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July 24, 2021

Eat the Disabled?  Follow the Science? by Francis X. Maier

By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing - Here in America, except for those 60 million abortions and a few other oddities, we have more decent instincts. And we need to talk about that. Decency is, itself, a matter of cultural consensus, a flexible ethical artifact, and – let’s face it – an update in content is probably overdue. The truth is, “decency” is too often allowed to be just another flabby, humanitarian excuse for cowardice; for an inherited, pre-rational unwillingness to do the bold, the urgent, the necessary.
July 22, 2021

Do the Vaccinated Become a Breeding Ground for COVID Mutations? by Dr. Joseph Mercola

By Dr. Joseph Mercola, LifeSiteNews - Story at-a-glance: Based on the scientific evidence, the narrative that unvaccinated people are viral factories for more dangerous variants is false... Just as antibiotics breed resistance in bacteria, vaccines put evolutionary pressure on viruses to speed up mutations and create more virulent and dangerous variants... Viruses mutate all the time, and if you have a vaccine that doesn’t block infection completely, then the virus will mutate to evade the immune response within that person. ...
July 22, 2021

The Kiss of Judas, by John A. Monaco

By John A. Monaco, Crisis Magazine - We’re all aware of the heated dispute inside the Catholic Church regarding whether baptized Catholic pro-abortion politicians—and in particular, President Joe Biden—should be admitted to Holy Communion. Instead of treading over well-worn territory, I want to turn to the liturgy, which, as the late Benedictine theologian Aidan Kavanagh defined, is “the faith of the Church in motion.”
July 21, 2021

Backstories: “The Chosen”, by Brad Miner

By Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing - A few years ago, I began receiving email invitations to watch a crowdfunded TV series about Jesus. I ignored them. Then, more recently, friends began to ask me what I thought of the series, and I ignored them too. Finally, I decided to watch an episode or two, although mostly out of a perverse hunger to review it with the gimlet eye I bring to anything overhyped and under-produced.

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