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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Dissecting the Anatomy of the Sexual Scandal - Joseph A. VaracalliAs the Catholic Church in the United States turned into the twenty-first century, it was rocked by revelations of sex abuse on the part of a not insignificant number of clergy, religious, and other Church personnel perpetuated on young children and, very much more so, on teenage youth. Read more... Divine Liturgy: East and West - Father George W. RutlerIt was in 1054 that the Church began to think in terms of Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox instead of Western and Eastern Christianity. Read more... Do They Play Baseball in Heaven? - Brad MinerMy view of baseball is mystical. Read more... Does Christianity exist? - Father James V. Schall, S.J.After President Obama’s Cairo lecture to the “Muslim World,” we may be permitted to wonder if a corresponding “Christian world” exists. Read more... Don’t Legalize Drugs - Theodore DalrympleAdvocates have almost convinced Americans that legalization will remove most of the evil that drugs inflict on society. Don’t believe them. Read more... Double Standards are now Respectable on Campus and in Media - John LeoColleges can't say to parents, "Thanks for the $20,000. By the way, we've politicized the university, and we're going to indoctrinate your children and treat whites as oppressors." Read more... Easter vs. Irony - George WeigelAt the beginning of Lent, I was sent a moving account of the recent funeral procession of a young American soldier, which took place near his hometown in the South. Read more... Economy of grace - Michael CorenJust as it's usually only beautiful people who pretend that good looks don't matter, it's generally the rich who tell us that money isn't particularly important. Read more... Empty 'Spiritualism' - Tony SnowIf you walk into just about any chain bookstore in this nation and stroll to the "religion" section, you'll find some Bibles and commentaries - but you'll also find volume after volume of new-age froth, including a title of striking redundancy: "Spiritualism for dummies." Read more... Engaging Advent - Father George W. RutlerT.S. Eliot belabored the obvious in saying, “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” Read more... Entertainment - Father George W. RutlerCatholicism has long distinguished itself from Puritanism in its joyful embrace of feasts and recreation. Read more... Everything Proves It - Dale AhlquistHow do we know the Catholic faith is true? Because everything proves that it is true. Read more... Exploitative reality shows degrade us, too - Colleen Carroll CampbellThe excruciatingly public marital troubles between Jon and Kate Gosselin reached their predictable denouement Monday when the reality television stars announced their impeding divorce before an audience of 10.6 million. Read more... Family Decline: A Political Response and a Religious Response - PAUL C. VITZPaul Vitz, in this concluding chapter, outlines both a political and a religious response to the crisis of the family. Vitz begins by reviewing evidence from the social sciences of the tragic social and economic costs which large numbers of single-parent and divorced families have wrought, concluding that the state's self-interest should push it to support strong traditional families. Read more... Farewell to ‘this other Eden’ - Rex MurphyThe England of pageant, chivalry, order, reserve and stoicism — the noble England — is no more. Read more... FEMA, Taxpayers, Faith and Charity - Raymond J. KeatingShould taxpayers subsidize churches and other religious groups for charitable aid supplied in response to natural disasters? Read more... Football Hero: Winning is Just Step One in His Mission - Brian McGuireJosh Heupel led his team, the Oklahoma Sooners, to an undefeated season and this school year’s college football national championship. Then, the Associated Press named him player of the year. So did the Sporting News. He was runner-up for the Heisman Trophy. But all of that isn’t what’s most impressive about Josh Heupel. “He has really given his life to God and is trying to live up to what God’s plan is for him,” explains his mother. Read more... Forgiveness and Irony - Roger ScrutonWhat makes the West strong. Read more... Forming a community of Persons: The rights, Dignity and Role of Men and Wom - Mary ShivanandanIt is man's body that makes him conscious of being alone. It is precisely through his body that he realizes aloneness and difference from the animals even though he is a body among bodies. Read more... Freaked Out: Liberty, Choice, and Rogue Economics - Rev. Raymond J. de SouzaIt is a rare thing for an economist to write a bestselling book, but Steven Levitt is a rather rare economist. Read more... Freedom, Sanctity, and the Future - George WeigelWe've been doing this for seventeen years now, my colleagues and I -- running an intensive, three-week, Cracow-based immersion course in Catholic social doctrine, centered on Pope John Paul II's 1991 encyclical, Centesimus Annus. Read more... Give it up - Father Raymond J. de SouzaWe are two weeks into Lent and for those who observe the Christian practice of making a Lenten sacrifice, it's about now that the novelty of the challenge gives way to the onerous realization that Easter is still a month away. Read more... Gnosticism and the Struggle for the World's Soul - Father Alfonso AguilarAt the beginning of the third millennium three worldviews compete to conquer the minds and hearts of peoples and cultures, the world's soul: materialistic relativism, Gnosticism and Christianity. The New Evangelization demands a clear-cut separation between Gnosticism and Christianity if we want to bring every thirsty person to the Water of Life. Read more... God and the Marketplace: Why and Where He belongs - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput“Business, like art, literature, music and architecture is a window on the soul of a culture,” says archbishop Charles J. Chaput, archbishop of Denver. The most Rev. Chaput asks business people to reflect on the way they work and what it says about them. Read more... God doesn't guarantee that the British Church will last - John HaldaneA readiness to compromise, and sentimentality, are responsible for our decline. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... 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