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Christ's humility was driven by an unparalleled love for all mankind. If this same sacrificial love and humility existed in our marriages, they would be unshakeable.  
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]The pope’s connections to America run deeper than you think. The post One of Us appeared first on The American Conservative.
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Hollywood’s churning out blockbusters, but for filmgoers, the summer season isn’t what it used to be. The post This Memorial Day Weekend, Where’s the Movie…
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Culture One of Us The pope’s connections to America run deeper than you think. Credit: Marco Iabucci Epp/Shutterstock Those trying to understand Pope Leo VIX by parsing his social media are missing the forest for the tweets. Robert Prevost was not communicating a total worldview when he tapped repost every so often in the midst of his pressing duties as bishop and later cardinal. Pope Leo, on the other hand, has been carefully laying the groundwork for what looks to be a thoughtful and strong magisterium in the years to come. While much remains to be seen, the direction he is starting from is already clear. While every pope draws from many predecessors, the name he chooses signals whose legacy he cherishes most. Pope Leo’s namesake, Leo XIII (1878–1903) was a pivotal figure who wrestled mightily with the issues of modernity still facing us today, particularly the relationship of labor to capital in a rapidly advancing age. His encyclical Rerum novarum is considered the foundation of modern Catholic economic and social teaching. In his first address to the College of Cardinals, his namesake cited Rerum novarum as the main inspiration for his name. Therefore, to understand the new Pope Leo one must understand the old. Happily, revisiting Leo XIII inspires great hope for the world and for America in particular. As the last pope of the 19th century and the first pope of the 20th, Leo XIII lived in tumultuous times. In politics, aggressively secular, often socialist movements were replacing the Christian confessional states of the past. Socially, the industrial revolution was transforming the relationship between labor and capital. Leo’s two most important texts on these changes were Immortale Dei, a work on the Christian constitution of states, and the abovementioned Rerum novarum.  On first glance, Immortale Dei is a strange text to mention in the context of an American pope. In it, Leo XIII argues that the best form of government is a Catholic confessional state. He deplores when “government is nothing more nor less than the will of the people … alone its own ruler.” That sounds like a scathing indictment of American democracy. But a full reading of the text reveals that Leo’s objections are not against democracy as such, but against any form of government which sets itself up as a rival to God’s law, particularly the natural law. He objects to those governments of his day that forced their citizens “to hold, therefore, that there is no difference in matters of religion… this is the same thing as atheism.”  Pope Leo XIV reiterated that message in his first homily when he lamented that people often view Jesus as one teacher among many and thus live in a state of “practical atheism,” saying, “A lack of faith is often tragically accompanied by the loss of meaning in life, the neglect of mercy, appalling violations of human dignity, the crisis of the family and so many other wounds that afflict our society.” Leo is stressing how faith is intimately connected to a healthy society. That teaching comes straight from the heart of Immortale Dei. Some might counter that what Leo XIII wanted was a fully Catholic state, something recent popes have written little on and Leo XIV is unlikely to call for. But they should realize that Leo XIII was writing primarily to “all nations of the Catholic world,” namely, those states that were largely Catholic until then. Leo sets up a Catholic state as the ideal, but he acknowledges that “the Church is wont to take earnest heed that no one shall be forced to embrace the Catholic faith against his will, for, as St. Augustine wisely reminds us, ‘Man cannot believe otherwise than of his own will.’” Doubtless our new Augustinian pope would agree. Looking at the changing world around him, Leo XIII saw a great gleam of hope, shining like a city on a hill: America. Despite his nostalgia for the ancien régime, Leo was an unabashed admirer of the United States. Writing to the U.S. bishops, Leo declared, “We highly esteem and love exceedingly the young and vigorous American nation…. All intelligent men are agreed, and We Ourselves have with pleasure intimated it above, that America seems destined for greater things.” In that same letter, Leo celebrated the friendship between George Washington and Baltimore’s Bishop John Carroll and, quoting from Washington’s Farewell Address, praised him for upholding the connection between religious devotion and civil prosperity. Leo did not want already Catholic countries to sever the bond between Church and state, but he saw in America the best and most just way to order a society where the two were already separate. To him, America was a promising alternative to the hostile, secular regimes springing up in Europe. Interestingly, Leo XIII concluded his letter to the bishops with an exhortation to journalists, whom he acknowledges are particularly important in a democratic society. He admonished journalists to speak the truth without rancor, warning “they rather inflict than repel war if they waste their strength by discord.” In the same vein, Leo XIV, after addressing his brother cardinals, turned to journalists directly in his first press conference, telling them “we must say ‘no’ to the war of words and images, we must reject the paradigm of war.” Our Pope Leo is a thoughtful man who knows the world is watching. His mirroring of his predecessor  is not accidental and should point us back to that pope’s teaching. The crown jewel of that teaching is Rerum novarum. Read with Leo XIII’s hopes for America in mind, Rerum novarum takes on new depth. Although it maintains Leo’s overarching thesis that faith is essential to society, it also appears as a restatement and enlargement of Locke’s Second Treatise of Government—a key text of the American Founding. Condemning socialism, Leo declares private property to be a natural right and the cornerstone of economic activity. Like Locke, Leo argues that private property springs from the nature of labor itself. “When man thus turns the activity of his mind and the strength of his body toward procuring the fruits of nature, by such act he makes his own that portion of nature’s field which he cultivates.” Compare this to Locke’s formulation, “As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of, so much is his property.” It looks like Leo was copying Locke’s homework; indeed, the German scholar Manfred Spieker attests that Locke’s Second Treatise was used in the composition of Rerum novarum. By using Locke’s principle of private property, Leo XIII guaranteed broad overlap with the founding ideals of the American republic and buttressed it against the distortions of socialism. Yet, confronted with laissez-faire capitalism, Leo perceived that property rights cannot be the only foundation of society, writing “wage-earners, since they mostly belong in the mass of the needy, should be specially cared for and protected by the government.” Leo rejected the notion that the only requirement for just employment is mutual consent between employer and employee. He argued that the real standard must be a wage that would permit a frugal man to live a life of modest dignity, with time for both family and religion. Unsurprisingly, Leo enjoyed a warm relationship with Teddy Roosevelt, who championed many of Rerum novarum’s ideals. Given all the above, it seems fitting that Leo XIII’s successor should be an American. Those of his countrymen now rushing to dismiss him for failing to conform to a few matters of present political orthodoxy should read Rerum novarum and be assured that a pope rooted in its tradition is likewise rooted in the best traditions of our country. Should he challenge us on some matters (as Leo XIII did), he will not do so from across an unbridgeable divide, but rather from a different branch of the same tree. Thus we should take the new pope at his word when he calls for authentic dialogue. Americans, especially American Catholics, should not fear to make their voice heard in Rome, but they should also listen with open minds to this new Roman voice speaking in our native tongue. The post One of Us appeared first on The American Conservative.
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This Memorial Day Weekend, Where’s the Movie Magic?
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Culture This Memorial Day Weekend, Where’s the Movie Magic? Hollywood’s churning out blockbusters, but for filmgoers, the summer season isn’t what it used to be. As Mark Twain might put it, the reports of the death of the American moviegoing public seem to have been greatly exaggerated.  The recently flailing Warner Bros. Pictures found its footing these past couple months with the box-office success of A Minecraft Movie, Sinners, and (of all things) Final Destination: Bloodlines. Meanwhile, I am certain that a sizable portion of Earth’s eight billion inhabitants have already surrendered over three hours of their lives (including trailers) to Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning, which, with its opening this Memorial Day weekend, will undoubtedly provide a vigorous launch to the summer movie season. Is Hollywood’s comeback permanent, or is it the cinematic equivalent of an election night map that for a few hours suggests victory but ultimately ends in defeat? I tend to think the latter. Yes, the aforementioned flicks had the advantage of not being tethered to the comic book universes, but how long will audiences reward the studios simply on those feeble grounds? To make a movie superior to Madame Web or Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is an awfully low bar to clear. Are we really to believe that the movie industry will find lasting salvation in such forthcoming aspirant blockbusters as Smurfs, or in the reboots Jurassic World Rebirth, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Naked Gun, and Freakier Friday? Oh, and that thing about comic book movies being played out—well, someone forgot to tell the people who greenlit Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps. To paraphrase another American literary giant, so we beat on, borne back ceaselessly into the superheroic past. Some may call me churlish, contrarian, or simply cynical, but I prefer to think of myself as simply old—old enough, anyway, to remember with clarity the summer movie season of twenty-five years ago, which was considerably more dynamic, entertaining, and occasionally artful than the present one promises to be.  Let us consider, then, some of the movies released in the summer of 2000. One of the highlights of the season was Woody Allen’s Small Time Crooks, which opened ten nights before Memorial Day but which, by every other measure, embodied what summer moviegoing represented at its best: uncomplicated, unadulterated diversion. Its pleasures were small-scale but tangible. Allen starred as the incompetent impresario of a cadre of cons who set their sights on robbing a bank. They intend to tunnel into the vault by way of their nearby cookie shop, but even their ostentatiously obtuse employee May (played by Elaine May, never funnier) questions the believability of the cover story. Told that the tunnel represents the cookie shop’s expansion into a restaurant and tea shop, she says, “So where are they going to drink the tea—in the tunnel?” One measure of the decline of summer movies is that Small Time Crooks was a modest box-office success a quarter-century ago, but this summer Woody Allen, officially canceled from mainstream film production, will not be seen on movie screens at all.  Lest you assume that my tastes ran exclusively toward the wittily piquant, I also saw and enjoyed Mission: Impossible 2, which at least had the advantage of being fresher—and closer in time to the original film—than the forthcoming eighth entrant in the series. I remember being riveted by the sea-based disaster movie The Perfect Storm, which was directed by action pro Wolfgang Petersen and starred George Clooney when he was merely an OK actor rather than the self-appointed Democratic power broker and conscience of his nation. That summer, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator was still playing in theaters, too—the thought of pulling that audience favorite in favor of a premature home video release was then unimaginable.  Meanwhile, the ghost story What Lies Beneath showed off the incomparable cinematic skillset of director Robert Zemeckis and revealed the surprising capacity for playing an evil character in leading man Harrison Ford. Like What Lies Beneath, Clint Eastwood’s Space Cowboys has stood the test of time: this admirable admixture of comedy and adventure centered on a quartet of put-out-to-pasture test pilots (Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner) who are propelled into outer space. Space Cowboys was arguably made two decades too early: Eastwood and Jones are still kicking, and Sutherland died just last year. Given the industry’s hunger for sequels, I must ask why no studio has seen fit to greenlight Space Cowboys 2?  Each of these motion pictures was not only profitable but creditable: well-made, agreeable, diverting in the best tradition of Hollywood showmanship and spectacle. Was the public subjected to junk in the summer of 2000? Of course. That summer saw the release of Scary Movie and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, which proves that some things never change. But that summer also saw the release of niche titles that would not even be produced, let alone dispatched to a handful of theaters, in 2025, including Raul Ruiz’s imaginative abridgement of Proust, Time Regained; Alan Rudolph’s way-out ensemble mystery, Trixie; Kenneth Branagh’s gleamingly filmed, gorgeously scored musical rendition of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost. I caught some of these only upon video release, but the fact remains that each was playing in a theater somewhere during the magical cinematic summer of 2000—a circumstance unimaginable in the present environment. As I said, my perspective is informed by my age. As a sentient being who went to the movies twenty-five years ago, I can attest to the relative quality of the filmic offerings that summer. I can also certify the existence of more, better, and larger newspapers, affirm the fun of the Regis Philbin-hosted Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and confirm the peaceable normalcy of a pre-9/11, pre-Iraq War, pre-George W. Bush America. For my liberal friends, consider: Donald Trump was neither on reality TV nor in the White House back then—he was merely managing real estate from Trump Tower. Perhaps now you can see why I greet the coming movie season with blasé indifference. I’m sure Hollywood would trade the eighth Mission: Impossible movie for this former, better world—wouldn’t you?  I do not claim that the summer of 2000 gave us any movie masterpieces, but to the extent that the releases that season stand as emblems of a vanished epoch, I will continue to cling to them—their ticket stubs a Proustian reminder of all we have lost. The post This Memorial Day Weekend, Where’s the Movie Magic? appeared first on The American Conservative.
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