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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Gift of Christmas - Jennifer Roback MorseDear Concerned Citizen: Material comfort does not satisfy the deepest longings of the human heart. This might sound strange coming from the lips of a libertarian economist from the Hoover Institution at Stanford. But we all know it, especially at Christmas, because most of us have at least a vague dissatisfaction with the commercialism of the season. Read more... The Gospel and Humor - Tim KellerHumor is like seasoning on food – everything is flat without it. Read more... The Great Disruption - FRANCIS FUKUYAMAWhile Francis Fukuyama may fail to appreciate the many ways in which Christianity supports and nourishes both human nature and human society, he makes such an important contribution to clarifying the moral and social confusion of our age that we have decided to offer his brilliant Atlantic Monthly article. Read more... The Handwriting on the Wall - George WeigelIn recent years, roiled as they have been by a global financial and economic crisis, the phrase "the handwriting is on the wall" has become a staple of the public conversation. Read more... The Happiness Myth - Steve SalernoOne morning when I was 13, I elbowed my father as he got ready for work. "Dad," I said, "are you happy?" Read more... The Heart of Virtue - Prologue - Donald DeMarcoIt is not possible to improve either our personal lives or our society apart from acquiring virtue. Read more... The Idolatry of Law: When Law is Seen as “Like Religion” - Iain T. BensonA very significant and striking exchange occurred between Chief Justice McLachlin and University of Chicago theologian and philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain during the October 2002 Conference "Pluralism, Religion and Public Policy." Read more... The Illusion of Disillusionment - CHRISTOPHER LASCHThere is a vast body of commentary on the modern spiritual plight, all of which assumes that the experience of doubt, moral relativism, and despair is distinctively modern and, in some sense, the product of mankind's "maturity." Read more... The Illusion of Moral Neutrality - J. BudziszewskiProperly understood, what is this thing called tolerance? What does it really demand of us? What do we need in order to come by it? Let’s see if we can work this out. Read more... The Intolerance of Humanism - RICHARD BASTIENMalcolm Muggeridge once recounted how foreign journalists posted in Moscow during the 1930s used to amuse themselves by measuring the credulity of visiting intellectuals. Read more... The key to the Pope's success in Great Britain - Philip LawlerMost of the reporters writing about the papal visit are clearly surprised by this outcome, and more than a few are betraying their disappointment. Read more... The Legacy of Ayn Rand - Charles ColsonRationalizing Selfishness. Read more... The Lenten Thing - David G. Bonagura, Jr.A renewal in Lenten practices can be a powerful catalyst in rebuilding Catholic identity. Read more... The Lovely Dragon of Choice - Anthony EsolenThe simple knight Percival, on the quest for the Holy Grail, had not been much of a planner. Read more... The Man from O.P.R.A.H. - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThere was moment during Barack Obama's speech at Mile High Stadium in Denver when he waxed rhetorical about his place in the cosmos and his future, his present and his past. Read more... The Mistaken Faiths of Our Age - Father Robert A. SiricoIn the midst of financial crisis, Pope Benedict made a statement that immediately hit the headlines. Read more... The Moral Case for Manners - J. BudziszewskiFor many reasons we find that courtesy and good manners need more than teaching and reinforcement today, they need an intellectual defense. If we cannot make a moral case for manners, we had better give them up. In brief, then, here is what might be called the theory of manners, which is part of the applied theory of virtue. Read more... The Nature and Destiny of Man - Christopher DawsonIn her doctrine of man the Catholic Church has always held the middle path between two opposing theories, that which makes man an animal and that which holds him to be a spirit. Catholicism has always insisted that man's nature is twofold. He is neither flesh nor spirit, but a compound of both. Read more... The Necessary Amendment - Robert H. BorkWithin the next two or three years, the Supreme Court will almost certainly climax a series of state court rulings by creating a national constitutional right to homosexual marriage. Read more... The New Death - Stephen BatesBaby boomers put their own spin on marking the end of life. Read more... The Next Pope...and Why He Matters to All of Us - George WeigelThree large-scale issues are already under discussion within the College of Cardinals and among other senior churchmen, and will certainly weigh heavily in the conclaves’s deliberations, in the next pontificate, and in the Catholic Church’s interface with the 21st century world. Read more... The Persistence of Ideology - Theodore DalrympleGrand ideas still drive history. Read more... The Pill at 50 - Barbara KayWhen Mother’s Day was invented just over 100 years ago, early and multiple motherhood was the near-universal destiny of most women. That all changed 50 years ago with the invention of “the Pill,” as oral birth control soon became known. Read more... The Politics of Meaninglessness - Michael A. CaseyMeaninglessness has always been understood to have social and political consequences. The compelling human need for some sort of transcendent and comprehensive meaning to give value to the life of the individual and to life in common is not something peculiarly modern. Read more... The Pope at Auschwitz: 'They wanted to kill God' - Pope Benedict XVI“By destroying Israel, they ultimately wanted to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith.” A startling interpretation of the Holocaust in the words of the German pope. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Sun May 12 2013 - 15:13:40
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