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Two Cheers for Idolatry

David Carlin: Deep down we have a sense that holiness is the one thing that matters most. Catholicism once did a great job of satisfying it.

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The Author’s Voice

Fr. Paul D. Scalia: People reject authority, including the Church’s, yet they are never free from authority. They simply become subject to its counterfeits.

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Substitutes for Thought

Fr. Gerald E. Murray: The Church needs courageous Catholics who are well instructed and are not fooled by slogans and coercive shaming campaigns.

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Bishop Barron’s Pitiful (But Honest) Response to a Church in Crisis

Across the developed world, ignorant mobs and anarchists are tearing down statues of saints, defacing church monuments, and setting the churches on fire. Not to mention that in the developing world many Christians continue to suffer martyrdom by the thousands at the hands of secular and religious extremists. This has caused many people to finally […]

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Rise of the Morons

When the attacks—legal and otherwise—on Confederate monuments and heritage began to ramp up, I warned in various venues that it would not stop there. And, of course, such disparate characters as Kate Smith and Columbus followed in that train. But ever since the eruption of riots across the nation and the rest of the Western […]

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Father of His Country

The third Monday in February—latterly called “Presidents’ Day” because of Lincoln’s birthday on the 12th—is legally Washington’s birthday. Of course, his actual birthday is February 22, and I am old enough to remember getting off from school on that day, whenever it fell. But in 1971 Congress’s Uniform Monday Holiday Act took effect, banishing this […]

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