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Can Christians be in the judiciary or legislature in a pluralistic society? — part 2

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https://oleoalmanzora.com/oleoturismo-en-pulpi/ I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accept instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or […]

Can Catholics be good legislators in a pluralistic democracy?

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As a result of the discussion on Catholic Social Doctrine, one of the readers of this blog brought up a question that has been asked before in the history this nation. Can a Roman Catholic be a member of a government in a pluralistic democracy? Actually, it really brings up the broader question of whether […]

George Weigel on Catholic Social Doctrine

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After my blog post on Mattingly and Catholic Social Doctrine, a friend sent a link to an article by George Weigel that was distributed by the Denver Catholic Register, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Denver. It is an extremely good article. Below are some quotes from the article, though I urge you to follow […]

“Organic” chicken soup — ugh

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This particular comic brings back some memories. We, in USA, do not tend to eat a large variety of meat animals, and even then we do not eat all parts of a meat animal. Well, yes, there are some subcultures in our country where a larger variety is eaten, but they are small segments. But […]

Terry Mattingly on Catholic heretics

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Many of you may not be aware that the journalist named Terry Mattingly is Eastern Orthodox, and that besides writing columns has also taught courses in places as diverse as Northern Baptist Seminary, Milligan College, etc. He is an astute observer of popular and official religious trends, and an excellent writer. I subscribe to one of his columns, and […]

Summer begins but the lakes are cold

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This comic brings back memories. For several years, our family lived in Port Huron, Michigan. In fact, two of our daughters were actually born up there, and all three were baptized on Easter in 1986. For those of you who do not know, Port Huron is in the thumb area of Michigan. That means that […]

But you can’t fool all of the people all of the time

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OK, so let’s get to the nitty gritty of these various posts. After Kuhn showed how even science was somewhat dependent on one’s worldview and showed how major advances did not tend to happen until somebody looked at the data with a different worldview, other philosophers began to look again at the whole issue of language […]

And you can fool some of the people all of the time

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Yesterday I had mentioned that another philosophy came up that caused an explosion within USA culture. Remember that I mentioned a philosopher named Kuhn? His book was published in the 1960’s, in the midst of the cultural explosions that did not begin in the 1960’s as most people think, but began in the 1950’s (well, […]

You can fool all of the people some of the time

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I mentioned yesterday that a philosopher named Kuhn came up with the terminology “paradigm shift.” And, I mentioned that what he conclusively showed was how even scientists are influenced by some of their preconceptions. Let me put it another way. If any of you have read the original Sherlock Holmes novels–not the movies, please, the […]

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