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September 2, 2022
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Christian Solidarity vs. Barbarism
George Weigel
Syndicated Column

CRACOW. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees have passed through this ancient cultural capital of Poland since Vladimir Putin’s poorly equipped, miserably led, and brutish army invaded Ukraine on February 24 on the spurious pretext that a “Nazi”-led Ukraine posed an existential threat to Russia’s security. The bloodlands of eastern Europe, between here and the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, are no stranger to totalitarian cruelty and its effects. Between 1932 (the beginning of Stalin’s terror-famine, the Ukrainian Holodomor) and 1945 (the end of World War II), this was the most dangerous part of the world, a blood-soaked killing field in which perhaps 20 million men, women, and children died violent deaths.

Barbaric warfare inevitably causes a massive stream of refugees fleeing the slaughter, and the barbaric Russian warfare of 2022 is no exception. What is different—and what is heartening, in this season of discouragement over the state of world affairs and the Catholic Church’s response to it—is how the millions of Ukrainian refugees who fled Putin’s war have been treated. That difference was brought home to me, graphically, in a conversation I had with a distinguished Polish particle astrophysicist.
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It is the chief role of the Church, Senior Fellow Francis Maier writes in First Things ([link removed]) , to teach, not to listen—a duty our contemporary churchmen often forget.
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Senior Fellow Henry Olsen examined the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev ([link removed]) in his column for the Washington Post: “But if freedom for oppressed nations is the positive aspect of Gorbachev’s legacy, war is its downside.”
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Writing for WORLD Opinions this week, Fellow Brad Littlejohn of the Evangelicals in Civic Life ([link removed]) program considers the horrible consequences of Alex Jones' gross disregard for the truth. ([link removed])
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Also at WORLD Opinions, Postdoctoral Fellow Nathanael Blake argues that “The sexual revolution has not delivered on its promises, for it cannot. ([link removed]) ”
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Alexandra DeSanctis, fellow in EPPC’s Life and Family Initiative ([link removed]) , responds to a New York Times op-ed at National Review Online, clarifying “Why We Talk about Miscarriage Differently from Abortion ([link removed]) ”
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New Episode:
Searching for Medicine's Soul

On this episode of Searching for Medicine’s Soul, Aaron Rothstein is joined by Danielle Ofri, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine and founder of the Bellevue Literary Review. The two discuss Ofri’s work chronicling the challenges to the relationship between doctor and patient: administrative creep in the medical field, nonprofit hospital (mis)behavior, and the application of the adversarial patient compensation system to unintended medical errors.
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