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This Insights eNewsletter was sent to subscribers on December 4, 2015.

eNewsletter Subject: Advent: A Time of Transcendence

Advent is definitely a time to scale back our worldliness in order to scale up our anticipation of the world to come.

But in a materialistic age, how do we know we are transcendent beings? That's the question Fr. Robert Spitzer wanted to answer in the second volume of his quartet on human happiness. It's also the title of my review.

I've also commented on an important investigation in the United Kingdom. See A welcome inquiry into sexual abuse, and a new honesty.

For his part, Phil Lawler has offered pointed observations on two contemporary trends in the last few days:...

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