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Chesterton and his distributist friends identified in the "servile state", whether capitalist or Marxist, the servitude of man to the state or to the boss. By PAOLO GULISANO
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5/19/2013
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Paolo Gulisano
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Just as our culture’s rejection of an essential human nature devastated our moral thought, so too our rejection of the concept of form has made our artwork incoherent. By MARK SIGNORELLI
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5/13/2013
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Mark Anthony Signorelli
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Every life story has a destiny, is for a purpose. To live it with truth and maturity requires a work, a reality check, to become the subject of a larger dialogue. By FEDERICO PICCHETTO
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5/12/2013
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Federico Pichetto
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Older people may have less energy than the young, and they can paralyze relationships if we let them. But we all know the commandment: “Honor thy father and mother.” By Sr. MARY ANN WALSH
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5/11/2013
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Mary Ann Walsh
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Why are Americans in Afghanistan? People are at the heart of what Americans are doing there. Novels can help understand them and their cultures in all their complexity. By JENNIFER BRYSON
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5/10/2013
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Jennifer Bryson
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LORENZO ALBACETE comments on the negative reaction of animalists to the killing of a spider, because they claim that even the smallest animals deserve compassion. What about unborn humans?
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5/8/2013
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Lorenzo Albacete
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The Blessed Virgin’s titles developed over centuries in the Catholic Church. The famous Litany of Loreto was approved in 1587. Is it time for a modern-day litany? By Sr. MARY ANN WALSH
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5/5/2013
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Mary Ann Walsh
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LORENZO ALBACETE comments on the recent coming out of one of the basketball player, Jason Collins, and his reference to the need for truthfulness. But what does truthfulness really mean?
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5/1/2013
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Lorenzo Albacete
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Are Christians the only good men? Chesterton, and the Church, say: no. The special power of virtue of Christianity is that of the Saints, the only one which will remain. By SCOTT DODGE
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4/30/2013
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Scott Dodge
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According to MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS, Pope Francis seems to be like Pius XI, but the main point remains to avoid claiming that the new pope conform to some preconceived ideological agenda
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4/29/2013
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Michael Sean Winters
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Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun has been awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary heroism in the Korean war. Taken prisoner by the Chinese, he died in captivity in 1951. By SHARON MOLLERUS
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4/25/2013
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Sharon Mollerus
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ROBERT GEORGE is requesting, as a pro-lifer, that Kermit Gosnell’s life be spared, albeit the heinous acts of which he stands accused probably meet the criteria for capital punishment
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4/24/2013
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Robert George
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According to Card. ONAIYEKAN, Archbishop of Abuja, an amnesty to the members of Boko Haram under the condition they stop the violence is a possible way to end terrorism in Nigeria
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4/23/2013
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John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan
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There is consensus about the fact that Pope Francis will bring change, not in doctrine but in the Vatican bureaucracy, maybe with a step towards subsidiarity. By EDITH BOGUE
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4/21/2013
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Edith Bogue
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Fr. CHARLES KLAMUT ties the two rivers in the Divine Comedy, where the darkness can be forgot and the good remembered, with a homily of Pope Francis about the forgiveness of Jesus
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4/18/2013
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Charles Klamut
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GIOVANNI MADDALENA underlines how difficult it is to measure happiness because happiness is not a possession but “happens” as an unexpected bonus beyond any calculation we can make
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4/16/2013
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Giovanni Maddalena
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America’s founding documents assume an implicitly religious anthropology—an idea of human nature, nature’s God, and natural rights—that many of our leaders no longer share. CHARLES CHAPUT
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4/12/2013
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Charles Chaput
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LORENZO ALBACETE describes a personal experience of about two decades ago but which is highlighting a possible future for Christianity in the US, and for the role of Latino immigrates
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4/10/2013
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Lorenzo Albacete
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Christ is truly risen and is alive! This announcement, which the women at the tomb found themselves in front of, reaches us today with the same vivacity as then. Fr. MASSIMO CAMISASCA
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4/5/2013
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Massimo Camisasca
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BLEDAR GIOVANNI, a lifer at the House of Detention in Padua, in an open letter to the Pope published in ilsussidiario.net, describes how the encounter with Christ has changed his life
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4/2/2013
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