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Who wants to know what could go wrong?

March 14, 2022 Thomas M. Doran 15

I recently read an article in a national newspaper about young Poles leaving the Catholic Church. The subtext of the article was Catholicism narrows human freedom. And, surprise, there are sinners in the Church, including […]

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Faith and Reason Environmentalism

January 25, 2022 Thomas M. Doran 8

When it comes to planet Earth, climate change, the environment, the popular narrative describes two tracks: those who know the world is in peril and are committed to transforming human societies to meet this threat, […]

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God and man in the 21st century

December 28, 2021 Thomas M. Doran 9

In 1951, William F. Buckley, Jr. published God and Man at Yale, in which he asserted that Yale was preaching secularism and statism at the expense of religious faith and human liberty. Buckley’s book was […]

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All the light we cannot see

October 19, 2021 Thomas M. Doran 1

Some years ago, I read a novel entitled All The Light We Cannot See (2014) by Anthony Doerr, a title with multiple meanings: scientific, cultural, and moral. This was a story of a blind French […]

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First the diagnosis, then the cure

August 14, 2021 Thomas M. Doran 20

Fewer Catholics are attending Mass. Fewer Catholics accept the Church’s teaching about the Eucharist, about the sanctity of unborn life, about the Christian’s responsibility to the poor and suffering, about marriage, about Jesus as the […]

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Is science really real?

October 11, 2020 Thomas M. Doran 9

I see a lot of posts and lawn signs and hear a lot of public voices proclaiming “Science is Real”. But what is science telling us versus what we’d prefer to believe, or have been […]