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Defending Religious Freedom in Full - George Weigel

We have arrived at a unique moment, and just perhaps a critical moment, in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States.   Read more...

Democratic Church - ADRIAN KARATNYCKY

One of the untold stories of the late twentieth century is that dictatorship has been virtually eliminated in countries with a Catholic majority.  Read more...

Difficult Days Ahead for the Church? - Monsignor Charles Pope

My remarks will be brief, since this is not a political blog, and I am not a political prognosticator.   Read more...

Discipleship and Democracy - Archbishop Charles Chaput

If I had a single, basic observation about the way we've lived as American Catholics for the last 40 years, it's this: We've been too polite and too timid.  Read more...

Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding the participation of Catholics in political life - The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

The present Doctrinal Note is directed to the Bishops of the Catholic Church and, in a particular way, to Catholic politicians and all lay members of the faithful called to participate in the political life of democratic societies.  Read more...

Does Islam need the Pope? - Fr. Raymond J. de Souza

The question — Does Islam need the Pope? — presumes a prior premise, which is that Islam faces a challenge in which the Pope is well-suited to provide assistance.  Read more...

Europe vs. Human Rights - Nina Shea

Americans were shocked when our European allies took the lead in ousting us from the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Having served as a member of the U.S. delegation at the recently concluded annual session of the commission, I was less surprised. Contrary to reports in the media, the ouster was not a reaction to American “unilateralism” on issues such as missile defense and global warming. Rather, the Europeans’ action reflects the abandonment of their historical commitment to human rights.  Read more...

Europe's Problem — and Ours - George Weigel

These difficult first years of the twenty-first century have taught us the importance of reading world politics in new ways. Europe’s crisis of civilizational morale teaches us that, while there are many lenses through which history can be read, theological lenses help us to see deeper, farther, and more truly.  Read more...

Europe, Christianity, and the Thought of Christopher Dawson - Gerald Russello

A European Constitution that lacks any reference to the continent's Christian roots would be a sign of a dangerous historical blindness, warns a devotee of Catholic historian Christopher Dawson.  Read more...

Europe, Immigration, and Merkel’s Christian Values - Samuel Gregg

It’s not often senior European political leaders make politically-incorrect statements, but Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has recently made a habit of it.   Read more...

Exiles on the Way Home - George Weigel

He was an amazingly prolific writer, but the late Father Richard John Neuhaus was also finicky about writing.   Read more...

Faith and Patriotism - Archbishop Charles Chaput

The theologian Karl Barth once said, "To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world."  Read more...

Faith Talk - J. BOTTUM & WILLIAM KRISTOL

In the long decades spent chasing religion from America’s public life, a kind of amnesia settled in, and we forgot what public religion actually is.  Read more...

Faithful leadership - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM. Cap.

Leadership requires two virtues that seem very simple until they become very inconvenient: honesty and courage.   Read more...

For the government, what counts as Catholic? - John Garvey

The dispute over the Department of Health and Human Services’ new regulations mandating that employers provide contraception coverage has been framed by opponents of the rules as a fight over religious liberty. And so it is.   Read more...

Francisco Suarez (1548-1617) - Acton Institute

"...if a legitimate prince governs tyrannically and no other means of self-defence can be found than the expulsion and deposition of the king, then the people, acting as a whole...may depose him."  Read more...

George Weigel’s newest book focuses on theological roots of Islamic terrorism, gives possible soluti - Catholic News Service

CNA had an opportunity to talk with George Weigel about his latest book and discuss the current dialogue with Islam.  Read more...

Getting religious liberty wrong - Rev. Raymond J. de Souza

On Monday, the Archbishop of Canterbury’ took back what he said last week about the “inevitability” of accommodating shariah law in Britain.  Read more...

Giving up on democracy? - Father Raymond J. de Souza

Italy's unelected 'governo tecnico' may be part of a trend.   Read more...

Globalization and the Church’s New Challenges - Mary Ann Glendon

Harvard Law School professor Mary Ann Glendon gave this address at the April 25-28 General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, on "Globalization and the Common Humanity: Ethical and Institutional Concerns."  Read more...

Globalization’s Dark Side - Michel Schooyans

Would a One-World Government Protect Real Human Rights? The United Nations is embracing a type of globalization that would radically redefine rights and the power of nations. Here, is an adapted excerpt from an essay by Michel Schooyans, professor emeritus at Louvain University, on the problems of globalization.  Read more...

God and Washington - Steve Farrell

George Washington, perhaps more than any other Founder, saw the hand of God everywhere: early on in his life, in the French and Indian War, in the American Revolution, and in the establishment of the American Government under the US Constitution. And, judging by the volume of quotes he made on this subject, George Washington was not afraid to make his thoughts and feelings known.  Read more...

Gordon Brown amongst the peasants - Rex Murphy

Short of setting his hair on fire while simultaneously high-diving into a crate of upturned pitchforks, I can’t think of too many things Gordon Brown left out of his generous self-sabotage during the just-concluded British election campaign.   Read more...

Haiti’s Apocalypse - Theodore Dalrymple

This week’s earthquake adds a nightmarish chapter to a tragic history.  Read more...

Harassment and hostility, or healing and harmony? - Father Raymond J. de Souza

The proposed Cordoba House community centre, or Ground Zero mosque, on Park Place would find itself between the Dakota Roadhouse and the Amish Market.   Read more...


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