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September 2, 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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"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad." - George Orwell



Editorials of Interest:

Why Bother Going to Mass? - Crisis Magazine
Sleepers, Awake - The Catholic Thing
Conrad Black: Burke & Trump - The New Criterion
Why we are where we are - Denver Catholic
The art of taking care - Dappled Things
Against Women's Suffrage - Crisis Magazine
An Apologia - Crisis Magazine

Editorials of Interest


Why Bother Going to Mass? - Crisis Magazine

It would be interesting to ask American Catholics why exactly they should go to church. How many would say, "Because only there can I receive the saving body and blood of my Lord Jesus Christ?"


Sleepers, Awake - The Catholic Thing

Although they may not recognize it, the patients who lose their faith may have made tacit arrangements with God to protect them from calamity if they lived "good lives" — and interpreting God's silence as His agreement.


Negotiating grace, nature, freedom, autonomy: A conversation with Douglas Farrow - CWR

"The faith is handed down to us by the Church. We don't get to invent it," says the author of Theological Negotiations: Proposals in Soteriology and Anthropology. "But we do share in the task and responsibility of trying to understand it."


In defense of St. Damien of Molokai - YouTube

Bishop Robert Barron responds to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's attack on St. Damien.


Boston priest claims Catholics can support 'right to choose' abortion, archdiocese declines comment - CWR

Msgr. Garrity wrote: "I am pro-life and I believe in a woman's right to choose. I will vote for Joe Biden for President because I believe that Joe Biden is pro-life like me."


Believe in God in 5 Minutes (Scientific Proof) - YouTube

How can a scientist believe in God?


How To Defend Society Against Science - RPA

The most provocative statement one can make about the relation between science and religion is that science is a religion.


Scientism: America's State Religion - The American Mind

We are hostages to the clerics of an intolerant faith.


A disturbing guide to the devilish Karl Marx - CWR

Dr. Paul Kengor's The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration, aims to rigorously demonstrate how deeply and directly the Father of Communism was inspired by the Father of Lies.


Conrad Black: Burke & Trump - The New Criterion

As nationalists and believers in the defense of rights in their own countries, as capitalists and as relatively broad-minded men in social matters and respecters of Christianity, they have distinct similarities.


Revisiting Chesterton and The Mystery of Capital - Public Discourse

Allowing capital to move is exactly what generates wealth. Yes, we could freeze capital in its current location; but then we would repeat the economic decline of impoverished countries by locking up that capital's full, invisible potential.


Why we are where we are - Denver Catholic

It's hard, verging on impossible, to imagine the president-to-be-inaugurated next January summoning the country to national unity through magnanimity because our political culture has become so coarsened that it cannot cast up presidential candidates capable of credibly making that kind of appeal.


Learning the Right Lessons from COVID-19 Can Benefit Mothers after the Pandemic - Public Discourse

So much of feminist thought is concerned with the idea that women need affordable, high-quality childcare options so that they can pursue professional success. But there is so little written on the ways we could use technology so that women could be with their children the vast majority of the time while still advancing in their careers.


The Woman Who Inspired Wicca - First Things

Just under a century ago, in 1921, one of the strangest books ever to be published by Oxford University Press appeared in print: The Witch-Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Alice Murray.


A Letter to Catholics who Support Abortion - Clarifying Catholicism

Faith involves humility, because it is impossible to know all that God reveals to us. A part of this humility is to submit our assent to authorities and so He gave us the Magisterium.


Why We Shouldn't Watch Cuties - First Things

How can a film about sexualizing children could solve the problem of sexualizing children?


Fighting the Burnout Culture: How Personalist Philosophers and Benedictine Monks Can Help Stressed-Out College Students - Public Discourse

What are the ends of education? How do various conceptions of the human person influence our understanding of education? What does a liberal arts education look like in an educational system dominated by specialized fields of study and focused on credentials and skills? How do friendship and community relate to education?


Futurists forget that we have bodies - UnHerd

Plans for a post-city world of virtual interaction would rob us of our essential physicality.


How to get rid of bad thoughts - Aleteia

Anyone can have troubling thoughts, but how do we get rid of the ones that threaten to separate us from God?


The art of taking care - Dappled Things

There are perks to straightening up. Mind you, if there is anything better to do, I will do it.


There Is No Vocation to the 'Single Life' - Crisis Magazine

What is the difference between an occupation or profession and a vocation? You can quit a job or switch careers. Not so with the priesthood, religious life, or marriage.


Against Women's Suffrage - Crisis Magazine

One hundred years later to the day, any sober and dispassionate mind must conclude that giving ladies the right to vote was the single greatest catastrophe in the history of our storied republic.


An Apologia - Crisis Magazine

I wasn't surprised to find that my last column, "Against Women's Suffrage," attracted some criticism.


What Rome's emperors looked like: From Caligula to Tiberius - Daily Mail

An artist uses AI tech to reveal how legendary rulers would have looked around 2,000 years ago.


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

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