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Home: Core Subjects: Politics and Government: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Politics and Government: LINKS_PAGEArticles:On Politics - Father James V. Schall, S.J.At election time, we hear of an "obligation" to vote. Read more... On Setting an Example - Peggy NoonanBeing a "beacon to the world" is more challenging than it sounds. Read more... One Nation, Under God? - Bruce ThorntonThe decline of religion in the United States has troubling consequences for public life. 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... Our First Right: Religious Liberty - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.The following remarks by Archbishop Charles Chaput were submitted to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. 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... Post-Comfortable Christianity and the Election of 2012 - Father George W. RutlerThis new period is not "Post-Christian" because nothing comes after Christ. We can, however, call it "Post-Comfortable Christian." 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... Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day - Abraham LincolnWhereas, 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 WarrenSecularists reject the religious, but try to wrap themselves in prophetic robes – while failing at prediction. Read more... Protecting St. Peter's - Father Raymond J. de SouzaItaly had an election this week. Then yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI's final audience in St. Peter's Square. The former absurdity is relevant to the solemnity of the upcoming conclave. Read more... Putting God Back in the Public Square - ROY S. MOORESince the 1960s judicial activists have made a concerted effort to banish God from the public square. Read more... Quebec After Catholicism - Preston JonesBy 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 SouzaFor 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 WeigelThroughout 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... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Fri Apr 19 2013 - 18:48:33
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