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Month: April 2021

Derek Chauvin: The Great White Defendant

Posted by | Apr 22, 2021 | |

In the brilliant novel “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” author Tom Wolfe describes what he calls the intense media interest in covering “The Great White Defendant.” A review of “Bonfire” explains: “The overarching theme of the book is the search for the great white defendant. The vast majority of defendants in New York City are […]

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Civilisation – By the Skin of Our Teeth

Posted by | Apr 22, 2021 | , |

I came across this truly wonder-ful 13-part series, Civilisation, first filmed in 1969, with Kenneth Clark, one of the world’s foremost art historians of the twentieth century. As he puts it in the very first line of the first episode, quoting the great Victorian artist and art critic Ruskin: Great nations write their autobiographies in[…]

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What Catholics should know about brain death 

Posted by | Apr 22, 2021 | , |

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Denver Newsroom, Apr 22, 2021 / 04:01 am (CNA).
 The Catholic Church is clear in its teaching on when life begins: at conception. On death— described as “the end of man’s earthly pilgrimage”— the Church teaches in…

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U.S. pullout from Afghanistan leads to questions about renewed violence

Posted by | Apr 22, 2021 | , , , , , , , , , |

President Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw U.S. armed forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 is leading observers to renew concerns about continued progress on human rights, the status of democratic reforms and whether a resurgence of violence will set back the war-beleaguered country.

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Abortion-Tainted Vaccines: From Objection to Obligation

Posted by | Apr 22, 2021 | , , , |

Vatican VaccineWhen the abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccines were first introduced, the initial question rightly raised by Catholics was, “Can I receive this vaccine?”; i.e., is it morally permissible? However, too few Catholics bothered to ask the second important moral question, “Should I receive this vaccine?” After all, we are not called to live a minimal life of […]

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