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The totalitarian temptation

As communism was collapsing in Eastern Europe, Catholics led the way to liberty and democracy. In the U.S. today, Catholic need to be a bulwark against Neo-totalitarians in the United States Senate who describe the Knights of Columbus as “extremist” — and, by implication, apply that epithet to all of us who think like the Knights on the life issues and the nature of marriage. [1]