Catholic Exchange

Codifying Common Sense

• Archives
• Friday, July 11th, 2003
• Phillip De Vous

Regardless of what one may think about the specific forms that the Bush administration’s faith-based initiative has taken, it has been consistent in its affirmation of important first principles in dealing with faith-based groups.
To many, this may not seem… Read More

Respecting Private Charity

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• Wednesday, July 2nd, 2003
• Phillip De Vous

With red ink predicted as far as the eye can see due to soaring state and federal budget deficits and with overall economic recovery still a hope to be realized, there is one area of the economy that is thriving… Read More

No Alternative At All

• Archives
• Saturday, April 5th, 2003
• Phillip De Vous

It is a fact that certain ideas die hard, suffering a long senescence before passing forever into “the ash heap of history.” And no set of ideas, especially for those of religious persuasion, seems to be suffering a longer decline… Read More

Funding Civil Society

• Archives
• Wednesday, February 26th, 2003
• Phillip De Vous

It has become almost a cliché to state the simple fact that decades of massive welfare state spending on social programs has had the effect, unintended or not, of suffocating civil society solutions in meeting the needs of the poor.… Read More

Needed: Effective Childcare

• Archives
• Saturday, February 15th, 2003
• Phillip De Vous

There is no question from the Judeo-Christian theological perspective that there is a preferential option for the poor. Or that our nation’s policies ought to reflect this preferential option, placing the needs of the poor at the center of national… Read More

Health Care Reform

• Archives
• Saturday, February 8th, 2003
• Phillip De Vous

Often absent from many of the policy debates in Washington is a reference to the first principles that animate, or should animate, the discussions surrounding important issues. No contemporary issue illustrates this more clearly than the looming debate over health… Read More

Helping the Poor

• Archives
• Friday, December 27th, 2002
• Phillip De Vous

(Phillip W. De Vous is the public policy manager of the Acton Institute. This article is a product of the Acton Institute — www.acton.org, 161 Ottawa NW, Suite 301, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 — and is reprinted with permission.)
The… Read More

The Final Chapter?

• Archives
• Monday, November 18th, 2002
• Phillip De Vous

(Phillip W. De Vous is the public policy manager of the Acton Institute. This article is a product of the Acton Institute — www.acton.org, 161 Ottawa NW, Suite 301, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 — and is reprinted with permission.)
While… Read More

D.C.’s Drug Problem

• Archives
• Saturday, October 19th, 2002
• Phillip De Vous

(Phillip W. De Vous is the public policy manager at the Acton Institute. This article is a product of the Acton Institute — www.acton.org, 161 Ottawa NW, Suite 301, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 — and is reprinted with permission.)
The… Read More

California Dreamin’?

• Archives
• Friday, October 11th, 2002
• Phillip De Vous

(Phillip W. De Vous is the public policy manager at the Acton Institute. This article is a product of the Acton Institute — www.acton.org, 161 Ottawa NW, Suite 301, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 — and is reprinted with permission.)

While… Read More