Using the brain
Father George Rutler
"Use your brain" is a maxim often heard, but often resented.
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Why the trial by ordeal was actually an effective …
Peter T. Leeson
For more than 400 years, when 'ordinary' evidence was lacking, their legal systems asked God to info...
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Living by the Sword
Brad Miner
"The Crusades Controversy: Setting the Record Straight" is a 50-page broadside against the seri...
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The Last Condition Is Worse Than the First
Father Alfred Delp, S.J.
There are moments in every person's life when we are filled with self-disgust.
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Bite Your Tongue! A Reflection on Common Sins of S…
Msgr. Charles Pope
The Office of Readings this week features passages from the pastoral guide of St. Gregory the Great...
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Can dirty money be made good again?
Father Raymond J. de Souza
What is the moral status of money from an immoral source?
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Those who "self-evacuate"
Father George Rutler
A bit of unintentional black humor made its way into the news some days ago, in an account of people...
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Weinstein's downfall must be traumatizing for Holl…
Father Raymond J. de Souza
The tale so often replicated in other parts of our culture has finally touched a sector deeply corru...
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Of Women & Power
David Warren
Harvey Weinstein is a lusty old goat, if we can believe reports in our tabloid media.
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The Devil's in the Diction
Theodore Dalrymple
The vague terms that populate our political discourse encourage lazy and often deeply biased thinkin...
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A Giant Among Men
Anthony Esolen
One of the benefits of a cold day was that it almost smothered the stench of destruction: parched an...
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Why the rosary works wonders in youth ministry
Father Matthew Pittam
On the memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, a priest explains the transformative effect of this tradi...
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The Harmony of the Cosmos
Father George Rutler
When a mathematical problem stumped Professor Einstein, he played Mozart on his violin to put him "i...
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Learning to See God as Loving Father
Father Robert McTeigue, SJ
The Christian life can become a lifeless life if we only see it as an exercise in sin management...
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Fencing with bigots
George Weigel
...being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members of the Commi...
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Abba’s Heart: The Promise
Neal Lozano
I find it astounding the way many people have loved and served Jesus for years without knowing the...
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Abba’s Heart: Discovering the Father
Neal Lozano
"I love you, Dad. Do you love me?" - Micah ...
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Dante Alighieri
Heather King
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet and moral philosopher, authored "The Divine Comedy". ...
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Catholic Happy News
Father George Rutler
The writer Flannery O’Connor, in her wit, did not think highly of local Catholic newspapers. ...
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