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Home: Core Subjects: Facts and Misconceptions: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Facts and Misconceptions: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Debunking the Galileo Myth - Dinesh D'SouzaMany people have uncritically accepted the idea that there is a longstanding war between science and religion. Read more... Defending the New Missal - Father Peter M.J. StravinskasIn his essay "What If We Said, 'Wait?'" (Dec. 14), Father Michael Ryan describes his involvement in the liturgical renewal following the Second Vatican Council. Let me begin my response to his article by doing the same. Read more... Did the Resurrection Actually Happen? - Dinesh D'SouzaThe historicity of Christ, including his death by crucifixion, is a fact as well attested as any in the ancient world. Read more... Does Religion Cause Violence - James HitchcockThe terrorism which manifested itself on September 11 has of course started a whole new round of alarmed warnings about the dangers of religious fanaticism, with some secularists professing to see no significant difference between Osama bin Laden on the one hand and the pro-life movement on the other. Read more... Does the Catholic Church Hate Women? - Christopher KaczorThe Catholic Church is subjected to a great deal of suspicion, if not outright scorn, when it comes to its treatment of women. Does the Church treat women as "second class"? Read more... Doubts About Condoms: Science Questioning Their Efficacy in Halting HIV/AIDS - ZenitThe Catholic Church has long been criticized for opposing condom promotion as part of AIDS prevention programs and "safe sex" campaigns. Read more... End Times for Christian America? - Hunter BakerChristian America is busy dying again. Read more... Expect Great Things From Benedict XVI - Mary Ann GlendonReactions to the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Benedict XVI have been mixed, but on the whole Catholics are happy with the new Pope, says Mary Ann Glendon. Read more... Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code - Carl E. Olson & Sandra MieselBest selling author Carl Olson and journalist Sandra Miesel answer all the important questions raised by The Da Vinci Code. Their painstaking research into The Code and its sources reveals some surprising truths. No one who has read or heard about The Da Vinci Code should miss this provocative and illuminating new book. Read more... Four Myths About Pope Benedict XVI - Brian Saint-PaulWhile some journalists have been quite fair in their reporting on the new pope, unfortunately, they stand as the exceptions. Mostly we've heard a string of inaccuracies and inanities. Here are the four most common myths about Pope Benedict XVI. Read more... Four Myths about the Crusades - Paul CrawfordFrom presidential speeches to role-playing games, the crusades are depicted as a deplorably violent episode in which thuggish Westerners trundled off, unprovoked, to murder and pillage peace-loving, sophisticated Muslims. Read more... From Jerusalem, Tall Tales - Michael CorenIt is, I suppose, a great Canadian moment: producer James Cameron and director Simcha Jacobovici announcing to the world that they have found the tomb of Jesus, His wife, His child and assorted friends and relatives. Most of the Jesus family in fact. All hidden away in a tomb in Jerusalem. Read more... From religious roots, the birth of social conscience - Father Raymond J. de SouzaTwo centuries ago tomorrow, the British Parliament passed An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Read more... Generations Betrayed - Philip F. LawlerA genuine reform of the Catholic Church in America might have begun in Dallas with a frank admission of the corruption that had allowed the sex-abuse scandal to fester. Instead, by instituting a series of policy norms, the bishops deflected attention from their own appalling failures. Read more... Gethsemane - David WarrenBear up, gentle reader. Lent has begun, and now you are going to be served my annual Ash Wednesday sermon. Read more... Getting Our Stories Straight - Scott HahnIn Lord, Have Mercy, Scott Hahn explores the sacrament of reconciliation and shows why it is the key to spiritual growth, particularly in these times of intense anxiety and uncertainty. Read more... Glorify God by your life: evangelization and the renewal of the liturgy - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM CapWhere does the Catholic liturgy fit in a culture which prizes technology, science and material proof, but has lost the vocabulary to understand humanity’s oldest and deepest need: faith in an unseen God? Read more... Goldhagen v. Pius XII - Ronald RychlakDaniel Goldhagen’s recent essay for the New Republic, “What Would Jesus Have Done? Pope Pius XII, the Catholic Church, and the Holocaust” attacks Pacelli as an anti-Semite and the Church as a whole as an institution thoroughly, and perhaps inextricably, permeated by anti-Semitism. Why did the New Republic choose to pass off to its readers this fabrication as scholarly history? The only apparent answer is that the editors were so anxious to vilify Catholics, their Church, and Pope Pius XII; so willing to join in Goldhagen’s vicious attacks; that they did not want to learn the truth. Read more... Good Faith - Karl ZinsmeisterTheoretically, in addition to their richer philosophical understandings, Christians ought to be registering unusually wholesome earthly outcomes. Does that happen in practice? The verdict is that, yes indeed, things generally go better with God. Societies are more prosperous and individuals more thriving where faith blooms. For a start, consider some of the social science I was able to pull together quickly on the practical results of faith. Read more... Great Clouds of Incense - Thomas J. CraughwellAn unusual tree grows in the sultanate of Oman. Read more... Have you been saved? - Matthew PintoHow might we best respond to the question, "Have you been saved"? Read more... Hell - Peter KreeftThe hell with hell! says the modern mind. Of all Christianity's teachings, hell is certainly the least popular. Non-Christians ignore it, weak Christians excuse it, and anti-Christians attack it. Read more... Henry VIII, 500 Years Later - Edward PentinKing Henry VIII may have lived five centuries ago, but he remains much in the news. Three leading English historians were asked to put Henry’s actions into proper perspective. Read more... How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and the Success of the West - Rodney StarkChristian faith in reason and in progress was the foundation on which Western success was achieved. Read more... How Muslim are we? - Mollie HemingwayA couple of days ago, President Barack Obama conducted a few interviews in anticipation of his speech to Muslims in Cairo. In one of the interviews, he made a statement about the religious make-up of the United States of America. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [>>] Pages Updated On: Wed Jan 11 2012 - 03:40:21
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