The Pope on this blog’s politics

We do not need a State which regulates and controls everything, but a State which, in accordance with the principles of subsidiarity, generously acknowledges and supports initiatives arising from the different social forces and combines spontaneity with closeness to those in need.

— From Deus Caritas Est (God is love)

Not a dime’s worth of difference

Which party again is the big-government, tax-and-spend one? Which party is the party of genocide, the Dems who killed half a million children in Iraq with the embargo or the Republicans who killed half a million civilians in Iraq with the war?

— Sharon Astyk

Christian Zionism

The image of thousands of conservative Christians from the heartland waving the flags of a foreign nation would have astounded anyone 50 years ago — except maybe George Orwell.

— Michael Brendan Dougherty

From Joshua Snyder.