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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Bright Promise, Failed Community: Catholics and the American Public Order - Ken WhiteheadObservers of the United States have sometimes wondered why the apparently flourishing Catholic Church in America, along with the huge number of Catholics in the general population — the largest single religious group in the nation — should nevertheless have so little apparent influence on contemporary American life and society generally. No one has defined as clearly as Joseph Varacalli, precisely why the American Church has been relatively ineffective in shaping American public life. Read more... Bring Back Stigma - Roger ScrutonIt is now orthodox to regard social stigma as a form of oppression, to be discarded on our collective quest for inner freedom. But the political philosophers and novelists of former times would have been horrified by such a view. Read more... C.S. Lewis on Threats to Freedom in Modern Society - Edward J. Larson and Steven LaywardC.S. Lewis expressed concern about how the modern state could undermine human freedom and dignity if policymakers adopted the approach of modern social science. At the same time, Lewis also doubted the ability of any government to permanently reshape and subordinate a nation’s citizenry. Here then is what Lewis viewed as the major threats to human freedom in modern society. Read more... Can Catholics Counsel? The Loss of Prudence in Modern Humanist Psychology - Richard W. CrossThis weekend scholars and activists from all over America will be in Washington for a conference, at which I will be speaking, discussing the idea of "restorative justice," a new way to understand how our justice system ought to function. Read more... Can God Be Trusted? - Father Thomas D. Williams, LCMaybe, just maybe, our current crisis of trust is actually a singular opportunity to rethink our priorities and redirect our confidence. Read more... Cardinal Ratzinger On Europe's Crisis of Culture - Cardinal Joseph RatzingerHere is a translation of the lecture given in Italian by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Benedict XVI, in the convent of Saint Scholastica in Subiaco, Italy, the day before Pope John Paul II died. Read more... Cartoons and the clash of civilizations - George WeigelHarvard professor Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilizations” hypothesis — a provocative preview of a twenty-first century in which religiously shaped cultural conflicts define the fault-lines of world politics — created a considerable intellectual stir when it was first published in 1993. Read more... 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... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 07-Nov-2009 - 11:09:54
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