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Debra Murphy
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Debra is the publisher of Idylls Press, the small press she founded in 2004 with the mission of publishing new and classic Catholic fiction. The press's motto is "Publishing the Catholic Imagination."…
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RE: Why I Love Obama
Well said, Harold. I think the importance of being able to unite and inspire a country through good old-fashioned rhetoric has been undervalued these last few decades, we're so used to leaders who can barely put two intelligent sentences together. I'd vote for this man in a heartbeat...if he were only pro-life. When are the Dems going to get…

RE: Driving a Wedge into the ‘Evangelical Center’ on Gay Marriage
The polarization on this issue (as with abortion politics) reminds me of the concept that the Perfect can frequently be the enemy of the Good. It's one thing to reject constitutional amendments or civil legislation written in language that puts, say, gay marriages on a par, moral or institutional, with traditional procreative marriage, and…

RE: Driving a Wedge into the ‘Evangelical Center’ on Gay Marriage
To suggest that because I believe that it is "utopian wishful thinking" to prohibit other forms of domestic partnership as a means to further the cause of sacramental marriage, somehow implies that I must ergo favor tax penalties against "married filing jointly" couples, is non sequitur. Where did you get such an idea? On the contrary, a willingness…

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The Same Man?

I suspect that the title of this little dual biography was intended to produce in the potential reader (i.e., anyone even a little familiar with Waugh and Orwell) precisely the reaction it produced in me upon hearing it: I exclaimed something to the effect of, “Say what?” and promptly plunked down twenty-six bucks (minus my local indie… READ MORE >

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Opinion > Faith

After the Pope: Time to Hit the Books?

It’s going to take a while for all (or any) of us to absorb the significance of Benedict XIV’s first apostolic visit to the United States. Unlike his predecessor, the larger-than-life John Paul the Great, who from the first displayed an actor’s genius for what one observer described as “the symbolic gesture”,… READ MORE >

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