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Save us, O Holy Cross.
Signpost of the times,
Gnomon of the age,
Axes of creation,
Save us, O Holy Cross.
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Find out what readers like you had to say about our April 2023 issue:
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More than 120,000 Christian Armenians continue to face the threat of ethnic cleansing in Nagorno Karabakh, a region inside Azerbaijan.
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Certain Vatican circles seem determined to maintain ecumenical contacts with the Russian Orthodox Church, despite the obvious fact that that Church’s leadership is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the Kremlin.
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Fr. Robert McTeigue joins the podcast to discuss his new book, “Christendom Lost and Found: Meditations for a Post Post-Christian Era.”
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Don’t worry about being wholly righteous or perfect or blameless. Pick one small good deed and do it with all your heart, and God will love you the more for it. |
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My chief concern with the Neo-Calvinists is that their innovations may end up cutting off future generations from the Reformed tradition that made their contributions intelligible. |
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Whether Catholics and people of goodwill in Poland will harness this recently unleashed energy largely depends on them.
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We look back with horror on children in sweatshops and baby lungs filled with noxious smoke. Might we feel the same, some day, about toddlers with iPhones?
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In “Dobbs,” the Court has looked back to our tradition, our laws, our Constitution, and found therein a reserved right of the states to protect prenatal life.
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Here are a few noteworthy titles scheduled for publication in June, July, or August.
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The animosity between the sexes in South Korea is unsettlingly similar to the attitude between young men and young women in America. R. R. Reno and Scott Yenor discuss. |
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So you know those snazzy lists (like the recent one from ) featuring 47 or 101 books you MUST read this summer? I can't match those, but here's a little selection:
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Enjoy some brief thoughts on Ludwig Wittgenstein and Elizabeth Bishop.
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The West is willing mostly to look the other way when it comes to Aliyev’s menacing of his democratic neighbor.
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Like “Loving,” “Dobbs” is a recovery and vindication of our republic—a great victory for constitutional truth, justice, and the American way.
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At any given moment, there are dozens of books I am looking forward to—in the very near future, in the middle distance, and farther down the road. Here are a few scheduled for publication in June, July, or August.
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Mark Bauerlein and Fr. McTeigue discuss the rise and fall of Christendom.
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Poetic imagination is not a preliminary to doing something, it is an end in itself. It is not “work.” It is “play.”
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At the heart of the Church’s rejection of Donatism was its conviction that gifts of God can come to us even through the mediation of those whose moral failings are evident.
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Baku's authoritarian regime plays a double game: cozy up to Putin but avoid sanctions by hinting at benefits for the West. The West seems willing to play along, even at the expense of the ethnic cleansing of Armenians. My latest in :
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Unless the West creates greater incentives for Azerbaijan to negotiate in good faith, a humanitarian crisis looks about to unfold. | @MarkMovsesian
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Neo-Calvinism argues that Christianity does not need any one culture or philosophical handmaiden, though it can adapt to and incorporate the insights of any age. |
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Unless the West creates greater incentives for Azerbaijan to negotiate in good faith, a humanitarian crisis looks about to unfold. |
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The falsification of reality, underwritten by what some will perceive as the moral authority of the Holy See, could undercut Western resolve in supporting the aggrieved party.
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The Neo-Calvinist movement has much to offer contemporary theology. But if its contributions are going to last, we need to enter a period of “consolidation.” |
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The unraveling of South Korea’s social fabric is a warning to America, which might be heading down the same path. R. R. Reno and Scott Yenor discuss. |
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When schools remove the structure that punishment enforces, the result will not be the utopian flourishing of the unbridled child. Instead we will have anarchy, the power of the stronger child over the weaker. |
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The media attempted to blacken the names of two Poles who were giants of twentieth-century Catholicism. It backfired.
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Vatican diplomacy, absent a recognition of the basic moral and political asymmetries in this brutal war, might make matters worse with a misconceived and ill-executed “peace mission.”
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Neo-Calvinism may not adequately promote unity and appreciation of the broader Christian tradition. |
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As elsewhere in the West, secularism has been making headway in Poland. However, those who dreamed of Poland becoming the next Ireland or Quebec have suffered a major upset in recent weeks.
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Rightly we look back with horror on children in sweatshops and baby lungs filled with noxious smoke. Our blind spot is not prudishness or fear of technology.
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What home economics lessons can we learn from Thoreau? Mark Bauerlein and Jonathan van Belle discuss. |
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Renewed interest in federalism may well be leading to the most serious reconsideration of the federal idea in our century.
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Fukuyama emphasized that a society that disavowed thymos would abolish all that made civilization great. Thymos could be misused, but its proper use made all human creative endeavors possible.
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The slander of Cardinal Adam Sapieha and Pope St. John Paul II has led to an unprecedented mobilization of Polish Catholics in defense of the truth.
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Social media is robbing children of childhood and the effects are lifelong.
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