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New Entertainment Co. Catholicizes Pop Culture

by Daniel McInerny November 1, 2011

When it comes to the renewal of a truly Catholic culture, we need both a sword and a trowel. The sword, as G.K. Chesterton explains it, is logic—which is to say conceptual arguments, both philosophical and theological. Yet as Chesterton…

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Iraqi Roller Coaster Slides to a Halt

by Ken Connor November 1, 2011

After nearly a decade of deployments, surges, and setbacks, after thousands of lives lost and over one trillion in taxpayers dollars spent, President Obama has announced that – in keeping with the timetable originally established by President Bush – all…

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U.S. Bishops Fight for Religious Liberty

by Bishop Paul S. Loverde November 1, 2011

Just a few weeks ago, the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Archbishop Timothy Dolan announced the creation of the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty. When we read the title of the new committee, our…

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St. Gaga?

by Paul Kokoski November 1, 2011

Today’s world desperately needs authentic heroes and heroines — not the kind that live in Hollywood and who find it fashionable to promote themselves and their own ideologies, but the kind like Mother Teresa, who allow us, by their very…

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Manage a Winning Team

by Yeshua Catholic International Leadership Institute October 31, 2011

A good bit of leadership today is exercised in the context of teams. There are, of course, the deliberate cross-functional teams so common in business settings. But even when our purposeful groups go by other names — families, parishes, service…

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Playful — Or Pagan?

by Gretchen Crowe October 31, 2011

It doesn’t take much to get a good conversation flowing among Catholics about Halloween.
Some feel strongly that the holiday’s pagan roots should discredit it completely from being celebrated by Christians; others embrace its quirky fun. Some tolerate it for…

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Forget the Tricks

by Dr. Vincent Kituku October 31, 2011

My children’s reaction bewildered me. Here I was with two bags full of goodies and they were shocked to see me bring them home. Is that not what a caring daddy should do?
After years of involvement with the successful…

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Pope Benedict XVI Announces the “Year of Faith”

by Vatican Information Service October 29, 2011

During Mass October 16th in the Vatican Basilica, celebrated to mark the end of an international meeting on new evangelization organised by the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, Benedict XVI announced that he was calling a forthcoming “Year of…

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Queen of the Public Square

by John Horvat II October 28, 2011

As many as 200,000 Americans took to the streets on October 15 and “occupied” thousands of public squares nationwide to voice their concerns about the nation’s future. Such an outpouring of public sentiment should have been enough to attract the…

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Down with Gendercide, Up with Down Syndrome-cide

by Mark W. Leach October 28, 2011

My daughter Juliet was born with two genetic conditions that have been historically discriminated against. Recent comments about her genetic conditions expose a moral paradox in current medical standards of care.
One of Juliet’s genetic conditions is that she has…

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