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COMMENTARY
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Friday, 11 June 2010 |
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When minds met: China and the West
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By Jonathan Spence, prepared for NEH
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A fascinating account of the first explorations of Western, mostly Catholic, missionaries in China, and what came back to the West from China. |
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Friday, 11 June 2010 |
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Security without religious freedom?
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By Thomas Farr, Washington Post
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Thomas Farr analyzes how the latest administration summary of security strategy and its activties in the past two years have neglected an important reality: religious freedom. |
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Thursday, 10 June 2010 |
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Modern martyrs
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By Sandro Magister, Chiesa News
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During the Holy Father's visit to Cyprus he reflected on Christian sacrifice, on the union of Eastern and Western churches, and on Islam, good and bad.
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Thursday, 10 June 2010 |
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Abortion politics
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By Ruth Gledhill, Times
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English Protestant Churches join forces in an advertizing campaign that shows a scan of “baby Jesus in the Virgin Mary’s womb,” complete with halo. |
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Wednesday, 09 June 2010 |
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Dame Julian of Norwich
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By Esmerelda Weatherwax, New English Review
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An overview of the life of the great English mystic. |
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Wednesday, 09 June 2010 |
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Morals & the servile mind
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By Kenneth Minogue, New Criterion
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Kenneth Minogue likes democracy but dislikes the way it has corrupted our morals and made us the servants of our vices. |
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Tuesday, 08 June 2010 |
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A distant mirror
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By Ross Douthat, New York Times
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The dilemmas faced by modern Israel resemble in some ways those of the beleaguered Crusader states of the Middle Ages and offer little hope for easy solutions. |
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Tuesday, 08 June 2010 |
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UK disarray on papal visit
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
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Things do not look good for the organizers of the papal visit to the United Kingdom. |
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Monday, 07 June 2010 |
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Smarter than God
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By Robert Knight, Washington Times
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Even many conservative pundits now think traditional sexual morality is “not being very intelligent.” |
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Monday, 07 June 2010 |
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Bad Time
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By George Weigel
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TIME magazine recently tried to explain the Vatican to America; George Weigel says we’re not much enlightened. |
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Friday, 04 June 2010 |
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On distraction
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By Alain de Botton, City Journal
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Do we need to put our minds on a diet, too? |
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Friday, 04 June 2010 |
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Virtually virtuous
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By Christine Rosen, In Character
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The Internet seems to amplify some of the less ideal sides of human character. |
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Thursday, 03 June 2010 |
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Priceless
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By Roger Scruton, American Spectator
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Roger Scruton says that economists don't like spiritual goods. Such goods are connected to us not as things to be used, consumed, and exchanged but as parts of what we are. |
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Thursday, 03 June 2010 |
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Pelosi invokes “the Word”
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By Taylor Marsh, The Week
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Nancy Pelosi characterizes her politics as following the Word of God: few are convinced, or happy. |
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 |
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Sympathy Deformed
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By Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal
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A hard look at Julius Nyere, an unlikely but proposed candidate for Catholic sainthood, and the kinds of misplaced sympathy that often harm those they intend to help. |
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 |
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Pro-life America
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By William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
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When will our media reflect America on abortion? |
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Tuesday, 01 June 2010 |
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Remembering WFB, Jr.
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By John R. Coyne Jr., Washington Times
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A review of Lee Edwards's new biography of William F. Buckley, Jr., one of the most prominent American Catholics of the last century.
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Tuesday, 01 June 2010 |
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Atheists, please take note
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By Karl W. Giberson, USA Today
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A scientist argues that the new militant atheists are not only intolerant, they cannot account for distinguished scientists who are also believers.
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Monday, 31 May 2010 |
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Separation of school and state
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By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
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Separation of church and state has made America an exemplar of religious pluralism and tolerance. Imagine what separation of school and state could do for education.
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Monday, 31 May 2010 |
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On Memorial Day
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By Mark Helprin, Wall Street Journal
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What we owe the fallen, and to those now serving.
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Friday, 28 May 2010 |
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UK abortion ad
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By Deacon Greg Kandra, Belief Net
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You can view the ad and reactions to it here.
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Friday, 28 May 2010 |
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Tattoos on the Heart
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By David Rieff, In Character
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The story of a Jesuit priest in Los Angeles who has made a difference in the lives of thousands of gang members.
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 |
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Jitters over pope's UK visit
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
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It may all just be part of such a big event, but a lot of odd things are happening in preparation for the pope's trip to England.
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 |
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The Pentecost
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By David Warren
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For all, the Pentecost exists both inside time, and outside it; a moment of instruction, in all the tongues of man. |
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010 |
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Embracing the persecutors
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By Faith J. H. McDonnell, American Spectator
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Religious groups defend all sorts of people being repressed, all over the world – except for Christians.
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010 |
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Palin reignites abortion debate
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By Mona Charen, Real Clear Politics
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Like her or not, Sarah Palin has given some new life to old questions about protecting unborn life.
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010 |
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God's still in the building
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By George Jonas, National Post
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And the proof is that so many people feel the need to attack Him for not existing.
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010 |
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A tale of two brothers
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By Michael Corkery, Wall Street Journal
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Two Catholic brothers try to serve the world: one as a missionary in Haiti, the other as CEO of a bank.
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Monday, 24 May 2010 |
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Resenting African Christianity
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By Mark Tooley, American Spectator
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How persuasive will the emptying old-line churches of New England and California be against the arguments of hundreds of millions of African Christians? |
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Monday, 24 May 2010 |
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Good news
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By Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
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Cristo Rey High School in East Harlem will graduate all its seniors, beneficiaries of a Catholic education rooted in real life.
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Friday, 21 May 2010 |
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Free to be Catholic?
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By Patrick McIlheran
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Christianity is shocking and revolutionary, so why are we surprised when it shocks? |
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Friday, 21 May 2010 |
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Motherhood: the controversy
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By Fr. Raymond de Souza, National Post
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The strange mix of feminist politics and abortion has made even so basic a notion as motherhood a bone of contention. |
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Thursday, 20 May 2010 |
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Is the pope Catholic?
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By National Post
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Canada’s Cardinal Marc Ouellet takes flak – for being Catholic. Some Canadians protest. |
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Thursday, 20 May 2010 |
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Courting religious schools
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By George J. Will, Real Clear Politics
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George Will predicts that the Supreme Court will again protect the rights of parents to choose religious as well as secular schools under school-choice programs. |
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 |
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Fraying consensus
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By George Weigel, National Review
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Is freedom of religion still a right in the United States?
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 |
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Making things
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By David Warren
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Lots went bad in the twentieth century and many things were better made a century ago.
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010 |
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Bonfire of liberties
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By Mark Steyn, Mclean's
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Here’s what you get when the state hauls nobodies off to jail for quoting the Bible. |
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Monday, 17 May 2010 |
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Religion in the public square
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post
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A report on a conversation in Rome about religion in Canada's public square.
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Monday, 17 May 2010 |
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Swimming against the tide
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By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
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The Philadelphia chapter of the Anti-Defamation League gets religion and bucks the national organization on school vouchers.
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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
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The Pilgrim Virgin
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By Benedict XVI
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The text of the Holy Father's homily at Fatima.
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Friday, 14 May 2010 |
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New movements and the Philippine Church
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By Emma-Kate Symons, Wall Street Journal
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There are differing views about the El Shaddai movement in the Philippines, but it seems to be an attractive and charismatic current within the Catholic Church.
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 |
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Good and Evil are back
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By Suzanne Fields, Washington Times
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In a variety of ways, it seems that it's okay to speak of good and evil in the culture again.
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Thursday, 13 May 2010 |
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A Portugese lesson
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By David Warren
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As Hilaire Belloc said, by way of proving the divine origin of the Church: “Any purely human institution run by such a group of knaves, fools, and cutthroats wouldn't have lasted a fortnight.&rd... |
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010 |
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Assessing the Pill
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By Daniel J. Flynn, American Spectator
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The Pill was supposed to lead to more 'wanted' children, lower illegitimacy, and less strain on marriages. Oops.
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010 |
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The law of gradualism
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By Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., Reuters
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More on Schönborn, Sodano, and sex abuse.
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010 |
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Fatima revealed?
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By Sandro Magister, Chiesa Express
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A look at the third secret of Fatima and then-Cardinal Ratzinger's commentary at the time of its publication.
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010 |
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Ultrasound as a pro-life technology
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By Lisa J. Billy, USA Today
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Pro-lifers do not fear modern technology. Why is it that pro-choicers can’t say the same thing? |
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Monday, 10 May 2010 |
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Saving Catholic schools
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By Archbishop Timothy Dolan, NY Daily News
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NYC's Archbishop Timothy Dolan makes the case for saving the country's preeminent educational institutions, Catholic schools.
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Monday, 10 May 2010 |
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The convert conundrum
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By Mary Eberstadt, Weekly Standard
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We all know that Christianity is failing – all of us that is, except the many, often prominent converts to the faith.
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Friday, 07 May 2010 |
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Reason without faith, and the reverse
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By George Neumayr, American Spectator
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While our Western leaders are stumbling over the nature of the Muslim faith, we’re lucky that Muslim culture discourages reason. |
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Thursday, 06 May 2010 |
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Pell to head bishops' congregation?
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
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The scuttlebutt in several quarters is that Australia’s Cardinal George Pell is about to be named head of the Vatican's Congregation of Bishops.
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Thursday, 06 May 2010 |
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The Pill at fifty
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By Barbara Kay, National Post
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“Only one institution stood, and stands, foursquare against the Pill. The Roman Catholic Church predicted that foolproof contraception would lead to the classic ‘tragedy... |
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010 |
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Being personal
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By Peter Augustine Lawler, New Atlantis
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Each of us is an animal who refuses to be wholly reduced to merely a part of a species or a part of some impersonal natural process.
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010 |
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Dear Sister Prudence
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By Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online
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An interview with a woman religious that's like nothing you've seen in quite a while.
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Tuesday, 04 May 2010 |
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Public lessons from Catholic schools
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By Samuel G. Freedman, New York Times
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Diane Ravitch, one of the great scholars of education in America, says Catholic schools still do what no other schools seem able to match.
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Tuesday, 04 May 2010 |
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Tolerating intolerance
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By New Criterion
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Tariq Ramadan was prevented from taking a tenured position at Notre Dame because the Bush Administration refused him a visa; a look at what the Fighting Irish, ah, lost.
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Monday, 03 May 2010 |
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The Church and its critics
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By Conrad Black, National Review
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The media frenzy about sex-abuse among Catholic priests won’t help reform the Church; faith will.
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Monday, 03 May 2010 |
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The rheoric of Darwinism
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By Mark Anthony Signorelli, New English Review
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A look at the inhuman implication, not of the science, but of what many take the science to mean.
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Friday, 30 April 2010 |
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Only religious nuts?
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By Kelly McParland, National Post
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A secular Canadian journalist explains why he opposes abortion and other moral outrages.
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Friday, 30 April 2010 |
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Church of the "Times"
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By Kenneth L. Woodward, Commonweal
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A seasoned religious journalist explores two competing magisteriums, one openly so, the other pretending to be objective.
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Thursday, 29 April 2010 |
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School-based clinics
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By Deborah Simmons, Washington Times
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A peek at what's happening in school clinics and what we are likely to see more of as healthcare reform kicks in.
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Thursday, 29 April 2010 |
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Protecting JPII?
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
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Did the Vatican let Benedict XVI take the rap for the child abuse scandal in order to protect the memory of John Paul II? |
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
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Housecleaning
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By Ross Douthat, New York Times
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Is a new spirit of accountability emerging in the Church? |
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
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The death of embarrassment
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By Christine Rosen, In Character
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Some people think the decline in social embarrassment is a good thing. But is it?
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Tuesday, 27 April 2010 |
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Anti-Catholicism, again
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By Joseph Bottum, Weekly Standard
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Joseph Bottum runs through the players in the abuse crisis and finds that behind many of those outraged against the Church lies a familiar attitude.
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Tuesday, 27 April 2010 |
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Godthink
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By Stephen Prothero, Boston Globe
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We need a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate, says Stephen Prothero.
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Monday, 26 April 2010 |
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Conventional atheism
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By John Gray, National Interest
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A philosopher explains the ways in which much of contemporary atheism is a conventional and unrealistic set of fashionable assumptions.
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Monday, 26 April 2010 |
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Noonan’s skewed Church history
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By John M. Haas, American Spectator
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Peggy Noonan, usually so good, is stuck in the past with regard to the Catholic Church’s response to sexual abuse. |
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Friday, 23 April 2010 |
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Environmental religion
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By Robert H. Nelson, Detroit News
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A warning that some dimensions of the environmental movement are morphing into a rival theology to Christianity more than a science.
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Friday, 23 April 2010 |
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Prayer and state
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By Cal Thomas
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Perhaps instead of a proclamation for a day of prayer, the president should consider reverting to Lincoln and the part of his proclamation that concerned “humiliation,” repentance, and a p... |
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Thursday, 22 April 2010 |
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Defrocking the Times
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
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A Seton Hall law prof patiently details all the news that didn’t fit. |
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Thursday, 22 April 2010 |
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Sea change?
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By Sarah Kliff, Newsweek
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A recent poll has NARAL and other pro-aborts sweating bullets: Young people are now significantly more pro-life than their parents. |
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 |
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Public penance?
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By Deacon Greg Kandra, Belief Net
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A deacon proposes a way for the Church to do public penances. |
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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 |
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Prosecuting Benedict
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By Austin Ruse and Susan Yoshihara, Washington Times
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The abuse crisis may be leading to the gross abuse of the International Criminal Court. |
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Tuesday, 20 April 2010 |
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Poor, poor Maureen Dowd
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By Barbara Kay, National Post
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The NYT columnist seems unable to distinguish between the Catholic Church and Saudi Arabia says another female columnist.
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Tuesday, 20 April 2010 |
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A great reforming pope
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
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Damian Thompson sees Benedict XVI as one of the great reformers, but complains that time may be running out for him because he’s been too nice.
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Monday, 19 April 2010 |
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Three humans and an embryo
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By George Neumayr, American Spectator
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Our culture says it loves children, but take a look at what it does.
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Monday, 19 April 2010 |
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Five myths about abuse
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By David Gibson, Washington Post
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A Washington Post reporter corrects some of the press distortions.
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Friday, 16 April 2010 |
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Dershowitz for the defense
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By Alan M. Dershowitz
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The legendary liberal lawyer makes five arguments in support of the Church’s (and the pope’s) handling of the sex-abuse crisis. |
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Thursday, 15 April 2010 |
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Koch on anti-Catholicism
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By Ed Koch, Jerusalem Post
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The former mayor of New York lets fly about the media persecution of the Church.
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Thursday, 15 April 2010 |
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When freedom isn't free
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By Theodore Dalyrymple, City Journal
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The new legalism kicked in when a Christian couple who run a Bed & Breakfast in England refused a homosexual couple a reservation on moral grounds.
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Wednesday, 14 April 2010 |
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A curious incident
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By Daniel Oliver, American Spectator
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A non-Catholic obsever notes that a certain word has been entirely absent from the coverage of the abuse crisis by a certain newspaper.
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Wednesday, 14 April 2010 |
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Missing religion?
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By Stanley Fish, New York Times
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A prominent German philosopher makes the case that modern forms of reason have overlooked an essential element: religion.
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Tuesday, 13 April 2010 |
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The danger of smoke
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By Ross Douthat, New York Times
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The ebb and flow of papal reputations in the Roman Catholic Church. |
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Tuesday, 13 April 2010 |
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More journalism 101
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By Phil Lawler, CatholicCulture.org
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A seasoned Catholic journalist points out some simple things that journalists routinely check -- except it seems when it comes to attacks on the pope.
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Monday, 12 April 2010 |
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Islam vs. Islamism
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By New Criterion
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Different voices debate the question: Is there such a thing as a moderate Islam?
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Monday, 12 April 2010 |
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Believing Flannery O'Connor
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By Terry Teachout, Commentary
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Flannery O'Connor continues to be regarded as one of the greatest writers of the second half of the twentieth century in America, but her Catholicism stymies many non-Catholic readers.
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Friday, 09 April 2010 |
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A collapsed Catholic
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By George Neumayr, American Spectator
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Notes on the editor-in-chief of the New York Times — and his agenda. |
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Friday, 09 April 2010 |
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Faith undefended
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By Thomas F. Farr, Foreign Policy
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After 15 months in office, why hasn't Obama even nominated a candidate for the position of ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom? |
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Thursday, 08 April 2010 |
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The frozen-embryo dilemma
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By Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times
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Thanks to the in vitro providers, we have hundreds of thousands of embryos in the deep freeze now. So now, what do we do with them?
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Thursday, 08 April 2010 |
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Bad rap
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By Michael Gerson, Miami Herald
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Why and how Pope Benedict has done more than anybody to fight clerical sex abuse in the Church – and gets no credit for it in the press. |
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Wednesday, 07 April 2010 |
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Journalism 101
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By Patrick O'Hannigan, American Spectator
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A step-by-step guide to how the New York Times ought to have approached the recent stories about priestly abuse.
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Wednesday, 07 April 2010 |
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Full disclosure
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By William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
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How New York Times reporting on a Milwaukee sex-abuse case shows a surprising unwillingness to tell the whole story. |
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Tuesday, 06 April 2010 |
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A crisis of clericalism
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By Austen Ivereigh, Guardian
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The Catholic Church survived the French and Russian revolutions. It will survive this crisis too, but humbler, poorer, and more honest. |
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Tuesday, 06 April 2010 |
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Tearing down orthodoxy
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By George Neumayr, Washington Times
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One view of what really has been behind the recent attacks on the pope. |
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Friday, 02 April 2010 |
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Bart, please stop
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By William Saunders, Daily Caller
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TCT's William Saunders clarifies the record on the compromises in the healthcare bill—and the capitulations. |
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Friday, 02 April 2010 |
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Catholics in the pews
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By Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
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“The world thinks they're stupid. They are not stupid, and with their prayers they keep the world going, and the old church too.” |
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Thursday, 01 April 2010 |
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Fairness for the pope
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By New York Daily News
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“What exactly did then-Cardinal Ratzinger do wrong? His office approved the trial and waived the statue of limitations. Those are not the makings of a coverup.” |
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Wednesday, 31 March 2010 |
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Canon 915
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By Edward Peters, In the Light of the Law
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Why Nancy Pelosi should be barred from taking Communion. |
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Wednesday, 31 March 2010 |
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Murphy’s Law?
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
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In its coverage of sex abuse in Wisconsin, the New York Times spoke to everyone . . . except the man who knows the truth. |
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 |
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“The other side won”
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
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Then Cardinal Ratzinger tried but failed to convince John Paul II to take a stronger stand against clerical sex-abuse. |
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 |
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Time for contrition
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By Ross Douthat, New York Times
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This is Holy Week, when the first pope, Peter, broke faith with Christ and wept for shame. There is no better time for repentance. |
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Monday, 29 March 2010 |
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In the lion’s den
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By Archbishop Vincent Nichols
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England’s highest-ranking Catholic answers the London Times’ criticism of Benedict XVI in . . . the Times. |
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Monday, 29 March 2010 |
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The Solution
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By Cristina Odone
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Benedict XVI “has done more than any other churchman to address the issue of priestly child abuse.” |
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Friday, 26 March 2010 |
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Unprecedented papal steps
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By Sandro Magister, Chiesa News
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Benedict XVI has asked Ireland to enter into a one-year period of penance; church figures and sociologists analyze the reasons for the explosion of abuse in the mid-twentieth century. |
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Friday, 26 March 2010 |
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Guilty by reason of Catholicism
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
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The New York Times association of Cardinal Ratzinger and a sex-abuse case in Wisconsin doesn’t pass the smell test. |
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 |
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Last word . . . for now
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By USCCB
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On the healthcare bill: “If this new law is intended to prevent people from being complicit in the abortions of others, it is at war with itself.” |
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 |
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Stupak's fall
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By Kathleen Parker, Washington Post
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An inside-Washington reading of the pro-life defeat on healthcare. |
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Wednesday, 24 March 2010 |
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Pro-life Democrats, R.I.P.
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By William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
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Bart Stupak's vote for the health bill shows that in the end you can't count on pro-life Democrats. |
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Wednesday, 24 March 2010 |
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Sack ‘em
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By Gerald Warner, Telegraph
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A married priesthood isn’t the cure for the Church’s sex-abuse crisis; firing bad priests is. “Once you have debauched the Mystical Body Christ, defiling altar boys comes easily.&quo... |
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Tuesday, 23 March 2010 |
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An "Igtheist's" near-death experience
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By Peter Foges, Lapham's Quarterly
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A. J. Ayer, the atheists's atheist in twentieth-century Britian, saw God in a near-death experience and thereafter became close friends with the formidable Frederick Copleston, S. J. The experience ev... |
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Tuesday, 23 March 2010 |
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HC Show Time
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By Ross Douthat, New York Times
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The healthcare reform bill is all but assured of passage. Now we'll see what it really means. |
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Monday, 22 March 2010 |
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God and the Good
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By Christopher Howse, Telegraph
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The other Hitchens, Christopher's brother Peter, sorts out some reasons to believe why God is Great and indispensable. |
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Monday, 22 March 2010 |
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A conundrum
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By William Saunders, Washinton Examiner
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All along, Democrats have insisted that federal funding of abortion is not included in Obamacare. Why then is the President promising an executive order to exclude abortion from healthc... |
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Friday, 19 March 2010 |
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Under God
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By Ken Blackwell, American Spectator
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Amazingly enough, the most liberal court in America, the Left Coast’s Ninth Circuit, has ruled that the words “under God” should not be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance. |
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 |
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A higher standard
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By Father Raymond J. deSouza, National Post
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It hurts to read about clerical abuse in the Church, but it’s all part of “the ancient drama of virtue and vice, sin and redemption.” |
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 |
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Green
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By AP/NPR
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Yesterday the whole wide world went green. |
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 |
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Don’t be fooled
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By Orrin Hatch, FOX News
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“Regrettably, the Senate did not follow suit [as in the House ‘Stupak Amendment’] and instead passed a bill that would allow hard-earned taxpayer dollars to pay for elective abo... |
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 |
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Costs too high; losses too Great
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By Francis Cardinal George
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The president of the USCCB explains why America’s bishops do not support the Senate’s healthcare bill. |
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 |
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Bishops' latest on HC
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By Bishop William F. Murphy, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo and Bishop John Wester, Washington Post
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The three American bishops in charge of scrutinzing healthcare proposals weigh in. |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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Chaput on healthcare bill
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By Archbishop Chaput
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Catholics and other persons of good will concerned about the foundations of human dignity should oppose it. |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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Phooey to Hollywood
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By Michael Coren, Toronto Sun
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A few things you may have missed – or that may have been missing – at the Academy Awards. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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Democrats, Republicans, and abortion
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By Marjorie Dannenfelser, Washington Post
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A pro-life observer warns that if Republicans keep ignoring abortion, they'll lose in the midterm elections. |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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Better a millstone
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By Gianni Cardinale, Chiesa Express
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An interview with Msgr.Charles J, Scicluna on the pedophilia crisis. |
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
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Saving Iraqi Christians
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post
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The breakdown of order has allowed Islamists to unleash a constant stream of deadly violence against Christians.
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
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Vote for marriage
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By Bishop John McCormack, UnionLeader.com
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Bishop John McCormack of Manchester, NH urged voters this week to support a move to schedule a state-wide referendum on homosexual marriage. |
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 |
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Forgiveness in Hollywood
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By Jonathan Aitken, American Spectator
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A movie critic argues that the authentic religious forgiveness in the film Invictus, set in post-apartheird South Africa, is a new take on liberation theology, and a refreshing contrast with the unfor... |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
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The numbers on marriage
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By Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times
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Despite media efforts to make it seem that marriage has changed, a lot of marriages have not. |
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
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Archbishop Chaput teaches
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By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
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Denver's archbishop provides an eloquent analysis of what Catholic schools are and are not in business for. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
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Does freedom matter?
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By David Warren, Real Clear Politics
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David Warren says it did in the past, which gave us the saints and our civilization. |
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
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In praise of mysticism
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By Ross Douthat, New York Times
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Direct, intuitive experience of God is alive in America – in our typically democratic way. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
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Bridge across the Tiber
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
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A slight misstatement leads to a lucid explanation of Benedict XVI's Personal Ordinariate for Anglicans. |
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
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A terrorist convert
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By Matthew Kaminski, Wall Street Journal
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Mossab Hassan Yousef was a Palestinian terrorist who turned spy and became a Christian — because he is fascinated with a God who loves and forgives. |
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 |
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Mary’s Dowry
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By Ed West, Telegraph
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Should England be Catholic again? A debate is held and the answer is, yes, if the nation would be a happier place. |
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
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Darwin and the occult
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By David Klinghoffer, BeliefNet.com
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The founder of modern evolutionary theory also gave unintended fodder to some of the odder offshoots in the descent of man. |
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
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Women know
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By Paul Greenberg, Jewish World Review
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The fairer sex, as we've all always known, is also the wiser sex. |
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 |
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Modern male immaturity
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By George F. Will, Newsweek
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George Will explains that in addition to financial woes, the economic crisis exacerbates character flaws as well. |
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
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Chaput among the Baptists
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By Sandro Magister, Chiesa Express
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Denver’s archbishop revisits John F. Kennedy’s famous Houston speech and finds the absolute separation of religion and the public square asserted there wanting. |
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 |
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Psychiatrists, disordered
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By Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times
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The drift towards medicalizing everyday bad behaviors is drawing protests – and laughter – from critics. |
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
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Bad news for faith and virtue
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By Patrick J. Reilly, Washington Post
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A survey finds that coeds at Catholic colleges are more likely to “hook up” than women at secular schools. |
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Monday, 01 March 2010 |
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Where's the sacrifice?
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By Christopher Orlet, American Spectator
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A cradle Catholic observes, “I know good Christian people who spend meatless Fridays at a local Cajun restaurant gorging on Acadian crawfish etouffee, lobster pie, and Oysters Rockefeller, all w... |
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Monday, 01 March 2010 |
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Olympic training and religious training
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post
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“What are we to make of a father who can spend forty minutes driving home from the rink dissecting the flaws in his fourteen-year-old son's power play performance, but never speaks to that boy a... |
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Friday, 26 February 2010 |
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Diminishing the human
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By Rebecca Bynum, New English Review
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Until we recognize again who and what we are, science will be of little use to us in the most important matters. |
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Friday, 26 February 2010 |
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Protestant strains
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By Alan F. H. Wisdom, American Spectator
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Among American Protestants, there are growing gaps between clergy and laity over political affiliations, reflecting divisions on homosexuality and abortion. |
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 |
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Jesus and conversion
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By Sandro Magister, Chiesa
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Two new books – Pope Benedict's second volume on Jesus and a life of the rabbi of Rome who converted after World War II – are about to appear. |
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 |
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Love in the Ruins
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By Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard
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A journalist follows Fr. Rick Frechette around in his ministry to Haiti. |
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 |
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Private vice matters
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post
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Several recent scandals indicate that there are private vices, contrary to what many think, that do disqualify people for public office. |
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 |
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Secular smuggling
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By Stanley Fish, New York Times
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Stanley Fish says those who advocate "secular reason only" in the public square are deceiving themselves — and us. |
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 |
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Debating sainthood
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By Mark Colvin, ABC
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The Vatican's announcement that Mary MacKillop will be canonized in the Fall stirs a debate in Australia. |
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 |
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Darwin, the movie
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By James Bowman
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A new film about the biologist makes sure that atheism is also a major part of the story. |
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Monday, 22 February 2010 |
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Non-stop pro-life infighting
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By Sandro Magister, Chiesa Express
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The Pontifical Academy for Life seems riven by ongoing internal disputes. |
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Monday, 22 February 2010 |
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Real hope, real change
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By AsiaNews
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Benedict XVI explains how in Lent we may change the world for the better if first, through the grace of God, we examine what is wrong in our own lives. |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
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Small is beautiful
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
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Why it doesn't matter if the Pope's Ordinariate for ex-Anglicans is small at first. |
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
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Mothers in combat
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By Mary Eberstadt, Policy Review
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TCT's own Mary Eberstadt reflects on what it means when you break with one of the principles of civilization: and send mothers into combat. |
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 |
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An anti-Catholic at Justice
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By Ken Blackwell, American Spectator
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Dawn Johnsen once tried to get the Catholic Church's tax-exemption removed; now she's in line for a top job in the Justice Department. |
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 |
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Eugenics
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By David Warren
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Why is abortion so popular with women who would never dream of having an abortion? |
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 |
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Revisting Pascal's wager
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By Mark Signorelli, New English Review
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"If the dead rise not, the apparent meaninglessness of material existence is authentic and incorrigible, and our ignorance about the proper shaping of our ends is, not temporary and continge... |
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 |
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Anti-Christianity, a textbook case
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By William Murchison, American Spectator
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William Murchison explaines why the New York Times doesn't like Christianity or Texas. |
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 |
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Rebels wthout a clue
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By Michael Coren, Toronto Sun
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A report from the trenches on carrying the pro-life message to the college campus. |
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 |
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Birthday of alternative feminism
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By Rosemary Keenan, Times
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This year's Valentine's Day is also the eightieth anniversary of the founding of Opus Dei's women's section. |
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Monday, 15 February 2010 |
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Myth diagnosis
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By Megan McArdle, The Atlantic
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Everyone knows that people without health insurance are more likely to die. But are they? |
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Monday, 15 February 2010 |
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A ‘Marshall Plan’ for Ireland
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By David Quinn, Independent
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As Irish bishops head to Rome, the Holy Father’s leadership has never been more obvious or needed.
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Saturday, 13 February 2010 |
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Remembering Bernadette
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By Charles Buttigieg, Malta Independent
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February 11th marked the anniversary of the first of eighteen visitations by Our Lady of Lourdes. |
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Friday, 12 February 2010 |
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Plato, rock critic
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By Roger Scruton, American Spectator
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“The ways of poetry and music are not changed anywhere without change in the most important laws of the city.” |
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Thursday, 11 February 2010 |
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Plague!
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By Lauro Martines, Times
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In the sixteenth century, Catholics used science and faith as tools to understand and defeat the great killer. |
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Thursday, 11 February 2010 |
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God talk sidelined?
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By Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Wall Street Journal
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God is not only an awkward subject at cocktail parties. He seems to embarrass sports writers, too. |
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010 |
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More on abstinence ed
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By Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal
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It may not make that much difference, but abstinence ed is something quite different than what we've heard. |
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010 |
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Tebow ad fakes out critics
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By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA Today
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The pro-life message only emerges when you go to the website, but the ad of Tim Tebow and his mother, who chose not to abort him, put a hit on the pre-game critics. |
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010 |
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F-speech not free speech
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By Allen R. Sanderson, Chicago Tribune
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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. |
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010 |
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The Lion as Catholic
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By Philip F. Lawler, American Spectator
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Phil Lawler weighs the autobiography of America's most influential Catholic Senator, Ted Kennedy. |
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Monday, 08 February 2010 |
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The thriving business of dying
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By Deborah Ball and Julia Mengewein, Wall Street Journal
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A journalistic look at the suicide industry in Switzerland. |
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Monday, 08 February 2010 |
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Anomie and atheism
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By Theodore Dalrymple, American Conservative
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We've resisted them both better than most nations, but will we stay on the right path? |
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
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Champions for Life
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By Mark Bavaro, George Martin, Phil McConkey, Chris Godfrey, Phil Simms, and Jim Burt
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Before Tim Tebow ever picked up a football—before he was even born—athletes were speaking out for life. |
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Friday, 05 February 2010 |
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Is it time for the Saints?
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By Father Raymond DeSouza, National Post
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Father Raymond de Souza explores the Catholic past and likely prospects this weekend of the New Orleans Saints. |
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 |
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Pope: freedom before equality
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By Guardian
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Pope Benedict XVI argues that the effect of some equality legislation has been to impose unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities. |
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 |
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Repeal at your peril
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By John R. Guardiano
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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 ... |
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 |
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Evidence of courage
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By Dimitri Cavalli, Haaretz
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The detractors of Pius XII have a lot on their side of the argument – except the facts. |
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 |
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Catholic schools' three S's
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By William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
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We need Catholic schools and we have a formula for building and maintaining them: subsidiarity + stewardship = success. |
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 |
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Newt - Catholic filmmaker
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By Julia Duin, Washington Times
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Julia Duin has mixed reactions to a promotional film about John Paul II by former speaker of the House and recent convert, Newt Gingrich. |
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 |
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Sex as a commodity
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By James Bowman, New Criterion
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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... |
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Monday, 01 February 2010 |
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A God who hates?
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By Leslie S. Lebl, City Journal
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Two books argue that repression, cruelty, and fear are central to Islam. |
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Monday, 01 February 2010 |
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Holidays in other peoples' misery
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By Michael Coren, Toronto Sun
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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 ... |
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Friday, 29 January 2010 |
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Man-hating nonsense
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By Barbara Kay, National Post
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Mary Daly, a lapsed Catholic and feminist "thealogist," was regarded as something less than serious by scholars.
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Friday, 29 January 2010 |
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Victims of Obamacare
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By Mark Tooley, American Spectator
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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.
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 |
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Will the Tebow ad run?
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By Jan Crawford/CBS News Crossroads
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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. |
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 |
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The bishops speak
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By USCCB
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The future of healthcare reform is uncertain, but America’s Catholic bishops have advice for Congress on how to proceed. |
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 |
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Our vanishing ultimate resource
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By Steven Malanga, City Journal
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Plummeting birthrates threaten prosperity worldwide. Can America buck the trend? |
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 |
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One-child rule
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By Cheryl Weitzstein, Washington Times
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China has stopped population growth through a one-child policy, but has prepared a demographic disaster for itself, according to population experts. |
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 |
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Legal and illegal persons
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By Calthomas.com
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Cal Thomas reviews the ways that public opinion has moved towards protection of the unborn. |
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 |
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First among patriarchs
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By Sandro Magister, Chiesa Express
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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. |
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Monday, 25 January 2010 |
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New life for pro-life
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By Robert McCartney, Washington Post
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A skeptic learns lessons at the 2010 March for Life in Washington. |
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Monday, 25 January 2010 |
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Smiles and embraces
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By Michael Coren, Mercator
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Despite what we read in the press, relations between Jews and Catholics are excellent—as is the reputation of Pius XII. |
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Friday, 22 January 2010 |
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What about the boys?
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By Maggie Gallagher, Real Clear Politics
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The decline in educational and economic opportunities for men is bad for all.
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Friday, 22 January 2010 |
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Understanding the pope and Judaism
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By John L. Allen, Jewish Daily Forward
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A leading Vatican watcher says Benedict XVI sees Jews as allies in the struggle against secularism. |
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
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Lion's Den
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By Daniel Pipes, Jerusalem Post
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A Dutch politician goes on trial in the Netherlands – for pointing out the dangers of Islamization to his country.
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
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A lapsed heretic
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By David Klinghoffer, Beliefnet
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Britain's chief rabbi, once a skeptical philosopher, offers an incisive critique of secularism. |
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
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Arguing abortion
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By Adam Graham, Pajamas Media
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Pro-lifers need to win hearts and minds, but can we do so arguing legal technicalities? |
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
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Boston Tea Party
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By Wall Street Journal
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Massachusetts voters tell Democrats to shelve Obamacare. |
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 |
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Disdaining conscience
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By John Garvey, Boston Herald
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Respect for deeply held positions in conscience is a longstanding principle in our society—but not for Senate Democratic candidate in Massachusetts Martha Coakley. |
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 |
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Here lies decency
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By Union Leader
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A New Hampshire pro-life memorial this week recalls one of the most shocking discoveries since Roe v. Wade. |
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Monday, 18 January 2010 |
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Two steps down
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By Paul Greenberg, Jewish World Review
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Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the culture of death rationalizes two more outrages. |
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Monday, 18 January 2010 |
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Dissent in decline?
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By Charlotte Allen, Wall Sreet Journal
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Perhaps, but too many Catholics are neither hot nor cold. |
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Friday, 15 January 2010 |
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Putting the hate in Haiti
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By Peter Wehner, National Review Online
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Pat Robertson does it again: He says a Haitian pact with Satan caused Tuesday’s earthquake. |
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Friday, 15 January 2010 |
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Palestinian paralysis
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By Fr. Raymond J. deSouza, National Post
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Establishing a just and open legal system is one way to achieve real progress in a troubled land. |
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Thursday, 14 January 2010 |
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Mea culpa - ecologica
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By Stephen T. Asma, Chronicle Review
|
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Yes, guilt among us has mostly migrated from the Seven Deadlies to innumerable ecological transgressions. |
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Thursday, 14 January 2010 |
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On immigration
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By Lisa Fabrizio, American Spectator
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A Catholic take on the immigration debate. |
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Wednesday, 13 January 2010 |
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The Virgin Warrior
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By David A. Bell, New Republic
|
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A review of a new biography of the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc. |
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Wednesday, 13 January 2010 |
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Buttiglione smeared
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By Daily Mail
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Rocco Buttiglione an Italian Catholic politician, is gratuitously smeared by the BBC for his stand on homosexuality. |
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 |
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Faith talk
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By Rouss Douthat, New York Times
|
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An examination of the theory and practice of religious expression in a pluralist society. |
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Monday, 11 January 2010 |
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Islam first in Europe?
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By Christopher Caldwell, Der Spiegel
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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 ... |
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Monday, 11 January 2010 |
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Tiger and true tolerance
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By Michael Gerson, Washington Post
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In anyone allowed to talk about religion in public anymore? |
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Friday, 08 January 2010 |
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We're all guilty
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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. |
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Friday, 08 January 2010 |
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Art bumps confessionals
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By Gibbons Cooney, California Catholic Daily
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St. Ignatius Church, a Jesuit house of worship in San Francisco, recently removed its confessionals—to make room for an art exhibit. |
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Thursday, 07 January 2010 |
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It ain't over
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By Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Marjorie Dannenfelser, Kristan Hawkins and David Bereit, Washington Times
|
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As the House and Senate engage in reconciling the two healthcare bills, pro-life leaders say the battle is not lost. |
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Thursday, 07 January 2010 |
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Mayo and healthcare
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By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
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The Mayo Clinics partly pulls out of Medicare cases and shows what problems may dog proposed healthcare reform. |
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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 |
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Talk sex, but not religion?
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By Melissa Clouthier, Pajamas Media
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Is it now settled public etiquette that it's alright to talk about sexual activity, but not religion? |
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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 |
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Crime and social justice
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By Heather MacDonald, Wall Street Journal
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The recent downturn in crime during an economic crisis calls into question easy assumptions about social justice as a "root cause" of crime. |
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 |
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After self-indulgence
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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. |
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 |
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Wisdom of the Ages
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By William Desmond, In Character
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We need, says William Desmond, to put the wisdom back in homo sapiens. |
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Monday, 04 January 2010 |
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The Devil's Work
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By Paul Greenberg, Jewish World Review
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Screwtape lives – and in Arkansas, no less. |
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Monday, 04 January 2010 |
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Faith on film
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By Robert W. Butler, Washington Post
|
|
Religion is a supporting character in a lot of recent movies. |
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Friday, 01 January 2010 |
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Religion all round
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By Jonah Goldberg, Chicago Tribune
|
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Jonah Goldberg observes how religion peers out of several cultural artifacts, even the ones produced by those who deny it. |
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Friday, 01 January 2010 |
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Make fewer resolutions
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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. |
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Thursday, 31 December 2009 |
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Iraq's Holy Innocents
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By John F. Cullinan, National Review Online
|
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The lives—and deaths—of Christians in Iraq, who represent some of the oldest Christian communities in the world. |
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Thursday, 31 December 2009 |
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Avoiding fragmentation
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By Vatican Information Service
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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. |
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009 |
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Christian terrorist TV
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By David Solway, Pajamas Media
|
|
NCIS goes PC, with Christian terrorists and honor murders. |
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Tuesday, 29 December 2009 |
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L'Enfance du Christ
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By Barrymore Laurence Scherer, Wall Street Journal
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"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." |
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Tuesday, 29 December 2009 |
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Catholic schools do it right
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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. |
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Monday, 28 December 2009 |
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St. Pius XII
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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. |
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Monday, 28 December 2009 |
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We need Benedict
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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. |
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Friday, 25 December 2009 |
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An unabashed Christmas show
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post
|
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At least one public celebration this year was not shy about explicitly declaring itself to be about Christmas. |
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Friday, 25 December 2009 |
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Abundant blessings
|
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By John Kass, Chicago Tribune
|
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Despite tough times, John Kass reminds us of the many blessings that are still with us. |
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Thursday, 24 December 2009 |
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Immanuel!
|
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By Vincent Nichols, Telegraph
|
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The Archbishop of Westminster on renewal through art and faith at Christmastime. |
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Thursday, 24 December 2009 |
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Senate for sale
|
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By Michael Gerson, Washington Post
|
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Michael Gerson argues that a crucial moral, as well as a political, line has been crossed in passing the healthcare reform bill. |
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009 |
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The Virgin Birth
|
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By Jeremy Lott, American Spectator
|
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Biblical texts and modern technology can give evidence for, not against, the Virgin Birth. |
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009 |
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The Jewish Case for Christmas
|
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By David Klinghoffer, Beliefnet.com
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David Klinghoffer explains why, as a believing Jew, he's still happy that Christmas fills the public square. |
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 |
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Hollywood's religion of choice
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By Ross Douthat, New York Times
|
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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. |
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Monday, 21 December 2009 |
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Unholy alliance
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By Mark Tooley, Weekly Standard
|
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A list of the Evangelicals and Catholics who joined together to support the Casey language that is helping to pass the Senate healthcare bill. |
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Monday, 21 December 2009 |
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Export our old Christian civilization
|
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By David Warren, Real Clear Politics
|
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A far-sighted observer hopes for the return of now-distant ideals in light of the Copenhagen conference. |
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Monday, 21 December 2009 |
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Human rights tyranny
|
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By Charles Moore, Telegraph
|
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A decision of a Jewish school's admissions policies in England reveals a growing problem with "human rights" commissions. |
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Friday, 18 December 2009 |
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Another line crossed
|
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By Paul Greenberg, Jewish World Review
|
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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. |
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Friday, 18 December 2009 |
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Christianity demoted
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By Theodore Dalrymple, Daily Express
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Theodore Dalrymple argues that a religious discrimination case in Britain reveals discrimination indeed - against Christianity and Western culture. |
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Thursday, 17 December 2009 |
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The worst carbon-reduction scheme
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post
|
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What would happen if every country adopted China's one-child policy? It wouldn't be the Garden of Eden. |
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Thursday, 17 December 2009 |
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Schiavo and Houben
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By Wesley J. Smith, Weekly Standard
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Yes, as these two cases show, says Wesley Smith, it's a good idea to err on the side of life. |
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 |
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The cost of discipleship
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By Michael Goldfarb, Weekly Standard
|
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Sen. Ben Nelson may be forced to pay a price for opposing abortion coverage in the Senate’s healthcare reform bill. |
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 |
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Anti-human Copenhagen
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By Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
|
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The columnist observes the deeply anti-human streak even in the mainstream environmental movement. |
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009 |
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Open mouth; insert foot
|
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
|
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Here’s one Anglican bishop we hope does not come over to Rome. |
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009 |
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Yes we should
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By Barbara Curtis, Pajamas Media
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Yes, we should put Christmas back in public places. |
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Monday, 14 December 2009 |
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The great consolidator
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By Jeremy Lott, American Spectator
|
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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. |
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Monday, 14 December 2009 |
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The sacred made real
|
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By Roger Kimball, New Criterion
|
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An exhibition of Spanish religious sculpture presents a lively alternative to the dim churches in London, says Roger Kimball. |
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Friday, 11 December 2009 |
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The cold heart of Obamacare
|
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By Nat Hentoff, Orange County Register
|
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Beyond the death panels, the abortion coverage, and other specifics, a new impersonality is entering our medical services. |
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 |
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The Miracle of Father Kapaun
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By Roy Wenzl, Wichita Eagle
|
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A four-part series on a true Servant of God, the military chaplain who changed the lives of American prisoners of war in Korea. |
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 |
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Pricing life
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By Sarah Durand, Pajamas Media
|
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Proposed healthcare legislation is likely to put a price tag on individual lives—literally. |
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 |
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True humanism
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By David Warren
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David Warren points to some figures who represented a true humanism and, contrary to assumptions, they weren't secular. |
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 |
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What do women want?
|
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By Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal
|
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Science sheds some light on how motherhood resists egalitarian ideologies. |
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 |
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The most important Canadian
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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. |
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Monday, 07 December 2009 |
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Europe's Minarets
|
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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. |
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Monday, 07 December 2009 |
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Lawn Man Liability?
|
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By Bishop William Lori
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A (recovered-memory) lawsuit seeks money from the Bridgeport diocese over sex abuse (in 1968) by a landscaper not affiliated with the Church. Really. |
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Friday, 04 December 2009 |
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Scala Santa restored
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By David Willey, BBC
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The frescoes surrounding Rome's Holy Steps, a popular pilgrimage destination, have been restored and reveal unsuspected glories. |
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Friday, 04 December 2009 |
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The Tragedy of Irish Catholicism
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By Ross Douthat, New York Times
|
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Why it isn’t a coincidence that the worst of the priest-abuse scandals have been concentrated in Ireland and America. |
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 |
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Movie of the year?
|
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By Pam Meister, Big Hollywood
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|
“The Bind Side” shows again that faith is boffo at the box office – and the bishops like it too!
|
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 |
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Just say No
|
|
By Joe Fitzgerald, Boston Herald
|
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Still more on Bishop Tobin and Representative Kennedy. |
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Wednesday, 02 December 2009 |
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God and Caesar
|
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By Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review
|
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National Review’s online editor interviews Robert George about the Manhattan Statement. |
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Wednesday, 02 December 2009 |
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Ireland ’s new troubles
|
|
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.” |
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Tuesday, 01 December 2009 |
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Unfree to Worship
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By Doug Bandow, National Interest
|
|
A worldwide survey of government persecution of Christians. |
|
Tuesday, 01 December 2009 |
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In defense of the New Mass?
|
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
|
|
An ironic look at the legacy of liturgical changes. |
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Monday, 30 November 2009 |
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Vocations, by the numbers
|
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By Julia Duin, Washington Times
|
|
A report on the report to the annual bishops' meeting. |
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Monday, 30 November 2009 |
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Latin Mass Appeal
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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 |
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Doubts on the sex-abuse report
|
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By Julia Duin, Washington Times
|
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Even non-Catholic journalists have doubts about the report on the sex-abuse crisis the bishops commisioned and just received. |
|
Thursday, 26 November 2009 |
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Providence Provides
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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 |
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A new Holy Roman Empire ?
|
|
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?
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 |
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Behind the veil at Yale
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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 |
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Dream-girl ticket?
|
|
By Michael Coren, Toronto Sun
|
|
Palin and Prejean, beauty queens, are far from good role models.
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|
Tuesday, 24 November 2009 |
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Abortion is back
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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 |
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Beyond "inappropriate"
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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
|
|
By Asia News
|
|
Benedict XVI's address of welcome to artists gathering at the Vatican this week.
|
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Monday, 23 November 2009 |
|
It’s over
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|
By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
|
|
Canterbury and Rome meet and find there’s not much to say. |
|
Friday, 20 November 2009 |
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The Genesis of Ben Hur
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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 |
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Catholics rejoice
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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?
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|
By Stephen N. Williams. Books & Culture
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|
A new book argues that the great champion of postmodernists and relativists may have never really left his Pietist roots behind. |
|
Wednesday, 18 November 2009 |
|
A philosophy of journalism?
|
|
By Carlin Romano, Chronicle Review
|
|
We need a philosophy of journalism says a philosophical journalist. |
|
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 |
|
Islam and the Crusades
|
|
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 |
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Hell pays
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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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
|
|
A modest proposal: those who want respect should give it. |
|
Thursday, 12 November 2009 |
|
Fort Hood therapy
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
By Colby Kosh, National Post
|
|
Reflections on the Islamic factor in the Ft. Hood massacre. |
|
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 |
|
Anglo-Romans
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
By Joseph A. Cannon, Deseret News
|
|
Remembering the faith and courage that brought down the Berlin Wall. |
|
Friday, 06 November 2009 |
|
Our Father unknown
|
|
By Christopher Howse, Telegraph
|
|
A report from Britain on the state of basic religious knowledge. |
|
Friday, 06 November 2009 |
|
Amen to Dolan
|
|
By Andrea Peyser, New York Post
|
|
The archbishop has his say – despite the New York Times. |
|
Thursday, 05 November 2009 |
|
It never ends
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
By Paul Greenberg, Jewish World Review
|
|
It was bound to happen, but Paul Greenberg counts the cost. |
|
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 |
|
Taking out abortion
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
By John Kass, Chicago Tribune
|
|
The horrifying evolution of Halloween continues. |
|
Monday, 02 November 2009 |
|
Healthcare hyperbole
|
|
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
|
|
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?
|
|
By Richard Owen, London Times
|
|
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. |
|
Thursday, 29 October 2009 |
|
The Benedict option
|
|
By Rod Dreher, Beliefnet
|
|
The Holy Father is, not surprisingly, following his own good judgments and intuitions. |
|
Thursday, 29 October 2009 |
|
Anything goes
|
|
By WorldNetDaily
|
|
Hide the kids and the cats, Obama’s “Safe Schools” Czar is an Act Up radical. |
|
Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
|
Defending the faith
|
|
By Michael Coren, National Post
|
|
A leading Canadian commentator responds to his – and the Church’s – critics. |
|
Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
|
The hollow men
|
|
By Paul Belien, Hudson Institute
|
|
The European Union seems bent on ending “not with a bang but a whimper,” as it contemplates banning criticism of Islam and homosexuality. |
|
Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
|
Outreach to Anglicans: another view
|
|
By Ross Douthat, New York Times
|
|
Whatever else may come of the Catholic-Anglican entente, we may see a united Christian front against the Islamic challenge. |
|
Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
|
Ecclesiastes on a bicycle
|
|
By Paul Greenberg, Jewish World Review
|
|
It's Fall, and Paul Greenberg has intimations of mortality. |
|
Monday, 26 October 2009 |
|
Wisdom in medicine
|
|
By Jerome Groopman, In Character
|
|
It's all about the old notion of treating the body and the soul. |
|
Monday, 26 October 2009 |
|
Occult America
|
|
By Julia Duin, Washington Times
|
|
Odd religious beliefs seem to come with the territory in this country. |
|
Friday, 23 October 2009 |
|
Science fiction?
|
|
By Jonathan Leake, Times
|
|
Hard to believe, but some researchers are wondering if God is causing a doomsday device to malfunction . . . from the future. |
|
Friday, 23 October 2009 |
|
Popium of the people
|
|
By Richard Owen, Times
|
|
L’Osservatore Romano reports that the “Vatican” is reappraising . . . Marx? |
|
Thursday, 22 October 2009 |
|
Joyful fulfillment
|
|
By Asia News
|
|
The Holy Father on the “last of the Fathers” and the personal encounter with God. |
|
Wednesday, 21 October 2009 |
|
An evening of civility
|
|
By Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review
|
|
New York’s annual Al Smith Dinner seemed more elevated this year. |
|
Wednesday, 21 October 2009 |
|
The gates of Rome
|
|
By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
|
|
Behind the “astonishing news” and curious structure of the pope’s embrace of Anglicans. |
|
Tuesday, 20 October 2009 |
|
Remembering Popieluszko
|
|
By Jon Jackson, Warsaw Business Journal
|
|
Poles remember a courageous priest on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his murder. |
|
Tuesday, 20 October 2009 |
|
Religious illiteracy
|
|
By Graeme Hamilton, National Post
|
|
Sodom and Gomorrah were - a married couple? |
|
Monday, 19 October 2009 |
|
Restricting religion
|
|
By Julia Duin, Washington Times
|
|
Religious groups have found their freedom to associate restricted in some recent cases on American campuses. |
|
Monday, 19 October 2009 |
|
H1N1 and Mass
|
|
By Catholic Doors
|
|
Some suggestions about how to deal with swine flu in churches. |
|
Friday, 16 October 2009 |
|
God in Government
|
|
By Cal Thomas & Bob Beckel, USA Today
|
|
Two distinguished commentators try to sort out the place of God in politics. |
|
Friday, 16 October 2009 |
|
Much process, no peace
|
|
By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
|
|
Are we headed into yet another round of fruitless negotiations in the Middle East? |
|
Thursday, 15 October 2009 |
|
Catholicbashing
|
|
By Michael Coren, National Post
|
|
Is anti-Catholicism the last acceptable prejudice? |
|
Thursday, 15 October 2009 |
|
Michael Moore: Catholic?
|
|
By Ed West, Telegraph
|
|
The complex relations between faith and politics. |
|
Wednesday, 14 October 2009 |
|
Who let the dogmatism out?
|
|
By William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
|
|
A meditation on the dwindling number of honest atheists. |
|
Wednesday, 14 October 2009 |
|
Choices last
|
|
By Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review
|
|
Mary Ann Glendon, “a real confessor of the faith,” calls upon Catholics to remember the fundamentals of that faith. |
|
Tuesday, 13 October 2009 |
|
Wisdom of the Ages
|
|
By William Desmond, In Character
|
|
Most modern thinkers have not been much concerned with the virtue of wisdom. So it may just be time to put the sapiens back in homo sapiens sapiens. |
|
Tuesday, 13 October 2009 |
|
Inhaling Hopium
|
|
By John Kass, Chicago Tribune
|
|
John Kass chronicles the twelve-days of miracles. |
|
Monday, 12 October 2009 |
|
Noble thoughts
|
|
By Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times
|
|
What POTUS ought to say in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. |
|
Friday, 09 October 2009 |
|
Timely reflection on war
|
|
By Austen Ivereigh, Telegraph
|
|
As Mr. Obama considers America’s options in Afghanistan, a reconsideration of just-war theory. |
|
Friday, 09 October 2009 |
|
Abortion intolerance
|
|
By William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
|
|
The Democrats distance themselves from one of their own: pro-lifer Bart Stupak. |
|
Thursday, 08 October 2009 |
|
Clubs about nothing
|
|
By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
|
|
Chicago’s Cardinal George expresses his concern about the new, evangelical atheism. |
|
Thursday, 08 October 2009 |
|
Just say NO
|
|
By Marjorie Dannenfelser, FOX News
|
|
Americans have made it plain: do not include abortion funding in healthcare reform. |
|
Wednesday, 07 October 2009 |
|
Benedict XVI: an Evangelical view
|
|
By Collin Hansen, Christianity Today
|
|
One Protestant’s view of the Holy Father’s message to Europe’s dwindling faithful. |
|
Wednesday, 07 October 2009 |
|
Sacrebleu!
|
|
By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
|
|
The unsettling sight of French priests disco dancing . . . at Mass. |
|
Tuesday, 06 October 2009 |
|
Blood libel
|
|
By Mary Anastasia O’Grady, Wall Street Journal
|
|
Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad imports anti-Semitism to the willing dictators of Latin America. |
|
Tuesday, 06 October 2009 |
|
A Different reform
|
|
By Bobby Jindal, Washington Post
|
|
Bobby Jindal, the Catholic governor of Louisiana, presents a more modest healthcare reform package that could be enacted and might work. |
|
Monday, 05 October 2009 |
|
“Queering” school kids
|
|
By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
|
|
Yet another Obama appointee has come under fire, this time for promoting "Queer Studies” in elementary education. |
|
Monday, 05 October 2009 |
|
Reviewing the liberal view
|
|
By Ross Douthat, New York Times
|
|
The columnist considers arguments made about faith by Karen Armstrong in her new book, The Case for God. |
|
Friday, 02 October 2009 |
|
The great failure
|
|
By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post
|
|
Communist China is just fine after sixty years, if you don't mind a little religious persecution, political repression, and social disruption. |
|
Friday, 02 October 2009 |
|
Souls in transition
|
|
By Naomi Schaefer Riley, Wall Street Journal
|
|
Is there a glimmer of something good emerging among college students? |
|
Thursday, 01 October 2009 |
|
R-rated aloft
|
|
By Clayton E. Cramer, Pajamas Media
|
|
On a plane, when the movies aren't appropriate for kids—as is increasingly the case—it's not like you can get up and leave. |
|
Thursday, 01 October 2009 |
|
European vacuum
|
|
By Daniel Johnson, Commentary
|
|
Even in a secular perspective, the Old World appears to have lost its soul. |
|
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 |
|
Double standard?
|
|
By Michael Paulson, Boston Globe
|
|
The Hollywood media are bemoaning the fate of pedophile director Roman Polanski. Lucky for him, he’s not a priest. |
|
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 |
|
The Path to Rome
|
|
By Conrad Black, National Post
|
|
How a great Canadian journalist came to Catholicism. |
|
Tuesday, 29 September 2009 |
|
Unequal lives
|
|
By Adam Graham, Pajamas Media
|
|
Mainstream media have increasingly been criticized for ignoring uncomfortable stories—perhaps none more so than violence against pro-lifers. |
|
Tuesday, 29 September 2009 |
|
Philosophy tweets
|
|
By Andrew Pessin, Christian Science Monitor
|
|
What if Socrates, Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, and Hume had been able to tweet their thoughts? |
|
Monday, 28 September 2009 |
|
Cohabiting hurts
|
|
By Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times
|
|
Cohabitation's effects by the numbers, in case you were looking for evidence. |
|
Monday, 28 September 2009 |
|
Idiot box 2.0
|
|
By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
|
|
For turning brains into mush, you can’t do better than television. |
|
Friday, 25 September 2009 |
|
Age of the nones?
|
|
By Steven Waldman, Wall Street Journal
|
|
Deism appears making a modest comeback in America. |
|
Friday, 25 September 2009 |
|
The state of faith in England
|
|
By Andrew Brown, Guardian
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Questions of authority, personality, and theology will accompany Benedict XVI’s 2010 visit to Great Britain. |
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 |
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Silvio hits Benedict
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
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Following some conflict with the Vatican, newspapers controlled by the Italian premier push some ugly rumors about the pope. |
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 |
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Recalling Cortez
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By Hugh Thomson, London Times
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A new exhibition in London shows that the coming of Spaniards to the New World brought benefits. |
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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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Wednesday, 23 September 2009 |
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Post-Secular?
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By David Martin, Christianity Today
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It depends on what you mean and where you look. |
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009 |
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Relics and miracles
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By Melanie McDonagh, Telegraph
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The discarded crutches prove that miracles can happen. |
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009 |
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Health care, or not?
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By Washington Times
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The current debate has raised a simple question: is abortion health care or not? |
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Monday, 21 September 2009 |
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In search of civility
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By Eric Felton, Wall Street Journal
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Saying you’re sorry has become a sorry spectacle. |
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Monday, 21 September 2009 |
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Puzzles of prayer
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By Zev Chafets, New York Times
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Americans are — not surprisingly — confused about the right way to pray. |
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Friday, 18 September 2009 |
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Supper together
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post
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“National Family Dinner Night” draws families together in Canada.
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Friday, 18 September 2009 |
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Prayerism
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By Steven Waldman, Wall Street Journal
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What does it mean when people pray but don’t go to church? |
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 |
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Lost without courtship
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By Michael Gerson, Washington Post
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Delaying marriage creates moral, emotional, and practical complications. |
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 |
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The allure of relics
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By Christopher Howse, London Telegraph
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The place of the saints in Catholicism, then and now.
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009 |
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The Higher Double Standard
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By Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
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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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Wednesday, 16 September 2009 |
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A lay martyr
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By Charles Moore, London Telegraph
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John Bradburne was a martyr who turned love into the divine. |
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009 |
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Abortion dealbreaker?
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By Dan Gilgoff, U.S. News & World Report
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Catholics hold a lot of power in the healthcare debate. |
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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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Monday, 14 September 2009 |
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Limited truce on abortion
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By Peter Steinfels, New York Times
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When it comes to health care overhaul, a surprising number of people on both sides of the abortion war have declared a limited truce. |
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Monday, 14 September 2009 |
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Specialist pleading
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By Frank Furedi, The Australian
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Deference to traditional authority, an Australian writer claims, has given way to the reverence of expertise.
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Friday, 11 September 2009 |
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What would Jesus insure?
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By Joseph Loconte, Weekly Standard
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A commentator cautions about invoking God in public policy debates. |
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Friday, 11 September 2009 |
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Salvation Through Liberalism
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By James Pierson/Arma Virumque, New Criterion
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Was Ted Kennedy correct in thinking we may be saved through political action? |
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Thursday, 10 September 2009 |
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Embryos in Limbo
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By Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill, New Atlantis
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The large numbers of "spare" embryos created by in vitro fertilization have left us with no good choices. |
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Thursday, 10 September 2009 |
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What the beatitudes teach
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By Tod Lindberg, Policy Review
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One commentator argues they teach a community of goodwill. |
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Wednesday, 09 September 2009 |
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The God-tuned brain
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By George Pitcher, London Telegraph
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Scientists claim that the human brain is hard-wired by evolution to believe in God. |
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Wednesday, 09 September 2009 |
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Christians girls, interrupted
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By William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
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Two Christian girls. Two sets of distraught parents. And two state courts smack in the middle of it. |
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Tuesday, 08 September 2009 |
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Charitable Health Insurance
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By Kevin Horrigan, St. Louis Dispatch
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Can providing health insurance be done through private charity? |
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Tuesday, 08 September 2009 |
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A More Perfect Death
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By Ross Douthat, New York Times
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Our move toward assisted suicide comes from the same quest that leads us to spend more on health care than other nations. |
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Monday, 07 September 2009 |
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Obama's Abortion Minefield
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By Kathleen Parker, Washington Post
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As President Obama prepares to address Congress on health-care reform, America's pro-life movement is gassing up. |
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Monday, 07 September 2009 |
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Can evil be cured?
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By Alasdair Palmer, London Telegraph
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There are some incidents so horrible that they shake any faith in the basic goodness of human nature. |
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Friday, 04 September 2009 |
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O'Malley statement
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By Cardinal Sean O'Malley
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Boston's cardinal explains his rationale for participating in the Kennedy funeral. |
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Friday, 04 September 2009 |
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Imagining angels?
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By George Pitcher, London Telegraph
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Research shows that children who believe they have seen angels often keep it quiet for fear of being ridiculed by adults. |
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 |
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Radical change
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By Asia News
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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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Thursday, 03 September 2009 |
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Eulogies or politics?
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By Cortes E. deRussy
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A commentator argues that the Kennedy funeral was marred by crass politicization. |
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 |
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Dangers of false religion
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By Fr. Jay Scott Newman
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A homily on the state of the Church in America.
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 |
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Lux et veritas?
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By Paul Greenberg, Jewish World Review
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Yale University Press gives in to censorship by Islamic extremists.
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Tuesday, 01 September 2009 |
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A different kind of liberal
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By Ross Douthat, New York Times
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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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Tuesday, 01 September 2009 |
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The Church's immigration problem
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By Damian Thompson, Telegraph
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In Europe, the Church is running away from the reality of immigration. |
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Monday, 31 August 2009 |
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Why priests don't have kids
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By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post
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Understanding the celibacy of the priest requires an understanding of what marriage and children are all about.
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Monday, 31 August 2009 |
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End-of-life chats
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By Nat Hentoff, OC Register
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Longtime civil-liberties advocate Nat Hentoff is worried about where health care reform will draw lines at the end of life.
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Friday, 28 August 2009 |
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Religious freedom and progress
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By Bernardo Cervellera, Asia News
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How religious freedom functions as an instrument for progress and stability.
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Friday, 28 August 2009 |
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Let's let Camelot go
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By John Kass, Chicago Tribune
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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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Thursday, 27 August 2009 |
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How the Kennedys changed America
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By Janet Daley, London Telegraph
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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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Thursday, 27 August 2009 |
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Brewing and Breeding
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By Mark Steyn, National Review/SteynOnline
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The intersection of the environment and demography continues apace. |
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009 |
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POTUS at Notre Dame revisited
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By Bishop John M. D’Arcy, America Magazine
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One of the most vocal opponents of the university’s choice of Obama as commencement speaker makes his case in the leading journal of Catholic "dissent." |
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Wednesday, 26 August 2009 |
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The Moral Swamp
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By Robert Fulford, National Post
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How popular television shows use sympathy for characters to derail moral judgment. |
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 |
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The third man phenomenon
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By Michael J. Ybarra
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A new book offers accounts of experiencing a supportive presence in extreme situations. |
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 |
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Historical fantasies
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By Jonathan Kay, The National Post
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For some Muslims, Islamic practice of slavery apparently was a good, while Christian slavery was very bad. |
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Monday, 24 August 2009 |
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Pull the plug
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By Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal
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It's the best cure for what ails the Obama presidency.
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Monday, 24 August 2009 |
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"Death panels"
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By Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post
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A political observer and medical doctor separates myth from reality on end-of-life counseling.
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Friday, 21 August 2009 |
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Sex and the married man
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By Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic
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How Helen Gurley Brown inspired a generation of home-wreckers, and brought down John Edwards.
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Friday, 21 August 2009 |
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Scared of Obamacare
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By Nat Hentoff. Jewish World Review
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The veteran liberal reporter bemoans the fact that “rationing is a basic part” of proposed healthcare reform.
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 |
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Dan Brown's Success
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By Andrew Collins, The London Times
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As the clock ticks down to Dan Brown’s latest opus, a look at how an Elton John wannabe became the defining author of our time. |
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 |
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Veterans' death book
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By Jim Towey, The Wall Street Journal
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The Obama administration has already been working out "end-of-life" issues in an ominous way - for veterans.
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 |
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Muslim converts
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By Phyllis Chesler, Pajamas Media
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The story is not entirely clear, but America may have a new problem: protecting Muslims who convert to Christianity.
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 |
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God of the Times
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By Jeffrey Burton Russell, The Wilson Quarterly
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A noted historian takes on a notable re-writing of religious history.
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