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Mike Pence deserves the thanks of every genuine patriot for playing an indispensable role in preserving constitutional order.
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Pope Clement put his trust in Jesus’s words, and so we hear him sing his beautiful part within the choir of martyrs.
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James Ellis III shares his guide for faithful preachers with Mark Bauerlein.
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Shakespeare is Christian, he sees Christianity as the best possible solution to the problem of shame-driven violence, and he may be right.
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We deny that one’s racial or ethnic make-up is at the heart of one’s identity.
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The referendum caravan will move onward toward its final destination: the full secularization and de-Catholicizing of the Irish Constitution.
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Mike Pence’s actions on Jan 6th were correct, courageous, informed by conscience, and fortified by prayer.
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“Not a hair of your head will perish.” It won’t, for in our risen Lord, we are phoenixes, rising from our ashes.
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We deny that any sin, including the sin of racism, can be attributed to a person simply because of that person’s racial or ethnic identity.
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Ireland‘s constitution will no longer protect marriage from attack.
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Mark Bauerlein‘s latest podcast with James Ellis III:
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The interiors of university buildings presuppose, and create, people without roots and without concrete allegiances.
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We deny that racism can be presupposed as a pervasive condition of all white people living in the Western world today.
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"To arrive at a modern university must be a great disappointment for young adults who once delighted in the nooks and crannies and ancient cloisters of Hogwarts." Me at First Things on the dreary interiors of universities.
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Changes to Ireland‘s constitution remove language recognizing the support mothers give to the state by their life within the home.
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Pity the poor student who must face the adventure of intellectual discovery in an open-plan desert of gray floors, off-white paint, and fluorescent light.
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Mark Bauerlein and James Ellis talk suffering and the Christian life:
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Mark Bauerlein and Dan McCarthy () talk Willmore Kendall and the history of conservatism:
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Russia, China, and others have unhitched their wagons from the Western cultural trends that the New Left generation unleashed, trends symbolized by the rainbow flag.
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R.R. Reno discusses the moral lessons from “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” and the virtue of sacrifice.
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Every time I see a small, abandoned village chapel, with its roof caved in, I think of the faithful celebrating their first Mass there, and of the desperate prayers that were said within those walls.
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Envisioning the future, our fellow humans in the past have occasionally gotten things right. But often, wildly often, they have been absurdly wrong.
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To arrive at a modern university must be a great disappointment for young adults who once delighted in the nooks and crannies and ancient cloisters of Hogwarts.
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As to what “time” it is now—what time in the span of humanity—I don’t know. But I’m confident that my faith, our faith, is not misplaced.
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Many dilapidated historical religious buildings in Europe are on the verge of ruin and require urgent action if they are to be saved.
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This month in Bali, Indonesia, the G20 Summit held its first annual Religion Forum, the “R20.”
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The latest episode of the Public Square video series with R.R. Reno is available, watch here:
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The f-word moved front and center in political vituperation when Allied powers declared WWII a war against “fascism.”
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New York City is more beautiful than you might imagine:
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There are virtues worth losing your life for. Life itself is not the noblest and not the greatest thing, explains R.R. Reno.
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We are always looking back and looking forward, in ways large and small, even as we inhabit the elusive “present.”
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"I hate to see the traces of history erased without further ado. Every time I see a small, abandoned village chapel, I think of the faithful celebrating their first Mass there."
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Progressives will not lift a finger to save these threatened treasures. We will. Conservatives are all about conservation, sometimes literally.
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The R20 Summit looked to Vatican II as an example, which formalized an attitude of respect toward non-Christian religions.
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Teachers, mentors, supervisors of the young, bring memorization back into your kids’ lives. They will thank you when they’re thirty.
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Beyond the social benefits, swing dancing heals something in us metaphysically.
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So many of this pontificate’s loudest supporters are ambiguous on issues of sexual identity and behavior.
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