Ideology is the Enemy of True Faith
Events at the college where I teach have me thinking about the ersatz religion known as ideology.
Events at the college where I teach have me thinking about the ersatz religion known as ideology.
Dinesh D'Souza's recent article in the Christian Science Monitor stirred up a hornets nest of response from atheists. Todays atheists, D'Souza discovered from their missives, are a scrappy, disputatious bunch. The following article is his response to some of their assertions.
In January 2002 a group of journalists gathered at the Pier House in Key West, Florida, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar. Its purpose was to enhance journalistic understanding of current religious and cultural issues. The session from which this "Conversation" is drawn featured Harvard historian Roy Mottahedeh, with a response by journalist Jay Tolson.
During the second world war, Pope Pius XII was lauded for his singular efforts to halt the carnage, writes Newsweek's Kenneth Woodward.
Evelyn Waugh, Catholic convert and the most interesting English novelist of the twentieth century, could be rebarbative.
This essay is excerpted and adapted from comments delivered on April 29 at the Scala Foundation's conference "Art, the Sacred, and the Common Good."
In small things, if one pays close enough attention to them, can often be seen wider trends.
"You needn't be so stubborn, sir," says the officer. "We're not asking you to adore Decius.
The destruction of England’s monasteries was carried out in two phases.
Your time on earth is fixed, and constantly diminishing — take life and death seriously.