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National Catholic Register – “Pope Francis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Lords Prayer”

On Dec. 6, 2017, Pope Francis, in the midst of a video segment explicating the Lord’s Prayer on Italian television, voiced a criticism of the English translation of the phrase “lead us not into temptation” that created a brief media stir.

Catholic News Agency – “Questions and Answers on the Filial Correction”

Dr. Jacob Wood, an assistant professor of theology at the ���ĺ�������, offers answers on some frequently-asked-questions about the ‘Filial Correction on the Spread of Heresies” a letter sent to Pope Francis by a group of bishops, priests, and scholars, who released the letter this past weekend.

Crisis – “Why Birthdays Should be Celebrated”

September 11th was my 64th birthday. Yes, 9/11, but we’ll leave that for another time.

Crisis – “On Giving Catholic Books Away”

Following Fr. Schall—who nudged me home to the Church some years back—I do a bit of evangelizing by recommending—or when feeling rich, giving—books to people.

Crisis – “Abolishing the Moral Order”

In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis argued that all the celebratory talk about man’s increasing ability to control nature had a dark side in which some men took control over other men with nature as the instrument.

Crisis – “Love your Enemy, But Know Him Too”

In the mid-1990s the philosopher Norman Geras published a short book on the “ungroundable liberalism” of Richard Rorty.

Crisis – “Pursuing True Happiness in a World Without Truth”

Among the many confusions in our modern-secular culture is the fundamentally incoherent idea—which is also a promise, a hope, and a dream—that true happiness is possible without truth, but instead can be had with more freedom and more power.

National Review – “Priest, Face East”

Cardinal Robert Sarah proposes that the Church recover a piece of its tradition.

Crisis – “Christianity: An Antidote to Tyranny”

Like all modern tyrants, Karl Marx hated religion, Christianity in particular, because he understood that it was going to be very difficult if not impossible to get men to follow him so long as they continued to follow Jesus Christ, and so the first thing an aspiring tyrant in the middle of Christian Europe needed to do was to uproot and destroy Christianity.

Catholic World Report – “Universities are Complicit in the Fetal Tissue Scandal”

While the practices of body-part harvesting at Planned Parenthood are horrific, the role of federally funded medical researchers at some of the country’s most prestigious universities and hospitals must also be investigated by Congress.