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The Heart and the Good Samaritan

July 9, 2022 Carl E. Olson 15

Readings: • Deut 30:10-14 • Ps 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37 • Col 1:15-20 • Lk 10:25-37 “The heart,” wrote St. John Chrysostom, “is the most noble of all the members of our body.” […]

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Aristotle on the middle class

July 8, 2022 Dr. Edward Feser 12

On CNN the other day, liberal commentator Van Jones complained that the Democrats are “becoming a party of the very high and the very low” ends of the economic spectrum, and do not appeal to […]

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Why Dobbs is a better precedent than Roe

July 7, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

The scene outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., after the court released its decision in the Dobbs abortion case on June 24, 2022. / Katie Yoder/CNA

Denver Newsroom, Jul 7, 2022 / 12:06 pm (CNA).
When the Supreme Court overturned … […]

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The lessons of Russian warmaking

July 6, 2022 George Weigel 46

CRACOW. Four and a half months after Russia invaded Ukraine on the Orwellian pretext of displacing a “Nazi” regime — a regime that enjoys a democratic legitimacy absent from Russia for two decades — what […]