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COMMENTARY: Chesterton observed, after the defeat of…the 1913 Mental Deficiency Bill to sterilise those classified as ‘feeble-minded’ or ‘moral defectives’ that ‘the dazed dupes will be back again.’…
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Doing justice while making Catholic schools affordable…
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COMMENTARY: In both the Polish and American cases, where is the Church creating the space in which unity might be recomposed, modeling rational discussion as the antidote to social media snark?…
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COMMENTARY: The Ascension is crucial in the Catholic Church’s response to the crisis of our time, which is the crisis in the very idea of the human person.…
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COMMENTARY: Miss O’Connor’s embrace of the challenging vocation of writing was shaped by the vocation of suffering.…
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COMMENTARY: Nothing in our constitutional order demands that tax dollars support only government-owned schools operated by government-employed teachers and staff.…
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COMMENTARY: Let’s be clear: The Russia-Ukraine war is not a war over swaths of territory, the language rights of Russian-speakers in Ukraine, or rare-earth minerals. It is a war for Ukraine, period.…
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COMMENTARY: USAID was certainly in need of deep reform. Most of the federal government is. But there’s a difference between effecting genuine reform and playing Demolition Derby.…
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COMMENTARY: US leadership is sorely in need of the kind of statesmanship exhibited by Winston Churchill, Clement Atlee and Ronald Reagan.…
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COMMENTARY: In U.S. State Department shorthand, the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See (which marks its 40th anniversary this year) is referred to as ‘Embassy Vatican.’…
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COMMENTARY: The Revolution of 1989 was a unique experience in the bloody history of a century in which mass violence was the typical means of effecting great social change.…
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COMMENTARY: The communist nation’s prohibition of the Hallow app reveals its weakness.…
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COMMENTARY: A quarter-century later, the memory of that silent embrace remains.…
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COMMENTARY: Cases can be made for three eras by considering their paradigmatic greats.…
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COMMENTARY: In an age where antisemitism comes in many forms, Lent is a good time to reflect on the indisputable fact that Jesus of Nazareth was a son of the Jewish people.…
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