Steven W. Mosher is president of Population Research Institute (www.pop.org) and author of the book Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits (Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 2008). Michael J. Miller interviewed him on the subject […]
So-called “values voters” twice made the difference in George W. Bush’s victories in 2000 and 2004. This was not lost on Democratic Party pollsters. Only days after the 2004 election, in a November 10 speech […]
After it was announced in late June that St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke had been appointed to a new position in Rome as the head of the Vatican’s Supreme Court, John Allen of the National […]
It is with some trepidation that I review Russell Shaw’s new book, Nothing to Hide. Shaw has been a stalwart defender of the truths of the Catholic faith, and as a journalist and communications director […]
In his influential study of modern moral discourse, After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre identifies taboos as unintelligible fragments of moral discourse from bygone periods that originally were parts of a coherent moral vision. Who would have […]
“When the Devil fell, he couldn’t come back up again. That’s why the Devil hates you!” the pastor booms into his microphone as he paces frenetically before his congregation, whipping them into exaltation. “But when […]
As discussed in the July issue of CWR, the Church worldwide has enjoyed growth in the number of seminarians since 1978. According to data published in L’Osservatore Romano and the Vatican’s statistical yearbook, there were […]
“No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true socialist,” said Pope Pius XI in 1931. Were he alive today, he might have substituted in the word “Democrat.” One can […]
The Church worldwide has been blessed since 1978 with a surge in the number of seminarians. According to data published in L’Osservatore Romano and the Vatican’s statistical yearbook (the Secretariat of State’s Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae), […]
The vocation director for the Archdiocese of New York was facing a dilemma. For the first time in […]
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