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July 3, 2019

Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

Fr. Justin Huang spent $46,000 — a year's salary — on a tabernacle and is challenging his parish to have a Eucharistic heart.  "The concrete expression of this and the challenge for our parish is that each person spend 15 minutes a week with the Eucharist."  See "Why our new chapel?  Thank Mary of Bethany."

Barbara Kay exposes "Gender identity education gone wrong" in Ontario classrooms.  "The words 'gender identity' and 'gender expression' do not apply to everyone.  They apply only to those whose gender identity does not synchronize with their biology."  Children who do identify with their biological sex are not protected in classrooms or in Canadian law.

"The suppression of free speech by the wardens of wokeness has prompted many conservatives to champion free speech as an all-purpose antidote."  But Roger Kimball deepens the debate and argues that the bigger problem is an erosion of shared beliefs.  See "Restoring the lost consensus."

Finally, in "U.S. Bishops Approve the Pope's Capital Punishment Ban," Fr. George Rutler discusses the use of the word "inadmissible" in the papal revision of the Catechism on capital punishment and asks, "How was it that, at a meeting in 2019, almost all of the American bishops voted for something without knowing what it means?"

My goal this week is to spend 15 minutes in front of the Blessed Sacrament.  Will you join me?  - Meaghen Gonzalez

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Understanding the Most Holy Trinity - Msgr. Ronald Knox - from Lightning Meditations

An artist will tell you...he put the whole of himself into that poem, that picture.

 
Why our new chapel? Thank Mary of Bethany - Father Justin Huang - B.C. Catholic

This new tabernacle cost more than one year's worth of my salary. Let me tell you why I bought it.

 
François Mauriac - Heather King - Magnificat

François Mauriac (1885-1970), French author and journalist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with which he has in his novels penetrated the drama of human life."

 
Gender identity education gone wrong - Barbara Kay - National Post

It is clear that something is going terribly wrong with regard to gender teaching in Ontario classrooms.

 
How the Church Has Changed the World: Woman and Teacher - Anthony Esolen - Magnificat

"What are you writing, my old friend?" said a kindly man, looking with care upon a figure lost in thought, with parchment before him.

 
Restoring the lost consensus - Roger Kimball - The New Criterion

Looking around the cultural landscape today, I conclude that we are in the midst of a sort of negative religious revival: let's call it America's First Great Awokening.

 
U.S. Bishops Approve the Pope's Capital Punishment Ban - Father George W. Rutler - Crisis

There have even been bishops so impatient with the subtleties that make theology logical that they have turned two thousand years of Christianity upside down by announcing that the death penalty is absolutely immoral.

Editorials of Interest:

Murder Disguised as Care - First Things
'Transjacking' Sports - The Catholic Thing
'God Wants Me to Be Happy' - Community in Mission
Trusting Coworkers - The Catholic Thing
Bye Bye, Stranger Things - Crisis Magazine

Editorials of Interest

The Beauty of Priestly Celibacy - NC Register

There are many perfectly logical reasons to abandon priestly celibacy, and there always have been. Why did the Latin Rite never do so?

Three Drunks Worth Knowing: An epic sermon by Fulton Sheen - uCatholic

No matter what sin you struggle with, you have the freedom to overcome it.

The Power of One Courageous Altar Server - NC Register

The seldom-told story of the patron saint of altar servers.

Keep the Seal: Protecting the Sacrament of Reconciliation - Archdiocese of San Francisco

Senate Bill 360 would take away from priests and from everyone who works with priests in parishes and Church agencies across the state the full right to confess their sins with the assurance of confidentiality.

The European Union and religious liberty: progress or indifference? - The Catholic Herald

Observers are concerned at the state of religious freedom in the European Union.

Self-Doubt as a Spiritual Virtue - Crisis Magazine

In light of current proposals to change the wording of the last clause of the 'Our Father,' I should like to elaborate further on the value of doubt.

Clergy sex-abuse victims and perpetrators have changed since 2000 - NC Register

The Ruth Institute report 'Receding Waves: Child Sexual Abuse and Homosexual Priests Since 2000,' finds surprising changes in both the victims and the perpetrators of clerical sexual abuse.

Yes, abortion is historically linked to eugenics - Mercatornet

Even today, some bioethicists insist that parents should "improve the stock."

Murder Disguised as Care - First Things

On Friday, the United Kingdom's Court of Protection ordered a mentally disabled pregnant woman to abort her unborn child.

Forced abortion decision overturned on appeal - Catholic Herald

A controversial UK court decision to force a disabled woman to have an abortion has been overturned on appeal.

Gender Ideology and the Catholic Church - Public Discourse

Many today assume that the quantitative sciences are the arbiters of truth, and that any other way of knowing can be no more than private opinion or pseudoscience.

'Transjacking' Sports - The Catholic Thing

The ideal of the amateur athlete may be gone from the Olympic Games, but a belief in the importance of healthy, natural athletes persists. Or does it?

Quebec passes Canada's strictest secularism bill - Catholic Herald

A new law in Quebec prohibits the wearing of religious symbols or clothing by some government employees.

Australian rugby star sacked for posting Christian meme on Instagram - The Federalist

GoFundMe, where Israel Folau initially located his legal defense fund after being fired over a Christian Instagram meme, abruptly closed his account, accusing him of bigotry.

Newman canonization, October 13 - NC Register

Pope Francis has formally approved the canonizations of Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman and four other blessed, and decreed that these canonizations will take place in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, Oct. 13.

'The World Might Actually Run Out of People' - Life News

Two years ago, the predicted that global population in 2100 would be 11.2 billion. The 2019 projection is only 10.9 billion.

'God Wants Me to Be Happy' - Community in Mission

A reflection on a deeply flawed moral stance.

Trusting Coworkers - The Catholic Thing

God never gives a command that He does not also — and already — give the grace to obey.

Bye Bye, Stranger Things - Crisis Magazine

I wish I had a better answer to my own question, "Why didn't I stop funding these people earlier?"

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

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