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...This "bottom-up, personal responsibility" message, as he describes it, appeals to Kmiec, allowing him to be not just a McCain skeptic but also an Obama supporter. That decision has not come without a cost - this spring Kmiec was denied Communion by a priest who denounced his endorsement of Obama. But with Catholics almost twice as likely to name the economy, Iraq and terrorism as their top concerns over abortion and gay marriage, Kmiec has plenty of company. Come November, that priest may be holding on to a very full bowl of wafers...
...would want to move ahead without them. Legally, the other 26 could renounce the existing E.U. treaties and recreate them with one fewer member. But that maneuver could not work unless all the members were firmly committed to pushing Ireland out of the E.U. Some of the more Euro-skeptic members, such as Britain and the Czech Republic, might thwart such an effort. But then the majority of the member states could try to create a two-speed Europe: the Irish, British and others reluctant to integrate would be left outside a new club. If that course is pursued, Ireland...
...even the most ardent skeptic or even atheist—to whom this tolerant regime agnostic to moral or religious questions might first seem appealing—must confront difficulty when this “tolerance” applies to sects not historically seeped in such cultural relativism...
...Such a compromise might seem reasonable for all sides. But really only a skeptic, or one not fully committed to the truth of his convictions, could deem such an arrangement a positive good. Christians, used to the dominant secularism of this age, have conceded it, if not as a principle, then at least a dictate of prudence...
...probably says everything about his current place in history that the former Labour Prime Minister of Euro-skeptic Britain, Tony Blair, chose to kick off his unofficial drive to become the European Union's first president by seeking support from conservatives in Euro-enthusastic France. Suffice to say that he may find the road to the E.U. presidency a bumpy one, as his weekend sojourn in Paris proved...