The trouble began when nine students at a weekend party played “Jews vs. Nazis” beer pong.
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The atheist’s case against abortion: respect for human rights
Millennials in the “pro-life generation” are not interested in a culture war, but simply want to save preborn children and their mothers from the tragedy of abortion.
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Sister Helen Prejean: Why Pope Francis’ rejection of the death penalty is so important
At last, a clear, uncompromising stance of moral opposition to the death penalty by the highest authority of the church.
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What would Pope Leo XIII think of Bitcoin and blockchain?
Catholic distributism might have something to offer for those rushing to adopt these new technologies.
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Are gun manufacturers and politicians morally complicit in mass shootings?
Politicians who enable the proliferation of assault weapons are guilty of illicit cooperation in evil.
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Faculty unions pose a test of social teaching at Catholic universities
Adjunct faculty feel as if they have second-class status, but the real culprit is escalating costs at tuition-dependent universities.
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Here’s what we are supposed to believe about immigration as Catholics
Catholic social teaching does not allow us to consider immigration in the abstract; we must recognize that human beings migrate for legitimate reasons.
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When Dorothy Day took a knee
The saints and heroes of our faith have much to teach us about our contemporary political context.
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Do our fights over Pope Francis have to be this dumb?
The failure is not one of communication; it is one of charity. The pope wants us to debate. I say: Do it better.
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Mexico’s earthquakes are a chance for cross-border solidarity. How will we respond?
The earthquake feels like yet another crisis tearing at our transnational families. The earthquake was a natural disaster, but the many ways American society fails to value the lives of foreigners, of immigrants, of its own citizens, because of their skin color or their Latino heritage is a disaster of our own making.