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Home: Core Subjects: Facts and Misconceptions: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Facts and Misconceptions: LINKS_PAGEArticles:What Killed Jesus - Mike AquilinaThe Gospels say little about the business of crucifixion. "And they crucified him" is all St. Mark offers (15:24), with no word of how it was done or how the cross tortured its victim. Read more... What the Church has given the world - Father Andrew Pinsent and Father Marcus HoldenWithout the Roman Catholic Church, there would be no western civilisation. Read more... What the Crusades Were Really Like - Thomas F. MaddenThe Crusaders were not unprovoked aggressors, greedy marauders or medieval colonialists, as portrayed in some history books. Read more... What's behind the human touch - Kathleen ParkerSometimes it takes a scientific study to reveal the obvious. Read more... What’s So Great About Catholicism - H.W. Crocker IIIWith its divine foundation, sanction, and mission, nothing could be more glorious than the Catholic Church. But, of course, many people — even many baptized Catholics — don’t see it that way. Read more... When Life Begins - Robert P. GeorgeWill politics trump science? Read more... Who Burned the Witches? - Sandra MieselThe stench of their burning is with us yet. The stakes and gibbets where witches perished by the tens of thousands during early modern times still stand in popular imagination. For historians, the so-called great European witch-hunt has been a much-vexed issue, one easily contorted to suit the prejudices of every age. Read more... Who Was Santa Claus? - ZENITStill, behind the figure most embodying the commercial nature of Christmas in the minds of the public, we find a humble and saintly Bishop, and a clear Christian message for our times: the need for generosity both towards our neighbors, and towards God. Read more... Why Catholics Like Einstein - George Sim JohnstonIt's difficult to say who turns themselves into the biggest pretzel: creationists trying to fit science into a biblical template, or agnostic scientists trying to avoid the existence of a personal God. An enlightened Catholic view of science must be anchored in the proposition that God delights to work through secondary causes. God concedes an enormous degree of causality to his creation, and we ought to be in awe as science explains more and more of it. At the same time, we ought to remind those who will listen to us that the universe will never finally explain itself. Read more... Why is the Catholic Church so closed-minded? - Matthew PintoAs Catholic apologist G. K. Chesterton said, the purpose of an open mind, like that of an open mouth, is to close it on something solid. For the mind, that “something solid” is truth. Read more... Why Not Married Priests? The Case for Clerical Celibacy - George Sim JohnstonGeorge Sim Johnston presents a convincing case for maintaining the celibate priesthood. Read more... Why priests don't have kids - Father Raymond J. de SouzaChildlessness advocates tell us, in sum, that children require a lot of sacrifices. Read more... Why vocation programs don't work - Father Damian J. FerenceThe solution to this problem is so fundamental that it is often overlooked and misdiagnosed, but the remedy is as old as the Gospel itself. Read more... Will Condoms Really Stop AIDS In Africa? - Brian Saint-PaulWe're told by the mass media that condom distribution is the solution to the AIDS crisis in Africa and that the Catholic Church is standing in the way of that effort. The research, however, contradicts that view. Read more... Wise Words from the Bishop of Rome Concerning the Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal - Father Robert BarronThe Christmas statement that Benedict XVI made to his official entourage was of particular gravity, precisely because it represents one of his most thorough and insightful assessments of the clerical sex abuse scandal. Read more... World religions by the numbers - George WeigelEvery January, the International Bulletin of Missionary Research publishes a “Statistical Table on Global Mission” — a detailed look at the world religious situation prepared by the mathematically indefatigable David Barrett. Browsing his numbers reveals more than a few interesting things. Read more... Pages Updated On: Wed Jan 11 2012 - 03:40:21
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