Cardinal McElroy and the God of Surprises, by Robert Royal
Bishop Strickland Blasts (Francis’) Appointment of Cardinal McElroy
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Saint of the Day for January 9: St. Adrian of Canterbury
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Allegory of Fortune, standing on a globe, dispensing good and evil by Frans Francken the Younger, c. 1615/1620 [Louvre, Paris]
By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing, January 8, 2025
Robert Royal is editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His most recent books are Columbus and the Crisis of the West and A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.
Note: Be sure to tune in tomorrow – Thursday, January 9th at 8 PM Eastern – to EWTN for a new episode of the Papal Posse on ‘The World Over.’ TCT Editor-in-Chief Robert Royal and contributor Fr. Gerald E. Murray will join host Raymond Arroyo to discuss the appointment of Cardinal Robert McElroy to head the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., the appointment of the first woman to head a Vatican dicastery, and other issues in the global Church. Check your local listings for the channel in your area. Shows are usually available shortly after first airing on the EWTN YouTube channel.
I don’t make any great claim to virtue, but one vice that I’ve (mostly) avoided is the itch to predict the future. Especially around the New Year, when people – even Catholics – despite warnings from Scripture and Jesus Himself (“sufficient to the day”), often offer themselves as prophets, sometimes even something closer to soothsayers. Not only do we make predictions for the next twelve months, lament or exult over what we think is coming, but we recommend new books or diets or exercise programs or spiritual practices. As if human life is – or should be – a rationally manageable, wholly predictable thing.Related posts
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DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 27JAN11 - George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management, USA, is captured during the session 'Redesigning the International Monetary System: A Davos Debate' at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 27 , 2011. This file is from Wikimedia Commons ... This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work ....
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