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Home: Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... Fired, in a Crowded Theater - Meghan DukeCan a Catholic professor speak about homosexuality without risking his job? Meghan Duke on the case of Professor Ken Howell vs. the University of Illinois. Read more... First of Freedoms? - Mary Ann GlendonHow religious liberty could become a second-class right. Read more... Fr. Popielusko and Communist Poland - Robert RoyalAs early as 1966, something unprecedented in Communist-dominated countries had occurred. There was a powerful element of independent civil society in Poland linked directly with the Church. Read more... Framing the Religious-Liberty Issue - George WeigelThe U.S. Bishops' ad hoc committee sets the terms of debate. Read more... Frances Doesn't Get It - John MallonA recent essay by Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for a Free Choice, entitled, "Is There Life After Roe: How to Think About the Fetus" points out the absurdity of her organization's name better than many of her critics could. Read more... Freedom of Conscience - Father George RutlerOur many fellow Catholics now enchained for the Faith of our Fathers in such places as China, Syria, and Egypt are, as Father Faber's hymn says, "in heart and conscience free." But what happens when a government tries to chain the conscience itself? Read more... Freedom of Conscience, Tudor Style - Sean Murphy"No opposition, I say!" he roared. "No opposition! Your conscience is your own affair, but you are my Chancellor!" Read more... Freedoms should trump feelings - Colleen Carroll CampbellHeavy-handed, mushy-headed responses to real-life problems teach students victimhood rather than citizenship and do little to foster a climate of civil debate necessary for a free society. Read more... From Nigeria, a case study in fighting back - Father Raymond J. de SouzaChristian populations in Arab lands are too small to defend themselves. Not so in Africa. Read more... From the mouth of mullahs - Michael CorenThe timing could not be more apposite. After the humorless banalities of the CBC’s Little Mosque on the Prairie come the grotesque realities of Channel 4’s Undercover Mosque in the U.K. Read more... General Bashir’s Genocide, Again - Nina SheaDarfur would be Sudanese President Lt. General Omar Hassan al Bashir's second genocidal campaign against his countrymen. He waged the first against the Christian and animist people of south and central Sudan, with most of the deaths occurring over a decade beginning in the early '90s and 2002. As Elie Wiesel wrote about the south, it was "genocide in slow motion." Read more... Getting away with hate crimes - IAN HUNTERWhat these Visigoths did was to vandalize and desecrate a holy place. Read more... Global religious persecution - Doug BandowA Pew foundation study looks at the troubled position of religious belief in most countries in the world. Read more... God and Gettysburg - Robert P. GeorgeNothing is sacred, as it were – not even the facts of American history, not even the words spoken by Abraham Lincoln at the most solemn ceremony of our nation's history. Read more... God Killing Kiddie Flick Disappoints - Pete Vere & Sandra MieselPhillip Pullman has been much more circumspect about his atheism now that the movie, The Golden Compass is out, telling interviewers that he's only writing against "authoritarianism" in religion. But in a just-released book on Pullman's trilogy, Pete Vere and Sandra Meisel reveal him for what he is, the Pied Piper of Atheism. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Sun May 19 2013 - 14:09:50
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