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** 2022: THERE’S GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Francis X. Maier
The Catholic Thing
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As 2022 begins, it’s worthwhile looking at the particular challenges to all of us these days.
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** THE 3 BIGGEST CHALLENGES FOR DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS IN 2022
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Henry Olsen
The Washington Post
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How the two parties manage certain key issues in the new year will determine not only their standing at the end of 2022, but for years to come. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Mr. Olsen’s list of 5 key elections around the world to watch in 2022. ([link removed]) )
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Please join us before the 2022 March for Life for a breakfast, panel discussion, and book signing co-hosted by Notre Dame's de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture and the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
The panel will feature EPPC Fellows Erika Bachiochi, Carter Snead (Director of the Notre Dame de Nicola Center), and Carl R. Trueman, in conversation about their most recent books, moderated by EPPC Cardinal Francis George Fellow Mary FioRito. Introductory remarks will be given by EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson.
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** WOMEN OF VALOR AND THE PRO-LIFE CAUSE
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi and many other women of valor helped make that possible by decades of legal and moral commentary that has eviscerated the worst Supreme Court decision since Dred Scott. Read More ([link removed])
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** THE WOKE TARGET METAPHORS, LEAVING NO SCONE UNTURNED
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By EPPC Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow Lance Morrow
The Wall Street Journal
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A University of California “inclusive language guide” seeks to avoid “baggage,” but not literally. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Mr. Morrow’s piece ([link removed]) lamenting that “estrangement has become a theme on all political sides—a psychology of exile even in one’s own country.”)
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** WHY THE OMICRON VARIANT IS GOOD NEWS
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By EPPC Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake
The Federalist
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We must learn to live with the possibility of infection, rather than imagining a world without this virus. Read More ([link removed])
(See also Dr. Blake’s piece ([link removed]) on a proposed executive order that would allow the federal Bureau of Prisons to house criminals based on subjective, self-declared “gender identity” rather than biological sex.)
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** THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE BECOMES AN ASSEMBLY LINE
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By EPPC Tikvah Visiting Fellow Devorah Goldman
The Wall Street Journal
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Consolidation is wiping out private practices and making medical care costlier and worse. Read More ([link removed])
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** CAN DEMOCRATS LEARN FROM THEIR FAITH-BASED CHILD CARE MISTAKES?
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By EPPC Fellow Patrick T. Brown (with W. Bradford Wilcox)
Deseret News
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“Build Back Better” was not a unified approach to expanding parents’ choices. Read More ([link removed])
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** NO OPTIMISM, MUCH HOPE
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By EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel
Syndicated Column
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No matter what the vicissitudes and trials of history, Christians live in a different time zone: the time zone of salvation history. And that is why, however shaky the grounds for optimism, there is every reason for hope. Read More ([link removed])
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** CHRISTMAS BY DICKENSIAN DECREE
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By EPPC Fellow Algis Valiunas
First Things
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A Christmas Carol has influenced how we view and celebrate Christmas in modern times. But does Dickens know how to keep Christmas well? Read More ([link removed])
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** WHY JESUS NEVER STOPPED ASKING QUESTIONS
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By EPPC Senior Fellow Peter Wehner
The New York Times
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Christmas is meaningful, for those of us of the Christian faith, because it situates each of our lives — the joys and the sorrows, the hope and the despair, the dramatic and the mundane — in a larger narrative: Not only did God author it; the son of God became a protagonist within it. Read More ([link removed])
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** THE LIGHT HAS DAWNED
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By EPPC Fellow Andrew T. Walker
WORLD Opinions
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What Christians celebrate at Christmas is that the Word, the grand-ordering Logos, became flesh—that the very organizing principle of the universe that Jordan Peterson is grasping for is not a mystery, but revealed. Read More ([link removed])
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