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The Believer Generation - Kathryn Jean Lopez

Colleen 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.  Email This Article

The Blessings of Charity: A papal challenge to conventional wisdom - George Weigel

In 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."  Email This Article

The Celibate Priesthood - Grace MacKinnon

Dear Grace, When and why did celibacy become required of priests in the Catholic Church?  Email This Article

The Christian View of Sex: A Time for Apologetics, not Apologies - Janet Smith

While 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.  Email This Article

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.  Email This Article

The Church’s Teaching on Miracles - Lay Witness

Issue: What is a miracle? What is the purpose of miracles?  Email This Article

The Culture of “Dissent” - Michael Novak

The 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."  Email This Article

The Da Vinci Code opportunity - George Weigel

Why 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?  Email This Article

The Dark Night of Mother Teresa - Carol Zaleski

Mother Teresa was a classic Christian mystic whose inner life was burned through by the fire of charity, and whose fidelity was tested and purified by an intense trial of faith, a true dark night of the soul.  Email This Article

The Death of Darwinism - George Sim Johnston

No book has so profoundly affected the way modem man views himself than Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species, first published in 1859. The notion that man is the product of a blind, materialist process which did not have him in mind is part of the intellectual air everyone breathes.  Email This Article

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