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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles:A Vision of Hope - The Columbia StaffIn his New York Times best selling A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World Supreme Knight of Columbus Carl A. Anderson explores the practical things Catholics must do to bring their faith to bear on the challenges of the 21st century. Read more... A World Split Apart - ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYNThe 1970 Nobel prize winner in literature, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, delivered this address at the Harvard Commencement in 1978. Read more... Abraham Lincoln - Donald DeMarcoLincoln's greatness as a political leader lay in the fact that not only did he recognize that freedom cannot flower except in the soil of truth, but that he had enough virtue -- his love for truth -- to stand by his convictions in the full face of political opposition. Read more... Addiction or Sinful Habit? - Benjamin WikerIs gambling an addiction or a sinful habit? What about pornography? Overeating? Drinking? Shopping? Checking email? Texting? Watching television? Playing video games? Working? They’ve all been called addictions. Is that really what they are? Read more... After the Tragedy at Columbine High - Archbishop Charles ChaputArchbishop Charles Chaput appeared before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation during a hearing on "Marketing Violence to Children" on May 4, 1999, following the April 20 tragedy at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO. His testimony follows. Read more... Against Eternal Youth - Frederica Mathewes-GreenI’m a fan of old movies, the black-and-whites from the 1930s and 1940s, in part because of what they reveal about how American culture has changed. The adults in these films carry themselves differently. Read more... All Hallow's Eve - Mary Reed NewlandOne of the nicest surprises of living around the year with the Church is to find that Halloween is part of it. Read more... Almost Heaven - Peggy NoonanIt's summer, the country's traveling, and the great pleasure to be had from leaving home is meeting and falling in love with a place you've never been to. Read more... America is Splitting Apart - RABBI DANIEL LAPINTwo powerful ideas are competing for the soul of America and we must not remain oblivious to this, our biggest national problem. We are two nations separated by incompatible moral visions. Read more... American Losing its Sense of Self - GEORGIE ANNE GEYERWith tiresome regularity, every few months some group comes forward to reiterate that America is losing its history. Read more... Among the Unbelievers - Daniel J. MahoneyIt has long been assumed that Western society in the modern age — with the rise of science and the broad intellectual legacy of the Enlightenment — must become increasingly secular. Read more... An echoing silence in his wake - Peter KavanaghThe death of Neil Postman this week, at age 72, brings a certain quiet into public discourse. A literate critic, a conscientious objector, a naysayer to unbridled development is silent. As well, a great teacher, a wonderfully clear writer and a very nice and at times self-mocking man is dead. Read more... An Interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Alexander SolzhenitsynIn the course of his research for "Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile" Joseph Pearce traveled to Moscow to interview the Nobel Prize winning author. We are pleased to be able to publish this interview in an abridged form. Read more... An Ode to Ceremony - Peggy NoonanThe first instant message of 2007 came up on my screen just after midnight. It said, "Noony there is much love in the world." Read more... An “Apostate” from Itself: The Lost Europe of Pope Benedict - Sandro MagisterEven before its separation from God, Joseph Ratzinger sees the old continent withdrawing from itself, from “its very identity.” Fifty years after the Treaty of Rome, the most critical assessment is that of the pope. Here it is. Read more... Archbishop Gomez analyzes future of Hispanics in US Catholic Church - Catholic News AgencyAs he prepares to lead the largest archdiocese in the United States, Archbishop Jose Gomez, spoke with CNA in an exclusive interview addressing the role of Hispanics in the U.S. Catholic Church. Read more... Architects of the Culture of Death: Introduction - Donald De Marco & Benjamin WikerEvery building has an architect, someone who conceives the image of the edifice before it is built. Read more... Are "Values" the Same as Virtues? - IAIN T. BENSONIn our local paper recently, a church leader pointed out that the reason some young families are returning to church is that "they want some help in fostering values for their children." Read more... Are the handshake and cheek-peck on their way out? - Paul JohnsonHandshaking was not quotidian until modern times, and it usually had a definite significance, such as the sealing of a business agreement or bargain. It was a metaphor. Read more... Awakening at Littleton - J. BOTTUMThe praying crowds seemed to have no special desire to hear politicians come to town and demand gun control, or television commentators denounce pornography on the Internet and violence in popular music and the failure of the public schools, or Hillary Clinton call from the White House for increased government spending on counselors and therapists to help children solve their problems "with words instead of weapons." The mourners wanted instead to hear the story of teenage girls with guns to their heads being asked to deny the Lord. Read more... Awakening from a secular slumber - Father Raymond J. de Souza“Awakenings” was the title of the editorial in The Times on Friday. These particular awakenings are the stirrings of faith in public life, which the somnolent secularists on The Times’s editorial board announced were “returning to the centre of public debate.” Read more... Babies - G.K. ChestertonThe two facts which attract almost every normal person to children are, first, that they are very serious, and secondly, that they are in consequence very happy. . . The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. Read more... Bedlam Revisited - Jonathan KellermanWhy the Virginia Tech shooter was not committed. Read more... Being Human in an Age of Unbelief - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F. M. Cap.Philadelphia's new archbishop speaks at the University of Pennsylvania and lays out a comprehensive moral vision for our time. Read more... Benedict argues for an open horizon - Father Raymond J. de SouzaWork, study, marriage, sexuality, politics, commerce, art – all need a more open horizon. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Fri Feb 03 2012 - 22:53:14
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