Highlighted News, Punditry, and Analysis:
3 Reasons Why Abolishing the Hereditary Lords in the English Parliament Is a Big Mistake – TFP
Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Live – Big Pulpit
Top-10 Most Viewed News Stories on Big Pulpit:
1. Something Happened. . . then Steve Skojec (& Rod Dreher, Earlier) Snapped – David Griffey
2. PopeWatch: Mentally Imbalanced – Donald R. McClarey, J.D., at The American Catholic
3. Man Awakens After 12 Years in “Vegetative State,” Says “I Was Aware of Everything” – Lif Nws
4. Catholic Ranch Thrives Despite Ban from Archbishop Gustavo – Complicit Clergy
5. Vatican Cracks Down On Illegal Entry Into Its Territory – Catholic News Agency
6. Behavior at Funerals (Carter & ‘Imagine’ Song) – John M. Grondelski, Ph.D., at New Oxford Rvw
7. ‘It’s Over.’ Leading U.S. Anglican Gives Searing Assessment of Welby Years – Gavin Ashenden
8. From Doubting Thomas to Doubting Peter? – George Weigel at Denver Catholic
9. Word on Fire Celebrates 25 Years, Plans New Religious Order – J.P. Mauro at Aleteia
10. Fire Was Coming: Why LA is Burning, Rural Calif. Tried to Warn You – K. Covello at UnWon
L.A. Wild Fires:
L.A.’s Devastating Lesson for Blue Cities Everywhere – Betsy McCaughey at Chronicles
Punditry and Analysis:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Doctrine of Christian Warfighting – Miles J. Smith, IV, Ph.D.
“In Defense of the Hermit Vocation” – Mark Rose via Rorate Cæli
Could Religious Disaffiliation Drive People Toward Occult Practices? – Teresa Yanaros at Crisis
Discovering an Unpublished Manuscript on Newman in Munich – Newman Review
Christmastide:
See: New Mystic Update Posts – Mystic Update
Education News, Punditry, and Analysis:
Mathematics for Human Flourishing – Scott Carpenter at Classical Ed Review
The New Biography on Pope Francis:
Pope’s Autobiography Sheds Light on Complex & Contradictory Mind of Successor of Peter – CH
Francis’ 1970’s Ethos Includes Love of 70’s Pop Psychology as if It’s Still Popular – Fr. McDonald
Cultural & Philosophical News, Punditry, and Analysis:
Stunning 19th-Century Artworks Reveal the Contradictions of the Modern Woman – Smithsonian
We Urge Pres. Trump to Take Action & Restore Religious Liberty – Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, J.D.
New Book on Ernest Hemingway’s Messy but Sincere Catholicism – Joseph Pearce at Aleteia
Islam:
Which Christians First ‘Demonized’ Muhammad? – Raymond Ibrahim
Jihad Must Have No Place in the West – Guy Millière at Gatestone Institute
Political News, Punditry, and Analysis:
His Prep was Probably having Guns Pointed in His Face Over Course of Career – TACatholic
Anglosphere Political News, Punditry, and Analysis:
The End of Trudeau’s Pseudo-Caesarism – Nathan Pinkoski at First Things
International Political News, Punditry, and Analysis:
Frog Leftists Schadenfreude – Donald R. McClarey, J.D., at The American Catholic
Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin – James Bradshaw at Mercator
Et Cetera. . . Pop Cultural News, Punditry, and Analysis:
More Than A Game, University of Notre Dame Football – Tom Piatak at Chronicles
Indiscriminate News, Punditry, and Analysis:
A Kidney Stone in Rome – Donald R. McClarey, J.D., at The American Catholic
Woke Liberals Debate TFP & Immediately Regret It – TFP Student Action
A Movie Needs to Be Made About These WWII Nuns in the Submarine – The American Catholic
A Serious Consideration on Luce, the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee Mascot, vs. the Child Jesus – TFP
Francis’s Holy Year Also Promotes Sin – Luiz Sérgio Solimeo at Tradition, Family, & Property
Executive Pardon: A Christian Concept that Comes f/Medieval Justice – Tradition, Family & Prop
From Martyrdom to Sainthood: Compiègne’s 16 Carmelite Heroes – Tradition, Family, & Property
A Look at Vatican City’s New Artificial Intelligence Law – CNA via Catholic World Report
Follow the Editor-in-Chief of Big Pulpit on X – Robert “Tito” Edwards
Catholic Fundraising Assistance – CatholicFundraiser.net
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