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April 21, 2021 |
Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:
Happy third week of Easter! We have a wonderful newsletter for you this week. I particularly enjoyed John Cuddeback's "Our Pressing Need for Friendship" — an important message especially now, when our communal natures have been ignored and denied for the past year. Bishop Robert Barron's "We're all becoming Platonists now" was also extremely eye-opening. (I had no idea purely Platonic thought could be problematic!) "In his principal work, The Open Society and Its Enemies, [Karl] Popper identified Plato as the father of modern totalitarianism, for Platonic political thought, he argued, subordinates the individual to a grandly abstract construal of justice. So as to attain the right balance between the three great divisions of society . . . the guardians, Plato's philosopher-kings, can utterly control the lives of those in his charge, even to the point of censoring music and poetry, regulating pregnancy and childbirth, eliminating private property, and annulling the individual family." Sound familiar? In other news, our Editor Fraser and his wife Madeleine along with CERC headquarters have moved again to, providentially, Mary Street. Their new address is: 2-222 Mary Street Victoria, B.C. V9A 3V9 God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez |
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Editorials of Interest Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan: It's Time to Get Back to Mass! - Catholic NY
God told us, "Remember to keep holy the Lord's Day!" Scott Hahn's best every talk - St. Paul Center
Start your study of The Bible and the Mass while these talks are available for free Right the Wrong: Stand Against Use of Aborted Children in COVID-19 Vaccine Development - YouTube
Bishop Joseph Strickland recently promulgated a pastoral letter "On the Ethical Development of COVID-19 Vaccine." He called for the vaccine for COVID-19 to be developed without the use of aborted children. Stacy Trasancos, Director of the St. Philip Institute, and Deacon Keith Fournier, Board Member, discuss the significance of this historic letter. A Broken Society Explains Why People Are So Lonely - Those Catholic Men
A friend of mine works at a health clinic in a medium-sized town in the Midwest. He told me about a particular kind of patient that comes in for treatment. The curious thing about these particular patients is that they are not sick. Catholic Men, Rise Up and Fight - Crisis Magazine
We've been writing for years about the crisis of manhood, and that crisis has come to a head within the past year, particularly in the Catholic Church. Not a Loaf, but Leaven - The Catholic Thing
Arecent Gallup poll indicates that, for the first time in living memory, fewer than half of Americans (47 percent) consider themselves members of a church. On the intimate nature of Confession - CWR
The practice of confession and the seeking of absolution is both primal and practical. Should Suffering Shake Our Faith? - Word on Fire
Premier Christian Radio in the UK just sponsored a survey that investigated how the COVID crisis has affected religious beliefs and attitudes. Philip, Prince of Nowhere - UnHerd
The ultimate outsider somehow became a figurehead for Britishness. A Medical Student Questioned Microaggressions. UVA Branded Him a Threat and Banished Him from Campus. - reason
Kieran Bhattacharya's First Amendment lawsuit can proceed, a court said. A 75-Year-Old Warning about Those Who Say 'Listen to the Science' - FEE
When people say "follow the science," often what they're really saying is "follow our plan." Science, Politics, and COVID: Will Truth Prevail? - Imprimis
The COVID pandemic has been a tragedy, no doubt. But it has exposed profound issues in America that threaten the principles of freedom and order that we Americans often take for granted. The border is even worse than you think - Washington Examiner
Anyone paying attention to the news knows the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border is terrible. Anyone who actually visits the border discovers it is worse than that. Catholic martyrs' bones identified almost 150 years after discovery in an attic - CWR
It's a mystery that has puzzled researchers for almost 150 years. Jordan Peterson Explains the Death Of Mainstream Media - YouTube
Jordan B. Peterson discusses why the mainstream media is dead. RIP Judith Reisman, counter-revolutionary and founder of th
e anti-Kinsey movement - The Bridgehead Reisman, the woman dubbed "the founder of the modern anti-Kinsey movement" by the New Yorker, was a counter-revolutionary in a culture where the Sexual Revolution has been utterly ascendant. Ideas have consequences - CWR
An excerpt from Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living, by Charles J. Chaput. St. John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
