Politics & Legislation – Page 10

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We Walk, We Talk, But the Vote Won Temporarily

H. L. Duncan January 26, AD2017 11 Comments

This is the first year I have missed the Walk for Life in San Francisco in a long time. As I write this we are

Lessons in Leadership from St. Thomas More

Laura DeMaria January 22, AD2017 2 Comments

St. Thomas More, patron saint of civil servants, statesmen, and politicians, lived a life of moral courage. A 15th-16th century saint, More was poet, author,

A Catholic Candidate: Now As Before

Ann Casey January 15, AD2017 1 Comment

The following is an excerpt from Ann Casey’s book, America’s Courage of Faith. 25 June 1928 Dear Gaston, Fellow priest and brother, politics, politics and the

Multifaceted Approaches to World Peace

Guest Contributor January 8, AD2017 5 Comments

During the eighties, I edited an anthology, Philosophical Perspectives on Peace, which included numerous prescriptions for world peace by philosophers, psychologists, and litterateurs from the

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They Have a Right!

H. L. Duncan January 7, AD2017 15 Comments

I am tired of hearing the phrase, they have a right. I hear this said on television, radio, or among people in everyday life about

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PostPersons

Guy McClung December 11, AD2016 3 Comments

In 1970, if someone in America would have told you that all the laws against abortion in all the states (but two) would be overturned

Republicans, Do Not Take My Vote for Granted!

Denise J. Hunnell, MD November 24, AD2016 4 Comments

I am certain that as many Republican politicians gather around their Thanksgiving table they will offer thanks for the recent elections. Of course, they should first bow

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Planned Parenthood Donations for Pence: They Know Not What They Do

Birgit Jones November 21, AD2016 6 Comments

The contentious nature of the 2016 political season exposed a division so wide as to have literally split our nation in two. Even the

The Voting Amish: The Power of Pro-Life

Cynthia Millen November 20, AD2016 3 Comments

An article that appeared a few days ago via the fake site abcnews.co.com, claiming that the “Amish American Brotherhood” had endorsed Donald Trump and that

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Society is People

H. L. Duncan November 9, AD2016 3 Comments

Especially during these past few intense months of our presidential election, we in America have been shown how much society has turned substantially away from

Reflections On The Election: A Lament of a Colorado Catholic

Guest Contributor November 8, AD2016 12 Comments

Regrettably, I left Sunday Mass yesterday disheartened. And angry. I told my wife: “If this is what the Catholic Church has come to, then I’m

Hacking and the Law, Ethics, Vigilante Justice, and Catholicism

Steffani Jacobs November 7, AD2016 No Comments

When you stop and think about it, the World Wide Web today is kind of similar to the old Wild West. There are good

Trump Embodies the American Spirit

Julie Machado November 6, AD2016 3 Comments

Like most people, I avoid talking about politics. Living in Europe, and during this presidential election, that means especially American politics. I think Trump, everything

Trump “Deplorables” Living in Bizarreland

Guest Contributor November 5, AD2016 3 Comments

Candidate Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign promised “change,” over and over: he was “a leader who can deliver change.” And he has indeed delivered

Life Trumps Death, Always

Jamey Brown November 2, AD2016 11 Comments

I drive a cab in New York City, and when I am in the East Village, I stop in front of the Margaret Sanger Center,

The 2016 Catholic Voting Conundrum Simplified

Gene M. Van Son October 29, AD2016 26 Comments

The 2016 presidential election seems to be presenting many Catholics with a voting conundrum: Can a Catholic in good conscience vote for either candidate? If

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Cut to the Chase

Dom Cingoranelli October 28, AD2016 23 Comments

Lately, at Mass, at least some of our bishops and priests have told us to go home, pray and form our conscience, then vote accordingly

Trump is the Better Moral Choice

James Hooper October 26, AD2016 19 Comments

By the time you read my next article, either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be elected to the office of President of the United

The Challenge to Be Courageously Catholic

Denise J. Hunnell, MD October 24, AD2016 2 Comments

A few days ago we returned home to a plumbing catastrophe. We had been out to dinner for a little over two hours and in

How the Religious Right Destroyed Itself

Anthony S. Layne October 21, AD2016 33 Comments

The year 2016 will go into the history books as the year the Religious Right destroyed itself. Instead of trusting in the Lord, the Religious

Subsidiarity and Our American Freedoms

Cynthia Millen October 20, AD2016 3 Comments

The principle of subsidiarity, one of the basic tenets of Catholic social doctrine, promotes governance at its smallest level based on the natural law tenet

Tradinistas Want to Replace Capitalism With “Catholic” Socialism!

Gene M. Van Son October 17, AD2016 4 Comments

In case you haven’t heard, there is apparently a new small sub-group of Catholics who have decided that it’s time to end the American Experiment.

Is This Election About Smut or Governing?

Birgit Jones October 16, AD2016 24 Comments

As we approach this election we should ask ourselves, “How many presidents have we had? How many of them were unsavory characters? What was the