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Home: Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Clarence Thomas' story is the real American Dream - Rod DreherEvery father should read this book to his son. Read more... Come Inside - Evelyn WaughI was born in England in 1903 with a strong hereditary predisposition toward the Established Church. My family tree burgeons on every twig with Anglican clergymen. Read more... Coming together at sacred Western Wall - Father Raymond J. de SouzaIt is always a blessing to meet the Pope, but I did not expect the blessing of meeting him at the Western Wall. Read more... Compassion - Donald DeMarcoThe world remembers Professor Jérôme Lejeune as the world-class geneticist who discovered the genetic cause of Down's syndrome. While his scientific accomplishments go far beyond that landmark discovery, those who knew Dr. Lejeune personally saw a different side of his nature. They saw his heart and the great compassion he had for all who suffered. Read more... Conservative Heavyweight: The Remarkable Mind of Robert P. George - Anne MorseProfessor Robert P. George is pacing around a Princeton auditorium before 200-plus undergraduates, preparing to wage an intellectual shock-and-awe campaign against illogical thinking. Read more... Conversion - David WarrenYour holiday is over, gentle reader — I'm back. And now with wheels on. For in the course of my four weeks of August rest, I came to a personal decision that must necessarily influence everything I write. I am going to state it baldly, here, for I have tried to be consistently candid about my views: I have decided to become a Roman Catholic. Read more... Countercultural Icon: A tribute to Charlton Heston - Charles ColsonWhat made him such a great and rare figure was that he was not content to be celebrated as a cultural icon for playing roles like Moses, Ben-Hur, Michelangelo, and others. He was willing to risk scorn and ridicule to be a countercultural icon as well. Read more... Courage - Donald DeMarcoHis act, visibly and unmistakably, exhibited all the qualities of courage. Despite the dangers he faced, Jeff Liberty remained attentive and in control. It was a case of "grace under pressure," as Ernest Hemingway once defined courage. Read more... Courage & Conversion - Marcia SegelsteinWanting to know more about Hadley Arkes and his compelling journey, I asked for an interview. His warmth, humor, optimism, scholarship, and generosity of spirit made for a most pleasant time together. Here is some of our conversation. Read more... Crisis turns to confidence - John PontifexA bishop in one of Sudan’s most war-damaged regions has spoken of the people’s renewed sense of hope in a diocese where Catholics have trebled in number. Read more... Dark days when you had to be polite to bankers - Paul JohnsonI am old enough to remember the last slump -- I was three in 1932 and lived in the Potteries in North Staffordshire, always a precarious area economically, and badly hit by slack trade. Read more... Davey's Song - Anthony EsolenAnthony Esolen on the Divine Music of an Autistic Son. Read more... De-forming Consciences - Robert RoyalFr. Newman’s parishioners came to Mass in large numbers this weekend and applauded so long when he began his homily that they only quieted down when he turned and knelt to the Blessed Sacrament. Read more... Dennis Clinton Graham Heiner - Father George RutlerBrooklyn Supreme Court Judge Thomas Farber, a Jew, said that he had expected to hear nothing but hate from the defendant but only heard love. Read more... Determination - Donald DeMarcoPopular interest in the Olympic games involves a curious irony. Despite our culture's unswerving commitment to a life of comfort and convenience, people are drawn to the Olympic spectacle precisely because it celebrates the place of discomfort and inconvenience. Read more... Director Volker Schlondorff Talks About 'The Ninth Day' - Steven D. GreydanusVolker Schlondorff was so intrigued by the real-life story of a Catholic priest forced by his Nazi captors to make a life and death choice, he had to film it. ‘I have a hard time,’ says the Jesuit-educated filmmaker, ‘making any decision whatsoever.’ Read more... Don Arrigo Beccari: A Safe Haven In Villa Emma - Catholic Educator's Resource CenterIt was a long train ride from Yugoslavia to Italy. No one knew what to expect. The children were good actors and hid their fear in silence. They were Jewish child refugees from Germany, Austria, and Poland whose parents had been deported to Nazi concentration camps. Josef Ithai, the young teacher who looked after them, shared their fear. Read more... Down Syndrome: On Holy Ground - Mary O'CallaghanAs a Holy Cross Priest at Notre Dame reminded us last week, those of us who care for individuals with cognitive handicaps stand on holy ground. Read more... Edith Sitwell: Modernity and Tradition - Joseph PearceEdith Sitwell was a shock-trooper of the poetic avant garde, a champion of modernity who revelled in the use of shock tactics to push the boundaries of poetry, angering traditionalists in the process. Perhaps, therefore, she would seem an unlikely convert to the creed and traditions of the Catholic Church. Yet, like her friend, “the ultra-modern novelist” Evelyn Waugh, she would come to realize that the liberating power of orthodoxy could transfuse tradition with the dynamism of truth. Read more... Edward Piszek - Rev. George W. RutlerHaving known Edward Piszek for nearly 15 years, my mistaking him for the groundskeeper of the Colorado retreat house where we first met still seems understandable. Read more... Einstein's Final Quest - Walter IsaacsonIn the later years of his life, after he had fled Nazi Germany at age fifty-four and moved to Princeton, New Jersey, Albert Einstein focused his scientific energies on what would turn out to be a futile quest: the search for a unified field theory. Read more... Endurance - Donald DeMarcoShe came into the world, according to her father, "kicking valiantly and crying obstreperously." Perhaps she had some premonition of the immense suffering she was destined to endure throughout the course of her life. Read more... Eric Lionel Mascall - Father George W. RutlerNature conspired in Eric Lionel Mascall (1905-1993) to flaunt St. Peter's image of the body as a collapsible tent (2 Pt 2:13-14) – at least I have not known such an agile mind in such a clumsy frame. Read more... Escape from Nihilism - J. BudziszewskiTwenty years ago I stood in the Government Department of the University of Texas to give a talk. I was fresh out of graduate school, and it was my here's-why-you-should-hire-me lecture. I wanted to teach about ethics and politics, so as academic job seekers do everywhere, I was showing the faculty my stuff. Read more... Esther’s Guarded Condition - Anthony EsolenAs his days were racing to an early end, my father had to discuss with his doctors all the “choices” available for treatment. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Pages Updated On: Fri Feb 10 2012 - 00:54:04
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