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THE FINAL BATTLE:  FAITH, REASON & MILITANCY. 

WHY CARDINAL SARAH MATTERS & WHEN TOLKEN MET ST. AUGUSTINE & WHY ABANDONING APOSTOLIC CELIBACY IS A MISTAKE

9/27/2019

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The Paleoconservative Eminence? Cardinal Sarah On Identity, Nationality, & Roots
By Jerry Salyer on Dec 28, 2019 10:00 pm
Though counter-globalist, Cardinal Robert Sarah’s “The Day Is Now Far Spent” is not anti-Western, but is an emphatic rejection of liberal anthropology—which strikes him as blasphemous, positing a decontextualized individual, one who needs neither family nor neighbor nor even God Almighty. The Day Is Now Far Spent, by Cardinal Robert Sarah (385 pages, Ignatius ...
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Cardinal Sarah: “I believe that we are at a turning point in the history of the Church”
By Carl E. Olson on Sep 23, 2019 02:56 pm
Robert Cardinal Sarah’s new book The Day Is Now Far Spent: In conversation with Nicolas Diat is now available in English from Ignatius Press and the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the [...]
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Pitting Conservative Empiricism Against Reason and Revelation
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by James R. Rogers
If Hazony's traditions are just accidents of cultural evolution or history, then we’re back to full blown relativism
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Crisis, Church Reform, and the Lay Vocation
Francis X. Maier
A dozen or so years ago, a colleague gave me a little wooden plaque for my office. I’ve had it on my bookshelf ever since. On it are carved these words: “It is as bad as you think, and they are out to get you.” The colleague who gave it to me is a Capuchin […]
St. Augustine and J.R.R. Tolkien
By Bradley J. Birzer on Oct 13, 2019 09:00 pm
As with St. Augustine as the barbarians tore through Rome’s gate on August 24, 410, at midnight, J.R.R. Tolkien looked out over a ruined world: a world on one side controlled by ideologues, and, consequently, a world of the Gulag, the Holocaust camps, the Killing fields, and total war; on the other: a world ...
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Saint John Henry Newman, Sacramental Economist
Listening to “Little Gidding”
Cardinal Sarah’s Guide to the New Counter-Reformation
Michael Warren Davis
In 1577, St. John of the Cross was taken prisoner by a group of Carmelites from Toledo who were opposed to the reforms of the Order he was undertaking with St. Teresa of Ávila. For eight or nine months, he was held in a six-by-ten-foot cell. The ceiling was so low that John (not a […]
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Abandoning Apostolic Celibacy Would Be a Mistake
Eoin Cronin
In the eighteenth-century comic poem Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (“The Midnight Court”), the narrator expresses frustration at her lack of marriage prospects, berating the young men of her day for their scheming, selfish ways. In spite of an abundance of attractive young women eager to marry and start families, these lazy men would rather chase […]
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THE LIFE OF LINCOLN & THE WORDS OF BURKE UNITE ON VIRTUE OF PRUDENCE

9/27/2019

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Between Demagoguery and Populism
The First Virtue of Old Whigs: Prudence in Burke and Lincoln
by Daniel E. Ritchie
Weiner’s Old Whigs offers a persuasive account of how Burke and Lincoln negotiate the tensions between principle and prudence
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Traditional Education & the Future of Europe
By Glenn Arbery on Oct 02, 2019 10:00 pm
Near the end of his recent book, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (highly recommended), the English philosopher Roger Scruton makes a very interesting observation about what is possible in America but not in Europe. As he puts it, the burden of American conservatism has been to define the customs and traditions most ...
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Russell Kirk Reconsidered
By Bradley J. Birzer on Oct 04, 2019 10:00 pm
Russell Kirk gave voice to a myriad of persons, personalities, and ideas circulating in the decade after the Second World War, just as the West was trying to understand what it stood for, rather than what it stood against. The latter was easy. Communism and fascism were evil. But, what exactly did the West stand ...
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Traditional Education & the Future of Europe
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TRUMP AND TOCQUEVILLE, HOW THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TOOK ON MODERNITY:  FINALLY

9/19/2019

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  • Trump, Tocqueville, and American Democracy
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Thomism and Political Liberalism, Part 2
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By Joseph G. Trabbic on Sep 19, 2019 12:14 am
Are political liberalism and Catholicism friends or enemies? The debate surrounding this question has been going on for a couple centuries. It was already well underway in 1832 when Pope Gregory XVI intervened in it [...]
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Cardinal Etchegaray, Henri de Lubac, and Vatican II
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By Bishop Robert Barron on Sep 17, 2019 05:24 pm
Last week, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray passed away. Perhaps his was not a household name, but this very decent man made a substantive contribution to the life of the Church, serving in a number of different [...]
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Viganò Speaks: the “Infiltration” is Real
Julia Meloni
Jonah began his journey through the city, and when he had gone only a single day’s walk announcing, “Forty days more and Nineveh shall be overthrown,” the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth. When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose […]
Wolves in Shepherd’s Clothing
Jane Clark Scharl
It was only a year ago that the Philadelphia grand jury released its report on sexual abuse by priests. It was only a year ago that allegations broke about Theodore McCarrick and the network of sexual abusers who have infiltrated the highest levels of the Church. It was only a year ago that Archbishop Viganò’s […]
The Wars of Religion are only beginning
Chilton Williamson, Jr.
 The postmodern world is fond of congratulating itself that, owing to the withering away of ancient superstitions and the final triumph of science, religious warfare of the 16th and 17th centuries can never be renewed in Western societies. What can we possibly be thinking? Religious warfare has not only reestablished itself: it’s doing so in […]
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POPE FRANCIS RETURNS TO AFRICA & A LOOK AT TACITUS' GERMANIA

9/6/2019

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Books I’d Like to Write
The Divine Plan: How John Paul II & Ronald Reagan Promoted Peace
Sacrificial Love and Heroic Prudenc
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Pope Francis returns to Africa
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By Allen Ottaro on Sep 03, 2019 07:37 pm
Pope Francis returns to Africa this week, on a three-nation apostolic visit that will take him to Mozambique, Madagascar, and Mauritius, beginning on Wednesday, September 4th and concluding the following Tuesday, the 10th. The visit [...]
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Tacitus and the Germans
By Bradley J. Birzer on Sep 06, 2019 10:01 pm
One of our earliest examinations and appraisals of the Germanic peoples—those tall, blonde or red-haired, light-eyed barbarians to the North—comes from the Roman republican, Tacitus. Tacitus, to be sure, wrote with distinct bias. He wanted to show the Germans as natural republicans while implying that the Romans had lost their republican simplicity and manners ...
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ATHENS & JERUSALEM TENSION RESOLVED BY THE AMERICAN FOUNDING & HOW ADAM SMITH SPOKE TO HUMAN CAPITAL FOR FLOURISHING

9/1/2019

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John Courtney Murray and the American Civic Psyche
By Nayeli Riano on Aug 31, 2019 09:00 pm
John Courtney Murray’s “We Hold These Truths” is hardly a tumbleweed of early-twentieth-century Catholic social thought. Though it initially helped to reconcile Catholicism and the religious pluralism that our nation champions, it is also a work that deals deeply with that taboo concept of today: patriotism. Reading John Courtney Murray’s famous work, We Hold ...
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The AEI on Vocation, Career, and Work newsletter usually seeks to highlight programs, policies, and training approaches that help workers find, retain, and advance in employment. So, why are we talking about marriage? It’s a good question, so let me explain.
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The newsletter’s work is built on the argument that work is primarily an expression of core aspects of human sociability. In other words, employment is one of the ways — and an important one — that we relate to each other, and it is on the basis of these relationships that what we call “society and economy” come into being. In his “Theory of Moral Sentiments,” Adam Smith, the father of capitalism, was the first to articulate the connection between early socialization and readiness for market participation. (I wrote at length on this topic a few months ago, and you can read those reflections here.)
Image, Being, and Form in the Platonic Dialogues
By Eva Brann on Sep 09, 2019 09:58 pm
Modernity is best apprehended as being in a ruptured continuum with Greek antiquity—a continuum insofar as the terms persist, ruptured insofar as they take on new meanings and missions. That perspective makes those who hold it avid participants in the present. Jacob Klein was in the last year of his nine-year tenure as dean ...
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What Is the Constitution For?
Justifying Originalism
by Lee J. Strang
Originalism provides the surest way to access the Constitution's legal meaning and then to implement it over time. Read More »
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REJECTING HIJAB DELIVERS PRISON SENTENCE

9/1/2019

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​Rejecting Hijab Dooms Woman to 24 years in Prison by Tarek Fatah
The Toronto Sun
August 29, 2019

https://www.meforum.org/59248/rejecting-hijab-dooms-woman-to-prison
        
We Are All Ahmarists Now, Part II
Michael Warren Davis
 [This is part two of Michael Warren Davis’s two-part reflection on the Ahmari-French debate on the future of Christian conservatism. Read the first part here.] The second major point of contention between Sohrab Ahmari and David French is on the question of civility. To again quote from Mr. Ahmari’s first shot across the Frenchists’ bow: […]
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