The New Authoritarians – What changed in March 2020? How have things played out? What are the causes? What can we expect, looking ahead? Evil In Our Time: Naomi Wolf on the Covid Response (Brownstone Institute)
End of Christendom – Christianity was the instigator and guide of Western civilization, the mores and laws of which it ruled for sixteen centuries: this civilization is called Christendom. This era ended in the second half of the twentieth century. The Return to Paganism (Kirk Center)
Christians Misunderstand the Relationship of Poetry to Faith — “Poetry is not merely important to Christianity. It is an essential, inextricable, and necessary aspect of religious faith and practice. The fact that most Christians would consider that assertion absurd does not invalidate it.” Christianity and Poetry (First Things)
Two Catholicisms – The events of the past two or three years, though extraordinary and indeed unprecedented, did not appear ex nihilo. To comprehend them requires attention to their highly complex context. A New Catholicism? The Eugenic Health Tyranny as a Test of Fidelity, Part I (Douglas Farrow Substack)
OSV News – One of the oldest and most trusted names in Catholic media in the United States, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc. (OSV) announced today that it will launch OSV News, a new Catholic news service, on January 1, 2023. OSV to launch a new Catholic news service January 1 (Religion News)
No Farmers, No Food – Thousands of farmers across Europe fight back against not just environmental regulations and the resulting inflation, but also the elites’ Great Reset agenda. PETITION: Stand with Farmers Against the Great Reset! (Life Petitions)
Patron Saints – When St. Agape shows up, K often sees the demons depart. Exorcist Diary: Do Saints Choose Us? (SpiritualDirection.com)
Inseparable Devotions – Devotion to the Blessed Eucharist and devotion to the Sacred Heart are not only two sister devotions; in reality they are only one and the same devotion. Love, the Eucharist, and the Heart of Jesus (Catholic Education Resource Center)
Spam Bots – Musk claims that Twitter failed to respond to multiple requests for internal data and information about how it identifies and suspends fake accounts. Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating acquisition (Washington Examiner)
Changing Definitions — “Our question is how is the CDC and the rest of the world allowed to call the shot a vaccination when it doesn’t even meet your own definition…”: Emails Confirm Why CDC Changed Definitions of Vaccine, Vaccinated (Epoch Times)
Democrats: SCOTUS is racist, sexist — Poll: More than half of Democrats, 53 percent, say they want to “abolish the current Supreme Court and establish a new, democratically elected Supreme Court with justices chosen by the American people directly.” More Than Half Of Dems Want The ‘Fundamentally Racist,’ ‘Sexist’ Supreme Court Abolished (The Federalist)
Intelligible Universe – Astronomers have faith that the microcosm of man’s mind is attuned to the macrocosm of the outside world, that the universe can be read by the intelligence of the human person. Faith, Science, and Wisdom (Catholic Exchange)
Rebuking Sin – Applying salutary discipline, and balancing it with necessary consolations and encouragement is never an easy task. On the Balance of Love and Correction according to St. Gregory (Archdiocese of Washington Blog)
Socialist Business – The stakes for Democratic-led states are high because demographics have shifted massively toward Republican-led states. The Culture War Between the States (City Journal)
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