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Home: Core Subjects: Facts and Misconceptions: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Facts and Misconceptions: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... 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... The Catholic Origins of Thanksgiving! - Taylor MarshallThis history books will tell you that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the pilgrims in 1621. Not true. Read more... The Celibate Priesthood - Grace MacKinnonDear Grace, When and why did celibacy become required of priests in the Catholic Church? Read more... The Christian View of Sex: A Time for Apologetics, not Apologies - Janet SmithWhile the fact that our society is suffering greatly from sexual confusion and sexual misconduct is not a novel insight, what is needed is a better understanding and apologetic of the Christian truths about sexuality. Read more... The Church at the Beginning of 2000: Figures Speak for Themselves - ZENIT“How many divisions does the Pope have?” Joseph Stalin once ironically asked the official warning him of the Vatican's “power.” Decades later, totalitarian regimes have all but vanished, while the Catholic Church, founded strictly on an evangelical message of love, has continued to grow. Read more... The Church’s Teaching on Miracles - Lay WitnessIssue: What is a miracle? What is the purpose of miracles? Read more... The Culture of “Dissent” - Michael NovakThe reason the American Church today stands accused of hypocrisy is that it has been teaching one thing, while a small but significant body of its priests including some bishops has been flagrantly violating that teaching. How can people who studied long and prayed hard before taking vows turn in such a direction, with a full-scale ideology to rationalize it? How can that happen? It could not have happened without a culture of "dissent," a culture that has, at its heart, a teaching of contempt for "Rome." Read more... The Da Vinci Code opportunity - George WeigelWhy do intelligent people think that The Da Vinci Code has some basis in historical fact? Why do Catholics imagine that a novel which suggests (and not so subtly) that the entire structure of faith is a lie is, well, no big deal? 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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