Why We Should Call Ourselves Christian
Europes effort to integrate itself around an economic instrument, a common currency, rather than around a belief or an idea, appears to be imploding.
Europes effort to integrate itself around an economic instrument, a common currency, rather than around a belief or an idea, appears to be imploding.
There are three kinds of evil that I want to talk about: suffering, death and sin. What we fear most, most of the time, is suffering, then death, then sin exactly the opposite of what it should be.
There are three kinds of evil that I want to talk about: suffering, death and sin. What we fear most, most of the time, is suffering, then death, then sin exactly the opposite of what it should be.
One of the most misunderstood of all Church teachings is her doctrine on the nature and operation of conscience.
No matter how we look at it, the counsel to "follow your heart, not your head" is a confused and absurd proposition that is entirely unworkable.
Five years ago today (one day after 9/11s fifth anniversary), a soft-spoken, 79-year-old former professor visiting his old university in Germany delivered a speech to a group of academics. In 30 minutes, it was all over. forty-eight hours later, the world exploded.
Pope John Paul II put his finger on a problem typical of our time, namely, that people think that they can do lots of bad things while still remaining, deep down, "good persons," as though their characters are separable from the particular things that they do.
How is it possible for love, which is essentially spiritual, to have a transforming effect on the human body, which is corporeal and the natural object of scientific intervention?
Well, we've been talking about beauty. Let's talk more about the beauty of language, and thus talk a little more about language.