The Dispatch: More from CWR...

Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Here are some articles, essays, and editorials that caught our attention this past week or so.*

Detail from "St. Francis of Assisi Preparing the Christmas Crib at Grecchio" (c. 1297-1300) by Giotto di Bondone [WikiArt.org]

Not Another Secular Holiday – “The world still needs—urgently needs—’the birth of the Savior’ and ‘the cure for its wounds in the peace of Christ.’ “God Is with Us”: Christmas 2024 (What We Need Now – Substack [Archbishop Charles J. Chaput])

Undermining Priestly Morale – “Has theology become devalued in the contemporary Catholic Church? I sometimes fear that this is the case—and for the following reasons.” Is Theology Still Queen? (First Things)

Child of Diplomats – “A professional philosopher my friend Siobhan Nash-Marshall certainly was. But her own love of wisdom included the desire to change the world as well as interpret it.” Crazy Love: Siobhan Nash-Marshall, In Memoriam (The Imaginative Conservative)

Biden’s Mental Health – “The Wall Street Journal is out today with a toweringly important story documenting how President Joe Biden’s close-knit circle of advisers sought to swindle the public … ” For Four Years We Have Had a Ghost for a President, and We Were Lied to about It All Along

Pending Biden Regulations – “President Joe Biden is abandoning his efforts to provide some protections for transgender student-athletes and cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans … ” President Biden drops unfinished protections for trans athletes (ESPN)

Cultural and Political Revolution – “American politics exists downstream of American culture, which is a deep and broad river.” Rapid Onset Political Enlightenment: How Barack Obama Built an Omnipotent Though-Machine, and How It Was Destroyed (Tablet)

Our Current Corruptions – “What we need now is a discalced Church that has divested itself of all pretensions and which embraces the evangelical counsel to holy poverty.” Mammon and the Church We Need (What We Need Now – Substack)

Questions of Accountability – “The recently appointed president of Seton Hall University in New Jersey, Msgr. Joseph Reilly, “knew of sex abuse allegations on campus” and failed to follow proper procedures … ” Why is there a row over Seton Hall’s president? (The Pillar)

(*The posting of any particular news item or essay is not an endorsement of the content and perspective of said news item or essay.)


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1 Comment

  1. @ Undermining Priestly Morale
    Citing Vincent of Lerins and Cardinal Newman, Guarino restores theology to its queenly place as compared to recent ambiguous pronouncements….and, yet, the issue now may be the ascendancy of zeitgeist theologians as above–rather than serving and deepening–the deposit of faith itself (including inseparable morals). This, by a self-referential synodal process which discerns itself to be the new dispensation…a tautological/self-validating (!) Synod on Synodality.

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