarchism* and hysterical anti-modernism (lots of seers w/ "visions")].<br /><br />...yet in the context of French revolutionary excesses (invariably anti-theist), I'm not *entirely* unsympathetic, either.<br /><br />France: NOT the home of Liberation Theology!JCFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516376500318551838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-58859476272381731932014-12-02T17:01:46.478-05:002014-12-02T17:01:46.478-05:00Thanks, Doug. Since I was there in May (and Novem...Thanks, Doug. Since I was there in May (and November 2012) this brings back fond memories. I have lots of street photos since the goal of the trip in May was just to walk around and enjoy.<br /><br />I still have not visited St Denis.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06090720645937634051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-52251416897241250752014-12-02T00:51:10.817-05:002014-12-02T00:51:10.817-05:00I can't look @ the Eiffel Tower (or indeed, ma...I can't look @ the Eiffel Tower (or indeed, many Paris cityscapes), and not hear an accordion. ;-) More later...JCFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516376500318551838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-49594041330763209182014-12-02T00:32:48.642-05:002014-12-02T00:32:48.642-05:00Woo Hoo, Doug, there you are! Looking forward to t...Woo Hoo, Doug, there you are! Looking forward to this...<br /><br />"How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm, now that they've been to Paree?" [Disclosure: I grew up w/ this ditty, c 1970, "How you gonna keep 'em down on the ground, after they fly PSA?" (Pacific Southwest Airlines, which got merged into . . . y'know: one of the 3-4 airlines left). Didn't learn it was a WW1 song until decades later!]JCFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516376500318551838noreply@blogger.com