Archbishop Viganò excommunicated; other prelates get a pass

Rhetoric vs. reality in the Synod’s working document

Entirely excluded from the synod!

WSJ: How Biden’s Inner Circle Worked to Keep Signs of Aging Under Wraps

Marine Corps Band supplies walk-on music for Jill Biden - how fabulous

Diversity Was Supposed to Make Us Rich. Not So Much. “Since 2015, the approach has been tested in the fire of the marketplace and failed. Academics have tried to repeat McKinsey’s findings and failed, concluding that there is in fact no link between profitability and executive diversity. And the methodology of McKinsey’s early studies, which helped create the widespread belief that diversity is good for profits, is being questioned.” This shouldn’t come as a surprise. If companies could boost their profits as easily as McKinsey suggested—the most-diverse firms had a 39 percentage point higher chance of higher-than-average profit margins than the least-diverse—then surely companies would have rushed to promote more women and minority racial groups.

The Sound of Silence by Karen Hall

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Vatican prefect doubles down in defense of use of Rupnik’s art

Vatican ‘trial of the century’ defendant opens countersuit in London court

US bishops’ conference cuts justice-and-peace staff

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

New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (affiliate link)

The Door in the Wall: (Newbery Medal Winner) by Marguerite De Angeli (affiliate link)

The Liturgy, the Family, and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays of a Traditional Catholic (Os Justi Studies in Catholic Tradition) by Joseph Shaw

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Scientific American: Children Deserve Uniform Standards in Homeschooling

The Harvard Gazette: A warning on homeschooling

HSLDA: Harvard Summit to Discuss Regulating Homeschooling

HSLDA Responds to the Summit (good info on who the players are)

Interview with Andrea Grillo on the Traditional Liturgy: The Church isn’t a “high-society club” or “sect that experiences infidelity as salvation”

Phil: A new offensive in the war on traditional liturgy

Willie Mays, the Giant’s electrifying ’Say Hey Kid,’ dies at 93

Willie Mays will be forever

Willie Mays: “The Catch"

In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (affiliate link)

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Europe’s Elections: Right, But Not Far — Robert Royal

The Modern State Will Become Very Religious — Sebastian Morello

Justice Alito’s wife vows revenge for flag controversy in secret recording

This will not be 1968.’ Chicago police prepare for DNC as whole world watches once again.

9th Circuit Court Decision in Health Freedom Defense Fund v. Carvalho (thread on Twitter from Julie Hamell)

Text of the decision

Locked Up: Meet the Elderly and Infirm Women Now in Prison for Pro-Life Activism

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The Fauci narrative, undermining science and democracy: Phil Lawler on Catholic Culture

A Little Mother Prevents Big Brother, by Stella Morabito

The Genius of America, by Janos Zoltan Csak; Angelico Press, 2024

The Everlasting Man, by G.K. Chesterton

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Progressive Catholicism losing hope: A rare candid acknowledgment that this pontificate is a failure

The myth of progressive Catholicism: Not even the will of God can keep the culture wars out of the Vatican

Something is very wrong in an Argentine diocese

Did Pope say seminaries should not admit homosexuals?

Pope Francis never intended to offend: 'Room for everyone in the Church'

The title of my Substack (Leila’s) — and why we chose it as our family motto (and no, ‘them’ is not the kids!)

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U.S. Birth Rate Drops To New Low After Pandemic ‘Baby Bump’ - Forbes

Suddenly There Aren’t Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed - Wall Street Journal

Address of the Holy Father to participants in the General States of Natality, 10.05.2024

The Ultimate Resource by Julian Simon (affiliate link)

Down the Garden Path by Beverley Nichols (affiliate link)

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Russell Kirk (His book Decadence and Renewal in Higher Education is out of print — snatch it up if you ever see it!)

William F. Buckley, God and Man at Yale (affiliate link)

David Clayton, The Way of Beauty: Liturgy, Education, and Inspiration for Family, School, and College (affiliate link)

AP: ‘A step back in time': America’s Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways

David Mamet: State and Main (film)

Connie Marshner, Monastery and High Cross: The Forgotten Eastern Roots of Irish Christianity (affiliate link)

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Here are the show notes for our first episode!

Please pray for Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa, as Phil discusses in the podcast! He’s standing firm against immorality and the corruption of the government in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Title IX: Biden’s new rules on Title IX gut protection for women and girls, but is that regulation good in the first place? George Roche, The Price of Independence

Joseph Lawler: If You Build It, Will They Come? Austin’s I-35 expansion is a test case for cars v. urbanism: The New Atlantis, A Journal of Technology & Society

The Rev. John Ensor’s work can be found here.

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