First of all, the Chevalier's 'Scandinavian' accent stinks! My Grandmother was a Swede. I spoke Swedish as a boy (unfortunately, I've lost it all through disuse), and I know the accent of Norden when I hear it, and his it ain't!
However, I totally agree with his analysis of Catholic Scandinavia which was the Glory of the Church in the North, the great Saints of Scandinavia, the Martyrs of Iceland who refused to apostasise and were martyred. Queen St Christina who gave up a crown to become Catholic. He also gives some ideas for further research into the subject.
In his discussion of warrior bishops, he gets in his digs at 'modern scholars', declaring his agnosticism as to their existence. He mentions that bishops were forbidden the use of edged weapons, so they used maces and other forms of war clubs.
In his analysis of the alt-right and the French Nouvelle Droite and the question of how to turn them into Catholic monarchists, he points out that first we have to convert them to Catholicism, since they are various sorts of pagan at this point.
His discussion of Aristotelianism vs Platonism brings up the one point on which I profoundly disagree with my good friend. I am an Aristotelian-Thomist. I have never understood how a Latin Catholic can be a Platonist. Even as an Orthodox, I was an Aristotelian, despite the fact that Orthodoxy tends to be Platonist. Those who have read my conversion story will know that I was brought into the Church by reading an Aristotelian Patriarch of Constantinople.
His discussion of the Flood is great, attacking the modernists' refusal to admit the historicity of the Flood. He tells a tale of confronting a modernist professor, a Priest, who refused to accept it.
The discussion on the Vincentian Canon brings in the difference between the Ordinary and Extraordinary Magisterium. Very interesting!
Catholic Scandinavia 0:30
Achievements of Catholic Scandinavia 5:40
Did Warrior Bishops Exist? 10:43
How to turn Alt-Right into Catholic Monarchists?14:50
Aristotelian vs Platonic Thought 18:12
Noah and the Flood 29:26
Vincentian Canon 36:42
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