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Home: Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Christmas 1981: A Candle That Burned Bright for Freedom 25 Years Ago - Paul KengorIt's difficult to explain how much the world has changed in 25 years — and for the better. Those who lived through December 1981 would be well served to pause and give thanks for the differences. Read more... Coming to a human rights commission near you - Rex MurphyOur esteemed human rights commissions are so busy these days, it worries me. The number of these gimlet-eyed scrutineers is, after all, finite. Read more... Conscience, Coercion, and Healthcare - Helen Alvare, Gerard V. Bradley and O. Carter SneadNever before in American history has any administration – state or federal – been so willing to force religious institutions out of business. Read more... Correctly squelched - Margaret SomervilleA first-person account of manning the barricades against political correctness. Read more... Corruption, Communism, and Catholicism in Vietnam - Samuel GreggThis year marks the 20th anniversary of Communism’s defeat in Central-East Europe. Read more... Crucifix out, warming in - Rex MurphyWhat was once venerated is now, in many ways, dismissed and even despised. Read more... CS Lewis on “Xmas and Christmas” - Charles J. ChaputFifty years ago C.S. Lewis published an ironic little essay called, "Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus." Read more... Cultural suicide - Lorne GunterPolitical correctness will be the death of Western civilization because unlike our earlier forms of pluralistic tolerance, PC is wilfully blind to the lack of reciprocal tolerance in other cultures. Read more... Destructive Delusions - Theodore DalrympleHow therapists and 'victims' seized on the idea of repressed memory, leveling false charges and ruining lives. Read more... Discriminating Against Religion - Dinesh D'SouzaDinesh D'Souza raises some provocative questions and inconsistencies in First Amendment jurisprudence. Read more... Diversity Run Amok - Donald DeMarcoA recent Supreme Court decision holds dire implications for Christians who would like to form a club on a university campus. Read more... Does Sex Ed Undermine Parental Rights? - Robert P. George & Melissa MoschellaImagine you have a 10- or 11-year-old child, just entering a public middle school. How would you feel if, as part of a class ostensibly about the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, he and his classmates were given "risk cards" that graphically named a variety of solitary and mutual sex acts? Read more... Dogma Bites Man - George H. Gallup, Jr.On the new and biased research linking faith and social ills. Read more... Domestic Disturbances - Patrick FaganThe culture of the traditional family is now in intense competition with a very different culture. The defining difference between the two is the sexual ideal each embraces. Read more... Domination of church by state - Ted ByfieldCanada's ideological left, confident of its control of academe, the Supreme Court and the federal Liberal Party, appeared this month ready to declare war on its most formidable enemy of all, namely conservative Christian churches that refuse to make their teachings conform to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as defined by the Supreme Court. Read more... Down Syndrome: On Holy Ground - Mary O'CallaghanAs a Holy Cross Priest at Notre Dame reminded us last week, those of us who care for individuals with cognitive handicaps stand on holy ground. Read more... Due Process - Ronald J. Rychlak"I thank Ronald Rychlak for picking up this challenge. We are all in his debt. He has made an enormous contribution to the healing of relations among Catholics and Jews, and to the possibility of discussing important parts of our mutual past in a factual and discriminating way." - Michael Novak Read more... Earning Our Trust - Charles ColsonThe persecution of Christians in India. Read more... Egypt's war on Christians - Father Raymond J. de SouzaBefore, the government simply ignored anti-Coptic violence. Now, the Army has joined in. Read more... Equality: How So? - Matthew HanleyIn the United Kingdom, a sweeping piece of proposed legislation known as the “Equality Bill” sought to install various homosexual “rights” and cast opposition to them as discrimination. Benedict XVI said it would have imposed “unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs.” Read more... Escaping the tyranny - John PontifexCatholic leaders in Damascus are grappling with a massive 25,000 refugees desperate to escape the ethnic cleansing that is sweeping Iraq. Read more... Extremism? Whose extremism? - George Weigel"Extremism" has become code in certain circles for any potential federal jurist who is convinced that Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood got it wrong. Yet why is that judgment an "extreme" position? Read more... Faith, Science and the Persecution of Richard Sternberg - Benjamin D. WikerA fellow Catholic is now being persecuted, in no small part, because of his religion. You haven’t heard about it — nor are you likely to — precisely because it is just the kind of story the reigning media assiduously ignore. Read more... Father Pro: A Mexican Hero - Robert RoyalMiguel Pro and the other Mexican martyrs provided millions of people with inspiration to resist the most anti-Catholic government ever seen in the Americas. Read more... Fighting for The Right to Be Wrong - Kevin Seamus HassonKevin Seamus Hasson is founder and chairman of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a law firm specializing in religious freedom and the author of the recently released The Right to Be Wrong: Ending the Culture War Over Religion in America. Hasson recently talked to NRO about the book and Becket's work Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Thu Feb 09 2012 - 20:02:46
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