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A Clarification on the Meaning of 'Conscience' - Douglas McManaman

Whenever I think certain popular misconceptions are finally behind us, someone who should know better, such as a priest, teacher, or God forbid, a bishop, brings me back to reality. Email This Article

A Gospel In The Gospel Of Judas? - Rev. Dr. Theodore G. Stylianopoulos

Casting Judas not as a culpable betrayer, but as an intimate friend and collaborator of Jesus, the recently announced Gospel of Judas has understandably generated a stir. However, what the ancient document says about Jesus is even more controversial. Email This Article

A Necessary Bondage? When the Church Endorsed Slavery - T. David Curp

An important function of history, as opposed to antiquarianism, is to make the past intelligible to the present. Email This Article

A note on purgatory - Doug McManaman

A priest friend of a nearby diocese was once accosted by a woman who had purchased a Mass for her deceased father. What upset her was that during the Mass, my friend implied that her father was in purgatory. Email This Article

A Question of Character - Philip F. Lawler

Church leaders have been looking to psychologists for insights, at precisely the time when psychology needed the insights of the Catholic Church. Email This Article

A Righteous Gentile: Pope Pius XII and the Jews - Rabbi David G. Dalin

A new authentically Jewish history of Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust needs to be written in order to help bring some long-overdue recognition to this "righteous gentile," a man whose legacy is as one of the century's great friends of the Jewish people. Email This Article

All Church Politics Is Local - Fr. Thomas Williams

In a rare exercise of collective muscle, the U.S. Bishops Committee on Doctrine issued a statement last Friday declaring that two pamphlets published by Professor Daniel Maguire of Marquette University “do not present authentic Catholic teaching.” Email This Article

An insult to Catholics — and historians - Michael Coren

For Dan Brown’s fans, a primer on his many errors. Email This Article

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history - Dinesh D'Souza

In recent months, a spate of atheist books have argued that religion represents, as End of Faith author Sam Harris puts it, "the most potent source of human conflict, past and present." Email This Article

Back to the Beginning: A Brief Introduction to the Ancient Catholic Church - George Sim Johnston

The culture is now flooded with bogus scholarship whose main purpose is to put Christianity — and especially orthodox Catholicism — on the defensive. But most Catholics have no idea how to respond, and more than a few take these books and documentaries at face value. After all, they have the imprimatur of the History Channel or a large publishing house like Doubleday. Email This Article

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