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Illinois Legislature Secretly Passes Bill Legalizing Assisted Suicide
The Illinois State Senate passed a bill legalizing assisted suicide in a surprise early-morning vote Friday, amending an unrelated measure on food sanitation to include the controversial provision, according to a statement from an advocacy group…
The Brew: Key Members of Trump’s Team Move to Military Locations for Safety
Remember when Establishment conservatives such as David French were echoing Joe Biden, warning that President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement were somehow extremists, who violated traditional norms of civic peace and decency? It’s certain…
As The Shutdown Continues A Facade Crumbles
For decades now Democrats have operated with an air of moral superiority born largely of two things. Firstly, they were the party of the little guy – helping the helpless, feeding the poor and freeing the oppressed. Secondly they uncovered and…
Dilexi Te and Loving the Poor – Religion & Liberty Online
Pope Leo XIV’s first major proclamation, Dilexi Te (I Have Loved You), is an apostolic exhortation addressed “to all Christians” on caring for the poor. Pope Francis was preparing this exhortation when he died. Leo finished the project, and he…
Happy Feet Friday
The Squadronaires is a Royal Air Force band that was formed during WWII and continued to perform until the mid-60s. The band was revived in 1985, and is still around today. Here's a righteous number called "Rustle of Swing", from…
Proclamation of St. Newman as Doctor of the Church signals Catholic revival at Oxford
When St. John Henry Newman is proclaimed a doctor of the church on Saturday, staff and students at his old university will be counting on a boost of confidence for Oxford’s once-excluded Catholics. Lord Neil Mendoza, provost of Oriel College,…
On ghosts – The Catholic Thing
Can the boundary between this life and the afterlife ever blur in ways the Church has not fully defined? Each year, All Souls’ Day and the Month of All Souls renew age-old questions about life, death, and the mystery that unites both. In popular…
DDF’s Cardinal Fernández: Marian declaration coming next Tuesday
On November 4th, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, will present a doctrinal note titled “Mater Populi Fidelis” (“Faithful Mother of the People”), about our Lady’s “cooperation in the work…
John Henry Newman, Natural Religion, and the Mystery of Faith
On Monday, St. John Henry Newman will be proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo. It was Newman’s epistolary exchange with his brother Charles that first set the saint on the road to the composition of An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of…
All Hallows’ Eve – The Catholic Thing
Readers of books, and specifically fantastic books by Charles Williams and other Inklings, are summoned. I do not like them as much as I should, for I have never been a fan of fantasy literature, and I note that among the Inklings, only J.R.R.…