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August 19, 2020

Note from the Managing Editor:

Dear Subscribers,

Meaghen and I will be taking a break during August.

We will continue to send out the editorials of interest every Tuesday, but will not be adding any new articles to the site nor will we be sending out one of Meaghen's delightful notes during that time.

The CERC Weekly update will be back to normal starting September 9. Bless you all. - J. Fraser Field



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Editorials of Interest:

Guardian Angels - Fr Ripperger
Kin in the Game - American Mind
Common Objects of Trust - First Things
The Nonconformist - City Journal
Mayor Pete at Notre Dame - First Things

Editorials of Interest


Rediscovering the reality of the Eucharist - CWR

This in-between time is a privileged time to re-catechize (or in some cases, catechize) the Church in the U.S. on the full, amazing, supernatural meaning of the Eucharist.


Guardian Angels - YouTube

A lecture on Angels. What are they? How do they be? What do they do? How can we grow in our relationship to our guardian angel?


Interview with Dr. Janet Smith - YouTube

Simone Rizkallah, Director of Program Growth, interviews Dr. Janet Smith on Humanae Vitae, the failures of the sexual revolution, and the beauty of love, marriage, and family.


What grapes can tell us about the decline of the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century - Medievalists

In the mid-sixth century the Byzantine Empire was hit by both a pandemic and climate change. New research reveals how grape seeds discovered from that period reveal the scope of the empire's economic downturn.


Kin in the Game - American Mind

Life won't wait. Neither will babies.


Smash Your TV — and Your Smartphone While You're at It - Building Catholic Culture

Let's smash the TV and the smartphone so that we can rediscover the ordinary things and do them.


Why a Generation of Girls Is Fleeing Womanhood - Public Discourse

Abigail Shrier's new book is an outstanding investigative report on the diagnostic craze of rapid onset gender dysphoria that has swept over adolescent girls in the past decade. It is an invaluable resource for parents, educators, church and community leaders, and anyone else who cares about the well-being of young women.


Rather Than Reopen, It's Time to Rethink Government Education - National Review

There is no better time to make a change than right now, when public education is in chaos.


Common Objects of Trust - First Things

COVID-19 media coverage has only further eroded our confidence in established news sources.


Without Proper Context, Leaked COVID-19 Data Is Worse Than Misleading - Heritage

What's the No. 1 coronavirus hot spot in America?


Biden says nuns inspire him to run, plans to sue Little Sisters of the Poor - CNA

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has released a campaign video in which he credits his Catholic faith, Pope Francis, and the example of nuns for his personal inspiration.


Cancel, Conform, Control: Survivors of Communism Discuss US Culture - NC Register

Whether or not the United States is heading in this direction, removing statues, changing the names of streets and buildings and stifling free speech are all considered tactics of regime change.


The Nonconformist - City Journal

Over a lifetime of scholarship and public engagement, economist Thomas Sowell has illuminated controversial topics such as race, poverty, and culture.


Beirut explosion: Video of church altar's survival brings hope - BBC

St Dimitrios Greek Orthodox Church in Achrafieh is less than a kilometre away from where the Beirut explosion took place.


Mayor Pete at Notre Dame - First Things

Pete Buttigieg has been named a 2020-21 faculty fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study.


SF Mayor London Breed shreds white progressives for projecting beliefs onto city's Black residents - SF Gate

San Francisco Mayor London Breed recently spoke with Vogue about certain white progressives involved in the recent demonstrations following the death of George Floyd, and did not have very nice things to say.


Letter #11, June 10, 2020: The Root of the Problem - Inside the Vatican

One important "root" of the present crisis in the Church may be found in part in the "seeding" within the documents of the Second Vatican Council of certain ambiguous teachings which, after the Council, were interpreted in the most radical way. Sometimes that interpretation was not keeping with the perennial tradition of the Church.


Letter #14, July 27, 2020: Dossier Vatican II - Inside the Vatican

Fr. Thomas Weinandy takes up the question of the extent to which the Second Vatican Council may be seen as the origin or source for many of the doctrinal and pastoral problems that have emerged in the Church over the past 55 years since the Council ended.


Letter #21, Monday, August 10, 2020: Again, the Council - Inside the Vatican

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano responds to Fr. Thomas Weinandy.


A Response to Archbishop Vigano's Letter about Vatican II - CWR

The archbishop consistently overstates the ambiguity contained within Vatican II, and equally consistently overlooks the clarity contained in Vatican II.


Why the priest should face East - Catholic Culture

From a homily on Leviticus by Origen, priest.


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

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