While the commentariat has covered the religious aspects of the GOP primary extensively few are looking at how religion may affect the Democratic race They should eight of the 22 states that vote next Tuesday have populations that are more than 30 Roman Catholic including the biggest prizes of

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Barack Obama has a problem He has based his campaign on moving past the stale arguments of the past 20 years when the Bush Clinton families have taken turns in the White House America s late Roman empire problem But last week the campaign harkened back to an even earlier time the iden

Amid the negative rhetoric of some presidential candidates who seek to exploit the issue of undocumented immigrants, it is important to keep in mind a larger view of “people on the move.” What is happening in the United States represents just a small part of a worldwide phenomenon. A ma

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Pope’s New Encyclical, ‘Spe Salvi,’ Addresses Modern Crisis of Hope In an encyclical on Christian hope, Pope Benedict XVI said that without faith in God, humanity lies at the mercy of ideologies that can lead to “the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice.&#8221

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Much of Mexicos drug-related violence has roots in the United States, our peoples insatiable demand for illegal drugs. State of Siege, a report by the nonprofit Washington Office on Latin America, notes that the United States shares responsibility for drug-connected violence because the level of con

The sad decline of the Dream Act