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The Pope on 'Love in Truth' - Father Robert Sirico

In his much anticipated third encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Love in Truth), Pope Benedict XVI does not focus on specific systems of economics -- he is not attempting to shore up anyone's political agenda. Read more...

The Pope Was Right - George Weigel

In a brilliant lecture at the University of Regensburg last week, Pope Benedict XVI made three crucial points that are now in danger of being lost in the polemics about his supposedly offensive comments about Islam. Read more...

The porous line between Church and State - Father Raymond J. de Souza

“Co-operation” between church and state? We needn’t even go that far. It would be a step forward to simply recognize that religious believers are as much citizens as are secularists. Read more...

The Question of Good and Evil - Charles Colson

This past weekend, an historian remarked that the twentieth century in America will be divided into two eras. The first half of the century will have been defined by Franklin Roosevelt and the second half by Ronald Reagan. Read more...

The Reagan Moral Vision - Rev. Robert A. Sirico

The passing of President Ronald Reagan into eternity is evoking an array of emotions and thoughts. People recall his winsome and shining character, his classic American optimism. That is in sharp contrast to what his critics always assailed as his intellectual shallowness. Read more...

The Realism of the Incarnation, and Our Present Circumstances - George Weigel

The Gospel reading for the vigil Mass of Christmas Eve is the genealogy of Jesus according to Matthew: a terror to priests and deacons with poor Hebrew pronunciation and a bore to most congregants. Read more...

The Religious Heritage of American Democracy - JOSEPH F. COSTANZO

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

The religious war against all of us - Father Raymond J. de Souza

“We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint,” Steve Centanni said. Read more...

The Secularism of the West - Richard John Neuhaus

We have all heard it said that the war on terrorism pits liberal democracy against religious fanaticism. There is a measure of truth in that. Others say the conflict is between a secular understanding of society and a society defined by religiously based morality. That, I suggest, is both untrue and dangerous. Read more...

The Secularization of the Supreme Court - James Hitchcock

American courts are taking a steadily more suspicious attitude toward religious interests, and the trend is likely to continue unless Catholics and their allies take a keen interest in future judicial appointments. Read more...

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