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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... 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... 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... 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... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 19-Aug-2008 - 00:05:36
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