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Home: Core Subjects: Facts and Misconceptions: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Facts and Misconceptions: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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. 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... 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... Pages: [<<] ... 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 [>>] Pages Updated On: 16-Nov-2009 - 19:30:53
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