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COMMENTARY: Sen. Tim Kaine’s declaration of dependence on our political leaders misses the point of America’s founding: Governments are instituted to secure our rights, not grant them.
EDITORIAL: The Supreme Court’s recent Montgomery County decision and the Archdiocese of Hamburg’s new pro-LGBT sex-education policy starkly contrast the two nations’ very different situations.
He was not only the lone Catholic to do so, but being the richest man in the colonies, Carroll was putting his entire fortune on the line along with his life.
COMMENTARY: One of the most vital services that Catholic Christians provide to our nation is our witness to truth and the reasonableness of reason. This is especially true of our witness to the natural moral law (knowable by all who use right reason) and to the norms of social justice.
‘Because God made us free, we have rights,’ said Archbishop Sheen. ‘Because God made us creatures, we have duties.’
BOOK PICKS: Reads for our times
In the very opening sentence of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson appeals to the authority of “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.”
BOOK PICK: On July 4, 1941, then-Msgr. Fulton Sheen published a book to stir America’s soul into realizing what its independence entailed and to warn Americans what they must do to keep it.
COMMENTARY: There’s no arguing it: The United States of America, as our founders conceived it, started in 1776.
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