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Home: Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Living within the truth - Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.Archbishop Charles Chaput provides a wide-ranging commentary on the role of the Church in today's world and calls upon Catholics in America and in Europe, to resist the world's intolerance of Christianity. Read more... Lord Have Mercy: A review of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Ross DouthatEvery talented writer is entitled to be a bore on at least one subject, but where religion is concerned Christopher Hitchens abuses the privilege. Read more... Maria Monk - Robert P. LockwoodAnti-Catholic newspapers were flourishing in the United States by the mid-1830s thanks to the wide appeal of a new genre: convent horror stories. Read more... Marking evil’s deepest roots - Father Raymond J. de SouzaWe so cavalierly use the past for our present purposes that it is remarked when someone demurs from doing so. Pope Benedict XVI went to Auschwitz last Sunday and delivered an address that was as breathtaking in its scope as it was heartrending in its poignancy. Read more... Martyrs of the Century - LLEWELLYN H. ROCKWELL JR.The assumption of most intellectuals and their media echo chamber is that believers, particularly Christians, are a danger to society and to liberty. Read more... Martyrs of Today - Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I.In the kingdom of God, it is never too late, whether to forgive the church's persecutors or to convert the enemies of the faith. Read more... Mention God? Don't you dare - Ben ShapiroBrittany McComb, valedictorian of Foothill High School in Clark County, Nevada, stood up at her graduation and began to speak. A few paragraphs into her speech, school administrators cut off McComb's microphone. Read more... Military outlaws - Father George W. RutlerThe Geneva Convention's classification of military chaplains as noncombatants has traditionally been interpreted in the United States to mean that chaplains normally do not carry weapons. Read more... Moral Clarity in Gaza - Charles KrauthammerSome geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. Read more... Moscow’s Assault on the Vatican - Lt. General Ion Mihai PacepaThe Soviet Union was never comfortable living in the same world with the Vatican. The most recent disclosures document that the Kremlin was prepared to go to any lengths to counter the Catholic Church’s strong anti-Communism. Read more... Mugabe's Roman Holiday - Anne ApplebaumWith an unerring sense of timing, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe arrived in Rome yesterday, thereby demonstrating the profound limitations of international diplomacy. Read more... Mumbai's The Word - Theodore DalrympleI once stayed at the Taj Mahal in Bombay (as it was then still called). I didn't enjoy it as much as I might have done, because I was recovering from the hepatitis I had contracted in the South Seas. Read more... Muzzling in the Name of Islam - Paul MarshallRepressive laws, supplemented and reinforced by terrorists, vigilantes and mob violence, are a fundamental barrier to open discussion and dissent. Read more... My Canada includes O Canada - Rex MurphyInclusive: adjective describing the act of halting, shutting down or banning any halfway normal practice or event enjoyed by a whole lot of people over a very long time because one or two people, now, don't like it. e.g., The company stopped sending out "Merry Christmas" cards because it wanted to be inclusive. Read more... National closing Mass of the Fortnight for Freedom - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.Paul Claudel, the French poet and diplomat of the last century, once described the Christian as “a man who knows what he is doing and where he is going in a world (that) no longer (knows) the difference between good and evil, yes and no. Read more... News that's fit to print - Father George RutlerOne assumes that The New York Times would have been glad to receive an Op-Ed article from the new Archbishop of New York. Read more... None So Blind: How Secularists Ignore the Value of Religion - Thomas E. Woods, Jr.It’s the same argument we’ve heard so many times before, except now with increasing frequency and intensity: the world’s troubles are caused by religion. If only people would at last abandon these silly superstitions and get with the times! Read more... Obama alienates Catholics - Colleen Carroll CampbellCatholics make up about a quarter of the American electorate and have backed the popular-vote winner in every presidential election since 1972. Read more... Oh God, Another Prayer Fight - David ShiflettA student senate tries to imitate the one in Washington. The ACLU is outraged. Read more... Olympic Fallacies - Anne ApplebaumNo wonder that everyone who hates or fears China, whether in Burma, Darfur, Tibet or Beijing, is calling for a boycott. Read more... On optimism and hope - Father George W. RutlerHope is a theological virtue. Optimism is not. Read more... On our list of rights, religion comes last - Robert FulfordCanada has become rather impatient with public manifestations of religious belief. Having decided we are a secular society, we assume that all institutions should follow secular rules, even if those rules keep changing. When religious beliefs collide with individual rights, we tend to come down on the non-religious side, if necessary using the courts to impose our vision of Canadian life. Read more... Ontario Court intrudes into an "Authentically Catholic Position" - CCRLThe Catholic Civil Rights League is astounded and fearful of the decision of Mr. Justice Robert McKinnon to grant an injunction to allow Marc Hall to bring his boyfriend to his Catholic school prom. Read more... Open season on Benedict - Michael CorenThe attacks upon the Roman Catholic Church following the Pope’s comments about the dangers of condom use in Africa in the attempt to prevent AIDS have been an extraordinary lesson in applied ignorance and the survival of prejudice. Read more... Opening a window on closed campus minds - Barbara KayA new documentary shows how repressive university political correctness has become. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Mon Apr 22 2013 - 18:52:54
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