Santorum

Though the Obama administration’s decision to force church-based institutions to provide “access” to contraception as part of their health plans was intolerant and unconstitutional and gratuitously divisive, events have proved the move to be brilliant politics.
The White House later…

The reaction of Catholic leaders to Larry Doyle’s satiric piece at HuffPo this week, “The Jesus-Eating Cult of Rick Santorum,” has been exactly the wrong reaction.  We have taken offense, demanded apologies of Arianna Huffington, and asked that we please…

Political liberals (e.g., the kind of people who make up the membership of NARAL, the ACLU, and MSNBC) have no objection to Catholic candidates for high office – provided that the Catholics in question don’t belong to what may be…

Why Catholics must explain the good news of our position
In my February 7 Catholic Exchange piece I said that those in support of the HHS mandate think that the Catholic position prohibiting contraception is irrational; I failed to mention…

Numbers Suggest Santorum Could Be Romney’s Worst Nightmare

by Scott Rasmussen February 19, 2012

In a campaign defined by Republican reluctance to embrace Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum has emerged as the latest not-Romney candidate to surge ahead. While it’s impossible to predict what will happen in this volatile election season, the data suggests that…

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Child Sacrifice in 21st Century America

by George Weigel February 2, 2012

The Hebrew Bible is not for the squeamish. And its harshest maledictions are called down upon those who practiced the abomination of child-sacrifice.
Thus the Psalmist:
“They sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons/they poured out innocent blood, the…

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