I began to realize how my politics were changing as I sought to raise our child by traditionalist
                    
                            
                                Note:CRESCERE UN BAMBINO TRADIZIONALISTA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            the most important institution to conserve: the family.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:FAMIGLIA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            ineffective in combating the forces of cultural decline.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA CHIESA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            powerful counterforce to the radical individualism and secularism of modernity.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:COSA SI CHIEDE ALLA CHIESA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            it was hard to see my people putting up much of a fight.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA GUERRA CULTURALE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            chaplaincy to a consumerist culture
                
                    
                            
                                Note:OVUNQUE TRA I CRISTIANI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            continued full participation in mainstream society was not possible
                
                    
                            
                                Note:BASTA PARTECIPARE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            These people would find new ways to live in community,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:APPARTARSI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            I called the strategic withdrawal prophesied by MacIntyre “the Benedict Option.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:NEO MONASTERO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            develop creative, communal solutions
                
        
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            a decisive leap into a truly countercultural way of living
                
                    
                            
                                Note:UNA CONTROCULTURA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Millennial generation began to abandon the church in numbers unprecedented
                
                    
                            
                                Note:SENZA PRECEDENTI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            entirely ignorant of the teachings and practices of the historical Christian faith.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LE NUOVE GENERAZIONI NN SANNO COSA SI PERDONO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Professing orthodox biblical Christianity on sexual matters
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CONSIDERATO UNA BIGOTTERIA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Christians who hold to the biblical teaching about sex and marriage have the same status in culture, and increasingly in law, as racists.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:RAZZISTI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            I have written The Benedict Option to wake up the church
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA SVEGLIA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            without compromise, no matter what it costs.
                
        
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            a critique of modern culture
                
                    
                            
                                Note:COSA OFFRE IL LIBRO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            an inspired, creative leader who will pioneer a way to live the tradition
                
                    
                            
                                Note:UN NUOVO SAN BENEDETTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            foretells a world in which the church will live in small circles
                
                    
                            
                                Note:PBXII
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            CHAPTER 8 Preparing for Hard Labor
                
                    
                            
                                Note:8@@@@@@@@
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Brother Francis Davoren
                
                    
                            
                                Note:UN ESEMPIO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            He was a good student, intellectually inclined, and gifted
                
        
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            respect for physical labor,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CHI IERI LAVORAVA CON LA MENTE… OGGI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            the human person is body and spirit, not just a spirit,”
                
        
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            satisfaction knowing that his labor is vital to the overall success of the monastery
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA NS PARTE NELLA CHIESA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Benedictine model reminds us that work and worship are integrated
                
                    
                            
                                Note:PREGHIERA E LAVORO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            What Work Is For
                
                    
                            
                                Note:Ttttttttt
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            In the secular world, the word vocation has fallen out of common use,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LAVORO COME VOCAZIONE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            every man—king, pastor, soldier, husband, father, and so on—has a God-given vocation.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:TEOLOGIA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            the symphony of vocations
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA CITTÀ IDEALE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            one’s work not as chosen as much as received
                
        
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            A monk learns to do the task given to him for the greater glory of God
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL LAVORO È PREGHIERA
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            ordering Creation
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL LAVORATORE COME ASSISTENTE DIVINO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Work is a good thing, even a holy thing, but it must not be allowed to dominate one’s life.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL RIPOSO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            In workaholic modern America,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:QUALCOSA È ANDATO PERDUTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Germany’s strict laws mandating shop closing times.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:GRAZIE A DIO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            Burning Incense to Caesar
                
                    
                            
                                Note:Ttttttttt
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,654
        
            sell out the faith for the sake of self-protection
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LA TENTAZIONE
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,656
        
            we are on the brink of entire areas of commercial and professional life being off-limits to believers
                
                    
                            
                                Note:RISCHIO DI ESLUSIONE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            anti-Christian discrimination or persecution.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:DISCRIMINATI
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,660
        
            While Christians may not be persecuted for their faith per se, they are already being targeted when they stand for what their faith entails,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:PERSEGUITATI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            LGBT agenda
                
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,661
        
            antidiscrimination laws
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL NEMICO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            corporate world
                
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,664
        
            Corporate Equality Index.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:L INDICE PIÙ TEMUTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,666
        
            “senior management/executive performance measures include LGBT diversity metrics.”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:UN PARAMETRO
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,668
        
            The “ally” phenomenon—straight
                
                    
                            
                                Note:DICH DI SOLIDARIETÀ
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,670
        
            face increasing pressure within their corporations
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CRISTIANI AL LAVORO
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,673
        
            loyalty oath
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ALL ASSUNZIONE
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,674
        
            burning a pinch of incense before a statue of Caesar.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:L EQUIVALENTE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            impossible in most places to get licenses to work without affirming sexual diversity dogma.
                
        
                Note | Location: 2,676
        
            LICENZE
        
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            American Bar Association
                
        
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            very difficult to have open dialogue in many workplaces without putting oneself in danger.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:LIBERTÀ DI DISIMINARE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            biology of homosexuality,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CAMPO MINATO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            not be able to receive government contracts.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CHI NN SOTTOSCRIVE L ANTIDISCRIMINAZ
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,689
        
            the middle ground is fast disappearing on the question
                
                    
                            
                                Note:RADICALIZZAZIONE DEL CONFLITTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            “Neutrality is not an option,” he wrote.
                
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,692
        
            Public school teachers, college professors, doctors, and lawyers will all face tremendous pressure
                
                    
                            
                                Note:PRESSIONI OVUNQUE
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,697
        
            Doctors now and in the near future will be dealing with issues related to sex, sexuality, and gender identity but also to abortion and euthanasia.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:DOTTORI NEL MIRINO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            In medieval times, for example, anti-Semitic bigotry in Europe prevented Jews
                
                    
                            
                                Note:SI RIPETE L ESCLUSIONE
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            an era of hostility. Blacklisting will be real.
                
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,705
        
            trying to forbid law graduates of Trinity Western University, a private Christian liberal arts college,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IN CANADA
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,707
        
            insufficiently progressive on LGBT issues.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ACCUSA
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,708
        
            a “shame list”
                
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,710
        
            challenges to Christian education—especially higher education—are
                
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,714
        
            Many Christians will be compelled to make their living in ways that do not compromise their religious consciences.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:UN TRISTE OBBLIGO
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,716
        
            Be Prudent
                
                    
                            
                                Note:Ttttttttttt
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,717
        
            put his job in danger by repeatedly refusing his employer’s request to watch an LGBT diversity training video.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL GRAN RIFIUTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,721
        
            Life is full of compromises,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:NON BUTTATELA SUBITO SUI PRINCIPI
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            be at peace with all men,” instructed Saint Paul
                
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,724
        
            Christians should not seek conflict
                
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,727
        
            a saintly exercise in prudence.
                
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,729
        
            as long as we have the right to remain silent
                
                    
                            
                                Note:MEGLIO IL SILENZIO
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            not to go out of their way to provoke confrontation.
                
        
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            let it go,”
                
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,732
        
            “Build for the future.
                
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,733
        
            Maintaining a Christian witness with your colleagues while avoiding religious conflict
                
                    
                            
                                Note:ESEMPI SILENZIOSI
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,737
        
            he doesn’t wish to demonize
                
                    
                            
                                Note:IL BUON CRISTIANO
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,740
        
            we’re maintaining a culture,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:PRESERVARE NN CONQUISTARE
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,742
        
            Be Bold
                
                    
                            
                                Note:Tttttttt
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,743
        
            there’s a time where prudence must end
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CONFINE
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,744
        
            “I am a sinner who is far from perfect, but I refused to be a closeted sinner,”
                
                    
                            
                                Note:MOTTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,749
        
            refuse to take innocent life; abortion and euthanasia are forbidden.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:NN NEGOZ 1
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,750
        
            teaching as normative the new gender ideology,
                
                    
                            
                                Note:SECONDO
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,751
        
            distribution of pornography
                
                    
                            
                                Note:TERZO
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,752
        
            compels one to affirm (as distinct from withholding approval of) something un-Christian
                
                    
                            
                                Note:QUARTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,763
        
            Be Entrepreneurial
                
                    
                            
                                Note:TTTTTTTT
                            
                    
                
            
        
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            start thinking and acting creatively
                
                    
                            
                                Note:INVENTARSI
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,765
        
            business and career opportunities for Christians
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CRISTIANI ESPULSI
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,766
        
            “Our churches need more entrepreneurs,
                
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,784
        
            Buy Christian, Even If It Costs More
                
                    
                            
                                Note:Ttttttttttt
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,793
        
            Build Christian Employment Networks
                
                    
                            
                                Note:Ttttttttttt
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,814
        
            They are all run by CL members and dedicated to cooperation for the sake of living out Catholic principles in economic life.
                
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,817
        
            Rediscover the Trades
                
                    
                            
                                Note:Ttttttttttt
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,839
        
            understand that agrarianism is no panacea.
                
                    
                            
                                Note:NO AGRICOLTURA... MEGLIO I COMMERCI
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,842
        
            relocate to the Elk Counties all over America—faraway
                
                    
                            
                                Note:CONCENTRARE I CRISTIANI IN UN POSTO
                            
                    
                
            
        
                Yellow highlight | Location: 2,842
        
            the “margins of the Empire”
                
        
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            Prepare to Be Poorer and More Marginalized
                
                    
                            
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