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This Insights eNewsletter was sent to subscribers on March 27, 2015.

eNewsletter Subject: Our Most Characteristic Vice?

I am grateful for the tremendous support we have received over the past week. Now we need just $2,000 more by the end of March to meet those critical bills that have cast a shadow over our future. If you haven't yet, please help now!

Our eleventh-hour needs bring to mind one of the most serious vices which afflict our world today—acedia, or a kind of enervating listlessness about spiritual things. See Thomas Van's important new review: Recognizing the Noonday Devil.

In other commentary, Phil Lawler explains why Some cardinals may fear blackmail relating to sexual sins. Phil also points out a different sin that is usually forgotten today: Surrogate parenthood = exploitation of desperate women.

For my part, I seriously wonder what Cardinal Kasper hopes to achieve by promoting an obsequious book about Pope Francs: Cardinal Kasper: Will flattery get him somewhere? I also explain what is really wrong with the ouster of a controversial religion teacher from a diocesan school: Patricia Jannuzzi on gay activists: And the real problem is?...

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