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A Bill That Will Profoundly Divide Canada (Cardinal Mark Quellet)
A Continuing Survey of Religion and Public Life
(Fr. Richard John Neuhaus)
A Man for all Seasons: an Historian's Demur (Marvin O'Connell)
A New Order of Religious Freedom (Fr. Richard John Neuhaus)
A Religion the New York Times Can Love (Donna Steichen)
A Time for Honesty (Most Reverend John J. Myers)
A Twelve Step Program for Bishops (Bishop Rene Henry Gracida)
America through Arab Eyes (Nicholas Jubber and Michael Hirst)
America’s Ten Commandments (Michael Novak)
An Open Letter to Senator Patrick Leahy (George Weigel)
Are We Truly a Nation Under God?
(Victor R. Claveau)Assessing What is at Issue in This War (James V. Schall, S.J.)
Bush's Words at the National Prayer Breakfast (ZENIT)
Can Catholics Be "Real Americans"? (Mark Brumley)
Can you commit a sin in the voting booth? (Fr. Frank Pavone)
Capitalism: Only One Cheer (Lewis E. Lehrman)
Catholic Politicians (Bishop Samuel J. Aquila)
Catholic Politicians and Bishops (Most Rev. Raymond L. Burke)
Catholic Sources and the Declaration of Independence
Cardinal Ratzinger On Europe's Crisis of Culture
Christians have a right to speak out (Cardinal George Pell)
Christianity Reflected In Two Historic Writings From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.(Eric Buehrer)
Christianity's Transforming Spirit (Kim Paffenroth)
Conciliating Hatred (Steven D. Smith)
Courts Shouldn't Set Church Employees' Benefits (Robert A. Sirico)
Crisis Magazine Editor Evaluates Bush's Relations with U.S. Catholics (ZENIT)
Democracy & Religion in America (Michael Novak)
Democratic Church (Adrian Karatnycky)
Discipleship and Democracy (Archbishop Charles Chaput)
Divided Hearts: Americans, Religion and National Policy
(Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap)
Escape from Nihilism (J. Budziszewski)
Europe, Christianity, and the Thought of Christopher Dawson
Europe’s Problem — and Ours (George Wiegel)
(Most Reverent Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap)
Faith Talk (J. Bottum & William Kristol)
Fr. James V. Schall on Political Philosophy (The Claremont Institute)
Globalization and the Church's New Challenges (Mary Ann Glendon)
Globalization's Dark Side (Michel Schooyans)
God and Washington (Steve Farrell)
God, Man, and Money, or How to Succeed in Business Without Going to Hell (Michael Novak)
Have You Heard? The Secret Is Getting Out - A Review Essay on An Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching (Mark Brumley)
Holy Rights (Vincent Phillip Munoz)
(Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.)
How Jefferson Honored Religion (Rev. Joseph Koterski)
(Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.)
If the World Loves You (Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick)
Ignoring Europe's foundations (Fr. Raymond De Souza)
In Defense of Certainty (Charles Krauthammer)
Interview with Bob Casey, Jr. (Valerie Schmalz)
Interview with Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (Valerie Schmalz)
Is America a Christian Nation? (Carl Pearlston)
Is Bush Too Christian? Or Not Enough? (ZENIT)
Is It Always Sinful to Wage War? (St. Thomas Aquinas)
Is Liberalism a Sin? (Victor R. Claveau)
Is There Only Secular Democracy? (Cardinal George Pell)
It's a matter of honesty: to receive Communion, we need to be in communion (Right Reverend Charles J. Chaput)
JFK and the 'Religious Question' (Fr. Raymond De Souza)
Keeping the Faith: Religion, Freedom, and International Affairs
Leading His Flock (Robert P. George & Gerard V. Bradley)
Let’s make a deal: Catholic conscience and compromise
(Right Reverend Charles J. Chaput)
Letter to President Bush (Pope John Paul II)
Liberalism's Three Assaults (Thomas Storck)
Marx, Christ and You (Donald DeMarco)
Media’s Cowardice Pales Next to Politicians (John O'Sullivan)
Moral Clarity in a Time of War (George Weigel)
Moscow’s Assault on the Vatican:
The KGB made corrupting the Church a priority. (Ion Mihai Pacepa)
Old Europe’s New Despotism (Samuel Gregg)
On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position (George McKenna)
On Being Catholic American (Joseph A. Varacalli)
On Being Neither Liberal nor Conservative
On Communion and Pro-Abortion Politicians (Avery Cardinal Dulles)
On Conscientious Voting (Most Reverend John F. Donoghue)
On the Dignity of Human Life and Civic Responsibility
On the Duties of Catholic Politicians and Voters
(Most (Reverend Michael J. Sheridan)
On Our Civic Responsibility for the Common Good
(Most Reverend Raymond L. Burke)
Orestes Brownson (1803-1876) (The Acton Institute)
Orestes Brownson and the Truth About America
Peanuts and Thomists (Raymond Dennehy)
Politicians and Communion (Bishop Thomas Wenski)
Politicians Can't Ignore their Faith (Fr Raymond De Souza)
Politics Without God?: Reflections on Europe and America
Population Politics and the Shambles of Africa (Jim Peron)
Pres. George W. Bush's Inauguration Speech (George W. Bush)
Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day (Abraham Lincoln)
Public Dissenters Should Themselves Refrain From Communion
Putting God Back in the Public Square (Judge Roy S. Moore)
Quebec After Catholicism (Preston Jones)
Religious Voices Belong in the Public Square
Rites and Wrongs: Why John Kerry should not take communion.
Ruth Kelly, Myth-Breaker (George Weigel)
Saint Pontius (Fr. Raymond De Souza)
Senator Santorum on Being Catholic and a Politician (Rick Santorum)
Separate, not Silent, Church (William Goodwin)
Some Political Issues Should Be More Important Than Others for Catholics (Mark Brumley)
Statesmanship and its Betrayal (Mark Helprin)
The Americans (Gordon Sinclair)
The Candidacy of John Kerry: A Dilemma for Catholics
(Most Reverend Elden F. Curtiss)
The Character of George Washington (Richard Brookhiser)
The Culture Wars Go International (Rev. Richard John Neuhaus)
The Cybernetics of Liberalism (Peter Kreeft)
The Doctrine of Preemption (George F. Will)
The Enduring Revolution (Charles W. Colson)
The Failure of Catholic Political Leadership
(Robert P. George & William L. Saunders)
The Future of Civil Society (Michael Novak)
The Holy See and the U.N. (George Weigel)
The Hunger for Liberty (Michael Novak)
The Innate-Immutable Argument Finds No Basis in Science
(A. Dean Byrd, Shirley E. Cox, & Jeffrey W. Robinson)
The Just War (St. Thomas Aquinas)
The 'Legacy's Clinton as History's Worst President (James V. Schall, S.J.)
The Politics of Meaninglessness (Michael A. Casey)
The Politics of Porn (Robert R. Reilly)
The Law and the Constitution (James Hitchcock)
The Legal Principles of the Founding Fathers and the Supreme Court (Rev. Edward J. Melvin, C.M.)
The Life of the Mind: An interview with cultural critic Roger Kimball (Carl E. Olson)
The Moral Choices Faced by Catholic Voters
The Mysterious and Elusive American Catholic Voter
The Politics of Family Destruction (Stephen Baskerville)
The Question of Good and Evil (Charles Colson)
The Reagan Moral Vision (Rev. Robert A. Sirico)
The Religious Heritage of American Democracy
The Responsibility To Have a Well Informed Faith Life
The Secularism of the West (Fr. Richard John Neuhaus)
The Secularization of the Supreme Court (James Hitchcock)
The Ten Commandments Controversy (Michael Novak)
The Truths They Held: The Christian and Natural Law Background to the American Constitution (Robert R. Reilly)
The Virtue of Leadership (Donald DeMarco)
The Vocation of a Catholic Journalist: An Interview with Philip F. Lawler (Valerie Schmalz0
There Is Power in Religious Language (Terry Mattingly)
Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State (John W. Whitehead and Casey Mattox)
Thomas More for Our Season (Robert H. Bork)
Thought Crime Becomes a Reality in Canada (Michael O'Brien)
U.N. Globalization Efforts Progress (Mary Jo Anderson)
U.N. Revelation (Douglas A. Sylva)
Ungodly Ways: The Dark Side of the European Union
Voting Pro-Life (Grace MacKinnon)
We Hold These Truths and More: Further Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition (Don D'Elia)
What Happened at Fatima (Joseph Bottum)
What Should Catholics Think About Globalization?
What the Popes Really Say About Socialism
(Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.)
What would Thomas More do? (Rev. Raymond De Souza)
What’s next for California? (Victor R. Claveau)
When Theory Met Practice (Robert A. Sirico)
Whose world is it, anyway? (Lorne Gunter)
Why America Can't Do Without Religion (William E. Simon Jr.)
Why Communion Could Be Denied to Anti-Life Legislators (ZENIT)
Why I'm Rooting for the Religious Right (James Taranto)
Why the United States got thrown off the U.N. Human Rights Commission (Nina Shea)
Why We Need a Marriage Amendment
(Robert P. George & David L. Tubbs)
Will the Real Catholic please stand up? (Mary Jo Anderson)
Worthy to Receive the Lamb: Catholics in Political Life and the Reception of Holy Communion (Most Reverends John F. Donoghue, Robert J. Baker, and Peter J. Jugis)
You Will Know the Truth and the Truth Will Set You Free
(Most Rev. Samuel J. Aquila, D.D.)