Note from the Managing Editor:
In "Living in the Present Instant" the Venerable Father Francois-Marie-Paul Libermann explains how important it is for us to keep ourselves at peace and then gives us some advice on exactly how to do that.
Elizabeth Scalia knows about little sins and why we need to pay attention to them. We have the introduction to her book, Little Sins Mean a Lot: Kicking Our Bad Habits Before They Kick Us.
Fathers matter. Yes, they do. In "Black Fathers Matter", Larry Elder focuses on the absence of fathers in so many black households, which the author claims is a much bigger threat to black communities than is racism.
This week the Holy Father made some rather controversial comments which caught the attention of the secular world. We don't like to get down in the mud here at CERC, but when something the Holy Father has said, stirs up the likes of the Washington Post, The Week, and many other media outlets, it's time for a little deeper analysis and some context. On opposite sides of the question of whether the Holy Father's comments are even worth thinking about are John Allen, jr., who holds that it's all a tempest in a teapot, Phil Lawler who thinks it's not, Edward Peters who thinks John Allen has made some mistakes of fact and logic, and Father Alexander Lucie-Smith who thinks Pope Francis has made an important point. - J. Fraser Field |
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Living in the Present Instant - Venerable Father François-Marie-Paul Libermann - from Lettres du Venerable Pere Libermann
Be docile and pliable in the hands of God. You know what you must do to achieve this.
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Introduction - Elizabeth Scalia - from Little Sins Mean a Lot
When Bert Ghezzi approached me about writing this book, I gave him a bemused look and said, "you've got to be kidding me. I am a walking, breathing billboard for bad habits, and a cautionary tale against little sins, unattended and left to run rampant"
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Black Fathers Matter - Larry Elder - Prager University
Which poses a bigger threat to black communities: Racism? Or the absence of fathers?
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The EU's Unholy, Un-Roman, Un-Empire - Robert Royal - The Catholic Thing
One of the world's most militantly secular and haplessly bureaucratic entities — which also labors mightily to spread its errors to the world — is facing a test and perhaps a defeat this week.
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The Metaphysics of the Bathroom - Robert R. Reilly - Catholic World Report
What accounts for the prominence of the issue of transgenderism and the passions that it ignites?
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Waving, Not Drowning - Roger Scruton - The American Spectator
When the self-policing regime of morality breaks down, the state must take charge of the mess.
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Squirrel Nutkin and the Art of Mischief - Sean Fitzpatrick - Crisis Magazine
The world of Beatrix Potter is the real world: moral, but not moralistic; a world of pursuit and prey, of dangers and delights, of existence and enchantment.
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St Anthony's Wisdom and Ours - Father George W. Rutler - From the Pastor
The first Christians knew well the degrading course of systemic moral corruption.
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Editorials of Interest:
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Editorials of Interest
Evangelization Requires Authentic Catholicism - Liturgy Guy
Authenticity requires that we live with a sense of the supernatural. Frequent the sacraments. Remain in a state of grace. Hate sin. When you fall, run to Confession. Rinse. Repeat.
The Ugly Present - The Feminine Gift
No matter my vocation, the fact is that I will still have to deal with my ugly present, my daily struggle to be holy. And that orientation towards holiness happens in the present moment, not in some idyllic future.
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us |
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