Leon J. Podles :: DIALOGUE

Commonweal is unhappy with Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, who gave a talk to a Catholic men’s group calling them to defend the Church, citing Obamacare as an example of an attack on the Church
The offending remarks are:

The Church will survive the entrenched corruption and sheer incompetence of our Illinois state government, and even the [...]

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I have been pondering the controversy about the Obama’ administrations’  attempt to make Catholic institutions pay directly or indirectly for contraceptives and abortifacients. The Obama administration astutely picked a fight on a point of doctrine in which lay support for traditional Catholic moral teaching is weakest.
The bishops claim that they are being denied freedom of [...]

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I just finished reading David Stuart’s book Anasazi America. The societies at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde were stratified and polarized between the elites of the Great Houses who lived well and had low infant mortality and the small farmers who suffered hunger and had high infant mortality.
These stratified societies ended, possibly in violence, and [...]

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