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Why Michael Novak was a true American gentleman

February 19, 2017

Giving of himself to others was Michael Novak’s great gift. And this great, genuinely Catholic mind, who died Saturday at the age of 83, will continue giving to us through his more than 50 books. Our best tribute to him is to carry on his work, to imitate his spirit.

Elie Wiesel stirred the world with the necessity of madness

For Elie Wiesel, who died July 2 at 87 years old, madness was not insanity. It was rather the willingness, often in the face of incredible odds, to stand up for human dignity no matter what one’s national identity, racial heritage or sexual orientation might be.

Daniel Berrigan embodied the “cultural revolution” of Pope Francis
- Church
- May 2, 2016
Among the many noteworthy additions to the Catholic magisterium within Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’, was the introduction of the term “integral ecology.” In many ways, the term is meant to bring together the church’s longstanding teachings of “human ecology” and “environmental ecology.” In another way, however, what Pope
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Cardinal Georges Cottier served the Church with a nimble mind
- Church
- April 1, 2016
ROME – An old joke about the Dominicans goes like this. A guy is in a hot air balloon that starts losing altitude, and he ends up stuck in a tree. He has no idea what his location is, and then he sees another guy walking past and yells down
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We shall not look upon the likes of Mother Angelica again
- Church
- March 28, 2016
ROME – With the death of Mother Angelica on Easter Sunday, the Church has lost the most charismatic American Catholic media personality of her time, as well as someone who proved beyond any doubt that a determined and savvy woman can, after all, wield real power inside an organization often
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