Abortion Compromise Flouts Public Opinion, Precedent
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Monday, December 28, 2009
Reversals such as Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson's are not surprising. Pro-life voters are accustomed to broken promises from opportunistic politicians who jettison their abortion opposition for a bigger slice of the Beltway pie.  [Read More]

Abu Ghraib and Just War in Iraq
By George Weigel
Posted: Tuesday, July 13, 2004
The virtually universal American revulsion at photographs showing abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops tells us something important about this country – something that can’t be reduced to the old saw about a picture being worth a thousand words. The revulsion tells us that, despite the moral confusions of our culture, most Americans are not moral cynics.  [Read More]

The Activist Trap
As Election Day draws near, Benedict's warning to his flock is timely and relevant.
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Thursday, August 31, 2006
Those who believe most fervently in the socially transformative power of personal responsibility and personal conversion and in the existence of universal moral laws cannot expect to change the world through external activity and political victories alone. Their hope must lie in something deeper and more enduring, in the transcendent truths that can only be discovered in silence, solitude, and contemplation.  [Read More]

Activists Reveal Rigidity by Fighting Coerced Abortion Ban
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Friday, February 27, 2009
The notion that pro-life advocates are simplistic and rigid ideologues is taking a particular beating right now in Missouri, as the state Legislature debates the merits of a proposed ban on coerced abortions.  [Read More]

Adding Spice to the American Mix
By George Weigel
Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008
For the life of the Catholic Church in America, what the Pope says in his homilies in Washington and New York, and in his meetings with Catholic bishops, educators, priests, Religious, seminarians and young people will likely have more of an immediate impact than what he says from the green marble rostrum of the General Assembly. And what the Catholic Church in America most needs to hear from Benedict XVI is a word of encouragement.  [Read More]

Adult Interreligious Dialogue
By George Weigel
Posted: Sunday, November 30, 2008
Father Christian Troll, a German Jesuit, is one of the Catholic Church's leading students of Islam and a key figure in the Catholic-Islamic dialogue launched by Pope Benedict XVI's September 2006 Regensburg Lecture. Speaking recently at Cambridge University, Father Troll laid out a series of questions that must be faced in any serious conversation between Catholics and Muslims  [Read More]

Advice for Europe – And For Us
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
In order to combat aggressive secularism, the Church in both the United States and Europe must be less diffident, less defensive, and more assertive -- not in the sense of aggression, but of truth-telling "in and out of season" -- in its engagement with culture and politics.  [Read More]

"Afflicted" with fertility?
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, February 11, 2009
What's the biggest threat to the world's prosperity and stability over the medium haul—say, between 2020 and 2050? The proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction? A continuing economic recession? Jihadism running amok? The Detroit Lions ushering in the Apocalypse by winning an NFL championship? Guess again.  [Read More]

Afraid of Change? More Myths of 1968
By George Weigel
Posted: Wednesday, June 7, 2006
In a recent editorial on condoms and AIDS, the London-based Tablet, an influential weekly in the Catholic Anglosphere, argued that "in 1968, the most persuasive reason advanced in favor of retaining the ban on artificial birth control was that to lift it would suggest that the Church could change its mind, and hence undermine its teaching authority." That is a distortion of history and the editors of the Tablet -- which played a large role in the Humanae Vitae controversy -- should know it.  [Read More]

After Commencement, Catholic-Identity Battles Continue
By Colleen Carroll Campbell
Posted: Monday, May 25, 2009
The brouhaha over President Barack Obama's appearance at the University of Notre Dame culminated Sunday with apparent defeat for pro-life Catholics. The university's hotly contested plan to bestow an honorary degree on Obama, a staunch supporter of legalized abortion and embryonic stem cell research, went off without a hitch.  [Read More]