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Home: Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... 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... 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... Government restrictions will eliminate spirituality that makes religious programs work - Rev. Robert SiricoEffective private charities focus on human and spiritual, not just material needs. Read more... Hate Crimes - David SislerQuestion: When is a hate crime not a hate crime? Answer: (a) when the crime is perpetrated against a Christian, (b) when the crime is committed against a heterosexual by a homosexual, (c) all of the above. Read more... HHS’s birth-control rules intrude on Catholic values - John GarveyIt does not take a college education to see the hypocrisy in offering to pay for the very services we condemn in our theology classes and seek forgiveness for in our sacraments. Read more... High Noon at Sunrise Rock - Christopher LevenickIf Buono v. Norton stands, the distance between the cross at Sunrise Rock and the headstones at Arlington National Cemetery will have effectively disappeared. It is only a matter of time until someone visits that field of heroes and takes offense at all the religious symbols inscribed in marble. Read more... His wrath upon their heads - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThe blood of Baghdad screams out to heaven and earth. Read more... Hitchens' flat world - Rev. Raymond de SouzaAt a certain point in reading God is not Great, Christopher Hitchens’ broadside against religion as a false, immoral, man-made construction, I half-expected Hitchens to write that if God were real and omnipotent, and consequently Hitchens so wrong, then God should have arranged things so as to prevent him from writing his book. Read more... How Father Desbois Became a Holocaust Memory Keeper - Jordana HornFather Patrick Desbois is a French Catholic priest who, virtually single -handedly, has undertaken the task of excavating the history of previously undocumented Jewish victims of the Holocaust in the former Soviet Union, including an estimated 1.5 million people who were murdered in Ukraine. Read more... How to End 'Islamophobia' - Tawfik HamidThe latest survey of American Muslims won't reassure their fellow citizens. Read more... How Your Kid's Soccer Ball Is Made - Mark EarlyThe next time you are watching your kids play soccer, I would like you to think about some other kids, halfway around the world, and their soccer balls. Because unlike your children, for whom the ball is a symbol of childhood, for children in India the ball is often a symbol of stolen childhood. Read more... Human Rights at 60 - Joseph LoconteThey aren't what they used to be. Read more... Icebreaker for liberty - Father Raymond J. de SouzaFriends of Ezra Levant find themselves making the same phone call at least annually. Read more... In Defense of Certainty - Charles KrauthammerIt's trendy to be suspicious of people with "deeply held views." And it's wrong. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Thu Feb 09 2012 - 20:02:47
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