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"When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude."

- Theodore Dalrymple

 

Obama makes war

ObamaCare and Religious Freedom - Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan

How about some respect for Catholics and others who object to treating pregnancy as a disease?

Flood the Zone - David Brooks - New York Times

You have to include religious institutions and you have to give them broad leeway. Religious faith is quirky, and doesn’t always conform to contemporary norms. But faith motivates people to serve. Faith turns lives around.

150-Plus Bishops Speak Out Against HHS Mandate - NCRegister

Action alerts and letters from Catholic shepherds counter administration's violation of Church beliefs and conscience rights. Updated from Feb. 1.



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The Tyrant - Father James V. Schall, S.J.

The tyrant is always among the most important figures to understand. Read more...

Man's search for meaning - Viktor Fankl

In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning. Read more...

Gendercide: when choice becomes an issue - Margaret Somerville

Indignation over sex-selection shows that abortion is not just a private matter. Read more...

Are the Gospels Myth? - Carl Olson

So, are the four Gospels "myth"? Can they be trusted as historical records? Read more...

Satan - Father George Rutler

Satan never looks like Satan. Read more...

A brilliant reign: Queen Elizabeth at 60 years on the throne - Conrad Black

It does not seem like 60 years ago that my late brother said to our half-asleep parents as we departed early for school: "There was a bug in my cereal, and by the way, the King is dead." Read more...

Do We Need the Department of Education? - Charles Murray

The case for the Department of Education could rest on one or more of three legs: its constitutional appropriateness, the existence of serious problems in education that could be solved only at the federal level, and/or its track record since it came into being. Let us consider these in order. Read more...

Getting It Right 'The Morning After' - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.

The "morning-after" pill, also known as "Plan B," is often provided in hospital emergency rooms to women who have been sexually assaulted. Read more...

The End of Charity - Theodore Dalrymple

That judgments in the past were harsh or unfeeling is, alas, the case. But that is a reason for refining our judgment, not for refraining from exercising it at all. Read more...

The New Singleness - Maggie Gallagher

In the cover story in a recent Atlantic magazine, Kate Bolick declares her liberation from marriage: "It's time to embrace new ideas about romance and family - and to acknowledge the end of 'traditional' marriage as society’s highest ideal." Read more...


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EDITORIALS OF INTEREST

Flood the Zone - New York Times
You have to include religious institutions and you have to give them broad leeway. Religious faith is quirky, and doesn’t always conform to contemporary norms. But faith motivates people to serve. Faith turns lives around.

The Media’s Abortion Blinders - New York Times
Even if some forms of partiality are inevitable, journalists betray their calling when they simply ignore self-evident truths about a story.

Obama plays his Catholic allies for fools - Washington Post
Whether President Obama has adopted a radical secularism out of conviction, or is cynically appealing to it, the war on religion is now declared.

Catholics plan counterattack - LA Times
The Church vows to use courts and legislation to fight requirement for religious employers to provide contraception, sterilization, and other morally objectionable medical services to workers.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World - Newsweek
She has been outspoken and relentless in her warnings that Islam is incompatible with Western values. Now, in Newsweek, she argues that Christians in Muslim countries are far more persecuted than Muslims in the West ever were.

Army gags chaplains - Vatican Insider
The U.S. Army prevented Catholic chaplains in the military services from reading a pastoral letter on the new HHS rules from the pulpit at masses on Sunday.

Last temptation of Castro - Get Religion
Fidel Castro will be received back into the communion of the Roman Catholic Church during Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the island in March, the Italian press is reporting.





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