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December 7, 2019

Founder’s Quote

“There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do […]
December 4, 2019

A Last Chance for Australian Justice, by George Weigel

By George Weigel, Crisis Magazine - Thus in 2020 the highest judicial authority in Australia will review the Pell case, which gives the High Court the opportunity to reverse a gross injustice and acquit the cardinal of a hideous crime: a “crime” that Pell insists never happened; a “crime” for which not a shred of corroborating evidence has yet been produced; a “crime” that simply could not have happened in the circumstances and under the conditions it was alleged to have been committed.
December 4, 2019

The Vatican’s China Syndrome, by Robert Royal

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - How long can the Vatican remain silent about the Chinese repression in Hong Kong and about reports of persecution and re-education camps for religious believers in the rest of China? Clearly, the figures in the Roman Curia (primarily Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin) who crafted the still unpublished accord with the Communist government have put themselves in a moral bind. If they speak out, they may jeopardize the agreement… If they don’t speak out, they run the still greater risk of being accomplices, conspicuous accomplices, in the repression and potential liquidation of a heroic Catholic people of confessors and martyrs.
December 2, 2019

Deacon Keith Fournier: Who Needs Advent? I Do

By Deacon Keith Fournier, Facebook - The word Advent is derived from a Latin root, ad-venio or adventus, which both entail a reaching out and preparing for a coming. This liturgical season of Advent has birthed many customs in Catholic practice and piety. These customs, if understood and embraced, can help inform a pattern of life, a culture, which in turn can help build a framework for living our daily lives as Christians… However, that depends upon us and the choices we make… After all, the Church is not some-thing but Some-One, the Body of Jesus Christ, and we are members of that Body…

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