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By Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D.  Catholic World Report - St. John Paul II may have been the greatest expert on the human person among those who have graced the chair of St. Peter. His profound interest in the topic of human personhood arose from a confluence of his early experiences, none so formative as the dual nightmares he lived through, which wakened him to the threat posed to civilization by the fetid fruits of mistaken notions about personhood arising from the ivory towers of academia. These two nightmares were German National Socialism and Soviet Universal Socialism, both of which effectively reduced the person to his value to the State. ...

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - First, as you may be aware, we are once again in an election year. National elections in the United States, and especially presidential elections, have become mass exercises in fear and loathing. Fear, in that this latest episode of “the most important election ever” has both sides convinced that the stakes are both existentially high and nearly hopeless. Everyone is terrified their side is going to lose and everyone seems convinced that the Republic is doomed if they do. Loathing, in that everyone in both parties seems to dislike their own side only slightly less than they loathe the barbarians across the aisle.

By Elie Dib, Catholic Exchange - The Wisdom of Don Dolindo and St. Louis de Montfort... The feast of the Epiphany celebrates the revelation of Christ to the Gentiles in the persons of the Magi. In their pilgrimage to find the newborn King, the Magi encounter Jesus together with his mother Mary. As Don Dolindo noted in his commentary on Matthew, “Mary is always inseparable from Jesus. She is like the star that guides us to Him, and she makes Him known to us and gives Him to us.”

By Joshua Mercer, LifeNews - Following an attempt to resurrect the Obama-era HHS contraception mandate last March, Sec. HHS Xavier Becerra issued a revised and final rule this week that preserves some conscience rights for Americans regarding contraception and abortion... In January 2023, HHS published a proposal to rescind the robust conscience protections crafted under the Trump administration... As CatholicVote reported, the “HHS mandate” refers “to the requirement under Obamacare for employers to pay for abortifacients, contraceptives, and sterilization in their health insurance plans.”... “We know now that HHS had to field over 48,000 public comments in reaction to this move,” said CatholicVote Vice President Josh Mercer.