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THE FINAL BATTLE:  FAITH, REASON & MILITANCY. 

THE NARCISSISM OF AUTONOMY MEETS THE GIVENNESS OF THE CREATED ORDER

2/27/2019

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Remembering To Be
By Glenn Arbery on Feb 24, 2019 10:00 pm
“Forgetfulness of being”—perhaps we could also call it “forgetfulness of givenness”—underlies most of the problems that we face. To forget being means
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LIMITS TO SECULARISM
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IRAN'S MOUNTING PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS & THE TYRANNY OF HISTORY

2/24/2019

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Iran: Mounting Persecution of Christians  by Majid Rafizadeh
The Tyranny of History
Spiritual Egalitarianism is Deadly
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MORAL VIRTUES ARE THE PILLARS OF LIBERTY & AN ESSAY ON LOVING RESEARCH

2/22/2019

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Pillars of Liberty: The Moral Virtues
The Tyranny of History
On Loving Research
Liberal Education: The Foundation and Preservation of a Free Society
By Josh Herring on Feb 27, 2019 10:00 pm
In a time of economic uncertainty, liberal education holds out the promise of joy in learning, contentment in contemplating truth, and satisfaction
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Hungary: The West’s Last Hope?
Aeschylus on Justice
The Hobbes-Bramhall Debate on Liberty and Necessity
By Nayeli Riano on Feb 28, 2019 10:00 pm
Despite their contrasting metaphysics, Thomas Hobbes and John Bramhall were Royalist supporters during the English Civil War. Both men believed that monarchy
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WHY JANE AUSTEN EMBODIES ABSOLUTE BEST MARRIAGE PREPARATION

2/21/2019

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Being a “Gardiner” in the Vineyard: On Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Emily Linz
Pride and Prejudice: the book that tends to make ladies giggle with glee and gentlemen roll their eyes in annoyance. But beyond the tea-time social drama and the range of reaction from the sexes, there lies in this novel a vision of humanity and society. The more I see of the world, the more am […]
Euripides on Men and Women  By Louis Markos on Mar 26, 2019 10:00 pm
The world is often unkind to women, using them as pawns in a masculine game of war and power and possession. But  Read in browser 
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A GREAT SECULAR SAINT?  MAX JACOB

2/20/2019

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Max Jacob, a Saintly Sinner Timothy J. Williams
March 5, 2019 is the 75th anniversary of the death of Max Jacob (1876-1944), a figure somewhat on the margins of the Renouveau catholique, a literary renaissance marked by expressions of the Faith among a broad range of novelists, poets, playwrights, and essayists in early twentieth-century France. Born to a secular Jewish family in Bretagne, […]
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POPE LIFTS SUSPENSION OF SOCIALIST MARXIST JESUIT & WHAT HAPPENS NOW TO CARDINAL McCARRICK

2/20/2019

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CARDINAL McCARRICK
MR. McCARRICK’S MESS By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing

In one sense, laicization would bring Theodore McCarrick’s part in the saga of the clerical sex-abuse crisis in the Catholic Church to a deservedly ignominious end. But the bitter fruits of his sins are still ripening to harvest. 
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REVISITING SAMUEL HUNTINGTON'S CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS

2/20/2019

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Revisiting Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations”
By Daniel McCarthy on Feb 19, 2019 10:00 pm
A decade after his death, we are living in the world that Samuel Huntington foretold. Today he again looks like a prophet,
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THE GREAT FALSE HOPE OF SECULAR HUMANISM:  MILITANT AUTONOMY AS SUICIDE & VACLAV HAVEL ON THE TEMPTATION FOR TOTALITARIANISM

2/13/2019

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Suicide and Secularism on a Wednesday Afternoon
By Carl Olson on Feb 12, 2019 10:00 pm
How much of one’s desperation comes from apparently having it all, according to the precepts of secular humanism—the great false religion of
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The ever-present totalitarian temptation
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By George Weigel on Feb 13, 2019 11:14 am
First circulated underground in communist Czechoslovakia in October 1978, Vaclav Havel’s brilliant dissection of totalitarianism, “The Power of the Powerless,” retains its salience four decades later. It should be required reading for politicians given to [...]
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POPE BENEDICT'S DECISION TO RESIGN EXAMINED BY ROME REPORTS, A TONE DEAF PAPACY & WHY GREAT MUSIC MATTERS

2/10/2019

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POPE BENEDICT IN CUBA PRESAGED RESIGNATION
ROME REPORTS
Why “The Great Music” Is as Important as “The Great Books”
Pope Francis misses the mark in focusing on clericalism and synodality
By Christopher R. Altieri on Feb 03, 2019 07:07 pm
Papal biographer Austen Ivereigh has written a piece for Commonweal, on the meeting of the heads of the world’s bishops’ conferences scheduled for February 21-24 to discuss “the protection of minors and vulnerable adults.” Francis is [...]
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Celibacy, Chastity, Same-Sex Attraction, Priesthood: Some Necessary Distinctions By Peter M.J. Stravinskas on Feb 20, 2019 06:31 pm
The Church is all too often accused of being “obsessed” with sex. Yet is that really the case? Is it not “the world” that is obsessed with sex and thus constantly badgers the Church to [...]
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A TONE DEAF PAPAL SUMMIT ON SEX ABUSE
“Synodality” and the Rome abuse summit By George Weigel on Feb 20, 2019 12:46 pm
Despite Pope Francis’s lecture on the subject at Synod-2015, and notwithstanding the passages on it in Synod-2018’s final report, there is little agreement in 21st-century Catholicism on what “synodality” means. The theology of synodality can [...]
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THE MORAL IDIOCY OF OUR TIME:  SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS = MORAL PROGRESS & LORD ACTON IN THE US CIVIL WAR

2/7/2019

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The Moral Idiocy Of Our Times
by Bruce Thornton via FrontPage Mag.comOne of the foundational myths of modernity holds that the progress of scientific knowledge and technology has been accompanied by moral progress. As wealth and knowledge increase, the old impediments to moral improvement such as poverty, religious superstition, and ignorance are being swept away, resulting in a kinder, gentler, and more pacific human nature.
Lord Acton and the American Civil War
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WALL ST. JOURNAL REVIEWS BOOK ON VATICAN I & A REVIEW OF HOMOSEXUAL CLERGY

2/7/2019

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Why Vatican II’s Definition of Church Makes Sense  Casey Chalk
One of the most common criticisms of the Second Vatican Council is that it changed the teaching regarding the relationship between the idea of the Church of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church. Much of the debate among interpreters (and detractors) of Vatican II has centered around the phrase subsistit in, found in the conciliar […]
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Liberal Learning, Great Books & Paideia
By Eva Brann on Feb 11, 2019 10:00 pm
This is what the study of Great Books does for us: First it makes us into what we were meant to be,
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Celibacy and Priests with Same-Sex Attraction  Ryan M. Williams
In recent conversations concerning the Church and the priesthood, it seems that the main focus when discussing the issue of celibacy is the idea that the one who “chooses” a celibate life is one who willfully forgoes the enjoyment of sex. While this feature of celibacy is without a doubt true, looking at celibacy from […]
The Times, the Abuse Crisis, and the War Against Celibacy
David G. Bonagura Jr.
The New York Times has spent this past week in a less than subtle attack on clerical celibacy, insinuating it as the cause of the current crisis in the Church. On the eve of the Vatican summit on The Protection of Minors in the Church, the Times, in a panic that homosexuality will be blamed […]
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JEWISH CONCEPT OF EVIL & HORROR

2/6/2019

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Jewish Horror bRead More →
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MODERNISM:  THE ULTIMATE HERSEY & how balkan nations use rape as policy

2/4/2019

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Pope Pius X vs. Modernism
Sex Terror During the War In Bosnia-Hercegovina by Stephen Schwartz
OpEdNews
February 6, 2019

http://www.islamicpluralism.org/2699/sex-terror-during-the-war-in-bosnia-hercegovina
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EXAMINING SOLZHENITSYN:  A SOUL IN EXILE

2/4/2019

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Solzhenitsyn in Exile
RUSSAPHOBIA
A Catholic Call to Courage  Jeremy A. Kee
As he stood before the rain-soaked crowd estimated to be as great as 20,000, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn suggested to the 1978 graduating class of Harvard University with that truly Russia sense of solemn sincerity and conviction that what the West lacked above all else—and in his view the West lacked quite a good bit—was courage. Said […]
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RELIGIOUS CONSCIENCE & THE CHINESE STATE

2/3/2019

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ON EXCOMMUNICATING CUOMO

2/1/2019

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On excommunicating Andrew Cuomo for heresy
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By Edward N. Peters on Jan 30, 2019 03:31 pm
Apologies for a long post. I don’t have time to write a short one. Canonist Edward Condon has an essay at First Things wherein he calls for the excommunication of NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, not on the ground [...]
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The infanticide craze 
Ramesh Ponnuru | NationalReview.com 
A War Cross Sets Next Test Of Religious Liberty
By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post | February 2, 2019
https://www.nysun.com/national/a-war-cross-sets-next-test-of-religious-freedom/90556/
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UNCLE TED & THE AVUNCULAR EPISCOPACY

2/1/2019

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The role of the laity and the sex scandal
By Russell Shaw on Jan 31, 2019 06:41 pm
Can a one-day conference at a university breathe life into a cause that lately appears to have stalled: involving the Catholic laity in ending the crisis of authority and trust afflicting the Church in the [...]
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The Avuncular EpiscopacyBy Nicholas Senz on Jan 31, 2019 12:23 am
By now we’re all familiar with “Uncle Ted,” the nickname Archbishop Theodore McCarrick gave himself. We now know of the sinister association that epithet had—McCarrick would refer to the priests and seminarians who were the [...]
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Is the Hierarchy Really Serious About the Abuse Crisis?  William Kilpatrick
According to a June 2017 Gallup survey, nearly half of U.S. Catholics (49 percent) had a “high” or “very high” opinion of the honesty and ethical standards of clergy. By early December 2018, the number had fallen to 31 percent. Most of the difference is likely attributable to the new reports of earlier cases of […]
McCarrick might be ‘laicized’ this week. What’s that?
By Catholic News Agency on Feb 12, 2019 07:19 pm
Denver, Colo., Feb 12, 2019 / 03:41 pm (CNA).- Archbishop Theodore McCarrick will reportedly be laicized this week, if he is found guilty of having sexually abused minors. But what does it mean to be [...]
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