Solidarity and Dynamism

by Filip Mazurczak

Solidarity showed the world the link between the Polish nation and Catholicism. However, few outside Poland know the history of this bond. Continue Reading »

28 Nov 2016

The Waters of Death . . . and Life

by Brian Pedraza

As a theologian, I am far more acquainted with the life-giving aspects of water than with its death-dealing ones, but the recent floods in my community of Baton Rouge have compelled me to reflect upon the latter. Continue Reading »

6 Sep 2016

The Politics of Solidarity: A Case for the American Solidarity Party

by David McPherson

We need a politics that can speak authentically in the language of love, protect all human beings from conception to natural death, enliven our sense of a shared past and a shared future rooted in a common good, and build bridges and not just walls. This is what the American Solidarity Party seeks to do. Continue Reading »

29 Jul 2016

Rotting-Flesh Reaganism

by R. R. Reno

Ted Cruz failed to endorse Donald Trump for president. Snore. It’s a sign of how out-of-touch our political class has become that they speak of Cruz as a possible presidential candidate. In him, see the rotting flesh of Reaganism, a noble political project that no longer speaks to our time. Continue Reading »

22 Jul 2016

The Solidarity Difference

by George Weigel

Thirty years ago, on Aug. 31, 1980, an electrician named Lech Walesa signed the Gdansk Accords, ending a two-week-old strike at that Hanseatic city’s Lenin Shipyards. Walesa signed with a giant souvenir pen featuring a portrait of Pope John Paul II… . Continue Reading »

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