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September 16, 2020

Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

"Unless we understand the importance of forgiveness and practice it in our relations with others, we will never achieve inner freedom but will always be prisoners of our own bitterness." Our reflection this week is from Fr. Jacques Philippe, and especially pertinent in the current "cancel" culture.

Helping to explain that culture, Theodore Dalrymple writes, "It is now many years that power rather than liberty has been the cynosure of all teaching of political philosophy in universities, the latter being regarded as a mere veil or smokescreen for the maldistribution of the former." See "The Temptations of Power."

It is more than easy to look at the state of the world and despair. In "The Slumber of the Unaware," Elizabeth Mitchell reminds us that there are still good things to nourish! "We focus on the weeds, while He cares fiercely for the wheat. We cannot be dismayed, distracted, or paralyzed by the presence of the nefarious nettles. We must focus on the harvest, which, as Christ tells us 'is plenty, but the laborers are few.'"

Finally, we have an important first-hand account of the coronavirus from Msgr. Charles Pope who, despite being "in the rarefied category of the 5% who require the ICU" writes, "In a secular world where suffering and death have lost all meaning, we must not succumb to meaninglessness. Each of us is called to be a beacon of hope who reassures others that even when the worst comes, God is still at work and can draw great goodness from suffering; He can instil humility in us and produce a future glory."

God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez

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	"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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		Forgiveness - Father Jacques Philippe - Interior Freedom Of course there are cases when the suffering other people cause us is due to a real fault on their part.


		The Temptations of Power - Theodore Dalrymple - Library of Law and Liberty In 1977, the French essayist, Jean-Francois Revel, published a tract with the title "The Totalitarian Temptation."


		The Slumber of the Unaware - Elizabeth A. Mitchell - The Catholic Thing In Anglo-Saxon lore the great mead-hall of Herot, the palace of the noble King Hrothgar, has fallen unto disarray and ruin.


		At the Mercy of One False Brother - Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas - The Catholic Thing David Pierre of Media Report has published an illuminating new book, The Greatest Fraud Never Told: False Accusations, Phony Grand Jury Reports, and the Assault on the Catholic Church.


		I Was Hit Hard By COVID-19 — And I'm Still Not Afraid - Monsignor Charles Pope - National Catholic Register "In this world you shall have tribulation. But have confidence, for I have overcome the world." (John 16:33)


		The Heavens Declare the Glory of God: The Story of Joseph Haydn - Anthony Esolen - Magnificat "You're the prince of music," said one fellow to another, as they took their ease in their native German tongue.


		Constantine the Great - John Janaro - Magnificat Every conversion story is "great."

Editorials of Interest

Fr. Paul Mankowski, S.J.: A tribute - Cardinal George Pell

In his intensity and single mindedness Paul reminded me of his founder, Ignatius of Loyola, the convert solider who changed the history of the Church after the Reformation.

Remembering Fr. Paul Mankowski - First Things

Father Paul Mankowski, a Jesuit of the Chicago province,was probably the most striking man I have ever met.

Why intention is not everything - CWR

When it comes to the Christian life, it's not only the thought that counts.

Christ at the center of the Council - CWR

Why has the great promise of Vatican II been frustrated so often?

Making sense of Catholic rage - CWR

How did we get to this situation of "armed conflict"?

I'm not a Catholic, but I'd have liked to live in Catholic England - Catholic Herald

If I had to be an English Christian at any one point in history I would choose the eve of the Reformation, in 1520.

Lambeth, 90 Years Later - The Catholic Thing

The Lambeth Conference of 1930 subverted itself, everyone agrees, but how?

Seven Strategies for Dinner with the Barbarians - LMLD

Investing in these strategies now, when you seem so very helpless against that combination of their sheer numbers and your lack of experience, will pay off great dividends in the future.

Dedication of Al Our Martyrs Church - YouTube

Exactly three years after the beheading of 21 Christians on a Libyan beach horrified the world, a new Coptic Orthodox church in the Egyptian village of Al-Aour has been dedicated to their memory.

Newt Gingrich: Kamala Harris is an anti-Catholic bigot - Fox News

This says a lot about the strength of Biden's Catholic background under pressure from the anti-religious left.

Is Neo-Marxism on the rise? - YouTube

Jordan Peterson and John Anderson discuss the worrying modern revival of ideas that history has condemned time and time again

Dispatches from the Great Awokening - Mercatornet

Social media mobs are destroying the careers of liberal journalists.

The Cruelty of Call-Out Culture - NY Times

How not to do social change.

The Occult Spirituality of Black Lives Matter - Crisis Magazine

I couldn't agree more. Whether well-intended or not, those in the Catholic Church who align with the organization Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc., align themselves with a spiritual movement that uses witchcraft to conjure demonic spirits.

Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality - YouTube

Thomas Sowell discusses economic inequality, racial inequality, and the myths that have continued to falsely describe the system of poverty among different racial and economic classes. He explains the economic theories behind these pervasive myths and proposes fact-based solutions for seemingly intractable situations.

Are we overreacting to COVID-19? - Munk Debates

Be it Resolved, the scientific community has overreacted to the threat of COVID-19 and the data prove it.

Bayer to pay $1.6 billion in contraception injury settlement - CNA

Approximately 39,000 women filed claims saying they were injured by Essure, which is a metal coil that is inserted in a fallopian tube.

Why Abigail Shrier took on the transgender craze amongst teenage girls - YouTube

Joe Rogan interviews Abigail Shrier, author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.

Everything to Understand About Marriage. It is still IMPORTANT. - YouTube

Are you at your wits' end trying to explain why you believe marriage is only between a man and a woman? Do your own adult children think you are a bigot for believing what the entire human race has always believed?

The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self Compassion - YouTube

What if we talked to ourselves the way we talk to a good friend?

Vocation and Singlehood - CWR

We should see vocation on the whole spectrum of love, understood as charity, as willing and doing whatever God tells us to do in the duty of the moment, however our lives are externally structured.

Father Paul Mankowski, S.J., RIP - The Catholic Thing

Paul was a humble and fierce soldier for Christ, a true son of Saint Ignatius.

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

Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

New Resources

Editorials of Interest