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Pro-life wins and trouble for Catholic Democrats

George Weigel

Media commentary on last month’s elections has generally ignored one important fact: many pro-abortion political action committees saw their candidates…

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Syndicated Column / December 18, 2002

Dr. James Turner Johnson and Christopher Hitchens at the December 2002 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Dr. James Turner Johnson, professor of religion at Rutgers University, and Christopher Hitchens, contributing editor of Vanity Fair, spoke at the December 2002 Faith Angle Forum on the varying concepts of just war theory.

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Dr. Gilles Kepel at the December 2002 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Dr. Gilles Kepel, professor and researcher at the Institute for Political Studies in Paris, and Jeffrey Goldberg, writer for the New Yorker, spoke at the December 2002 Faith Angle Forum about the current trajectory of Islamic extremism.

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Dr. Philip Jenkins at the December 2002 Faith Angle Forum

Michael Cromartie

Dr. Philip Jenkins, professor of religious studies and history at Pennsylvania State University, and David Brooks, senior editor of the Weekly Standard, spoke at the December 2002 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of global Christian trends and their influence on the world stage.

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About Schmidt

James Bowman

Unlike drama, unlike fiction, the movies don’t do failure very well. They are essentially a heroic medium, like tragedy or…

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Maid in Manhattan

James Bowman

. . and when the prince put the glass slipper on Cinderella’s foot, boys and girls, it was a perfect…

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The Pope, the Italians, and the rest of us

George Weigel

Given the Catholic Church’s historic role in forming what we now know as “Italy,” you might think that relations between…

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Syndicated Column / December 11, 2002

Equilibrium

James Bowman

Now take just a moment to think about it. In a world where television networks will spend millions in the…

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Empire

James Bowman

Everybody’s a postmodernist these days. Empire by Franc. (please observe point) Reyes is essentially a dreary little ghetto movie of…

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What is the just war tradition for?

George Weigel

For more than fifteen hundred years, the venerable “just war tradition” has helped responsible Christians think through the many moral…

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Syndicated Column / December 4, 2002

Rabbit-Proof Fence

James Bowman

At the end of Rabbit-Proof Fence, directed by Phillip Noyce and based on a true story, the bad guy, Mr….

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Christ Conquers

George Weigel

When he was my student at the St. Thomas Seminary School of Theology in Kenmore, Washington, twenty-seven years ago, neither…

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Syndicated Column / November 27, 2002