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    Crisis has been re-launched with a new look, but in its 30th year, we remember the original Catholicism in Crisis.
    Read the articles from the very first issue of Crisis, republished as we renew our focus on restoring thoughtful Catholic scholarship.
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    In its thirtieth year, Crisis could rest on its laurels. Across three decades it has been a leading participant in thoughtful Catholic engagement on the subjects of politics, business, culture, faith, and family life. The pages of Crisis over the years witness to authors and editors who viewed Catholicism as a way of living out life in all its fullness,... Read more
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    Broadsword

    It was only in 1991 that the truth sank in to me: I am probably not going to die in a nuclear war. It’s conceivable I might have grandchildren. The…

    Kathleen Sebelius and Barack Obama

    America’s Catholic bishops are princes of diplomacy, highly educated, erudite, men of tact, propriety. They’re asked to shepherd the flock with a long historical timeframe—like, say, eternity. They tend not…

    February 7 (the anniversary of his birth) It was the stubble.  That, more than anything, drew me to Saint Thomas More when I was young.  Of course, I had seen…

    Columnists

    Go the website PlannedParenthood.org. You know, Planned Parenthood, around whose rippling banner enlightened opinion rallied last week when news broke that Susan G. Komen for the Cure would, in the…

    Governor Mitt Romney’s statement about not worrying about the poor has been treated as a gaffe in much of the media, and those in the Republican establishment who have been…

    Appearing alongside CIA Director David Petraeus before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said of Iran: “We don’t believe they’ve actually…

    From the Vault

    This essay originally appeared in the September 1996 edition of Crisis Magazine.   Three major news magazines did it this past Easter season. One should feel guilty about letting these…

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    Kathleen Sebelius and Barack Obama

    America’s Catholic bishops are princes of diplomacy, highly educated, erudite, men of tact, propriety. They’re asked to shepherd the flock with a long historical timeframe—like, say, eternity. They tend not…

    Business
    MAIN-TheRomneyTaxRate

    When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney casually estimated that his effective tax rate is around 15 percent, progressives immediately pounced on the issue. To this ideological minority with its Ahab-like…

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    Vatican at night

    In its thirtieth year, Crisis could rest on its laurels. Across three decades it has been a leading participant in thoughtful Catholic engagement on the subjects of politics, business, culture, faith, and family life.