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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Lust and the Tyranny of Niceness - Deacon Douglas McManamanLast week I decided to ask my students a question at the beginning of class. I can’t recall why, but I asked them: “If all of us were to die right now, if we were all going to be hit by a nuclear missle in the next few seconds, how many of you think you’re going to heaven?” Read more... Man, the Social Animal - George J. MarlinIn his new, best-selling book, The Social Animal, David Brooks, The New York Times resident center-right columnist, writes about human nature and explains why we can, among other things, love, achieve, and develop character. Read more... Manners Makyth Man - Father George William RutlerEvery day in the Great Hall of one of my schools I ate, or tried to dine, before a large fireplace carved with William of Wykeham's motto, "Manners Makyth Man." Read more... Marijuana on the Ballot - James R. McDonoughWhile it has long been clear that chemical compounds found in the marijuana plant offer potential for medical use, smoking the raw plant is a method of delivery supported neither by law nor recent scientific evidence. Read more... Marshall McLuhan and the divine message - Father Raymond J. de SouzaHe was a devout convert to Catholicism. And religious thinking is essential to understanding his entire work. Read more... Modern Psychology and Catholic Understanding – part 1 - J. Fraser FieldI did graduate work in counselling psychology — and worked in that field for a couple of years — before eventually going back to university to pick up my teaching diploma. Read more... Modern Psychology and Catholic Understanding — part 2 - J. Fraser FieldThe founders of modern counselling and psychotherapy weren't at all timid about voicing their hostility toward orthodox Christianity. Read more... Modern Scoundrels - George J. MarlinIn 1907, St. Pius X asserted in the encyclical Pascendi: “It is pride which fills Modernists with that self-assurance by which they consider themselves and pose as the rule for all. Read more... Modesty and menace - Barbara KayLast week, while being buffed for an interview on a French-language TV talk show, I observed a quartet of young Muslim women trooping in for their touch-ups. Read more... Moral Atomic Bomb - Bernard-Henri LévyOne can find these cartoons mediocre. One can perceive in them, as I do, a certain similarity with the anti-Semitic and racist caricatures of the 1930s or '50s. Read more... Moral climate change in Britain - Terry MattinglyOne of the demonstrators was a small child with a placard that said, "Whoever insults the prophet kill him." Another marcher wore a suicide bomber costume. Read more... Moral Truth and the End of Man - Senator Rick SantorumIntellectual formation — building intellectual capital — is all about conforming our minds to the truth. But as I said at the start, truth and goodness go hand in hand. So we also have to talk about how morality fits into the formation of intellectual capital. To do that, please permit me to dig a little deeper into philosophy than is usual in a book on public policy. Read more... Morality and Spitzer - Theodore DalrympleThe governor’s fall is not an argument for de-moralizing social policy. Read more... Nature and Grace in the Character of Western Man - ROBERT V. YOUNGIt may be that we are witnesses to the disintegration of a culture and a moral order two thousand years and more in the making. Read more... Needles 'R' Us - NORMAN DOIDGEThe urge to self-mutilation is ancient; we know this, because the Hebrew Bible forbids it, and cannily sees it as a response to the loss of a love. Read more... Neither A Lender Nor A Borrower Be - Theodore DalrympleThe day after I arrived in New York, Lehman Brothers, the investment bank that had been in business for 158 years, collapsed. Read more... Network TV's Big Dive - VERNE GAYVerne Gay reviews the good, the bad, and the really atrocious programming that makes up this falls line-up of TV shows. Read more... New Studies Point to Health Dangers of Marijuana - ZenitConcerns were raised in a series of articles published in the Nov. 23 issue of the British Medical Journal. "The link between cannabis and psychosis is well established, and recent studies have found a link between use of marijuana and depression," the journal stated. Read more... Newman and Liberalism - Marvin R. O'ConnellOne must proceed warily in attempting to determine Newman's relationship to liberalism, not because Newman failed to give precision to his own understanding of the term but because "liberalism", if it has virtually no meaning today, meant, during the nineteenth century, a great variety of things. Read more... Nietzsche and the Church Scandals - Fred MartinezTherapeutic approaches have a basic assumption that is not Christian. Their starting point is not the Christian worldview, which is summed up in the parable of the prodigal son: a fallen and sinful world with persons needing God the Father to forgive them. Therapeutic thinkers believe there is no sin, only selves needing to reach the fullness of themselves. This denial of original sin and personal sin is, in large part, behind the headlines of the Boston catastrophe and other dioceses. Read more... Not for Sale - Roger ScrutonThe problem is that aesthetic values are losing their public grip. Read more... Not your mother’s reefer - Barbara KayThe verdict on the new marijuana is in, and it's "guilty." Read more... Nun Sense: Women in the Catholic Church - Kathryn Jean LopezIf you are seeking to understand and report the truth about something, you should read the original sources, interview trusted people, ponder what you find. Always seek greater accuracy, and always maintain gentleness (truth persuades by its own gentle power) and love for the good reputation of everyone. Read more... Of God and Man: The Two Cities in the Third Millennium - Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I."A scholarly and spiritual collection of essays on the role of the Catholic faith in the modern world . . . from one of the most thoughtful men in the American hierarchy." - Publisher's Weekly Read more... Of Snobbery and Soccer - Theodore DalrympleAn acquaintance of mine, whose opinions I generally respect, once said that snobbery is a vice, but a very minor one. I am not so sure. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Fri Feb 03 2012 - 22:53:14
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