Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.» (firstthings.com)
On the marriage of the clergy, More says that the church binds no man to chastity against his will, for men only take sacred orders by their own desires. (religion-online.org)
Our elites are characterized by their pursuit of de-creation — an unending total war against the sacred order and its adherents. (firstthings.com)