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** ‘I FEEL LIKE I’M HANDING OUT LIFE JACKETS OF HOPE IN A SEA OF DESPAIR.’
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The New York Times
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If Christians are wise, they will emerge from this pandemic as different and better people: more kind and generous, more able to mourn with those who mourn, more able to model how love can cast out fear.
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** AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIESTS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
The Catholic World Report

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The Catholic Church has survived, endured, and even thrived through every imaginable vicissitude of history, and priests have been an integral part of that survival, that endurance, and that thriving. Read More ([link removed])

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** AN EASTER PEOPLE, NOW MORE THAN EVER
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online

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Our current crisis has revealed the significance of Lent and reminded us of how desperately we need Easter. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE TRIDUUM AND EASTER JOY
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
Public Discourse

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Easter is the victory of life over death, our deliverance and liberation in the resurrection of God’s Son. But if our Easter joy this year is mixed with a taste of Good Friday’s myrrh and loss, and a hunger for the Eucharist we can’t satisfy, we should accept it as a gift. It’s a reminder of the precious things we too easily take for granted. Read More ([link removed])

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** BLESSED ENGELMAR UNZEITIG: A PATRON AT THE TIME OF AN OUTBREAK
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By EPPC Cardinal Francis George Fellow Mary FioRito
Simply Catholic

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While volunteers in times of medical emergency do not have an obvious patron saint, they might very well find one in Blessed Engelmar Unzeitig, known as the “Angel of Dachau.” Read More ([link removed])


** WHY WE MISS BASEBALL
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EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis laments ([link removed]) the indefinite delay of the Major League Baseball season: “It is precisely now that the timelessness of a baseball game — the only major team sport without a clock — would be a balm and a cure.”

And EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen makes the case ([link removed]) in the Washington Post that MLB should aim to re-start the season with the All-Star Game, observing that “no other sport has a comparably iconic event that it can stage this spring.”

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** AFTER CARDINAL PELL’S RIGHTFUL ACQUITTAL
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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The unanimous decision by Australia’s High Court to quash Cardinal George Pell’s convictions on charges of “historic sexual abuse” and acquit him of those crimes was entirely welcome. Yet there remains a lot to be reckoned with in the aftermath of this case, which bore all the tawdry hallmarks of a witch hunt. Read More ([link removed])

(See also Mr. Weigel’s piece ([link removed]) arguing that “it is imperative for the future of the Australian criminal justice system, and indeed for the future of Australian democracy, that a serious examination of conscience followed by a serious public reckoning take place.”)

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** PELL CASE QUASHED – MCCARRICK REPORT STILL PENDING
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing

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For too long the Church reflexively stood with those it was “easy” to believe and “easy” to defend: accused priests. For that we are still paying the price, though the greater price was paid in the suffering of victims. Justice demands better. Read More ([link removed])

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** WHEN TO LEAVE?
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By EPPC Tikvah Visiting Fellow Devorah Goldman
The American Interest

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For Jews, this is the perennial question. A new book explores how Jewish communities around the world are navigating it. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review

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For decades, groups and individuals with vastly different cultural backgrounds, religious views, and political goals have set aside their conflicting preferences on other issues to campaign against abortion. Read More ([link removed])

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** THERE ARE PATTERNS IN THE COVID-19 CRISIS. HERE’S WHAT THEY TELL US.
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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Different parts of the country show much different rates of infection, suggesting that some places might be able to reopen earlier than others. Read More ([link removed])

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** WHEN THIS IS OVER
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online

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This time of uncertainty and isolation could change us for the better, if we let it. Read More ([link removed])

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** POLITE FICTIONS
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By EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman
The New Criterion

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The very existence of polite fictions — such as the fiction that impeachment had arisen out of the disinterested concern of public-spirited Democrats to preserve constitutional norms and not as a squalid partisan affair — comes about because we are aware of the absurdity of regarding them as the firmly established truths they pretend to be. Read More ([link removed])

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** WHAT IS THE BEST CASE SCENARIO?
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column

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The president should focus on his proper role, not performing for the cameras. Read More ([link removed])

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** TRUMP CAN LEARN SOMETHING FROM BORIS JOHNSON ABOUT LEADERSHIP
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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President Trump’s partisans had better hope that somewhere deep within him there is a similar depth of character to that which British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has found. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE COUNTRY YEARNS FOR A UNIFYING VOICE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column

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Queen Elizabeth has spoken well for Britons. Joe Biden will soon have an opportunity to voice a unifying message for Americans. Read More ([link removed])

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** THERE’S PLENTY OF ROOM TO COMPROMISE ON MAIL-IN VOTING. GET IT DONE.
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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November’s election is already likely to be vicious. That makes it crucial that both sides prepare to ensure the process itself is inclusive and trustworthy. Read More ([link removed])

(See also EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen’s column ([link removed]) explaining that “alternatives to in-person voting are not that difficult to achieve with a little advanced planning.”)

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** EMBRACING THE KIND OF REDEEMER GOD APPOINTED
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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The Gospel readings of Lent remind us that opposition to Jesus and his mission frequently grew out of the desire for a redeemer who was more like what various characters in the drama thought a redeemer should be. Read More ([link removed])

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