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Home: Core Subjects: Facts and Misconceptions: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Facts and Misconceptions: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Mother Teresa’s darkness - Rev. Raymond de SouzaWhen Mother Teresa of Calcutta died 10 years ago, it was assumed that her path to official sainthood would be quick and uneventful. Read more... Natural Law from a Birmingham Jail - Ronald J. RychlakMartin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," was one of the finest modern appeals to natural law. Read more... New Pope's Name May Be Sign of Focus on Evangelizing Europe - Austin RuseAs a faithful Catholic I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am with the elevation of Joseph Ratzinger to the Chair of Peter. Pope Benedict XVI will be a powerful and important Pope. Please, everyone who reads this, of whatever faith, pray for this man who just had the weight of the world placed upon his shoulders. Read more... No truth. No freedom - Cardinal George PellWe usually take truth for granted in everyday life. We are hurt by lies (when we discover them). It helps when the doctor correctly diagnoses our illness. Truth matters. Read more... No wise man, and no great artist, leaves God out - Paul JohnsonI can perfectly well understand why someone should be an agnostic. But to be an atheist — to deny flatly and without qualification the existence of God — is to me wholly unsympathetic. Updated Read more... Opus Dei: Introduction - John L. AllenIf you want a guiding metaphor for Opus Dei, the spiritual organization founded in Spain in 1928 by Saint Josemaría Escrivá that has become the most controversial force in Roman Catholicism, think of it as the Guinness Extra Stout of the Catholic Church. It's a strong brew, definitely an acquired taste, and clearly not for everyone. Read more... Pain as Sharpener - Frederick W. MarksThere is a saying that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Read more... Polluted Water, Polluted Culture - Matthew HanleyEstrogen – from artificial contraception pills, consumed daily by tens of millions of women – is making its way through sewage treatment plants and severely pollutes our waterways with chilling consequences. Read more... Priests, Abuse, and the Meltdown of a Culture - George WeigelThe American narrative of the Catholic Church's struggles with the clerical sexual abuse of the young has been dominated by several tropes firmly set in journalistic concrete. Read more... Questions for Father General - George WeigelLast month, the 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus elected Father Adolfo Nicolas, a Spaniard, as General of the order. Read more... Religion — It’s Good for What Ails Us - Russell ShawTo hear militant secularists tell the story, religion is bad for society's health. To hear social scientist Patrick F. Fagan tell it, that's plain bunk. On the basis of the facts, Fagan wins this argument hands down. Read more... Rethinking the Crusades - Jonathan Riley SmithThe language that demands that our ancestors be posthumously anathematized is not too distant from that of the men who wanted the corpse of Pope Boniface VIII to be exhumed and burnt. We may be entering a period of conceptual uncertainty about the most difficult of all society’s dilemmas — when or when not to use force — and we need not emotion, but cool heads and an objective analysis of the past. Read more... Rites and Wrongs - Philip F. LawlerWhy John Kerry should not take communion. Read more... Seeking wideness in God’s mercy - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThe Holy Mass was offered for the soul of Dr. Marc Daniel at the Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor, Ont. yesterday on the first anniversary of his death. It would not be at all remarkable save for the fact that Dr. Daniel had, three days before his self-inflicted death, murdered nurse Lori Dupont, his former lover, at the very same hospital. Read more... She Is Black, but She Is Beautiful - Anthony EsolenThe Church is like the bride in the Song of Songs, black but beautiful. Read more... Slavery - FR. WILLIAM G. MOSTPapal declarations on the morality of slavery are reviewed and put in context. There was certainly a development of doctrine on slavery. It took the Church time to fully understand slavery, just as it did for other things. Read more... So That's the Reason - Theodore DalrympleThe Victorian militant atheist Charles Bradlaugh, who went on tub-thumping speaking tours, used to stride onto the stage, take out his pocket watch and challenge God to strike him dead in 60 seconds. Read more... St. Malachy Predicts the Election of Benedict XVI - Deal HudsonMy own daughter came home from her Catholic high school in Fairfax, VA and informed me that there would be only one pope after Benedict XVI. Read more... St. Malachy's Prophecies - Karl KeatingDuring the interregnum following the death of a pope we see a flurry of interest in the prophecy of St. Malachy. The interest seems to grow each time a pope passes from the scene because, according to some interpretations of the prophecy, the line of popes is about to end. Read more... Taboos and tattoos - Father Tadeusz PacholczykOn TV these days, we're seeing more and more programs about "body art" and tattoo design. Read more... Taking the Measure of Relics of the True Cross - Thomas J. CraughwellWhenever the subject of bogus relics comes up, you can count on someone saying, “There are enough pieces of the True Cross to rebuild Noah’s Ark!” Read more... Ten questions regarding the denial of the Eucharist - Barbara KralisSeveral U.S. bishops have recently voiced their opposition and ersatz reasoning why no one should be denied the Eucharist according to Code of Canon Law n. 915. Those in the pews are perplexed. Which bishop is correct? Read more... The Battle over the Crusades - Robert P. LockwoodThe Crusades, of course, are a far more complicated series of events in history than the anti-Catholic statements of early Protestant historians would suggest. The Crusades should be understood within the context of the times and by their reality, rather than through the myths created for purposes of propaganda. Read more... The Believer Generation - Kathryn Jean LopezColleen Carroll, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is author of The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy. ‘Register correspondent Kathryn Jean Lopez recently talked to her about young Christians and their increasing numbers and orthodoxy. Read more... The Blessings of Charity: A papal challenge to conventional wisdom - George WeigelIn America and elsewhere, the very idea of "charity" is under a cloud. Since the early twentieth century, some have insisted that charity is at best a weak sister to "philanthropy," by which they mean a new, scientific way of abolishing the root causes of suffering. Others have gone so far as to argue that charity is inferior to, even the enemy of, "justice." Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [>>] Pages Updated On: Thu May 23 2013 - 23:56:32
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