The Era of Moral Thuggery
It seems, then, that we have entered an era of what might be called moral thuggery.
It seems, then, that we have entered an era of what might be called moral thuggery.
Re-reading the first chapter of St Paul’s Letter to the Romans recently, it occurred to me that Paul was offering, among other things, a kind of sociological theory of the three stages of society's moral degeneration.
In 1998 Charles Chaput, then the archbishop of Denver, hosted a meeting on “the new technologies and the human person,” co-sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.
The Batflu has driven us all batty, with talk of many things most of us never expected we’d have to think about.
The philosopher, who died this past January, defied stereotypes by remaining true to his moral sensibility.
Who was Gilbert Keith Chesterton? A rotund man in a cape brandishing a walking stick? Certainly. A twentieth-century writer? Prolifically. A great champion and defender of the Christian Faith? Gallantly.
In his spiritual autobiography, "Apologia pro Vita Sua", Saint John Henry Newman informs us: “When I was fifteen (in the autumn of 1816), a great change of thought took place in me.
An astute writer on John Henry Newman has remarked that the soon to be saint, "stands at the threshold of the new age as a Christian Socrates, the pioneer of a new philosophy of the individual Person and Personal Life."