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March 27, 2019

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New Resources


 
Hungering for Love - Caryll Houselander - Public Domain

In the wilderness Christ experienced the temptation that faces everyone today.


 
What Newman Can Tell Us About the Cardinal Pell Verdict - Father George W. Rutler - Crisis Magazine

The situation now is different from 1852 because George Pell was accused and back then John Henry Newman was at first the accuser. But both subjects have claim to impeccable integrity, as well as being victims of justice miscarried.


 
Cardinal Newman: Saint, Theologian, Prose Stylist - David Carlin - The Catholic Thing

In November of last year, the Vatican certified a second miracle attributed to John Henry Newman (1801-90), and on February 13 of this year, Pope Francis gave his approval to this certification.


 
"Banner in the Sky": One of the Best-kept Secrets in Children's Literature - Sean Fitzpatrick - Crisis

Banner in the Sky is an unmistakably Catholic book.


 
Neurosis, Mental Suffering . . . and Grace - Caryll Houselander - A Rocking Horse Catholic

My childhood experience of anxiety neurosis has conditioned my attitude towards psychological suffering during my whole subsequent life.


 
Dear Father Rutler - Father George W. Rutler - Catholic Herald

Is there a delicate way of letting my wife know I prefer not to hold hands during the Our Father?


 
Unmasking the College-Admissions Fraud - Heather MacDonald - City Journal

The real scam has less to do with the wealthy cheaters who got caught than with the university system itself.


 
Many today are saying "No" - Father George W. Rutler - From the Pastor

There is a law that the time required to complete a task matches the time available.

Editorials of Interest:

Confessions of a Feminist Heretic - Church Life Journal
A Class by Itself - Garden & Gun
Lenten Suppers: Soup! - Like Mother, Like Daughter

Editorials of Interest


The Politically Incorrect Francis:14 Shocking Statements - Crisis Magazine

For liberals who love Francis, read it and weep.


A Tale of Two Georges - EPPC

We may hope and we should pray — intensely — that Cardinal Pell's conviction is reversed on appeal.


Confessions of a Feminist Heretic - Church Life Journal

I can trace my paradigm shift on abortion to two underlying recognitions: a recognition of unborn personhood, and a recognition that the feminist ideal of autonomy sets a woman at war with her own body.


A Class by Itself - Garden & Gun

At Charleston's American College of the Building Arts, the country's only 4-year school dedicated to traditional trades, the students wield tools not only to preserve the past, but also to bring craft back to everyday architecture.


For families of 21 Copts killed by ISIS, martyrdom is 'Fifth Gospel' - CWR

An interview with Martin Mosebach, author of The 21: A Journey into the Land of the Coptic Martyrs, recently published for the first time in English.


Nearly 2 million attend March for Life in Argentina - Angelus News

The event took place in more than 200 locations across the country.


California threatens the seal of confession - First Things

If SB-360 becomes the law in California — and if Catholicism-hostile law enforcers decide to trap priests in their confessional boxes — we could well see another round of, if not martyrs, men willing to risk all for their faith.


One-third of American Catholics consider leaving Church, Gallup reports - Catholic Culture

More than one-third of American Catholics have considered leaving the Church in the wake of the latest abuse scandals, according to a new Gallup poll.


'Eroticising' Children: What We Can Learn From Muslim Parents in Britain - The Stream

We must insist, forcefully and civilly and no matter the pushback, that the government stop indoctrinating and sexualizing our children.


In South Carolina, statewide Catholic Bee tests religious knowledge - Crux

How well would you do if you had to answer questions about the Catholic faith while standing in front of a room full of people?


Prostituted People are the Walking Dead: So Why Does Amnesty International Advocate for the Sex Industry? - Humanum Review

The emergence of a lobby to normalize and legalize the buying and selling of human beings — the basic transaction at work in prostitution — demonstrates how the Left's obsession with sexual libertinism rationalizes the denial of human dignity to others.


There Are No Such Thing As Gays (Or Trannies) - William M. Briggs

There are words that indicate what people are and there are words that indicate what people do.


Father Hardon on Lent and his 7 Rules of Penance - Bellarmine Forum

What more are you going to do for God this Lent?


How The First Sunday of Lent Inspired The Pinata - uCatholic

In medieval Italy, on the first Sunday of Lent, the rulers of the Kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies would give gifts to the peasantry as their Lenten almsgiving.


Lenten Suppers: Soup! - Like Mother, Like Daughter

When it's soup night, even the most spoiled eaters just realize that they are part of something bigger than themselves.


The Economics and Ethics of 'Just Wages' - Public Discourse

As with the concept of the just price, the idea of the just wage combines the subjectivity of the diverse needs and preferences of individuals with the objective demands of justice.


'Virgin and Laughing Child' is unveiled as Leonardo da Vinci's only surviving sculpture - Aleteia

The great master was said to have created it around 1472, when he was 19 or 20.


Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and
St. Justin Martyr, pray for us

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