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US/ Immigration Reform Risks to Fail, Again

SHARON MOLLERUS describes the present situation of the bipartisan attempts at reforming the immigration laws, as called for by the Catholic bishops and many other religious leaders
5/17/2013
Sharon Mollerus

US/ The President, Planned Parenthood, and "Quality Health Care"

President Obama’s recent address to Planned Parenthood sweepingly mischaracterized abortion restrictions and pro-life views as culturally inaccurate and outdated. By ELISE ITALIANO
5/8/2013
Elise Italiano

PATHOLOGY OF TERRORISM/ The Triangle in Boston

The interaction of multiple factors can escalate individual and group actions to the point of international terrorism. Complex rather than single causality is the norm. By JENNIFER BRYSON
5/6/2013
Jennifer Bryson

US/ Obama Goes to Planned Parenthood

MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS comments on the speech President Obama held at Planned Parenthood, and criticizes his unconditioned acceptance of abortion “on demand”, and the resulting culture war
5/2/2013
Michael Sean Winters

BOSTON/ When a People Forgives

FERNANDO DE HARO underlines the terrible ability of terrorism to wound a people, as it happened in Boston. But the American people is reacting, with hope and, maybe, with forgiveness
4/29/2013
Fernando De Haro

BOSTON/ Albacete: The true character of the country

The Boston tragedy have revealed that the American people have the determination and resources to defend their rights without any recourse to the manipulation of mobs. By LORENZO ALBACETE
4/24/2013
Lorenzo Albacete

ISLAM/ Hulsman: Reciprocity is needed in treating churches in Turkey with mosques in Greece

CORNELIS HULSMAN, Director of the Arab-West Report, comments on the re-opening of a mosque in Thessaloniki, pointing out the need for reciprocity in treating closed churches in Turkey
4/19/2013
Cornelis Hulsman

GUN CONTROL/ Albacete: Power to attack vs. power to defend, both in terms of violence

LORENZO ALBACETE comments on the First and Second Amendments in relation to gun control, and on the possibility to defend human rights outside violence, even after the Boston bombing
4/17/2013
Lorenzo Albacete

MARGARET THATCHER/ A Woman of Substance

Margaret Thatcher was a woman who took her responsibilities seriously, refusing to hold power without making use of it, a creature of thought and action over feeling and emotion. JOHN WATERS
4/9/2013
John Waters

US/ North Dakota: listening to the heartbeat of unborn children

North Dakota has passed a "heartbeat bill", similar to an Arkansas law, to restrict abortion after 6 weeks, as part of a trend in some states to protect fetal life. SHARON MOLLERUS
4/4/2013
Sharon Mollerus

US/ Garnett (Notre Dame): Who has a "Pope Francis Problem"? Not only Republicans . . .

RICHARD GARNETT underlines the impossibility to reduce Pope Francis, his predecessors, the Church - and Christ - to any party of the American politics, as some commentators would like
3/22/2013
Editors

POLITICS/ Populism, Chavez & Obama

MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS comments on the populist way through which Hugo Chavez governed Venezuela, and outlines the possible positives and negatives of populism in the American politics
3/7/2013
Michael Sean Winters

IMMIGRATION/ Standing With Our Brothers and Sisters

As President Obama and Congress focus on immigration reform, Catholics have an opportunity to assist in fixing the current flawed system, if they stand together. KIM DANIELS
3/1/2013
Kim Daniels

US/ Obama's Prosaic State of the Union

MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS takes a hard look at the State of the Union speech by President Obama and at the speech in response to it by the Republican leader Marco Rubio
2/14/2013
Michael Sean Winters

BENEDICT XVI/ A lesson of freedom for the US as well

LORENZO ALBACETE underlines the difficulties of the media as to the Pope’s retirement and the real teaching coming from his act, even for the US politics: what it means to be a free man
2/13/2013
Lorenzo Albacete

POLITICS/ Christians: The Time for Choices

MICHAEL HANBY talks about the relevance of lived Christian community as a witness to the continuing possibility of authentic human freedom and to a politics true to its own nature
2/12/2013
Michael Hanby

FAMILY/ Redefinition of legal marriage and a society without children

MICHAEL HOPWOOD comments on the arguments that have been advanced about the bill proposing to change the legal definition of marriage in the UK to be soon discussed in the Parliament
2/4/2013
Michael Hopwood

US/ Towards a bi-partisan policy on immigration reform?

LORENZO ALBACETE talks about the contacts between the parties to find an agreement on a comprehensive immigration deal, and highlights the role the Catholic Church can play in this respect
1/30/2013
Lorenzo Albacete

MIDDLE EAST/ The Israeli Elections

MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS analyses the results of the recent Israeli elections and the possible outcomes for the situation in the Middle east, particularly against the Iranian nuclear threat
1/25/2013
Michael Sean Winters

US/ Obama’s inauguration: Is there still room in this path for Catholics?

LORENZO ALBACETE reflects on the role religion is playing in the U.S., in the light of Obama’s inauguration and the criteria for selecting the religious leaders to say the official prayers
1/23/2013
Lorenzo Albacete
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