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The Marriage Debate is More Than Just a Word Game
President Obama’s announcement this May that he supports same-sex marriage underlines the urgent need for the Church to launch a…
Author Russell Shaw
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Book Review: Suicide of a Superpower
I was nearing the close of Pat Buchanan’s new book Suicide of a Superpower (St. Martin’s Press) when I read…
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Benedict at 85
Nearing his 85th birthday on April 16 and, three days later, the seventh anniversary of his election to the throne…
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This Fiesty Manifesto is Just What American Catholics Need
“Social issues.” It’s a squishy, equivocal term suited to a mentality ill at ease with the hard-edged implications of “moral…
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Newman, the Supreme Court, and Broadcast Pornography
Reading about two free speech cases now before the Supreme Court, I found myself thinking of Cardinal Newman. I’ll get…
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The Mandate Controversy and the Bishops’ Response
In determining to fight President Obama’s famous—or should I say infamous?—contraception mandate, the American bishops, I suspect, were devoutly hoping…
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Bishops Set to Meet with HHS Mandate on Agenda
A quiet, closed-door meeting in Washington next month will be of crucial importance in shaping the Church’s response to the…
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The Crisis in American Marriage — Catholic Division
I was chatting with a priest who is a judge with the marriage tribunal of his large Eastern diocese when…
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Signs the Secular Left is Facing Up to the U.S. Marriage Crisis
Is it possible that secular liberals, some of them anyway, are starting to realize that knocking the supports out from…
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Hillary Clinton Pushes for Coercive Power of State on Behalf of LGBT Interests
An address by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on gay rights as a priority of U.S. policy deserves far more…