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** THERE'S NO GOOD CASE AGAINST CONFIRMING AMY CONEY BARRETT
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By EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi
CNN
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Given the strength of Judge Barrett’s record, perhaps playing to the fears of the American public — who aren’t likely to be reading commentaries on the upcoming Supreme Court term but are voting soon — was the Democrats’ only play.
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Listen ([link removed]) to Erika Bachiochi on NPR’s “On Point” segment discussing what Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination means for women’s rights. Find the segment here ([link removed]) .
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** CONFIRMING NEW JUSTICES IS NOT 'PACKING THE COURT'
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online

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Democrats must not be allowed to get away with brazenly redefining terms and refusing to say whether they’ll upend a century and a half of tradition by expanding the size of the Supreme Court. Read More ([link removed])

Read the 2015 letter to Synod Fathers that was organized by EPPC’s Mary Rice Hasson and signed by then-law professor Amy Coney Barrett, among many others. ([link removed])


** ED WHELAN ON THE BARRETT NOMINATION
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EPPC President Ed Whelan is offering running commentary in support of the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. See this compendium ([link removed]) of Mr. Whelan’s commentary at National Review Online’s Bench Memos blog ([link removed]) .

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** PEOPLE OF PRAISE DESERVES OURS
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By EPPC Cardinal Francis George Fellow Mary Hallan FioRito
The Wall Street Journal

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America has a lot to learn from Amy Coney Barrett’s ‘covenant community.’ Read More ([link removed])

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** THE TOXIC WASTE OF ROE V. WADE
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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A Supreme Court that hollows out or even reverses Roe v. Wade will not settle the American abortion debate; it will return the issue to the states, where there will be mixed results for the cause of life. Read More ([link removed])

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** YES, DEMOCRATIC SENATORS HAVE QUESTIONED JUDICIAL NOMINEES ABOUT THEIR FAITH
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review Online

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Amy Coney Barrett is not the only judge to have faced improper scrutiny from Democrats over her religious beliefs. Read More ([link removed])

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** AMY BARRETT AND THE INTOLERABLE
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen White
The Catholic Thing

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The distinctiveness of Barrett’s faith – and the consternation it causes among the champions of certain secular pieties – is refreshing. It also underscores the indistinctiveness of so many Catholics who hold public office. Read More ([link removed])

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** IF YOU SUP WITH THE DEVIL
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
First Things

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The current pontificate’s outreach to China is, for Mr. Lai Chee Ying, fatally flawed at the expense of China’s Christian believers. Read More ([link removed])

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** THE SECRET DESIRE FOR BARRENNESS
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By EPPC Fellow Luma Simms
Breaking Ground

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Fecundity and barrenness contend—in each of us. Those of us who have a secret desire for barrenness are ashamed of it. Read More ([link removed])

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** LETTER CALLS FOR WITHDRAWAL OF '1619 PROJECT' PULITZER
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online

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By striking the most famous claim of the 1619 Project and then covering up that act, the New York Times and Nikole Hannah-Jones have retroactively exposed their effort as a bad-faith project. Read More ([link removed])

See also ([link removed]) Mr. Kurtz’s recent appearance on the “Law Liberty Talk” podcast where he discusses his new book, The Lost History of Western Civilization. Listen to “How the West Was Lost” here ([link removed]) .

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** THE HARD ROAD OF NATIONAL RENEWAL
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

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“Liberty and Justice for All,” a call for national renewal drafted by scholars concerned about the dangerous deterioration of American public life, insists that we must treat each other as mutually responsible individuals, not as embodiments of racial or ideological categories. Read More ([link removed])

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** FDR, CORONAVIRUS AND THE POLITICS OF BRAVADO
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By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal

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When Mr. Trump tells his fellow citizens not to be intimidated by the coronavirus, not to let it “dominate” them, he invites them to share in an optative, mind-over-matter metaphysics that is the key to his relationship to the truth and the workings of his presidency. Read More ([link removed])

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** BREAKING NEWS: NOT EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
The xxxxxx

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For the first time in a long time, the world looks brighter and a little more hopeful than it did seven months ago. As awful as it has been, this disease was not the apocalypse we feared. Read More ([link removed])

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** WE HAVE A TOUGH ECONOMIC RECOVERY AHEAD — NO MATTER WHO WINS IN NOVEMBER
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

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The decline in the headline unemployment rate, from 8.4 percent to 7.9 percent, is superficially good news for President Trump. But a deeper dive reveals underlying, structural barriers to returning to pre-pandemic levels that will bedevil whoever wins. Read More ([link removed])

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** COLUMBUS DAY: ACCURACY & PUBLIC HONOR CAN CO-EXIST
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By EPPC Fellow Ian Lindquist
Real Clear Policy

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Columbus’s legacy is as important as ever today because it reminds us that historical accuracy and public honor are not mutually exclusive. While recognizing Columbus’s imperfections, we can also honor the good he passed down to us. Read More ([link removed])

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** IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE: A REVIEW OF LIVE NOT BY LIES
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic World Report

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Rod Dreher’s new book seeks first to explain what’s reshaping American culture and why; and then to suggest the strategies needed today to live and witness Christian hope, despite the changing terrain. Read More ([link removed])

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** WHO ARE THESE REPUBLICANS?
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
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You can tell a lot about the state of the party by the people who are joining it, the people who are leaving it, and the people it’s pushing out. Read More ([link removed])

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** INTERVIEW: GEORGE WEIGEL ON THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel and RJ Carr
Medium

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EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel was interviewed recently about his new book The Next Pope and the Future of the Catholic Church. Read More ([link removed])

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** RAISED BY WOLVES
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic Thing

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What’s missing in Raised by Wolves, as in so much of modern science fiction, is precisely anything resembling or ennobling the human soul. Read More ([link removed])

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