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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

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

9/27/2019

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
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”

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

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

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