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December 2014

December 26, 2014

The Ethical Use of Vaccines

A friend asks about the moral use of vaccines that were developed with or use...

December 26, 2014

Catholicism & Individualism

Individualism, according to the old Catholic Encyclopedia, is "The tendency to magnify individual liberty, as against external authority,...

December 22, 2014

Catholic Politics, More Charitable & a Little Softer

A contribution to the description of a movement among politically conservative Catholics I described in...

December 17, 2014

The New Catholic Economics

Several respondents to last week’s column for Aleteia, “Free-Market Catholics Are Losing Their Faith (in Capitalism),” rejected my...

December 15, 2014

New York Encounter 2015

In the "quest to redefine our identity, in the struggle between our boundless aspirations and...

December 13, 2014

Gregg’s Hopes for Conservatism Future

Related to my Free-Market Catholics Are Losing Their Faith (in Capitalism), which describes one answer, the...

December 11, 2014

Catholics Moving Right and Left

Reading social movements is hard, since the evidence is diverse and can be read in...

December 10, 2014

Free Market Catholics Lose Faith

If I read the signs aright, many politically conservative Christians, Catholics and Evangelicals both, are...

December 02, 2014

Patrick Deneen Recommends Books on Politics

Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue, of course. Two of Christopher Lasch's books, predictable. Alexis de Toqueville's Democracy in...

November 2014

November 10, 2014

The New York Encounter

In the "quest to redefine our identity, in the struggle between our boundless aspirations and...

November 07, 2014

Mark Shea & the Republicans

My Patheos colleague Mark Shea, quoting a piece by Mark Steyn on New Hampshire Republican...

November 05, 2014

On November 5th, a Summary of Christian Politics, in Music

G. K. Chesterton's great hymn, a sharp (and singable) summary of the Christian hope for political...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Pat Buchanan’s Dishonesty

Not unsurprisingly, Pat Buchanan has teed off on Pope Francis, and he has done so...

October 20, 2014

Heroes: Jerzy Popieluszko, Who Died Thirty Years Ago This Week

It is good to be reminded that there are heroes in the world, and a...

October 08, 2014

Ratzinger’s Reasonable Politics

"Politics belongs to the sphere of reason, the reason common to all, natural reason. Politics...

October 07, 2014

Navigating the World: A Jewish Lesson

The article is titled The Shallowness of Men Who Won't Sit by Women, but comes close...

October 05, 2014

Does Fr. Gutierrez Say Mass?

When John Paul II first went as pope to Latin America, he told their bishops,...

September 2014

September 23, 2014

Fessio v. Kasper

Cardinal Kasper wants to have his cake and eat it too, is Father Joseph Fessio's...

August 2014

August 08, 2014

St. Therese, St. Terese Benedicta, and Women Priests

In his celebration of the ordination forty years ago of the first Episcopal women ministers, the Episopalian...

August 07, 2014

Chaput on Francis: Dignity Requires Solidarity

Archbishop Charles Chaput says it would be a mistake to call Francis a liberal or...

August 06, 2014

Robert P. George on the Intellectual’s Drug

Robert P. George warns about the addictive drug that is fame and approval: Advice to...

July 2014

July 28, 2014

Ministry to Those Soon To Be Killed

"Really? Should our standard of moral action be that we’re not as bad as the...

July 26, 2014

Deneen on the Catholic Neo-Conservative Division

Catholic neo-conservatives, explains Patrick Deneen in an interview on Ethika Politika (on whose board both...

July 24, 2014

What the Bishops Should Do For Victims

Asked by America's interviewer what the bishops should be doing for victims of clerical sexual...

July 14, 2014

The Catholic and Conservative Ramesh Ponnuru

"I aspire to put 'Catholic' before 'conservative' in my life," explains Ramesh Ponnuru, interviewed in America....

June 2014

June 13, 2014

Not a Conservative But a Catholic

I don't think this is quite right: Brent Bozell, writes Alvino-Mario Fantini in an American Conservative...

June 11, 2014

Perverted Dirt Digging

"Thanks to a Twittermob constantly on the hunt for things it might feel ostentatiously outraged...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

A Bad Use of Orthodoxy

"Well, the Orthodox allow second and third marriages" is an argument made by some Catholics...