Articles
- What both the left and the right get wrong about my neighborhood in Baltimore – John Blake, CNN – When a well-known buffoon insulted two of our editors' Congressional district, we naturally felt a surge of civic pride for our city and our neighborhood. However, both have real problems, none of which fall into easy political categorization. Both political parties can and ought to take responsibility for the ways they’ve failed West Baltimore.
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Virtue and Vice in an Age of Addiction – Micah Meadowcroft, The American Conservative – We tend to think about virtue in individualistic ways, as a habit of self-control and doing good in and of ourselves. What do we do when people are profiting off vice – and using technology to make virtuous practices all that much harder? Micah Meadowcroft reviews two recent books describe the ugly consequences of addiction’s profitability and suggests that we ought to do whatever it takes to stop giving vice a technological edge.
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Whatever happened to Villanova basketball star Shelly Pennefather? 'So I made this deal with God.' – Elizabeth Merrill, ESPN – It is difficult to imagine any young sports star giving up a lucrative career for a consecrated life, much less one in an extremely cloistered convent. This story explores why a young woman might choose to devote her life to God in such a dramatic way and gives us a glimpse into her life as she hugs her family for the first time in decades.
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Possessed in America – Jon Askonas, Mere Orthodoxy – Can we say that demons are involved when considering people who commit mass murder? Doestoevsky’s novel The Possessed provides some insight into acedia, “the noonday demon”, and the spiritual malaise now wreaking havoc on human bodies.
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Yes, the Moon has its own Catholic Bishop – J-P Mauro, Aleteia – On a more lighthearted note, did you know that the moon has its own Catholic bishop? We sincerely hope that a complete Space Force chaplaincy is established.
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Letters
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