Our culture likes to flatter itself on its broadminded, rational, even scientific approach to the issues of our times. Many are proud to have put the “voodoo of religious faith”, and everything that can’t be […]
Lawyers have learned that the way to frame a Supreme Court argument intended to persuade Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is to tell love stories—the kind of stories that begin with powerful barriers that threaten to […]
Praying in Rome: Reflections on the Conclave and Electing Pope Francis by Cardinal Timothy Dolan New York: Image/Random House, 2013 E-book. Print length: 39 pages As Pope Benedict XVI departed Vatican City by helicopter on […]
“The light of the East has illumined the universal Church, from the moment when ‘a rising sun’ appeared above us: Jesus Christ, our Lord, whom all Christians invoke as the Redeemer of man and the […]
I just read a shocking article, “IVF Baby Born Using Revolutionary Genetic-Screening Process” (July 7, 2013), published online by The Guardian. What shocked me most was the casual manner its author Ian Samples uses to […]
After writing an editorial, “Throwing Down the Gauntlet of Faith” (July 8th), about the encyclical, Lumen Fidei, I wrote a longer and more thorough piece, “Unity and the Light of Faith” for Catholic Pulse. Here […]
Yes, I’ll admit it: I’m climbing on my high horse and I’m probably going to anger a few readers. So be it. The fact is, I’m sick of hearing about the George Zimmerman story, case, […]
Bryan, Texas – Wendy Davis and her supporters have either bought into a lie about abortion or mistakenly believe these clinics are safe places, but we have the truth, says former abortion clinic worker Abby […]
BOSTON – “Nature reveals God’s mind and imagination, and scripture reveals God’s heart and will,” says philosopher Peter Kreeft. But the “ability to read natural signs has decreased with the increase in the ability to […]
Claims that something is inevitable are generally of two kinds. Sometimes the claim is simply a statement of fact (“Inevitably, the sun will rise tomorrow”). Other times it expresses a wish or perhaps a fear […]
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