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Surely the most withering line ever written about therapy culture:

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Letter of the year contender in the Guardian

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When it comes to defining neoliberalism, HSBC’s marketing department continue to make the rest of us look like amateurs

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The US Catholic Church deserves massive credit for this moment. No single institution has done more to preach the truth about abortion, to open people’s hearts to the vulnerable, or to show that a pro-life politics necessarily includes generous material support for those in need.

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Tell me about it

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Life is just a slow process of coming to terms with Peter Hitchens being right about everything.

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Status update

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Obviously therapy is a lifeline for a great many people. The problem is when it becomes a substitute for philosophy, religion, morality etc

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CS Lewis, who was wounded in the trenches, on four views of war:

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R.H. Tawney explains, more pithily than anyone else I can think of, the hidden kinship between “conservatism” and “socialism”:

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It is a truly astonishing claim, which may be why so many astonishing buildings have been raised to house the mystery, and so much madly beautiful music has been written to accompany it.

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Roman Catholics are required to believe that communion wine actually is literally the blood of Christ, and the wafer literally is his body. Not symbolically but literally. Not a metaphor but literally. That way madness lies. At very least it’s a pernicious abuse of language.

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Work as default human activity, family as annoying temporary obstacle

Joe Biden

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Nearly 2 million women in our country have been locked out of the workforce because they have to care for a child or an elderly relative at home. My Build Back Better Act will make caregiving accessible and affordable and help them get back to work.

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The most terrifying words in 21st-century Catholicism are “I’m from the German Church and I’m here to enter into a synodal dialogue about new doctrinal insights.”

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I hope Ireland can avoid the shameful fate which has overtaken almost the entire West – and show the rest of us that a better way is possible. #Savethe8th

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News! Delighted to announce I’m joining the team at @firstthingsmag as senior editor.

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Reminder of who benefits when “openness” and “fluidity” are prized as the highest values

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1. Doesn’t get its head round the classical understanding of God (see Feser’s The Last Superstition) 2. Naively assumes materialism has no case to answer (see Keith Ward’s Why There Almost Certainly is a God) 3. Complacent about the origin of nice liberal values (see Tom Holland)

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What do religious people think I got wrong in "The God Delusion" ?

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Dropped into an unfamiliar East London church this week and happened upon the funeral of a parish stalwart. A kind and formidably strong-willed woman, the priest told us; a daily Mass-goer who raised six kids single-handed. How many beautiful lives are lived just out of sight.

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Mary Ann Glendon knows how to pick an epigraph:

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To be clear—and it is clear now, from the Canadian example—this means institutionalised lethal poisoning of the sick, vulnerable and sufficiently miserable

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EXCL: Keir Starmer wants to legalise assisted dying in the next parliament. ITV News filmed a phone call between the Labour leader and campaigner Esther Rantzen, in which he insisted a vote on assisted suicide cannot wait any longer. Big moment.

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For years, I told myself and others that Pope Francis was being misrepresented by angry bloggers and ignorant journalists. But the truth is that his words are frequently, needlessly, seriously misleading about Catholic doctrine. Today’s column:

Pope Francis Forgets | Dan Hitchens

The pope's ambiguous teachings are the face of the Church's “dark night.”

www.firstthings.com

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Attlee socialism > Monbiot socialism

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I have nothing against the Queen. I think she's quite impressive, keeping her cool amid so many maelstroms. But I despair of the fuss we make of her. Pomp and pageantry are the enemies of reason. They impede progress towards a fairer society.

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Joseph Ratzinger on why it’s fair enough, even healthy, for Catholics to be bored by synods and synodality:

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One priest in 1950s South Carolina challenged segregation by building a shack for white parishioners, while black ones used the official church. “To hammer the point home,” Wilfrid Sheed writes, “the whites’ only Mass was scheduled at dawn.” Integration quickly ensued...

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GK Chesterton’s parable of the lamppost. I’m agnostic about Brexit, but I keep being reminded of this.

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“They were Marian statues. Or rather, they represented fertility, but that’s not pagan. Well, it is, but the Church engages with paganism! It’s not like anyone bowed down to them. OK, they did, but only as a mark of respect. I don’t know why you keep complaining about ambiguity.”

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Roger Scruton on the value of the monarchy, 2009 (): “It has made it possible for people who disagree radically about how the nation should be governed nevertheless to share an object of affection by which the nation as a whole is symbolised.”

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Don’t want to alarm anyone, but Boris Johnson’s 2011 book on the history of London contains the sentence: “In the following year [1536] King Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries, in one of the greatest pro-business moves of any government in history.”

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When St Benet’s Hall closed, the University said it was due to ‘ongoing financial uncertainty’. In fact, the Hall had signed a provisional £40m deal which would have saved it. So what was the real reason? My story in this week’s @spectator :

Why has Oxford killed off a much-loved Catholic college?

Few institutions can match the global prestige of Oxford University. Just look at the gifts lavished on it, like offerings brought to some mighty emperor of the ancient world. There’s the Saïd...

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“New taboos replaced old ones, but mainstream humour failed to maintain its role of undermining them ... Memes, in contrast, are more provocative and darker, coming from a place of genuine contempt and despair.” Read @edwest ’s genealogy of Wojak:

Why the Left can't meme

'Woke comedy' will never compete with the despair of the online Right

unherd.com

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Seems a fitting centenary on which to say that I’ve been appointed as the next editor of the @CatholicHerald , starting April 1. Prayers and pitches appreciated.

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Incessant propaganda from @Sachinettiyil is turning me into a Croatia fan

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Croatian Catholic player Luka Modric wears shin guard which has an image of the Virgin Mary, Jesus and his family.

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Catholics hold onto dogmas as mountaineers hold onto their ropes: no other way to the summit. This is why the ultra-dogmatic Newman and Ratzinger are the most thrilling of theologians

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The Pope addresses his conservative critics in the church. "Conservative is one who clings to something and does not want to see beyond that. It is a suicidal attitude," says Pope Francis. This Sunday on 60 Minutes, the Pope sits down with @NorahODonnell .

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These vigils save lives. There are little girls and boys running around today because these good people stood out in the cold and rain offering their help

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MPs just voted to attach prison sentences to standing near abortion clinics in England and Wales, on the basis that it is “harassment”. Here in the BBC’s own coverage you can see the type of violent protest that is no longer acceptable in this country:

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Letter from young Scots ahead of the synod: “Far from being ‘out of touch’, it is those priests who proclaim orthodox teaching in its fullness with joy and courage who have brought the light of Christ into our lives, and really offered us His Mercy.”

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The sexual revolution started by putting romance above marriage and family. The evidence increasingly suggests that it ended up by wrecking all three.

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GK Chesterton (writing in 1919 as a paid-up member of the Church of England) on the consequences of the Reformation:

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There’s a credible historical case for this analogy. After eugenics suddenly went out of fashion in the mid-20th century, some of its leading advocates redirected their efforts into liberalising abortion laws.

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“What drives men to Communism is not mere economic discontent, nor even dissatisfaction with the existing social order. It is something deeper than these—a discontent with human life itself…that can only find full satisfaction in the sphere of religion.” Christopher Dawson, 1935

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Maybe it’s not a total coincidence that so many of the founders of modern sexual culture held human dignity in contempt.

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When I meet voters up and down the country, their message is clear: they’re tired of the same-old, same-old. Where are the tax cuts? they ask. Where is the deregulation? Taking from their handbag a battered copy of Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty, they look me in the eye and say—

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“Transubstantiation, celibate priests, active saints, venerated bones, the dominance of Mary…the more baroque the belief, the more easily I found it slid, on closer inspection, into a coherent bigger picture. It’s like an existential jigsaw.”

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Thunderbolt of a conclusion to @michaelbd ’s Benedict obituary:

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“Being offensive is an offence”: Wirral Police have had to withdraw their much-mocked slogan. But it only confirms what recent history has already shown: police forces consistently struggle to grasp the difference. Me for @unherd :

Do the police know the difference between offensive and offence?

Farcical scenes on the Wirral, where the police have apologised for a billboard reading “BEING OFFENSIVE IS AN OFFENCE”. Superintendent Martin Earl announced that this alarming declaration “although...

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Starmer is not a natural culture warrior; but having no real philosophy, he tends to get co-opted by any sufficiently well-organised pressure group

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‘The portrayal of Starmer as a woke culture warrior bringing in US identity politics is pretty implausible.’

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The men Pope Francis has empowered at the Amazon Synod are dissenters from Catholic teaching, who want to use the occasion to reshape the Church. Today's column:

The Synod’s Dissenters | Dan Hitchens

At the Amazon Synod, Pope Francis has empowered critics of Catholic doctrine to try to impose destructive reforms on the Catholic Church.

www.firstthings.com

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One reason GK Chesterton was Catholic: the way the Church retained its Communion discipline while embracing those on the peripheries.

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“No one in the last 300 years has had such deep thoughts as him — no one!” — Werner Herzog on Pope Benedict XVI

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Not so much a document as a kind of black hole from which no light can escape. On Fiducia supplicans:

The Pope and the Black Hole | Dan Hitchens

Pope Francis is still the Vicar of Christ—even if he appears to have collapsed in on himself.

www.firstthings.com

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“An institution which possesses no philosophy of its own inevitably accepts that which happens to be fashionable.” (Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism)

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Here’s a textbook example of the kind of judicial overreach discussed by Jonathan Sumption in his Reith Lectures. A panel of judges rules that a “lack of belief in transgenderism” is now “incompatible with human dignity”.

David Mackereth: Christian doctor loses trans beliefs case - BBC News

The doctor refused to use transgender pronouns which a tribunal found was "incompatible with human dignity".

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London used to have a custom of naming abandoned babies after the place in which they were found: so a girl left in Mutton Court was christened Mary Mutton. In the 17th century, one little lad dumped on top of an oil barrel in the parish of St Stephen’s became Stephen Oylbut.

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“In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.”

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This is the moment France became the first country to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution and inspired a standing ovation in Parliament:

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The English elite, 1555-1955. Discuss. (From William Waldegrave’s A Different Kind of Weather)

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Happy feast of St Athanasius! He fought against a powerful heresy, which hid within ambiguity and vague phrases while intimidating orthodox believers: the saint was regularly condemned and exiled. Though gentle and kindly, he described Arians as “hydras”, “eels” and “chameleons”.

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Finland has 15,000 registered Catholics, and just got its 9th native priest since the Reformation. Visiting Oregonian monks “were pleasantly surprised by the level of devotion…They particularly appreciated the faithful receiving Communion on their knees.”

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In this week's magazine, I've tried to write a fair account of the - genuinely complex - Alfie Evans story. Whatever one thinks of the case, a review of the law in this area is urgently needed.

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Ways to tell you��re living through a major doctrinal crisis, no. 94: well-known commentators start writing things like this ().

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Ernst Jünger on prayer and the demonic, via @arisroussinos

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Perhaps “placebo leftism” would be a more apt term than “woke capital”.

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Good on the MPs who sank these amendments.

Significant pro-life victory after abortion amendments withdrawn - Catholic Herald

Britain’s pro-life movement has scored a significant parliamentary victory after two amendments championed by the abortion lobby were withdrawn

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. @Christianitymag asked me to write about @DouglasKMurray and Christian belief. So, with apologies to all three...

Douglas Murray: The anti-woke atheist with a soft spot for ...

The secular journalist known for critiquing left-wing ideas has attracted a huge following in recent years. He might identify as an atheist, but the former Christian remains fascinated by faith

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Fr Aidan Nichols is known for his fair-mindedness and intellectual caution as well as his acuteness. So, a big deal.

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Undervalued data point in the “How do Madrid do it?” debate

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After winning the Champions League trophy by defeating Borussia Dortmund, the first thing Real Madrid players did was visit Almudena Cathedral in Madrid to offer their trophy to Mother Mary Hala Madrid! Video: @patergongora

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At the age of 83, Newman writes to his nephew:

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The closing anecdote from @cusackandrew ’s whistle-stop tour of South African Catholic history:

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Happy #OrwellDay . Rightly revered as a journalist. Probably a bit overrated as a political thinker. Definitely very underrated as a critic of contraception, which he saw as a supreme example of how capitalism ruins everything:

Orwell and Contraception | Dan Hitchens

I n 1954, four years after George Orwell’s premature death from tuberculosis, his friend . . . .

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What’s the technical term for this ideology?

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African bishops’ president: “The ambiguity…is causing much perplexity.” Ex-Vatican doctrine chief: “The teaching [is] self-contradictory.” Head of Ukrainian Greek Church: “no legal force [for UGCC].” UK CCC: “Pastorally...inadmissible.” Metropolitan Hilarion: “Very unfortunate.”

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Richard Rex, Professor of Reformation History at Cambridge, examines Hilary Mantel’s “ludicrous” Wolf Hall – and its place in “the spiritual struggle of our times”. Simply unmissable:

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It’s perfectly reasonable to find this pontificate confusing.

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Quite! But then “openness” often favours the powerful. “If we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules...The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.” (GKC)

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A saint for writers. “Nobody has ever written English prose that can be compared with that of a tiresome footling little Anglican parson who afterwards became a prince of the only true church.” (James Joyce, letter to Harriet Weaver) #NewmanCanonisation

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Profiles of Jacob Rees-Mogg too often treat him as either a cartoon villain or a second Thomas More. In the latest @firstthingsmag , I suggest he’s better seen as exemplifying both the successes and failures of Christian witness in contemporary politics:

The Individualist | Dan Hitchens

On February 2, 2018, seven members of a group called Bristol Antifascists assembled outside a . . . .

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Viganò begs Cardinal Ouellet to break his silence, claiming: “You have at your complete disposal key documents incriminating McCarrick and many in the curia for their cover-ups. Your Eminence, I urge you to bear witness to the truth.”

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St Thomas Aquinas on what it was like to be around Jesus:

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The @CatholicHerald is becoming a monthly magazine – twice as long, more wide-ranging, cheaper to subscribe to and backed by an expanded website. It’s a major change, but one which we think will be fruitful. Here’s my letter to subscribers explaining why:

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It’s worth being precise about this. Newman did not oppose papal infallibility – he repeatedly said he had no problem with it. What he opposed was the timing and manner of the declaration; and more broadly, the spreading of fear and doctrinal confusion by an “aggressive faction”.

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I wrote for @compactmag_ about...the Thing.

The Thing That Swallowed Britain

A doctor rushes to the side of a patient who has just collapsed on the way to the toilets in the emergency wing. He checks for signs of life—pulse, circulation, breathing. He has never seen the...

www.compactmag.com

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A surprisingly large proportion of British workers – one in nine – do their jobs at night, toiling in warehouses, caring for the elderly or riding the streets delivering overpriced food. Me for @unherd on securing the rights of the nocturnal workforce:

Night workers deserve to be seen

A new report from the Corbynite think-tank Autonomy proposes to liven up British cities by introducing “drug consumption facilities”, removing barriers to prostitution — sorry, “sex work” — and...

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The great theologians gave a nuanced reading of this verse. Augustine said Jesus forbids calling people fools “without cause”. Aquinas, noting that St Paul called the Galatians fools, said it was OK and that he was “not speaking out of anger, but out of the necessity of justice”.

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Gospel: In today's Gospel, Jesus says that if you call someone a name like "fool" you're going to hell. Don't believe me? See Mt. 5:20-26. It's amazing how many supposedly Christian commentators do this online. What's the point of following all those rules if you're just mean?

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Amazon is the size of a state, and it taxes its citizens heavily; but they can neither scrutinise its policies nor vote out its leaders

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A striking measure of Amazon’s monopoly power is the vast stream of cash that it extracts from the businesses that have to rely on its site. In a new report, we find that Amazon is pocketing a 34% cut of sellers’ revenue — up from 19% in 2014. 1/

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Tremendous blackpilled newsletter on the mainstream left’s quiet surrender to capital. (Also the phrase “rainbow oligarchy” deserves to enter the language)

The Failure of Occupy is Almost Complete

In 2021, we barely even try to oppose capital

freddiedeboer.substack.com

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I wrote for @firstthingsmag about how nobody—and I mean nobody—has come up with a good explanation of the Francis pontificate

Ten Years of Pope Francis | Dan Hitchens

Its legacy can be simply summarized: ten years which have destroyed a great deal and created almost nothing.

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Waugh on Catholics who fell for Mussolini: “No one could then foresee that Italy would be jerked into an alliance with Germany but we should, perhaps, have seen that public respect for Christian things was not enough and that only a Christian is fit to rule a Christian nation.”

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In 2019 a businessman called Harry Miller was visited by police, who told him his tweets on the trans debate constituted a “non-crime hate incident”. He mounted a legal challenge—and today, the official police guidance was ruled unlawful. Me for @unherd :

Farewell to the ‘non-hate crime incident’

In August 2020, the barrister Sarah Phillimore mused on Twitter: “my cat really loves Dreamies perhaps he’s a Methodist.” Me neither, but the point is what happened next. As an experiment, a fellow...

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Mind-melting details in this @ADF_UK report. “As part of her conditions for bail, Vaughan-Spruce was told that she should not contact a local Catholic priest who was also involved in pro-life work”

Charity volunteer arrested, charged for silent prayer "thoughtcrime" near abortion facility

Birmingham volunteer worker arrested and searched – including through her hair – after silently praying in a censorship zone

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Newman, writing to a friend who had just become Catholic and was about to make her first confession: “Do not trouble yourself over much about your confession. God asks what you can do and nothing more. Let your one thought be that of His tender mercy and love of you.”

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The 1968 protests traumatised Joseph Ratzinger, turning a daring progressive into a wary conservative. That was the version of events popularised by Hans Küng and widely repeated since. But a new biography takes it apart. My review in today’s @thetimes :

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Last plug for my defence of the mildly unfashionable notion that Church teaching doesn’t change

The Conservative Genius of Catholicism | Dan Hitchens

Those who claim that the Church has nothing to do except resist and condemn are mistaken; but they are less mistaken than those who think we should raise the gates and invite the enemy in.

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Is the sexual revolution ending? Today’s column:

How Revolutions End | Dan Hitchens

The loosening of sexual mores in the ’60s had its victims.

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I was just there myself for the third of three lunchtime Masses. Always rather moving to see hundreds of City workers queuing up to be informed, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

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Reading about Alexis von Roenne, Hitler’s most trusted intelligence analyst, who sabotaged the Nazi machine by amplifying dud information. Tried in the 1944 purge, he told the court Christianity condemns racism; before execution he wrote to his wife that he was going home to God.

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10 years a Catholic today, and it really is true what the Psalmist says: “He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” Also grateful to the pious old lady who told me with a twinkle: “It’s not easy, you know.”

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A victory for sanity. Until now, you could report your enemies to the police and they would almost automatically be put on an official “hate incident” list; potential employers could be told under an enhanced DBS check. The latest figures suggested there were 20,000 NCHIs a year

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Harry Miller has just won a huge victory in the Court of Appeal. Court has ruled that the recording of non-crime hate incidents is an unlawful interference in freedom of expression. @SpeechUnion press release here.

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The Mackereth case, in which a “lack of belief in transgenderism” was ruled “incompatible with human dignity”, epitomises the sorry story of human rights law. It’s become a way for judges to sign up to the religion of liberalism. My take at Coffee House:

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Just too perfect. Archbishop Paglia appeals to John 16:12, of which St Augustine memorably remarked: “All heretics, when their fables are rejected for their extravagance by the common sense of mankind, try to defend themselves by this text”

Christopher Lamb

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His academy has opened up a theological discussion about certain life issues including the Church’s ban on artificial contraception. Those opposed to this debate, he said, are showing a lack of faith in the Holy Spirit.

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Spine-tingling stuff. ”These finds are far beyond anything we expected to see,” Oxburgh Hall say. ”These objects contain so many clues which confirm the history of the house as the retreat of a devout Catholic family, who retained their faith across the centuries.“

Catholic Herald

@CatholicHerald

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Treasure trove of Catholic artefacts discovered in Tudor manor

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Ocado drivers complaining of poor conditions, Uber being rebuked in court, truckers leaving an increasingly badly-paid sector: exploitation is on the road again. Me for @unherd :

Exploitation is on the road again

Earlier this month, a bright new day dawned for Britain’s delivery drivers. Or so you might have thought from the press release issued by Ryde, who supply drivers to companies like Ocado. Ryde, the...

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Dan Hitchens

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Communion for the remarried was sold as a “merciful” initiative. As the latest guidelines show, it’s the exact opposite. Today’s column:

Mr. Fit Goes to Communion | Dan Hitchens

The archdiocese of Braga, Portugal, now asks divorced-and-remarried Catholics to discern for themselves whether they should receive the Sacrament.

www.firstthings.com

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For some British Catholics, loyalty to Church and king dovetail nicely. Others see something like today as a sort of sinister parody built on the ruins of Catholic England. The same tension existed in the Elizabethan era

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