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Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day - Abraham Lincoln

Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.  Read more...

Prophets of Davos - David Warren

Secularists reject the religious, but try to wrap themselves in prophetic robes – while failing at prediction.  Read more...

Putting God Back in the Public Square - ROY S. MOORE

Since the 1960s judicial activists have made a concerted effort to banish God from the public square.  Read more...

Quebec After Catholicism - Preston Jones

By the 1970s, many within Quebec's Catholic Church were forced to recognize that what they had really signed on to was, so to speak, their own death warrant.  Read more...

Quebec followed the wrong path - Father Raymond J. de Souza

For a long time, visitors to Montreal and Quebec City have commented upon their European character – a touch of the Danube or the Tiber on the shores of the St. Lawrence.   Read more...

Reaffirming Catholic Identity - George Weigel

Throughout his recently completed three-year term as president of United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Francis George, OMI, gently but firmly led his brother bishops through a reflection on their duties as defenders of the integrity of the Catholic "brand."  Read more...

Rebutting the 'Catholic but…' - Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted

Now is the time to rebut the “Catholic but…” It is the time to say “Yes” when we mean “Yes,” and to say “No” when we mean “No.”  Read more...

Reflections on the Inaugural Address - Yuval Levin

I watched today's speech from the Capitol lawn, with a million or so shivering fellow citizens.  Read more...

Religion in the public square - Father Raymond J. de Souza

Thanks to Iceland's volcano, I was stranded here in Rome for a few extra days.  Read more...

Religion, Rhetoric, and the Presidency - Michael Gerson

We couldn’t think of anyone better in the country to talk about religion and the presidency than the president’s own speechwriter. As many of you know, Michael Gerson has received high praise from people across the political spectrum for his speechwriting. We are delighted in light of his very busy schedule that he could join us today and talk to us about this topic. Thank you, Michael.  Read more...

Religious Freedom in America - Roger Scruton

When James Madison agitated to make religious freedom fundamental to the United States Constitution, it was not from hostility to religion. It was from hostility to established religion, with its presumption of an authority in worldly affairs that only an elected government should exercise.  Read more...

Religious voices belong in the public square - Father Raymond De Souza

The debate over homosexual unions has shed light on the current state of religious liberty in Canada. The news is not good, as the totalitarian impulse to silence religious voices has emerged.  Read more...

Rendering Unto Caesar: The Catholic Political Vocation - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

The following lecture was delivered on Monday evening, February 23, 2009, to a standing-room only audience in St. Basil’s Collegiate Church on the campus of the University of Toronto.  Read more...

Rites and Wrongs - Philip F. Lawler

Why John Kerry should not take communion.  Read more...

Ruth Kelly, Myth-Breaker - George Weigel

Late last year, when Italian philosopher and cabinet minister Rocco Buttiglione was denied the post of European Minister of Justice because his convictions on sexual ethics and marriage were unacceptable to a gaggle of libertine Euro-parliamentarians, there was a certain plausibility to the whole exercise.  Read more...

Saint Pontius - Father Raymond J. de Souza

Yes, Pilate had given the order, but he had washed his hands of it. He was clearly personally opposed to the crucifixion. Politics just demanded that he not impose that view on a crowd which had other ideas.  Read more...

Sarkozy and European Secularism - Charles Colson

French President Nicholas Sarkozy is an unlikely scourge of European secularism: He is on his third marriage and has been called the “playboy president” by his critics.  Read more...

Selling a calling for a mess of pottage - Father Raymond J. de Souza

A federal byelection is not usually cause for bewilderment in Catholic circles, but last week that was exactly the situation in the Montreal suburban riding of Repentigny.   Read more...

Senator Santorum on Being Catholic and a Politician - Zenit

Some politicians say their function is to represent the views of their electors, and therefore, that they are not able to obey the Vatican or Catholic doctrine. Is this just an excuse, or is there a real conflict here?   Read more...

Separate, not silent, church - William Goodwin

Catholics with an intellectual faith can and should use their religious beliefs to inform their practical decision making.  Read more...

Social Leveling: Socialism and Secularism - Hunter Baker

Hunter Baker explains why utopian schemes or social leveling are dangerous to religious believers and warns us to "oppose it as it returns with ever softer and friendlier faces".  Read more...

Some Cold War Truths - George Weigel

On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev transferred the Soviet nuclear codes to Boris Yeltsin, called President George H.W. Bush to wish him a happy Christmas, and picked up a pen, intending to sign the document that would dissolve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, created by Lenin seventy-four years before.  Read more...

Statesmanship and its Betrayal - Mark Helprin

Does the private character of a political leader really matter?  Read more...

Subject to the Governor of the Universe: The American Experience and Global Religious Liberty - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

A friend once said – I think shrewdly – that if people want to understand the United States, they need to read two documents. Neither one is the Declaration of Independence. Neither one is the Constitution.   Read more...

Tea Party Must Define Ideas - Father Robert A. Sirico

And so we come to what may be the real deficiency of this popular movement – it has yet to define a set of clear principles that permit it to consistently outline its view of society and the proper role of the state.  Read more...


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