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What are Catholics to do? (part III)

May 3, 2013 by James Kalb

There’s some more of my hand-wringing on the topic over at Catholic World Report.

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What Are Catholics To Do? (Part II)

April 15, 2013 by James Kalb

I have more comments at Catholic World Report about what Catholics and other sensible people should do when natural law has been declared a hate crime.

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What are Catholics to do?

March 7, 2013 by James Kalb

That’s the title of my current column at Catholic World Report. Basically it says we have to drop out from a radically technocratic world.

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The Church and the Constitution

February 9, 2013 by James Kalb

My new column is up at Catholic World Report. Basically, it says that the American political order needs to adopt Catholicism as its ethos to restore what’s been good in it.

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Should lesbian priests be allowed to marry each other?

February 5, 2013 by James Kalb

I have a snappily-written piece up at Crisis Magazine that discusses “gay marriage,” “woman priests,” and (best of all) the New World Order.

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Catholics and cultural assimilation

January 24, 2013 by James Kalb

I have a piece up at the Crisis website on the topic. Not surprisingly, I say the culture should assimilate to Catholics rather than the reverse.

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Turning the corner

December 6, 2012 by James Kalb

My column for Catholic World Report, on the need to expand what can be talked about in public life, is now up.

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Out of the wreckage

December 6, 2012 by James Kalb

I have another piece on the Sixties up at Crisis Magazine. It orginally started with an epigraph from The Doctrine of the Mean by Confucius that got ditched because the site software couldn’t accommodate it:

“The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to

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The historical roots of 1960s radicalism

November 16, 2012 by James Kalb

My latest piece at Crisis Magazine explains the Sixties as a stage of modernization (not necessarily a good thing).

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An undemocratic future?

November 15, 2012 by James Kalb

My latest column is now online at Catholic World Report under that title. It’s a review of After Tocqueville by Chilton Williamson.

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