Even the enemies of the gospel already owe all that is best in their own ideologies and myths to Him.

One of the strangest of recent movements in the world of education has been that promoting multiculturalism and attacking the traditional humanities for their ethnocentricity.

It may be true that multiculturalism as an aspiration is dying in Canada. The burial is already underway in Europe.

An 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).

When one is living off the generous revenues from capital painstakingly amassed by ones forebears over centuries, it is disingenuous to pretend it is the fruit of ones own secular intellectual labours.

In 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.

AS a retired professor of English who now and again returns to teaching, I am aware that the work I try to do with my students has less and less in common with what is going on in adjacent classrooms. I regret being out of step, but it is too late to break the habits of a lifetime, and in any case I cannot believe that they are bad habits.

How 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?

Multiculturalists insist that we change how we teach our children, in order to reshape how they think.

Multiculturalism is presented by its advocates in the schools and universities as a benign alternative to monoculturalism.