The Narthex
Immigration and the Common Good
Thomas Aquinas gives an example of a just immigration policy
By Rob Agnelli (Archive) | October 25th 2018 3:12 PMAs reported in a number of news sources, there are now two separate “migrant caravans” heading towards the US-Mexico border, totaling about 10,000 migrants from Central American countries. Their crawl to the border is like a slow fuse sure to reignite the contentious debate over immigration. Protecting migrants is part…
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The Church was out-hustled by Margaret Sanger and her progeny
By Rob Agnelli (Archive) | October 16th 2018 4:29 PMWhen Margaret Sanger attempted to attack the Church’s opposition to contraception, she did so mainly through anecdotal evidence of the thousands of mothers suffering under the burden of too many children. She even went so far as to collect the stories of these women and bind them in a book…
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Church teaching goes from fresh and radical to utterly boring
By Barbara Rose | October 15th 2018 7:58 PMDoes the Synod of Bishops on Young People, running this month in Rome, strike anyone else as same-old same-old? The Church continues to come across as bureaucratic and uninspiring. Aside from some free trips to Rome for some motivated young people, it's hard to see how a train of meetings…
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Nevermind the Creator's design for humankind
By Pieter Vree | October 15th 2018 6:27 PMStudent protests have become routine, such that nobody takes them seriously anymore. So now, the adults are getting involved — as they did with last April’s walkouts for gun control — approving and supporting their charges’ acts of “defiance” — which really don’t defy anything if everybody is on board…
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