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Canonize Bill Buckley? No, I think not. Buckley, who passed away two and a half years ago, was a serious Catholic, but it’s a bit of a stretch to see him as material for canonization. Yet he stands …
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9/1/10
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If anything good is going to come from the WikiLeaks affair—the Internet dump of thousands of purloined classified documents from the war in Afghanistan along with their release to several print …
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8/13/10
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Next January it will be 38 years since the Supreme Court in its Roe v. Wade decision imposed the legalization of abortion on the entire United States. It’s hard to comprehend that Americans now …
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8/11/10
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From earliest days to modern times, Americans have been pleased to think of themselves as can-do people. Pioneers taming the wilderness, stupendous feats of production by American industry during …
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7/22/10
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As a sacrament mirroring Christ’s relationship with the Church, marriage truly is a profound mystery. But it is hardly less mysterious when considered simply as a human relationship between a woman …
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7/12/10
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A year ago this month President Barack Obama, in a much heralded speech in Cairo, included religious freedom in his list of seven issues of priority importance to America in its relations with …
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If I had the chance to ask just one question at the Senate confirmation hearings on Elena Kagan’s fitness to be a justice of the Supreme Court, it would be this: “What do you think of the natural …
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On December 6, 1965, as the Second Vatican Council drew to a close, the bishops who’d assembled in Rome from around the world capped four historic years of labor by voting 2,111 to 251 to accept …
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In the wake of passage of the health care bill, some Catholics are complaining that the bishops erred in the end by opposing the measure over the abortion issue. The hierarchy, it’s said, ought to …
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4/28/10
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It’s probably premature to think the latest furor over clergy sex abuse has begun to subside, but by no means is it too soon to draw some useful, troubling conclusions from what has happened so …
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4/14/10
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