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The Chiastic Structure of the Rosary

Jean-Philippe Marceau

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June 17, 2026

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Hazarding to Turn a Mirror to the Beauty of ‘Snow White and the Widow Queen’

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La vanité du désir démasquée? René Girard et les limites du mimétisme

Cet article reconnaît avec Girard la réalité de l’état de compétition, sans en faire pour autant le fondement de notre métaphysique. On considère plutôt Girard comme un penseur du cycle et du domaine du temps, dans la terminologie de Matthieu Pageau dans The Language of Creation.

Mary and the Metaphysics of Intercession

Translated and edited transcript of a French podcast with Jonathan Pageau and J-P Marceau. The wider theme is Marian symbolism, but we dive especially deep into the symbolism of Mary as the new Rachel and the new Ark, and on the metaphysics of intercession in general. We conclude with consequences regarding the underestimated influence of women in the Church.

Jean-Philippe Marceau

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October 31, 2025

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Is This the Flood? Is Babel Next?

Using the book of Enoch, Genesis, and recent genetics research, I explain that the ongoing demographic collapse is akin to the Flood in two ways: (1) in that unbelievers are getting washed out of the gene pool, and (2) a Babel-style authoritarian structure is coming next.

Jean-Philippe Marceau

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November 25, 2025

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Becoming in the Ruins: Myth, Theosis, and Symbolic Collapse in ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’

To understand ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ as a mythological text, one must first ask: What is myth, and what does mythmaking mean from the mind of one firmly rooted in the modern and postmodern paradigm? In pre-modern cultures, myths structured reality. They encoded cosmologies, social roles, and archetypal patterns. But the modern project of rationality....

‘Resident Evil 4’: Parasitic Body, Pharaoh, Plagues

‘Resident Evil 4’ (2005) changed video games forever. The game took the horror genre that the franchise was known for, kept that tension and built it into an action game, with a camera system that influenced virtually all third-person shooters to follow. Part of the success of the game was undoubtedly its story, particularly the game’s narrative use of inverted religious themes....

Dan Sherven

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July 9, 2025

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