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2012 March

Letter to the Editor: March 2012

A Portrait of False Bravado... He Deserves Better... Debating "Catholic Science"... There's No Success Like Failure... On the "Byzantinization" of the Latin Church... Encyclicals for Inmates... and more

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The News You May Have Missed

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Is the Pope Catholic?... Sacred (Body) Art... Rain, Rain, Go Away... Audience Participation... The Dictator's Derriere... Concrete Solution... Toylet Training... Ordinary Australian Discourse... and more

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New Oxford Notes: March 2012

Where Have All the Students Gone?... Liturgical Winners & Losers

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The Death of a Man & the Hope of Mankind

ENTER INTO LIFE

Terence J. Hughes

Today it appears that Western civilization is dying just as I am. But I know that resurrection awaits our Lord's faithful.

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On the Ethical Treatment of Rape Victims

THE PROBLEMS WITH PLAN B

Joseph E. Kincaid

Some hospitals use Plan B as routine treatment for victims of sexual assault, and some bishops have reluctantly agreed to it after coercion by state legislatures.

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Are All Human Beings Persons?

SOMEONE, SOMETHING, OR SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN ?

James G. Hanink

"'Person' is not a generic term," writes Robert Spaemann, "it is the way in which individuals of the human genus exist." One's neighbor is unique and non-fungible.

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An Unwasted Life

GUEST COLUMN

George J. Collins

Normally, when a resident dies, only the staff and members of that cottage show up for the funeral. At her funeral, however, the 500-seat chapel was overflowing.

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A Wall Between Science & State?

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

We need to protect people from the worldview that put Ota Benga in a cage, forcibly sterilized Carrie Buck, and shut the door to Jewish refugees in the 1930s.

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Briefly: March 2012

The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Oba­ma's America

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