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** ENGAGING SECULAR MODERNITY
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By EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson
Prime Matters
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EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson joined Msgr. James P. Shea, president of the University of Mary, to discuss secular modernity and his work engaging questions of the human person in the public square.
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** VIDEO: EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino Laments That HHS is Expected to Roll Back Trump-Era Religious Liberty Protections
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EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino joined Washington Watch with Tony Perkins to discuss a new memo outlining HHS’s plan to roll back Trump-era religious liberty protections.
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** EPPC Scholars Featured in National Review’s special “Against Roe” issue
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** INHUMAN NATURE
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By EPPC Fellow Carter Snead
National Review
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The lawless artifice of American abortion jurisprudence is built on a conception of human identity and flourishing that is false, dangerous, and in no way required by the Constitution. Read More ([link removed])
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** WOMEN DO NOT ‘RELY’ ON ABORTION
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By EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi
National Review
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Chip away at Casey’s assertion that women rely on abortion for their participation in economic and social life, and there is not much left of the cases that have distorted constitutional interpretation and held U.S. politics hostage for nearly 50 years. Read More ([link removed])
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** ROE IN THE PUBLIC MIND
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By EPPC Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis
National Review
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Judging from public-opinion polling over the most recent decade, though American sentiment is fairly complex when it comes to whether and when abortion should be legal, a clear majority opposes the status quo in abortion law and policy. Read More ([link removed])
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** THOUGHTS ON A POST-ROE AGENDA
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By EPPC Fellow Patrick T. Brown
National Review
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The pressure campaigns on religious freedom and voting bills would look like child’s play if a state moved to enact restrictions potentially enabled by Dobbs. Social conservatives need to prepare a counteroffensive. Read More ([link removed])
EVENT: The Meaning of Equality in America
Where did the idea that “all men are created equal” come from, and what did those words mean when Thomas Jefferson wrote them in the Declaration of Independence? What has equality meant in America over time—and what does it mean today? On Wednesday, December 15 at 12 p.m. ET, EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi will take part in an event sponsored by the National Constitution Center to explore the idea of equality throughout American history.
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** WHAT THE BISHOPS REALLY SAID AT BALTIMORE
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
The Catholic World Report
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Catholics dubious about what they read in the press on virtually every other matter ought not take the bait cast by media outlets and think that the bishops ducked the “abortion issue” when crunch-time came. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Mr. Weigel’s latest weekly column, “Catholic Progressives and the Culture War ([link removed]) .”)
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** A BEGINNING BY THE BISHOPS, NOT THE END
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By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing
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The deep divisions in the Church make it clear that the Church needs a big change. The document just passed by the U.S. bishops on the Eucharist isn’t it. But it might prove an important brick in beginning lasting renewal. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Mr. White’s piece for America Magazine, “Listen to Archbishop Gomez: Social Justice Begins with Recognizing Our Common Humanity. ([link removed]) ”
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** QUEERING VETERANS DAY
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Carl R. Trueman
First Things
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Georgetown’s mission statement may claim that the school is Catholic, but it seems its Catholicism must comport with the latest trendy ideas about identity touted by the left's lobby groups. Read More ([link removed])
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** WHY NATIONAL CONSERVATIVES’ PLATFORM SHOULD START WITH MEN
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By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist
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Sen. Josh Hawley is on to something: When men struggle to find good jobs and to form and maintain families, they often turn to alternatives that sap their fitness for a good life. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Dr. Blake’s piece for Public Discourse, “The Impossibility of Absolute Academic Freedom: A Response to Robert T. Miller. ([link removed]) ”)
** EPPC SCHOLAR FILES SUPREME COURT BRIEF SUPPORTING CHALLENGE TO LACK OF RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS IN NEW YORK’S VACCINE MANDATE
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This week, EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison filed a motion and proposed Supreme Court amici brief in support of an emergency application challenging New York’s vaccine mandate. The mandate allows broad medical exemptions but categorically prohibits religious exemptions in violation of federal civil rights law. Several of the applicants had previously received religious accommodations from vaccination from their employers, but after New York’s mandate, those accommodations were revoked. Read More ([link removed])
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** UPDATE: LETTERS FROM UC AND CDC
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The CDC admits it has no evidence of a single case of a Covid-recovered individual subsequently getting reinfected and transmitting the virus. Yet UCI has placed EPPC Fellow Dr. Aaron Kheriaty on unpaid suspension. Read More ([link removed])
** VIDEO: EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen Joined C-SPAN’s Washington Journal to discuss Recent Elections and Outlook for 2022 and 2024
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** More Media Appearances by EPPC Scholars
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* AUDIO: Rachel N. Morrison on Biden Administration and Taxpayer-Funded Abortion ([link removed]) (Heartland Daily Podcast)
* AUDIO: Noelle Mering on Responding to the Cult of Progressive Ideologies ([link removed]) (Mornings with Carmen LaBerge)
* AUDIO: Erika Bachiochi on Whole-Life Women’s Rights, Reliance Interest in Dobbs, and Common-Good Thinking ([link removed]) (Life, Liberty, and Law podcast)
* AUDIO: George Weigel on the Legacy of Rev. Paul Mankowski, SJ ([link removed]) (Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture podcast)
* AUDIO: Dr. Aaron Kheriaty on COVID Vaccine Mandates, Conscience Rights, and Medical Ethics ([link removed]) (Humanize podcast)
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