Opinion

How Will the Church Respond to the Mandate?

by Paul Wilson July 9, 2012

The recent Supreme Court decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act (commonly termed Obamacare) quashed the hopes of faithful Catholics that the Obama administration’s contraception mandate would be immediately repealed by the Supreme Court. The Catholic Church and the Obama…

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The Obamacare Decision: A Mixed Bag

by Dr. John Sparks July 9, 2012

The case that received more media attention and more consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court than any in recent history has been decided. The 5-4 decision upheld the “individual mandate,” the central feature of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…

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Thomas Jefferson: American Enigma

by Dr. Warren Throckmorton July 5, 2012

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
This week we celebrate the…

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Are We Being Too Hard On John Roberts?

by Ken Connor July 5, 2012

“Members of this court are vested with the authority to interpret the law; we possess neither the expertise nor the prerogative to make policy judgments.  Those decisions are entrusted to our nation’s leaders, who can be thrown out of office…

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Who’s to Blame? Catholics.

by Dr. Paul Kengor July 2, 2012

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Within an hour of the Supreme Court’s decision on Obama-care, I got an email from LifeNews.com. “The Supreme Court has … [upheld] the Obamacare law that pro-life groups regard as the biggest expansion of abortion and…

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Can Catholics Vote Libertarian?

by Joe Fulwiler July 2, 2012

We Catholics all know that the Church is bigger than any one political party, bigger even than a single nation or political system.  It is a commonplace that many Catholics in the United States tend to vote for the Democrats…

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America’s Giant Pratfall

by Robert R. Reilly June 26, 2012

When I was a child, I thought that living through a degenerate period would be great fun – one big party. Guns blazing, fast cars, beautiful girls, plenty of adult beverages – at least that was my idea of it…

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Why Is the White House Telling Our Secrets?

by Dr. Earl Tilford June 26, 2012

In light of recent publicity about the U.S-British-Israeli cyber attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, we might want to consider intelligence lessons from the past.
In the autumn of 1960, with the presidential race between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and…

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Do the Girl Scouts Really Help Girls?

by Stacy Trasancos June 21, 2012

With the bishops in the United States investigating the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) this question seems to be on a lot of people’s minds. Do the Girl Scouts really help girls? In many ways, what they teach goes…

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In the Teeth of an Election Year

by Russell Shaw June 20, 2012

A prominent Republican congressman, a Catholic, says his economic proposals reflect the social doctrine of the Church. Statements from the bishops’ conference dispute that, and some faculty at Georgetown University tell the congressman he isn’t welcome there. (They aren’t known…

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