“Governing elites . . . have cruelly abandoned broad swathes of vulnerable Americans—including children, the working class, black Americans, and the urban poor—in implementing scientifically uninformed, politically partisan, and self-serving policies.” Proving the Point at Saint Vincent College (City Journal)
Technology, feminism, and the human person – “Favale interweaves reason with narrative, literary references, and autobiography to offer an argument that is grounded emotionally as well as intellectually.” Gender After Eden (First Things)
Trust problems – “Trust in traditional media has declined to an all-time low, and many news professionals are determined to do something about it.” Media trust hits new low (Axios)
A Fraternal Open Letter – “It is the duty of all bishops to promote and to safeguard the unity of faith and the discipline common to the whole Church.” Why I Signed the Open Letter to Germany’s Bishops (First Things, Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone)
Consequences of Lockdown – “When, the summer before last, the results of the first Covid wave began to be tallied in the media, there were different ways of measuring the devastation.” Here’s Why No One Wants to Talk About Sweden (The Epoch Times)
Truth and Rhetoric – “Today, as in the days of Plato, rhetoric is what moves the crowd. But as Plato knew, truth, not rhetoric, is the task of philosophy and philosophers.” Rowan Williams and Our Sentimental Age (First Things)
A Bad Benefit – “Yelp will cover the travel expenses of employees” who want to “travel out of state for abortions, joining the ranks of major employers” trying to defy “restrictions on abortion in Texas and other states.” Yelp to cover travel expenses for workers seeking abortions (ABC News)
Fasting from “Whiteness” – For the duration of the Lenten season, the historic First United Church of Oak Park in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, excluded “any music or liturgy written or composed by white people” from worship services. Historic Church’s Woke New Spin on Lent Includes ‘Fasting from Whiteness’ and Race-Based Liturgy Overhaul (Western Journal)
The social media war – Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and one of the world’s richest men, delivered a letter to Twitter with a proposal to acquire all outstanding shares of the company for $54.20 each. Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter, says company ‘needs to be transformed’ (NBC News)
The Common Good – “In the Catholic tradition, the classic definition of the common good is a set of conditions that allows each and every member of a community to flourish.” The Common Good (The Imaginative Conservative)
Does progress have to mean the sexual liberation of children? – “So while the term ‘groomer’ is unfair in the sense that the intent behind most of this infant erotic proselytising really isn’t initiating sexual contact with those kids, it’s also entirely justified.” The rise of the liberal groomer (UnHerd.com)
Prayer and the Present – “The reality of human existence is that all we ever have available to us is what is experienced in this very minute, right here, right now.” Released and Healed through Prayer (Integrated Catholic Life)
Unpleasant Holiness – “Sometimes it might seem to Christians that holiness is being nice, but it’s not. The more you do God’s will in the world, the more you will have enemies and suffer persecution.” Assertiveness Training for Catholics (Catholic Stand)
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