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By Gigi Duncan, National Catholic Register - Commentator Michael Knowles believes that the U.S. Constitution may be more closely aligned with Catholic political philosophy than commonly recognized, suggesting the nation’s founding echoes ideas laid out centuries earlier. Speaking as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, Knowles on Thursday tied the American system to Aquinas’ concept of the “mixed regime,” which combines elements of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy — a framework that, he noted, is mirrored in the Constitution’s balance of executive, legislative and judicial powers.

By Bishop Athanasius Schneider, OnePeterFive - In one of his addresses in July 2016, Cardinal Robert Sarah said, “It is very important that we return as soon as possible to a common orientation, of priests and the faithful turned together in the same direction—eastwards or at least toward the apse—to the Lord who comes.  I think it is a very important step in ensuring that in our celebrations the Lord is truly at the center.” This is a constant thread in his speeches, interviews and books. ...

By Regis Martin, National Catholic Register - Why must someone so young and so dear to so many be made to suffer for so long? Where is the justice in that?... There isn’t any. At least not by any human reckoning. But because we live in a fallen world, a world infected by sin and disease, such things, while certainly shocking and deeply dislocating, ought not to come as a surprise. The serpent has long since insinuated its poison into the fruit. Death remains the most banal and predictable of all happenings that will, ineluctably, carry us all off in the end.

The LOOPcast, Youtube - They ripped out the altars. Whitewashed the saints. Built “churches” that look like airports. How did we get here? And why did Catholics go along with it? In this episode of The Deep, Erika exposes the shocking, anti-Catholic roots of the Church’s “wreckovation” era – and the modernist ideas that gutted sacred beauty. But it’s not over. Across America, parishes are rising from the ashes and restoring what was lost.