August, 2010 marked the sixty-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Affirming God's omnipresence, as we have done, emphasizes that God is indwelling or immanent in all things. Our day-to-day activities tend to hide this fact from us.

The most common symbol of the dynamic of Christian salvation is that of a "journey".

The capitalist parable, as I call it, when spelled out, deals with God's ways with us.

Schopenhauer's philosophy may be conveniently summarized by a concatenation of three words: Will Strife Misery.

It is our contention that the rather widespread practice of priests neglecting to wear their collar when they should is both a sign and a cause of malaise in the Church.

No philosopher ever proposed a more simple and straightforward view of life than the one Ayn Rand urges upon us.

I think it's fair to say that Hitchens is playing today the role that another brilliant Englishman, Bertrand Russell, played nearly a century ago, namely that of religion's public enemy No. 1.

Renaissance sculptures and saints' relics are not as sexy as cadavers playing hoops, but gazing at the Pieta surely is a more ennobling experience than ogling corpses at the mall.

The human self is not a given, an object, an essence, whose essential nature is unchangeable and guaranteed, like everything else in the cosmos. Our nature is a task given to us to achieve. We alone can fail to achieve our nature.