Is the Catholic Church a Force for Good in the World?

An entertaining debate on whether the Catholic Church is a force for good in the world today.  The video is in five parts.  I’ve posted the first part here.  Here are the numbers for those for/against/undecided BEFORE the debate and the numbers AFTER the debate.  The motion put forth is:  The [...]

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Criminal Defense is a Human Right

Somone must have traduced Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning…Who could these men be?  What were they talking about?  What authority could they represent?  K. lived in a country with a legal constitution, there was univeral peace, all the laws were in force; [...]

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Listening to what moves you…

I think we ought to only read the kind of books that wound and stab us.  If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?  So that it will make us happy, as you write?…We would be happy precisely if we had [...]

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Victor Frankl and the Holocaust

We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.  We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life–daily [...]

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Equality

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A Canadian on Canadian Healthcare

A Canadian doctor diagnoses U.S. Healthcare.  Read about it here.
Money quote:
American democracy runs on money. Pharmaceutical and insurance companies have the fuel. Analysts see hundreds of billions of premiums wasted on overhead that could fund care for the uninsured. But industry executives and shareholders see bonuses and dividends.
Compounding the confusion is traditional American ignorance of [...]

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A Five Year Old’s Folsom Prison Blues

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Healthcare Reform

Listen here as Bill Moyers sits down with Wendell Potter, former Vice President of CIGNA, to discuss healthcare in America.
Also check this out:

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Robert F. Kennedy

‘Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.’…. Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and [...]

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Party Faces

To all those Republicans who are saying this is the new face of the Democratic Party:

I think we all still remember the face of the Republican Party:

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