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| April 2008 |
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Fight-Club Culture Glamorizes Girl-on-Girl Violence
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Any woman who has survived junior high knows that such subtle forms of female aggression as clique-forming and gossip-mongering are nothing new. Yet the rise in high-profile cases of criminal violence among teenage girls, and the star treatment the perpetrators receive for their crimes, is alarming.
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Charles Krauthammer and "The Holocaust Declaration"
The Gathering Storm, April 16, 2008
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Our government's attempts to dissuade or derail Iran from developing nuclear weapons-grade uranium has failed. What do we do now? Last Friday, Charles Krauthammer wrote an important column suggesting that America adopt foreign policy position similar to our old Cold War stance against the Soviets in Europe: extend our nuclear umbrella to Israel. This column is a must read.
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Reauthorizing AIDS Program is Good Foreign Policy
By Rick Santorum
Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
"Mission: Impossible" - that's what many called the effort to combat HIV/AIDS internationally five years ago. They had good reason. Two-thirds of those infected with HIV were in Africa, and the virus was ravaging a continent that was already a "perfect storm" of health and development woes. I'm proud to have worked on the original President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief legislation. Five years later, I'm happy to report that this ongoing mission proved far from impossible. I'm also happy to report that, in a rare expression of bipartisan unity, the House recently reauthorized PEPFAR.
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A Pope of Historic Vision
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Benedict XVI thinks in centuries. His courageous exercise in truth-telling at Regensburg has already begun to reshape the debate within Islam and the dialogue between Islam and "the rest." That is no mean accomplishment.
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Who Will Save Catholic Schools?
By Mary Rose Rybak
Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
More than 1,300 Catholic schools have shut down in America since 1990, displacing over 300,000 students. A recent report by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation suggests ways to save these schools, but leaves some questions unanswered.
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Benedict's Urgency and a Youth Response
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Although the ranks of Catholic priests and religious sisters and brothers have fallen sharply in the past few decades, there are signs that this message of radical sacrifice and a countercultural faith appeals to younger Catholics. The National Religious Vocation Conference reported that most of those considering religious life are under age 30 and about one in five say they plan to enter a religious community in the next year.
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What Have We Learned About -- and From -- Wilhelm Röpke?
By John D. Mueller
Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Unlike his libertarian friends Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek, Wilhelm Röpke had a genuine economic theory of the family, and understood that our most fundamental scale of preferences is for persons, not things.
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Off-the-Record Obama
The Politics of Meaning on steroids.
By Peter Wehner
Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Early on in this campaign I was impressed with Barack Obama as a thoughtful, inspiring, and admirable (if far too liberal) political figure. As the months have worn on, it's become increasingly apparent that beneath the enormous charm and cool persona of Obama beats the heart of an arrogant man. By his presumptuous demeanor, he suggests that he sees what no one else sees, and can do what no other person can do.
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A Pope for the Counterculture
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
As Benedict makes the rounds in Washington and New York this week, we can expect to hear novel explications of the same themes that have dominated his encyclicals and public addresses since 2005: the compatibility of faith and reason, the necessity of interior contemplation preceding exterior action and the universality of the human hunger for a transcendent hope grounded in something greater than human progress or happy circumstances.
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Remembering Bill Buckley
By George Weigel
Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Who were the most publicly influential American Catholics of the twentieth century? If we mean a Catholic whose ideas changed the way Americans think, who reshaped our politics and our public policy, and whose influence seems likely to endure, then William F. Buckley, Jr., who died February 27, must be given his due.
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| Religion and the Media |
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Faith Angle Conference -- May 2008
EPPC Vice President Michael Cromartie moderated a series of discussions in May at the semi-annual Faith Angle Conference sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and held in Key West, Florida. Transcripts of the informative talks are now available online.
 American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues -- D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, describes eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.
Religious Voters in the 2008 Election: What It Means for Democrats, Republicans -- William A. Galston, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and an assistant for domestic policy in the Clinton administration, discusses the importance of the Catholic vote in 2008. How Our Brains are Wired for Belief -- What does brain science add to age-old debates about the existence of God and the value of religion? Can political parties and religious groups use scientific insights to influence the beliefs of others? Dr. Andrew Newberg and Mr. David Brooks raise these questions and share their insights with journalists.
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