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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Catholic social thought and American civilization - Joseph A. VaracalliThe major reason Catholic social though has not made an impact on American civilization is to be found in the “failed community” of Catholic America. Read more... Catholicism: What Else is There? - James V. Schall, S.J.Catholicism has never been intellectually more coherent or - ironically - culturally weaker. I would be presumed to be brash if I were to propose that Catholicism has no intellectual enemies worthy of it anywhere on the modern scene. But this circumstance seems to be in fact the case. The situation is doubly paradoxical, I think, because from within the Church itself, this situation is hardly admitted. In fact its very truth is rejected or ignored by many Catholics. Read more... Charles Darwin - Donald De Marco & Benjamin WikerRobert Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, the son of Robert and Susannah Darwin. Read more... Chest Errors: The Divine Gift of the Irascible Faculty - Anthony EsolenIt is difficult today to speak of anger as the Bible speaks of it without being misunderstood. Read more... Christianity as the Soul of the West - Christopher DawsonThe modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution. Read more... Christianity – Alien Presence or Foundation of the West? - Christoph Cardinal SchonbornI see the situation of Christianity in Europe to be rather exciting and full of opportunity. A foreign body in Europe and also a root: that is the exciting position of Christianity in secular Europe. Read more... Christmas Sacred and Secular - Rev. Robert A. SiricoLet us put aside our tendency to dismiss and put down our culture’s embrace of this holiday. Read more... Christopher Dawson on Technology and the Demise of Liberalism - RUSSELL HITTINGERI must admit that in previous readings of Dawson's work, I was not persuaded by the critical, if not apocalyptic remarks he made about technology. Read more... Christopher Dawson: A View from the Social Sciences - RUSSELL HITINGERChristopher Dawson's theory of education will go nowhere today. First, it focuses upon Christian culture as being the specific backbone of the West. Read more... Chuck Colson Remembered - tothesourceNot long before his death, Chuck Colson — one of Christianity's most eloquent and influential voices — gave tothesource an interview regarding his most recent book, The Sky Is Not Falling: Living Fearlessly in These Turbulent Times. Read more... Church's Freedom in U.S. Threatened, Says Cardinal George - ZenitChicago's archbishop warned that the freedom of the Church in the United States "is now threatened by movements within" and "by government and groups outside." Read more... Civilization in Crisis - Christopher DawsonWe have become accustomed to take the secular character of modern civilization for granted. We have most of us never known anything else and consequently we are apt to think that this is a natural and normal state of things. Actually of course this state of things is far from being normal. Read more... Civilization Without Religion? - Russell KirkWhat ails modern civilization? Fundamentally, our society's affliction is the decay of religious belief. Read more... Closing time? Jacques Barzun on Western Culture - Roger Kimball“From Dawn to Decadence”, Mr. Barzun’s overview of the last five-hundred years of Western cultural history, is a magnificent summa of his concerns as a thinker and historian. It synthesizes as well as summarizes a long lifetime’s reflection about the fate of those distinctive energies that define Western culture: “the great achievements and the sorry failures of our half millennium.” Read more... Cold Standard - Peggy NoonanVirginia Tech and the heartlessness of our media and therapy culture. Read more... Common Sense Apostle & Cigar Smoking Mystic - Dale AhlquistThere comes a time in the life of any artist, any writer or poet, when he reaches the end of his abilities, when he finds himself wrestling all night with an angel. It is the moment when he tries to think the thought which thought cannot think, to visualize the invisible and describe the indescribable. Read more... Conciliating Hatred - Steven D. SmithThese days, if you announce that the Supreme Court is doing politics rather than law you will provoke more yawns than protests. But what sort of politics is the Court doing? Read more... Concordia disaster: Should a captain go down with his ship? - Theodore DalrympleCourage is a virtue and heroism is admirable, but do we have a right to demand them? Read more... Confronting cynicism with prudence - Father George W. RutlerKnowledge of what happened before us is not a hobby. Read more... Consumerism: A Subtle Corroder of Virtue - Ray GuarendiConsumerism seems to me to be the Number 1 corporate sin of Christians; it's the sin that affects the most of us the most. We are simply so deep into it we don't see it anymore. Our desire for stuff supersedes everything. We are distracted, owned, tempted and seduced by it. Read more... Crunchy Cons Rising: An Interview with Rod Dreher - Angelo MateraRod Dreher has just published ‘Crunchy Cons’ — a manifesto that celebrates faith, family, community and nature against the forces of greed and lust. Angelo Matera spoke to him recently about his book, and why conservatism needs an overhaul. Read more... CS Lewis on “Xmas and Christmas” - Charles J. ChaputFifty years ago C.S. Lewis published an ironic little essay called, "Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus." Read more... Cults: The Threat is Real - Mary KochanJeannie Mills seemed to have beaten the odds when she defected from Jim Jones' Peoples' Temple cult before the 1978 mass murder/suicides of 911 adults and children in Jonestown, Guyana. She had the chance to reflect upon her involvement in the group. Read more... Culture of Vice - ROBERT R. REILLYIn The Ethics Aristotle wrote, "men start revolutionary changes for reasons connected with their private lives." This is also true when revolutionary changes are cultural. Read more... Culture War - Rabbi Daniel LapinWe are no longer one nation under God. We are two separate nations with two distinct and incompatible moral visions. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Sun May 12 2013 - 15:13:40
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