by Stephen Schneck, U.S. Catholic Loosely orbiting the journal First Things, since the late 1980s a handful of Catholic intellectuals have systematically promoted what they believed to be an inherent compatibility—if indeed not actual fusion—between American-style neoconservatism and Catholicism. Sometimes called theocons, the first generation of the movement included Father Richard Neuhaus, George Weigel, and … Continue reading POLITICS: The political crisis of “Conservative Catholicism”
REFLECTION: Do military recruiters belong in Catholic schools?
by Pat Elder for US Catholic During the 2nd Battle of Fallujah in November of 2004, 1st Lieutenant Jesse A. Grapes saved the lives of three wounded Marines in his platoon by entering a burning house, where he encountered the enemy soldier who had been firing at his troops. Six years later, when Grapes was … Continue reading REFLECTION: Do military recruiters belong in Catholic schools?