In All Things

It is a good thing for democracy that more states are in play this year Too often the debates the television ads the Get-Out-The-Vote organizations ignore large parts of the country because they are considered indelibly red or blue A Republican could in theory try to contest Rhode Island or

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nbsp nbsp Cambridge MA As we get closer to the election there is naturally more discussion of the role of religion in politics including the responsibilities of Catholics both as candidates and as voters Much of the discussion has to do with issues such as abortion genetic engineering and

This essay from the Chronicle of Higher Education by Mark Bauerlein is more evidence for what I already suspected reading on a computer screen makes me stupid nbsp Or more exactly trying to read dense extended arguments on a computer screen results in an entirely different kind of comprehensio

From Catholic News Service By Jonathan Luxmoore WARSAW Poland CNS — A top Polish theologian known for his work in the field of ecumenism has rejected a demand from the Vatican to retract and rewrite an article criticizing the Vatican s attitude toward Christians of other denominations Oblat

Yesterday rsquo s front page story in the New York Times headlined the abortion issue and its decisive role for many Catholic voters The pages of this blog which is less than a fortnight old have already shown the wide variety of opinions on that issue and I suspect there will be further debate a

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John McCain and the Republicans have two problems when they address the meltdown on Wall Street and both of those problems will now be with them through the end of the campaign Fortunately for them the Democrats have an uncanny ability to lose an election that should be a walk in the park The

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The Big Mo may have just shifted again The implosion of the financial markets which former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently called by far the worst economic crisis in his lifetime has once again made the economy issue 1 in the presidential race While the demise of Lehman Br