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Serving Catholics for 25 Years
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| Note from the Managing Editor |
"The love of Christ dying on the cross for our sakes was more pleasing to God than the totality of all men's sins can displease him. It is on this point above all others that we should pause in contemplation."
I love that our Faith provides us with a different perspective—a true perspective—and one that offers hope in the face of what the world so often says is dark and distorted.
Casey Chalk encourages us to drink deeply "of the beauty and goodness of our Western tradition" for then "the more capable we are of creating communities and even nations that respect human dignity and orient our hearts to life-giving transcendent truths."
In a piece from his new Substack Word & Song, Anthony Esolen explains that true freedom is not "to do what you feel like, so long as you don't tread on your neighbor's corns," but the union of liberty and virtue.
And then in "For Sex to Be What It Should," John Cuddeback challenges an assumption that "we should try to maximize pleasure as though this is the focal point of the act" and posits that fasting will help us see the true nature of sex as "an act of love."
God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez
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"Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not." - Flannery O'Connor
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| Don't Wait for the Teachers |
| Casey Chalk, Crisis Magazine |
| A friend of mine recently told me that he and his wife (devout Catholics) had decided to cancel their Disney+ subscription for their elementary school-aged children. |
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| Take the Red-Eye |
| Dr. Douglas Farrow, Desiring a Better Country |
| and get some shut-eye... |
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| Diversity, Conservative Style |
| Theodore Dalrymple, Law & Liberty |
| One reason—perhaps the only reason—for optimism occasioned by the recent struggle for leadership of the Conservative Party in Britain is the remarkable ethnic diversity of the candidates and at the same time the almost non-existent part it played in the choice between them. |
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| Word of the Week: Liberty |
| Anthony Esolen, Word & Song |
| Welcome, everyone, to Word of the Week! And as is fitting for this day, and for our inaugural entry, today's word is LIBERTY. |
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| Your Life Before Birth |
| Endowment for Human Development |
| By helping people see the developing child, you can motivate them to better appreciate and support pregnant women and make healthier choices during pregnancy, whenever it occurs. |
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| 8 Family Read-Alouds All Ages Will Enjoy |
| The Federalist |
| Over the past year, my children and I have spent almost every weekday morning reading together while drinking tea or eating tiny portions of our Easter candy for weeks on end. |
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| The Bookshelf: You Could Look It Up |
| The Public Discourse |
| From the whimsical to the obscure to the most dry-as-dust earnestness, reference books represent our impulse—perhaps our need—to organize the world around us, and even the worlds inside our heads, into some form of order and sharper understanding. |
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| Husbands and how to understand them |
| LMLD |
| Last Sunday the reading at Mass was the Gospel that is rather uncomfortable: Luke 12:49-53, where Our Lord mentions all the various close relationships that the divisions of His fire-setting will cause. |
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