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Officials estimate at least 1.5 million people are in town for the historic swearing-in of our nation's first black...
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As a Jewish convert to Catholicism who desires ardently that everyone, especially my loved ones, should...
In response to Vice-President elect Joe Biden's erroneous public comments on the Catholic Church's teachings on abortion, USCCB Chairman Justin Cardinal Rigali released a statement asking:?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /
When does a new human life begin? When is there a new living organism of the human species, distinct from mother and father and ready to develop and mature if given a nurturing environment?
The answer, the cardinal concludes,...
\The election is over, and the changes are already beginning. For sincere Catholics, the most disappointing prospect is President-elect Barack Obama's complete embrace of the culture of death. He is dedicated not only to preserving the right to abortion, but actually to extending it. Unfortunately, he can make lots of changes quite quickly, and he almost certainly will do so.
Last year, Obama promised Planned Parenthood that his first act as president would be to sign a bill that he...
Ordinarily this column is devoted to people I have known. Our current national crisis is an excuse for me to mention three exceptions.
I cannot say I really knew Winston Churchill, but once my father took me to see him when he was visiting Bernard Baruch in Manhattan. He had no idea who I was but I remember his voice: "You are a good little boy." I took the detached protocol as an oracle. On November 10, 1942, after El Alamein, Churchill had said that the North African campaign was "not...
One of the great strengths of the Roman Republic was its courageous realism. When Hannibal defeated the Romans in the first great encounter between the two armies, a battle in northern Italy, the leaders of the city called the people together to give them the news, and the opening words of the announcement were these: "We have suffered a tremendous defeat." In their heyday, the Romans obviously did not believe in sugar-coating bad news.
Those of us in the pro-life movement need to imitate...
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Our choices matter. They hurtle before us into eternity, dragging us in their wake. And in this election, more than any in the ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /
The single most damning objection raised by atheists is this: Why would a loving, omnipotent God permit sin, suffering, and the eternal...
As a pro-life Catholic, I wouldn't vote for a politician with radical pro-choice views. And, for the most part, even those who disagree with me respect that position. But people begin to raise eyebrows when I say I believe that raising taxes on the wealthy to benefit the less well-off is wrong as well.?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /
How do I reconcile my obligation to promote social justice and embrace Jesus' teaching that "whatever you did for...
