Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, August 19, 2026

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How to be a Dhimmi (The Catholic Thing): “We live in a moment when Europe’s elites have repudiated the continent’s Christian past, while revising history to soften and valorize many elements of Islam.”

We Must Build – Recovering Catholic Geography (Aedificemus): “The priesthood can easily serve the practicing Catholic laity, but it can’t staff 16,125 parishes.”

Selling Radical ‘Synodality’ as ‘Social Prophecy’ (The Catholic Thing): “What … is ‘a synodal Church’ in which women religious are ‘called to become experts in synodality’?”

Why the Left Won’t Leave Nuns Alone (The Wall Street Journal):“The Sisters of Hawthorne are the latest to become a progressive target.”

Are pro-abortion politicians canonical ‘accomplices’? (The Pillar): “Calls for excommunication gain attention, but seem unlikely to gain any traction with bishops.”

Should the archbishop excommunicate the governor? (Catholic Culture): “Should Boston’s Archbishop Richard Henning excommunicate Governor Maura Healey of Massachusetts?”

It May Be Time to Panic About AI (The Atlantic): “Bots are starting to conspire with one another. Can they be reeled back in?”

Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV (Paarse Pepers – Blogspot): “My question is a simple and earnest one: does the synodal process actually help bring souls closer to Christ and to eternal salvation?”

The Myth of the Miserable Housewife (National Review): “Far from driving unhappiness among women, marriage and motherhood remain the most stable and achievable sources of meaning and joy.”

How to Sit Down: Navigating Creative Resistance—Kate Gaston: (The Rabbit Room): “Time is a precious resource, and everybody wants some of yours. Don’t be surprised at finding yourself fighting this battle again and again. Your enemy? Literally anything you are not vocationally called by God to participate in.”

San Antonio Priest Laicized, Excommunicated after Calling Popes Francis and Leo ‘Usurpers’ (OSV News): A priest of the Archdiocese of San Antonio who was ‘found guilty of schism’ has been removed from the clerical state and excommunicated, according to the archbishop of the archdiocese.

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