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Tuesday, 09 February 2010
F-speech not free speech Print
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By Allen R. Sanderson, Chicago Tribune   
Even among White House officials, our public speech has notably coarsened, and certain groups get oversensitive treatment whilte others— notably traditional Christians—are crudely mocked.
 
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
The Lion as Catholic Print
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By Philip F. Lawler, American Spectator   
Phil Lawler weighs the autobiography of America's most influential Catholic Senator, Ted Kennedy.
 
Monday, 08 February 2010
The thriving business of dying Print
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By Deborah Ball and Julia Mengewein, Wall Street Journal   
A journalistic look at the suicide industry in Switzerland.
 
Monday, 08 February 2010
Anomie and atheism Print
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By Theodore Dalrymple, American Conservative   
We've resisted them both better than most nations, but will we stay on the right path?
 
Friday, 05 February 2010
Champions for Life Print
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By Mark Bavaro, George Martin, Phil McConkey, Chris Godfrey, Phil Simms, and Jim Burt   
Before Tim Tebow ever picked up a football—before he was even born—athletes were speaking out for life.
 
Friday, 05 February 2010
Is it time for the Saints? Print
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By Father Raymond DeSouza, National Post   
Father Raymond de Souza explores the Catholic past and likely prospects this weekend of the New Orleans Saints.
 
Thursday, 04 February 2010
Pope: freedom before equality Print
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By Guardian   
Pope Benedict XVI argues that the effect of some equality legislation has been to impose unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities.
 
Thursday, 04 February 2010
Repeal at your peril Print
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By John R. Guardiano   
A commentator predicts that ending the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy will result in U.S. military personnel being required to positively affirm same-sex sexual orientation at peril of ...
 
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Evidence of courage Print
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By Dimitri Cavalli, Haaretz   
The detractors of Pius XII have a lot on their side of the argument – except the facts.
 
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Catholic schools' three S's Print
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By William McGurn, Wall Street Journal   
We need Catholic schools and we have a formula for building and maintaining them: subsidiarity + stewardship = success.
 
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Newt - Catholic filmmaker Print
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By Julia Duin, Washington Times   
Julia Duin has mixed reactions to a promotional film about John Paul II by former speaker of the House and recent convert, Newt Gingrich.
 
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Sex as a commodity Print
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By James Bowman, New Criterion   
James Bowman believes that female sexuality is again becoming, as it was in the honor cultures of pre-Christian times and still is in the more primitive honor cultures of today, shamelessly regarded a...
 
Monday, 01 February 2010
A God who hates? Print
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By Leslie S. Lebl, City Journal   
Two books argue that repression, cruelty, and fear are central to Islam.
 
Monday, 01 February 2010
Holidays in other peoples' misery Print
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By Michael Coren, Toronto Sun   
Michael Coren argues that there is something nauseating about obscenely wealthy celebrities who are paid $20 million for a few months’ work on a movie telling working people to donate chunks of ...
 
Friday, 29 January 2010
Man-hating nonsense Print
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By Barbara Kay, National Post   
Mary Daly, a lapsed Catholic and feminist "thealogist," was regarded as something less than serious by scholars.
 
Friday, 29 January 2010
Victims of Obamacare Print
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By Mark Tooley, American Spectator   
The religious Left's support for abortion funding in Obamacare may be remembered as one of the last, embarrassing gasps of the religious abortion-rights movement.
 
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Will the Tebow ad run? Print
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By Jan Crawford/CBS News Crossroads   
The network insists the pro-life spot will run during the Super Bowl, but, if so, it’ll be over the unprincipled objections of some women’s groups.
 
Thursday, 28 January 2010
The bishops speak Print
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By USCCB   
The future of healthcare reform is uncertain, but America’s Catholic bishops have advice for Congress on how to proceed.
 
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Our vanishing ultimate resource Print
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By Steven Malanga, City Journal   
Plummeting birthrates threaten prosperity worldwide. Can America buck the trend?
 
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
One-child rule Print
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By Cheryl Weitzstein, Washington Times   
China has stopped population growth through a one-child policy, but has prepared a demographic disaster for itself, according to population experts.
 
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Legal and illegal persons Print
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By Calthomas.com   
Cal Thomas reviews the ways that public opinion has moved towards protection of the unborn.
 
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
First among patriarchs Print
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By Sandro Magister, Chiesa Express   
With Benedict XVI, for the first time in history, the Orthodox have agreed to discuss the primacy of the bishop of Rome, according to the model of the first millennium, when the Church was undivided.
 
Monday, 25 January 2010
New life for pro-life Print
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By Robert McCartney, Washington Post   
A skeptic learns lessons at the 2010 March for Life in Washington.
 
Monday, 25 January 2010
Smiles and embraces Print
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By Michael Coren, Mercator   
Despite what we read in the press, relations between Jews and Catholics are excellent—as is the reputation of Pius XII.
 
Friday, 22 January 2010
What about the boys? Print
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By Maggie Gallagher, Real Clear Politics   
  The decline in educational and economic opportunities for men is bad for all.    
 
Friday, 22 January 2010
Understanding the pope and Judaism Print
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By John L. Allen, Jewish Daily Forward   
A leading Vatican watcher says Benedict XVI sees Jews as allies in the struggle against secularism.
 
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Lion's Den Print
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By Daniel Pipes, Jerusalem Post   
A Dutch politician goes on trial in the Netherlands – for pointing out the dangers of Islamization to his country.
 
Thursday, 21 January 2010
A lapsed heretic Print
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By David Klinghoffer, Beliefnet   
Britain's chief rabbi, once a skeptical philosopher, offers an incisive critique of secularism.
 
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Arguing abortion Print
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By Adam Graham, Pajamas Media   
Pro-lifers need to win hearts and minds, but can we do so arguing legal technicalities?
 
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Boston Tea Party Print
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By Wall Street Journal   
Massachusetts voters tell Democrats to shelve Obamacare.
 
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Disdaining conscience Print
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By John Garvey, Boston Herald   
Respect for deeply held positions in conscience is a longstanding principle in our society—but not for Senate Democratic candidate in Massachusetts Martha Coakley.
 
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Here lies decency Print
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By Union Leader   
A New Hampshire pro-life memorial this week recalls one of the most shocking discoveries since Roe v. Wade.
 
Monday, 18 January 2010
Two steps down Print
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By Paul Greenberg, Jewish World Review   
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the culture of death rationalizes two more outrages.
 
Monday, 18 January 2010
Dissent in decline? Print
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By Charlotte Allen, Wall Sreet Journal   
Perhaps, but too many Catholics are neither hot nor cold.
 
Friday, 15 January 2010
Putting the hate in Haiti Print
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By Peter Wehner, National Review Online   
Pat Robertson does it again: He says a Haitian pact with Satan caused Tuesday’s earthquake.
 
Friday, 15 January 2010
Palestinian paralysis Print
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By Fr. Raymond J. deSouza, National Post   
Establishing a just and open legal system is one way to achieve real progress in a troubled land.
 
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Mea culpa - ecologica Print
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By Stephen T. Asma, Chronicle Review   
Yes, guilt among us has mostly migrated from the Seven Deadlies to innumerable ecological transgressions.
 
Thursday, 14 January 2010
On immigration Print
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By Lisa Fabrizio, American Spectator   
A Catholic take on the immigration debate.
 
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
The Virgin Warrior Print
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By David A. Bell, New Republic   
A review of a new biography of the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc.
 
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Buttiglione smeared Print
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By Daily Mail   
Rocco Buttiglione an Italian Catholic politician, is gratuitously smeared by the BBC for his stand on homosexuality.
 
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
The Bard's medieval Catholic view Print
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By David Warren, Real Clear Politics   
Shakespeare's take on and solution for rule by lawyers.
 
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Faith talk Print
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By Rouss Douthat, New York Times   
An examination of the theory and practice of religious expression in a pluralist society.
 
Monday, 11 January 2010
Islam first in Europe? Print
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By Christopher Caldwell, Der Spiegel   
An American in Europe says: “Islam is the second biggest religion in Europe. But that is true only if you're thinking statistically. If you're thinking culturally and spiritually, it looks like ...
 
Monday, 11 January 2010
Tiger and true tolerance Print
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By Michael Gerson, Washington Post   
In anyone allowed to talk about religion in public anymore?
 
Friday, 08 January 2010
We're all guilty Print
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By Theodore Dalrymple, New English Review   
Theodore Dalrymple says there is plenty of blame to go around in the economic crisis – and that it includes all of us.
 
Friday, 08 January 2010
Art bumps confessionals Print
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By Gibbons Cooney, California Catholic Daily   
St. Ignatius Church, a Jesuit house of worship in San Francisco, recently removed its confessionals—to make room for an art exhibit.
 
Thursday, 07 January 2010
It ain't over Print
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By Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Marjorie Dannenfelser, Kristan Hawkins and David Bereit, Washington Times   
As the House and Senate engage in reconciling the two healthcare bills, pro-life leaders say the battle is not lost.
 
Thursday, 07 January 2010
Mayo and healthcare Print
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By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe   
The Mayo Clinics partly pulls out of Medicare cases and shows what problems may dog proposed healthcare reform.
 
Wednesday, 06 January 2010
Talk sex, but not religion? Print
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By Melissa Clouthier, Pajamas Media   
Is it now settled public etiquette that it's alright to talk about sexual activity, but not religion?
 
Wednesday, 06 January 2010
Crime and social justice Print
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By Heather MacDonald, Wall Street Journal   
The recent downturn in crime during an economic crisis calls into question easy assumptions about social justice as a "root cause" of crime.
 
Tuesday, 05 January 2010
After self-indulgence Print
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By David Warren, Ottawa Citizen   
David Warren reminds us that we used to know why over-indulgence is a bad thing, and we can relearn those lessons again.
 
Tuesday, 05 January 2010
Wisdom of the Ages Print
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By William Desmond, In Character   
We need, says William Desmond, to put the wisdom back in homo sapiens.
 
Monday, 04 January 2010
The Devil's Work Print
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By Paul Greenberg, Jewish World Review   
Screwtape lives – and  in Arkansas, no less.
 
Monday, 04 January 2010
Faith on film Print
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By Robert W. Butler, Washington Post   
Religion is a supporting character in a lot of recent movies.
 
Friday, 01 January 2010
Religion all round Print
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By Jonah Goldberg, Chicago Tribune   
Jonah Goldberg observes how religion peers out of several cultural artifacts, even the ones produced by those who deny it.
 
Friday, 01 January 2010
Make fewer resolutions Print
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By Theodore Dalrymple, New York Daily News   
Theodore Dalrymple offers a few words of wisdom on a day of rash intentions.
 
Thursday, 31 December 2009
Iraq's Holy Innocents Print
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By John F. Cullinan, National Review Online   
The lives—and deaths—of Christians in Iraq, who represent some of the oldest Christian communities in the world.
 
Thursday, 31 December 2009
Avoiding fragmentation Print
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By Vatican Information Service   
In a reflection on the medieval writer Peter Lombard, the pope warns theologians—and the rest of us—about the failure to see the whole of Catholic doctrine.
 
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
White House Christmas tree draws criticism Print
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By James Panero, New Criterion   
Is it art, or just bad judgment at Christmas?
 
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Christian terrorist TV Print
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By David Solway, Pajamas Media   
NCIS goes PC, with Christian terrorists and honor murders.
 
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
L'Enfance du Christ Print
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By Barrymore Laurence Scherer, Wall Street Journal   
"Whether or not Berlioz wrote this jewel-like conclusion with images of such early Italian painters as Giotto and Fra Angelico in mind, his music is full of their simple spiritual glory."
 
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
Catholic schools do it right Print
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By Rich Barlow, Boston Globe   
A Boston Globe columnist look at some of the reasons why Catholic schools offer good educational choices at low costs for parents.
 
Monday, 28 December 2009
St. Pius XII Print
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By Fr. Raymond de Souza, National Post   
Fr. Raymond de Souza explains why Pius XII deserves to be declared a saint.
 
Monday, 28 December 2009
We need Benedict Print
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph   
The attack on the pope reminds us how much the Holy Father has done and still needs to do.
 
Friday, 25 December 2009
An unabashed Christmas show Print
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post   
At least one public celebration this year was not shy about explicitly declaring itself to be about Christmas.
 
Friday, 25 December 2009
Abundant blessings Print
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By John Kass, Chicago Tribune   
Despite tough times, John Kass reminds us of the many blessings that are still with us.
 
Thursday, 24 December 2009
Immanuel! Print
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By Vincent Nichols, Telegraph   
The Archbishop of Westminster on renewal through art and faith at Christmastime.
 
Thursday, 24 December 2009
Senate for sale Print
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By Michael Gerson, Washington Post   
Michael Gerson argues that a crucial moral, as well as a political, line has been crossed in passing the healthcare reform bill.
 
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
The Virgin Birth Print
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By Jeremy Lott, American Spectator   
Biblical texts and modern technology can give evidence for, not against, the Virgin Birth.
 
Wednesday, 23 December 2009
The Jewish Case for Christmas Print
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By David Klinghoffer, Beliefnet.com   
David Klinghoffer explains why, as a believing Jew, he's still happy that Christmas fills the public square.
 
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Hollywood's religion of choice Print
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By Ross Douthat, New York Times   
For anyone who pines for transcendence but recoils at the idea of a demanding Almighty who interferes in human affairs, pantheism is an ideal combination.
 
Monday, 21 December 2009
Unholy alliance Print
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By Mark Tooley, Weekly Standard   
A list of the Evangelicals and Catholics who joined together to support the Casey language that is helping to pass the Senate healthcare bill.
 
Monday, 21 December 2009
Export our old Christian civilization Print
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By David Warren, Real Clear Politics   
A far-sighted observer hopes for the return of now-distant ideals in light of the Copenhagen conference.
 
Monday, 21 December 2009
Human rights tyranny Print
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By Charles Moore, Telegraph   
A decision of a Jewish school's admissions policies in England reveals a growing problem with "human rights" commissions.
 
Friday, 18 December 2009
Another line crossed Print
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By Paul Greenberg, Jewish World Review   
Paul Greenberg argues that moral recklessness, if presented as high-minded idealism, can be quite attractive. It may even become a political cause, as witnessed by embryonic stem-cell research.
 
Friday, 18 December 2009
Christianity demoted Print
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By Theodore Dalrymple, Daily Express   
Theodore Dalrymple argues that a religious discrimination case in Britain reveals discrimination indeed - against Christianity and Western culture.
 
Thursday, 17 December 2009
The worst carbon-reduction scheme Print
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post   
What would happen if every country adopted China's one-child policy? It wouldn't be the Garden of Eden.
 
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Schiavo and Houben Print
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By Wesley J. Smith, Weekly Standard   
Yes, as these two cases show, says Wesley Smith, it's a good idea to err on the side of life.
 
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
The cost of discipleship Print
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By Michael Goldfarb, Weekly Standard   
Sen. Ben Nelson may be forced to pay a price for opposing abortion coverage in the Senate’s healthcare reform bill.
 
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Anti-human Copenhagen Print
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By Anne Applebaum, Washington Post   
The columnist observes the deeply anti-human streak even in the mainstream environmental movement.
 
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Open mouth; insert foot Print
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph   
Here’s one Anglican bishop we hope does not come over to Rome.
 
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Yes we should Print
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By Barbara Curtis, Pajamas Media   
Yes, we should put Christmas back in public places.
 
Monday, 14 December 2009
The great consolidator Print
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By Jeremy Lott, American Spectator   
For some British commentators, the pope's opening to Anglicans looks as if the bishop of Rome had scrambled a new Spanish Armada and personally set sail for Canterbury.
 
Monday, 14 December 2009
The sacred made real Print
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By Roger Kimball, New Criterion   
An exhibition of Spanish religious sculpture presents a lively alternative to the dim churches in London, says Roger Kimball.
 
Friday, 11 December 2009
Chaput on the Manhattan Declaration Print
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By Catholic News Service   
Denver's Archbishop says it will galvanize Christians experiencing difficulties.
 
Friday, 11 December 2009
The cold heart of Obamacare Print
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By Nat Hentoff, Orange County Register   
Beyond the death panels, the abortion coverage, and other specifics, a new impersonality is entering our medical services.
 
Thursday, 10 December 2009
The Miracle of Father Kapaun Print
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By Roy Wenzl, Wichita Eagle   
A four-part series on a true Servant of God, the military chaplain who changed the lives of American prisoners of war in Korea.
 
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Pope: "Eucharist is Not a Social Rite" Print
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By AsiaNews   
The Holy Father reminds us about the Real Presence.
 
Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Pricing life Print
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By Sarah Durand, Pajamas Media   
Proposed healthcare legislation is likely to put a price tag on individual lives—literally.
 
Wednesday, 09 December 2009
True humanism Print
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By David Warren   
David Warren points to some figures who represented a true humanism and, contrary to assumptions, they weren't secular.
 
Tuesday, 08 December 2009
What do women want? Print
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By Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal   
Science sheds some light on how motherhood resists egalitarian ideologies.
 
Tuesday, 08 December 2009
The most important Canadian Print
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By Raymond J. DeSouza, National Post   
Surpisingly, he was a Catholic and his family left a large legacy in our neighbor to the North and in Europe.
 
Monday, 07 December 2009
Europe's Minarets Print
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By Samir Khalil Samir, Asia News   
A Vatican expert on Islam explains what Switzerland 's referendum banning minarets means for that country and for Europe.
 
Monday, 07 December 2009
Lawn Man Liability? Print
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By Bishop William Lori   
A (recovered-memory) lawsuit seeks money from the Bridgeport diocese over sex abuse (in 1968) by a landscaper not affiliated with the Church. Really.
 
Friday, 04 December 2009
Scala Santa restored Print
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By David Willey, BBC   
The frescoes surrounding Rome's Holy Steps, a popular pilgrimage destination, have been restored and reveal unsuspected glories.
 
Friday, 04 December 2009
The Tragedy of Irish Catholicism Print
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By Ross Douthat, New York Times   
Why it isn’t a coincidence that the worst of the priest-abuse scandals have been concentrated in Ireland and America.
 
Thursday, 03 December 2009
Movie of the year? Print
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By Pam Meister, Big Hollywood   
“The Bind Side” shows again that faith is boffo at the box office – and the bishops like it too!
 
Thursday, 03 December 2009
Just say No Print
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By Joe Fitzgerald, Boston Herald   
Still more on Bishop Tobin and Representative Kennedy.
 
Wednesday, 02 December 2009
God and Caesar Print
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By Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review   
National Review’s online editor interviews Robert George about the Manhattan Statement.
 
Wednesday, 02 December 2009
Ireland ’s new troubles Print
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By Gerald Warner, Telegraph   
“Let us set the record straight. [The sex-abuse crisis] was a scandal of the post-Vatican II, open-windows, relevant, touchy-feely (often, it seems, inappropriately so) Catholic Church.”
 
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
Unfree to Worship Print
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By Doug Bandow, National Interest   
A worldwide survey of government persecution of Christians.
 
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
In defense of the New Mass? Print
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph   
An ironic look at the legacy of liturgical changes.
 
Monday, 30 November 2009
Vocations, by the numbers Print
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By Julia Duin, Washington Times   
A report on the report to the annual bishops' meeting.
 
Monday, 30 November 2009
Latin Mass Appeal Print
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By Kenneth J. Wolfe, New York Times   
The “new liturgy” has brought “chaos and banality” into the most visible and outward sign of the Church.
 
Friday, 27 November 2009
Gratitude and retribalizing the world Print
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By Roger Kimball, Pajamas Media   
Roger Kimball agress with Cardinal Newman and Aristotle, up to a point.
 
Friday, 27 November 2009
Doubts on the sex-abuse report Print
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By Julia Duin, Washington Times   
Even non-Catholic journalists have doubts about the report on the sex-abuse crisis the bishops commisioned and just received.
 
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Providence Provides Print
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By Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review   
Note to Patrick Kennedy: the sanctity of human life isn’t just another box to check.
 
Thursday, 26 November 2009
A new Holy Roman Empire ? Print
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph   
Does the new presidet of the European Union and devout Catholic Herman Van Rompuy want to preside over a Holy Roman Empire?
 
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Behind the veil at Yale Print
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By The New Criterion   
Yale may have been worried more about losing Islamic support —to the tune of $20 million at Georgetown and Harvard —when it recently self-censored a book on Islam.
 
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Dream-girl ticket? Print
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By Michael Coren, Toronto Sun   
Palin and Prejean, beauty queens, are far from good role models.
 
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Abortion is back Print
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By La Shawn Barber, Pajamas Media   
A Generation X-er says she cannot recall a time when abortion was so visible as a national issue.
 
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Beyond "inappropriate" Print
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By Edward Skidelsky   
Some words seem to do the thinking for us —and shouldn't.
 
Monday, 23 November 2009
The papal address to artists Print
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By Asia News   
Benedict XVI's address of welcome to artists gathering at the Vatican this week.
 
Monday, 23 November 2009
It’s over Print
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph   
Canterbury and Rome meet and find there’s not much to say.
 
Friday, 20 November 2009
The Genesis of Ben Hur Print
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By Amy Lifson, Humanities   
The story behind one of the few movies ever recommended by the Vatican.
 
Friday, 20 November 2009
Catholics rejoice Print
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By Julia Duin, Washington Times   
Sometimes it goes right, as in the Stupak Amendment to the healthcare bill—at least for now.
 
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Was Nietzsche pious? Print
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By Stephen N. Williams. Books & Culture   
A new book argues that the great champion of postmodernists and relativists may have never really left his Pietist roots behind.
 
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Christian sufferings under the Palestinian Authority Print
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By Joseph Puder, Pajamas Media   
The American government refuses to acknowledge the medieval abuses of Christians at the hands of the Palestinian Authority.
 
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
A temperate consideration of abortion funding Print
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By Richard A. Epstein, Forbes   
On the likelihood that the Affordable Health Care Act will confirm the Hyde Amendment.
 
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
A philosophy of journalism? Print
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By Carlin Romano, Chronicle Review   
We need a philosophy of journalism says a philosophical journalist.
 
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Islam and the Crusades Print
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By Ibn Warraq, City Journal   
One might point out Christianity’s historical shortcomings in order to avoid demonizing Islam alone. But, we should also avoid demonizing Christianity and be prepared to point out Islam’s ...
 
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Hell pays Print
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By Michael Fitzgerald, Boston Globe   
Economic researchers have found that religion is a great boon to economic trust, especially when people believe in Hell.
 
Monday, 16 November 2009
The Ft. Hood double standard Print
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By Raymond DeSouza, National Post   
Denying at the outset the Islamist motivations of men such as Major Nidal Malik Hasan does no favor to Muslims.
 
Monday, 16 November 2009
Faith v. the law Print
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By Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner   
In the nation’s capital, same-sex marriage seems imminent, and the Catholic Church is between a rock and a hard place.
 
Friday, 13 November 2009
Memory is loyalty Print
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By Paul Greenberg, Jewish World Review   
A columnist explains why, despite all evidence, he still reads the New Yorker.
 
Friday, 13 November 2009
Chaos theory Print
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph   
The fallout from the Holy Father’s outreach to Anglicans continues, and the Archbishop of Canterbury is not amused.
 
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Gay vitriol Print
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By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe   
A modest proposal: those who want respect should give it.
 
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Fort Hood therapy Print
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By David Brooks, New York Times   
The columnist says that the response to the Ft. Hood murders denied the possibility of evil - not the “reaction of a morally or politically serious nation.”
 
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Pro-life persistence Print
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By William McGurn, Wall Street Journal   
Healthcare reform may be coming, but congressional foes of abortion say the procedure must not be included in any final bill.
 
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Taking Islam seriously Print
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By Colby Kosh, National Post   
Reflections on the Islamic factor in the Ft. Hood massacre.
 
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Dropping Ft. Hood Political Correctness Print
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By David Warren, Real Clear Politics   
The writer reminds us of a few homely truths about "tragic" events.
 
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Anglo-Romans Print
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph   
There is a sense in which Rome is recognizing, for the first time, that you can be Anglican and Roman Catholic.
 
Monday, 09 November 2009
Vatican studying extra-terrestrials Print
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By Marc Kaufman, Washington Post   
This week the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences is holding its first major conference on astrobiology, the new science that seeks to find life elsewhere in the cosmos and to understand how...
 
Monday, 09 November 2009
Superheroes Print
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By Joseph A. Cannon, Deseret News   
Remembering the faith and courage that brought down the Berlin Wall.
 
Friday, 06 November 2009
Our Father unknown Print
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By Christopher Howse, Telegraph   
A report from Britain on the state of basic religious knowledge.
 
Friday, 06 November 2009
Amen to Dolan Print
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By Andrea Peyser, New York Post   
The archbishop has his say – despite the New York Times.
 
Thursday, 05 November 2009
It never ends Print
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph   
Gay “activists” call their blasphemy free speech but describe protests against them as “provocative.”  
 
Thursday, 05 November 2009
B16 on good intentions Print
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By Benedict XVI   
The pope reminds us of the conflict between Abelard and Bernard, and how it shows why good intentions are not enough.
 
Wednesday, 04 November 2009
Cellphone Romance Print
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By David Brooks, New York Times   
A look at how the disappearnce of social networks is making even our deepest longings into contingencies.
 
Wednesday, 04 November 2009
Holocaust on Facebook Print
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By Paul Greenberg, Jewish World Review   
It was bound to happen, but Paul Greenberg counts the cost.
 
Tuesday, 03 November 2009
Taking out abortion Print
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By Bart Stupak, USA Today   
The leader of Blue Dog Democrats explains what needs to be done to healthcare propoals to make them abortion neutral.
 
Tuesday, 03 November 2009
Science & faith: allies Print
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By Mark I. Pinsky, USA Today   
A reminder that, historically, religion and science have been mostly interdependent, not antagonistic.
 
Monday, 02 November 2009
Sexed-up Halloween Print
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By John Kass, Chicago Tribune   
The horrifying evolution of Halloween continues.
 
Monday, 02 November 2009
Healthcare hyperbole Print
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By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe   
Two things supporters of a government-run “public option” for health insurance know for sure may not be true.
 
Friday, 30 October 2009
A rising Vatican diplomat Print
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By National Post   
Archbishop Luigi Ventura made a big impression as papal nuncio in Canada and promises to do even more in his new post in Paris.
 
Friday, 30 October 2009
A black pope?