Does the financial community always know best?
Pat Perriello NCR Today Joe Carter has written an interesting piece on the Acton Institute Power Blog.It is interesting because it focuses on the fallibility of the financial community.
View ArticleFear may be preventing progress in our world
Pat Perriello NCR Today Adil Shamoo, in a Baltimore Sun editorial, sees Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress as an indication that what Netanyahu really wants is war with Iran.
View ArticleChange at the Vatican
Pat Perriello NCR Today Why is there so much resistance to change? Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig examines conservatism and the forces that drive conservatives to many of their positions on various issues.
View ArticleThe value of natural family planning
Pat Perriello NCR Today Commonweal magazine has produced an excellent series of articles discussing contraception from three different points of view. I would like to comment on the first article in...
View ArticleWhat can be said about church teaching on contraception?
Pat Perriello NCR Today I want to continue exploring the fine discussion on contraception contained in a Commonweal series of articles.I would just like to make a couple of comments on the second...
View ArticleHow can we balance religious freedom with the rights of others?
Pat Perriello NCR Today Sara Love in a Baltimore Sun piece makes the point that it is, in fact, legal for religious schools to discriminate based on their religious beliefs. She cites the expulsion of...
View ArticleIs Pope Francis dangerous?
Pat Perriello NCR Today I came across a recent review of a Pope Francis biography published in November. I was struck by a few of the comments.Peter Smith reviewed The Great Reformer by Austen...
View ArticleExploring pastoral vs. doctrinal concerns for the October synod on the family
Pat Perriello NCR Today Synod on the FamilyRoss Douthat has written an outstanding piece about Pope Francis in The Atlantic. It provides a worthwhile read into an understanding of the forces that have...
View ArticleBaltimore can't overcome its ongoing struggles without change
Pat Perriello NCR Today I need to say a few words about the events that have unfolded in Baltimore these past few weeks. To start, I want to say something about the riots themselves. I started working...
View ArticleExploring the faith of Catholic men
Pat Perriello NCR Today Matthew James Christoff has highlighted a crisis of faith for men within the Catholic Church.
View ArticleWhat are Pope Francis' intentions in the Middle East?
Pat Perriello NCR Today America magazine explores in some detail the controversial remarks made by Pope Francis to President Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine in a recent audience. Did Francis say that Abbas...
View ArticleAmerica's foreign policy choices
Pat Perriello NCR Today Ian Bremmer has developed a set of three foreign policy options that Americans need to choose from to develop a coherent foreign policy. The three are the indispensable, the...
View ArticleThe importance of complementarity at the upcoming synod
Pat Perriello NCR Today Synod on the FamilyNCR Today: We all complement each other in various ways. Why couldn't God have ordained love to flow in a different direction?
View ArticleA look at free trade and religious freedom
Pat Perriello NCR Today I would like to comment on a few unrelated op-eds, first on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal then on religious freedom.
View ArticleRemoving the Confederate flag is a big deal, or maybe not such a big deal
Pat Perriello NCR Today The tragic shootings in Charleston, S.C., have created momentum for the removal of the Confederate flag from the state capitol there.
View ArticleSupreme Court decisions and the US Catholic bishops
Pat Perriello NCR Today The 2015 session of the U.S. Supreme Court produced a number of significant decisions.We will of necessity focus on arguably the two most significant cases, especially in...
View ArticleWhat can we say about Donald Trump?
Pat Perriello NCR Today Donald Trump, the real estate tycoon, is now second in the polls for the Republican nomination for president.
View ArticleThe Iran nuclear agreement is a good deal
Pat Perriello NCR Today Already, forces are arrayed against the nuclear agreement reached in Vienna, even though the ink has barely dried on the 100-page document. The lead antagonist is of course...
View ArticleUS bishops are not responding to Pope Francis' message
Pat Perriello NCR Today There have been a number of recent firings of gay or lesbian employees within the Catholic church in the United States. Principals, teachers and a variety of parish ministers...
View ArticleIs the church moving to an embrace of capitalism?
Pat Perriello NCR Today Will the church learn over time to recognize and accept the values of capitalism?
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