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Meet the Church’s Seven New Saints

by Stephen Beale October 22, 2012

Pope Benedict XVI officially named seven new saints yesterday. Who are these new models of heroic virtue and godliness and what is their significance?
Most of the coverage of the new saints in the U.S. media has focused on the…

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The Church and the False Political Divide

by Paul Wilson September 6, 2012

There is an unfortunate tendency to view the Catholic Church as divided into “liberal” and “conservative” wings. This vision results from the modern age’s foolish tendency to view every issue through a binary political prism.
This vision is fundamentally flawed.…

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The Gray Lady Learns How to Genuflect?

by Matthew Hanley August 20, 2012

No one would have expected the New York Times to react favorably to Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan, most well-known for advancing a budget proposal, as his Vice Presidential running mate. On that score, the Times and the rest…

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The Sunny Side of Persecution

by Russell Shaw August 10, 2012

Will the present whiff of  secularist persecution be a help toward healing what ails American Catholics as a Church? Leaving aside predictions, I’ll only say: it may.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan has a flair for getting people’s attention. The Archbishop of…

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Being God’s Genuine Article

by John Cathey August 8, 2012

While recently reading part of Matthew Kelley’s book, Rediscovering Catholicism, I was greatly impacted by his insistence on the necessity of the individual Catholic being an authentic witness to Christ. What good is just another book or cd, or even…

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Building a Culture of Religious Freedom

by Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. August 3, 2012

A friend of mine, a political scientist, recently posed two very good questions. They go right to the heart of our discussion today. He wondered, first, if the religious freedom debate had “crossed a Rubicon” in our country’s political life.…

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The Communist and the Catholics, Part 4

by Dr. Paul Kengor August 2, 2012

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Editor’s Note: the following is the final installment in an exclusive 4-Part series based on Dr. Paul Kengor’s new book, The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor
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In my previous commentaries, I’ve…

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The Communist and the Catholics, Part 3

by Dr. Paul Kengor July 30, 2012

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Editor’s Note: The following is Part 3 of an exclusive series by Dr. Paul Kengor. If you missed Part 1, go here. For Part 2, go here.
The Communist and the Catholics Part 3
In my previous commentary, I talked…

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The Communist and the Catholics, Part 2

by Dr. Paul Kengor July 27, 2012

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Editor’s Note: The following is Part 2 of Dr. Paul Kengor’s series that blows the lid off of what really drives the current administration. If you missed Part 1, go here.
The Communist and the Catholic
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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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