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The Just-War debate: last call to join Phil Lawler’s Substack Seminar

A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate Climate Working Group United States Department of Energy July 23, 2025

The Ultimate Resource, by Julian Simon- 1983 (affiliate link)

The Resourceful Earth, edited by Julian Simon and Herman Kahn— 1984

Washington Post: White House has no plan to fund IVF (archived article)

California Bill 495, “Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025”: “Presto, Someone Walks Away with Your Child”: Critics Slam AB 495’s Threat to Parental Rights

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How and why the American Academy of Pediatrics wants to take away parental rights (Vaccines are only the thin edge of the wedge)

The media just don’t report that Big Pharma funds it

A convicted pedophile and his “husband” procure a child via surrogacy and no, there are no laws against that: Brandon Keith Mitchell: Sex Offender’s Surrogacy Journey With Husband

Archbishop Weisenburger and the episcopal double standard

Detroit archbishop fires seminary professors

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Israeli forces strike Catholic Parish in Gaza (Vatican News)

Pope Leo’s Angelus audience

Israeli ambassador to Holy See says actions of Hamas reason for war in Gaza (Cruxnow)

Gaza: History will not forgive this barbarism and complicity (Caritas International)

Jerusalem’s Christian leaders deplore ‘heinous’ Israeli attack on Gaza’s Catholic parish (CWN)

Holy See Press Office Press Release: Telephone conversation of the Holy Father with the Prime Minister of Israel, 18.07.2025

Pope speaks with Palestinian President, urges respect for Humanitarian Law (Vatican News)

HHS Finds Systemic Disregard for Sanctity of Life in Organ Transplant System (US Department of Health and Human Services)

Living Organ Donation (Health Resources & Services Administration)

Donor DNA is detected in recipient blood for years after kidney transplantation using sensitive forensic medicine methods (PubMed)

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Demographics, fertility: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on X (thread): 2023 fertility rates

Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller (affiliate link)

Supreme Court Clears the Way for Trump’s Cuts to the Education Department (New York Times)

Report: NPR is not indispensable for rural Americans and emergency alerts, despite claims (CatholicVote)

Bishop Conley the Beekeeper Enjoys Time in the ‘Really Real’ (National Catholic Register)

Scottie Scheffler's take on success in golf: 'What's the point?'

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EXCLUSIVE: Official Vatican Report Exposes Major Cracks in Foundation of Traditionis Custodes by Daine Montagna

Those Views of the Bishops on the Old Rite That Francis Forbade to Be Published. Because They Went Against His Will (Diakonos)— includes full text of Overall Assessment

Vatican says leaked documents were only part of information Pope Francis used to restrict Latin Mass (AP)

RFK Jr.'s vaccine policy sparks a lawsuit from the American Academy of Pediatrics NPR

No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris

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Can bombing Iran satisfy just-war criteria? by Phil Lawler

Preventive war and the U.S. attack on Iran by Edward Feser

Attacks ‘Effectively Destroyed’ Iran’s Program (Wall Street Journal) — Note: “It will be a long time before Iran comes anywhere near the capability it had before the attack. That being said, there are residuals such as stocks of 60%, 20%, and 3-5% enriched uranium and the centrifuges manufactured but not yet installed at Natanz or Fordow. These non-destroyed parts pose a threat as they can be used in the future to produce weapon-grade uranium.”

“In many respects, democratic socialism was and is close to Catholic social doctrine and has, in any case, made a remarkable contribution to the formation of a social consciousness.” --- Pope Benedict XVI

Christopher Caldwell: Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West (affiliate link)

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Archbishop Broglio, USCCB president, supports immigrants, rips ICE raids

What We Can’t Not Know by J. Budziszewski (affiliate link)

The Hell There Is: An Exploration of an Often-Rejected Doctrine of the Church by Msgr. Charles Pope (affiliate link)

The Weaponization of Loneliness by Stella Morabito

Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Michael Ward (affiliate link)

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Pro-Life Coalition Urges GOP to Advance Bill Repealing FACE Act: ‘Congress Must Do Its Part’ - Breitbart

Protect Children’s Innocence Act - X

Pope Leo: What unites Christians is far greater than what divides - Vatican News

Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Michael Ward (affiliate link)

Michael Ward: Frequently Asked Questions

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Beauty will save the neighborhood by Leila M. Lawler

Worldwide Catholic population up slightly to 1.4 billion (CWN)

French dioceses welcoming surge of conversions (CWN)

English dioceses report surge in young adult male converts (CWN)

Australian archbishop: jump in adult converts is sign of revival (CWN)

Dublin archbishop reports record number of adult baptisms (CWN)

Many dioceses in Western world report surge of adult converts (CWN)

Germany’s priestly ordinations hit record low (CWN)

Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity (affiliate link)

Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym (affiliate link)

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Harvard Hates America: The Odyssey of a Born-Again American by John LeBoutillier (affiliate link — this book is out of print, but you can probably find it used somewhere!)

God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom' by William F. Buckley (affiliate link)

Updated: New chapel being established for the Traditional Latin Mass Catholic News Herald

A North Carolina bishop threatens a full-scale ‘liturgy war’ by Philip Lawler

Rorate Exclusive: The Anti-Traditional and Anti-Liturgical Pastoral Letter to be Sent by the Bishop of Charlotte on Liturgical Norms in His Diocese

The Fathers by Allen Tate (affiliate link)

The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor (affiliate link)

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