In Defense of Bishop Barron (The Fourth Watch): “Despite attacks from a certain segment of Catholic commentators, Bishop Barron is a model of how to be a good bishop in times of turmoil.”
Settling accounts for the Covid lockdown (Phil Lawler’s Substack): “It has taken several years, but now we know that the ‘official’ narrative was wrong on nearly every important point. More shocking, we also know that leading government officials and pharmaceutical-company executives knew that they were wrong … ”
Notre Dame Affirms Appointment of Abortion Advocate to Prominent Post (National Catholic Register): “Scholar Susan Ostermann, due to take over as director of the university’s Asian studies institute on July 1, has written multiple columns castigating attempts to make abortion illegal.”
Steelman or Strawman? Carrie Gress’s Something Wicked (Public Discourse): “Regrettably, Gress’s latest book is an exercise in dispatching straw men of its own making.”
Announcing the 2026 Jane Greer Memorial Poetry Contest (Dappled Things): “Jane was loved—so much so that when her social media friends pooled their money to send funeral flowers, they ended up with several hundred dollars left over. Her friends asked themselves what Jane would have wanted them to do with the funds, and supporting fellow poets was the obvious answer.”
Cardinal McElroy fans the flames (Catholic Culture): “By now all responsible public leaders have recognized the need to dial down the rhetoric and de-escalate the confrontations in Minnesota. Yet Cardinal Robert McElroy has joined with several other religious leaders in Washington to rouse passions still further … ”
Aquinas Articulates Artificial Intelligence (What We Need Now – Substack): “When Aquinas addresses the principles of human intellect, he does so on the basis of philosophical argumentation and not from Christian revelation. This makes his thinking important in the conversation about Artificial Intelligence, which is developed and operates independently of Christian revelation.”
Leo XIV’s remarks to Doctrine office give subtle signals (Crux): “Pope Leo XIV addressed the participants in the plenary session of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on Thursday of last week, and his remarks for the occasion reward careful attention.”
AI Is Making Everyone Stupid (The ghost – Substack): “We just consume. It doesn’t matter what—videos, notes, podcast excerpts—it’s all just content, there for us to gorge ourselves on.”
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