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Footnote 15: Is Government Really a Charity?
Dr. Manion explores the question that once upon a time, charity was private, voluntary, and Christian. Today, countless charities – including Catholic ones — depend on government support. Is that a welcome trend?
From Under the Rubble…The War We Are In
These are not the best of times. In fact, some folks say that the Catholic Church in the United States confronts today the greatest challenge in its history. Things were already tough before the November elections, but now they’re in the tank. The good news is that, this year, Catholic bishops were united as never…
Footnote 14: Remembering Paul Weyrich
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Today is St. John’s Feast Day–Did You Have Your Wine Blessed?
If not, grab a couple of bottles and run over to your parish and have Father bless the wine! When uncorking the bottles, don’t forget to raise the glass of blessed wine to one another (including the children, as is the custom) and toast: “Drink to the love of St. John the Divine.” Prayer at…
The Desire of the Everlasting Hills
For these thousands of years that ancient country had stood along its sea, between the waters and the great desert, peopled we know not how and sprung from we know not what origins; its separated small fertile bays, its lesser plains, its hill cities and ports had grown. The plough of Egypt had come in and…
The Fourth Sunday of Advent
It is our pleasure to provide our readers prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Advent. Not only are these prayers appropriate for the lighting of the final candle of the Advent Wreath, they are appropriate as part of the mealtime or evening prayers throughout this week until Christmas. We hope these are providing some spiritual sustenance for…
From Under the Rubble…Can You See the Baby?
Another December, another War on Christmas. Every Advent, it seems, we must slog through a barrage of anti-Christmas noise commandeered by the usual suspects. Full of sound and fury, they engage in a grotesque and painful pirouette with spineless officials and misguided judges to cleanse any remaining whiff of religion from public life. The all-too…
Catholic Social Teaching: Discernment
In earlier decades of the twentieth century, Catholics in America felt they were bound to a higher loyalty. As St. Thomas More put it, the King’s servant and God’s servant first. Social problems like abortion, poverty, and moral decline were viewed as departures from the normal values and truths society held. Now these problems are…
Third Sunday of Advent: Gaudete Sunday
It is our pleasure to provide our readers prayers for Gaudete Sunday. Not only are these prayers appropriate for the lighting of the rose candle, they are appropriate as part of the mealtime or evening prayers throughout this week. We hope these are providing some spiritual sustenance for your Advent.–The Board of Directors Prayers for Gaudete Sunday…
Does Contraception Help, Or Hurt, The Poor?
The Witherspoon Institute has an important three part series that begins by looking at the Contraceptive Mandate, and then moves more deeply to address the persuasive task that confronts us in the culture: given that the formidable evidence documenting the destructive nature of contraception is on our side, how do we turn the tide? A…
