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Home: Core Subjects: Apologetics: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Apologetics: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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 & Judaism - Peter KreeftKreeft outlines the main theological and practical differences, as well as the important common elements, between Christianity and Judaism. 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... 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... Decisions of Conscience - Grace MacKinnonDear Grace, I am confused about something. If the Church teaches that we should follow our conscience, but then turns around and teaches us that we must obey Church teaching, then what is the difference? Who am I supposed to follow, the Church’s teaching or my own conscience? How will I know what is the right thing to do? Read more... Dialogue with Demas - Mark SheaThe teachings of the Faith are not optional, though many Catholics erroneously believe that one can dissent from particular teachings of the Church that one happens to find unsatisfactory or unpleasant and still remain a "faithful Catholic." Read more... Do Tummy Aches Disprove God? - Joe CarterMy tummy hurts. Ergo, there is no god. Read more... Do You Believe in Miracles? - Fr. Peter M.J. StravinskasThe dictionary offers us the following description of a miracle: "A wonderful happening that is contrary to or independent of the known laws of nature." Read more... Do You Read the Bible Literally? - Tim GrayDo you take the Bible "literally"? It is one of the great litmus tests of our day. The question is dangerously loaded. Answering "yes" or "no" puts you in an extreme position. Read more... Doctrine Matters - David G. Bonagura, Jr.Critics never seem to tire of pitting the doctrines of the Catholic Church against her works of charity, as if the two were somehow mutually exclusive or even opposed. Read more... Does Being Catholic Make a Difference? - REV. RAY RYLANDDoes being Catholic make a difference in a person’s life? Does it make an eternal difference? Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... 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