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Compassion beyond Christmas: Recognizing America's best charities
During the holiday season, the focus for many people turns to charity, and rightly so. Part and parcel of recognizing the gifts we have been given and the blessings we have received is recognition of the responsibility in turn to pass on blessings and do good to others.Remembering Communism
If Communism’s demise teaches us anything, it is that people of hope have reason to believe that liberty, grounded in the truth about man, consistently overcomes its opponents – be they of the Marxist, Nazi, or secularist-fundamentalist variety.An African solution for Africa's poverty
Africa ought to be one of the richest continents in the world in terms of mineral resources and arable farmland. So, what is the problem?Back to business: The compendium and the entrepreneur
Business people are thus not an optional-extra in a free and virtuous society. They are, in fact, essential.Values eternal, values imposed
To protect life is not to impose one's values; it is to act to prevent distorted values from harming the most vulnerable among us.Isaiah and the welfare state
The poor, in surrendering them to the care of the government, are increasingly estranged from the family, church, charity, or local community.Choosing excellence – What makes a great Catholic high school?
“Parents, who have the primary andinalienable right and duty to educate their children, must enjoy true libertyin their choice of schools.” This lucid and unambiguous statement comes fromthe Second Vatican Council's Declarationon Christian Education . For Catholics, it has been the authoritativedocument concerning education for more than forty years. As long as schools such as those on the Honor Roll exist, freedom in education will remain a meaningful goal.Is there only secular democracy?
Democratic personalism provides another, better possibility – one that does not require democracy to cancel itself out.Scary movie: Hollywood humanizes the despot
Hitler and Che Guevara are presented as human, perhaps heroic, figures in new films.Stewards of the cosmos
Congratulations are due to the SpaceShipOne team, and a new task has been set before the people of earth: the stewardship of space.The human face of compassion
Grassroots organizations like Faith in Action are at work all over America – in rural counties, inner cities, and suburbs. They work heroically, with few resources and often little recognition.A Church or a business? Governing faith-based organizations
While a church's ultimate role points beyond this world to the next, its penultimate role places it squarely within this world.