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August 8, 2018 – AN OPEN LETTER FROM YOUNG CATHOLICS

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/08/an-open-letter-from-young-catholics Archbishop McCarrick’s predatory career would not have been possible without the culpable silence or active complicity of men at the highest levels of the Church. Revelations of his abuse have therefore gravely damaged the credibility of the whole Catholic hierarchy. Here a group of young Catholics speaks with one voice about the need for…

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August 8, 2018 – WYD-1993: THE TURNING POINT

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/08/wyd-1993-the-turning-point On this twenty-fifth anniversary of World Youth Day in Denver, I can’t help sharing one of my favorite personal memories of John Paul II.

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August 8, 2018 – Love, Economics, and Cheap Sex

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/08/22299/ According to sociologist Mark Regnerus, the birth control pill and the rise of internet porn decreased the cost of sexual access so substantially as to affect a fundamental shift from a world in which sex served higher goods to a world in which sex is the higher good.

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August 7, 2018 – The Current Crisis and the Order of the Laity

Left to right: Orthodox theologian Nikolay Nikolayevich Afanasiev in undated photo (orthodoxwiki.org); Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger of Albany, N.Y., is pictured in a 2015 photo in Washington. (CNS photo/Bob Roller); Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl at the USCCB’s annual spring assembly in July in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/08/07/the-current-crisis-and-the-order-of-the-laity/ One of the most…

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August 8, 2018 – Enough Already

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/08/08/enough-already/ Let us hear no more from priests, prelates, and Catholic writers dissenting from the truth – from reason, from Scripture, from the constant and clear teaching of the Church in the matter of the creation of mankind male and female, the one-flesh union willed by God from the beginning, the raising of boys to…