Ideology is the Enemy of True Faith
Events at the college where I teach have me thinking about the ersatz religion known as ideology.
Answering Atheists Arguments
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.
Islam: A Primer
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.
Blaming the Wartime Pope
During the second world war, Pope Pius XII was lauded for his singular efforts to halt the carnage, writes Newsweek's Kenneth Woodward.
Vale, Christopher Tolkien. Middle-earth is indebted to you
If J.R.R. Tolkien was a Titan, Christopher was Atlas, with the weight of a cosmology on his back.
The Isenheim Altarpiece
I knew an elderly Scotswoman who read the Bible each night by the light of a candle.
The true intellectual has today become a dissident
I travelled from Poland, already inwardly frozen by the eerie chill of Communism — and Communist Prague did nothing to raise my spirits.
Mistaken predictions
Prophets proclaim the truth, and they predict the future only in a derivative sense of cautioning about the consequences of denying the truth.
The Gift of the Church: Forward
What wonders the Church has to show us, to give us, to nourish our hearts and minds and souls, so we can be fully human again — or for the first time ever!
The Gift of the Church: Preface
"It is high time that Catholics remembered the greatness of what Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit have done in and through the Church, for the good of the whole world. Topping is the perfect guide." - Matthew Levering, James N. and Mar D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary