|
 |
Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Power of Christian Philosophy to Transform Man and Society - REV. JOSEPH M. DE TORREFather de Torre explains how it is the Judeo-Christian tradition with its distinctive philosophy which has given the edge to the Western world in science and technology, economics, political institutions, and the creative arts. Read more... The President needs a history lesson - Robert R. ReillyThe President's fulsome praise of Planned Parenthood ignores shamefully ignores history. Read more... The Price of Civil Society - JAY AMBROSEUniversities around North America have adopted harassment codes which tell students what they may not say. Central to them is a politically correct double standard. Read more... The Pursuit of Happiness - Donald DeMarco“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Read more... The Quivering Upper Lip - Theodore DalyrmpleThe British character: from self-restraint to self-indulgence. Read more... The Quivering Upper Lip - Theodore DalrympleThe British character: from self-restraint to self-indulgence. Read more... The roadmap - David WarrenIt seems I accidentally wrote an interesting column on Sunday; at least, judging from mail. Read more... The Roman Catholic Psychiatrist - LUZ G. GABRIELThe psychiatrist who is zealous for the Catholic Faith, obedient to the Church's Magisterium and earnest in the support of traditional family values sees in bold relief the reciprocal relationship and the common relevance of Roman Catholicism, the family and the medical science of psychiatry. Read more... The Seven Deadlies Revisited, Continued: Sloth - Mary EberstadtWhat could possibly be more unwanted at this particular intense and critical political moment than a thumb-sucking reflection on -- of all things -- the Deadly Sin known as Sloth? Read more... The Seven Deadlies Revisited, Part One: Envy - Mary EberstadtI was sitting in an unfamiliar church somewhere in Connecticut last weekend, watching one of our teenagers fidget throughout the homily. Read more... The Seven Deadlies Revisited: II. Gluttony - Mary EberstadtThis capital vice, in our age of plenty, may be both the most ubiquitous of all the Deadlies, and the one to which many of us wrongly believe ourselves immune. Read more... The Seven Deadly Sins Revisited: Greed - Mary EberstadtRural upstate New York, where I grew up, offers unique evidence these days about some shifting demographics of the Seven Deadly Sins. Read more... The Shifting Middle - Father James V. Schall, S.J.In the Aristotelian tradition, virtue stands in the middle, between two extremes, a too much and a too little. Read more... The Soft Underbelly - Mary KochanWe’ve been hit. Not like on 9/11 when we were sucker-punched in the face. And I don’t even mean to imply that “someone” or “Someone” did this to us. But we have been hit in the soft underbelly of our country. Read more... The Steve Jobs Phenomenon - Father Bevil Bramwell, OMIThe passing of Steve Jobs has generated mountains of gushing comment, some of it well deserved. Read more... The Trouble With Islam - Tawfik HamidNot many years ago the brilliant Orientalist, Bernard Lewis, published a short history of the Islamic world's decline, entitled What Went Wrong? Read more... The Troublesome Term, 'Secular' - Michael NovakA wide chasm yawns between the two terms "secular" and "secularism." Read more... The truth about jihad - Amir TaheriWith the campaign to liberate Iraq victorious, it is, perhaps, time for Muslims to review the improper use, not to say outright abuse, of the term "Jihad." Read more... The Twelve Men - G.K. ChestertonThe other day, while I was meditating on morality and Mr. H. Pitt, I was, so to speak, snatched up and put into a jury box to try people. The snatching took some weeks, but to me it seemed something sudden and arbitrary. I was put into this box because I lived in Battersea, and my name began with a C. Read more... The tyranny of therapism - Christina Hoff Sommers & Sally SatelToday — with a book for every ailment, a counselor for every crisis, a lawsuit for every grievance, and a TV show for every conceivable problem — we are at risk of degrading our native ability to cope with life's challenges. Read more... The unpersuaded - Father George RutlerThe tremendous success of the papal trip converted many, and puzzled others, but there remain those who will not be persuaded "if someone should rise from the dead." Read more... The Unquiet Men - Anthony EsolenOn those who are leaving the reservation. Read more... The Vindication of Humanae Vitae - Mary EberstadtThat Humanae Vitae and related Catholic teachings about sexual morality are laughingstocks in all the best places is not exactly news. Read more... The Virtually Venerable Fulton J. Sheen - Charles F. HarveyArchbishop Sheen notes in his autobiography, Treasure in Clay, that in Gaelic “Fulton” means “war” and “Sheen” means “peace.” It is as though his very name foretold the kind of life he was to have: an uninterrupted warring against the powers of darkness to promote the peace of Christ’s kingdom. Read more... The war we are fighting needs a more accurate name - Dennis PragerWe are no more fighting a "War on Terror" than we fought a "War on Kamikazes" in World War II. 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
|
|