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True Freedom, As Articulated in the Story of an Ancient Philosopher Msgr. Charles Pope • June 21, 2018 • credit: Xufanc, Wikimedia CommonsThere is an old story that speaks to the true source of freedom:The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for his supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who said, “If you would learn to be more subservient to the king, you would not have to live on lentils.” Diogenes replied, “Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to cultivate the king.”We often think that money, power, and access give us freedom;...

This just in: there are still good people in the world. A woman who found $2,000 in a thrift store item turned it in and was rewarded for her good deeds, said Value Village District Manager Lance Letson. Letson said the shopper, Yekaterina Shneyderova, 22, was looking at a cash box for sale at his Roswell store Friday when she opened it and found the dough, all in $100 bills. The box also contained financial records of a Marietta couple. Shneyderova, a Kennesaw State student, said as soon she saw the cash she knew she had to return it to...

Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island-- who shows a rare gift for plain speech on public issues-- deserves congratulations for his effort to educate Congressman Patrick Kennedy on the reasons behind the US bishops' opposition to a health-care reform proposal that allows subsidies for abortions. It won't be easy. Kennedy, you will recall, told a reporter that he could not understand why the US bishops are opposing the reform bill. Do they like reform? Isn't it, like, a good thing? In a quick public response, Bishop Tobin characterized Kennedy's statement as "irresponsible and ignorant," explained the political issue in...

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The Washington Times reports that "the U.S. Catholic bishops will sidestep the issue of whether gay men should become priests at their semiannual meeting," which began today at the Chicago Fairmont. And why, boys and girls, was it a foregone conclusion that the bishops would "sidestep" the issue? Because the question of whether gays should be ordained cannot be addressed without first addressing a considerably more explosive question: the number of bishop-disputants who are themselves gay and have a profound personal interest that there be no public examination of the connections between their sexual appetites, their convictions, and their conduct...