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May 2007

Polling For Death

I continue to be amazed at how the media sets forth the results of various polls as some sort of moral barometer, or guide to how the rest of us should think.

The media and a hero

A recent story on St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke and his consistent defense of Catholic teaching exposes the difficulty many reporters have in seeing the difference between courage and controversy.

A tale of two bishops

While it is true that all Catholic bishops are shepherds of their flocks and successors to the Apostles, it baffles me that some bishops take strong stands on behalf of the faith, but others seek wiggle room and search for ways to compromise.

The personhood crisis

Not long ago, Maureen Downey wrote an article for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the subject of the Georgia pro-life movement’s new political goal

Death across America

On the evening news this week, reports came from Iraq, where the reporters took pains to point out that 3,377 Americans have died since the beginning of the war. Almost every state in the union has lost sons or daughters in the war.