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Articles:A Baker's Dozen of Obstacles to an Appreciation of the Sacraments - Rev. Peter M.J. StravinskasWe have been studying the sacraments and their place in Catholic life. To conclude, it might be a good idea to identify those elements of personal or communal life that keep us from appreciating in all their fullness these avenues of grace and holiness. Read more... A Better Concept of Freedom - George WeigelOn October 31, 1958, Isaiah Berlin gave his inaugural lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford. Entitled 'Two Concepts of Liberty," it was, according to Michael Ignatieff, Berlin's authorized biographer, "the most influential lecture he ever delivered." Read more... A Brief Lexicon of Some Commonly Used Philosophical Terms - F.F. CentoreA Close Encounter With the Angel of Death - Peter KreeftBecause "he jests at scars who never felt a wound," and because the dimension of personal experience might be thought to be conspicuous by its absence, I include here after much hesitation these candid excerpts from my personal diary written in the hospital where my wife and I suddenly found ourselves confronting a brain tumor in our five-year-old daughter. This excerpt, taken from my book Love is Stronger Than Death, was written before this "close encounter," not as a result of it. I include it simply as my other half: the book is my mind, this is my guts. Read more... A Lifetime of Learning - George WeigelPope Benedict becomes the teacher he always wanted to be. Read more... A Manna for All Seasons - Anthony EsolenThe Sabbath challenge to the petty gods of profit. Read more... A Meditation on Evil - James V. Schall, S.J.The meditation on evil is not itself morbid or somber, though evil itself is. Socrates said in The Republic that virtue can know vice but vice cannot know evil. The penalty for vice is the vice itself, the not seeing the good in its fullness, the good that ought to be there. Read more... A New Evangelization in a New Millennium: A Call for a New Apologetics - Cardinal Francis George OMIFor those of us seeking to generate a new apologetics in a new evangelization capable of drawing all closer to Christ, His Church, and one another, the account of Jesus' disposition toward the adulteress and her accusers is instructive. Read more... A Photograph of Jesus - JEFFREY HARTThe Shroud of Turin is generally thought to be a remarkable medieval artifact. But not so fast. Read more... A River Runs to It: A New Exodus of Protestants Streams to Rome - BRAD WILCOXWe’re seeing the first signs of an avalanche of conversions and reconversions. In 1998, more than 88,000 Protestants were received into the Catholic Church (and more than 73,000 adults were baptized, many of them from Protestant backgrounds) and the Protestants [now] coming into the Church are the most devoted Protestants, people deeply committed to Scripture and prayer. What accounts for this Protestant exodus at the twilight of the 20th century? Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Related Categories:
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