Note from the Managing Editor:
On the few occasions when I've had the good fortune to speak with author/artist Michael O'Brien, those conversations have always quite naturally found their way into the depths. O'Brien strikes me as a man singularly incapable of being superficial or uninteresting. A new biography about Michael O'Brien, On the Edge of Infinity, details the life of this remarkable Catholic intellectual, artist, mystic, and prophet. We have an excerpt from the prologue below.
I'm always heartened when I hear about a Catholic leader whose backbone is on display. Recently, Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence advised his flock not to take their children to gay Pride parades. Tobin was promptly, widely, and viciously attacked on social media for asserting the obvious. "Of course children should not go to a Pride parade," says Anthony Esolen, "just as they should not be looking at pornography, or being made to think about what grown-ups do in bed." See Esolen's unpacking of this utterly ridiculous dust-up, "Bishop Tobin Attacked for Speaking a Plain Truth."
And finally I recommend you have a look at what Ana Samuel has to say to Pete Buttigieg, "A Message to Mayor Pete from a Latina Mama: 'Don't Force Your Sexual Ideology on Me and My Children'"
God Bless you all this week. - J. Fraser Field |
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"God has assigned as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman." - Saint John Paul II
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The Commandment of Love - Saint Teresa of Calcutta - from Jesus, The Word to be Spoken: Prayers and Meditations for Every Day of the Year
If you don't have love for one another, then how can you love Christ?
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Epilogue - Clemens Cavallin - On the Edge of Infinity: A Biography of Michael D. O'Brien
"Michael O'Brien is, I believe, the greatest living Catholic novelist... There are not many people in the world who are more worth meeting than Michael O'Brien." - Peter Kreeft
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Bishop Tobin Attacked for Speaking a Plain Truth - Anthony Esolen - Crisis
A few days ago, Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence sent out a message that within living memory absolutely no mother or father, liberal or conservative, Christian or Jewish or secular, or anyone old or young would have considered to be controversial.
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The Mendacity of Public Officials - Father George W. Rutler - From the Pastor
While experience cautions theologians against the quicksand of politics, politicians not infrequently rush in to theological matters where angels fear to tread.
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Editorials of Interest:
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Editorials of Interest
Time To Take the Lead - First Things
Religious and social conservatives, not classical liberals and libertarians, need to lead American conservatism.
Brexit Did Not Cause Brexit - First Things
In the British media's coverage, two things stood out. First, the establishment's failure to realize that Brexit did not cause Brexit; and second, its venomous contempt for those who voted Leave.
The Mendacity of Public Officials - Crisis Magazine
While experience cautions theologians against the quicksand of politics, politicians frequently rush into theological matters where angels fear to tread.
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us |
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