People Are Decisive
For most of my adult life I’ve carried around a quotation from Mao Zedong. It sounds weird, doesn’t it. Mao…
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For most of my adult life I’ve carried around a quotation from Mao Zedong. It sounds weird, doesn’t it. Mao…
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Michael Pakaluk: Is fear, of different kinds, something we should show contempt for, or embrace? Do good ones drive out others that are bad?
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Francis X. Maier: The essays of the great French writer are penetrating, passionate, and veined with a biting, sometimes laugh-out-loud sense of humor.
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Casey Chalk on Bernanos’ Diary of a Country Priest, which indicted evils plaguing pre-World War II France; much of it happening in America today.
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Francis X. Maier: Amid the idols of the world, for the sake of our own humanity, we believe in God’s Son, the only thing that survive our failures and sins.
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Francis X. Maier: No one can make us give ourselves fully and sincerely to God. But if there were ever a time to do it, the COVID-19 crisis is it.
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