19 March AD 2024

VVEDNESDAY EDITION

MORNING ISSUE TOP-10 NEWS LINKS:
1.  A High-Profile Attorney Decides Not to Wait for the McCarrick Report – Christopher Altieri
2.  De-Throning Vatican II, The Council’s Time in History has Passed – Anthony M. Esolen, Ph.D.
3.  Liturgical Reform in the Orthodox Churches as Model for the Roman Rite – David Clayton
4.  Trouble at Villanova: Dispute Escalates Over a Student’s Tweets – Thomas Caddick at C. Hrld
5.  Hallmark Channel Gets Backlash After Showing Homosexual “Wedding” in New Movie – ChP
6.  Church Warned About McCarrick Decades Ago, Promotions & Honors Kept Coming – N. Jrsy
7.  Catholic Churches Drop Hymns After Accusations Against Composer – Marie Fazio at NYTimes
8.  Get Your Kids Out of Public School – Inez Feltscher Stepman at the American Mind
9.  Wanted for Arrest: Followers of Jesus Christ – Dennis Dillon at Catholic Stand
10.  Biden Plays the Catholic Card – Alexandra DeSanctis at National Review

Live Perpetual Adoration Of The Blessed Sacrament – EWTN Poland
Was Beethoven a Believer? The Case of the “Missa Solemnis” – Peter A. Kwasniewski, Ph.D.
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands: Myth of the Flat Earth – Jean Elizabeth Seah at Igntm Tdy
What Are Study-Help Websites & Why Should I be Concerned? – Sean O’Connor at Seton
Abortion Is Slavery – Guy McClung, Ph.D., J.D., at Catholic Stand
No Longer a Clump of Cells? Mainstream Press Stories on Unborn use ‘Baby’ Language – J. Duin
Back to Basics: The LBD (Catholic Fashion Blog) – Meghan Ashley Styling
Why Weren’t Separated Conjoined Twins Baptized Prior to Surgery? – Monsignor Ferrari
List-Renting is Not a Smart Fundraising Strategy – Brice Sokolowski at CatholicFundraiser.net
The Return of the Madman: Nietzsche, Nihilism, & the Death of God, circa 2020 – D Savage PhD

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM:
Militias, Islamic Groups Killed More Than 1,000 Nigerian Christians – John Owen Nwachukwu
Archbishop: Mass Burials Common as Nigerians Face Daily Violence – Bronwen Dachs at CH

LITURGY & RUBRICS:
When Romanitas Reigned in the Liturgical Movement – Shawn R. Tribe at Liturgical Arts Journal
A Fast for the Senses – Fr. Michael Rennier at Dappled Things

ARCHITECTURE:
Notre-Dame of Paris’s Rebuilding: The Battle over the Future of the Cathedral – Agnès Poirier

THEATER/FILM/STREAMING/TV:
The Movies Ignore It, but Robin Hood was a Very Catholic Hero – Charles Coulombe at CH

LITERATURE & BOOK REVIEW(S):
Eduard Habsburg: My Family History in Full – Well, Almost – Eduard Habsburg at Catholic Herald

POLITICS:
Sixties Radicals Pass Their Hatred on to a New Generation – Robert Hutchinson at Mercatornet
Why Totalitarian Regimes make so Many Martyrs – Fr. Raymond J. de Souza at Catholic Herald

BONUS NEWS LINKS:
Back to Mass: South Dakota Diocese Lifts Sunday Dispensation – Catholic News Agency
I Believe in Me: Naming the New Ideology – L. Jared Staudt, Ph.D., at Those Catholic Men
BBC Children’s Television: Home of the Sexual Diversity Fairy Tale – Ann Farmer at Mercatornet
Argentine Bishop Says Vatican Ordered Seminary Closed – CNA via The Catholic World Report
Don’t be Verbicidal – Holly Ordway, Ph.D., at Word on Fire Blog
New Foundation for Catholic Journalism – Inside the Vatican

OTHER NEWS LINK(S):
The End of History? – Carlos Caso-Rosendi at Lepanto Institute
Liberty Univ. Names Jerry Prevo as Acting Pres. with Falwell on Leave – Sarah Rankin & E. Schor
Your Donations at Work – Donald R. McClarey, J.D., at The American Catholic

THE SAMIZDAT HERALD:
Study Finds One In Four Hispanics Have Heard Of The Term ‘Latinx,’ And Only 3% Use It – E. Duffy
What World War II Teaches Us When It Comes to Standing Up to Communist China
– S. Babones
Trade Networks & Empires: African Art’s Many Golden Ages – Medievalists.net