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Home: Current Issues: Multiculturalism Current Issues: MulticulturalismArticles:Among French thinkers, a growing consensus against the veil - John Turley-EwartMany in France believe the state has a duty to oppose religious dress that runs contrary to the Republic’s principles of Liberté, egalité, fraternité. Read more... Catholicism's Antidote to Multiculturalism - Christopher ShannonIn the face of a much ballyhooed multiculturalism, Catholicism is distinct, if not unique, in its insistence on the priority of an authoritative moral community not of one's own choosing. Read more... Everything I need to know about tolerance I learned at Lake Simcoe - Barbara KayWhen one is living off the generous revenues from capital painstakingly amassed by one’s forebears over centuries, it is disingenuous to pretend it is the fruit of one’s own secular intellectual labours. Read more... Hérouxville on the Tiber - Rev. Raymond J. de SouzaIt may be true that multiculturalism as an aspiration is dying in Canada. The burial is already underway in Europe. Read more... Multiculturalism, Catholicism, and American Civilization - Joseph A. VaracalliThere are actually three forms of multiculturalism, two of which are antithetical to the Catholic worldview. Read more... Multiculturalism: Fact or Threat? - Dinesh D’SouzaMulticulturalists insist that we change how we teach our children, in order to reshape how they think. Specifically, they must stop thinking of Western and American civilization as superior to other civilizations. The doctrine underlying this position is cultural relativism — the denial that any culture can be said to be better or worse than any other. Cultural relativists take the principle of equality, which in the American political tradition is applied to individuals in terms of rights, and apply it instead to cultures in terms of their value. Read more... Thanks to the Pope, Now We're Talking - David WarrenAn extraordinary thing happened a week ago. Thirty-eight Muslim scholars and chief muftis, from across the Muslim world, jointly replied to the Pope's speech at Regensburg (and more have associated their names with this document, since). Read more... The Crimes of Christopher Columbus - DINESH D'SOUZAThe purpose of a liberal education, as Cardinal Newman defined it, is to “educate the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.” Read more... The glory of the West is that life is an open book - Roger ScrutonOne of the strangest of recent movements in the world of education has been that promoting “multiculturalism” and attacking the traditional humanities for their “ethnocentricity”. Read more... The Multicultural Ploy - James K. FitzpatrickHow do we prepare our children to hold to their belief in the uniquely divine origin of Christianity — the Word becoming Flesh — without them being guilty of the dreaded "ethnocentrism" that their teachers may well condemn? Is there any way to view Christianity as "truer" than Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism without becoming a "bigot" in the process? Is it intolerant, an insult to the people of these other religions, to insist that Jesus was the Way, the Truth, and the Life? Read more...
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