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Stephen Kent: Rendering God superfluous

10/24/2014 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

The U.S. Air Force no longer requires “so help me God” to be part of the oath taken upon the enlistment of airmen or the commissioning of officers. A toll-taker on the Garden State Parkway is suing the state of New Jersey because she claims a supervisor told her to stop saying “God bless you” […]

Filed Under: Catholic News Service, Columns Tagged With: Catholic News Service, Stephen Kent

Stephen Kent: Learning from history

09/12/2014 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

While searching for a strategy to deal with a murderous band of thugs, called the Islamic State by some, the nation’s leadership must evaluate how this strategy will be implemented. The Islamic State poses a perplexing question because it is not a nation upon which we can declare war. It is a large group of […]

Filed Under: Catholic News Service, Columns Tagged With: Catholic News Service, Stephen Kent

Stephen Kent: The senseless loss of children’s lives

08/15/2014 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

These hours-long “humanitarian cease-fires” called to interrupt the ongoing carnage between Israel and Gaza are obscene. They are implemented, observed then violated. Their purpose is to allow time for civilians to leave their places of relative safety in search for food, medicine and taking the injured to medical care. Civilian victims of the hubris of […]

Filed Under: Catholic News Service, Columns Tagged With: Catholic News Service, Stephen Kent

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