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There are few personal confessions more likely to alienate many Americans than to admit to smoking.
There are few personal confessions more likely to alienate many Americans than to admit to smoking.
A federal byelection is not usually cause for bewilderment in Catholic circles, but last week that was exactly the situation in the Montreal suburban riding of Repentigny.
The question — Does Islam need the Pope? — presumes a prior premise, which is that Islam faces a challenge in which the Pope is well-suited to provide assistance.
In a brilliant lecture at the University of Regensburg last week, Pope Benedict XVI made three crucial points that are now in danger of being lost in the polemics about his supposedly offensive comments about Islam.
Over the 18 years I have known Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, I've formed some distinct impressions of the man.
We were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint, Steve Centanni said.
We are asking too much of our politicians.
Co-operation between church and state? We neednt even go that far. It would be a step forward to simply recognize that religious believers are as much citizens as are secularists.
The new Israeli government elected on Tuesday is expected to embrace unilateral disengagement to separate, metaphorically and literally, Israelis and Palestinians.
There is good reason for thinking that a critical source of contemporary radical Islamism lies not in the Middle East, but in Western Europe.
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