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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

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

WHY CARDINAL SARAH MATTERS & WHEN TOLKEN MET ST. AUGUSTINE

9/27/2019

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
by James R. Rogers
If Hazony's traditions are just accidents of cultural evolution or history, then we’re back to full blown relativism. Read More »

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”

THE LIFE OF LINCOLN & THE WORDS OF BURKE UNITE ON VIRTUE OF PRUDENCE

9/27/2019

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. Read More »

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

TRUMP AND TOCQUEVILLE, HOW THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TOOK ON MODERNITY: FINALLY

9/19/2019

Trump, Tocqueville, and American Democracy

EPPC

Thomism and Political Liberalism, Part 2
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
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 […]

POPE FRANCIS RETURNS TO AFRICA & A LOOK AT TACITUS' GERMANIA

9/6/2019

Books I’d Like to Write

The Divine Plan: How John Paul II & Ronald Reagan Promoted Peace

Sacrificial Love and Heroic Prudenc

Pope Francis returns to Africa
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

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.

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 »

REJECTING HIJAB DELIVERS PRISON SENTENCE

9/1/2019

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: […]

HOW FORM RETURNS TO THE ARTS & HOW INTENTION SHAPES QUANTUM PHYSICS

8/30/2019

VON BALTHASAR ON "FORM"

The Tide Is Turning for the Arts
By Jeff Minick on Aug 29, 2019 10:00 pm
Like the abstract painters, poets abandoned form and gave themselves over to free verse. Since the close of the 20th century, however, the tide of postmodernism has turned somewhat in art and poetry. A shift back toward tradition and form is taking place. To call World War I a catastrophe for the West is akin to ...
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Quantum Physics and Mind

NEW YORK STATE OPENS THE FLOOD GATES AGAINST THE CHURCH: PEDOPHILES AND PLAINTIFFS UNLEASHED

8/22/2019

A ROUGH SUMMER IN THE EMPIRE STATE
By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing

As the unfolding mess in New York shows, dealing with the legal implications of the abuse crisis consumes an inordinate amount of the Church’s time and energy, to say nothing of money. Such demands are likely to grow more acute in the short term. Read More

EGYPT'S AL-AHAZAR UNIVERSITY STRUGGLES TO REFORM FAITH-FANATICISM & CARDINAL BELL IS INNOCENT

8/22/2019

A Geopolitical Crossfire: Al-Azhar Struggles to Balance Politics and Tradition
By Dr. James M. Dorsey, August 22, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: When Pope Francis I visited Egypt in 2017 to stimulate interfaith dialogue he walked into a religious and geopolitical minefield at the heart of which was Al-Azhar, one of the world’s oldest and foremost seats of Islamic learning. The pope’s visit took on added significance with Al-Azhar standing accused of promoting the kind of ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim Islam that potentially creates an environment conducive to breeding extremism.
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THE AUSTRALIAN DISGRACE
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
First Things
The rejection of Cardinal George Pell’s appeal of his conviction for sexual abuse calls into the gravest doubt the quality of justice in Australia. Read More

Holy See issues statement on dismissal of Cardinal George Pell’s appeal
By Catholic News Agency on Aug 21, 2019 08:08 am
The Vatican said Wednesday it respects the decision by the Court of Appeals in Victoria to uphold the conviction of Cardinal George Pell, while recalling Pell’s insistence of his innocence throughout the judicial process. The [...]
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Fr. Aidan Nichols’ Conciliar Octet is a welcome guide to the eight key texts of Vatican II
By James Baresel on Aug 22, 2019 04:48 pm
“Not another book on the Second Vatican Council! Just as progressive Catholics are constantly revisiting the Council so as to tell again the story of their liberation from the ancient pharaoh of the older Catholicism, [...]
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SCHILLER'S PLACE IN AESTHETICS & WHAT MAKES A GOOD EDUCATION

8/19/2019

The Signs of a Good Education

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In Defense of Jane EyreBy Christine Norvell on Sep 11, 2019 10:00 pm
Jane Eyre is a perennial novel for me. Yes, I teach it every year, but more importantly, I reread it every time. Not just a skim. A full read. And this is why. 1. Jane is a character of such growth. I know, I know. Brontë includes much of her own life and experiences in the ...
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Education With RangeBy Glenn Arbery on Sep 11, 2019 09:59 pm
Liberal arts students are “generalists in a specialized world,” and as a result, they bring many analogies to bear on the problems that they will face on a daily basis in the world of work. And those analogies come from what they actually study, from Homer to field science to statistical analysis to metaphysics. Back ...
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PAKISTAN'S FORCED CONVERSION OF CHRISTIAN GIRLS & THE ELIMINATION OF CHRISTIANS THROUGHOUT MIDDLE EAST

8/10/2019

Pakistan: Abduction, Forced Conversion of Non-Muslim Girls
by Uzay Bulut

The Extinction of Christians in the Middle East
by Giulio Meotti •

HOW SAINT JOHN PAUL II BENT THE 20TH CENTURY & WHY HARVARD'S MARY GLENDON MATTERS FOR FOREIGN POLICY

8/9/2019

Extraordinary coincidence, contemporary lesson
By George Weigel on Aug 07, 2019 03:02 am
Forty years after Pope John Paul II bent the course of the 20th century in a more humane direction during his first pilgrimage to his Polish homeland in June 1979, new information continues to emerge [...]
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Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation at 50
By Dr. Samuel Gregg on Aug 06, 2019 03:00 pm
“What is civilization? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms—yet. But I think I can recognize it when I see it; and I am looking at it now.” These were among the [...]
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Horns of a Dilemma: An Interview with Robert Jervis – Reflections on Political Science, Politics, and Policy
by Robert Jervis and Francis J. Gavin

The Inspired Mary Ann Glendon and Her Dismal Critics by Greg Weiner
Mary Ann Glendon is an inspired choice to lead Pompeo’s Commission on Unalienable Rights and the apoplexy of her critics proves it. Read More »

Why American Democracy Is Worth Defending
By Alexander Salter on Aug 18, 2019 10:00 pm
What is American democracy, and why is it worth defending? The current political climate, in which democracy is increasingly (and troublingly) equated with populism, compels us to reflect on this question. Democracy is an ancient form of government, but historically, democracies that rise above mere mob rule and reflect genuine self-governance, while respecting basic ...
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God Wants a Repentant Church, Not a Relevant Church
Jonathan B. Coe
On a regular basis the faithful Catholic laity find themselves disconcerted and even outraged when priests and prelates display an inverted moral calculus. For example, as William Kilpatrick writes in a recent essay in this magazine, the Vatican has become a kind of sanctuary city for credibly accused homosexual predators while Pope Francis laments the […]

THE WAR AGAINST CHRISTIANITY IN EGYPT & THE VANDALS SACK ROME AGAIN

8/3/2019

EXTRAORDINARY COINCIDENCE, CONTEMPORARY LESSON
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

Forty years after Pope John Paul II bent the course of the 20th century in a more humane direction during his first pilgrimage to his Polish homeland in June 1979, new information continues to emerge about what happened behind the scenes, shedding further light on those epic events. Read More

(See also Mr. Weigel’s interview with Catholic Digest about his latest book and how average Christians can cope with the changes of postmodernity — and perhaps even make a contribution to restoring order in society.)

Religious liberty and freedom of conscience exist in the West because Christians developed them from the truths they held. Read More »

Why Is There Systematic Anti-Christian Persecution in Egypt?
by Mohammed Bani Salameh and Ayman Hayajneh
Middle East Quarterly
Summer 2019 (view PDF)
https://www.meforum.org/58683/end-syrian-civil-war-jordan

Systematic Discrimination: Christians Under Egyptian Rule by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPage Magazine
July 30, 2019
https://www.meforum.org/59051/systematic-discrimination-christians-in-egypt

THE VIRTUES OF REFORM By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
Genuine renewal in the Church requires both paths to reform: structural and administrative changes, as well as ongoing conversion and growth in holiness.
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The Vandals sack Rome….again By George Weigel on Jul 29, 2019 05:50 pm
An exercise in raw intellectual vandalism has been underway in Rome since July 23: what was originally known as the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family has been peremptorily but systematically [...]
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JPII Institute VP says school’s identity is ‘seriously threatened’ By Catholic News Agency on Aug 01, 2019 11:39 am
Vatican City, Jul 31, 2019 / 09:25 pm (CNA).- The vice-president of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Rome said that changes to the school’s governing structure and academic program are a serious threat [...]
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JPII Institute purge a case of Vatican types refusing to be honest, transparent
By Christopher R. Altieri on Aug 13, 2019 10:05 pm
It is fair to say the suppression-and-reconstitution of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family, as the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences has received [...]
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The West Must Return to the Faith – or Perish
Paul Krause
Western civilization is weak, exhausted, dying. Our leaders in the Church – servants in attendance to the Great Physician – can now think of nothing to do but preach this thing they call “mercy.” There is nothing wrong with mercy, of course; but when our clerics use the word, they sound more like hospice nurses […]Read More

“Reason, Faith, & the Struggle for Western Civilization”: Illuminating the Past & Present
By Carl Olson on Aug 07, 2019 10:00 pm

EDMUND BURKE ON THE NATION STATE, HOW TO UNDERSTAND PLATO, FEDERALISM, ORIGINALISM & THE TOP 10 CONSERVATIVE BOOKS TO 1954

7/22/2019

Burke and the nation
Yuval Levin | Law & Liberty
In Edmund Burke’s view of the world, the nation occupies a primary place. Burke’s thinking points toward the nation in four distinct ways, which can all help us think about what nationalism actually means in our own time. The first has to do with love of country and its place in politics; the second is about national character; the third is about the nation as the unit of analysis in world affairs; and the fourth is about the nation as the unit of analysis in domestic affairs.

Plato’s “Symposium”: The Drama and Trial of Eros

Top Ten Conservative Books, 1924-1954
By Bradley J. Birzer on Jul 22, 2019 10:00 pm
One of the single most important reasons the conservative movement became a movement is because it had writers of the highest caliber. They presented their ideas so convincingly and so pleasingly that even their most ardent critics had to take notice. Given my association with The Imaginative Conservative as well as with Hillsdale College, ...
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Normative Foundations of Originalism
by Michael O' Shea
Libertarian originalism tends to undermine conservative legal positions. Read More »

Publius on the Relation of the Federal Government to the States
By Will Morrisey on Aug 08, 2019 10:00 pm
James Madison wrote in “The Federalist” that the Constitution puts the states to the test: The stronger federal government will inaugurate a kind of competition in good government, breaking the states’ monopolies… Having founded republican regimes in America, regimes animated by respect for the laws of Nature and of Nature’s God as enunciated in ...
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SOLZHENITSYN'S GREAT NOVEL OF THE GULAG & THE SAVING NATURE OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION

7/22/2019

The Spoon Elevation in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Emily Linz
The titular character of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, wrongfully convicted as a spy and sentenced to ten years in a 1950’s Soviet forced-labor camp, trudges through his daily life with a strange companion: “[Ivan Denisovich] Shukhov pulled his spoon out of his boot. His little baby. It had been […]

The Saving Nature of a Liberal Education
Ashley G. Miller
Reading good books can help save your soul. A liberal education and Christianity share a mutual pursuit of the truth. With the torrential influx of electronic entertainment and the focus on STEM-based disciplines, people today are reading books less than ever before. This is one of the great crises of our time. The National Endowment […]

Defoe’s Critique of Monarchy: The Politics of Robinson Crusoe
by David Womersley
The famous story of a man on a desert island dramatizes where political authority comes from, and how it can evolve away from despotism. Read More »

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HEAVEN, HELL & HANS URS VON BALTHASAR; WHY INTELLECTUALS MUST NOW BE DISSIDENTS

7/13/2019

The practical “do’s” and “don’ts” of vocation discernment
By Paul Senz on Jul 15, 2019 08:13 pm
Jesus Christ calls all of us to be his disciples. But how are we each called to live out that discipleship? What will discipleship look like for each of us? How can we surrender ourselves [...]
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One, Holy, Catholic, and Neuter Fr. Tim McCauley
The Church today suffers from a deficiency in her identity, lacking awareness of both her Marian and Petrine dimensions. I borrow these concepts from Hans Urs von Balthasar to explore the feminine and masculine aspects of the Church. In some ways we have become a neuter Church, lacking both Mary’s feminine receptivity toward Christ and […]

Heaven, Hell, C.S. Lewis, and Hans Urs von Balthasar
By CWR Staff on Jul 12, 2019 12:50 am
This partial transcript is from the FORMED Book Club discussion of Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know by Michael Barber, July 8, 2019. Participants were Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., founder and editor of Ignatius Press; [...]
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NOW IN BRITAIN, AS THEN IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, THE TRUE INTELLECTUAL IS A DISSIDENT
By EPPC Senior Fellow Sir Roger Scruton
The Daily Mail (UK)
The witch-hunting hysteria of Communist Prague has returned with a vengeance, not in Eastern Europe but in Britain, where open inquiry and the presumption of innocence have been, until this moment, the foundation of moral order and the guarantee of civil peace. Read More

The Moral Imagination & Imaginative Conservatism

THEODORE DALRYMPLE
Rushing to Judgment
Two recent incidents reveal the craven impulses of the British elite.

All Is Not Lost: Reason, Faith, & Western Civilization
by Dwight LongeneckerSamuel Gregg's Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization is a brilliant meditation on the reasons for the rise of the West, more triumphantly known as "Christendom." This foundation of faith was undermined by the development of anti-Christian rationalism and the Enlightenment, culminating in the materialistic new religions of destruction. Dr. Gregg argues that for the West to survive, we must return to valuing its Christian foundation. But does history indicate that going back is really the way forward? [MORE]

The Intellectual Revolution That Made the Modern World

NEWMAN ON LIBERALISM AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT & WHY JESUS ISN'T PALESTINIAN

7/6/2019

Why is liberalism so durable?
By James Kalb on Aug 20, 2019 03:59 pm
Liberalism tells us everyone should be able to do, be, and get whatever he wants, as much and as equally as possible. People believe that represents a new and higher stage in political and moral [...]
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The Imaginative Conservative at 9

Reflections on Imaginative Conservatism

John Henry Newman’s long war on liberalism
By Dr. Samuel Gregg on Jul 02, 2019 09:22 am
Blessed John Henry Newman’s devastating critique of liberal religion remains even more relevant in our own time. [...]
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Jesus Was Not a Palestinian by Seth Frantzman
The Jerusalem Post
July 8, 2019
https://www.meforum.org/58900/jesus-was-not-a-palestinian

Can Catholics be Minimalists?
Dusty Gates
In his brilliant Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman writes eloquently of the power of the Catholic Church to assimilate non-Christian, and even heretical, beliefs into her own Tradition. He writes about the Church as being able to stand firm among various philosophies, dogmas, and cultures as one who […]

The Intellectual Revolution That Made the Modern World
By Daniel McCarthy on Jul 19, 2019 10:00 pm
The Enlightenment may well be the end of an old story rather than the beginning of a new one. The philosophy of insatiable appetites changed the Christian-Aristotelian moral order into the modern world, but now that the change is just about complete, what purpose does its catalyst serve? Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites ...
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Thomism and Political Liberalism, Part 1
By Joseph G. Trabbic on Jul 31, 2019 01:32 pm
The Catholic debate about the value of political and economic liberalism ebbs and flows. In the past few years in the U.S. it has become particularly public and intense (see here, here, here, here, here, [...]
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Newman and the problems of Catholic intellectual history By Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille on Jul 29, 2019 01:03 am
Last fall I cheered the impending news of John Henry Newman’s canonization, for which we now have a date: October 13 of this year. October happens to be the month in which, after many years [...]
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DOWNTON ABBEY & THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

7/4/2019

Downton Abbey and the Catholic Church

Catholicism and the American Founding
By Bradley J. Birzer on Jul 03, 2019 09:31 pm
Natural Law, common law, Natural Rights, and localism—all so dear to the Founding—existed in 1776, simply put, because of the Catholic Church. [...]
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World War I: War as Revolution

HARRY JAFFA RETURNS TO THE BEGINNING: HOW LINCOLN FINISHES THE REVOLUTIONARY GENERATION

7/4/2019

Why Did Harry Jaffa Change His Mind?
by David Tucker
To preserve both the country and political philosophy, Jaffa returned to the beginning.
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World War I: War as Revolution
by Mark Malvasi When World War I ended in disillusionment, with much of Europe in chaos and ruin, many Progressives blamed Woodrow Wilson. It was he, in the end, who betrayed the cause of democracy. Only after the war did John Dewey and other Progressives admit that the Allies had never championed democratic values at all, but had gone to war from selfish motives of national aggrandizement... [MORE]

CHURCH FATHERS ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: BEFORE THE WHIG INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY

6/30/2019

The Early Church & the Origins of Religious Liberty
By Casey Chalk on Jun 28, 2019 10:00 pm
From Tertullian, a North African Christian writer of the early third century, to the Reformation, there is a significant Christian tradition that affirms religious freedom. Tertullian The origin story of religious liberty commonly cited in college courses and museums, informed by proponents of the so-called Whig view of history, goes something like ...
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CATHOLIC ECONOMICS
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THE CHURCH'S GREATEST CRISIS

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SEPARATION OF FAITH-REASON
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