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August 11, 2020

The Politics of Heaven and Hell, by Robert Royal

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - Ignatius Press is republishing The Politics of Heaven and Hell this fall... in our current chaos, when it seems almost impossible to get sure footing about anything, this relatively neglected volume not only uncovers sure foundations. It explains the ways by which we’ve mixed up eternal and temporal things – and put the times out of joint... recent decades have given birth to what the Polish philosopher Ryszard Legutko calls the “demon in democracy,” a new totalitarian temptation wherein everything is defined by political ideology.
August 11, 2020

Vatican Bishop Says Holy See’s Secret Deal With Chinese Communist Party Will Be Renewed, by Paul Smeaton

By Paul Smeaton, LifeSiteNews - With the two year Vatican-China agreement due to expire on September 22, Argentine Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, the chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences, told the Chinese Communist Party–controlled Global Times that “they are going to renew it, which means that the initial experience went well.”... Sánchez has previously praised China as “extraordinary” and said that their communist regime is the “best [at] implementing the social doctrine of the Church.”
August 6, 2020

Against Integralism: A Thomist’s Case for Limited Government, by Andrew Latham

By Andrew Latham, Crisis Magazine - This past March, The Atlantic published an essay by Adrian Vermeule, a Catholic professor of constitutional law at Harvard University, introducing the idea of “common-good constitutionalism” to an audience that I’m sure had never read anything quite like it... At its most basic, Prof. Vermeule’s argument unfolded something like this: Human flourishing, or the “good life,” necessarily entails living a life of virtue...
August 6, 2020

Another News Figure Quits! Biased, Ratings-Chasing News Shows ‘Cancer’ to Society, by Billy Davis, Steve Jordahl

By Billy Davis, Steve Jordahl, OneNewsNow - Another news figure has quit her job in disgust, this time at far-left MSNBC... "We are a cancer and there is no cure," Ariana Pekary, who quit MSNBC two weeks ago, wrote on her website about the current state of the news media... Pekary worked with Lawrence O’Donnell, the scowling host of “The Last Word” program, after joining the news network in 2013. July 24 was apparently her last day on the job.

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