Essay
Month: February 2012
General
George Weigel on “the utter incoherence of 21st-century liberal Catholicism”
George Weigel first (and rightly) blasts the “ill-educated Catholics in Congress” and the Catholic Health Association, then discusses how “liberal Catholicism” has (not surprisingly, I must say) sold the baby and the bath water for […]
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Angry Lutheran pastor blasts HHS mandate, stands by Catholic Church
From the February 18, 2012, edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: But on Thursday afternoon in Washington, the Rev. Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, told a panel of lawmakers in the U.S. […]
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Two Americans to be canonized on October 21, 2012
Blessed Marianne Cope and Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha are two of seven to be declared saints this fall: The list of the seven people who will be declared saints ranges from a Filipino layman to European […]
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Pope: “The new cardinals are entrusted with the service of love … even unto shedding their blood…”
From Vatican Information Service: Vatican City, 18 February 2012 (VIS) – In St. Peter’s Basilica at 10.30 a.m. this morning, Benedict XVI celebrated the fourth ordinary public consistory of his pontificate, during which he created […]
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Sisters of Life: HHS mandate will “coerce [each Sister] to betray her religious vows.”
From a February 16th statement issued by the Sisters of Life, “a contemplative / active religious community of women founded in 1991 by John Cardinal O’Connor for the protection and enhancement of the sacredness of […]
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The HHS mandate and parental rights
Br. Thomas More Garret, a Dominican who used to work in law and as a Congressional staffer, discusses an overlooked, uh, feature of the HHS mandate: But there is an equally serious, largely unnoticed consequence […]
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Novak on the “four hidden premises” of the HHS mandate
On the National Review site: (1) The first deception is that the president has issued a “contraception mandate.” It is not that; it is a presidential power grab. No state or other jurisdiction is trying […]
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“Under the control of the State”
In 1956, in his book, The Political and Social Ideas of St. Augustine, Professor Herbert Deane at Columbia University wrote: “Only with the rise of totalitarian societies in the twentieth century has a new general effort […]
Interview
The Apostolic Visitation in Historical Perspective
Sister Dolores Liptak, a Sister of Mercy of the Americas, was invited by Mother Mary Clare Millea, ASCJ to be a consultant for the recently concluded apostolic visitation of US women religious. Sister Dolores specializes […]