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Dennis P. McCann
Dennis P. McCann teaches at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.
Promising prognosis: Close to a compromise on health-care reform
If, at last, both houses of Congress unite to pass health-care reform legislation, the bill emerging from the conference committee will have to be the result of still further compromising....
Papal disconnect: Benedict's social encyclical
I’ve studied papal encyclicals for over 30 years, and Caritas in veritate (“Charity in Truth”) is the first one I was eager to be finished with....
Hard times Lessons of the economic downturn: Lessons of the economic downturn
How should Christians understand—and what should they learn from—the worst economic downturn since the Depression? Does the crisis raise fundamental moral or theological questions about our economic system? Four scholars offer their reflections in this issue of the Century: Dennis P. McCann, Jon P. Gunnemann, Deirdre McCloskey and D. Stephen Long.
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