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"What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God." - Hans Urs von Balthasar
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| "They do not belong to the world" |
| Saint Justin Martyr, The Fathers of the Church |
| We do proclaim ourselves atheists as regards those whom you call gods, but not with respect to the Most True God. |
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| To Understand Ukraine, We Must Remember The Communist Past |
| Roger Scruton, Forbes |
| It seems that we made a mistake in thinking it was all over, that the inscrutable Russian empire was only distracted for a few years, and that its demonic urge to control its neighbors is now fully revived. (Originally published in 2014.) |
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| Let the Beautiful Creature Live |
| Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine |
| Several years ago, as I have heard tell, my formidable old professor of medieval Italian literature, Robert Hollander, was reading Chaucer, and he fell to weeping because the Christian faith that animated the poet was so beautiful, and he, the professor, could not share it. |
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| Lionheart |
| Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing |
| The head of the Southern Baptist office in Washington D.C. once said to me during St. John Paul II's papacy, "You've got a pope there who really knows how to pope." |
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| The Holy Spirit and Us |
| Fr. Paul Scalia, The Catholic Thing |
| Today's first reading includes a rather curious line. |
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| Why Is It So Hard to Forgive Yourself? |
| YouTube |
| As Catholics, we believe in the forgiveness of our sins through the graces of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. But often, even though we are absolved, we can struggle to forgive ourselves for our past faults and failings. |
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| Forgotten Roman Customs of Pentecost |
| LAJ |
| Many are well familiar by now with the custom of the shower of red rose petals sent down from the oculus of the Pantheon on the feast of Pentecost. |
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| The Finery of Tradition |
| Dappled Things |
| The rich, pungent smell of ancient things was my first taste of the Ursuline Monastery, which has found itself ensconced quite comfortably within the steep, narrow streets of Old Quebec for almost 400 years. |
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| Envy: The Only Sin With No Pleasure |
| Dappled Things |
| Bertrand Russell, the brilliant English philosopher and atheist, did not believe in sin — yet argued that Envy is, "The most unfortunate" of all human passions. |
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| Chesterton and the Millenial Nun |
| The Lamp |
| In an essay that appeared some years back in the Huffington Post, Eve Fairbanks asked why after fifty years of decline, millennial women were discovering religious vocations. |
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| Gender Dysphoria and Adverse Childhood Experiences |
| Public Discourse |
| The way out of rushing to surgical interventions lies in acknowledging that transgender identification has deep roots in the psyche and evaluating gender distress through the lens of adverse childhood experiences. |
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| Making Beethoven Woke |
| City Journal |
| Revisionist performances of classic works deconstruct our precious links to the past. |
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| What a Woman Is |
| Charlotte Was Both |
| In a few states, laws and procedures have been instituted which mandate that "gender identity" be determinative in prison placement. |
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| What Makes a Man: Reflections on the Virtues of Manhood |
| Public Discourse |
| The problematic tendencies within the male condition actually present opportunities for virtue. Thus, they can form the foundation of a positive conception of manhood centered on the virtues of gentlemanliness, moral courage, and chastity. |
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