The Commandments and the Common Good – “Every human right is rooted in the Commandments and aligns with a duty. Lawful authorities have the right to our obedience. We have a right to life. Spouses have a right to fidelity. We have a right to private property. We have a right to the truth.”Make America Good Again (Catholic Culture)
Male Intrusion – “Titled ‘Violence against women and girls in sports’ [an] August study conducted by the United Nations found that by March 30, 2024, over 600 female athletes in more than 400 women’s division events across 29 different sports were defeated by transgender-identifying men.” Female Athletes Lost Almost 900 Medals to Trans-Identifying Men Worldwide, U.N. Report Finds (National Review)
Post-Vaccine Syndrome – “If it had not come from a government report I would have had difficulty believing this horrifying case history.” Euthanizing the Vaccine Injured in Canada (Human Flourishing – Substack)
Peanut the Squirrel – “meet peanut and mark. peanut is a squirrel. his mother died. he was taken in by mark who raised him and turned him into a social media celebrity.” getting squirrely (bad cattitude – Substack)
Ten Commissions – “Three years of discussions without end, crowned by a document that is not final. This is the synod desired and molded by Pope Francis with the apparent purpose of refounding the Church as a Church of the people, of all the baptized.” Everything, Except for Synodal. The Strange Church Pope Francis Wants (Diakonos.be)
Political Turbulence in Armenia – “Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan of the Armenian Apostolic Church has emerged as an increasingly prominent leader in Armenia in the last year as discontent has mounted towards the sitting government, a process which has accelerated since Azerbaijan assumed control of Artsakh.” Exclusive interview with Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan: The Future of Armenia, Legacy of Genocide and Regional Relations (Providence)
Catholic Imagination Extravaganza – “I’m back. And it feels as if some sort of page has been turned, and not just in Willa Cather’s works. I’m not sure what I mean by that, but it certainly feels like it.” Imagine This (Charlotte Was Both)
The Propaganda Press – “Defenders of Leviathan from the White House on down criticized Musk for—well, for demonstrating in the starkest possible manner the effectiveness of private initiative compared with blustering government inertness.” With such Elon (The New Criterion)
Freedom from Reality – “One of the major pitfalls of our time seems to lie in its embraced, conscious or unconscious, vision of humanity. This is a vision inherited from modernity: that of a person who has broken the ‘chains’ binding them to God, to a natural moral law, to a human nature.” Christianity beyond politics, upholding faith above partisan allegiances (La Croix International)
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