One of the leading philosophers of our time says Western culture will have to be handed down outside the ivory towers and college lecture halls — and he has strong reason to believe that its promulgators will be successful. 

If feelings determine sex, why don't feelings determine age?

A review of "The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success" by Rodney Stark.

On the world Nietzsche predicted and precipitated.

To recall an old rhyme: "Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me."

Principal theological difficulties in the "Instrumentum Laboris" (IL) for the 2018 synod:

John Stuart Mill's book "On Liberty" (1859) is the great foundational document of today's dominant theory of morality: I mean moral liberalism, the theory that says that, for adults, any conduct is morally permissible provided it does no harm to others.

Stephen Hawking was a courageous man, writes Fr. Raymond de Souza, who had a memorable encounter with Hawking in 1995.

It's sometimes hard to distinguish the show from the sideshow.