The Bishops’ Flawed View of Racial Problems
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops and individual dioceses were quick to respond to the murder of George Floyd and [...]
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06, 2020
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06, 2020
Disrespect for Law and Order
Civilizations are said to decline from within by losing their commitment to the value structures that raised them to prominence. [...]
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05, 2020
Advice to a Disenchanted Catholic
A reader recently offered this (paraphrased) comment on an essay of mine: “Your essay and others like it leave me [...]
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05, 2020
The Gift of Appreciation
I recently wrote about the consequences of the Covid19 crisis—both the self-sacrificing good works it prompted and, in sharp contrast, [...]
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05, 2020
Crises Have Consequences
Covid-19 came to America and the rest of the world without warning and changed our lives in ways never imagined [...]
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05, 2020
The Growing Threat of Socialism
Friedrich von Hayek Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992) was a Hungarian Economist, Philosopher, and Nobel Prize winner [...]
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04, 2020
Surviving the Nightmare
We wake up each morning thinking, “What a horrible dream I had—bats, monkeys, lizards, people in masks and gloves standing [...]
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04, 2020
A Glaring Occasion of Sin
A good friend sent me a statement charging Fox News with “inexcusably” violating “elementary canons of journalism” in its handling [...]
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04, 2020
Reflections While Staying Home
It was Sunday evening, March 29, 2020, and I had just watched episode 224 of McLeod’s Daughters, which ran for eight [...]
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03, 2020
Toilet Paper and the Human Intellect, Part 2
Rodin's The Thinker Part 1 of this essay began by noting the strange but amusing behavior of many [...]