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Tag: Human Rights

A Reliable Ally? Catholicism and Democracy Under Pope Leo XIV

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Patrick Gilger (Professor at Loyola University Chicago), drawing on his particular commitments as a Catholic priest and a sociologist, describes how Democracy Seminar seeks to understand and help build communities that are united not by pre-existing commonalities but by a commitment to a common search for the common good.

Neither Cultural Never Universal

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Human rights in Turkey Photo: A mural describing human rights in Turkey outside of the public education building in Bayramic Turkey, 25 May 2009. Author: Mdozturk, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Two fundamental dilemmas that have always existed in the realm of human rights affect every aspect of our lives today more than ever. The first of these is the dilemma between freedom and security, and the other is the …