Special Report

Who is Miguel Diaz?

May 12, 2011 Edward Pentin 0

The reaction of Vatican officials to the nomination of Miguel Diaz as President Obama’s ambassador to the Holy See has been largely positive, although some Catholics remain suspicious about the president’s motives behind the choice. […]

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What Is Their Purpose?

May 11, 2011 Michael J. Miller 0

A patient and his or her doctor have a “fiduciary” relationship, one based on mutual trust in which each has different but definite rights and responsibilities. If they disagree about a diagnosis or recommended course […]

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Secularism on Steroids

May 11, 2011 J. J. Ziegler 0

The Czech Republic is contemporary European secularism on steroids. Two decades after the Velvet Revolution, the nation of 10.2 million is wealthy, its per capita gross domestic product equaling South Korea’s and surpassing neighboring Poland’s […]

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Through Their Eyes

May 11, 2011 Dan Murphy 0

Two months before his sixth birthday, in 1947, Norbert Palea calmly climbed aboard a tiny Andrew Flying Service propeller plane. Eleven other Hawaiian boys and girls were already in their seats. All of them were […]

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“There is No Magic Wand”

May 11, 2011 RiShawn Biddle 0

In 2007, the Archdiocese of Washington, facing mounting education debts, announced that it would convert seven of its 11 inner-city District of Columbia schools into public charter schools, the first time an archdiocese has ever […]

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The Venerable John Henry Newman

May 11, 2011 Freddy Gray 0

On Thursday, October 2, 2008, undertakers at a small cemetery in Rednal, Worcestershire, England, attempted to dig out a 119-year-old coffin containing the Venerable John Henry Newman. The plan, approved by the Vatican and the […]

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More “Access” Means Less Care

May 11, 2011 Matt Bowman 0

A thought experiment: Imagine you are an operating room nurse. You have built an excellent career and are skilled in a variety of challenging procedures. You work in an outpatient clinic with a cooperative, effective […]

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They’re Back

May 11, 2011 Anne Hendershott 0

Claiming that they are attempting to address the “serious deterioration of the US Church today,” organizers of a new Catholic reform organization are planning a national conclave in 2011 called the American Catholic Council. In […]

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Standing Together Against Secularism

May 11, 2011 Edward Pentin 0

Catholic-Orthodox relations, which had already been advancing since Pope Benedict XVI’s election in 2005, have accelerated sharply this year. But after a thousand years of division, is unity really in sight? Debate about the real […]

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God-Centered Medicine

May 11, 2011 Jim Graves 0

Long-term care centers often have a negative stigma attached to them. They are seen by many as sad places where the elderly are neglected. Not so at the Carmelite Sisters’ Santa Teresita Medical Center in […]