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Home: Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Shunning a truth-seeker - Rev. Raymond J. de Souza‘Places where the Pope can’t go: Moscow, Beijing, University of Rome’. Read more... Solzhenitsyn and His Critics - John CouretasThe world justly celebrates the life of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a great man whose work and witness seems most aptly summed up in a single word: prophetic. But, as prophets are in a habit of doing, he made some people feel the needle who were sure they didn’t deserve it. Read more... Some prejudices are more equal than others - Philip JenkinsThe American media, usually painstaking in their efforts to offend members of no racial, religious or gender category, consistently make one major exception — the Roman Catholic Church. So argues Philip Jenkins, distinguished professor of history and religion at Penn State and an Episcopalian, in his new book "The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice". Read more... St. Edith Stein: Martyr for Truth - Robert RoyalThe 20th century witnessed great advances in science and medicine. But it was not an era for truth. Read more... Sudan: Canadian oil firm Talisman is an economic ally of a brutal regime - Eric ReevesIn this Los Angeles Times editorial Eric Reeves outlines how the destructive war effort raging in the Sudan, in which casualties are estimated at 2 million—more than 90% of which may be civilian—is being fueled by a singular North American corporate presence—Talisman Energy, Inc. (Calgary, Alberta). Read more... Taking on Turkey’s secular state - Father Raymond de SouzaPope Benedict XVI planned his visit to Turkey as an ecumenical Christian encounter with Patriarch Bartholomew I, the titular head of Orthodoxy. Read more... Teddy Bear Tyranny - Anne ApplebaumWhat do a British novel, a papal speech, some Danish cartoons and a Dutch movie have in common with . . . a teddy bear? Read more... Terror Against the Church - NINA SHEAChristians are the most persecuted religious group in the world today and that persecution is intensifying. Read more... Terror in Ukraine - Robert RoyalBishop Romzha was only one of many brave believers who paid the ultimate price for their loyalty to the faith in Ukraine. As horrible as their experiences were, their commitment bore rich dividends. Read more... The Banners - Peggy NoonanWhy are rich people afraid of the Virgin Mary? Read more... The Believers - Eliza GriswoldThe death of a missionary and the world of Christian martyrdom. Read more... The Bishops Go On Offense - Robert RoyalA Notre Dame professor reminded me this week of an old football saying: offense sells seats, but defense wins games. Read more... The Calvary of Romania - Robert RoyalThe story of Romanian persecution and martyrdom is virtually without equal in the 20th or any other century. As L’Osservatore Romano wrote in 1948, when the persecution was only starting: “No similar story of moral violence, of persecution, of the Via Crucis of liberty, of personality, and of human dignity can be read in all the pages of history.” Read more... The campus war against faith - Candace de RussyThe reality is that religious believers on secular campuses, many of them with religious family roots and deep faith commitments, face grim prospects, academically and personally. Read more... The Catholic Church vs. our rights commissions - Michael CorenIt did, as it were, have to happen. A human rights body taking on the Roman Catholic Church. Read more... The Catholic Double Standard - William McGurnWhy was Samuel Alito's Catholicism so much more discussed than Sonia Sotomayor's? Read more... The China Syndrome - Joseph WoodWith China there is much to be concerned about, particularly its embrace of a harsh culture of death. Read more... The Cross and the Crescent - Francis X. MaierBy looking at the past - our own past and the common history we share with Islam and other religious traditions - and by judging it honestly and rigorously, but without fear or rancor, we serve the truth that makes us free. We "contribute to the path of reconciliation," however difficult that might be. Read more... The Crucifix and the Sickle - J. Fraser FieldOnce the Communists took control of China in 1948, they didn't wait to make it known there would be no place for religion in the new order. Read more... The Dangerous Silliness of the new movie Agora - Father Robert BarronAlong with the tales of Galileo and Giordano Bruno, the legend of Hypatia is a favorite of anti-religious ideologues. Read more... The darkest brand of 'honour' - Robert FulfordWhen an Ethiopian man in Alexandria, Va., killed his wife, the report in last week's Alexandria Gazette Packet tiptoed nervously around his motive. Read more... The enduring fraud - Daniel GreeneThe Protocols of the Elders of Zion has been debunked countless times. Yet for the world’s anti-Semites, the book’s authenticity remains an article of faith. Read more... The Enemies of Religious Liberty - James HitchcockIt is common for religious believers to lament the Supreme Court's barely concealed hostility to the free exercise of religion, at least since the middle decades of the twentieth century. But in the long term, even more damage is likely to be done by the influence of ideas advocated by a cluster of political and legal theorists in the academy. For these writers, religious liberty itself is a pernicious idea. Read more... The freedom of conscience rights - Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSBThis article is excerpted from a homily given by the Archbishop of Vancouver, B. C. during the White Mass for health-care providers in January 2011. Read more... The Future of Christians in the Middle East - Habib MalikThat the Middle East is the cradle of the world’s three monotheisms is a phrase one encounters in every high-school textbook or tourist brochure about the region. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Thu Feb 09 2012 - 20:02:47
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