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Home: Core Subjects: Politics and Government Core Subjects: Politics and GovernmentArticles:'Sectarian' issues? Not quite. - George WeigelIn the hope of answering the questions and clarifying the confusions, I offer the following "small catechism" on the responsibilities of the Catholic politician. Read more... A Better Concept of Freedom - George WeigelOn October 31, 1958, Isaiah Berlin gave his inaugural lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford. Entitled 'Two Concepts of Liberty," it was, according to Michael Ignatieff, Berlin's authorized biographer, "the most influential lecture he ever delivered." Read more... A Bill That Will Profoundly Divide Canada - Cardinal Marc OuelletCardinal Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec, presented the following brief on behalf of the Canadian bishops’ conference, on Bill C-38, the bill redefining marriage, to the members of the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. Read more... A Critical Test for Democrats - Colleen Carroll CampbellCritics of Obamacare have argued that the Democratic Party's health care reform plan is a stalking horse for socialized medicine and taxpayer-funded abortion. Read more... A crucial link between Church and State - Fr. Raymond de SouzaOn occasions a genuine superstar is appointed as ambassador, one who lends lustre to the profession of diplomacy. Read more... A Cure for Political Depression - Peggy NoonanGreat leaders of the past should inspire, not intimidate. Read more... A Lie or a Terminological Inexactitude? - Donald DeMarcoWinston Churchill deserves the credit for replacing the word "lies" with the "fabrication of terminological inexactitudes." Read more... A Man for all Seasons: an Historian's Demur - Marvin O'ConnellConscience for St. Thomas More was the right to be right, not the right to be wrong. Read more... A Man for This Season, and All Seasons - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.Why does Thomas More still matter? Why does he matter right now? Read more... A New Order of Religious Freedom - Father Richard John NeuhausThe great problem today is not the threat that religion poses to public life, but the threat that the state, presuming to embody public life, poses to religion. Read more... A Philosophical and Historical Analysis of Modern Democracy,on the American - Rev. Joseph M. de TorreThe concept of democracy was born in Greece, but did not come to maturity in that culture, mainly because of their poor concept of equality. The impact of Christianity was necessary in order to achieve a full awareness of the fundamental equality of all men, which was generally absent outside the Biblical tradition. Read more... A Year of Living Dangerously - Francis FukuyamaThere is good reason for thinking that a critical source of contemporary radical Islamism lies not in the Middle East, but in Western Europe. Read more... Alito and the Catholics - Joseph BottumThis may be the best time in American history to be a Catholic, and it may also be the worst: a moment of triumph after 200 years of outsiderness, and an occasion of mockery and shame. Read more... America through Arab Eyes - Nicholas Jubber and Michael HirstThe “war on terrorism” cannot be separated from the conflict between Israel and Palestine, nor from the effort to achieve stable and effective government in the Arab world. Read more... American Patriotism: A View from Abroad - Donald DeMarcoGrowing up in Massachusetts, I naturally imbibed a patriotic atmosphere. In the movies I was treated to the foot-tapping music of George M. Cohan performed with patriotic gusto by the inimitable Jimmy Cagney. In school, we were obliged to memorize Sit Walter Scott's "The Lay of the Last Minstrel". The intimidating power of the opening lines has never left me. Read more... America’s Ten Commandments - Michael NovakAll over the country, the ACLU has been filing suits to remove the Ten Commandments from public buildings, winning some, losing some. The oddest thing is, if the ACLU project of removing God from public testimony should win, their victory would hurt the ACLU most of all. Read more... An American Afghani’s Remarks - Tamim AnsaryI've been hearing a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age." I heard some TV pundit discussing whether we "have the belly to do what must be done." I thought about the issues being raised especially hard because I am from Afghanistan, and even though I've lived here for 35 years I've never lost track of what's going on there. So I want to tell anyone who will listen how it all looks from where I'm standing. Read more... An Anglican future, made in Africa - Father Raymond J. de SouzaIt has been remarked for a long time that the centre of gravity in the Christian world is shifting from north to south, from North America and Europe to Africa and Asia. The meeting of Anglican Primates this past week in Tanzania might be marked as the moment when that shift made its first global impact. Read more... An Open Letter to Senator Patrick Leahy - George WeigelBecause you’re the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, your performance during the upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge John Roberts will tell the country a lot about the constitutional and moral priorities of the Democratic Party and the party’s sense of fair play. Read more... Assessing What is at Issue in This War - James V. Schall, S.J.As the ongoing, escalating war shows, the meaning of the contemporary rise of Islam is, ultimately, that we have reached the end of a theory of "tolerance" that refuses to understand the nature and consequences of ideas, religious, scientific, and political. Read more... Benedict XVI and the Irrelevance of 'Relevance' - Samuel GreggOver the seven years of Benedict XVI's papacy, it's been instructive to watch the shifting critiques of this pontificate. Read more... Better Citizens, More Faithful Catholics - Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. CAPHere are ten simple points to remember as we move toward November. Read more... Beware of Greeks when bearing gifts - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThe twists and turns of the euro crisis, with trillion-euro solutions being conjured by the big brains of the financial world, make it rather hard to know exactly what is happening, even for those of us who were once economists. Read more... Bush’s Words at the National Prayer Breakfast - ZenitHere is an excerpt from President George W. Bush’s address delivered at the National Prayer Breakfast, in the Hilton Hotel, on Feb. 1. Read more... C.S. Lewis and Public Life How Should People of Faith Talk about Political - Discovery InstituteChristians and other people of faith often disagree about how to articulate their moral concerns in the public arena. As religious people are often attacked for how they articulate their views in public, determining the appropriate language to use when dealing with political issues is one of the most pressing tasks for civic-minded people of faith today. C.S. Lewis has much to say on the topic of framing moral issues, and the essays in this chapter focus on this aspect of his writings. Read more... Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Fri Apr 19 2013 - 18:48:33
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