New McCarrick Review – “Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark commissioned this week an independent review into the results of an independent investigation he previously ordered into the fallout of the 2018 scandals surrounding Theodore McCarrick.” Tobin commissions independent investigation into independent investigation report (The Pillar)
Theologizing Illegal Immigration- “In so many words, the Holy Father urged his brother bishops to intervene in American politics and oppose the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce our country’s immigration laws.” Pope Francis’ Apocalyptic Dream (First Things)
A Sacramental Reality – “Combined with the Christian understanding of creation which affirms that all that God created was “good”, the Incarnation thus erases all vestiges of an oppositional dualism between matter and spirit, God and world, and time and eternity.” The Hermeneutics of Kenosis, Part Three: On the Humility and Kenosis of God (Gaudium et Spes 22)
The DOE Failed – “I served as the 11th U.S. secretary of education. That’s how I know it’s beyond repair.” Betsy DeVos: Shut Down the Department of Education (The Free Press)
Ordo Amoris – “Catholic commentators should at least be honest about the integrity of the teaching, rather than attack it because the “wrong” person said it.” JD Vance is obviously, and unremarkably, correct about the order of love (Our Sunday Visitor)
The Catholic Land Movement – “With the Industrial Revolution uprooting the working class from the land and resettling them in factories, Leo XIII specifically taught that households have a right to productive property so as to provide for themselves.” The Trendy Peasant (Crisis Magazine)
The Cultural Infestation – “We have college graduates who have not read a single book in their lives. We are not replacing ourselves with children. Marriage is not on the rocks; it hardly gets out of port to begin with. Churches are closing.” Vandals Within (The Catholic Thing)
Not Banning Contraception – “Laurie Pohutsky, 36, said she made the choice because she was ‘uncertain she would be able to access contraception’ in the future.” Democratic lawmaker undergoes ‘voluntary sterilisation’ because of Trump presidency (The Telegraph)
The Transgender Moment Ending – “After a four-year ban, Amazon has returned EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson’s book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment to its cyber shelves.” Amazon Lifts Ban on Ryan Anderson (Ethics & Public Policy Center)
Catholic Charities Layoffs – “Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston laid off more than 20% of its work force this week, amid a White House freeze on federal reimbursements for contracted refugee and migrant resettlement programs.” Houston Catholic Charities cuts 20% of staff amid migration grant freeze
A ‘Stop’ Agenda – “Hostility to the excesses of the federal government is a possible source of consensus on the right.” Stand Athwart the Progressive Leviathan (National Review)
Europe’s Temporal Immanence – “Recent attacks on religion in Europe show that the land that nursed Christianity to maturity is in desperate need of re-evangelization.” Europe’s Wars of Anti-Religion (Crisis Magazine)
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