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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... Dan Quayle Was Right - BARBARA DAFOE WHITEHEADThe social-science evidence is in: though it may benefit the adults involved, the dissolution of intact two-parent families is harmful to large numbers of children. Read more... Darrell Scott's address to the U.S. Congress - DARRELL SCOTTDarrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine School shootings in Littleton, Colorado left a U.S. Congressional Committee dumbfounded with his address. Here is an edited version of what Darrell Scott said. Read more... Date of inversion - David WarrenThe question, at what precise moment did Western Civilization capsize, continues to interest me. (It is still floating, but upside down in the water.) Read more... Defining Social Justice - Michael NovakLast year marked the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Hayek, among whose many contributions to the twentieth century was a sustained and animated put-down of most of the usages of the term "social justice." Read more... Democracy & Religion in America - Michael NovakWhat happens when religion is pulled out from the foundations of the republic? Alexis de Tocqueville reflected more deeply on the inherent weaknesses of democracy, stripped of religion, than anybody. His thesis went something like this: The premises of secular materialism do not sustain democracy, but undermine it, while the premises of Judaism and Christianity include and by inductive experience lead to democracy, uplift it, carry it over its inherent weaknesses, and sustain it. Read more... Dictatorship of Relativism - Pope Benedict XVI and Peter SeewaldA new intolerance is spreading, that is quite obvious. There are well-established standards of thinking that are supposed to be imposed on everyone. Read more... 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... Driven to Despair - Theodore DalrympleThe other day I hailed a taxi in London and was delighted to find that the driver was playing Beethoven to himself. 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... Faith at the Finish Line in Boston - Jennifer GrahamConspicuously absent from photographs of the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings are any clerical collars or images of pastoral care. 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... Feasting with Caesar - Father George W. RutlerIn the wake of the recent hurricane, a sibilant television commentator said, "I'm so glad we had that storm." Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Tue Jun 18 2013 - 17:00:08
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