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** ON JOHN PAUL II’S CENTENARY
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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John Paul II, who was likely seen in person by more people than any human being in history, could move millions because the grace of God shone through him, ennobling all whom its brightness and warmth touched.
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** THE GIFT OF JOHN PAUL II
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing

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Those of us who have benefited so greatly from John Paul II’s accomplishments – and from his intercession now – ought to be equally willing to learn from his failings, too. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE SOUL OF POPE ST. JOHN PAUL II
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
The Catholic World Report

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We do not grasp John Paul II “from inside” unless we begin from the understanding that he was first and foremost a radically converted Christian disciple. Read More ([link removed])


** MORE FROM GEORGE WEIGEL ON
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Join EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel for a special webinar on Monday, May 18, sponsored by the Saint John Paul II National Shrine to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Saint John Paul II’s birth. Register for the event at this link ([link removed]) .

Earlier this year, Mr. Weigel delivered his 19th annual William E. Simon Lecture, titled “Saint John Paul II: A Centenary Reflection on a Life of Consequence.” View a video and photos from this event here ([link removed]) .

Mr. Weigel is the author of an acclaimed biography of John Paul II, the first volume of which, Witness to Hope, was just re-published in a new twentieth-anniversary paperback edition by HarperCollins. The book, hailed as “a tremendous achievement” by the Washington Post and “one of the most interesting histories of our times” by the Boston Globe, includes a new preface by Mr. Weigel and may be purchased here ([link removed]) . A tenth-anniversary edition of the second volume of the biography, The End and the Beginning, will be published later this year by Doubleday, and will also include a new preface by the author.

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** EVANGELICALS: A REVIEW
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
Comment

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A new anthology puts evangelicalism within a historical context, helping readers appreciate its rich, complicated history. Read More ([link removed])

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** ‘HOW MUCH IS A HUMAN LIFE WORTH?’
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online

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Andrew Cuomo and his fellow Democrats work to save lives from COVID-19 while targeting human life in the womb. Read More ([link removed])

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** CORONAVIRUS AND ‘VINDICATION OF GOD’
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By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal

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The pandemic raises the old question of theodicy, the core dilemma of faith. Read More ([link removed])

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** QUARANTINE PROTESTERS DON’T REPRESENT ALL CONSERVATIVES. HERE’S WHY.
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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Movement conservatives are increasingly decrying stay-at-home orders and calling for the economy’s rapid reopening. This is, alas, yet another example of how the movement’s devotion to liberty as an overriding value is out of step with mainstream American opinion. Read More ([link removed])

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** TO REBUILD AFTER COVID, LOOK TO FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS
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By EPPC Fellow Ian Lindquist
Napa Legal Institute Blog

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Combatting distrust, despair, and isolation during the coronavirus pandemic will mean looking to America’s faith-based organizations for help feeding the poor and needy, for encouragement in prayer which engenders hope, and for remembering that human beings will once again feast together with joy. Read More ([link removed])

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** ALL HE DOES IS FIGHT
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column

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In 2016, Donald Trump’s supporters lauded his ability to fight. Now, as the country needs unifying leadership, he can’t hang up the boxing gloves. Read More ([link removed])

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** PRESIDENT TRUMP CAN LEARN SOMETHING FROM MICHAEL JORDAN
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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President Trump styles and sells himself as a great leader. The ESPN documentary on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, “The Last Dance,” shows, however, what a truly great leader looks like. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE PRESIDENT IS UNRAVELING
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The Atlantic

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Americans are facing not just a conventional presidential election in 2020 but also, and most important, a referendum on reality and epistemology. Read More ([link removed])

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** YOU CAN CHOKE ON SCHADENFREUDE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
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As a policymaker, Joe Biden needs to be held accountable for his poor judgment about standards of proof in sexual misbehavior cases. It’s quite a different matter to say that he personally should face a false accusation to achieve poetic justice. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE JOBS REPORT REVEALS THE TRUE AMERICAN CARNAGE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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The latest unemployment numbers are horrific enough. A deeper dive into the data, though, shows that it’s even worse than the headline unemployment rate suggests. Read More ([link removed])

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** “WESTERN CIV” WAS NOT A LATE INVENTION
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
History News Network

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The claim that “Western civilization” as a concept and a course of study was invented during World War I is mistaken. Under only slightly different names, Western Civ has been taught since colonial times, appealing across the political spectrum until the late 1960s. Read More ([link removed])

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** LESSONS FROM THE RENAISSANCE: A CASE FOR THE TEACHING OF CLASSICAL VIRTUE
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By EPPC Fellow Ian Lindquist
Education Next

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Renaissance education reform is in many respects the ancestor of a current education-reform movement in American that has been growing since the early 1980s. Like the Renaissance reformers, classical educators today introduce their students to classical virtue and classical authors. Today’s classical educators do not view their approach as an exercise in antiquarianism but rather as necessary for a life fully lived. Read More ([link removed])

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** JOSEPH RATZINGER, THEOLOGICAL REFORMER
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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In the War of the Conciliar Succession, there are true reformers, and then there are the forces of deconstruction. Joseph Ratzinger is emphatically a true Catholic reformer. Read More ([link removed])

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** REDEEMER OF MAN
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic Thing

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Technology instinctively reshapes a culture toward purely practical action and results. To the Church falls the task of forcing the questions that get people to think about what it means to be truly human. Read More ([link removed])

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