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About Thomas R. Ascik
Thomas R. Ascik is a retired attorney who has written on a variety of legal and constitutional issues.
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Catholic scholar’s new book argues that “religious free exercise is part of the secular Constitution”

September 23, 2016 Thomas R. Ascik 0

In his new book, Taking Rites Seriously, Baylor University Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies Dr. Francis J. Beckwith reviews several areas of law and public policy with a view to showing how “a small […]

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The Words of the Lineamenta: A Layman’s Perspective

June 12, 2015 Thomas R. Ascik 0

My diocese was one of the dioceses that offered laymen the opportunity to respond to the Lineamenta, the pending document prepared after the October 2014 session of the Synod on the Family and which is […]

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The Vatican Information Service provides further details about the third Jesus of Nazareth book by Pope Benedict XVI, The Infancy Narratives, which will be available for purchase on November 21st: Vatican City, 20 November 2012 […]

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