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No Such Thing as Victimless Porn

by John Saffian January 27, 2012

This week, Catholic Exchange is highlighting “The Pornography Problem.” Yesterday, we ran a review of “Out of the Darkness,” a documentary about “the adult industry.” Today, check out related pieces It’s Not Erotic Art, It’s Child Abuse,    The Pornography Pandemic,…

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Rock Musician + 18th-Century Saint = Winning Combination

by Jerry Costello January 25, 2012

Take a legendary rock musician, join him to an equally-legendary Italian saint…and you end up with a winning combination.
There are surprises galore in this tale, which I read about in a feature story by George P. Matysek Jr. in…

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Genius Is Not the Key

by Yeshua Catholic International Leadership Institute January 23, 2012

Some people decide early in their careers that innovation is something that other people do. You know the innovators: they’re geeks who mix plaids, stripes and polka dots, don’t shower, can’t carry on a normal conversation and aren’t reliable when…

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Finding Purpose Beyond the Paycheck

by Shane Kapler January 17, 2012

When a book has endorsements from Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Scott Hahn, Kevin Vost, Marcus Grodi, and Mike Aquilina (to name a few!), a thumbs-up from Shane Kapler is obviously superfluous. But in the spirit of “when has that ever stopped…

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The Red Card Solution

by The Center for Vision and Values January 11, 2012

Editor’s Note: The following is an e-publication from The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College that discusses a recent column by Ann Coulter that criticized Newt Gingrich for advocating Helen Krieble’s “Red Card Solution” for America’s illegal…

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The First Move in God’s Playbook for Success

by Bradley J. Moore January 6, 2012

I relished those first few years in the executive suite. Confident. Bold. That’s the image I wanted to project.
But soon enough, the glimmer wore off, and I was faced with the daunting realization that everyone expected me to make…

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When the Grammy Nominee Received Her Gift of Vocation

by Tony Rossi January 5, 2012

Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Sarah Hart has a gift for music and lyrics, so it’s a good thing she didn’t follow through on her initial career goals of becoming an archaeologist or pediatrician.  During an interview with me on Christopher Closeup, Hart…

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Good Leader/ Bad Leader

by Bradley J. Moore January 4, 2012

In April 2011, an oil explosion on a BP oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 people and caused the greatest oil spill in U.S. history. The CEO at the time, Tony Hayward, uniquely rose to the occasion…

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Food Fights and Free Enterprise

by Jordan J. Ballor January 3, 2012

It is sometimes said, following Milton Friedman’s insight, that business is not a friend to the free market, and the truth of this is no more evident than in recent battles between established restaurateurs and operators of mobile eateries. Once…

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The Personal Ponzi Scheme

by Laura J. Boggess January 2, 2012

“I’ve decided that life is a Ponzi scheme.”
I give my friend a quizzical look.
“Do you know what that is?”
“Yeah, sure, sort of. Isn’t that what Bernie Madoff got in all that trouble for?”
She nods her head…

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