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SCHOOLING FOR AN EMPIRE, NOT CONSUMPTION

10/29/2019

Schooling for an Empire
By George Stanciu on Oct 28, 2019 10:00 pm
Many Americans refuse to acknowledge that the United States has become an empire; however, virtually, no one doubts that America’s contribution to humankind is material prosperity for all founded on political freedom, technological innovation, and free markets, in effect, an empire of consumer goods and physical comfort. John le Carré, the acclaimed author of ...
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Europe’s Great Defender: Viktor Orbán and Christian Democracy

The Spontaneous Disorder of Kansas-Nebraska
The Brothers Gracchi: Reformers, Not Revolutionaries

A LOOK AT JOHN PAUL II, INFANTILE AMERICA & WOMEN AT WORK IN THE 20TH CENTURY

10/25/2019

Women: To Work or Not to Work?
By Carrie Gress, Ph.D. on Oct 22, 2019 05:44 pm
Since the 1960s, women have been encouraged to throw off the shackles of home and dive into careers. The regnant wisdom has been that a career is far more satisfying than homemaking. As I’ve outlined [...]
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The lessons of St. John Paul II
By Joanna Bogle on Oct 22, 2019 04:18 pm
Next year, 2020, will see the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the most remarkable men of our times. In today’s West, it is almost standard to assume that anyone whose life has [...]
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Infantile America
By Chilton Williamson on Oct 25, 2019 10:00 pm
Around the middle of the last century, children dressed like their parents. Nowadays, parents dress like their children. Has infantilism, or perhaps simply Peter Panism, become epidemic in America? Several years before his death last spring, the Hungarian-American historian John Lukacs remarked to me, in reference to 21st-century America, that “this is what a proletarian ...
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William Shakespeare: Poet, Playwright—Catholic?
Joseph Pearce
A recent film, All Is True, released this past May and starring Kenneth Branagh as Shakespeare and Ian McKellen as Shakespeare’s patron, the Earl of Southampton, purports to be a depiction of the Bard’s final years in Stratford-upon-Avon following his retirement from the London stage. Making no effort to remain true to the known facts […]

WHAT BILL BARR GOT RIGHT AT CATHOLIC U, THE RETURN OF PELAGIUS & WHY THERE IS NO CHRISTIAN CASE FOR MARX; WHAT BEN SHAPIRO GETS WRONG ABOUT HISTORY

10/24/2019

On Misreading Marx
By Maxwell Bindernagel on Oct 24, 2019 10:00 pm
Marxism can only be forced into a marriage with Christianity if it is misinterpreted. Christians and conservatives can and should read Karl Marx carefully, and even develop an appreciation for his genius. But there is no Christian case to be made for Marxism. My students often balk when I mention the enjoyment I take ...
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From Marx to Gaia
By Dr. Samuel Gregg on Oct 23, 2019 02:12 pm
Thirty years ago, the world rejoiced as the crack-up of Communism’s grip on Eastern Europe, forever symbolized by the Berlin Wall, began. This, however, created enormous dilemmas for prominent representatives of a theology which had [...]
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Bill Barr Is Right. That’s Why He Terrifies the Left
Robert R. Reilly
Attorney General William Barr was excoriated by the mainstream press and the social media offenderati for his speech at the (Roman Catholic) University of Notre Dame last week. Yet the A.G. was simply spelling out the reality of life in modern America: here is what we have lost, here are the reasons why, and here’s what’s happening as […]

Bill Barr's Point About Religion Is Underscored by His Critics
Editorial of The New York Sun | October 25, 2019
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/bill-barrs-point-about-religion-is-underscored-by/90884/

Beware the Neo-Marcionites
Fr. Tim McCauley
Throughout his papacy, Pope Francis has warned of the return of the ancient heresy of Pelagianism. Pelagius was a fourth-century monk who believed that the human will is capable of attaining perfection apart from God’s grace. In Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis writes of the “self-absorbed promethean neo-pelagianism of those who ultimately trust in their own […]

Getting the Right Side of History
by James Bruce
In a nutshell, if history is doing the heavy lifting, it’s important to get the history right.
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THE ROOTS OF RUSSIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PROTESTANT UNITY?? AND WHATEVER HAPPENED TO LIBERAL NATIONALISM

10/23/2019

Out of the Ruins: Walker Percy Explains
Walker Percy
Editor’s note: in this fascinating interview with Crisis Magazine, the acclaimed novelist Walker Percy discusses the vocations crisis, abortion, Vatican II, popes, and (of course) literature. The interview originally appeared in the July 1989 print edition of Crisis. It has been edited for brevity. CRISIS: There is tremendous intellectual opposition in the Church to Pope […]

SANTA MUERTE RULES MEXICO

10/21/2019

Santa Muerta, Don’t Pray for Us
Sean Fitzpatrick
When godlessness reigns, it’s not surprising to see false gods rise in response to the human hunger for spiritual fulfillment. It is surprising, however, to see people turn to death to fulfill their lives. In recent decades, a cult has risen out of Mexico with an unholy rival to the Virgin of Guadalupe: Nuestra Señora […]

Ryan Hanley's Our Great Purpose gives the reader a taste of the depths of Smith’s thought as well as his words in an inviting style. Read More »

ENGLAND'S JOHNSON FALLS FOR MAY'S TRAP

10/20/2019

Brexit: Boris Becomes Charlie Brown. . . While, Our Diarist Reports, Lucy Plays for the Remainers
By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun | October 23, 2019
https://www.nysun.com/foreign/brexit-boris-becomes-charlie-brown/90879/

Brexit: Could Britain's Bid for Freedom End in Tragedy?
Editorial of The New York Sun | October 20, 2019
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/brexit-could-britains-bid-for-freedom-end/90874/
The rejection by Britain's parliament of Prime Minister Johnson's deal in respect of Brexit makes us wonder whether the denouement to this drama is going to end up like the last scene of "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold." That involved the desperate flight to escape East Germany by Richard Burton and his disillusioned girlfriend. Inches from freedom, they are gunned down at the Berlin Wall.
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Brexit: Boris Lands In Same Trap As Mrs. May
Our Diarist Calls for a Clean Break for Britain
By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun | October 19, 2019
https://www.nysun.com/foreign/brexit-boris-lands-in-same-trap-as-theresa-may/90873/

BECKETT'S GODOT IS ATHEISM & CATHOLICS LOOK AT THE TRUE, GOOD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

10/20/2019

Waiting for God in Absurd Times
By Emina Melonic on Oct 19, 2019 10:00 pm
Whether one is an atheist or a believer, all of us can agree that there is certainly something missing in our society. By entering into a dialogue with a variety of texts, the authors of “The Terror of Existence” wrestle with the idea of meaninglessness and absurdity with the seriousness and it deserves. The ...
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The Beauty and Mystery of the Unaccompanied Violin
Seeing the West as a Millstone: Sketches of Solzhenitsyn in Exile

Conservative Credo
By Barbara J. Elliott on Oct 21, 2019 10:00 pm
The conservative believes that that the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are interrelated, and that all things are measured against these three transcendentals. Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords our readers the opportunity to join Barbara J. Elliott, as she considers and outlines the framework of Conservatism. —W. Winston Elliott III, Publisher ...
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THE JOKER EMBODIES LOST FATHERHOOD & A LOOK AT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S CRISIS OF IDENTITY

10/18/2019

The Hunger for Fathers in Joker and Ad Astra
by Mark Judge
While critics and fans have compared Joker to the gritty films of the 1970s and early 1980s, the movie it actually has most in common with is Ad Astra. Read More »

“Celibacy isn’t the problem”
By Mary Jo Anderson on Oct 16, 2019 08:11 pm
October 16—The general congregation of the Pan-Amazonian Synod was suspended for a day to permit participants to work in circoli minori, small groups divided by language. Following 10 days of statements, interventions, and presentations by [...]
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Joker, amoralism, and the nature of violence
By Thomas S. Hibbs on Oct 16, 2019 02:51 pm
Because of scenes of graphic violence and because it is a film about a character whose own violence inspires violence, Joker, directed by Todd Phillips (best known for the Hangover trilogy) and starring Joaquin Phoenix, [...]
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Seminaries and formation: One priest’s perspective and suggestion
By Fr. John Chalny, STD on Oct 17, 2019 11:23 pm
It appears that few today believe the Catholic Church should continue business as usual. Loud voices on one hand call for movement—walking or running in the “paths of the Spirit”—toward a “new Church”. On the [...]
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Historical clarity and today’s Catholic contentions
By George Weigel on Oct 16, 2019 03:13 am
One of the curiosities of the 21st-century Catholic debate is that many Catholic traditionalists (especially integralists) and a high percentage of Catholic progressives make the same mistake in analyzing the cause of today’s contentions within [...]
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WHAT DOSTOVESKY TAUGHT ABOUT THE LIMITS OF THE NATION STATE WHEN BATTLING IDEOLOGY

10/17/2019

Contending with Demons by Scott Yenor
Dostovesky suggests an appeal to the nation untouched with a concern for eternity itself will prove insufficient to defeat ideology. Read More »

The Lost Art of Classical Education
By Randall Tumlinson on Oct 17, 2019 10:00 pm
Graduates sallying forth from the ivied halls need to be free men and women. That is the claim and purpose of the liberal arts. Having had a significant time to ponder and pursue and practice the virtues of freedom, these students can join the ongoing conversation of the ages and continue to refine the ...
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HOW TO UNDERSTAND PLATO & WHAT JOSEF PIEPER GETS RIGHT ABOUT THE CHURCH CRISIS

10/15/2019

A Thomist’s Perspective on the Church in Crisis
Josef Pieper
Editor’s note: in this far-ranging and prophetic interview with Crisis Magazine, Josef Pieper discusses the vocations crisis, the failure of catechesis, liberation theology, feminism, and something very much like the Benedict Option. The interview originally appeared in the March 1990 print edition of Crisis. It has been edited for brevity. Crisis: Some people claim that St. Thomas is […]

Soul, World, and Idea: Interpreting Plato
By Eva Brann on Oct 14, 2019 10:00 pm
“To save the phenomena” of heavenly motions by undergirding them with rational, that is, mathematical, hypotheses—that is said to be the problem Plato set for astronomers in a passage from the “Republic” frequently referenced by Daniel Sherman. His own project is, as I understand it, the inverse one: to save the Platonic ideas by ...
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EMPIRE OF DESIRE: EYES WIDE SHUT, MORAL BANKRUPTCY & THE REALITY OF HELL

10/5/2019

Eyes Wide Shut and the Moral Bankruptcy of the American Elite
by Titus Techera
If we wish to understand what's happening to some of our elites, we had better turn instead to more durable sources of wisdom—poetry and film, above all. Read More »

Sex, Sexual Orientation, and the Separation of Powers by Thomas Ascik
Three cases that deal with a powerful federal law pervasive in its influence pose the opportunity to the Court of the takeover of legislative power. Read More »

What we’re up against: Confronting our Gnostic empire of desire (part 2)
By Dr. Leroy Huizenga on Oct 03, 2019 01:14 pm
Editor’s note: Part 1 of this essay was published on September 28th and can be read here. This essay is adapted from Behold the Messiah: Proclaiming the Gospel of Matthew (Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Road, 2019 [forthcoming]) [...]
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Hell Is Real—and It Isn’t Empty Casey Chalk
Bishop Robert Barron, the auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles and a pioneer of online evangelism, is hardly prone to controversy. Yet the telegenic prelate stirred something of a firestorm back in June that continues to spill ink today. In fact, it isn’t a new debate at all. Commenting on the Gospel reading for June 25 […]

Europe Without Europe
By Glenn Arbery on Oct 09, 2019 10:00 pm
Europe would not be Europe without the current of tradition once inculcated by classical education. It is such an education we must seek to preserve. Though its immediate effects are not manifest, without it the culture would be ceded to those who wish to shape it for a radically secular agenda, perhaps even a posthuman ...
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ISLAMISM, K-12 WHITEWASH & NIGERIA'S CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE

10/3/2019

The Islamicization of Public Education Continues Apace
Fr. Mario Alexis Portella
On October 15, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition presented by the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) to hear Wood v. Arnold, a case brought by Caleigh Wood, a Christian student in the 11th grade at La Plata High School in Maryland. Wood refused to take part in a school exercise she felt would […]

In Whitewashing Islamism, K-12 Programs Advance Jihad by Mitchell Bard
The Daily Wire
September 30, 2019
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59483/in-whitewashing-islamism-k-12-programs-advance

Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is Upon Us reveals Buckley’s and Baldwin’s longstanding positions on civil rights and race. Read More »

Clarion Call: Islamic influence on America’s universities
By William Kilpatrick on Oct 10, 2019 07:54 pm
In a recent, insightful First Things piece, Peter Hitchens reiterates the not so well known fact that Hitler was, in many respects, a progressive. And like progressives everywhere, Hitler saw young people as the vanguard [...]
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Breaking the Silence on Nigeria’s Christian Genocide
Fr. Mario Alexis Portella
Most of us in the West have heard of the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from northeastern Nigeria in 2014 by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram. Yet that was only the most infamous instance of Christian persecution in Nigeria, which can be traced back to the 19th-century Sokoto caliphate. Sharia law was officially established in the […]Read More

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