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Home: Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Culture and Civilization: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... 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... P Is for Poison - Roger ScrutonLet us consider the three great public poisons of our time, what they are doing to us, and why we find it so difficult to take action against them: political correctness, pornography, and plastic. 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... Pages: [<<] ... 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Sun May 12 2013 - 15:13:40
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