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Let Catholic Charities Be Catholic - Father Thomas D. Williams, LC.

Such fuss is being made over Boston’s Catholic Charities’ refusal to place children with same-sex couples in its adoption services. The political agenda behind the garment-rending and name-calling should have more than Catholics up in arms.  Read more...

Letter to President Bush - Pope John Paul II

The Holy Father responds to the tragedy of events in America.  Read more...

Let’s make a deal: Catholic conscience and compromise - His Grace Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M.

September is the month when election campaigns get serious. So it's also the traditional season for Catholic politicians to explain why their faith won't "dictate" their public actions.  Read more...

Liberalism's Three Assaults - THOMAS STORCK

Often it can be confusing to try to understand the troubles of the present day.  Read more...

Libya intervention brings no clarity to the duty of moral intervention - Father Raymond J. de Souza

The world does not need the Church to be a cheerleader for war, which always represents a failure of politics to secure liberty and justice. But what of those occasions when armed force is necessary to secure liberty and justice against a malevolent regime.  Read more...

Life in the 'Kingdom of Whatever' - The Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

The Reformation unintentionally undid the medieval synthesis of faith and reason. Now we romantically seek a spiritual life free from authority and tradition, or rationalistically seek truth as if human beings were autonomous and self-sufficient.  Read more...

Looking Back at Election Day - Cardinal Timothy Dolan

After asking me how our recovery from Hurricane Sandy is going, most folks these days then inquire about how I think "the Church did" on election day.  Read more...

Loyal to the Bitterness - Peggy Noonan

I am out of step. There is something that is upsetting others whom I care about and whose thoughts are often not unlike my own. And it's not hitting me the same way.  Read more...

Making History - Peggy Noonan

In appreciation of our country's founders and its greatest living historian.  Read more...

Marx, Christ and You - Donald DeMarco

When 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 Noonan

How Mitt Romney came to give The Speech — and how he did.  Read more...

NARAL Catholics Line Up for Obama - William McGurn

You 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...

No Compromise - George Weigel

The U.S. Catholic Bishops, united in defense of religious freedom.  Read more...

Obama alienates Catholics - Colleen Carroll Campbell

Catholics 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 Neuhaus

After our recent elections, we must brace ourselves for very difficult times, keeping in mind that difficult times can be bracing.   Read more...

Obama devolves - Robert R. Reilly

The President has twisted immutable truths in the Constitution and Christianity into their opposites.  Read more...

Obama Hovers From on High - Charles Krauthammer

When 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 the Apostate - David Catron

During a recent conversation about the HHS anti-conscience mandate, a friend who is neither Catholic nor particularly religious asked the following rhetorical question about the Obama administration: Do these people know who they're messing with?   Read more...

Obama's Abortion Extremism - Robert P. George

Barack 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...

Obama's attack on religious freedom will cost him - David Warren

Those with "envelopes to push," tend not to notice the moment when they have gone too far.   Read more...

Obama's Contraception Spin Machine - George Weigel

The administration misreads the Catholic Church yet again.  Read more...

Obamacare vs. the Constitution - Charles Krauthammer

Give him points for cleverness. President Obama’s birth control “accommodation” was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless.   Read more...

Of Termites & Mad Dictators - Theodore Dalrymple

To hate a tyrant is not to love liberty: rather more is required than that.  Read more...

Old Europe’s New Despotism - Samuel Gregg

2005 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 Varacalli

The United States of America needs the Catholic worldview more than the Catholic faith requires the American experience.   Read more...


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