Francis X. Maier says that greedy lawyers and anti-Catholic politicians are taking advantage of the sex-abuse crisis to fleece the Church.
The headlines seemed almost triumphal in tone. Prayer Doesnt Aid Recovery, Study Finds. That was the Washington Post. Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer. That was the New York Times.
Harvard professor Samuel Huntingtons clash of civilizations hypothesis a provocative preview of a twenty-first century in which religiously shaped cultural conflicts define the fault-lines of world politics created a considerable intellectual stir when it was first published in 1993.
"Why do we have to go to Mass?" is one of the most frequently asked questions that students address to their religion teachers, and recently I received an email from a former student asking for an article that he could share with his friends that answers that very question.
Faced with the spectacle of the cruelties perpetrated in the name of faith, Voltaire famously declared organised religion to be the enemy of mankind. Richard Dawkins, whose TV series The Root of all Evil? concludes next Monday, is the most influential living example of this tradition.
After every act of creation, the Book of Genesis sings the refrain: "And God saw that it was good." All the splendour of the natural world the butterfly emerging from its cocoon, the swirling images from the Hubble telescope, the perfect fingernail of a newborn baby is self-evidently good.
The complete text of Pope Benedict XVIs message for the 2006 World Day of Peace, to be celebrated January 1.
N.T. Wright is arguably the most influential living Protestant theologian. He's also a scholar sending shock waves through Evangelical circles as he advances the view that the leaders of the Protestant Reformation Martin Luther especially misread St. Paul on the subject of justification by faith.
Interest in Lewis is on the upswing, again, especially with the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe movie and portents of many more in a series of Chronicles of Narnia feature films. What, then, to make of this highly influential, Belfast-born Christian thinker and writer, and his impact on modern Christianity?
