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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...

The Ten Commandments Controversy - Michael Novak

On August 27 of this year, under the direction of U.S. District Court Judge Myron Thompson, a small monument (not even four feet high) of the Ten Commandments was removed from the back end of the towering rotunda in the Alabama state courthouse. Read more...

The Trouble with Loyalty - Peggy Noonan

In politics, ideas are more important than people — or at least they should be. Read more...

The Truths They Held: The Christian and Natural Law Background to the Ameri - ROBERT R. REILLY

The American Constitution embodies, and is only comprehensible, in light of Christian and (pre-modern) natural law assumptions. Read more...

The Virtue of Leadership - DONALD DEMARCO

A leadership vacuum exists in our culture. Most people who have thought seriously about the matter agree. Moreover, this is not a matter for mere casual observation, but one that elicits a strong sense of deprivation. We need leaders; and they are as cherished as they are rare. Read more...

The Vocation of Christians in American Public Life - Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

Precisely fifty years after the memorable speech that John F. Kennedy gave to the Protestant pastors of Houston in order to convince them and the entire nation that as a Catholic he could be a good president, the archbishop of Denver, Charles J. Chaput, has returned to the scene of the crime, in Houston, for a Baptist conference on the role of Christians in public life. Read more...

The War Against Jihadism - George Weigel

Why can't we call the enemy by its name? Read more...

The wrong side of the fence - Father Raymond J. de Souza

The new Israeli government elected on Tuesday is expected to embrace unilateral disengagement — to separate, metaphorically and literally, Israelis and Palestinians. Read more...

There Is No Catholic Vote - Joseph Bottum

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

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