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We have arrived at a unique moment, and just perhaps a critical moment, in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States.
We have arrived at a unique moment, and just perhaps a critical moment, in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States.
Thanks to Iceland's volcano, I was stranded here in Rome for a few extra days.
Stupak may be the last one standing. What is even sadder at this moment and illuminating is that Stupak himself seems bewildered to the point of what we used to call punch-drunk.
Precisely fifty years after the memorable speech that John F. Kennedy gave to the Protestant pastors of Houston in order to convince them and the entire nation that as a Catholic he could be a good president, the archbishop of Denver, Charles J. Chaput, has returned to the scene of the crime, in Houston, for a Baptist conference on the role of Christians in public life.
Not many folks in Washington have made Nancy Pelosi cry "uncle." Bart Stupak is one of the few.
On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev transferred the Soviet nuclear codes to Boris Yeltsin, called President George H.W. Bush to wish him a happy Christmas, and picked up a pen, intending to sign the document that would dissolve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, created by Lenin seventy-four years before.
Someone ought to tell the president and the speaker of the House that they are creating a new Bob Casey problem for their party. And his name is Bart Stupak.
Oct. 1, 2009, marked the 60th anniversary of communist rule in mainland China. To mark the occasion, Father Raymond J. de Souza examines the countrys failed promise.
It is not an exaggeration to say we are near a Constantinian moment for the Chinese Empire, as the government looks to Christianity -- particularly Catholicism -- for an instrument of social cohesion.
In his much anticipated third encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Love in Truth), Pope Benedict XVI does not focus on specific systems of economics -- he is not attempting to shore up anyone's political agenda.