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Religion, madness and secular paranoia - Michael Medved

Why would a major corporation invest big money in a gratuitous insult of millions of potential customers who, according to the company’s own figures, represent a clear majority of the American public?  Read more...

Religious faith promotes liberty, not intolerance - Robert A. Sirico

From political commentary to best-selling books, the message is that religion is a plot against free thought and an attempted imposition of doctrine and morals from on high.  Read more...

Religious Freedom in America - Roger Scruton

When James Madison agitated to make religious freedom fundamental to the United States Constitution, it was not from hostility to religion. It was from hostility to established religion, with its presumption of an authority in worldly affairs that only an elected government should exercise.  Read more...

Religious Liberty and Anti-Discrimination Laws - Joseph Kosten

Two recent events involving Roman Catholic hierarchy have once again brought the issue of religious liberty and state affairs into public view.  Read more...

Religious Liberty and Development of Doctrine in Islam - Michael Novak

By the year 2020, the Islamic nations of the Mediterranean Basin will resound with positive cries for democracy, human rights, individual liberty, and the dignity of every man, woman, and child.  Read more...

Religious Liberty vs. Civil Unions - Richard A. Epstein

Why is Illinois preventing the Catholic Church from doing charitable work?  Read more...

Remembering Raoul Wallenberg - Irwin Cotler

Today marks the 62nd anniversary of the 1945 disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg, the Second World War-era Swedish diplomat whom the United Nations has called "The greatest humanitarian of the 20th century."  Read more...

Repair my house: renewing the roots of religious liberty - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

Threats against religious freedom in our country are not imaginary. They're happening right now. They're immediate, serious, and real. If we don't press now and vigorously for our religious liberty in the public arena, we will lose it.   Read more...

Requiem for the Romanovs - Robert Moynihan

Russia today called to mind the events of July 17, 1918 -- 90 years ago -- when the last Russian czar, Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their children were executed.   Read more...

Root against the home team - Robert Fulford

How many citizens of China will be rooting for foreign athletes — any foreign athletes — at the Olympics in Beijing this August?   Read more...

Rosenthal refused to remain silent - Terry Mattingly

After his death, a Time editorial underlined the importance of a key Rosenthal statement about the Pentagon Papers: "When something important is going on, silence is a lie." That's a great quote, one that perfectly explains why Abe Rosenthal was so driven to write about religious persecution.  Read more...

Ruth Kelly, Myth-Breaker - George Weigel

Late last year, when Italian philosopher and cabinet minister Rocco Buttiglione was denied the post of European Minister of Justice because his convictions on sexual ethics and marriage were unacceptable to a gaggle of libertine Euro-parliamentarians, there was a certain plausibility to the whole exercise.  Read more...

Saving Civilization From Itself - Arthur Herman

Churchill understood that the Jews are the bedrock of Western tradition.  Read more...

Saving Iraq’s Christians - Father Raymond J. de Souza

This new decade has gotten off to a rough start for Christians living in the Islamic world.   Read more...

Say it loud and proud: 'Merry Christmas' - Theo Caldwell

One recent December, a tour guide on Canada's Parliament Hill was overheard referring to the "Christmas Trees" in the main hall.   Read more...

Scarlet Blight: Rutgers and Religious Freedom - Charles Colson

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is a campus ministry whose goal is to establish "witnessing communities of students and faculty who follow Jesus as Savior and Lord" on college campuses. Naturally, you expect these communities’ leaders to be followers of Christ themselves.  Read more...

Secularism and the Deeper Questions of Religion and Society - Iain T. Benson

In France over recent weeks the whole country has been debating the role of religion and the state.  Read more...

Seeing the Durban II farce for what it is - Barbara Kay

From its name -- the UN Durban Review Conference, which begins April 20 (Hitler’s birthday, appropriately enough) -- one might assume the conference is being held in Durban, South Africa. It isn’t.   Read more...

Sex Trafficking Goes Primetime - Charles Colson

Slave traffickers around the world have rediscovered how profitable it is to buy and sell people.  Read more...

Should We Mistrust Muslims? - Theodore Dalrymple

The latest terror plots are confronting tolerant Britons with uncomfortable choices.  Read more...

Show Trial - David Warren

The writings of Canada’s most talented journalist, Mark Steyn, went on trial in Vancouver on Monday, in a case designed to challenge freedom of the press.   Read more...

Shunning a truth-seeker - Rev. Raymond J. de Souza

‘Places where the Pope can’t go: Moscow, Beijing, University of Rome’.   Read more...

Solzhenitsyn and His Critics - John Couretas

The world justly celebrates the life of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a great man whose work and witness seems most aptly summed up in a single word: prophetic. But, as prophets are in a habit of doing, he made some people feel the needle who were sure they didn’t deserve it.  Read more...

Some prejudices are more equal than others - Philip Jenkins

The American media, usually painstaking in their efforts to offend members of no racial, religious or gender category, consistently make one major exception — the Roman Catholic Church. So argues Philip Jenkins, distinguished professor of history and religion at Penn State and an Episcopalian, in his new book "The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice".  Read more...

St. Edith Stein: Martyr for Truth - Robert Royal

The 20th century witnessed great advances in science and medicine. But it was not an era for truth.   Read more...


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