Here’s a Challenge for Catholics on the Fourth of July
COMMENTARY: Celebrate this Independence Day with both gusto and solemnity.
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Independence Day and Catholic Citizens: Patriotic Witness in Word and Deed to Truth and Justice
COMMENTARY: One of the most vital services that Catholic Christians provide to our nation is our witness to truth and the reasonableness of reason. This is especially true of our witness to the natural moral law (knowable by all who use right reason) and to the norms of social justice.
4th of July Reflection: Freedom’s Fragile Reality
COMMENTARY: If we want the U.S. to grow and prosper and continue to be ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave,’ then a mature freedom and a sound moral sense must be fully retrieved and put into public practice.
Ven. Fulton Sheen: ‘The Declaration of Independence Is a Declaration of Dependence’
‘Because God made us free, we have rights,’ said Archbishop Sheen. ‘Because God made us creatures, we have duties.’
Semper Fidelis: A Story of Family, Sacrifice and Love of Country
May we remain always faithful to God, our brothers and sisters in Christ, and our beloved country.
1619, 1776 and the United States of America
COMMENTARY: There’s no arguing it: The United States of America, as our founders conceived it, started in 1776.
Archbishop Gomez: Catholic Missionaries Such as St. Junípero Witness to the ‘American Creed’
In a July 2 column, he reflected there is a fittingness to celebrating the memorial of St. Junípero Serra three days before Independence Day.
‘Into the Hands of America’: Pope Pius XII’s Blessing
COMMENTARY: The Pope in 1946 warned of the new post-war enemy that survived Nazism and was seeking revolution and disorder: atheistic communism. And the best response to that ideology was what the U.S. represented.
America’s First Freedom
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: As we approach the 245th anniversary of the ‘American Experiment,’ let us take stock of the state of religious liberty in the United States.
Thoughts for the Fourth: Recalling the Freedoms Contained in the Declaration
COMMENTARY: Individual Americans have stepped up in times of strife since the first Independence Day.
