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June 9, 2021 |
Note from the Managing Editor:
How awesome is our God. I have experienced his miraculous power myself in recent days. We are expecting our first child, and a terminal diagnosis was recently reversed, praise be to God! We begin this week with a reflection from Saint John Chrysostom on this very might: "Do you see God's wisdom, how the greatest of evils, the ultimate disaster for us, which the devil introduced (I mean death), how this changed into our honor and glory"? So much of the current rhetoric is driven by this mistake: "Intellectual utopian schemers are reluctant to accept the existence of a human propensity to self-destruction." (I always find surprisingly logical that man may reject God and sin, but still can't relinquish the idea of Heaven. And every attempt to create a heaven on earth ends up with the opposite.) Read more in Theodore Dalrymple's "The Pain Principle." George Weigel writes on "The Healer: Paul McHugh at 90." "If American culture ever recovers its senses, Paul McHugh will be recognized as one of the great figures of our time." He believed that "substituting ideology and woke faddishness for evidence-based healing [is] a betrayal of those whom physicians are sworn to serve and a degradation of the healer's unique vocation." This is a real and current battle (which you can read more about in an upcoming editorial: "What Happens When Doctors Can't Tell the Truth?"). Finally, we end with a review of Richard Greene's biography of Graham Greene. I greatly enjoy his works, and the snippets of the man presented in the review: "he would carry with him other people's business cards, and when he spotted a friend in a restaurant, he would write lewd or inscrutable proposals on the back of a card, send it across, and watch the friend's reaction." I hope you all have a wonderful week! - Meaghen Gonzalez |
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