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Conference on Dignitate humanae
Fr. Ian Ker
Mary Ann Glendon
It is hard to single our any one talk for more focus, however Mary Ann Glendon delivered a rather alarming vision of how with the increase of anti-Catholic sentiment in the United States and litigation on the part of organizations such as the ACLU - intended to backrupt pro-life and Catholic defense initiatives, the recent Supreme Court decision concerning eminent domain could result is disastrous implications for the Catholic Church.
Rocco Buttiglione
Effectively, if it can be upheld in law that the state has the right to apply eminent domain and take someone’s property for the sake of increasing a tax base, then someday they could target Catholic institutions which are tax exempt (and therefore producing no tax revenue), particularly in light of the annoying and counter-cultural things many consider the Church to stand for.