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The Overton Window (Mackinac Center)

An Introduction to the Overton Window of Political Possibilities (Mackinac Center)

US ambassador to Holy See visits Taybeh day after settler attack on locals, European diplomats (Zeale)

Justices leave lower court order in place preventing Trump administration from implementing transgender inmate policy (SCOTUSblog)

Supreme Court Rules on Trump Admin Policy Blocking Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Prisoners

Matt Fradd: Did Mary Really Appear in Egypt? Our Lady of Zeitoun (Fr. Anthony Mourad) | Ep. 601

Fifty-one years ago today: Carlton Fisk hits home run in Game 6

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (affiliate link)

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Changes in the Catechism on capital punishment:

Original wording

2266: Preserving the common good of society requires rendering the aggressor unable to inflict harm. For this reason, the traditional teaching of the Church has acknowledged as well-founded the right and duty of legitimate public authority to punish malefactors by means of penalties commensurate with the gravity of the crime, not excluding, in cases of extreme gravity, the death penalty…

2266, cont.: The primary effect of punishment is to redress the disorder caused by the offense….

2267: If bloodless means are sufficient to defend human lives against an aggressor and to protect public order and the safety of persons, public authority should limit itself to such means, because they better correspond to the concrete conditions of the common good and are more in conformity with the dignity of the human person.

As amended by Pope John Paul II

2267: “…cases of absolute necessity for suppression of the offender today are very rare, if not practically non-existent.”

As amended again by Pope Francis (in current edition)

2266: The efforts of the state to curb the spread of behavior harmful to people’s rights and to the basic rules of civil society correspond to the requirement of safeguarding the common good. Legitimate public authority has the right and the duty to inflict punishment proportionate to the gravity of the offense. Punishment has the primary aim of redressing the disorder introduced by the offense...

2267: Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good.Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes. In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state. Lastly, more effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure the due protection of citizens but, at the same time, do not definitively deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption.Consequently, the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”, and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.

On the death penalty, an uncertain trumpet by Phil Lawler:

Nowhere has confusion about Catholic teaching on capital punishment been more in evidence than in the responses to Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the execution by firing squad of the Fort Hood terrorist.

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Religious Scholars Met with Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them (New York Times) (archived here)

A warning about ‘model welfare’ (Mustafa Suleyman, Substack)

10 Years After Amoris Laetitia, Bishops to Discuss Challenges of Families at the Vatican

‘Amoris Laetitia’ Is Consistent With Church Teaching, Sister Tells Pope and Bishops

Pope on Amoris laetitia: What Church do people meet when most fragile? [sic]

Wilmer will bring to Rome experiences of “homosexual couples” and divorced people who have remarried at the meeting on Amoris laetitia

Short version of Leila’s argument regarding the contradiction of Amoris Laetitia (scroll down to footnote 2)

The long version is in the appendix of this book (endorsed by Cardinal Pell, RIP)

How the Sexual Revolution Led to Cornell by Louise Perry (WSJ)

The Campus Rape Myth (Heather MacDonald, City Journal)

Orley Farm, by Anthony Trollope

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Pope Leo in France: highlights

Pope Leo’s in-flight presser: “So, I would say, if that’s politics, I did that, but it was not to get involved in French politics. It was to teach what the Church really believes.”

The insanity of the coverage of this story: Trans NYT exec charged with child abuse threatened to kill spouse before in-laws shot her to death in California: court docs. But then, the story is insane.

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Pope Leo’s address to Civil Authorities in France

Cornell 7 gang rape case.

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State intrusion after baby is born:

Governor Healey Announces New Actions to Strengthen Maternal Mental Health and Postpartum Care from the MA government website

Maura Healey Wants Increased Maternal Mental Health Spending Following Lindsay Clancy Trial (New Boston Post)

Maura Healey Wants to Investigate Parents of Every Newborn Baby (LifeNews)

Massachusetts Considers Bill to Prioritize Treatment Over Punishment for New Mothers with Postpartum Psychiatric Illness

Nikole Hannah-Jones: She flunks all the tests:

In which we talk about court-ordered forced busing:

How to resolve AI threats:

J.P. Morgan and the Panic of 1907: How one financier proved mightier than Wall Street (Daily News)

The history of 1907 Financial Crisis: The Unseen Hand of J.P. Morgan (World History Journal)

Surrogacy Gridlock:

Supreme Court Turns Away Surrogate Appeal in Messy Custody Fight (Wall Street Journal

Supreme Court stays out of custody dispute between California couple and surrogate (CBS)

And More:

Confraternity of Christian Mothers

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New Details About Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Case Revealed

Report of an interview with the holdout juror in the Clancy case

Robert Kennedy’s speech at the Republican Midterm Convention

Massachusetts kidnaps a teen to trans her against her parents’ will

Our interview with Robert Royal on his book about the 21st century martyrs:

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* The German bishops’ outcry; the US bishops’ silence by Phil Lawler

Why the AfD Wins by Christopher Caldwell

Germany’s ‘Firewall’ Against the Far Right Is Being Tested as Never Before ~ News analysis, The New York Times (archive version here)

The AfD Rises on the German Right ~ Editorial on The Wall Street Journal (check this page to see if the article is archived yet)

Mitt Brennender Sorge: On the Church and the German Reich, Pope Pius XI (1937)

* Using the Child Care and Development Fund for married couples with one spouse staying home with children:

Pro: The Stay-At-Home Parent Debate Is GDP First Vs. America First​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Con: Welfare Queens of the Right and the Diet Coke of Socialists

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Update (from when we recorded): The second “unvaccinated person” measles-associated case is put in perspective by Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons. He makes five points about the information given to the public. A must-read on this developing situation.

Democratic Socialists of America

Measles Hysteria: A Timely Political Hit Job by Mary Talley Bowden

The Pope and the Jesuits: John Paul II and the New Order in the Catholic Church ~ by James Hitchcock

Pontifex Minimus — Fr. Mankowksi’s review of Fr. James Martin S.J.’s book Building a Bridge, in First Things

Farewell, Uncle Di: Father Paul Mankowski, RIP ~ Phil Lawler’s obituary on CatholicCulture, with links to some Mankowski classics

Diogenes Unveiled: A Paul Mankowski, S.J., Collection (affiliate link) ~ edited by Phil Lawler

Jesuit at Large: Essays and Reviews by Paul Mankowski, S.J. (affiliate link) ~ edited by George Weigel

The Sound of Silence: The Life and Canceling of a Heroic Jesuit Priest (affiliate link) ~ by Karen Hall

Tolkien and the Inklings: Men of the West (affiliate link) ~ by Bradley J. Birzer

The Crusades: A History (affiliate link) ~ by Jonathan Riley-Smith

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How One Man Invented the Conservative Moment ~ Lee Edwards on Buckley’s “Fusionism”

The Neoconservatives: An Endangered Species ~ Russell Kirk

George Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 (affiliate link)

The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics (Wall Street Journal)

The U.S. Government Now Owns Stakes In 30 Companies. Intel Is Just The Beginning (Forbes)

Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (free ebook)

Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions (affiliate link)

Dolly Parton, RIP

Dolly Parton’s philanthropy was based on ‘her belief in the goodness of people’

Magnanimity ~ St. Thomas Aquinas

Ida Friederike Görres, Bread Grows in Winter

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Cambridge chancellor condemns media frenzy after Black professor’s death

How can lay Catholics spur bishops into action? (Phil at CatholicCulture)

Nathan Cofnas (who wrote about Jason Arday, exposing his plagiarism and lack of credentials)

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States, by Albert O. Hirschman (affiliate link)

Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons by Kris Newby (affiliate link)

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