Check out these recent articles from around the web: A Raw Deal: Our Pain, Their Gain by Michael Stafford: “The great task that has been set before us in the coming years is simply this- to break the power of the wealthy and make America’s government one run by and for the people once again.”… Read More Around the Web
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Attacks on religion, liberty by Robert P. George and Katrina Lantos Swett: “It is both ironic and tragic that in this season of universal goodwill the Christian communities of the ancient Biblical lands should find themselves in grave danger. Let us stand in solidarity with them… Read More Around the Web
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Pope Francis and the argument for compassionate capitalism by Michael Gerson: “In ‘The Joy of the Gospel,’ Francis returns to the defining theme of his papacy: the priority of the person. Human beings have an essential value and nature. They can’t be reduced to economic objects… Read More Around the Web
China has announced its intention to “stop using” its “reeducation through labor” system of prison camps and to revise its one-child policy to expand the number of couples eligible to have two children. These changes, even if slowly and imperfectly implemented, are a positive development, but they shouldn’t obscure the overall nature of China’s brutal,… Read More China’s Positive Reforms and its Enduring Totalitarian Tendencies
Last Wednesday, Chinese dissident (and my colleague at the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies) Chen Guangcheng gave an impassioned speech denouncing tyranny, highlighting the brutality of China’s Communist regime, and challenging Americans to support freedom, democracy, and human rights. It is a challenge not only to Americans, but also to Catholics, especially those… Read More Catholics Should Accept Chen Guangcheng’s Challenge to Americans
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