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Just War Theory and Our Military Strategy by Phil Lawler

Prof. Daniel Mahoney’s forthcoming book: The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now; Encounter Books

Trump nominee pledges to prohibit use of aborted fetal tissue in National Institutes of Health-funded research

A bitter taste of what aborted fetal tissue research involves: The Most Evil Man in Evangelicalism, and Those Who Platformed Him

A Student’s Guide to the Core Curriculum by Mark C. Henrie

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Four Problems with Assisted Suicide

The states where “medical aid in dying” is legal

Jennifer A. Frey on X: No guardrails for euthanasia possible

Right to Life UK on X: Doctors would have to offer death with every interaction, under proposed bill

A Comprehensive Report on the Risks of ART (IVF)

The Apostle of a Happy Death by Fr. Jerry Pokorsky

Eric Sammons: Catholics Are Losing Ground: Only 19% of Americans self-identify as Catholic, down from 24% in 2007. This is a 20% decrease. However, “only 29% of self-identifying Catholics attend Mass weekly. So only 29% of the 19% of Americans who identify as Catholic actually fulfill the Sunday obligation.” Perhaps the most stunning finding in the survey is that for every 100 people who join the Catholic Church, 840 leave.

Hispanics in US less likely to be Catholics The study finds that between 2007 and 2023, the percentage of Hispanic adults who identify themselves as Catholics dropped from 58% to 42%. Hispanics now account for 36% of the country’s Catholic population. The percentage of adults who identify as Catholics has also decreased—but far more slowly—among white (22% to 17%), black (5% to 4%), and Asian (17% to 14%) Americans.

Los Angeles Religious Education Congress

The Bishops Don’t Understand Eucharistic Revival by Leila Marie Lawler: Part One, Part Two

The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum

This is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist. Netflix: In 1990, two men dressed as cops con their way into a Boston museum and steal a fortune in art ... Was the heist an inside job?

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Who’s Really Calling the Shots at U.S. Diocesan Chanceries?

Vatican condemns publication of ‘credibly accused’ clergy lists — again

The Executive Order on IVF

More Human Embryos Destroyed Through IVF Than Abortion Every Year

An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman (affiliate link)

Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri (affiliate link)

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J. D. Vance and Europe’s “internal problem”:

CBS is wrong about free speech, Germany, and the Nazis

German candidates, including AfD’s Alice Weidel, debate their policies ahead of upcoming election

Chemical AKA mail-order abortion:

Thanks to Chemical Abortion Pills, You Should Be Worried About What’s in the Water

IVF and Surrogacy:

New York Times: Botched Care and Tired Staff: Planned Parenthood in Crisis

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The Pope’s disastrous letter on immigration by Phil Lawler (must read!)

Pope Francis’s Apocalyptic Dream by R. R. Reno (Opens with the provocative line: “Pope Francis published his suicide note.”)

Pope Francis’s immigration letter was seriously imprudent by Samuel Gregg (“In itself, the content of the Pope’s letter was unremarkable, if you read it in light of the Church’s established teaching on immigration — and if you interpret some of the letter’s more equivocal passages in ways consistent with Catholic moral teaching.”)

Archbishop Broglio’s response to Pope Francis’s letter

Only 52% of funds spent by US bishops’ Catholic Relief Services collection went to CRS, report shows

A Question of Charity — Catholic Charities’ government funding

The School for Housewives

Little House in the Ozarks: The Rediscovered Writings, edited by Stephn W. Hines (this book is out of print, but used copies are available)

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{In case it isn't clear in our remarks, we are not backing ethnic cleansing. We think, hope, and pray that Trump’s unusual negotiations will bring peace to the Middle East.}

President Trump's Excellent Executive Order: Making America Real Again by Leila

If RFK Jr. is confirmed, his promised policy on the abortion pill is a huge pro-life win by Leila

Navigating the Coming Trade Wars (Robert Reilly of the Westminster Institute talks with former US trade representative Robert Clyde Prestowitz about tariffs)

Carrie Gress: The American Spectator: Think the First Wave Is a Model for Women? Think Again.

The School for Housewives by Leila (let’s stop wringing our hands and get our homes in order — a lot depends on it!)

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By Phil:

Vance vs. the bishops on immigration, Part I

Vance vs. the bishops on immigration, Part II

Vance vs. the bishops on immigration, Part III

Is It Time to Abolish the USSCB? by Leila Marie Lawler

What Went Wrong with Vatican II by Ralph McInerny (affiliate link)

The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture —by Phil, who examines the larger issue of sexual abuse through the lens of what happened in Boston. Review by Jeff Mirus.

Some of our discussions and a post about beauty:

Glorifying God in stone and wood

Objectivity of Beauty

Images matter

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Bishop Mariann Budde tells NPR 'I won't apologize' for sermon addressing Trump

Who is Mariann Edgar Budde, the bishop [sic] who angered Trump with inaugural sermon?

Biden says the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered ratified

Elites Hate Phyllis Schlafly Because She Defeated Them From Home With Six Kids In Tow

Phyllis Schlafly, antifeminist, has a bio that ought to make feminists blush with shame and retreat in defeat

Phil Lawler on Phyllis Schlafly

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Black Lives Matter Activists Executed A Shocking $83 Billion Shakedown Of American Corporations— or was it $340 billion?

Candlemas

All Creatures Great and Small

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How Cardinal McElroy came to Washington

In facing ‘populist’ tide, Pope risks exposing Church skeletons

Satanic ritual abuse and its cover-up. Why Bishop McElroy should never become a Cardinal by Leila Miller

Questions raised about McElroy's response to 2016 McCarrick allegations

Censored by the censorship industrial complex: Contagious Faith: Why the Church Must Spread Hope, Not Fear in a Pandemic by Phil Lawler (affiliate link)

Cardinal McElroy’s Conscience Trap by Leila Marie Lawler

Cardinal McElroy’s “narcissistic and frankly, pagan display” by Leila Marie Lawler

Cardinal Rey Resigns

Transcript: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Major Changes to Meta's Content Moderation Policies and Operations

Dickensian (TV Series)

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