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John O’Callaghan
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11.05.09
Charlotte Hays
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11.04.09
Ralph McInerny
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James V. Schall, S. J.
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Robert Royal
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COMMENTARY
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The pope reminds us of the conflict between Abelard and Bernard, and how it shows why good intentions are not enough. |
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The leader of Blue Dog Democrats explains what needs to be done to healthcare propoals to make them abortion neutral. |
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A reminder that, historically, religion and science have been mostly interdependent, not antagonistic. |
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Archbishop Luigi Ventura made a big impression as papal nuncio in Canada and promises to do even more in his new post in Paris. |
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Friday, 30 October 2009 |
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A black pope?
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By Richard Owen, London Times
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With the appointment of Cardinal Peter Turkson as head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the prospects for a black pope may have just increased. |
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The Holy Father is, not surprisingly, following his own good judgments and intuitions. |
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Hide the kids and the cats, Obama’s “Safe Schools” Czar is an Act Up radical. |
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
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The hollow men
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By Paul Belien, Hudson Institute
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The European Union seems bent on ending “not with a bang but a whimper,” as it contemplates banning criticism of Islam and homosexuality. |
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Whatever else may come of the Catholic-Anglican entente, we may see a united Christian front against the Islamic challenge. |
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Hard to believe, but some researchers are wondering if God is causing a doomsday device to malfunction . . . from the future. |
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L’Osservatore Romano reports that the “Vatican” is reappraising . . . Marx? |
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Why do some theologians object? |
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The Holy Father on the “last of the Fathers” and the personal encounter with God. |
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Some suggestions about how to deal with swine flu in churches. |
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Are we headed into yet another round of fruitless negotiations in the Middle East? |
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The complex relations between faith and politics. |
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Could it be our modern sages have it wrong about global warming? |
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As Mr. Obama considers America’s options in Afghanistan, a reconsideration of just-war theory. |
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One Protestant’s view of the Holy Father’s message to Europe’s dwindling faithful. |
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Yet another Obama appointee has come under fire, this time for promoting "Queer Studies” in elementary education. |
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The columnist considers arguments made about faith by Karen Armstrong in her new book, The Case for God. |
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Friday, 02 October 2009 |
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The great failure
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post
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Communist China is just fine after sixty years, if you don't mind a little religious persecution, political repression, and social disruption. |
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 |
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Unequal lives
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By Adam Graham, Pajamas Media
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Mainstream media have increasingly been criticized for ignoring uncomfortable stories—perhaps none more so than violence against pro-lifers. |
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Questions of authority, personality, and theology will accompany Benedict XVI’s 2010 visit to Great Britain. |
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009 |
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Radical fertility
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By Jonathan V. Last, Wall Street Journal
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Large families are helping to subsidize our retirement at considerable costs to themselves. Instead of mocking them, we ought to thank them. |
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The current debate has raised a simple question: is abortion health care or not? |
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Media coverage of the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives shows a marked difference – some say double standard – since President Bush left, and President Obama arrived.
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009 |
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Right to health care?
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By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
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The Declaration of Independence pronounces it a self-evident truth that human beings “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights’’ - rights that include life, liber... |
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Benedict XVI says that a radical change of life is needed in this era of moral weakness. |
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A commentator argues that the Kennedy funeral was marred by crass politicization. |
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A homily on the state of the Church in America.
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died a few weeks ago, showed that a political liberal can be pro-life. |
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In Europe, the Church is running away from the reality of immigration. |
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How religious freedom functions as an instrument for progress and stability.
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The Kennedy legacy has always been about American roylaty and the appetites of kings and the uses of myth. |
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Janet Daley reflects on the three brothers whose politics inspired Sixties idealism, but whose sordid private lives helped to destroy it.
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A new book offers accounts of experiencing a supportive presence in extreme situations. |
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Monday, 17 August 2009 |
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Faith Based
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By Kathleen Parker, The Washington Post
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Comparing the media's harsh treatment of Bush's faith-based initiatives with the kid gloves it has used towards Obama's is revealing, says Kathleen Parker.
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She and her husband created the Special Olympics and the Peace Corps, and they deserve our prayers.
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“By what right,” Cardinal Rigali asks Congress, “and by what precedent, would [you] make abortion coverage into a nationwide norm . . .?
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There’s a hidden agenda in the gross-out movies of Judd Apatow: morality.
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In a reader poll, Gutenberg’s printing press is leading the birth of Christ, but the Economist’s Washington bureau chief dissents.
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A UK court declares that a Jewish school's faith-based admissions criteria violate anti-racism laws. |
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An interview with Candian philosopher Charles Taylor about God, man, and human societies.
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Friday, 31 July 2009 |
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Wedge issue
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By Ken Blackwell, American Spectator
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Is abortion about to be “officially designated as an indispensable and indisputable part of a mandated federal benefits package”?
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A Boston Globe columnist advises that the healthcare equivalent of the the Lexus is simply too much.
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