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| Note from the Managing Editor |
This week, our articles start off with two timely pieces: "Thoughts on the Great Escape" reminds us that we are going to die — an important truth as "COVID forced illness and death, those unwelcome party-crashers, onto the menu of millions of people otherwise cocooned in the normalcy of work, sports, family, Powerball, and vacations."
"The Degeneration of Public Administration" reminded me of this comedic video: "The Chief Apologizes. Theodore Dalrymple writes about how "The trained inability to speak in plain language and to answer straight questions with straight answers is a precondition of advancement."
We also reprint the second part of "Exploring the dark world of vaccines and fetal tissue research." It is a hard read, but a must read. Click here for part 1.
We end with Msgr. Charles Pope, "On the Balance of Love and Correction according to St. Gregory." He discusses how "Correction and rebuke is seldom a feature of preaching today" and how "there are also priests who teach and preach as if trying to win an argument and prevail over others rather than in loving concern." Balance is needed.
God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez
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"Pain is the plow that tears up our hearts to make us open to the truth. If it were not for suffering, we would never recognize our guilt, our godlessness, and the crying injustice of the human condition." - Stanley Hauerwas
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| Thoughts on the Great Escape - Francis X. Maier - The Catholic Thing |
| It's an old joke but a true one: Nobody wants to live to be 100 . . . except the guy who's 99. |
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| Beauty in the Spiritual Life, Pt 3 - David Clayton - New Liturgical Movement |
| I now focus on a single painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus which is embedded with design principles that conform to the pattern of beauty that can permeate our lives too. |
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| Come Back to Mass! - Word on Fire |
| Virtual presentations are absolutely no substitute for the real thing. |
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| Language Barriers - The Catholic Thing |
| Catholics can be separated by language at the very moment when the communion of the Church — its oneness — is, or ought to be, most evident. |
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| A Third Father James and the Illusion of a Third Way - Crisis Magazine |
| Fr. Dwight Longenecker's recent Crisis article, "The Tale of Two Fr. Jameses," warrants a revisit in light of the emergence to the national stage of a third Father James, Fr. James Parker of the Rockford, Illinois, diocese. |
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| What justifies withholding the Eucharist? - Catholic Culture |
| "What do you think about the Chicago archdiocesan policy that requires Catholics to wear a mask in church if they cannot furnish proof of vaccination?" |
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| The Court: Looking for the Low Door under the Wall - The Catholic Thing |
| In July 1989, there was rampant joy in the tents of the pro-lifers, for it looked as though the Supreme Court had taken a magnificent and decisive turn on the matter of abortion. |
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| Standing with Vlad the Impaler - Crisis Magazine |
| Catholics and conservatives must prepare to take an immovable, indignant stand against a destructive cultural tyranny and speak with force against the invasion of ideas and systems that are enemies to truth, goodness, and Western Civilization. |
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| Understanding freedom in an age of false idols - CWR |
| Ryszard Legutko's new book argues that emancipated individualism is as much a left-wing revolutionary idea as socialism, and is proving just as much an absurd, dehumanizing failure. |
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| Tolkien and Theology - The Imaginative Conservative |
| Though C.S. Lewis will always and understandably be identified with popular Christian theology, J.R.R. Tolkien, in a far more private and symbolic manner, promoted Christianity just as deeply and profoundly. |
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