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One of my favorite Far Side cartoons shows a white-bearded gentleman with a shock of hair cleft neatly down the center. He is standing, looking in a bathroom mirror with a stern expression on his face and his arms thrust stiffly out to each side in a dramatic gesture. The

“You shall not steal,” says Exodus 20:15. Once again, the Decalogue faces us with an injunction that seems like common sense (and is) but which is also fraught with all sorts of difficulties and distinctions. Consider, for instance, the fact that a Catholic writer like me has the obligation to

We’ve heard it a million times in the last 20 years. “The Catholic Church does not believe in choice!” This refrain was particularly loud in the 90s when the Church led the successful fight against the mass abortion agenda (ignominiously spearheaded by the Clinton Administration) at the Cairo and Beijing