MORNING ISSUE TOP-10 NEWS LINKS:
1. What We Don’t Know about the Becciu-Pell Allegations, Yet – Ed Condon at Cth News Agency
2. St. Augustine of Hippo in Fratelli Tutti – Fr. Z’s Blog
3. Fratelli Tutti: Familiar Mixture of Dubious Claims, Straw Men, Genuine Insights – S Gregg DPhil
4. Did Fired Vatican Cardinal Bribe Witnesses Against Pell? – Kenneth Garger at New York Post
5. Fra. Tut.: Mountains of Repetition, Conceptual Vagueness & Utopian Aspirations – R Royal PhD
6. Supreme Court Justices Say Obergefell a ‘Problem’ for Religious Liberty – Mt Hadro via NCReg
7. Vatican-Sino Pact: Msgr. Guo Xijin Resigns from Public Office & Retires to Life of Prayer – AN
8. Fra. T.: A Political Document, Long, Self-Referential, Religious Pluralism Reigns – E Sammons
9. The Extraordinary Actions of the Devil – Kathleen Beckman at Catholic Exchange
10. Curses are Real! – Msgr. Stephen Rossetti at Catholic Exorcism
Live Perpetual Adoration Of The Blessed Sacrament – EWTN Poland
Pope Issues Shock Letter On St. Jerome, & More Great Links! – The Best In Catholic Blogging
Fratelli Tutti: Pope Cites & Quotes Himself in Justifying Banning Life Imprisonment – Dale Price
Fratelli Tutti: Let The Penitential Slog Begin – Restore-DC-Catholicism
Ungrateful Tenants – Fr. Gerald Musa at Ignitum Today
What Is the “Sin of Human Respect”? – Charles E. Pope at Community in Mission
Catholic Social Teaching & Your Vote – Scott Davis at Catholic Stand
What Happened to the Minor Order of Exorcist – Michael Brown at Spirit Daily Blog
How to Write Better Catholic Appeal Letters – Brice Sokolowski at CatholicFundraiser.net
It can’t Happen Here: A Review of Live Not By Lies – Francis X. Maier at The Catholic World Report
VATICAN FINANCIAL SCANDAL:
Cardinal Pell Accuser Denies Cardinal Becciu Bribery Allegations – Catholic News Agency
Cardinal Becciu is Accused of Setting Up Cardinal Pell, but Facts are Few – J.D. Flynn via CWR
Pope Francis Fills Committee to Monitor Internal Vatican Financial Decisions – NC Register
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM:
Anti-Catholicism in America: Where We are Today – Steven O’Reilly at Roma Locuta Est
Deep in the Red, the Disappointing Balance Two Years into the Accord with China – S. Magister
Church Closures: Assessing the Christian Legal Movement’s Response – A. Lewis & D. Bennett
CULTURE OF LIFE:
They Inspire Us Every Day: Carmelite Sisters Serve Women with Disabilities in New Home – CWR
LITURGY & RUBRICS:
Photos & Descriptions of a Recent Armenian Liturgy in California – Peter A. Kwasniewski, Ph.D.
THEATER/FILM/STREAMING/TV:
God’s Saboteurs – Mark Bauerlein at First Things
Fatherhood, Fathers, & Sons with Joseph Sciambra – David L. Gray at DavidLGray.info
ECONOMICS:
The Candidates & Economics: Whose Plan Is ‘More Catholic’? – Jonathan Liedl at NC Register
POLITICS:
Christian Armenia Under Attack – Mark Movsesian at First Things
Why Pro-Lifers Shouldn’t Give Up on the Supreme Court – Trent Horn at The Cthlc World Report
Previewing the Supreme Court’s Landscape Ahead of Confirmation Battle – L. Brown at NC Rgstr
BONUS NEWS LINKS:
Sourdough Bread Oven Discovery Offers Insight Into Medieval Cistercian Monastery – JP Mauro
The Problem of Animal Suffering – John DeRosa at Catholic Answers Magazine
Five Myths About Columbus, & More Great News Links! – The Best In Catholic Blogging
Bishop Burbidge of Arlington Preaches on Human Dignity & Natural Law at Red Mass – The CWR
Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos: America’s ‘Happy Saint’ – Michael O’Neill at Ntnl Cthlc Register
OTHER NEWS LINK(S):
US Catholic Bishops Announce Candidates for Committee Chairs – Catholic News Agency
Meet Catholic Herbalist Katherine Adams – Alexandra Greeley at National Catholic Register
∧ THE SAMIZDAT HERALD TOP-10 NEWS LINKS: ∧
1. Maria Wittner’s Warning – Rod Dreher at The American Conservative
2. Chrissy Teigen & the Death of Privacy – Frank Furedi at Sp!ked
3. Pope Just Called Private Property a ‘Secondary Right’; Couldn’t Be More Wrong – B. Polumbo
4. The Woke Cult Kills Everything, Even Science Fiction – Mark Judge at The Stream
5. Socialist-Themed Vegan Meat Co. learns Marxism works better in Theory than Practice – FEE
6. Why did Joseph Stalin take the Name ‘Stalin’? – Yekaterina Sinelschikova at Russia Beyond
7. What October Surprise from North Korea Might Look Like – Markus Garlauskas & Bruce Perry
8. War in the Caucasus Will Spread to Russia & Turkey – James Stavridis at The Japan Times
9. The Unwelcome Success of Charter Schools – Ian Rowe at Law & Liberty
10. Schooling For Totalitarianism – Rod Dreher at The American Conservative
Why Armenia & Azerbaijan Are on the Brink of War – Jeffrey Mankoff at Foreign Affairs
Armenia Needs to Sue for Peace Now: The Alternative is Even Worse – Damjan Krnjevic-Miskovic
Philippines vs. Facebook Brawl Exposes Communist China’s Sharp Power – Richard Heydarian
Civilization Watch:
Lebanon-Israel Talks Will Mark Another Win for Donald Trump – Raghida Dergham at The Ntnl
30 Years on from Reunification, Contours of New Germany Still Emerging – Jeremy Cliffe at NS
Can America Stop a Wider War Between Armenia & Azerbaijan? – Svante E. Cornell at Ntnl Intrst
New Caledonia Turns Down Independence Again – Political Geography Now
Chinese Anxiety Over Tibet Fuels Rising Tensions with India – Brahma Chellaney at Nikkei Asia
The Threat to Life & Liberty from the United Nations’ Abuse of Human Rights – Grace Melton
The Death & Life of Terrorist Networks – C Blair, E Chenoweth, M Horowitz, E Perkoski & P Potter
Nigeria’s History May Support Federalism in Lebanon – Shannon Walsh at Providence Magazine
The Formula for a Richer World? Equality, Liberty, Justice – Deirdre Nansen McCloskey at AIER
ASEAN Stress-Tested by America & Communist China – Editorial Board at East Asia Forum
Saving Uighur Culture From Genocide – Yasmeen Serhan at The Atlantic
The Anglosphere:
We Cannot Ignore the Harms of Lock Down – Sp!ked
Care Workers are Not Saints – Madeleine Bunting at UnHerd
Electric Cars: A Hill to Die On? – Mike Watson at Hudson Institute
Where George Floyd Died, Immigrant Businesses Are Suffering – Adam Minter at Bloomberg
Creative Destruction Works Unless Undermined by Crony Capitalism – James Pethokoukis at AEI
Upcoming Religious Liberty Cases – Anna Brynner at Public Square Magazine
Theopolitics:
Christian Armenia Under Attack – Mark Movsesian at First Things
