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** ESCAPE CLAUSE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic Thing
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As a nation we’re neither as good as our pride imagined, nor as bad as America’s chronic haters – their name is Legion – want us to believe.
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** IN THIS MOMENT OF TURMOIL, LET THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE DO ITS MAGIC ONCE AGAIN
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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The United States was the first nation in world history to found itself on a universal doctrine that placed human dignity and equality, separate from any religious doctrine, at its core. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE SILENT MAJORITY MUST SING
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online

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It’s time to push back on what has morphed into a comprehensive assault not only on America itself, but on the very conditions of social peace. Read More ([link removed])


** A TASTE OF TMS ([link removed])
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This year’s Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society, scheduled to be held in Cracow, Poland, from June 29 through July 16, has been suspended and will not meet as scheduled. In order to offer applicants, alumni, and friends of the program an opportunity to explore Catholic social doctrine this summer, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel, EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White, and other faculty have recorded brief lectures ([link removed]) that will introduce viewers to the topics typically covered at the Seminar. These lectures, entitled “A Taste of TMS,” do not aim to replace or substitute for the full experience of TMS, but to provide a small taste of the content offered by our faculty each year.

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** ST. JOHN PAUL II: A CENTENARY REFLECTION
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
First Things

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In the third decade of the twenty-first century, John Paul II’s reading of the signs of the times remains a template for understanding our civilization’s distempers and rebuilding its moral-cultural foundations. Read More ([link removed])

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** ANOTHER VICTORY FOR THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online

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The belief that the government, or employers compelled by the government, ought to subsidize contraception stems from a fundamentally incorrect, irrational view of contraception as a necessary component of holistic health care. Read More ([link removed])

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** ‘AN HONEST CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE’?
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By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal

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Is confrontation wise? Much progress has been accomplished under cover of hypocrisy—or civility. Read More ([link removed])

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** WHAT DOES JUSTICE ROBERTS’S RULING MEAN FOR THE PRO-LIFE CAUSE?
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By EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi
Public Discourse

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Pro-lifers have waited nearly a half century for the Court to repudiate its entire ill-founded abortion jurisprudence. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE NEXT POPE AND THE GREAT COMMISSION
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
The Catholic Difference

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Recent papal history suggests that certain qualities are needed in the Bishop of Rome at this turbulent period in history. Reflecting on those qualities helps everyone understand this Catholic moment and its demands more clearly. Read More ([link removed])

See also Mr. Weigel’s new book, The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission ([link removed]) .

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** LESSONS OF THE LATEST ABUSE NUMBERS
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing

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We owe it to our shepherds to let them try to regain our trust, as hard as that may be. As for our bishops, surely they know how difficult it is to trust a leader who never lets down his guard, who through contempt or fear, refuses to grant the very trust he demands in return. Read More ([link removed])

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** WAS TRUMP’S MOUNT RUSHMORE SPEECH DIVISIVE?
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
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Leadership of a large, diverse nation requires certain grace notes that every president in living memory has found it in his heart to pronounce on important occasions. Read More ([link removed])

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** FROM ‘ANCHORS AWEIGH’ TO AWAY-FROM-CHURCH
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
National Review Online

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The U.S. Navy forbids personnel to attend religious services off base, in a violation of their right to worship. Read More ([link removed])

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** THIS YEAR’S SENATE RACES SPELL DISASTER FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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Republicans are beginning to gird themselves for a landslide defeat for President Trump that drags the entire party down. It could be even worse than they think. Read More ([link removed])

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** BIDEN AND DEMS ARE SET TO ABOLISH THE SUBURBS
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online

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Joe Biden and his party have embraced yet another dream of the radical Left: a federal takeover, transformation, and de facto urbanization of America’s suburbs. What’s more, Biden just might be able to pull off this “fundamental transformation.” Read More ([link removed])

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** SO MUCH FOR TRUMP’S ‘LOVE’ OF THE MILITARY
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
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President Trump has made concern for “our great military” one of his calling cards. So where is his rage at Putin for putting targets on their backs? Read More ([link removed])

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** THE JOB NUMBERS ARE MUCH-NEEDED GOOD NEWS. AND THEY’RE LIKELY TO GET BETTER.
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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The U.S. economy is not yet healthy, but it is no longer in critical condition. The jobs report suggests that it will continue to gain strength if permitted. Read More ([link removed])

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** BOOKS FOR THE SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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George Weigel recommends several books that he lately has found reassuring, challenging, illuminating, and in some cases just plain fun: which is to say, apt reading in, and for, this troubled moment. Read More ([link removed])

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