Prophetic Guidance – “Despite the rise of ‘Nones’ (the non-Church-affiliated), Augustine’s Confessions tends to attract college-age readers. Christians generally turn to Augustine in troubled times . . . ” Why We Return to Augustine (The Catholic Thing)
Talk in the Hallways – The educational landscape in America is changing in a way that is difficult to keep up with. This is the conversation playing out among educators everywhere. Science, Truth, and Disaffiliation (Church Life Journal)
Ukrainian Catholics – “As Ukrainian Catholics brace for another Christmas in the midst of war, Archbishop Gudziak reminds us all, ‘Your prayers deflect bullets…’” Ukrainian Archbishop Borys Gudziak on Catholic Faith, Children and Truth (National Catholic Register)
St. Gallen Group – “Is Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State, the real candidate of the Bergoglian left?” Cardinal Parolin and the Upcoming Conclave (Rorate Caeli)
Integralism Is Alive – “Philosophy, as Etienne Gilson famously observed, always buries its undertakers. Perhaps the same will one day be said of integralism.” No King But Caesar (The Josias)
Homeschooling Smear Campaign – “[T]he most damning evidence The Washington Post can cite to support the claim that homeschooling is facilitating widespread abuse or neglect of minors across the United States is a study with a sample size of 17 children.” Washington Post Cherry-Picks Tragic Abuse Story To Smear The Homeschooling Surge (The Federalist)
Here’s the Thing, Dr. Fauci – “Many Catholics (though enjoying the virtues of a Catholic upbringing) learn to reject the Church that formed their ethics. They profess ‘complicated’ reasons for the rejection. But it usually comes down to one thing.” Validating the Catholic Thing (The Catholic Thing)
Far from Synodal – “In a recent address to members of Cologne’s archdiocesan council, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki offered a bleak portrait of the Catholic Church in Germany.” How deeply split are Germany’s bishops? (The Pillar)
Gender and Sex – “An activist history teacher failed a Seattle student on a quiz for saying only women can get pregnant and that only men have penises.” Rantz: Seattle student failed quiz for saying men can’t get pregnant (770 KTTH)
Abortion Funding – “Abortion advocacy groups received $1.89 billion in federal funding between fiscal year 2019 and 2021, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.” Planned Parenthood Received Nearly $2 Billion in Federal Funding over Three-Year Span, Congressional Probe Finds (National Review)
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@ Far from Synodal
The Pillar explores the mechanics and wide rift within der Synodal Weg, and its interactions with the more universal synodality in Rome. While Germania continues to indulge in tribal exhibitionism, perennial Rome looks for possible harmonization in Synod 2024.
Not mentioned is “the nuclear option”….Will der Synodal Weg trigger an ecclesial and then interreligious chain reaction? Does the question arise whether the (also) sectarian Muslim presence in Germany would now qualify for a Church (Mosque) tax?
The obstacle to date (as understood by yours truly) is that the multiply-divided Muslim groups are unable to decide, as a unified identity, to be serviced by the centralized state tax collector/distributor. Unlike the Protestant (and Jewish) communities—and Catholics until now. Will European history record the name of Batzing as the one who witlessly triggered the more global nuclear option? Is migratory Islam to be the real winner?
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive” (the prophetic Sir Walter Scott).
A mention for Talk in the Hallway! – Old wine in new casks – is an adage being used to describe ungainly libertarian paternalism. I don’t have access to the article to be able to assess everything, but I thought the abstract was compelling.
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Old wine in new casks: libertarian paternalism still violates liberal principles
Original Paper
Published: 21 January 2012
volume 38, pages 635–645 (2012)
Till Grüne-Yanoff
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00355-011-0636-0?
@ St. Gallen Group
Cardinal Parolin Lying in Ambush, by Father Claude Barthe paints an intriguing assessment of the Cardinal Secretary of State’s prominence among papabile. A brilliant strategist within this Byzantine Vatican, maneuvering deftly through pitfalls, enemy planted IUDs. Associates himself with the Bilderberg Group in an appeasement lecture for the Global Group’s putsch for ‘legal recognition of homosexual marriages, and to the decriminalization of abortion’, cleverly extracting himself with an ambiguous aphorism.
An opinion. Parolin, despite his announcement, apparently to ingratiate himself with Pope Francis, that inclusion of the papal Argentine letters in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis made Francis’ presumed doctrine on communion for divorced and remarried outside the Church authentic magisterium [which was exposed recently by Card Gerhard Muller as non definitive], Parolin has shown signs of orthodoxy, a preference that he may camouflage for sake of survival, to be seen as a mediocre and safe choice, and possible selection at the next conclave [author Fr Barth sees similar but also seemingly catastrophic consequences for the Church].