America in the United States and the United States in America is a unique study of the relation between the nation of the United States and the continent and dream of America. The result is a different way of looking at the history and present problems of the United States. The way we speak influences the way we think. America can be a valuable idea of what the United State has to strive for, namely, to be a place of liberty and justice for all. But the regular identification of the country with America leads to a cover up of the obvious problems within the United States and missteps in its foreign policy. Not since the United States' Civil War has the existence of a union of the states been under such threat as it is today.
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Missed Opportunities: Rethinking Catholic Tradition is a radical criticism of the language, structure, and official teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. The proposed reforms are drawn from the church's own long tradition. Particular teaching on contraception, abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, clergy abuse, and human rights are examined but the book is most interested in the foundation of all official teaching. Revelation and Natural Law are regularly invoked as the basis of that teaching but they are almost never seriously examined. Only by understanding the concept of divine revelation and the church's claim to be defending the natural can change in the church be given its proper place.
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Gabriel Moran Gabriel Moran is Professor Emeritus of Educational Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of 28 books. He directed the programs of religious education and philosophy of education and taught courses in ethics, religion and the history of education.
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