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Were Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Jesse Helms Kindred Spirits?
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Removing Faith from Public Life, Again
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Mere Comments: The Neo-Anabaptist Temptation
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Trailer: Doing the Right Thing
September 21, 2010
Rev. Sirico: Respect others’ rights, but also their values
September 21, 2010
Radio Free Acton: The Stewardship of Art, Part 2
September 10, 2010
Chrysostom on the Poor
September 08, 2010
Fox News Freedom Watch: Rev. Sirico on Church, State & Liberty
September 08, 2010
Labor and the limits of work
There has been some good discussion over the past week and Labor Day holiday about the nature of work and its role in our lives (particularly here).
The first thing I’d like to point out about Lester DeKoster’s claims regarding work is that he has in mind, at least partially, the classical Greek philosophical distinction between the active and contemplative life, particularly its disdain of manual labor. Continue Reading...