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New book by George Weigel focuses on universities, truth, faith, and reason

June 4, 2025 Carl E. Olson 2

Pomp, Circumstance, and Unsolicited Advice (Ignatius Press, 2025) brings together two dozen commencement addresses and university lectures, given since the turn of the century, from George Weigel. These addresses and lectures, given in academic settings, […]

Analysis

The influence and impact of Fides et Ratio at 25

September 14, 2023 J. J. Ziegler 15

On September 14, 1998, Pope St. John Paul II issued Fides et Ratio (“Faith and Reason,” Latin text, English translation), an encyclical letter on the relationship between faith and reason — or, to translate the […]

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News Briefs

Pope Francis publishes apostolic letter on Blaise Pascal

June 19, 2023 Catholic News Agency 9

Pope Francis delivers his Angelus address on June 18, 2023/Portrait of Blaise Pascal. / Vatican Media/Public domain

Vatican City, Jun 19, 2023 / 05:45 am (CNA).
Pope Francis published an apostolic letter on Monday praising the 17th-century math… […]

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News Briefs

Experts respond to Biden: Biology and theology agree, human life begins at conception

March 4, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Photomicrograph of a human zygote with two pronuclei, 20x magnification. / Vladimir Staykov/Shutterstock

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 4, 2022 / 11:08 am (CNA).
After repeated, recent statements by U.S. President Joe Biden that he does not bel… […]

The Dispatch

A scientist explains how God made Earth mankind’s home

October 29, 2019 Derya M. Little 8

What a convincing lie the Enlightenment spread. The world was suddenly divided into two: the realm of faith and the realm of reason. The small gap between these realms became a chasm in the hands […]

Columns

On True Knowledge and Apostolic Intelligence

March 3, 2019 James V. Schall, S.J. 7

“Today, more and more, individuals are of the opinion that religion is a waste of time, that only social action can make a significant contribution to man’s well-being.” — Joseph Ratzinger, 1980.1 “Men need more than […]

The Dispatch

Pro-abortion pundits cannot debunk the scientific facts about life, conception

February 28, 2019 Thomas R. Ascik 8

I can’t find anyone—including Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion media—who disagrees about what science has to say about the beginning of human life. What, you say that the March for Life caused the publishing of […]

The Dispatch

Prominent Catholic astronomers discuss the proposed “Hubble-Lemaître Law”

October 10, 2018 Justin McClain, O.P. 7

In late August, the International Astronomical Union (“IAU”) held their thirtieth General Assembly in Vienna, Austria. There were many fascinating points that were discussed, yet one of them in particular should capture the attention of Catholics: the […]

General

A brief defense of Fr. Schall on Islam, Christianity, and intelligence

September 28, 2018 Brian Jones 6

In a recent essay at the Public Discourse, David Rahimi offered a critical review of Fr. James V. Schall’s recent book On Islam: A Chronological Record, 2002-2018 (Ignatius Press, 2018). While it is certainly the case […]

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Essay

Faith, reason, and two decades of studying Fides et Ratio

September 10, 2018 Douglas Kries 3

Those devoted to the debate about faith and reason need to confront a fundamental problem: the tremendous loss of confidence in the ability of reason […]

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A few weeks ago, after Ireland voted to approve so-called “same-sex marriage,” a correspondent sent me an e-mail quoting Cardinal Walter Kasper’s comment on the result: “A democratic state has the duty to respect the […]

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