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Home: Core Subjects: Apologetics: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Apologetics: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Reading the Bible Like a Grown-Up - Mark SheaAs we saw last week, antique atheists like Bill Maher still imagine that people who take the Bible seriously must read it literalistically, as he does. Read more... Reading the Scandal With Biblical Eyes - Father Robert BarronOnce again we’re living in scandal times. Read more... Reason to believe - Paul JohnsonMy belief in God is not philosophical. It is not rooted in metaphysics or reason. It springs from the heart and the senses. It is practical. Read more... Rebutting the 'Catholic but…' - Bishop Thomas J. OlmstedNow is the time to rebut the “Catholic but…” It is the time to say “Yes” when we mean “Yes,” and to say “No” when we mean “No.” Read more... Recognizing the True Church - Father John A. Hardon, S.J.There are two basic positions in the medley of world religions outside the Catholic Church. Read more... Reform in the Church and in Society - Fr. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R.The Church, made up as she is of people, is constantly in need of renewal and reform. Any living thing — be it a plant, a human body or a social organism — needs constantly to be renewed, or it will become moribund. Spiritual renewal, when it occurs in human life and is done under the impulse of the Holy Spirit, often is also a reform, that is, a return to basic principles, a refocusing on basic goals. Read more... Reform Party - John WilsonN.T. Wright is arguably the most influential living Protestant theologian. He's also a scholar sending shock waves through Evangelical circles as he advances the view that the leaders of the Protestant Reformation — Martin Luther especially — misread St. Paul on the subject of justification by faith. Read more... Reformation Day and Schism - Francis J. BeckwithSunday, October 31, is Reformation Day. Read more... Religion has a role to play in the public square - Margaret SomervilleIt is a secularist truism: Religion and religious voices and views have no valid role to play in the public square. Indeed, many secularists are openly hostile to any such participation. But are they correct? Read more... Religion: A Source of Division? - Doug McManamanI was taken aback recently when an old friend of mine argued the position that religion is a major divisive force in the world. In light of recent events, he argues that religion is virtually the only thing that is dividing people in Kashmir and the Middle East, just as it was religion that divided Ireland, not to mention Iran and Iraq. Read more... Religious Freedom and the Triumph of the Therapeutic - Thaddeus J. KozinskiI think the Bishops should try to win this battle using any moral means necessary; and perhaps using the purely practical strategy of appealing to liberalism's own principles might work — this time. But I fear that playing the religious-freedom card alone won't work again. Read more... Religious Liberty, Blood Transfusions, Cigarettes and Contraception - Janet E. SmithBrian Hampel, in his March 5 article in the Kansas State Collegian, "Contraception Should Not Be Treated as Issue of Religious Liberty," asks: "If we can require Jehovah's Witnesses to cover blood transfusions, why couldn’t we require Catholics to cover birth control?" Read more... Rescuing Tolerance - A. J. ConyersThe notion of tolerance encompasses two quite different ideas. On the one hand it can be understood as an Enlightenment concept hostile to theology. On the other hand it is an attitude with deep roots in the Christian tradition. Read more... Responding to common pro-choice arguments - Beatrice FedorShort reflections on pro-choice statements with simple responses (a non-exhaustive list). Read more... Ring around the collar - Jennifer GrahamOut here in the real world, priests and nuns still command respect. Read more... Roots of Marian Devotion Go Back to Old Testament - Scott HahnScholar Scott Hahn roundly rejects the idea held by some outside the Church that Catholics, by honoring Mary, somehow detract from God. Read more... Rowing Upstream - Michael NovakAt Harvard a fellow graduate student commented that in discussing a recent university wide survey that went around, those of his contacts who were religious and actually went to church fairly regularly said that they were made to feel that being religious at Harvard, and especially being Catholic, was like having green hair. Read more... Saintly 'Science' - Charles LewisWhen doctors, doubters and, in some cases, atheists are called upon by the Vatican to prove miracles. Read more... Saints: Holy Siblings - Scott HahnTo approach the veneration of the Saints from a Biblical perspective, Scott Hahn begins with the Book of Hebrews and the "Old Testament Hall of Fame". Read more... Same-sex attractions: Part I – Sexuality and Homosexuality - Father Paul ScaliaOne of the greatest issues before us now is that of homosexuality. Read more... Same-sex attractions: Part II - The Church’s pastoral response - Father Paul ScaliaMany myths surround the issue of homosexuality. Some of them arise from ignorance, some from misguided compassion, and some from the misinformation and propaganda of the radical homosexual community. Read more... Same-sex attractions: Part III - The Courage apostolate - Father Paul ScaliaFor the past two weeks this column has set forth the Church’s teaching (which is simply the natural law) on homosexuality. We must know the doctrine and first principles in order to address this issue accurately, always keeping in mind that doctrinal and moral truth is necessary for love. Read more... Science and Religion - Peter KreeftI don’t need your God; I have science to explain everything. Your religion is a crutch for weak minds. You use superstition; I use science. (“Yes and No” is Peter Kreeft's answer to so many religion texts which leave students thinking of religion as little more than a dull and boring rehash of things everyone already knows. Kreeft's book asks hard questions, great questions, and then answers them convincingly.) Read more... Scoundrel Time(s) - George WeigelIn a pattern exemplifying the dog's behavior in Proverbs 26:11, the sexual abuse story in the global media is almost entirely a Catholic story, in which the Catholic Church is portrayed as the epicenter of the sexual abuse of the young, with hints of an ecclesiastical criminal conspiracy involving sexual predators whose predations continue today. Read more... Scripture Alone - GEORGE SIM JOHNSTONThe Protestant teaching that the Bible is the sole spiritual authority, sola scriptura, is nowhere to be found in the Bible. Read more... 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