One of the classical demonstrations of God’s existence is the so-called argument from desire. It can be stated in a very succinct manner as follows. Every innate or natural desire corresponds to some objective state […]
Pope Francis set a very strong tone for the intense three-day Vatican colloquium Complementarity of Man and Woman in Marriage, held November 17-19 in the same hall of last month’s Extraordinary Synod on the Family, […]
Bishop Christopher J. Coyne is an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and is the newly elected Chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Communications. He received his doctorate […]
Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, the “foreign affairs minister” of the Russian Orthodox Church, is, as George Weigel observed recently in First Things, a talented man, “charming and witty.” However, the gifted Hilarion, Weigel rightly noted, “does […]
During the interview of Cardinal Sean O’Malley on CBS’ 60 Minutes this past Sunday, host Norah O’Donnell pushed the Archbishop of Boston on the question of “women ordination” and the possibility of “women priests.” It […]
“The family is the foundation of co-existence and a guarantee against social fragmentation,” Pope Francis said today in an address to participants in the “Humanum” colloquium in Rome. The international, interfaith gathering, which will spend […]
On Monday the Humanum colloquium gets underway in Rome; the three-day gathering of scholars and religious leaders from numerous countries and faiths will focus on the theme “The Complementarity of Man and Woman.” Sponsored by […]
Pointing to the “stupidity” of the American voters, MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber, one of the creators of Obamacare, admitted at a videotaped conference with fellow academics in 2012 that the Obama administration went through “tortured” […]
The most recent “Inside the Vatican” e-letter, authored by editor Dr. Robert Moynihan, contains this interesting bit of news: I attended a round-table the other evening, on November 11, at the Centro Ecumenica Russia on […]
In a coordinated raid conducted on Wednesday, November 12, 2014, police in several German cities, most of them in North Rhine-Westphalia, searched forty houses and arrested nine radical Salafists who are suspected of robbing churches […]
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