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“Pro-Lifers Can Trust McCain”
BY Sen. Sam Brownback, R.-Kan.
February 10-16, 2008 Issue
I have been heartened to see such a lively discussion among
people of faith regarding the presidential election. Many are rightly concerned
about how best to ensure the protection of life, rebuild the family and renew
the culture in America.
I was disappointed, however, to read Mark Stricherz... READ MORE
McCain Sits Down for Life
BY Mark Stricherz
February 3-9, 2008 Issue
After he won the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries,
John McCain did not talk about abortion.
He did not pledge to appoint strict-constructionist judges
to the bench, much less to build a culture of life. He spoke of “our enduring
values,” but his definition was not exactly carved on... READ MORE
The Death of Irony
BY ANGELO MATERA Benedict and the Enemies of Reason
February 3-9, 2008 Issue
If irony abounds, but no one notices, does that mean irony
is dead? Or does it mean we’re living in the most ironic of all possible
worlds?
That’s the question that comes to mind watching the
intellectual controversies Pope Benedict XVI has had to confront on the world
stage in the past year... READ MORE
Company Kids
BY Melinda Selmys The Cluenessness Crisis. Part 2
February 3-9, 2008 Issue
Pope John Paul II spoke against an epidemic trend in modern
education — and particularly education in North America: to treat children not
as growing persons, but as potential employees.
“Financial needs
often induce people to give priority to academic learning, to the detriment of
the... READ MORE
Some Good Catholic Music
BY Webster Young
January 27- February 2, 2008 Issue
One of the present conundrums of the secular music world is
its inability to reject once and for all what is inferior in music and elevate
what is superior.
It has been pointed out by writers like R.H. Bottum in The
Christian Science Monitor that this is due to the existence of... READ MORE
The Cluelessness Crisis
BY Melinda Selmys Part 1: The 5 Essentials of Education
January 27- February 2, 2008 Issue
Five hundred years ago, a child was ready to start his life
at the age of 12 or 13. The Virgin Mary was about 13 or 14 when God considered
her capable of making history’s greatest act of human moral freedom.
As early as 100 years ago, the average young person was
ready to begin life at the age of... READ MORE
Christians Vs. Christ
BY Mark Shea
January 27- February 2, 2008 Issue
More than once since becoming Catholic, I have had
conversations with people who have been burned by fellow Christians and
declared in their anger, “I was a fool to believe in these people. I am
determined not to get fooled again.”
Not a few people, acting on this resolve, have left the
Church.... READ MORE
‘Catholics for Choice’ Is Neither
BY Donald DeMarco
January 20-26, 2008 Issue
Today, they are announcing campaign plans. But in the spring
2007 issue of Conscience, the publication of a nefarious group of abortion
promoters who call themselves, strangely enough, “Catholics for a Free Choice,”
announced its new president.
Jon O’Brien, who worked as program manager at... READ MORE
The Risk Of Love
BY MARK SHEA Life, Death and the ‘Hard Cases’
January 20-26, 2008 Issue
Recently a reader wrote me to say, “I read a story on the
Internet about a Catholic couple whose new baby was diagnosed with spina bifida
and anencephaly (no brain). They chose to abort it. How on earth would you deal
pastorally with such a horrible situation?”
Such questions involve several... READ MORE
Faith at the Abortion Center
BY Maria Vitale
January 20-26, 2008 Issue
It may sound incongruous to say, but I believe that I found
my faith at an abortion center.
Perhaps “rediscovered” is a more appropriate word.
I had been a lukewarm Catholic, attending Sunday Mass
(mostly), ignoring the sacrament of reconciliation, questioning some of the
teachings of the Holy... READ MORE
Pharmacists, Religious Liberty, and Conscience
BY Gerald J. Russello
January 13-19, 2008 Issue
There is some good news for religious liberty, for once. A
federal judge in Seattle ruled that state regulations requiring pharmacists to
stock and supply contraceptives (including the Plan B “emergency contraceptive”
pill), even when contrary to their religious beliefs, were unconstitutional.... READ MORE
Instrument of Peace
BY PAUL KENGOR Bill Clark, the Catholic Leader America Forgot
January 13-19, 2008 Issue
One of the most consequential Catholics of modern times is
also one of the least heralded and most enigmatic.
His name is William P. “Bill” Clark, known as “The Judge,” because
of his decade of service on the bench, including the California Supreme Court.
Those appointments followed his... READ MORE
Girl Fish, Boy Fish, ‘It’ Fish
BY DONALD DEMARCO
January 13-19, 2008 Issue
I have a friend in Quebec who wrote to Canada’s top
environmental guru, David Suzuki, asking him to consider how the “moral
environment” impacts on the “material environment,” a point that is missing
from Suzuki’s voluminous statements about the environment.
He received a terse... READ MORE
Comprehensive Abstinence Education
BY Jennifer Roback Morse
January 6-12, 2008 Issue
The running dispute between abstinence education and
comprehensive sex education flares up at least once a year around budget
request time.
Comprehensive sex education programs claim to teach
abstinence as the primary strategy, but also teach contraceptive use, just in
case. “Abstinence only... READ MORE
Voting In 2008
BY SUSAN E. WILLS New Guidance From Catholic Bishops
January 6-12, 2008 Issue
Since 1976, Catholic bishops of the United States have
released statements, commonly called “political responsibility” or “faithful
citizenship” statements, in the fall preceding presidential election years.
Their aim has been to enable Catholics to better “evaluate
policy positions,... READ MORE
New Year’s Gifts
BY Father Andrew McNair, LC
January 6-12, 2008 Issue
The new year marks the end of the “giving season.” With the
end of the tax year coinciding with “the holidays,” people give more to
charitable organizations than any other time. Everyone takes for granted that
others will follow the golden rule of giving — to honor the intention of... READ MORE
The Magi and Their Scientific Discovery
BY Donald DeMarco
Dec. 23, 2007 - Jan. 5, 2008 Issue
Christmas is about many things: a birth, a Savior,
festivity, fellowship, food, mirth and merriment, all blessings and
benefactions that account for its widespread and enduring popularity.
But there is an essential feature of Christmas that is often
overlooked, and one, therefore, that warrants... READ MORE
Benedict Contemplates Joseph
BY POPE BENEDICT XVI
Dec. 23, 2007 - Jan. 5, 2008 Issue
Christmas is a favorite holiday of Pope Benedict XVI, and
his Christmas meditations are among the finest anywhere. Here we offer his take
on the silence of St. Joseph.
In these last days of Advent, the liturgy invites us to
contemplate in a special way the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph, who lived... READ MORE
Herod Would Be Proud
BY Mark Shea
Dec. 23, 2007 - Jan. 5, 2008 Issue
A remarkably 19th-century Manichaean view of religion has
enjoyed rather a lot of favor in our press and among the manufacturers of
culture since Sept. 11, 2001.
Theologically illiterate to the bone and proudly hostile to
the bent knee, the new atheists appear to have learned nothing either from... READ MORE
The Human Ecology
BY Melinda Selmys Global Warnings: Part 3
December 16-22, 2007 Issue
Amid the haze of information darkening the environmental
horizons of planet earth, Christians of all stripes are often inclined to take
a reactionary approach.
Recycling, bike-riding, reforestation and species preservation
efforts become lumped together with aggressive population control and... READ MORE
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