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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... The Wisdom of the Mind - Donald DeMarcoAccording to Plato, wisdom is the communion of the soul with reality. By this he meant that wisdom gives us both a broad and reliable understanding of reality. Read more... The Words and Deeds of Christ - Joseph SobranI began to marvel at the words that were truly the most inspired ever uttered: those of Christ. His words have a unique power that sets them off from all merely human words. Read more... There are No Secular Unbelievers - Iain T. BensonNote how the use of the term "secular" has been changed gradually over time. Current usage is wrong both philosophically and theologically. Let us banish the notion of a "faith-free" secular once and for all. Everyone "believes". Read more... Thoroughly Modern Mill - Roger ScrutonA utilitarian who became a liberal — but never understood the limits of reason. Read more... To Judge By Appearances - Theodore DalrympleWhen I was young I wanted to be a bohemian when I grew up. Read more... To know and follow the Lord - Father George RutlerIn St. Paul, and in all the saints, is sensed the personality of Christ whom some adored and some scorned, but no one ever found manipulative, and not even His enemies found Him depressing. Read more... To Tear Down and to Build Up: Christianity and the Subversive Forces - JAMES HITCHCOCKChristianity was born when the Roman Empire was at its peak, and it is an appropriate paradox that, as the faith spread throughout the Empire, it both helped to subvert the long Roman hegemony and at the same time to preserve what was best in it. Read more... Tough times are when gratitude counts most - Colleen Carroll CampbellElie Wiesel, a survivor of the Holocaust, once said, "No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night." Read more... Toward the Second Spring - Stratford CaldecottWhen John Henry Newman gave his famous "Second Spring" sermon, at the first Synod of the newly re-established English Catholic hierarchy in 1852, he was prophesying nothing less than a resurgence of Catholic culture. Read more... Tradition or Traditionalism? - IAIN T. BENSONToo many who think they favour tradition are actually devotees of traditionalism because they do not understand their tradition. Many who are critical of tradition are really criticizing traditionalism. Read more... True and False Humanism - JAMES HITCHCOCKSecular Humanism rests on an unperceived fallacy. In effect it says that man can love and esteem himself more if he does not have to share that love and esteem with God. Read more... True Conservatism - Charles ColsonAs the presidential campaign heats up, Christians need to see that most of the issues being debated arise from conflicting ideologies of the two parties. But we should be taken in by nobody's ideology. Read more... Truth and Tolerance, Again - Father Richard John NeuhausThe notion that in matters of religion, but not only in matters of religion, one must make a choice between tolerance and truth is as persistent as it is false. It comes up again in connection with a study designed by sociologists James D. Davidson and Dean R. Hoge that explores how the sexual scandals have influenced Catholic attitudes toward the faith and the Church. Read more... Twelve Steps to Man - Mark Gauvreau JudgeI've been doing research for a book on the role of Christianity in Alcoholics Anonymous. I've come to the conclusion that the primary role of the Catholic Church in AA is as a piñata — indeed, the one acceptable target in an organization that prides itself on acceptance of every conceivable kind of faith. This is a shame, considering that one of the most remarkable Catholic priests who ever lived, a man who played a vital role in the founding of AA, has been all but forgotten, even in the halls of AA itself. Read more... Twilight of Sociology - Wilfred M. McClaySeymour Martin Lipset explored the social forces that limit individual freedom. Is an era of inquiry over? Read more... Two Versions of Liberalism - Iain T. BensonWhat is really at issue in some recent high profile court cases touching on the freedom of conscience and religion. Read more... Ubuntu: Something our society needs - Donald DeMarcoOn June 17, 2008, the Boston Celtics broke their huddle with the chant, "ubuntu", just as they had before every game in their grueling 116-game season. Read more... Values Inequality - W. Bradford WilcoxCharles Murray's new book Coming Apart demolishes the idea that the white working class remains the guardian of core American values like religious faith, hard work and marriage. Read more... Waving, Not Drowning - Roger ScrutonThere are a hundred small-scale ways in which we can help the next generation not to fall completely into the trap that is being prepared for it. Read more... Ways out of the Christian ghetto - Joseph WeilerA Jewish scholar reflects on what can reverse the retreat of Christians before militant secularism. Read more... We Are All Guilty - Theodore DalyrmpleI was in New York when Lehmann Brothers collapsed and I was in Dubai when property prices fell there by fifty per cent in a week. I claim for my presence no causative relationship to these unhappy events, of course, but it did occur to me that I could start an investors’ newsletter, and charge for it, that consisted solely of my travel plans. Read more... We are inept - David WarrenMy sermon today will be on "incompetence." Read more... We make the future, not the other way around - Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput - O.F.M. Cap.We live more and more in a cocoon of knowledge-class opinion and prediction which is often wildly wrong. The tools of social science that undergird so much of modern expert opinion have great descriptive but not predictive value. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Tue Jun 18 2013 - 17:00:08
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