A worldwide "Synod on the Laity" called by Pope John Paul II is meeting in Rome, Italy all during the month of October. More than 200 Catholic bishops from all over the world were selected to attend, some by their peers in their own country and some … [Read more...] about THE PAPAL SYNOD ON THE LAITY

What would you think of a cooking instructor who taught his students how to cook (how to measure ingredients, turn on the stove, run an electric beater, etc.) but neglected to tell his students how to get the right ingredients and what the cooked … [Read more...] about MEMORY IS MISSING FROM EDUCATION

Can one week change the world, as Richard Nixon so extravagantly claimed about his 1972 visit to Red China? Certainly that week didn’t do it, but the world could have been changed for the foreseeable future during the week of the Cuban Missile … [Read more...] about Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis

When President Reagan’s new AIDS Commission gets down to serious business, it should study an important package of newly-passed state legislation. Illinois lunged to leadership in the what-to-do-about-AIDS dilemma when Governor James Thompson signed … [Read more...] about Suggestions for the Aids Commission

The power to prescribe a national curriculum for American public school students is the power to control the next generation. The prevailing consensus in America is that nobody should ever exercise such power because that would be incompatible with … [Read more...] about THE PUSH FOR A NATIONAL CURRICULUM

"What’s in a name?" Shakespeare asked. A lot, when it comes to politics, it seems. What the liberals have baptized as "the Civil Rights Restoration Bill" should really be named "the Civil Wrongs Bill of 1987." Sponsored by Edward Kennedy (D-MA) in … [Read more...] about THE CIVIL WRONGS BILL OF 1987

The Salt I Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, signed in 1972, comes up for its third five-year review on October 3. This would be a good time to withdraw from the Treaty according to the procedure set forth in its own terms. For two centuries, our … [Read more...] about Defend America! Terminate the Abm Treaty

"Censorship attempts jumped by 20 percent during the last school year," proclaimed a recent news release by Norman Lear’s People for the American Way. PAW’s annual report, called "Attacks on the Freedom to Learn," listed and described the details of … [Read more...] about THE REAL ISSUE IS POOR JUDGMENT, NOT CENSORSHIP

Condom-mania has been sweeping the country for the last year. One can hardly turn on television, read a newspaper, or participate in a school curriculum discussion without being battered with the demand that people and pupils be encouraged to use … [Read more...] about Condom-Mania Con Job

Our United States Constitution should be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest and longest-lasting constitution in all the world's history. How is it that this rather short document, sometimes called "four little pages," was able to … [Read more...] about OUR CONSTITUTION’S 200th BIRTHDAY