TRANSFORMING QUARANTINE INTO RETREAT
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
This bruising Lent, in which “fasting” has assumed unprecedented new forms, seems likely to be followed by an Eastertide of further spiritual disruption. At the very least, the dislocations we experience call us to a more profound realization of our dependence on the divine life given us in Baptism.
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WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU’RE SHELTERING IN PLACE
By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal
Set a routine and stick to it. Keep your body, clothes and home clean. Occupy your mind and have faith. Read More
(See also Mr. Morrow’s piece explaining how “calamity has a lot to teach us.”)
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JUSTINIAN’S FLEA, REDUX
By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic Thing
The “civilizational change” wrought by the coronavirus may be less drastic than pandemics in the past. But for American Christians, it may clarify loyalties in a sobering and uniquely painful way. Read More
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TWO ORTHODOX JEWISH APPROACHES TO THE CORONAVIRUS
By EPPC Tikvah Visiting Fellow Devorah Goldman
The Washington Times
The principle of living by religious laws but not dying by them is integral to Jewish practice. Read More
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EPPC PODCASTS ON CORONAVIRUS,
THE ELECTION, AND MORE
Don’t miss the latest podcast episodes featuring EPPC scholars and guests discussing some of the big questions raised by the coronavirus pandemic.
On the latest episode of our Faith Angle podcast, EPPC Faith Angle Forum Director Josh Good leads a conversation between author Andy Crouch and the Washington Post’s Sarah Pulliam Bailey on how churches and other institutions can prepare for a kind of “ice age” that the pandemic may bring about.
On this week’s episode of The Horse Race, EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen discusses President Trump’s re-election prospects and the race for the House with leading analysts and observers.
And be sure to check out The xxxxxx’s Beg to Differ podcast, a weekly roundtable conversation hosted by EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen.
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CHINA’S LIES, AND OURS
By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
National Review Online
Will the world remember the dishonesty that permitted this pestilence to hit us so very hard? Read More
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THE UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS ARE TERRIFYING. BUT WE AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET.
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
The United States hasn’t seen unemployment rates this high since the depths of the Great Depression, but it’s not inconceivable we could be there in just a couple of weeks. Read More
(See also Mr. Olsen’s piece on how “President Trump’s extension of federal social distancing guidelines...might begin to encourage mainstream Republicans to distance themselves in the future from libertarian-tinged economics.”)
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RECLAIMING THE ‘F WORD’
By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online
A new book traces the history of American feminism and how it became entangled with the abortion-rights movement. Read More
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THE GREATEST STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION EVER WRITTEN
By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online
If there is one early history of the West still worth reading in this day and age, Francois Guizot’s The History of Civilization in Europe is definitely it. Read More
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RECOVERING FRIENDSHIP
By EPPC Tikvah Visiting Fellow Devorah Goldman
Public Discourse
A friend is more than a form of entertainment. The utilitarian way app designers would have us pick friends off a menu reflects quite the opposite approach. Friendships are viewed as more comfortable and more disposable than Allan Bloom, C.S. Lewis, and the Talmud suggest they ought to be. Read More
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FALSE ALLEGATIONS ARE RARE – AND REAL
By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
One of the underappreciated realities of the abuse crisis is that a sizable portion of priests who are accused are neither manifestly guilty nor demonstrably innocent. And this creates a thorny problem for both priests and bishops. Read More
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“WITTENBERG” IN SYNODAL SLOW MOTION
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
It is astonishing that, confronted by unmistakable empirical evidence that liberal Protestantism has collapsed around the world, German Catholic leaders, ordained and lay, seem determined to create a nominally Catholic form of liberal Protestantism through a slow-motion “Wittenberg.” Read More
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POPE FRANCIS’S RESPECTFUL CRITICS DESERVE BETTER THAN SCORN
By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
National Review Online
Catholics have an obligation, rooted in love, to treat the Holy Father — any Holy Father — with the respect due his office. But as in any healthy family, respect does not preclude criticism on matters of substance. Read More
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DAN LIPINSKI, MYTH-BUSTER
By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
The Catholic World Report
“Moderation” is on life-support in the Democratic Party, irrespective of the fact that Joe Biden seems likely to best Bernie Sanders for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination. Read More
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PRESERVE OUR ELECTION
By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column
Voting in the traditional way requires us to do the very thing that epidemiologists and public-health authorities have forbidden us to do — gather in large groups for prolonged periods. Why not extend voting from one day to seven days? Read More
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THE PRESIDENT IS TRAPPED
By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The Atlantic
The pain and hardship that the United States is only beginning to experience stem from a crisis that the president is utterly unsuited to deal with. Read More
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LET’S BE HONEST. IMPEACHMENT HURT TRUMP’S RESPONSE TO CORONAVIRUS.
By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
Despite the near certainty that Republicans would not vote to convict the president, Democrats and most of the major media were almost entirely focused on impeachment. As a result, the White House was focused on addressing this threat to its survival, not on preparing for a threat from China that might never even materialize. Read More
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