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THERE’S A PONY IN HERE SOMEWHERE:
A POST-SYNODAL REFLECTION

By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
First Things

For whatever else it may or may not have accomplished, Synod-2019 was an unmistakable moment of clarification and a stern summons to responsibility.

(See also Mr. Weigel’s recent appearance on EWTN’s “The World Over,” in which he discusses the synod and his new book The Irony of Modern Catholic History.)

VOTES, QUOTAS, AND TITLES: MISSING THE POINT ABOUT WOMEN

By EPPC Kate O’Beirne Fellow Mary Rice Hasson
First Things

Some synod interventions that address women’s participation and leadership in the Church seem infected with mirror strains of an old feminist virus. Read More

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OF COURSE ELIZABETH WARREN WOULD RAISE TAXES ON THE MIDDLE CLASS

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

Every country that has a large public-sector health insurance program that covers most citizens pays for it with taxes much higher than Americans are used to paying. Read More

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ELIZABETH WARREN IS NOT HONEST

By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column

For someone who touts herself as a scholar, Elizabeth Warren resorts to anecdotes in a most disingenuous fashion. Read More

THE PRESIDENCY DESERVES RESPECT—EVEN WHEN THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT

By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The Atlantic

Civic grace means that each of us should look for places to act in our daily lives with a touch more class, a bit less venom, and a little more understanding toward those who see the world differently than we do. Read More

NO QUID PRO QUO?

By EPPC Senior Fellow Mona Charen
Syndicated Column

As evidence mounts, the GOP defense of Trump’s call is falling apart. Read More

TRUMP IS BLOWING HIS DEFENSE AGAINST IMPEACHMENT

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

To survive impeachment, President Trump needs to do more than rally a base predisposed to back its embattled leader. Read More
(See also Mr. Olsen’s piece explaining that the only practical effect of the House impeachment resolution “is to allow Democratic members from swing districts to distance themselves from the Speaker’s effort without disrupting her plans.”)

REVOLUTIONISM REDUX, PART I

By EPPC Resident Scholar James Bowman
The New Criterion

If it takes one kind of Holy Madness to drive out another, dissenters from the identity politics of the newly socialist and liberationist left may be driven to join the Trumpites under the banner of nationalism. Read More

WHAT THE BISHOPS ALSO MUST DO

By EPPC Fellow Stephen P. White
The Catholic Thing

The bishops’ mission is to teach, sanctify, and govern precisely so those they serve can fulfill the mission to the rest of us, who are called by baptism to proclaim the Gospel. Read More

A NEW CARDINAL HONORS AN ENTIRE NATION

By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

Sigitas Tamkevicius’s enrollment in the College of Cardinals was a papal tribute to a brave man who exemplifies the best the Society of Jesus offers the Church and the world. Read More

BAGHDADI’S DEATH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A CLEAR VICTORY FOR TRUMP. IT WASN’T.

By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post

One longs for a wisp of Churchillian magnanimity in President Trump. Read More

THE IDEOLOGICAL HIJACKING OF POPE ST. JOHN XXIII

By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column

Today, the living parts of the Catholic Church are those committed to a truth-centered evangelization that manifests itself in compassionate witness as well as compelling proposal. Read More

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