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Michael D. O'Brien, the noted author of such books as "Father Elijah," has posted a fascinating essay on his website . As always, he evaluates the "mega-trends" in modern Catholic life and helps us to interpret them. Here is just a glance: “If God is dead, then everything is permissible,” says one of the characters in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov . But what if a person still believes in God and goes to church, perhaps even devotedly, yet his instinctive feelings and his choices remain those of a practical materialist? For such a person, “everything” is still permissible, but it is considered an unfortunate unavoidable necessity. Thus, he will need to find a self-justifying political philosophy, without which he could not live with himself. His philosophy may be brilliantly articulated or hardly articulate at all, but in its various degrees of sophistication it will do a common thing: It will deny that moral absolutes are authoritative in every sph