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Pontifical Chic

Father George W. Rutler

In 2013, Pope Francis sonorously and rightly enjoined the bishops of the world: "Avoid the scandal o...

The light of truth

Father George W. Rutler

From time to time someone will remark that our national flag hanging from the choir loft appears to ...

Suddenly, a song would arise

Hannah Niemeier

On Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time", performed in the crypt of a church in Harlem...

Made for Love: Same-Sex Attractions and the Cathol…

Father Michael Schmitz

"So . . . I'm gay."

Lessons from Churchill’s walk with destiny

Christopher Kaczor

In "Churchill: Walking with Destiny," Andrew Roberts provides an appreciative and definitive biograp...

The Church and Socialism: The Fallacy that Will No…

Hadley Arkes

Another report in the unfolding story of this pontificate:

God & Bertie Wooster

Joseph Bottum

Suppose that words were all you had.

Is Catholic Confession Biblical?

Edward Sri

"Why do I need to confess my sins to a priest? He can't forgive my sins. He's not God!"

Fr. Rutler's Guide to Virtue-Signalling

Father George W. Rutler

Truths become truisms by being true.

A family mission statement: Why and how to make on…

Thomas Lickona

Creating a sense of purpose and identity.

How identity politics destroys freedom

Roger Scruton

It is characteristic of our times to regard freedom as an attribute of individuals
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Love and Responsibility: Avoiding Fatal Attractions

Edward Sri

A man eating lunch at a restaurant notices an attractive woman at another table, and is immediately drawn to her beauty.
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C.S. Lewis, Catholicism, and the Narnian Code

Michael Ward

For a C.S. Lewis fan like myself, few thrills match opening your inbox and finding an unexpected email from Dr. Michael Ward.
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A Crusade of Prayer and Fasting

NC Register

Cardinal Burke and Bishop Schneider have called us to pray a decade of the Rosary and fast once a week for 40 days, from Sept. 17th-Oct. 26th, so that six serious theological errors and heresies in the Amazon Synod's working document will not be approved.
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Scientists create a device that can mass-produce human embryoids

NPR

Researchers welcomed the development as an important advance for studying the earliest days of human embryonic development. But it also raises questions about where to draw the line in manufacturing "synthetic" human life.
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Concerning Bullshit

First Things

"The bullshitter does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. Rather, he pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of truth than lies are."
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The most important economic chart in Western civilization

Acton Institute

Few Americans recognize the importance of the fact that the average income of Americans over the past two centuries went from $2,000 per person to $50,000
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