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THVRSDAY SÆCVLARIA EDITION

Dad and Daughter Speak Out for Girls’ Privacy as Texas Debates Trans Bathrooms

by Joseph Shepherd

of The Federalist

A Prophet From 1942 – Rod Dreher, TAC Blogger
Justin Trudeau Wants the West to Worship at His Feet – Brendan O’Neill, The Spectator
My Journey Through & Deliverance From, the Gay Life & Lie – Joseph Sciambra, The Stream
The Best Short Defense of Religious Liberty I’ve Heard – Sean McDowell Ph.D., The Stream
The U.S. Military vs. Russia and China: Who Would Win World War 3? – Robert Farley, TNI
Pakistan’s Creation — A Mistake? – Gwynne Dyer, the japan times
The Long Shadow of Parental Divorce – Nicole M. King, Mercatornet
This Is How Europe Conquered Asia – Franz-Stefan Gady, The Diplomat
Josef Pieper on Academia & the Abuse of Language – Veronica Arntz, The Imaginative. . .
On Human Embryo Gene Editing in Oregon, Ethicists Say Procedure Is Immoral – CNA via Reg
Should Catholics Favor Democracy? – James Kalb J.D., Crisis Magazine
Teachers’ Union Pres.: School-Choice Supporters are Like Segregationists – Larry Sand, CJ
Can the UK’s Jacob Rees-Mogg Put the Tories Back on Track? – Kai Weiss, Mises Institute
Paradise Possible – Michael J. Lewis, First Things
Indonesia New North Natuna Sea: An Old China Problem – Luke Hunt, The Diplomat
Venezuelan Cardinal Warns President Maduro Over Deaths of Protesters – Cthlc News Agency

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VVEDNESDAY CATHOLICA EDITION

“LIT” is One of the Best Catholic Resources Available

by Shaun McAfee, O.P.

of epicPew

Awesome Catholic YouTube Channels You Should Watch Now – Theresa Williams, epicPew
The Very Model of a Modern Catholic Statesman? Jacob Rees-Mogg – John M. Howting, FT
Giant Robotic Spider Perched on Notre Dame Cathedral – Fr. Z’s Blog
5 Fast Prayers Every Catholic Should Be Praying – Katie Prejean, epicPew
8 Funny Instagram Posts That Prove Religious Life is Amazing – Chloe Langr, epicPew
In Defense of Converts; Re NC Reporter Calumny – Stephen Bullivant, First Things
Why Telling Your Story Improves Your Fundraising (Dramatically) – Brice Sokolowski
The 12 Promises of Jesus for Those Who Practice Devotion to His Sacred Heart – ChurchPop
Welsh Seminarians Mistaken for Bachelor Party Nearly Kicked Out of Pub – Cthlc News Agncy
Top Catholic Poets, Period – Alex R. Hey, epicPew
Mary Assists Our Rise in Holiness – Carol Monaco, Catholic Stand
Carolina Panthers’ Kicker Experiences Enlightening 2-Point Conversion – Trent Beattie, Reg
Back to School: Pros and Cons of Catholic Uniforms – Laura Hensley, epicPew
On the Holiness of Matrimony – Karen Reep, Catholic Stand
How Do You Restore Sacred Music? A Diocesan Directive Would Help – Mark Langley, L&O
Matthew Paris and the School of St. Albans – Taylor McCall, Medieval manuscripts blog
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VVEDNESDAY SÆCVLARIA EDITION

The Dark Truth About Gender Equality

by H. Numan

of Gates of Vienna

Europe: The Censored Film They Do Not Want You to See – Stefan Frank, Gatestone Inst.
Wait, Do We Have to Bake a Cake for This, Too? – Matthew Archbold, Creative Minority Rprt
NY Times: Parents Not Sending Kids to Public Schools are Racist Theocrats – A. Walker, Fdrlst
Catholics First, Americans Second? – John Zmirak Ph.D., The Stream
Finally, ESPN Viewers Tuned Out NFL Because of Natl Anthem Protests – Bre Payton, Fdrlst
On LGBT, Evangelical Colleges At Bargaining Stage – Rod Dreher, TAC Blogger
Google, YouTube Banned Prof for Not Using Gender-Neutral Pronouns – R. Shimshock, Strm
Pentagon Offers Plan to Arm Ukraine – Jln. E. Barnes, Lrnc. Norman & Fel. Schwartz, WSJ
Why War Between China & U.S. Would Be All Sorts of Awful – Robert Farley, The Natl Intrst
The Socialist Revolution Devours Venezuela – Rich Lowry, The Stream
Anti-Defamation League’s Slide Into Another Leftist Pressure Gp – Bth. Mandel, The Fdrlst
How Britain’s Surrender to the UN Led to Charlie Gard’s Fate – William Estrada, Life News
Power & Purity in New Recording of Beethoven’s Best Work – Damian Thompson, The Spect.
Why Snapchat Might Be Ruining Your Story – Chloe Langr, epicPew
Humane Economy’ – Book Interview with Jordan Ballor – Ilse Oosterlaken, Moral Markets
Book Rev.: The Persecution & Genocide of Christians in the Middle East – Stph. Herreid, Actn

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TVESDAY CATHOLICA EXTRA

Decision Time: Your Gay Friend is Getting “Married”

by Regis Nicoll

of Crisis Magazine

How Do We Make People Accept the Idea of Objective Beauty? – David Clayton, Claritas
“Family-Friendly” Islam Comes to Europe – William Kilpatrick Ph.D., Crisis Magazine
The Day Jesus was an Altar Boy: The legend of Peter Paschal – Larry Peterson, Aleteia
If You Wanna Be Happy: A Route to True Happiness – Dom Cingoranelli, Catholic Stand
5 Churches You Have to Visit in Hawaii – Daniel Esparza, Aleteia
Why Melinda Gates Is Wrong About Contraception – John Clark, National Catholic Register
The Extraordinary Gift of Communion – Mike Aquilina, Catholic Exchange
Are Holy Men and Women of the Old Testament Considered Saints? -Philip Kosloski, Aleteia
Give Thanks at All Times – Jean Elizabeth Seah, Ignitum Today
God is Everywhere, So is Google, One of Them Loves You Back – Fr. Jsh. Rodrigues, Aleteia
J.D. Flynn Named New Editor in Chief of Catholic News Agency – CNA via NC Register

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TVESDAY SÆCVLARIA EXTRA

Miss Prim At Clear Creek Abbey

by Rod Dreher

A TAC Blogger

An Atheist Appeals to the Church to Help Save Europe – Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald
Religious Freedom’s Roe v Wade? – John Stonestreet, The Stream
Australia Weather Bureau Caught Tampering With Climate Numbers – Chris White, The Strm
Smart Phones & The Invisible Cord – Rod Dreher, TAC Blogger
China’s Censorship Bigger & More Dangerous Than You Know – Helen Raleigh, The Fdrlst
Why I Am an Atheist & Against Euthanasia – Kevin Yuill, LifeNews.com
Fathers of Aborted Babies Experience Devastating Pain & Regret – Kevin Burke, Life News
Hate Income Inequality? Blame Intrusive Government Policies – J.D. Tuccille, Reason.com
How Civil Asset Forfeiture Reduces Economic Mobility – Julian Adorney, The Federalist
Venezuelan President Sanctioned Over Illegitimate Election – Jack Crowe, The Stream
Is Apple Kowtowing to China? – Charlotte Gao, The Diplomat

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TVESDAY CATHOLICA EDITION

Defusing Homosexual and Transgender Landmines

by Joe Bissonnette, Ph.D.

of Crisis Magazine

Remembering St. Padre Pio’s Words on Abortion; The Bonino Scandal – Edward Pentin, Reg
Actress Patricia Heaton Shares Spiritual Experience from Eucharist at Mass – ChurchPop
If Fishwrap & Modernist Jesuits had Their Way. . . – Fr. Z’s Blog
Pope Francis: To Reform Does Not Mean Cutting Off the Past – Andrea Gagliarducci, Mon Vtcn
Wherein Fr. Z Sends Michael Sean Winters a “Combat Rosary” – Fr. Z’s Blog
Jesuits & the Barque of Peter – Fr. Z’s Blog
Why Telling Your Story Improves Your Fundraising (Dramatically) – Brice Sokolowski
Charlie Gard was Baptized, Held St. Jude Medal Before Death – CNA via The CWR
Mercy Rains: The July 13th, 1917 Apparition & Reality of Hell – Suellen Brewster, Cthlc Stnd
In the Breach of the Divide, On Day 1, ArchChuck Talks Church’s Checkered Flag – Roc. Palmo
God Has A Plan: Trust His Holistic Point of View – Christine Roe, Catholic Stand
Cartesian Angelism – Edward Feser Ph.D.
Confession & Absolution are Biblical – Dave Armstrong, National Catholic Register
Should Our Seminarians Learn About the Sciences? – Stacy Trasancos Ph.D., Cthlc Answers
lit: Catholicism for Young Adults – T.J. Burdick O.P., Dominican Institute
Celebrating the Maccabees, Catholic Saints – Fr. John Hunwicke, Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual. . .

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TVESDAY SÆCVLARIA EDITION

(Photo Credit: CNS illustration/Mike Crupi, Catholic Courier)

Why Catholics are Politically Homeless

by Matthew Walther

of The Week

Big Corporations Pressure Texas to Push Perversion – Jeremy Wallace & Mike Ward, Chron
Why Do Progressives Show So Much Animosity to the West? – Joseph Pearce, The Imagina. . .
World War II was also a Religious War for the British – Michael Snape, The Catholic Thing
Getting the Middle Ages Right: The Plight of the English Worker – John Horvat II, TIC
The Heart-Rending Dilemmas of an Atheist Brain Surgeon – Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald
The Rolling Revolution in Sex and Gender: A History – Scott Yenor Ph.D., Public Discourse
The Tommy Curry Situation – Rod Dreher, TAC Blogger
Contraceptive Access & Declining Teen Birth Rates: Unproven Link – Kth. Fenton M.D., PD
Venezuela’s Unprecedented Collapse – Ricardo Hausmann, Project Syndicate
Boris Johnson: Three Cheers for the Anglosphere – Richard Alston, the interpreter
When Literature & Film Partner: Graham Greene’s The Third Man at 65 – Kevin T. DiCamillo
Tatarstan, the Last Region to Lose Its Special Status Under Putin – Lena Smirnova, Mscw Tms
The Classicist: The Forgotten Virtues Of Physical Labor – Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Inst.
Ondine’s Curse: If This Boy Falls Asleep, He’ll Stop Breathing – Sophia Swinford, Aleteia
The Charlie Gard Case Portends a Frightening Future – Stephen M. Krason Ph.D., Crisis
Free Markets and Unicorns – Andrew Strain, First Things

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MONDAY CATHOLICA EDITION

Some Wedding Planning Violations of Catholic Hospitality

by Anne Maloney

of Crisis Magazine

Pope Francis vs. America’s Gay Lobby – Jim Russell, The Catholic World Report
Italian Pro-Abortionist Speaks in Church; Catholics Ejected, Silenced – Edward Pentin, NCReg
Post Mortem of a Religious Order – Timothy J. Williams, Crisis Magazine
Did Pope Francis Insult Some Young Priests? Fr. Z Opines and Tells a Story – Fr. Z’s Blog
Michael S. Winters Nasty Remark About Converts, Wherein Fr. Z Rants – Fr. Z’s Blog
Msgr. Mannion Supports Ordination of Deaconettes, Fail – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog
Why Telling Your Story Improves Your Fundraising (Dramatically) – Brice Sokolowski
Holy Tattoo! A 700-year old Christian Tradition Thrives in Jerusalem – CNA via The CWR
Fear, Trust, and Skinny-Dipping in the Platte – Anthony S. Layne, Catholic Stand
On Embroidered English Church Kneelers – Joanna Bogle, The Dispatch via The CWR
Lifting Up the Faith Down Under at University of Notre Dame in Australia – Eddie O’Neill, Reg
Sub Tuum Praesidium Part II Fr. John Hunwicke, Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment
Embrace The Four Eyes Within You – Gabriel Garnica, Catholic Stand
Determination Means Giving 110% Even When It Is Hard – Scott Nolan, Catholic Stand
lit: Catholicism for Young Adults – T.J. Burdick O.P., Dominican Institute
Remembering That Christians Belong to God – J.P. Nunez, Catholic Stand

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Why Science Can’t Ever Disprove the Existence of God

by Bishop Robert Barron

of ChurchPop

The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America – Janet Levy, The Amrcn Thinker
How Western Civilization Was Undermined & Gutted – Pedro Gonzalez Ph.D., The Imagin. . .
Catholic Fiction Picks for Your Summer Reading – Sarah Reinhard, Natl Catholic Register
15 Suggestions for Literature That Will Feed Your Soul – Susanna Spencer, NC Register
‘Cultural Climate Change’ – Rod Dreher, TAC Blogger
Norway’s Political Elites Cheer for Islam – Fjordman, Gatestone Institute
Post-Christian U.S.: Superstitious and Intolerant – David French, National. . .
Trump’s Transgender Ban: Discrimination Is Good – William M. Briggs Ph.D., Statistician. . .
The West’s Vision Of ‘The Noble Death’ Has Become Dark & Sinister – Anna Mussmann
Trudeau’s Cognitive Dissonance: Euthanasia and the Holocaust – Rebekah Lamb Ph.D., TIC
Transgender Military Ban Applauded for Respecting Biology, the Common Good – Hadro, CNA
Legalizing Assisted Suicide is Dangerous, Just Look at Canada – Alex Schadenberg, Life News
Interview: Understanding China’s ‘Great Migration’ – Shannon Tiezzi, The Diplomat
Charlie Gard Is Our Child: May He Rest in Peace – The Editors, National Catholic Register
Central Asia’s Catechism of Cliché: From the Great Game to Silk Road – Alexander Morrison
Australia Plan to Legalize Assisted Suicide is Only the Beginning – Paul Russell, LifeNews.com

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SVNDAY CATHOLICA EDITION

They Knocked Him to the Ground, but All He Cared about was the Eucharist

by Inma Alvarez

of Aleteia

The Creative Catholic: Dawn Eden Goldstein – K.V. Turley, The Catholic World Report
In Raleigh, The Church Has Arrived – Rocco Palmo, Whispers in the Loggia
Egyptian Mummy Bears Tattoo of a Christian Saint – Zelda Caldwell, Aleteia
A Timely Review, Including the Ultimate Priest Gift – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog
Why Human Suffering? – Dylan Jedlovec, Catholic Spiritual Direction
Avoiding Envy & Learning Acceptance in Suffering – Constance T. Hull, Catholic Exchange
NLM: Useful Study of Creation of the Novus Ordo Lectionary – Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z’s Blog
Why Benedict XVI Wrote ‘Summorum Pontificum’ – Chris Carstens, NC Register
Why I Love Being Catholic: Part I & Part II – Cecily Lowe, Catholic Stand
Using the Means at Hand for Spiritual Growth – Fr. Joseph Koterski S.J., Hmltc & Pstrl Rvw
Being Spiritually Active in Everyday Life – Todd Nolan, Catholic Stand
Summorum Pontificum & the Growth of Religious Life Part I & Part II – Fr. S.M. Manelli F.I.
Whatever Happened to the Twelve Apostles? – Philip Kosloski, Aleteia
“Going My Way” and the Attraction of Beauty – Nicholas Senz, The Dispatch via The CWR
Do We Have to Like the Saints? – Anne Maloney, Crisis Magazine
Tristan and Isolde and the Three in One – David Torkington, Catholic Stand

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FRIDAY CATHOLICA EDITION

Can America Become the New Poland?

by Father Richard Heilman

of Roman Catholic Man

Why Rome is Doing Battle with American Culture – Matthew Schmitz, Catholic Herald
Why Telling Your Story Improves Your Fundraising (Dramatically) – Brice Sokolowski
8 Ways Not to Make a Good Confession – Shaun McAfee O.P., National Catholic Register
Trasmoz: The Only Cursed, Excommunicated Town in Spain – Daniel Esparza, Aleteia
Cardinal Sarah and the Ordinariate Rite – Fr. John Hunwicke, Fr Hunwicke’s Mtl Enrchmnt
Game of (Thrones) Rationalizations – One Mad Mom
Netflix’s ‘The Keepers’: Agenda-Driven Filmmaking Exploits a Nun’s Murder – Dav. F. Pierre Jr.
The Dating Game & St. Mark’s Gospel – Fr. Dwight Longenecker, National Catholic Register
Want to Change the World? It Starts with Joy, Archbishop Chaput Says – CNA via The CWR
What the Bible Reveals About Infant Baptism – Dave Armstrong, National Catholic Register
Scotland to be Consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary – Catholic Herald
“Letting Go and Letting God”: Dealing with Disappointment – Alaine DeSantis, Cthlc Stand
Edgar Allan Poe’s Unknown Friendship with the Jesuits – Patrick McNamara Ph.D., Aleteia
Carrie Gress, Ph.D.: A Survey of Beauty, Truth & Goodness Through the Ages – David Clayton
lit: Catholicism for Young Adults – T.J. Burdick O.P., Dominican Institute
The Parables of Jesus – Part 3 (The Mass Readings Explained; Video) – Brant Pitre Ph.D., TSP

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A Demagogic Bully: The Southern Poverty Law Center Demonizes Respectable Political Opponents as “Hate Groups”—and Keeps Its Coffers Bulging

by Mark Pulliam

of City Journal

Two Kinds Of California Liberals – Rod Dreher, TAC Blogger
The Waterloo Of Christian Colleges – Rod Dreher, TAC Blogger
I’m Thankful ‘Born Gay’ Wasn’t Yet a Dogma When I Looked for Help – Joseph Sciambra
Today In Dreherbait – Rod Dreher, TAC Blogger
The Gravitational Pull of Atheism – David Carlin, The Catholic Thing
Resist Government’s Nietzschean Transgender Proposals – Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith Ph.D.
Trump is Right, The U.S. Doesn’t Need a Transgender-Friendly Military – Michael Cook
Poverty is Not the Root Cause of Abortion – Stephen Phelan, The Catholic World Report
CIA Analyst: China Poses a Greater Threat than Russia – Bill Gertz, The National Interest
The Euthanasia Slippery Slope: A Failure of Memory & Imagination – M. Somerville D.C.L.
New Study Suggests Nearly All NFL Players Will Suffer from Brain Damage – J-P Mauro, Aleteia
Randi Weingarten’s Smear of School Choice – Rich Lowry, The Stream
Deaths in Venezuela Unrest Hit 102 as Vote Nears – Fabiola Sanchez and Christine Armario
Human Life Begins at Fertilization, Even if Scientists are Creating People in a Lab – Prentice
Trump Names Pro-Life Sam Brownback His Religious Freedom Ambassador – Micaiah Bilger, LN
Can Congressional Republicans Govern? – Rob Schwarzwalder, The Stream

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