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What do the Bishop of Rome and an agnostic Austrian economist have in common? The pursuit of human flourishing via respect for the dignity of the acting human person.

Is bodily autonomy a genuine right? In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to reverse Roe v. Wade, based on the argument that t...

Hans Küng, pictured in a 1980 photo. (CNS photo/Hans Knapp, KNA); right: St. John Paul II in 1978 in Rome, days after his election. (CNS photo/Mal Langsdon, Reuters) As a non-theologian, I do not feel competent to respond to the controversial theological views of the recently deceased Swiss-German dissident theologian Hans Küng, such as his rejection of the dogma of papal infallibility. But as a historian who specializes in the history of East-Central European, particularly Polish history, I am quite disgusted by Küng’s blatant lies about Polish history, which he used to attack St. J...

Gives me more flexibility, do you understand that? i like acting. >> that's a lot of people in acting positions, not permanent roles. what's your take on all of that? do you see a benefit in having so many acting cabinet members? >> absolutely not. they don't have the authority of full-time cabinet members. they're not seen up on capitol hill. you're not going to invest a lot of time in experience or effort trying to work out a relationship with somebody who may be gone tomorrow and who is -- they are sitting there at the whim of the president. you know, we have hearings and we have confirmati...

Capacity. they brief him every now and then. it's mary mccord that would be hands on day-to-day in this. >> now that she's leaving, this administration has been very slow to nominate people for senior jobs who will now be in charge if that position goes unfilled? a new acting person will be elevated by jeff sessions? >> it's a great question. and it's an acid test for what happens right now. in a lot of the other jobs they have not appointed career people, the civil rights division position they've political person there, not someone confirmed by the senate. in other divisions they have that. ...