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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 […]

News

Payback for Proposition 8

May 16, 2011 Kathy Shaidle 0

“It was like being at a Klan rally except the Klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks. YOU N****R, one man shouted (…) Someone else said same thing to me on the next block near […]

News

Old Reflexes

May 16, 2011 Michael Kelly 0

The year 2009 was always going to be a difficult one for the Church in Ireland. A report on abuse suffered by children in Church-run correctional schools is due out later this year. Also expected […]

Books

Chesterton Comes of Age

May 16, 2011 David Paul Deavel 0

From early in his career critics compared G.K. Chesterton to Dr. Johnson, perhaps rightly so. Both were largely self-taught yet revered men of letters—neither had earned university degrees—who unashamedly professed orthodox Christianity in a literary […]

Books

An Exile No More

May 16, 2011 David Paul Deavel 0

The death of Father Richard John Neuhaus on January 8, 2009 from complications of cancer, less than a month after the death of his dear friend, Cardinal Avery Dulles, SJ, has left a large void […]

Special Report

The Furor Festival

May 16, 2011 Michael J. Miller 0

During January’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunication incurred by the four bishops of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) whom Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre had illicitly consecrated […]

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Hoping for More

May 16, 2011 John Burger 0

On December 12, 2008, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released Dignitas Personae (“The Dignity of the Person”), an “instruction on certain bioethical questions.” It was widely regarded as a sequel to Donum […]

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Special Report

To Be a Christian In Cuba

May 16, 2011 Jordan Allott 0

2009 marks the 50th anniversary of what Cubans call “La Revolución,” which culminated in the overthrow of the regime of Fulgencio Batista by Fidel Castro and his Marxist guerillas. For Catholics in Cuba, the anniversary […]