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Baselines of Faith
John J. DiIulio Jr.  4/12/2010

In 1996 Senator John Ashcroft of Missouri crafted and President Bill Clinton signed the first federal law broadening support for faith-based organizations that serve the poor without proselytizing. Du ...

Prison Breakout
John J. DiIulio Jr.  3/1/2010

In the year 2000, state and federal prisons held about 1.3 million inmates, and local jails held around 600,000. A decade earlier, in 1990, state and federal prisons held about 700,000 inmates, and lo ...

Another War President?
John J. DiIulio Jr.  12/21/2009

As President Obama begins to sell Congress and the American people on his plan for a time-limited U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan, genuine military and national security experts, flanked by prime-time ...

The Five M's
John J. DiIulio Jr.  11/9/2009

On Jan. 5, 1860, a miracle-worker lay dead in the snow on a Philadelphia street. Born in Bohemia, Bishop John Neumann had built from scratch America’s first unified system of Catholic schools. B ...

Reality Check on Poverty
John J. DiIulio Jr.  9/28/2009

In Chapter Two of the encyclical Charity in Truth Caritas in Veritate , published in June, Pope Benedict XVI observes that the “world’s wealth is growing in absolute terms, but inequalitie ...

Blame Cheney?
John J. DiIulio Jr.  7/20/2009

In 2001 I served on President George W. Bush’s senior White House staff. As a student of American government, it struck me as odd that several “assistants to the president” reported ...

Slowing the Exodus
John J. DiIulio Jr.  5/11/2009

A national survey in 2008 by the Pew Forum got America’s Catholic clergy and lay leaders talking. It found that a third of Americans who were raised Catholic had left the church. One in 10 Ameri ...

A Covenant to Serve
John J. DiIulio Jr.  3/23/2009

As I write this, I am two weeks away from making my 14th trip to post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. I am reflecting on how in late August 2005, four-fifths of that city was flooded when three poorly- ...

'Faith-Based' Hopes
John J. DiIulio Jr.  2/9/2009

In 2001 President George W. Bush created the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. I was its first director. Our main purpose was to promote poverty-fighting partnerships betwee ...

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