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THE MUDDLED THINKING OF JEWS ON ABORTION, THE DEMOCRACY OF THE UNBORN & THE PROPHETS OF SUICIDE DON'T ALWAYS DOMINATE

5/24/2019

When Does Human Life Begin?
Adam Kirsch
This week’s ‘Daf Yomi’ Talmud study happens to pit contemporary abortion law against Jewish views of conception and viability in all animals.
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The Democracy of the Unborn
By Steven Kessler on May 24, 2019 10:00 pm
Society has been reduced to those living in the present; but in being reduced, it has excluded the democracy of the dead and unborn. We, in the present, must fight for this most obscure of all classes. In the abortion debate, one of the pro-choice arguments is based on the idea of “personhood.” Personhood ...
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Every age needs prophets—whether or not they heed their cautions—because prophets stand out of and often against the current. Read More »

MEASURING THE INFLUENCE OF CONSERVATIVE AUTHORS & THE CONCEPT OF BEAUTY IN CATHOLIC THOUGHT

5/19/2019

Measuring the Influence of Russell Kirk and Other Conservative Authors
by Bradley J. Birzer
By using Google’s Ngram Viewer, we find that Russell Kirk’s reputation hit its highpoint in 1964, and then began a painful decline that remained unabated until his death in 1994. What does Ngram tell us about other conservative authors, like Robert Nisbet, Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and Christopher Dawson? Google Ngram is a blast, but it’s more indicative of what might be than what is. It forces us to ask certain questions that might not be asked in its absence, but it rarely yields promising and definitive answers... [MORE]

What Is Beauty and Why Do We Need It?
John-Mark L. Miravalle
Suppose there is such a thing as objective beauty. Suppose, along with the classical and Christian traditions, that the human person is made for beauty. Now suppose further, that beauty is a kind of composite, that the beautiful is made up of two parts, one metaphysical and the other psychological. If such were the case, […]

Gnosticism Still a Challenge to Christianity
Fr. Tim McCauley
Gnostic philosophy, like a noxious weed, thrives in the barren soil of our post-Christian culture. It also emits a foul odor akin to the smoke of Satan, filtering through the doors of the Church and influencing our anthropology, as well as severely compromising the integrity of our worship of Christ in the Eucharist. Catholicism is […]

Cicero’s Republic: Implanted in the Nature of Man
by Bradley J. Birzer
In two of his last dialogues--On the Republic and On the Laws--Cicero offered some of his most Stoically-influenced thoughts on the nature of man, the community, and the divine. The best society, Cicero argues, cultivates us as free individuals, not for our benefit, but for the benefit of the community. Such is virtue. Virtue, according to Cicero, exists in every being, but few realize it or cultivate it. Yet, it is what makes men, men. It allows them to be free... [MORE]

Russell Kirk’s Forgotten “Intelligent Citizen’s Guide to Conservatism”
By Bradley J. Birzer on Jun 09, 2019 10:00 pm
Within a few months of its release in early May 1953, Russell Kirk’s dissertation-turned-massive-best-selling book, “The Conservative Mind,” became an international media sensation. But few know of his later work, “An Intelligent Citizen’s Guide to Conservatism.” It is a deeply profound book, exploring the very depths and widths of the human person. Editor’s Note: This ...
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THE LOST ART OF LEARNING HOW TO LEARN & THE COSTS OF DIVERSITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

5/17/2019

The Liberal Sciences and the Lost Arts of Learning
by Brent Orrell
The thrust of the St. John’s program is that final knowledge, while it is held to exist and must be pursued, cannot be possessed. Read More »

Armed With Steel
by Glenn Arbery
As this year's seniors take their last exams and prepare to walk across the stage on Saturday morning, I’m led to think about the effect of this whole unique education on them. How will it all come together—all the theology and philosophy, the literature and history, the Latin, music, and fine arts, the outdoor trips, the math and science? Of course, it is not simply a matter of knowledge but of habitus; and he who is armed with habitus is armed with steel... [MORE]

HEATHER MAC DONALD
The College Bureaucracy That Never Shrinks
Like most other prestigious universities, Georgetown is forever expanding its costly and corrosive diversity initiatives.

FANATICISM: ISLAMISM & THE MURDER OF INNOCENT MUSLIMS

5/16/2019

Genocide of Christians Reaches "Alarming Stage" by Raymond Ibrahim •

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FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN THE US

5/16/2019

Female Genital Mutilation in the United States: Estimating the Number of Girls at Riskby Phyllis Chesler
Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence
May 2019
https://www.meforum.org/58466/female-genital-mutilation-in-the-us

EVANGELIZATION, DOCTRINE MUST STAY UNITED & JAMES SCHALL ON TEACHING

5/16/2019

Evangelization and Doctrine Are Inseparable
David G. Bonagura Jr.
We preach doctrine, and doctrine exists to be preached. If that sounds circular, then we understand correctly that doctrine and evangelization are two sides of the same coin. Recently announced plans for Pope Francis’s reform of the Roman Curia have produced euphoria among liberals and concern among conservatives that evangelization is being elevated over doctrine […]

UNFINISHED BUSINESS By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
For ecclesiastical leaders to begin to regain the confidence of their flocks, they’re going to have to find ways to overcome the distrust of one another. Read More

James Schall on Books and Teaching

FRENCH & AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS REVISITED

5/16/2019

THUCYDIDES & THE US COMMERCIAL REPUBLIC: Peacock’s rediscovery of the lost Federalist is a much needed corrective to contemporary scholarship. Read More »

The Medieval and Catholic Roots of American Democracy
Andrew Latham
Ask a typical college student today who “invented” American democracy and you’ll likely be told “the Founding Fathers, of course.” If you’re lucky, that typical student might then go on to tell you a bit more: that the historical roots of the American republic are to be found in the political traditions of early modern […]

The French and American Revolutions Revisited
By Nayeli Riano on May 15, 2019 09:59 pm
Friedrich von Gentz It is often said that the American Revolution resonated across the pond and inspired the French to rebel and liberate their country in a similar, heroic fashion to that of their American allies. The nature of these two revolutions, however, ran divergent intellectual courses that made their causes, and ...
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How the Framers Embraced Conventional Rules and Avoided Substantive Intent
by John O. McGinnis
In the Bank debate, the consensus of the Framers coalesced against use the substantive intent of the Philadelphia convention. Read More »

The Natural and the Foreign: Republics from Rome to America
By Bradley J. Birzer on May 31, 2019 10:00 pm
According to Cicero, the Republic follows the paths of nature and god in all its activities. As such, the true statesman—like the gardener—knows when to plant, when to fertilize, when to water, when to weed, when to prune, and when to harvest. Yet there is still, to be certain, a season for everything. And, ...
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VATICAN CURIAL REFORM & THE FOUNDATION OF CIVILIZATION IS FATHER-SON BOND

5/13/2019

Analysis: Power, and its appearance, in Vatican curial reform
By Catholic News Agency on May 08, 2019 08:13 pm
Vatican City, May 8, 2019 / 05:35 pm (CNA).- In the coming months, Pope Francis is expected to approve a final draft of a new governing constitution for the Roman Curia. Evangelium praedicate, as it [...]
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Expert on marriage and family: The father-son bond is ‘civilization’s keystone’
By Piers Shepherd on May 08, 2019 04:47 pm
The bond between father and son is the basis of a stable society. This was the thesis expounded by Dr. Patrick Fagan, an international expert on marriage and family, in an address given on May [...]
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A Practical Agenda for Catholics
By James Kalb on May 07, 2019 11:27 pm
The Church has had a political role since Constantine. That is no surprise. Catholicism is primarily a doctrine and way of living for its adherents. But the Faith deals with basic realities that have public [...]
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Francis expresses gratitude for Jean Vanier’s “great witness”
By CWR Staff on May 07, 2019 09:56 pm
On the plane returning to the Vatican after his trip to Bulgaria and North Macedonia, Pope Francis expressed his gratitude for the “great witness” of Jean Vanier, who passed away on May 7 at the [...]
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WHY THE MARTIX FAILED & THE INTELLIGIBILITY OF REALITY AND THE PRIORITY OF LOVE

5/11/2019

The Revolution That Wasn’t
by Titus Techera
Despite fascinating so many, The Matrix failed because it shares the modern aversion to tragedy, and leaves us with a flattened view of humanity. Read More »

The Intelligibility of Reality and the Priority to Love
By Conor Dugan on May 08, 2019 08:44 pm
Near the beginning of D.C. Schindler’s important and impressive book Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth (Cascade Books, 2018), he quotes a prescient passage from G.K. Chesterton’s Heretics. Chesterton [...]
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HOW THE COMMON GOOD REQUIRES SEXUAL MORALITY

5/8/2019

Care for the Common Good Requires Sexual Morality
Anthony Esolen
Catholics who put themselves forward as advocates of social justice seem to behave as if the sexual teachings of the Church did not bear upon the issue at all. These Catholics are not wrong to care for the common good. The quality of their recommendation—whether it is mistaken or not—will depend upon what they recommend, and how, […]

How the Sexual Toxicity of the 1960s Has Harmed the Church
Robert V. Thomann
I have been rather astounded and amused at the controversy, indeed outright denial, surrounding Pope Emeritus Benedict’s recent essay which attributes a large portion of our current crisis in the Church to the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s. I react in this way simply because the evidence for the identification of the source of our […]

A LOOK AT RATZINGER'S DIAGNOSIS & THE CULT OF ENLIGHTENMENT REASON (THE STATE) A NEW LEVIATHAN

5/3/2019

DIDEROT AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT CULT OF REASON By EPPC Fellow Algis Valiunas
National Review
A praiseful new intellectual biography of the French philosophe Denis Diderot (1713–1784) offers hope that serious engagement with the past is still possible in the academy. Read More

THE RATZINGER DIAGNOSIS By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
In Benedict XVI’s view, the Catholic crisis of clerical sexual abuse was, in the main, an ecclesiastical by-product of the “sexual revolution”: a tsunami of cultural deconstruction that hit the Church in a moment of doctrinal and moral confusion, lax clerical discipline, poor seminary formation, and weak episcopal oversight, all of which combined to produce many of the scandals with which we’re painfully familiar today. Read More

Hijacking Liberalism: Spencer’s The Man Versus the State
by Alberto Mingardi
At best, scholars often view Spencer as a magnificent dinosaur, at worst a grumpy phantom of Christmas past—this is a mistake. Read More »

Rules for Christian Intellectuals, Part II
By Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin on May 02, 2019 09:30 am
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if I want to learn a thing, I have to teach it. As a literature professor at Hillsdale College, I’m trying to help my students develop their intellects. [...]
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James Burnham’s & Daniel Bell’s Critiques of Globalization & Liberalism

History and Historians

Leviathan, Inc.: Robert Nisbet & the Modern Nation-State
By Bradley J. Birzer on May 05, 2019 10:00 pm
Robert Nisbet feared that modern totalitarians had succeeded in undermining the very foundations of goodness, truth, and morality. They had not only redefined liberty as power, but they had transformed the modern political state into a secular church, exchanging real religion for civic religion, creating a “New Leviathan.” Like most Americans during the Great ...
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Critiquing Robert Kagan’s Enlightenment Liberalism
By Donald Devine on May 06, 2019 10:00 pm
While Robert Kagan basically dismisses church and community in the development of liberalism, can there be any sadder but more important concession than his own admission that “liberalism has no particular answer” for what can legitimize its rights? An essay is meant to be very, very important when it consumes four giant pages in ...
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A Crisis of Faith Cannot Be Met by Liturgical Protocols
Rev. Msgr. Richard C. Antall
The unprecedented message of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI regarding the crisis of the clergy contained a surprising illumination that is so incisive it will probably be ignored for years: All problems connected to Holy Orders are related in some way to the Eucharist. Benedict wrote: Our handling of the Eucharist can only arouse concern… What […]

The New Primitives
William Kilpatrick
When a man ceases to believe in God, observed Chesterton, he becomes capable of believing in anything. It looks like we may now have reached the “anything” stage of human history. As faith in Christianity recedes in the West, a strange thing is happening. Having shaken off belief in God, people are not becoming more […]

EPPC & THE CATHOLIC PROJECT: AN ANSWER TO OUR CURRENT CRISIS OF FAITH; THE ART OF NON FICTION WRITING

5/3/2019

INTRODUCING: THE CATHOLIC PROJECT By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing

No one needs to be sold on the importance of a robust and faithful response to the Catholic Church’s current sexual-abuse crisis. But if everyone agrees that the Church is in crisis, there’s less agreement about just what the nature of the crisis is, what caused it, or how to fix it. That’s where The Catholic Project comes in. Read More

MASTER OF THE CRAFTBy EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
City Journal
In his new book, Robert Caro teaches the art of nonfiction writing. Read More

TOCQUEVILLE ON MODERN TYRANNY

4/30/2019

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Tocqueville’s Rigorous Logic of Egalitarian Conformity by James R. Rogers
Initial steps down the path of equalitarianism in turn create their own momentum, picking up speed and insisting on ever more conformity. Read More »

orrecting Our View of Montesquieu by Will Selinger
He wasn’t a theorist of “liberal republicanism”; he was one of the great theorists of early modern monarchical government. Read More »

Annihilation of Christian Life and People: Where is the Outrage in the West?
Meeting Catastrophe with Indifferenceby Giulio Meotti

Violence Against Christians and the Waning of Reason
By Bishop Robert Barron on Apr 30, 2019 06:25 pm
There were more Christian martyrs in the twentieth century than in all of the previous nineteen centuries combined. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and many of their lesser-known totalitarian colleagues put millions of Christians to [...]
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ON THE DEATH OF GREAT MEN & THE RADICALISM OF KIRK

4/26/2019

On the Death of Great Men
Jennifer Roback Morse
The death of a father is an earth-shattering event. When my father died in 1993, I felt disoriented. I had never been in a world that did not include him. I could feel myself move up the generational ladder. No one is above me any longer. No one who matters stands above me. When I […]

Longing to Remember
By Timothy D. Lusch on Apr 23, 2019 05:03 pm
“The Church became for me an inspirer of remembrance.” — Dom Erik Varden, OCSO The inferno at Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris left behind more than smoke-damaged stained glass and charred eight-hundred-year-old oak beams. Lingering after the [...]
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Remembering Fr. James V. Schall, SJ: Et ideo passio Christi dicitur esse nostra redemptio
By S. Hendrianto, S.J. on Apr 23, 2019 03:57 pm
Last week, we saw the passing of a great Jesuit priest, and one of the giants of Catholic intellectual and Catholic education: Father James V. Schall, SJ. Father Schall died on Spy Wednesday, the day [...]
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The Radicalism of Russell Kirk

REMEMBERING FATHER JAMES V. SCHALL, AN OLD-SCHOOL JESUIT By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
National Review Online
The late Father James Schall’s faith informed his intellectual work, as his intellect refined his faith. Read More

Measuring the Influence of Russell Kirk and Other Conservative Authors

ORIGINALISM AS IDEOLOGY

4/24/2019

Originalism as Ideology
by Michael S. Greve
Once you think about where originalism came from and what it was supposed to do, you begin to suspect that it may have run its course. Read More »

Symmetric Constitutionalism: A Judicial Ethos for Polarized Times
by Zachary S. Price
Courts should seek doctrinal principles that bear even-handed application across different contexts with differing ideological implications. Read More »

The Constitution Did Not Decrease the Power of the States
by James R. Rogers
Thinking through the logic of the Constitution with public choice theory in mind leads to some counter-intuitive results. Read More »

A New Birth of Intellectual Freedom on the Right
What Does the Fed Know that Nobody Else Knows?
Understanding Trump Country
The Crisis of Left Jurisprudence

THE ASSASSINATION OF TROTSKY

4/20/2019

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PARIS IS "WORTH A MASS"; AMERICA'S LAST GREAT JESUIT DIES, FR. JAMES SCHALL

4/20/2019

The Burning of Notre Dame and the Destruction of Christian Europe by Guy Millière •

NICOLE GELINAS
Three Fires, Three Skylines
If it learns from the mistakes of New York and London, Paris could rebuild impressively.

How Notre Dame Echoes Another Harrowing Fire
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | April 19, 2019
https://www.nysun.com/foreign/how-notre-dame-echoes-another-harrowing-fire/90655/
Next to St. Peter's Basilica and the Palace of Versailles, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is probably the most eminent building in all Europe, and of course, is older than the first two. It was saddening and even terrifying to see so much of a splendid building that has endured 856 years consumed in flames.
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Fr. James Schall on Books and Teaching
Roland Millare
“Nothing is more disconcerting, it seems to me, than to enter a home or apartment in which there are no books and no place for books, no sign a book had ever been there. It always seems like a kind of desecration to me, even though I am perfectly aware that bookless people can also […]

Uncle, Father, Jesuit, Professor, Giant
By Tracey Rowland on Apr 18, 2019 11:48 am
The marketing blurb on the book When Jesuits were Giants begins with the statement: No one in France or the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century doubted that the Jesuits, loved [...]
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Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., has died at the age of 91
By Carl E. Olson on Apr 17, 2019 05:16 pm
Fr. James V. Schall, the prolific and much-beloved Jesuit, professor and author, died earlier today. His family states that “he was comfortable and at peace” at the time of his death. He was born in [...]
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James V. Schall, S.J.: The Embodied Catholic Mind at Work Marc D. Guerra
Midafternoon last Wednesday, on the eve of the Paschal Triduum, I got word that Fr. James Vincent Schall, S.J., had died. The news did not come as a complete surprise; a few days earlier I heard that he was going to be moved from a hospital in Los Gatos, California to a hospice. My first […]

Recollections of a Good Priest and a True Scholar John M. Vella
Last week, a good and holy priest went to his eternal reward after a long and distinguished life as a teacher and writer. Father James V. Schall, S.J., died of pneumonia at the age of 91 in the company of family on April 17, 2019. A few months earlier he had been hospitalized much to […]

HOW TO SAVE OUR CONSTITUTIONAL MORALITY & PAUL HOLLANDER ON COMMUNISM

4/17/2019

THE AMERICAN MIND

A HOUSE DIVIDED

Paul Hollander, In Memoriam by Lee Edwards
Fascinated by the Western intellectuals’ fascination with communism, Hollander was able to explain it to us. Read More »

RATZINGER TACKLES SEX ABUSE CRISIS IS AMERICA

4/12/2019

Editorial: Benedict XVI’s essay is both insightful and incomplete
By Carl E. Olson on Apr 11, 2019 04:50 pm
Reaction to the unexpected release of a lengthy text—almost exactly 6,000 words in all—by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, titled “The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse”, has been both swift and polarized. Some have [...]
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Full text of Benedict XVI: ‘The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse
’By Catholic News Agency on Apr 10, 2019 08:10 pm
The following is a previously unpublished essay from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: On February 21 to 24, at the invitation of Pope Francis, the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences gathered at the Vatican to [...]
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Benedict’s Essay: The Voice of a True Father Jim Russell
Why the uproar from some Catholic pundits regarding the recently released essay on the abuse crisis from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI? I think it’s pretty simple—regardless of what else one thinks of Benedict (and most of the critics were never fans of his), he speaks and write with a voice that is truly paternal. The […]

The Ratzinger Diagnosis
  By George Weigel on Apr 24, 2019 03:01 am
Published a week short of his 92nd birthday, Joseph Ratzinger’s essay on the epidemiology of the clergy sex-abuse crisis vividly illustrated his still-unparalleled capacity to incinerate the brain-circuits of various Catholic progressives.  The origins of [...]
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NO CONFLICT BETWEEN SPIRITUAL, CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY & AQUINAS ON "HOW TO TEACH"

4/10/2019

Confessions of an American Bead Counter, Part 2 Peter Maurice
In an earlier Crisis essay, I recalled the dismay at a social gathering when the host, a graduate of a Jesuit university, learned that his guest was a “bead counter.” Liberal Christians approve, and are even known to practice, the social gospel; however, they suspect a conflict between corporal works and spiritual devotions—like that prayer […]

Chaput, Sarah, and Schneider Weigh in on Our Troubled Times Jonathan B. Coe
One of the lessons of both the history of Israel and the Church is that it is unwise for the faithful to tie their sense of emotional and spiritual well-being to the words and actions of those who rule over them. This fact is highlighted with both clarity and brio by the 2018 book by […]

Professors Don’t Teach if Students Don’t Learn the Truth Edvard Lorkovic
Discussing St. Thomas Aquinas’s love of teaching, Josef Pieper writes: Teaching does not consist in a man’s making public talks on the results of his meditations, even if he does so ex cathedra before a large audience. Teaching in the real sense takes place only when the hearer is reached—not by dint of some personal […]

HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE CHALLENGE OF KANT, DRAMA VS. TYRANNY AND THE IDEA OF VICTIMHOOD BEGINS WITH ROUSSEAU

4/10/2019

Intellect and Intuition: Longing for Insight?
By Eva Brann on Apr 08, 2019 10:00 pm
We say of people that they have intuition. We apparently mean that they apprehend things directly without belaboring them by analysis or
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William Warburton’s “Via Media” Between Church and State
By Nayeli Riano on Apr 04, 2019 09:59 pm
William Warburton was a man who, as a theologian living through the debates of the Enlightenment, readapted his role while staying true
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Drama versus Tyranny
By Joseph Pearce on Apr 06, 2019 09:59 pm
Going to the theatre is not a means of escaping from the “real world” and all its problems; nor is it a
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Victimology 101: Rousseau, Victimhood, and Safe-Spaces
By Steven Kessler on Apr 05, 2019 10:00 pm
Many liberals maintain that they themselves are victims. Where does this belief come from? And why would anyone want to be a
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From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition
By W. Winston Elliott III on Apr 12, 2019 09:45 pm
From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition by Clyde N. Wilson (356 pages, The Foundation for American Education, 2003) Today’s
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THE LAST MODERNIST: BARZUN

4/6/2019

The Last Modernist: The Legacy of Jacques Barzun
by David Warren
As recently as half a century ago, there was a significant community in the United States which aspired—in a humble, decent, republican way—to acquire and promote high culture. These were the sort of people who launched “great books” programs, and begged European intellectuals to cross the Atlantic and teach them everything they knew. Jacques Barzun found and ministered to them... [MORE]

“The Nihilism of the Empty Tomb”
By Denise Sobilo on Apr 05, 2019 01:00 pm
They seek him here; they seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell? That damned,
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SECULAR ABSTRACTIONS, RELIGIOUS MILITANCY & CATHOLIC IDENTITY

4/3/2019

How Now Shall We Live?
Regis Nicoll
From days of old, mankind has wrestled with the question of ethics. In ancient Israel, after fifty years of Babylonian captivity had all but erased God’s providence and law from memory, the Jewish community wondered aloud: “How now shall we live?” The very question presupposes a standard and a purpose. Even the early Greeks, influenced […]

Catholicism in a Time of Dissolution James Kalb

Is Vatican II Irrelevant Now? David G. Bonagura Jr.
Is Vatican II irrelevant now in the seventh year of Francis’s pontificate? In one respect, yes; in another, no. Neither explanation is what one might expect at first glance. Popes Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI devoted the heart of their respective pontificates to trying to implement—or salvage, depending on one’s perspective—the teachings […]

HOMOSEXUALITY & PRIESTLY FORMATION

4/3/2019

Male Homosexuality and Priestly Formation
Adrian Reimers
There is no homosexuality. Of course, there are homosexuals, but there is no one thing, no one condition or syndrome that is homosexuality. If we are to address the “homosexual problem” in the Church, then we must first understand what we are talking about, and whatever that is, it is not a thing called homosexuality. […]

Analysis: Gregory, Apuron, ‘zero tolerance,’ and pontifical secrets
By Catholic News Agency on Apr 04, 2019 11:44 pm
Washington D.C., Apr 4, 2019 / 04:12 pm (CNA).- Thursday morning, the Vatican announced the fates of two American archbishops: one has become the next Archbishop of Washington, and the other has been declared guilty [...]
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Analysis: Gregory’s road to Washington
By Catholic News Agency on Apr 04, 2019 12:53 pm
By Ed Condon Washington D.C., Apr 4, 2019 / 04:40 am (CNA).- The appointment of Archbishop Wilton Gregory to succeed Cardinal Donald Wuerl brings an end to one of the most anticipated and drawn out [...]
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The role of clericalism in the current crisis
By Christopher R. Altieri on Apr 03, 2019 06:37 pm
The Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles J. Chaput, recently delivered remarks that focused on the leadership crisis in the Church. The churchman — a leader widely respected and admired for good reason — was right in [...]
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THE RECOVERY OF CIVILIZATION & THE MADNESS OF JACQUES DERRIDA

4/3/2019

The Madness of Jacques Derrida
By Josh Herring on Apr 01, 2019 10:00 pm
In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida’s prose functions as a deadly siren call; he appeals to the contradictions of language, summoning the reader to
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“Little Places” and the Recovery of Civilization
By Eva Brann on Apr 01, 2019 10:00 pm
It is mainly little places which permit the modesty of pace needed for long thoughts, and the conditions of closeness under which
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CATHOLIC ECONOMICS
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