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CHESTERTON / That "prophecy" on Wall Street bankers

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
5/19/2013
Paolo Gulisano

IDEOLOGY AND LUCRE/ After Beauty

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
5/13/2013
Mark Anthony Signorelli

LIFE/ The case does not exist

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
5/12/2013
Federico Pichetto

12 MAY/ Mother’s Day

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
5/11/2013
Mary Ann Walsh

AFGHANISTAN/ What Fiction Can Tell Us about it

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
5/10/2013
Jennifer Bryson

NEW JERSEY/ Spider Man, a small spider and the unborn

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?
5/8/2013
Lorenzo Albacete

OUR LADY/ Guardian of the Internet, Pray for Us

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
5/5/2013
Mary Ann Walsh

JASON COLLINS/ Coming out and the meaning of truthfulness

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?
5/1/2013
Lorenzo Albacete

CHESTERTON/ Faith: living sanely in an often insane world

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
4/30/2013
Scott Dodge

PAPA BERGOGLIO/ Who Is He Like? Papa Ratti

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
4/29/2013
Michael Sean Winters

MEDAL OF HONOR/ Fr. Kapaun: A hero in the Korean war, a Servant of God in the Church

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
4/25/2013
Sharon Mollerus

FORGIVENESS/ A plea for mercy for Kermit Gosnell

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
4/24/2013
Robert George

FORGIVENESS/ Card. Onaiyekan (Nigeria): I ask for amnesty for those who participated in the ...

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
4/23/2013
John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan

VATICAN/ Pope Francis and the Way to Change

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
4/21/2013
Edith Bogue

THE TWO RIVERS/ An Old Poet, a New Pope, a Timeless Thirst

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
4/18/2013
Charles Klamut

DESIRE/ Why do the "indicators" of happiness fail us?

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
4/16/2013
Giovanni Maddalena

US/ Our First Right: Religious Liberty

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
4/12/2013
Charles Chaput

LATINOS/ The future of Christianity in America

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
4/10/2013
Lorenzo Albacete

RESURRECTION/ It is Really Him

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
4/5/2013
Massimo Camisasca

LETTER TO THE POPE/ From a lifer: thank you Francis, the greatest thing is to be forgiven

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
4/2/2013
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