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By Father James V. Schall, S.J., The Catholic Thing - In The Idler for 21 October 1758, he wrote: "It has been the endeavor of all those whom the world reverenced for superior wisdom to persuade man to be acquainted with himself, to learn his own powers and his own weakness, to observe by what evils he is most dangerously beset, and by what temptations most easily overcome."  This passage, no doubt, is simply Johnson's version of one of the Delphic maxims dear to Socrates: "Know thyself."

By Hudson Byblow, Crisis Magazine - Recently, parishioners burned a Rainbow Flag in Chicago. They felt justified to take matters into their own hands because they recognized that the ideology represented by the that flag challenges the truths upheld by the Church. And they did something about it... And now one priest is paying the price.

By Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency - Curtis Martin, co-founder of the FOCUS, has spent 21 years working to build an organization that brings the message of the Gospel to students on college campuses… "Making Missionary Disciples: How to Live the Method Modeled by the Master," offers the lessons Martin says he’s learned from Jesus Christ over those years.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - There is always much to ponder in the Book of Proverbs, from which we have been reading at daily Mass this week (25th Week of the Year). Consider the following proverb, which speaks to the glory of the Word of God and of our need to preserve its purity... Every word of God is tested; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Add nothing to his words, lest he reprove you, and you will be exposed as a deceiver (Proverbs 30:5-6).