August 23, 2019 Volume 04, Number 02

A journal for restless minds

Desperate Madness “You are a slow learner, Winston,” The total surrender of common sense Desperate Madness said O’Brien gently. The total surrender of common sense Deacon’s Diner “How can I help it?” he blubbered. “How can I help but see what is in Food for a restless mind he dystopian novel, Nineteen front of my eyes? Two and two are Eighty-Four, by the English four.” writer , was “Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes published in 1949. in the they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them Tyear 1984, it describes a world of perpet- at once. You must try harder. It is not ual war, government overreach, omni- easy to become sane.” present government sur- veillance, totalitarianism, rwell was a Colloquī is a Deacon’s Corner historical negationism1, writer, that is weekly journal. Its mission and , and the to say he em- purpose: to encourage serious O repressive regimentation ployed the English lan- discussion, to promote reasoned of all persons and behav- guage “as an fine instru- debate, and to provide serious content for those who hope to iors within society. ment for expressing, not find their own pathway to God. for concealing or pre- There is an unsettled venting, thought.” In an Each week Colloquī will contain familiarity to Orwell’s essay, Politics and the articles on theology, philoso- imagined future, now phy, faith, , Catholicism, English Language, Or- thirty-five years past, vividly illustrated and much more. well noted the decadence then on dis- in this brief dialogue between Winston play in the use of the English language. Be forewarned! Articles may Smith and O’Brien who is trying to con- and often will contain fuel for vince Winston that “whatever the Party Most people who bother with the controversy, but always with holds to be truth, is truth.” O’Brien holds matter at all would admit that the the express intent to seek the English language is in a bad way, but up four fingers, but wants Winston to Truth, the whole truth, and it is generally assumed that we cannot nothing but the truth, so help us see five. by conscious action do anything about God. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 seem to have no eyes behind them. killing off your opponents when And this is not altogether fanciful. you can get good results by doing it. Our civilization is decadent and A speaker who uses that kind of so." Probably, therefore, he will say our language—so the argument runs—must inevitably share in the phraseology has gone some dis- something like this: tance toward turning himself into a general collapse. It follows that any While freely conceding that the Soviet machine. The appropriate noises are struggle against the abuse of lan- regime exhibits certain features which coming out of his larynx, but his guage is a sentimental archaism, the humanitarian may be inclined to like preferring candles to electric brain is not involved as it would be deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. if he were choosing his words for himself. If the speech he is making political opposition is an unavoidable Underneath this lies the half- is one that he is accustomed to concomitant of transitional periods, conscious that language is a and that the rigors which the Russian make over and over again, he may natural growth and not an instru- people have been called upon to un- be almost unconscious of what he is ment which we shape for our own dergo have been amply justified in saying, as one is when one utters purposes. the sphere of concrete achievement. the responses in church. And this Now, it is clear that the decline of a reduced state of consciousness, if The inflated style itself is a kind of language must ultimately have po- not indispensable, is at any rate . A mass of Latin words litical and economic causes: it is not favorable to political conformity. falls upon the facts like soft snow, due simply to the bad influence of blurring the outline and covering In our time, political speech and this or that individual writer. But an up all the details. The great enemy effect can become a cause, reinforc- writing are largely the defense of of clear language is insincerity. ing the original cause and produc- the indefensible. Things like the When there is a gap between one's ing the same effect in an intensified continuance of British rule in India, real and one's declared aims, one the Russian and deporta- form, and so on indefinitely. A man turns as it were instinctively to long may take to drink because he feels tions, the dropping of the atom words and exhausted idioms, like a himself to be a failure, and then fail bombs on Japan, can indeed be de- cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our all the more completely because he fended, but only by arguments age there is no such thing as which are too brutal for most peo- drinks. It is rather the same thing "keeping out of politics." All issues that is happening to the English ple to face, and which do not square are political issues, and politics it- language. It becomes ugly and inac- with the professed aims of the polit- self is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, curate because our thoughts are ical parties. Thus political language hatred, and schizophrenia. When has to consist largely of euphe- foolish, but the slovenliness of our the general atmosphere is bad, lan- language makes it easier for us to mism, question-begging and sheer guage must suffer. I should expect have foolish thoughts. cloudy vagueness. Defenseless vil- to find—this is a guess which I have lages are bombarded from the air, not sufficient knowledge to verify— The political dialects to be found in the inhabitants driven out into the that the German, Russian and Ital- pamphlets, leading articles, mani- countryside, the cattle machine- ian languages have all deteriorated festoes, White papers and the gunned, the huts set on fire with in the last ten or fifteen years, as a speeches of undersecretaries do, of incendiary bullets: this is called result of dictatorship. course, vary from party to party, pacification. Millions of peasants are but they are all alike in that one robbed of their farms and sent But if thought corrupts language, almost never finds in them a fresh, trudging along the roads with no language can also corrupt thought. vivid, homemade turn of speech. more than they can carry: this is A bad usage can spread by tradition When one watches some tired hack called transfer of population or rectifi- and imitation even among people on the platform mechanically re- cation of frontiers. People are impris- who should and do know better. peating the familiar phrases— oned for years without trial, or shot Political language—and with varia- bestial, atrocities, iron heel, blood- in the back of the neck or sent to die tions this is true of all political par- stained tyranny, free peoples of the of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: ties, from Conservatives to Anar- world, stand shoulder to shoulder— this is called elimination of unreliable chists—is designed to make lies one often has a curious feeling that elements. Such phraseology is need- sound truthful and murder respect- one is not watching a live human ed if one wants to name things able, and to give an appearance of being but some kind of dummy: a without calling up mental pictures solidity to pure wind.2 feeling which suddenly becomes of them. Consider for instance some stronger at moments when the light comfortable English professor de- Fast forward to 2019. Little has catches the speaker's spectacles and fending Russian totalitarianism. He changed; the English language is on turns them into blank discs which cannot say outright, "I believe in CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 2

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 Non-Human Reproductive Sys- ing that she hopes the publication tems,” the paper was published … will inspire feminists and hospice care and life support, some in a journal called Dissenting Voices, “social justice”-minded individuals would say suicide watch but who then which is published and edited by to “incorporate non-human bodies is attending watch? Political correct- the Women’s and Gender Studies into their own feminist perspec- ness has metastasized the language so program at the College at Brockport tives.” State University of New York. severe, recovery is no longer possible. “If we are going to argue fairly for “All issues are political issues, and The published piece aims at dis- the rights of all beings in a world politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, cussing the “sexual exploitation of soured with sex and gender-based non-human bodies, specifically oppression, then dairy cows de- folly, hatred, and schizophrenia,” is dairy cows.” The author notes that serve to be taken into account when the same notwithstanding the inter- “as a vegan and animal rights activ- discussing issues of reproductive vening years since Orwell wrote them. ist,” she feels compelled to reveal women’s health,” April, who then the “feminist aspects of animal agri- compares barren female cattle to ommonsense has turned a culture,” a topic she says is unfortu- human women who choose not to bilious green, an uncommon nately “under-researched,” but is have children, writes. nonetheless important because “the hue of an all too common “If women do not choose to become same way women’s health has been C mothers, they are shamed. If a fe- envy. Love has lost favor, replaced at stake for years, a dairy cow’s male cow is incapable of successful- with hatred, despair and rage. Free- reproductive system has been ly bearing a calf, they are sent away poked and prodded.” dom and justice now beg forgiveness for slaughter. Their reproductive for and oppression. Language According to the publication, “the system is useless, therefore, they, as has melted in the heat, an endless flow dairy industry is a host for sex- a being, are useless,” April notes, of diatribe and rant. White, absent col- based discrimination,” and a “site arguing that this is indicative of a where sexual assault and objectifi- “double standard,” as civilized soci- or, is racist by default; gender, to be cation based on biological makeup ety would cringe at the thought of determined. To save the planet, the are highly prevalent but ignored as murdering women once they be- human pestilence must be eradicated. we choose to neglect non-humans come infertile. with whom we share a planet.” When Orwell suggested “if thought “The outdated stereotype about corrupts language, language can also The paper argues that “in order to women being caretakers and most corrupt thought,” he assumed too fully fight gendered oppression,” importantly child-bearers remains much. To “corrupt thought” requires society must also address the plight consistent in the dairy industry, of dairy cows, which it asserts are especially when we take into ac- an uncorrupted mind, capable of rea- “still subjects to sex-based discrimi- count the means through which son, able to think and to exercise nation and violence,” despite their these animals are exploited,” April sound judgment. voices being “not always lifted or argues, pointing specifically to the comprehensible.” insemination of cattle, which she compares to “rape,” the milking of Evidence would suggest evolution The piece begins by first attacking cows, which she compares to to have taken a gigantic leap back- the widely contested notion that "sexual abuse," “emotional trauma cow’s milk is even at all beneficial ward. As with the vestigial tail, the related to pregnancy,” and for humans, pointing to the govern- human mind is fast becoming a vestig- “nonconsensual hormone treat- ment-funded “Got Milk?” cam- ial relic, a poor reminder of what Al- ments.” paign and the questionable motiva- mighty God had intended. tions behind it. April encourages readers to attempt to “place the importance of animals’ But author Mackenzie April, an A paper currently being promoted lives as equal to your own,” and intern for Brockport's Women's by a New York university calls on address the plight of dairy cows Studies Department, goes further society to consider the rampant “similar to how you might validate than the assertion that milk is bad “sexual exploitation” of dairy cows and advocate for the struggles of for humans, by claiming that the by the milk industry in order to women that you personally do not practice of dairy farming “also sup- “fully fight gendered oppression.” endure due to the privilege of race, ports and exemplifies the degrading gender, class, etc.”3 Titled “Readying the Rape Rack: way in which we treat female bod- Feminism and the Exploitation of ies and reproductive health,” add- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 While fairy tales commonly ascribe rupted. onestly, I am not making anthropomorphic attributes to animals Some males decide they are wom- this up! The paper is avail- (Winnie the Pooh comes to mind) it is en. They take steroids, undergo but a useful literary device in fiction able online (see the link in surgeries, and wear women’s cloth- H for children, not . Animals, footnote 3,) fourteen pages including ing. In just a few years, our laws eighteen references, the titles them- whether cows or horses or puppy and our society in general have selves speaking volumes: dogs, having neither soul nor mind, accepted these gender migrations as valid. We even allow transgenders nevertheless deserve fair treatment, to compete in women’s sports. In • The sexual politics of meat but, are not human. God created man short, we accept, or pretend to ac- • Cowspiracy: the sustainability secret in his image and likeness and made cept, the proposition that Joe can • Why milk is a feminist issue himself the son of man “for a little become Sally. • 30 cows that think they are dogs while lower than the angels” (Heb 2:7). Except for some who still have eyes • Cows are like big puppies to see. God created all things, including • The psychology of cows In an interview on feminism and man. But, this is important to remem- • Dairy is scary transgenderism, feminist professor ber, all was created by Him for man. and writer Camille Paglia has this One passage in particular is worth to say about the transgendered: So God created man in his own further note. The author, trying to pry It is certainly ironic how liber- image, in the image of God he creat- sense out of nonsense, or perhaps con- als who posture as defenders ed him; male and female he created of science when it comes to structing a silk purse out of a sow’s them. And God blessed them, and global warming... flee all refer- ear, has quite obviously lost her mind God said to them, “Be fruitful and ence to biology when it comes multiply, and fill the earth and sub- and has no app to find it. to gender. … due it; and have dominion over the The cold biological truth is that If we are going to argue fairly for fish of the sea and over the birds of sex changes are impossible. the rights of all beings in a world the air and over every living thing Every single cell of the human soured with sex and gender based that moves upon the earth” (Gen body (except for blood) re- oppression, then dairy cows de- 1:27:28). mains coded with one’s birth serve to be taken into account when gender for life. discussing issues of reproductive eturning to the author’s as- women’s health. If women do not sertion that “dairy cows are Back to our man George [Orwell]: choose to become mothers, they are forcibly impregnated, or “There was truth and there was shamed. If a female cow is incapa- R untruth, and if you clung to the raped, in order to constantly produce ble of successfully bearing a calf, truth even against the whole world, milk for humans to consume,” a num- they are sent away for slaughter. you were not mad.” Their reproductive system is useless ber of questions come to mind which This explains why Paglia in her therefore, they, as a being, are use- the author conveniently leaves unan- writings and interviews sounds less. The double standard however, swered and yet, though one must pre- sane compared to many other pro- is that human pain is considered to sume human attributes to cows clearly gressives. be more valid than the pain of non- human animals. The idea of mur- not in evidence we shall ask them any- Some today believe that abortion dering women once they can no way. Can cows give to im- should be an option up to the mo- longer bear children is gruesome pregnation? Can cows be raped? How ment of birth. They claim that the and disturbing. Why is it acceptable does the word “forcibly” work in such fetus has no right to life until sepa- to perform such horrifying acts on ration from the mother. Yet these a context? The only answer one might bodies that are different from our same people don’t blink when they own? reasonably entertain is by seriously say to a pregnant woman, “When’s abusing the language. your baby due?” Where is the logic? There is none, Why don’t they say, “When’s your no logic nor reason, only raw emotion Here is another example in which fetus due?” Or to be more precise: language and thought have been cor- coupled with “educated” ignorance. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 ow else to explain this? In slobbering slice of sycophantic lem- “When does your fetus become a that once beautiful city by mings mindlessly migrating leftward, human being?” H the bay—that city once slavishly following old BS, doddering To paraphrase Orwell, thought cor- known for cable cars, the crookedest socialist poseur and AOC, the barista rupts language and language cor- street in the world and the Golden fool who would be queen, vacuously rupts thought. Gate bridge—San Francisco, the streets into obliviousness. On and on it goes. If all whites are are now paved with human excre- racists, then what is the definition ment, used hypodermic needles and One can almost forgive the fool, of ? If we believe in free discarded waste from the population for clearly higher education did more speech, but ban speakers from our harm than foul while youth and imma- universities or riot if they appear, living out of cardboard boxes and gro- then what is free speech? If we be- cery carts on the streets. Not that there turity are mitigating factors; adding lieve in freedom of religion, but is no room in the inn. The rent is simp- insult to brain damage necessarily re- then redefine the word as did the ly too darn high. sults in frequent outbursts of utterly U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in unintelligible nonsense. But then, are 2016 – “‘the phrases “religious liber- And yet, the San Francisco city fools not made for this? For the mo- ty” and “religious freedom”’ are nothing but ‘code words for dis- government finds the more pressing ment, let us ignore the fool dancing crimination, intolerance, racism, issue demanding their attention to be maniacally on the throne and focus on sexism…’” – then what does our rebranding “criminals”. To make a the aging socialist pretender promis- Bill of Rights mean when it guaran- person formerly called a criminal feel ing perfect paradise in perpetuity for tees freedom of religion? better while slogging through their free. Politicians have undermined the cesspool of humanity, the city will no language for decades. They call war longer call convicted felons, felons. What is frightening, terrifying a a “police action.” An “investment in better word, is this: old BS is by all ac- America” translates as “more taxes Says so in the resolution they just and more debt.” “Free education” passed. California residents who have counts an “honest” socialist, a true be- and “free health care” means pick- a criminal record will no longer be liever in a dismal and dreary failed ing up the tab for some citizens characterized as prisoners, convicts, , a scam of the worst kind. while making slaves of others. Socialism swallows the naïve whole “Illegal aliens” become inmates or felons. Nope, no sir, that is while assuring the poor goose that “undocumented immigrants.” patently unfair and demeaning. From “Enhanced interrogation” is code now on they are to be referred to as wholeness is good for the liver. for torture. “Collateral damage” “formerly incarcerated persons” or stands for the killing of civilians ith all the talk these days better yet, “justice involved persons” during wartime. “Progressive poli- of Socialism, one could tician” sounds wonderful – who is or simply “returning residents.” How almost believe it to be against real ? – but refers to nice. Sure makes me feel better as I W radically new, promising a cornucopia politicos looking for more power step on something that really isn’t and more control over their fellow of stuff, all for free! Hurry! This offer there … ugh! It is not easy to become citizens.4 will end soon—or in twelve years sane. e have become addicted when the world comes to a delightful to mindlessness, to not Should I be sane—and by personal end—whichever comes soonest. In thinking by not thinking observation, my mind is functioning as truth, Socialism has aged, badly. Like W old BS, now bent and stooped but ever about thinking. We have acquired a it should for I exercise it with religious desperate madness, an insatiable appe- regularity—I find myself in near agree- resolute, Socialism keeps repeating the tite for momentary pleasures, quick ment with Orwell “In our time, politi- same tired old lines as if they were fixes and instant gratification. Think- cal speech and writing are largely the new; its siren song luring the gullible ing is hard work, a pathological aller- defense of the indefensible”—yet I feel toward a paradisiacal mirage masking gy most would rather avoid whenever compelled to add—”and nonsensical”. the fiery gates of hell. and however possible. One must look no further than the CONTINUED ON PAGE 5

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 things perishable, with complete baffled. Such, too, is the purpose of forgetfulness of things eternal, lead- the seizing of the temporal power, he pontificate of Pope Leo XIII ing up to the desperate madness conferred many centuries ago by was the third-longest (1878- whereby so many wretched beings, Divine Providence on the Bishop of T 1903) behind that of Pope Pius in all directions, scruple not to lay Rome, that he might without let or IX (his immediate predecessor) and violent hands upon themselves; the hindrance use the authority con- Pope John Paul II. He was and still is reckless mismanagement, waste, ferred by Christ for the eternal wel- and misappropriation of the public fare of the nations. best known for his intellectualism and funds; the shamelessness of those 5. It is perfectly clear and evident, for his many memorable encyclicals who, full of treachery, make sem- venerable brothers, that the very concerning the most serious questions blance of being champions of coun- notion of civilization is a fiction of try, of freedom, and every kind of affecting modern society. Some of the the brain if it rest not on the abiding right; in fine, the deadly kind of most important are: “Inscrutabili Dei principles of truth and the unchang- plague which infects in its inmost Consilio” (1878) On the Evils of Society; ing laws of virtue and justice, and if recesses, allowing it no respite and unfeigned love knit not together the “Quod Apostolici Muneris” (1878) On foreboding ever fresh disturbances wills of men, and gently control the Socialism; “Arcanum divinae sapienti- and final disaster. interchange and the character of ae” (1880) On Christian Marriage; 3. Now, the source of these evils lies their mutual service. “Diuturnum Illud” (1881) On the Origin chiefly, We are convinced, in this, 13. … . It is your duty, venerable that the holy and venerable authori- of Civil Power; “Humanum Ge- brothers, sedulously to strive that ty of the Church, which in God’s nus” (1884) On Freemasonry; the seed of heavenly doctrine be name rules mankind, upholding sown broadcast in the field of God, “Immortale Dei” (1885) On the Chris- and defending all lawful authority, and that the teachings of the Catho- tian Constitution of States; “Libertas has been despised and set aside. lic faith may be implanted early in Praestantissimum” (1888) On the Na- The enemies of public order, being the souls of the faithful, may strike fully aware of this, have thought ture of Human Liberty; “Sapientiae deep root in them, and be kept free nothing better suited to destroy the Christianae” (1890) On Christians as from the ruinous blight of error. foundations of society than to make The more the enemies of religion Citizens; and “Rerum Novarum” (1891) an unflagging attack upon the exert themselves to offer the unin- On Capital and Labor.5 Church of God, to bring her into formed, especially the young, such discredit and odium by spreading instruction as darkens the mind and infamous calumnies and accusing During the first year of his pontifi- corrupts morals, the more actively her of being opposed to genuine cate (1878) the learned pope issued should we endeavor that not only a progress. … From these causes have two encyclicals that would set the tone suitable and solid method of educa- originated laws that shake the tion may flourish but above all that for much of his papacy. In his first, structure of the Catholic Church, this education be wholly in harmo- Inscrutabili Dei Consilio, Leo outlined the enacting whereof we have to ny with the Catholic faith in its lit- deplore in so many lands; hence, the evils that were then evident. erature and system of training, and too, have flowed forth contempt of chiefly in , upon which episcopal authority; the obstacles 2. … from the very beginning of the direction of other sciences in thrown in the way of the discharge Our pontificate, the sad sight has great measure depends. presented itself to Us of the evils by of ecclesiastical duties; the dissolu- which the human race is oppressed tion of religious bodies; and the 15. … just as from a rotten stock are on every side: the widespread sub- confiscation of property that was produced healthless branches or version of the primary truths on once the support of the Church’s worthless fruits, so do the ravages which, as on its foundations, hu- ministers and of the poor. Thereby, of a pestilence which ruins the man society is based; the obstinacy public institutions, vowed to chari- household spread wide their cruel of mind that will not brook any ty and benevolence, have been infection to the hurt and injury of authority however lawful; the end- withdrawn from the wholesome individual citizens. On the other less sources of disagreement, control of the Church; thence, also, hand, when domestic society is whence arrive civil strife, and ruth- has arisen that unchecked freedom fashioned in the mold of Christian less war and bloodshed; the con- to teach and spread abroad all mis- life, each member will gradually tempt of law which molds charac- chievous principles, while the grow accustomed to the love of ters and is the shield of righteous- Church’s claim to train and educate religion and piety, to the aborrence ness; the insatiable craving for youth is in every way outraged and CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 sanctioned by natural law; and by a scheme of horrible wickedness, of false and harmful teaching, to the Deacon’s Diner while they seem desirous of caring pursuit of virtue, to obedience to Food for a restless mind elders, and to the restraint of the for the needs and satisfying the desires of all men, they strive to insatiable seeking after self-interest or those restless minds that seize and hold in common whatev- alone, which so spoils and weakens hunger and thirst for more. er has been acquired either by title the character of men. of lawful inheritance, or by labor of Each week this space will offer a menu of interesting is second encyclical of the brain and hands, or by thrift in one’s mode of life. Fand provocative titles, written by year 1878, Quod Apostolici Catholic authors, in addition to Muneris, took direct aim at There is much more to explore those referenced in the articles, for H concerning the fine mess we find our- the evil, then spreading throughout you to feed your restless mind. selves now struggling to comprehend. the entire world, intent on the utter BOOKS destruction of all civil society. If you are having difficulty seeing five Salvation when your eyes are seeing four then, Michael Patrick Barber We speak of that sect of men who, “You must try harder. It is not easy to Ignatius Press under various and almost barba- become sane.” Let us pray. Until next 2019, 189 pages. rous names, are called socialists, week. Faith and Politics communists, or nihilists, and who, Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI)

spread over all the world, and Ignatius Press bound together by the closest ties in 1. Historical Negationism, or , is an illegiti- 2018, 269 pages. mate distortion of the historical record. It is often a wicked confederacy, no longer imprecisely or intentionally incorrectly referred Catholicism & Modernity seek the shelter of secret meetings, to as , but that term also James Hitchcock but, openly and boldly marching denotes a legitimate academic pursuit of - re The Seabury Press forth in the light of day, strive to interpretation of the historical record and ques- tions the accepted views. In attempting to revise 1979, 250 pages. bring to a head what they have long the past, illegitimate historical revisionism may been planning — the overthrow of use techniques inadmissible in proper historical PERIODICALS First Things all civil society whatsoever. discourse, such as presenting known forged documents as genuine, inventing ingenious but www.firstthings.com Surely these are they who, as the implausible reasons for distrusting genuine docu- ments, attributing conclusions to books and Touchstone sacred Scriptures testify, “Defile the sources that report the opposite, manipulating www.touchstonemag.com flesh, despise dominion and blas- statistical series to support the given point of Catholic Answers Magazine pheme majesty.” They leave noth- view, and deliberately mis-translating texts (in languages other than the revisionist’s). Notable www.catholic.com ing untouched or whole which by examples of negationism include Holocaust deni- Chronicles both human and divine laws has al, Armenian , the Lost Cause of www.chroniclesmagazine.org been wisely decreed for the health the Confederacy, Japanese denial and and beauty of life. They refuse obe- the denial of Soviet crimes. In modern times, The National Catholic Register negationism is often spread via the and www.ncregister.com dience to the higher powers, to Social media. whom, according to the admonition 2. George Orwell, “Politics and the English Lan- Our Sunday Visitor of the Apostle, every soul ought to guage”, originally published in the April 1946 www.osvnews.com issue of the journal Horizon (volume 13, issue 76, be subject, and who derive the right pages 252-265). ONLINE of governing from God; and they 3. Celine Ryan, Investigative Reporter for Campus Crisis Magazine Reform (campusreform.org), “NY univ. promotes proclaim the absolute equality of all www.crisismagazine.com paper comparing cow insemination to ‘rape,’ men in rights and duties. They de- milking cows to ‘sexual abuse’, August 15, 2019. The Imaginative Conservative base the natural union of man and The full article is available at: https;// www.theimaginativeconservative.org woman, which is held sacred even digitalcommons.brockport.edu/dissentingvoices/ vol8/iss1/8. Catholic Exchange among barbarous peoples; and its 4. Jeff Minick, “Delusion, , and Duplici- www.catholicexchange.com bond, by which the family is chiefly ty: Why Language Matters,” Intellectual Takeout: Intellectual Takeout held together, they weaken, or even A refuge for rational discourse, August 20, 2019, www.intellectualtakeout.org deliver up to lust. Lured, in fine, by 5. Those who would enjoy learning more of the Catholic Church and her teachings can find a Life News the greed of present goods, which is treasury of papal documents online at “Papal “the root of all evils which some Encyclicals Online: Your guide to online Papal and www.lifenews.com coveting have erred from the faith,” other official documents of the Catholic Church”, Life Site News https://www.papalencyclicals.net. they assail the right of property www.lifesitenews.com

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