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September 23, 2020

Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

Our reflection this week begins with a definition: "Prayer is asking God for what is fitting."  What is fitting?

Silverstream Priory is a newly established Benedictine monastery in Ireland. It is a place of radiant monastic life that is bursting with vocations.  See "Homily for the Simple Profession of Dom Isaias Maria Kwasniewski, O.S.B."

Fr. Paul Mankowski passed away on September 3, 2020 and we've reprinted an obituary penned by his friend, Phil Lawler.  See "Farewell, Uncle Di: Father Paul Mankowski, RIP."

If you have ever been labeled as a "single-issue voter," read Anthony Esolen's "Repairing the Foundations."  "'Abortion,' some Catholics say, 'is only one issue.' No, it is not.  It is but the bloodiest form of a many-sided attack upon the very nature of the family.  Attend to the words: not an attack upon the material welfare of families, which would be bad enough, and which neither major party in the United States has been innocent of, but upon their being."

Then we have "The old lies of the Young Turks," an important piece on the truth of the Armenian Genocide.

We end with Fr. George Rutler, who quotes Saint Cyril: "Let us not be ashamed of the Cross of Christ.  ... Make this sign as you eat and drink, when you sit down, when you go to bed, when you get up again, while you are talking, while you are walking: in brief, at your every undertaking."  See "The awful Crucifix."

God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez



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New Resources


 
"What do you wish?" - Dom Augustin Guillerand - The Prayer of the Presence of God

Saint John Damascene's definition of prayer is well known.


 
Homily for the Simple Profession of Dom Isaias Maria Kwasniewski, O.S.B. - Dom Mark Daniel Kirby - In Coenaculo

On the Solemnity of Our Holy Father Benedict, 11 July 2020, Dom Isaias Kwasniewski made his Simple Profession of monastic vows...


 
Farewell, Uncle Di: Father Paul Mankowski, RIP - Phil Lawler - Catholic Culture

My editorial career has brought me into close contact with quite a few impressive thinkers.


 
Repairing the Foundations - Anthony Esolen - The Catholic Thing

Suppose you have homes falling to pieces everywhere in your town.


 
Doves in the Clefts of the Rock - Anthony Esolen - Magnificat

"Mother, I will not let you do this! You're still too young to throw your life away!"


 
The old lies of the Young Turks - Christopher Atamian - The New Criterion

Reflections on the Armenian Genocide on the 100th anniversary.


 
The awful Crucifix - Father George W. Rutler - From the Pastor

In our days of widespread inarticulateness, the word "awesome" is so overused that it loses its power. 

Editorials of Interest


Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - YouTube

Fr. Mike Schmitz's homily asks: How do I look at this world?


Fr. James Altman Interview with Taylor Marshall - YouTube

A wide ranging interview with Father James Altman.


You're meant to be an eagle, not a chicken: A reflection on Baptism - CWR

What would this country would be like if everyone who is baptized lived up to his or her identity as a child of God?


Time to Start Invoking the Ten Commandments in Political Debate - CNS News

We cannot begin to transform the culture without the moral clarity of the Commandments.


The Fatuities of Professor Faggioli - CWR

There is something deeply awry in Massimo Faggioli's understanding of contemporary China and his defense of the Vatican Ostpolitik of the late 1960s and 1970s.


Courts give Congress a license to be reckless - Catholic Culture

The Covington Catholic boys lost one court case earlier this month. The federal appeals panel for the 6th circuit, upholding a decision by a Kentucky district court, could not hold Members of Congress legally accountable for accusing them of hateful speech.


Catholic schools stay open in WI; court date set over COVID closure order - CWR

Wisconsin Supreme Court sets oral arguments for December 8th, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.


Joe Biden Is No JP2 - Crisis Magazine

When Joe Biden quoted Pope John Paul II last week, exhorting Americans to "be not afraid," it raised the hackles of a good number of faithful Catholics.


Queensland passes law requiring priests to break confessional seal - CWR

Failure to do so will be punished with three years in prison.


The Coming Vaccine - The Catholic Thing

We've been manipulated, conditioned — and pitifully compliant. And that, not the lack of a vaccine, is the urgent problem.


On the troubling and growing popularity of cultural Marxism - CWR

The work to make people aware that Marxist communism not only was but still is a really nasty piece of work continues, but with many challenges.


Restoration and Desecration - First Things

In recent years, reports have appeared in the media of art restorations so appalling they produce howls of laughter. That these stories have focused on the mutilation of works of religious art is no accident: Ineptitude combines with sacrilege.


The Coming Pandemonium - Crisis Magazine

Revolution is demonic because demons were the first revolutionaries.


Who Is Opposed to What Free Market Capitalism? - Spectator

How far conservatives have drifted from honest talk about a command economy they pretend is free market.


Jordan Peterson | Full interview | VPRO Documentary - YouTube

We talked to Peterson on the 4th of June 2019, in Toronto, Ontario.


A Sermon by Cardinal Burke: On the Marriage of the Virgin Mary with St Joseph - NLM

Celebrating the Votive Mass of the Marriage of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Saint Joseph, we contemplate anew the great mystery of God's immeasurable and unceasing love for us.


A Prophecy Buried in a 50-Year-Old Medical Journal - NC Register

The 1970 editorial admitted forthrightly that "everyone really knows" when life begins and that "semantic gymnastics" would be necessary to avoid that fact.


A New Ethic for Medicine and Society - NCBI

The fifty-year-old editorial that admits "everyone really knows" when life begins and that "semantic gymnastics" would be necessary to avoid that fact.


Why do those who challenge pro-lifers ignore this key question? - CWR

The burning issue at the center of the abortion debate is simple and unavoidable.


Why sexual morality may be far more important than you ever thought - Kirk Durston

Some moral laws might limit pleasure and enjoyment in the short term but in the long term minimize suffering and maximize human fulfillment.


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

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