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By Donald DeMarco, Ph.D., National Catholic Register, Oct. 7, 2025
Donald DeMarco, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow of Human Life International. He is professor emeritus at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario, an adjunct professor at Holy Apostles College in Cromwell, Connecticut, and a regular columnist for St. Austin Review. …
COMMENTARY: From philosophers to presidents, great thinkers have shown that entertaining ideas and bearing correction are foundations of civil society.
Given a lifetime’s worth of human tragedy in less than a calendar year in the United States, and in the West on the whole, the current situation is the antithesis of the “Domestic Tranquility” ideal stated in the Preamble of the Constitution.
There is, nonetheless, a solution to the widespread mayhem if leaders would only use their intelligence, which remains unimpaired in its essence, to serve the people realistically.
One lesson I never tired of teaching to my university students is the practicality of principles. A principle is abstract, and life is concrete. Nonetheless, they can be compatible with each other. …
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