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br> Los Angeles, California /p> p> Georgetown is a Catholic and Jesuit institution that has a diverse student body. The Holy Father has repeatedly called upon Catholic institutions to recover their Catholic identity. As a private Catholic University it has a duty and a right to define that identity according to the broad mandates laid out by the Holy See and by the Jesuit general in Rome. To compare it to China is obscene. I would wonder how many "conservative" institutions allow Catholics to teach (Wheaton just dismissed a Catholic convert from Evangelical Protestantism), one should ask how many Protestant universities allow much less pay for a Catholic chaplain on their campus. br> -- Theodore O'Connor br> Lewisville, Texas /p> p> TEDDY BULL br> Re: Jim Powell's The Worst Big Government Conservative : /p>

Jim Powell's impassioned critique of Teddy Roosevelt, although touching on important issues, is based on a radically libertarian vision of the United States that defies reality.

Let's begin with a bedrock observation: the United States is a nation of 300 million people, spread across an entire continent, with an advanced industrial-technological economy, trade relations that cover the entire globe, and confronted by powerful international enemies.

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