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Home: Core Subjects: Apologetics: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Apologetics: LINKS_PAGEArticles:How to Talk to Your Protestant Friends About the Blessed Mother - Rod BennettImagine yourself a Christian living in the year 55 AD, at the Greek city of Ephesus in Asia Minor. You’re probably either a housewife or a fisherman, or perhaps a farmer growing olives on a hillside near your home. Your political sovereign is the Emperor Nero at Rome. The pastor of your church is St. John the Apostle… Read more... How to Win the Culture War - Charles ColsonAnybody familiar with my writings knows that I am passionate about teaching people to see Christianity as a worldview, an explanation of all of life. Read more... How Unbelief Can Survive the Miraculous - Rod DreherIn human nature, we have powerful reasons to reject belief in ideas that shake up our preferred credo. Read more... Humanae Vitae After Twenty-Five Years: Responses to Some Common Difficultie - Paul FlamanThis paper considers some common difficulties with respect to Humanae Vitae and its teaching regarding family planning, especially with respect to its approval of NFP and its disapproval of all forms of direct contraception. Read more... If God is Love, Why Must We Die? - Donald DeMarcoGod is Love! This is the most glorious and welcomed notion in all of Christian theology. Man must die! This is the most vexing and most unwelcomed realization in the domain of human existence. How can a loving God allow his beloved creature, made in his own image, to die? This is the central paradox of existential theology — and a philosophical riddle well worth considering during this month of the holy souls. Read more... If You Want to be a Good Person, It Does Matter What You Believe - Father Robert BarronI dare say that most people in Europe or North America would hold some version of the following: as long as, deep down, you are a good person, it doesn't much matter what you believe. Read more... Infallibility Doesn't Mean Never Having to Say You're Sorry - Mark SheaThere is no greater scandal among moderns than the Catholic Church's claim to infallibility. And who can blame them? For as this century begins, it does look as though only a cretin could seriously believe any institution possesses modest integrity, much less infallibility. Read more... Inquisition in the Catholic Church - Benjamin D. WikerTo assess the Inquisition properly, we must distinguish between the principle which undergirded it, and the actions of those responsible for implementing the principle. Read more... Introduction - Tim KellerIn The Reason for God "Keller mines material from literary classics, philosophy, anthropology, and a multitude of other disciplines to make an intellectually compelling case for God." - Publisher's Weekly Read more... Introduction - No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers - Michael Novak"This book is one of the most lyrical and moving reflections on God I have encountered. It is also remarkably generous, both to believers and nonbelievers. Most helpfully it is about how to pray, and how to suffer through the dark night in which answers, and communication, seem absent. A remarkable book by a remarkable man." - Peggy Noonan Read more... Introduction: The Lost World of Moral Common Sense - J. BudziszewskiWe are passing through an eerie phase of history in which the things that everyone really knows are treated as unheard of, a time in which the elements of common decency are themselves attacked as indecent. But J. Budziszewski sets out to explore the lost world of common moral truths — what we all really know about right and wrong. His bracing account shows us how to address the uncertain, the disoriented, and the self-deceived among our neighbors in a way which may bring them back to moral sanity. Read more... Is Christmas a Fairy Story? - Benjamin WikerOver a century ago, the proud materialist-secularists of the day taunted the great Christian apologist, G. K. Chesterton, declaring to him that Christianity was built upon fairy stories. Chesterton's response was an even more proud, "Yes indeed!" Read more... Is It Arrogant to Say Christ Is the Only Savior? Asks Cardinal Ratzinger - ZenitIs it pretentious for Christians to proclaim Christ as the only Savior of mankind? Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger posed that question Saturday, and in his response clarified the very meaning of the Christian mission. Read more... Is religion a force for good? - Roger ScrutonJust as there are bad people with religious beliefs, so there are good people without them. So what does religion add to morality and why is the addition good? Read more... Is Richard Dawkins still evolving? - Melanie PhillipsOn Tuesday evening I attended the debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox at Oxford’s Natural History Museum. Read more... Is There Sex in Heaven? - Peter KreeftWe cannot know what X-in-Heaven is unless we know what X is. We cannot know what sex in Heaven is unless we know what sex is. We cannot know what in Heaven's name sex is unless we know what on earth sex is. Read more... It can’t be wrong if it doesn’t hurt anyone - J. BudziszewskiI stand on the fact that God ultimately defines what is right and wrong … my friend defines his entire moral code upon the statement, "As long as I am not directly hurting anyone other than me, then nothing that I do is wrong." I don't … have an intelligent response … do you? Read more... Jesus Christ is not God - Tim StaplesHere's a step-by-step way to answer this typical Jehovah's Witness argument. Read more... Joy - Peter KreeftJoy is more than happiness, just as happiness is more than pleasure. Pleasure is in the body. Happiness is in the mind and feelings. Joy is deep in the heart, the spirit, the center of the self. Read more... Justification by Faith - PETER KREEFTThe Protestant Reformation began when a Catholic monk rediscovered a Catholic doctrine in a Catholic book. Read more... Knock, Knock: Who’s There? 2 Witnesses... - NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTERRecently, two Jehovah Witnesses rang Karl Keating's doorbell. Karl gave them plenty to think about. Read more... Knowing Mary Through the Bible: Mary's Last Words - Edward P. SriMary’s command to the servants at Cana — "Do whatever he tells you" (Jn. 2:5) — represents her last recorded words in the Bible. And they serve as much more than an exhortation to obedience. Read more... Knowing Mary Through the Bible: New Wine, New Eve - Edward P. SriMary in the Second Luminous Mystery. Read more... Lessons To Be Learned - Father Roger J. LandryThe funeral rites of Senator Edward Kennedy generated a lot of controversy. Read more... Leszek Kolakowski, 1927–2009 - George WeigelRemembering the great philosophical pathologist. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Mon Feb 06 2012 - 23:17:41
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