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The Scopes "Monkey" Trial Revisited - Denyse O'Leary

In the summer of 1925, a small town in Tennessee became a hub of intense international interest when famed defence lawyer Clarence Darrow squared off against progressive politician William Jennings Bryan over a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of the theory of evolution in schools. The really interesting part this story is the difference between what actually happened and how the case was presented later, particularly in the stage play and movie, Inherit the Wind. Email This Article

The Secret of Fatima - Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith

The Congregation explains the first, second, and third parts of the “secret” of Fatima. Email This Article

The truth about jihad - Amir Taheri

With the campaign to liberate Iraq victorious, it is, perhaps, time for Muslims to review the improper use, not to say outright abuse, of the term "Jihad." Email This Article

The Truth About the Spanish Inquisition - Thomas F. Madden

Because it was both professional and efficient, the Spanish Inquisition kept very good records. Updated Email This Article

The West and the Rest - George Weigel

In his book, Without Roots, Pope Benedict XVI deplored the addiction to historical self-deprecation rampant at the higher altitudes of European cultural and intellectual life: a tendency to see in the history of the West only "the despicable and the destructive." Email This Article

The Young, the Fertile, and the Ambitious - Philip Jenkins

Author Philip Jenkins discusses the demographic trends and religious movements that the elite don't notice. Email This Article

Those Terrible Middle Ages! Debunking the Myths – a book review - Helen M. Valois

“The Church is absolutely medieval!” How often have we heard that remark? It is meant to convey that Catholicism has not kept up with the intellectual, technological, and social advances of modernity, and is merely a throwback to those vilified centuries we’ve been taught to call the “Dark Ages.” In Ignatius Press’ new release “ Those Terrible Middle Ages!” historian Regine Pernoud demonstrates that this attitude is not only mistaken about the Church, but about the Middle Ages as well. Email This Article

Those Uncaring Conservatives - Richard John Neuhaus

The notion that liberals are caring and compassionate while conservatives are selfish and hard-hearted is still being peddled long after its sell-by date. Email This Article

To Fast Again - Eamon Duffy

The renewal inaugurated by the Second Vatican Council sprang in large part from the liberating discovery of the depth and variety of Catholic tradition. Yet paradoxically the post-conciliar reforms were sometimes implemented in a spirit of philistine dismissal of “tradition” as nothing more than the dead hand of the past. In shedding a past perceived as sterile and oppressive, much that was profound and life-giving was also lost. One of the saddest casualties of that process was the effective abolition of the Church’s ancient observances of fasting and abstinence. Email This Article

Trading the Gospel for the fads of politics - Father Raymond J. de Souza

Two of the world’s most famous clergymen marked birthdays this past week — Archbishop Desmond Tutu turned 75 on Saturday, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson turned 65 the day after. Email This Article

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