Jeanie Hannaman

By Msgr. Richard C. Antall, Crisis Magazine - I think that one aspect of the declaration has been ignored. That is its naiveté about a supposed consensus of moral thinking. In paragraph seven, it reads: “There is widespread agreement today on the importance and normative scope of human dignity and on the unique and transcendent value of every human being.” The endnote for that affirmation refers to the 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, a 1966 United Nations “Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,” and the 1975 Helsinki “Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.”

By Catholic Vote, CV News Feed - “Of all the groups our top federal law enforcement agency would write an 11-page document targeting, they picked us,” Seraphin, a Catholic, wrote... “With all of the crime going on in the country, especially in the last few years, the FBI decided we Catholics were the problem,” he added... (Seraphin)... also warned that “[t]he FBI is establishing a gateway in what they think is ‘fringe Catholicism,’ as a means to go after Christians in general and declare them to be the real ‘threats’ and ‘potential terrorists’ in the country.”... “Slowly but surely, the FBI is probing its way into all religious communities,” Seraphin explained... “All Christians are in the crosshairs … the idea of them targeting a so-called ‘radical Baptist’ or ‘radical Lutheran’ in the near future is certainly on the table.”