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There Is No Catholic Vote - Joseph Bottum

But on social policy, everyone now speaks Catholic. Read more...

There Is Power in Religious Language - Terry Mattingly

White House scribe Michael Gerson's telephone rang with a vengeance after the 2003 State of the Union address and its claim that there is "power, wonder-working power, in the goodness and idealism and faith of the American people." Read more...

There's always hope - George J. Marlin

The Bible is as relevant today as at any point in its 400 year history, according to British Prime Minister David Cameron. Read more...

Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State - John W. Whitehead and Casey Mattox

In his latest book, "Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State", Daniel Dreisbach exposes the history of the wall metaphor and argues that the wall is rooted in anti-Catholicism and the fear of religious influence on public life. Read more...

Thomas Jefferson's Wall of Separation - Daniel L. Dreisbach

Two hundred years ago this New Year's Day, Thomas Jefferson penned a letter to a Baptist association in Danbury, Connecticut in which he said the First Amendment built "a wall of separation between church and state." Read more...

Totaled Utopia - Thomas C. Reeves

For the utopian, heaven on earth seems only a leader or an idea away, but, alas, there is always some sort of religious or reactionary obstacle to overcome. Read more...

Trading the Gospel for the fads of politics - Father Raymond J. de Souza

Two of the world’s most famous clergymen marked birthdays this past week — Archbishop Desmond Tutu turned 75 on Saturday, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson turned 65 the day after. Read more...

UN Globalization Efforts Progress - Mary Jo Anderson

Mary Jo Anderson urges us not to be fooled by UN manipulation of religious traditions for its own destructive ends. Read more...

Ungodly Ways: The Dark Side of the European Union - Mary Jo Anderson

The EU is the single best hope in reviving the plummeting European economy. Unfortunately, it may do so at the expense of Catholicism. Mary Jo Anderson looks at why the EU has become the Church’s greatest enemy in Europe. Read more...

Unprepared for spiritual battle - Father George William Rutler

In February of 1943, the ill-prepared United States Army II Corps valiantly fought against the German-Italian Panzer Army at the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia but had to retreat. Read more...

Up or Down - Charles Colson

Never before in American history have judges been filibustered. Read more...

Vaclav Havel's Dissident Criticism - Peter Augustine Lawler

The most powerful, courageous, penetrating, and eloquent dissident opponents of Communist tyranny were Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Czech philosopher-playright-president Vaclav Havel (1936-December 18, 2011). Read more...

Views on Islam - Benazir Bhutto & David F. Forte

Does the radical form of Islam behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, represent true Islam? or is it an aberration? Is Islamic doctrine compatible with religious pluralism and constitutional democracy? How are we to think of Islam in the context of the war against terrorism? The former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto and David F. Forte respond. Read more...

Voting Pro-Life - Grace D. MacKinnon

Dear Grace: In this election, many candidates seek our support. As Catholics, how can we support politicians who mix their stands and thus make it difficult to determine whether thay truly represent our beliefs as Catholics? Should we vote? And is it a mortal sin to vote for a candidate who is pro-choice when his opponent is pro-life? Read more...

Voting to Make a Difference - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.

When I am tempted not to vote I think back to a story I once heard about a certain Aunt Katherine who died a few years ago. Read more...

Walking the Papal tightrope - Father Raymond J. de Souza

The week-long coverage of the papal visit to the Middle East continues with the Pope treading through the minefield of Israeli-Palestinian politics. Read more...

Wanted: Pro-Life Democrats - Fr. Thomas Williams, L.C.

Rather than asking Catholicism to embrace its antithesis, why not forge a true “big tent” Democratic party where all are welcome, even those who are pro-life? Read more...

We Hold These Truths and More: Further Catholic Reflections on the American - DON D'ELIA

Although there is a secularistic stream in the nation's history, it is not the only American tradition. Read more...

We Need His Kind - Peggy Noonan

In praise of Rick Santorum. Read more...

What Europe Really Needs - Paul Johnson

The Continent has turned its back on both the past and the future. Read more...

What Happened at Fatima - Joseph Bottum

Here's a curious thought. Maybe the single most important person in the 20th century's long struggle against communism wasn't Ronald Reagan. Maybe it wasn't Karol Wojtyla or Margaret Thatcher. Maybe it wasn't anyone whose name might leap to a cold warrior's mind — for the most important figure in that long, dark struggle might have been a 10-year-old girl named Lucia dos Santos. Read more...

What Hezbollah wants - Robert Fulford

The warriors of Hezbollah, Party of God, are serious men fighting a serious war, but what inspires them? Read more...

What Should Catholics Think About Globalization? - Gregory Beabout

I just returned from a conference in South Korea on "The Effects of Globalization on Politics, Society and the Family." Read more...

What would Thomas More do? - Fr. Raymond de Souza

As this sorry sitting of the House of Commons draws to an end, St. Thomas More is strikingly relevant. Read more...

When Theory Meets Practice - Rev. Robert A. Sirico

Aristide's "liberation theology" became Haiti's problem. Plus the case against anger in politics. Read more...

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