Forgiveness and Redemption – “Evil usually comes to us, disguised as an angel of light, promising us happiness and fulfillment if we simply surrender to our temptations … ” The Church’s “Ultimate Trial” (What We Need Now – Substack)
A Crappy Encyclopedia – “In a strange turnaround, search engines don’t want you to search for anything. That’s because searching leads you on a journey—and Google doesn’t want you to leave their platform.” The World’s Largest Search Doesn’t Want You to Search (The Honest Broker)
All Become Commodities – “Britain’s Daily Mail recently reported how around one hundred young Thai women were kept against their will, pumped full of hormones, and subjected to having their eggs forcibly harvested every month, to be sold on the black market by Chinese criminals.” Human Battery Hens (First Things)
Expanding IVF – “President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on IVF is a worrying sign of things to come.” 5 Things President Trump’s Executive Order on IVF Gets Wrong (Institute of Family Studies)
Credibly Accused – “The Dicastery for Legislative Texts issued guidance to bishops last year, which said that canon law prohibits published lists denoting clerics ‘credibly accused’ of sexual abuse crimes.” Vatican condemns publication of ‘credibly accused’ clergy lists — again (Pillar Catholic)
Teachers, Priests, and Rulers – “A quick glance at publicly available documents should raise serious doubts, particularly regarding the discipline of diocesan clergy. It seems that civil lawyers and risk managers, not bishops, are often running the show.” Who’s Really Calling the Shots at U.S. Diocesan Chanceries?
Westerners Are Bored – “Chesterton planned to prove that Christian theology is the best answer to the human riddle, to the paradoxical needs of the human heart, which wants at the same time to be astonished by the world and at home in it.” Spiritual Electric Shock Therapy (Dappled Things)
USAID and ‘Independent Media’ – “President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including over $268 million allocated by Congress to support independent media and the free flow of information.” USA: Trump’s foreign aid freeze throws journalism around the world into chaos
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