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March 3, 2023
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** George Weigel’s Annual Simon Lecture
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** The 21st William E. Simon Lecture:
“What Ukraine Means”
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This event was sponsored by the William E. Simon Foundation and live-streamed from the Mayflower Hotel on February 28th, 2023.
And in his syndicated column this week, George criticizes Catholic leaders ([link removed]) who have abandoned the healer’s responsibility to the wounded.
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On EWTN Bookmark, George discusses why Vatican II was called, what it actually taught and implemented, and how the Church was to be reenergized for mission so that its members would live out their lives as evangelical Catholics.
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Brad Littlejohn, in his latest for WORLD Opinions, writes about the "He Gets Us" project ([link removed]) : “Perhaps the very shrillness of the response is a proof of that effectiveness, and exposes a 'woke' movement in the terminal stages of self-parody. Denouncing love for enemies as 'fascism,' after all, looks more like desperation than cultural hegemony.”
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Carl Trueman writes in praise of Scottish politician Kate Forbes ([link removed]) and her principled, faithful Christian approach to public service.
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Nathanael Blake writes for Public Discourse about the bravery of those wounded by transgender ideology ([link removed]) who now speak out against it.
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“Ask around: The father who says he likes being tough on his kids is a liar. Fathers want to be loved, and too often they’re lonely.” Francis Maier writes for First Things aboutthe special difficulties and rewards of paternal love ([link removed]) .
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On February 23, Lance Morrow appeared on City Journal’s 10 Blocks podcast ([link removed]) to discuss his new book, The Noise of Typewriters: Remembering Journalism ([link removed]) and the history of American journalism.
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Lance's book was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal by James Rosen ([link removed]) last weekend: "Mr. Morrow, for many years an essayist at Time magazine, looks back on a long and eventful career in journalism in The Noise of Typewriters, a memoir that is less a sequential narrative than a series of impressions and vignettes, unabashedly digressive, invariably provocative.”
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On the EDIFY Podcast, host Mary FioRito talks with Fr. Ignatius Schweitzer about the recent “Asbury Revival” ([link removed]) and its connection to the USCCB’s call for a Eucharistic revival in the Catholic Church. They discuss how to encourage revival and conversion in our own hearts and how to invigorate our own parish communities to further devotion and prayer.
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What Cardinal Pell Meant: A Personal Reflection
March 8, 6 PM
Catholic Information Center
1501 K Street NW, Suite 175, Washington, DC xxxxxx
With the unexpected death of Cardinal George Pell on January 10, 2023, the Church lost a champion of orthodoxy and one of this century’s great examples of Christian witness. Pell led a storied ecclesiastical career, serving as Archbishop of Sydney from 2001 to 2014 and as inaugural Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy from 2014 to 2019. But it was in his final years that the cardinal faced perhaps his greatest trial—a false conviction, followed by 404 days of imprisonment, before his eventual acquittal by Australia’s highest court.
Join us as George Weigel, who was in Rome with Pell during the cardinal’s final week, reflects on the moral courage of his dear friend.
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Adam and Eve after the Pill: REVISITED
March 15 | 5 PM Mass, 6 PM Talk, 7 PM Reception
Catholic Information Center
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Celebrated author Mary Eberstadt continues her ground-breaking examination of the legacy of the sexual revolution. The book’s predecessor, Adam and Eve after the Pill (2012), dissected the revolution’s microcosmic fallout via its empirical effects on the lives of men, women, and children. This follow-on book investigates the revolution’s macrocosmic transformations in three spheres: society, politics, and Christianity. It also includes an analysis of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
With unflinching logic, Eberstadt summarizes the toll on Western society of today’s fractured homes, feral children, and social isolates. Empathetic yet precise, she connects the dots between shrinking, broken families and rising sexual confusion, seen most recently in transgenderism and related phenomena. The book also traces the dissolution of the home to signature developments in Western politics, especially the increase in acrimony, polarization, street violence, and identity politics. The result is an indictment of the turn taken by much of the world following the post-1960s embrace of contraception and the stigmatization of traditional morality.
The book’s section on the revolution’s infiltration of the churches is must-reading for anyone concerned about the fate of Western Christianity. In a moment when millions wonder whether the Catholic Church will retreat from age-old moral teachings, this book demands to be put at the center of discussion.
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