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The Eminent Tribunal
It is commonplace in pro-life circles to compare the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade (1973) to the Court’s historic decision in 1857 in Dred Scott v....
Letting Go How We Die
A professor of constitutional law and a doctor write about dying and death from their respective points of view. Melvin Urofsky is on the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University;...
The Popes and the Economy
Papal doctrine on political economy has long been misunderstood as well as mistrusted among those economic liberals who in the United States have the curious habit of calling themselves...