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One Of “Those” Lessons

The Sermon On The Mount – as preached by Jesus in Matthew 5-7 – is one of those passages of scripture, often cited, but rarely explored in depth.  It is quite long and contains parts everybody loves (the Beatitudes) and warnings no…

Lessons from the Christmas Gospels

George Weigel, First Things Tuesday, December 23, 2025 Today, when the toxic fumes of anti-Semitism are poisoning public life and seem to be influencing far too many young Catholics (especially young men), the Gospel of the Christmas Vigil Mass…

The Lessons We Need To Learn

Lesson 1: Be careful with your bragging.  First the host’s beloved, as he tells us constantly, Ohio State loses the Big Ten football championship (something he barely mentioned this past week) to former Big Ten doormat Indiana University (a name…

Good lessons from great financial crises

UPI / AlamySubscriber announcement: When Reaction scaled back to just this newsletter hosting my writing, I said I would take a few months to figure it out. Was the pricing right for my newsletter which is usually about 2-3000 words long each…