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| Note from the Managing Editor |
We have a wonderful lineup of articles for you this week. In particular I recommend Conscience, COVID Vaccines and the Common Good by Msgr. Charles Pope. He writes:
"Whatever 'familiarity' vaccine mandates may evoke, we in the Church still have a stance and have been teaching that conscience should be respected and that mandates 'must be voluntary.' This tradition and teaching should not be controversial in Catholic circles, and it certainly should not be violated within our own institutions."
Bishop Robert Barron's "Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism, and the distinction between fact and fiction" is also a must-read.
"What opens the door to totalitarianism is … the radical indifference to objective truth, for once objective value has been relativized or set aside entirely, then all that remain are wills competing for dominance. And since the war of all against all is intolerable in the long run, the strongest will shall eventually emerge — and inevitably impose itself on the other wills. In a word, totalitarianism will hold sway."
Joseph is recovering well — thank you all for your continued prayers! My husband and I are becoming quasi-nurses as we learn how to care for him (he has both a tracheostomy and a gastrostomy tube). It is daunting, but we are very motivated — we are hoping to bring him home in three or four weeks!
God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez
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"Man can only find himself in a sincere gift of himself." - Pope Saint John Paul II
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| Know the Ways |
| Anthony Esolen, Magnificat |
| In our time, the saintly must prove itself to the political, which often stops up its ears. In the time of Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) it was often the other way around: the political had to prove itself to the saintly. |
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| The World Over: Remembering Fr. Neuhaus |
| YouTube |
| Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, the late, founding editor of First Things, from a June 2002 episode of The World Over discusses the clergy sex abuse crisis and his book, As I Lay Dying. |
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| Guild of St Clare: An Introduction |
| YouTube |
| The Guild of St Clare was founded in 2010 to support priests celebrating the traditional Mass by mending and making their vestments, and to teach the skills needed to do it. |
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| Why the Novus Ordo needs Gregorian Chant |
| First Things |
| In his recent motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, Pope Francis called the Novus Ordo Mass the "unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite." |
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| Why 2021 is the Year of Dante |
| The Catholic Telegraph |
| Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, and Italy is ready to celebrate the author whose epic poem through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven has influenced the art, imagination, and faith of so many down the centuries. |
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| Speaking Up |
| City Journal |
| A new bill offers hope of protecting free-speech rights at American universities. |
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| Prayers, Not Thoughts |
| The Catholic Thing |
| "Words convey reality," wrote Josef Pieper, one of the great modern Catholic philosophers, reflecting on language's power. |
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| How St. Helena Handled a Difficult Marriage |
| Catholic |
| In my work against divorce, and in advocating for marriage permanence as Christ intended, I am regularly in contact with devastated men and women whose spouses have abandoned them. |
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