|
 |
Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles:On Being Catholic American - Joe VaracalliThe United States of America needs the Catholic worldview more than the Catholic faith requires the American experience. Read more... On Our Honor - Christina Hoff Sommers & James BowmanJames Bowman and Christina Hoff Sommers discuss his new book. Read more... Organized Apoplexy - David WarrenIt is important for people in the West to realize how the "Danish cartoon apoplexy" was started. Read more... Our Big Problem - Theodore DalrympleThese days, it seems, almost everyone has a habit that he can't control. For millions of people, this habit is overeating. Never have so many human mastodons bestridden the earth as now. Read more... Palestrina Was Not in Vogue - George Sim JohnstonA few years ago, while visiting college campuses with my son, I witnessed an odd but recurring phenomenon: Our student guide would be showing us around a beautiful New England campus — all arches and spires and ivy — when we would abruptly stop in front of a building of incredible ugliness. Read more... Paradise Lost, Again and Again - George Sim JohnstonThe idea of Original Sin -- that we are all implicated in some terrible aboriginal calamity -- does not sit well with the modern mind. Read more... Patriots, Then and Now - Peggy NoonanI had a great experience the other night. I met some of the 114 living recipients of the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award. It was at their annual dinner, held, as it has been the past four years, at the New York Stock Exchange. Read more... Paul VI vs. Playboy - Donald DeMarcoIn 1986, Brother Don Fleischhacker of Notre Dame University wrote a letter to Playboy protesting that magazine’s fragmented view of human sexuality. Read more... Picking God Over Basketball - JAMES WARRENOne day in 1988, Mary Michelle Pennefather, the women's college basketball player of the year, brought her hands together for one shot that put her in God's debt and led to her giving up fame and glory in exchange for the vows of the cloister. Read more... Pilate is by far the greater villain - John O’SullivanCritics miss the point in Gibson's portrayal of Pontius Pilate. That's because he is the patron saint of doubt and thus attractive to an age that regards doubt itself as a virtue. Read more... Poll Finds Support for Religion in Public Life - ZenitThe American people have a deep belief in the power of religion to improve U.S. life, the president of a nonpartisan research organization. Read more... Pope Benedict Speaks Truth to Power - George WeigelThe German pope tells his countrymen some home truths. Read more... Pope provocateur - Father Raymond J. de SouzaSince he arrived in Rome more than 25 years ago, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has repeatedly and deliberately been provocative, kicking up enormous media storms on sensitive subjects. Read more... Postmortem on a Rebirth: The Catholic Intellectual Renaissance - JAMES HITCHCOCKBeginning in the early part of the twentieth century, a Catholic intellectual Renaissance took place in North America and Europe. Read more... Power is temporary - Paul JohnsonOne thing history teaches is the transience and futility of power, and the ultimate impotence of those who exercise it. Read more... Praise with a purpose - Barbara KayI’ve had a lifelong love-hate affair with flattery. Read more... Preface – Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged - Roger Scruton“Boldly Standing up to today’s nihilisms and debasements of taste, Culture Counts offers a noble and compelling defense of high culture and the centrality of rich aesthetic experience for a full human life. The wisdom of Roger Scruton’s judgements and the elegance of his prose are themselves powerful evidence for the truth of his thesis. Bravo.” - Leon R. Kass Read more... Promise of the future lost amid bullets - Fr. Raymond de SouzaKillings on campus are doubly brutal, for something also dies in those who survive, alongside the dead they mourn. Read more... Prophets of Error - Trevor ButterworthIf you look at the predicted history of the world we live in now — as divined by experts in the past — it turns out to be an unfamiliar place: Read more... Psychology and the Abolition of Meaning - Jeffrey SatinoverThe largely invisible cost exacted by the usurpation of faith by psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry has been great, both in our private lives and in the public order. Read more... Putting the Catholic House Back Together - Joseph VaracalliIt just may be starting. Finally! The first real signs of Pope John Paul II’s positive influence for the American nation may be manifesting itself. For one thing, proper ecclesiastical authority is starting to reassert itself after a post-Vatican II period of self-doubt and ambivalence. Read more... Quantifying America's Decline - WILLIAM J. BENNETTThe social regression of the past 30 years (summarized in this Wall Street Journal editorial) is due in large part to the enfeebled state of our social institutions and their failure to carry out their critical and time honored tasks. Read more... Rabbi to the Rescue - Philip F. Kelly, Jr.Rabbi Daniel Lapin, author of America's Real War, believes a heated war is being waged in America for the soul of the nation. Read more... Re-Enchantment of the World - Daniel J. MahoneyWe live in a strange time. Read more... Recovering Right and Wrong - Charles ColsonIf you ever doubted the complete triumph of the therapeutic culture in America, look no further than this week’s news. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 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
|
|