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Home: Core Subjects: Apologetics: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Apologetics: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Chapter One - Peter H. Burnett"His (Burnett's) work is a tour de force, and stands as a worthy predecessor to many fine works of Catholic apologetics being authored by lay people of our time." - Cardinal William J. Levada Read more... Chilling with Jesus - Douglas McManamanOne of my grade ten students recently asked me: "Why doesn't Jesus come down once in a while and just, you know, chill with us?" The class found this very amusing. Read more... Christian hope versus pagan fatalism - Father George W. RutlerWithout Christ, culture lapses into the old paganism, blaming "bad luck" or "karma." Read more... Christianity's Reluctant Convert - Michael CorenAs Prince Caspian rides onto the big screen this May there is a genuine danger that his creator, C.S. Lewis, might be left behind in a trail of over-priced popcorn. Read more... Church Has Always Condemned Abortion - Fr. William SaundersI had an argument with a friend about the Church’s teaching on abortion. She said that the Church was not against abortion until the 20th century; I said that the Church has always been against abortion. Am I right, and if so, what evidence is there to give to my friend? Read more... Come on a Guilt Trip With Us - Mark LoweryToo Much? Too Little? What’s the right amount of guilt? Read more... Common Sense Apostle & Cigar Smoking Mystic - Dale AhlquistThere comes a time in the life of any artist, any writer or poet, when he reaches the end of his abilities, when he finds himself wrestling all night with an angel. It is the moment when he tries to think the thought which thought cannot think, to visualize the invisible and describe the indescribable. Read more... Communion Questions Just Keep Coming - Karl KeatingTuesday is my day to field questions on the nationally syndicated “Catholic Answers Live” call-in radio program. Almost every week someone asks whether a non-Catholic may receive Communion at a Catholic parish or a Catholic may take the “Lord’s Supper” at a non-Catholic church. My answer always begins with Canon 844 of the Code of Canon Law. Read more... Comparing Christianity & The New Paganism - Peter KreeftKreeft outlines the main theological and practical differences, as well as the important common elements, between Christianity and the new paganism. Read more... Confessions of a Convert - Robert Hugh BensonRobert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) was lauded in his own day as one of the leading figures in English literature, yet today he is almost completely forgotten. Few stars of the literary firmament have ever shone quite so brightly in their own time before being eclipsed quite so inexplicably in posterity. This excerpt is from his book "Confessions of a Convert", published the year before his death. Read more... Confident Catholicism - Father James V. Schall, S.J.A student told me that her father just read a list of the ten "intellectual" universities in the country. "Why was no Catholic school listed among them?" Read more... Confident Catholicism Revisited - Father James V. Schall, S.J.The case for Catholicism has never been stronger. Most just do not know what it is. Culture encourages us not to find out. Read more... Contraceptive Contradictions - Father Tadeusz PacholczykThe Catholic Church remains almost a lone voice in our age defending the view that contraceptive sexual activity in marriage is wrong. Read more... Conversations with New Atheists I - Michael NovakIn public debates, several outspoken "new atheists" have recently made cutting thrusts at those who know God, especially at Christians. Read more... Conversations with New Atheists II - Michael NovakIn recent debates several of the New Atheists have voiced their objections to belief in God and especially to Christian belief. Read more... Conversations with New Atheists III - Michael NovakThis is one of several instalments in conversation with some of the New Atheists. The four objections below come from Christopher Hitchens, in a live debate with Dinesh D'Souza. Read more... Conversations with the New Atheists IV - Michael NovakThe following objections were raised by Christopher Hitchens in a live debate with Dinesh D'Souza. Most of them were asides, which Dinesh wisely did not allow to distract him in pursuit of larger issues. Read more... Cosmic Justice - Dinesh D'SouzaIf evolution cannot explain how humans became moral primates, what can? Read more... Cover Story - George Sim JohnstonTime and Newsweek put the Gospels to the test. Read more... Crossing the Tiber - Steven K. RayOn Pentecost Sunday, May 22, 1994, Janet and I, along with our entire immediate family, were received into the Catholic Church. We have never looked back. Read more... Cults, Movements, World Religions - Mary KochanTo many of us, the modern religious landscape appears increasingly confusing, even strange or frightening. No matter how strong in faith and regular in religious practice our families may be, we are not insulated from contact with a bewildering variety of religious expressions, a Babel of “prophetic” voices and a dizzying array of competing world views. Read more... Cults: The Threat is Real - Mary KochanJeannie Mills seemed to have beaten the odds when she defected from Jim Jones' Peoples' Temple cult before the 1978 mass murder/suicides of 911 adults and children in Jonestown, Guyana. She had the chance to reflect upon her involvement in the group. Read more... Culture change in the Church - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThere has been much advice given to the Catholic Church in regard to the sexual abuse scandals. There are, though, only two real options. The Church can become more Catholic, or less Catholic. Read more... Darkness at Noon: The Eclipse of the Permanent Things - Peter KreeftWe all know what Christianity looks like when viewed from the standpoint of modernity. In this essay I shall try to turn the truth tables and see what modernity looks like when viewed from the standpoint of Christianity. Read more... Dawkins is wrong about God - Roger ScrutonFaced with the spectacle of the cruelties perpetrated in the name of faith, Voltaire famously declared organised religion to be the enemy of mankind. Richard Dawkins, whose TV series The Root of all Evil? concludes next Monday, is the most influential living example of this tradition. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Fri May 17 2013 - 22:45:21
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