Footnote by Dr. Christopher Manion

Footnote 57: Envy

https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/BF-Footnote-57-envy-110613-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download“Social Justice” groups argue that the “gap between the rich and the poor” is the major cause of poverty. Would it help if we were all poor?

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Footnote 56: Bread for the World

https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BF-Footnote-56-Bread-for-the-World-110613-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadMany groups raising money to “fight poverty” are actually using contributions to hire lobbyists in Washington. Does this meet the “Truth in Advertising” standard?

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Footnote 55: Home Schooling

https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BF-Footnote-55-home-chooling-110613-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThere’s more to homeschooling than content and curriculum: the habits homeschoolers learn are far different from those inculcated in public school students.

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Footnote 54: Should Catholics be concerned about Common Core?

https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BF-Footnote-54-common-core-110613-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe National Catholic Education Association has endorsed the Federal Government’s “Common Core” educational standards. Should Catholics be concerned?

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Footnote 53: Census Welfare

https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Bellarmine-Forum-Foonote-53-census-welfare-110613-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe Census Bureau reports that the number of Americans receiving means-tested welfare benefits is greater than the number who work full time. Should the Catholic church take note?

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Footnote 52: Will the Bus Head For Chicago?

https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Footnote-52-Nuns-Bus-Chicago-100113-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe “Nuns on the Bus” are acting like a couple of political charlatans. But they can reprieve their reputations by rallying to the long-standing tradition of women religious and their service to children.

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Footnote 51: Is the Natural Law “Rational”?

https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Footnote-51-Rational-natural-laws-100113-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe Washington Post doesn’t think so.

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Footnote 50: Is Big Brother Sharing Your Secrets?

https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Footnote-50-NSA-Vatican-100113-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWhat would happen if the word got out that the U.S. Government were sharing all your personal data, conversations, and emails with the Vatican? Ed. note: due to technical glitch, this episode has been updated to connect to the correct audio file.

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Footnote 49: Two Texan Filibusters

https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Footnote-49-100113-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadFootnote wandered over to the Senate Chamber last month to watch Sen. Ted Cruz read a bedtime story to his kids. But the media prefer the Texas State Senator who spent eleven hours defending infanticide.

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Footnote 48: German SWAT team invades Homeschooling Home

https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/WFF-Podcast-German-homeschool-invaded-by-SWAT-team-DF.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadGerman authorities sent a SWAT team with a battering ram to “rescue” four homeschooled children from their parents’ “prison” in Darmstadt. Footnote rejects the notion that this mentality is a leftover from the Hitler ear, and traces the mentality much further back in Germany. Footnote also recalls that John…

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