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Vatican II Didn’t Kneel to Modernity

In his weekly catecheses on Vatican II, Pope Leo is now discussing Gaudium et Spes, one of the more controversial conciliar documents. Critics charged that, by revising its earlier. The post Vatican II Didn’t Kneel to Modernity appeared first on First Things

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Shakespeare Under Stalin’s Shadow

”We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it.” So William Hazlitt, in Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, registered his awe at King Lear. The post Shakespeare Under Stalin’s Shadow appeared first on First Things

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Who Killed the Clancy Children?

This article will appear in the November issue. After a Massachusetts jury failed to convict Lindsay Clancy of strangling her three small children to death with exercise bands, a. The post Who Killed the Clancy Children? appeared first on First Things

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Henry Hyde, A Pro-Life Hero

In 1976, a freshman congressman from Illinois named Henry Hyde attached a single sentence to the annual appropriations bill for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, declaring: “None. The post Henry Hyde, A Pro-Life Hero appeared first on First Things

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No Right to Erase Baptism

Is baptism an irreversible spiritual and ontological change or a piece of recorded personal data to be deleted on demand? That is the question currently before the European Court. The post No Right to Erase Baptism appeared first on First Things

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A Terrible Coarsening

The now-ubiquitous terms “reproductive health” and “reproductive freedom” have contributed mightily to a slaughter of the innocents in these United States. The death toll from that massacre is now. The post A Terrible Coarsening appeared first on First Things

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Two Spectacles, Two Frances

The Stade de France, the country’s largest soccer stadium, holds about 80,000 fans. On Friday, September 25, it was filled with young Catholics. Pope Leo entered to sounds of. The post Two Spectacles, Two Frances appeared first on First Things

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America’s Empty Confessionals

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, James M. O’Toole joins in to discuss his recent book, For I Have Sinned: The. The post America’s Empty Confessionals appeared first on First Things

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The Church in the Age of Therapy

See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal,. The post The Church in the Age of Therapy appeared first on First Things

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Lindsay Clancy and America’s Canadian Future

On September 4, the judge declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, the result of one holdout juror who prevented a verdict of not guilty by reason of. The post Lindsay Clancy and America’s Canadian Future appeared first on First Things

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Tariffs Won’t Bring Back the Male Breadwinner

Economic populists often tell a version of this story: In the working-class heyday that was the post–World War II economic model, a man could put a roof over his. The post Tariffs Won’t Bring Back the Male Breadwinner appeared first on First Things

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How Not to Defend Reading

Has Elon Musk read the Odyssey? Despite the trillionaire’s endless carping about Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the Homeric ­poem, I have yet to see anyone ask this simple question. Musk has. The post How Not to Defend Reading appeared first on First Things

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