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Scandal in South Carolina
A priest was recently placed on administrative leave in my own Diocese of Charleston. Fr. Raymond Flores, parochial vicar at St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church in Aiken,...
An Invitation to the Laity
My Fellow Catholics, On July 28, I sent the letter below to my bishop, the Most Reverend Robert E. Guglielmone of the Diocese of Charleston. In it, I explain...
A Man Who Used Any Means Necessary
At long last, the United States is rightly celebrating a key success in the struggle against international terrorism: We have brought to justice Osama bin Laden, longtime head of...
The Excellence of Limits
In the Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology by Eric Cohen Encounter, 180 pages, $21.95 One of the more interesting rock groups of the 1990s...
Cloning Without Conscience: The New British Embryology Bill
For several hundred years, beginning in the fourteenth century, Spanish kings prohibited the breeding of mules, a practice that was thought to jeopardize the purity of Spanish horses. The...
