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Home: Core Subjects: Politics and Government: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Politics and Government: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Marx, Christ and You - Donald DeMarcoWhen Karl Marx’s housekeeper bore him a son three months after his wife gave birth to their fourth child, his first thought was his reputation. In what biographer Francis Wheen refers to as “one of the first and most successful cover-ups for the greater good of the Communist cause,” Marx managed to get his close friend, Friedrich Engels, to take the blame, and the woman to give up her 5-week-old infant for adoption. Read more... Mormon in America - Peggy NoonanHow Mitt Romney came to give The Speech — and how he did. Read more... NARAL Catholics Line Up for Obama - William McGurnYou are the Democratic candidate for president. You want to reach out to Catholics. So what do you do when the majority of the elected officials on your National Catholic Advisory Council have the seal of approval from NARAL Pro-Choice America? Read more... Obama alienates Catholics - Colleen Carroll CampbellCatholics make up about a quarter of the American electorate and have backed the popular-vote winner in every presidential election since 1972. Read more... Obama and the Bishops - Father Richard John NeuhausAfter our recent elections, we must brace ourselves for very difficult times, keeping in mind that difficult times can be bracing. Read more... Obama Hovers From on High - Charles KrauthammerWhen President Obama returned from his first European trip, I observed that while over there he had been "acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray mediating" between America and the world. Now that Obama has returned from his "Muslim world" pilgrimage, even the left agrees. Read more... Obama's Abortion Extremism - Robert P. GeorgeBarack Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States. He is the most extreme pro-abortion member of the United States Senate. Indeed, he is the most extreme pro-abortion legislator ever to serve in either house of the United States Congress. Read more... Of Termites & Mad Dictators - Theodore DalrympleTo hate a tyrant is not to love liberty: rather more is required than that. Read more... Old Europe’s New Despotism - Samuel Gregg2005 marks the bicentenary of the birth of one of 19th century Europe’s most insightful political thinkers. Less well-known than Marx, Alexis de Tocqueville may have the last laugh when it comes to predicting accurately the course of history. Read more... On Being Catholic American - Joe VaracalliThe United States of America needs the Catholic worldview more than the Catholic faith requires the American experience. Read more... On Being Neither Liberal nor Conservative - Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.The division of the world into "liberal" and "conservative" on every topic from politics to our taste in cuisine, clothes, or automobiles is one of the really restricting developments that has ever happened to us. Read more... On Setting an Example - Peggy NoonanBeing a "beacon to the world" is more challenging than it sounds. Read more... One party can't defeat jihadism - George WeigelRepublicans and Democrats must learn how to argue the questions of faith and morals on this war through the art of reason and bipartisanship. Read more... Orestes Brownson (1803-1876) - Acton InstituteOrestes Brownson is not, at first sight, a philosopher of liberty. He was, to put it paradoxically, more attentive to the many ways in which freedom goes wrong than in the ways in which it goes right. Or, to put it another way, liberty never just "goes right" by itself. It is the truth that makes us free, not the freedom that makes the truth. Read more... Orestes Brownson and the Truth About America - Peter Augustine LawlerIf you attend Mass in the crypt of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame, you may be startled to notice, as you walk up to take communion, that your steps take you directly over the final resting place of Orestes A. Brownson (1803-1876). Read more... Playing Democrat At Columbia - Anne ApplebaumInstead of debating freedom of speech in Iran, we are talking about freedom of speech in America. Which is exactly what Ahmadinejad wanted. Read more... Playing Frisbee on a Precipice - Peggy NoonanAmerica's political class lacks the seriousness this moment demands. Read more... Politicians can't ignore their faith - Father Raymond De SouzaYesterday's Vatican document on the obligation of Catholic politicians to oppose legal recognition of homosexual unions can be summarized in one sentence: You can't believe two contradictory things at the same time. Read more... Politics and the devil: Living as Catholics in an age of unbelief - His Grace Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M.God and the devil, are very real – and that history is the stage where that struggle is played out, both in our personal choices and in our public actions; where human souls choose their sides and create their futures. Read more... Politics Without God?: Reflections on Europe and America - George WeigelAt the far western end of the axis that traverses Paris from the Louvre down the Champs Elysées and through the Arc de Triomphe is the Great Arch of La Défense. Designed by a sternly modernist Danish architect, the Great Arch is a colossal open cube: almost 40 stories tall, faced in glass and 2.47 acres of white Carrara marble. Read more... Pope Benedict provides “new public grammar” for reform of Islam, says George Weigel - Catholic News AgencyGeorge Weigel delivered a lecture on Thursday in which he argued that Pope Benedict XVI has provided a unique model for global understanding between Christianity, Western secularism and Islam. Read more... Prayer or politics? - Father Raymond J. de SouzaIt was an inauguration conspicuous in its religious dimension. Read more... Praying for Those to Be Elected - George WeigelThere will be much to ponder, once this interminable electoral cycle comes to an end. Read more... Pres. George W. Bush's Inauguration Speech - George W. Bush"Americans are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves. When this spirit of citizenship is missing, no government program can replace it. When this spirit is present, no wrong can stand against it." Read more... Presidential Spring Training - George WeigelIn late December 1959, Senator John F. Kennedy was annoyed by a news report that he was committed to running for president. Which, of course, he was — as everyone knew. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Tue Feb 07 2012 - 18:46:43
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