Special Report

The Terms of the Agreement

May 18, 2011 Philip F. Lawler 0

The first decade of the 21st century was not kind to Caritas Christi, the health care system administered by the Boston archdiocese. Red ink began appearing in profusion in the group’s budget statements. An underfunded […]

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Essay

A Preamble to “Hope”

May 16, 2011 Michael J. Miller 0

Vice President Joe Biden, Senator John McCain, and Governor Sarah Palin hope that their sons will return safely from military deployment overseas, although they still disagree, as they did on the campaign trail, about how […]

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Interview

Awaiting the Rupture

May 16, 2011 Jeremy Lott 0

Richard Dooling’s website describes him as “Part man, part beast, part novelist, part screenwriter, part lawyer and law school professor, part computer programming hobbyist, part word, book, and film lover.” Outside of his hometown of […]

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Opinion

Contradictory, Casual, Cool, and Crude

May 16, 2011 Anna Abbott 0

Last year, Rick Warren, a founder of the movement called the “Emergent Church,” hosted the first presidential forum between John McCain and Barack Obama. Held at Warren’s Saddleback Church in Southern California, the forum reflected […]

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Analysis

Why Did It Take So Long?

May 16, 2011 CWR Staff 0

Over the last decade the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) channeled $7.3 million of parishioners’ money to ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Finally, last fall the CCHD reluctantly stopped payments to […]

Special Report

Healing Rifts, Old and New

May 16, 2011 Philip F. Lawler 0

Pope Benedict XVI caught most observers by surprise in January when he lifted the excommunications of the bishops who lead the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX). Unfortunately, Vatican officials were also caught by […]