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My Grandfather’s Catholic Son
BY Jennifer Roback Morse
March 23-29, 2008 Issue
My Grandfather’s Son, the autobiography of Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas, will be a classic American memoir. It is a rare
combination of timeless saga and period piece.
Thomas’ autobiography is the archetypal American rags to
riches story that is so much a part of our national... READ MORE
Easter Answers
BY MARK SHEA Big Truths for Little Kids, Part One
March 23-29, 2008 Issue
As we noted last week, the root problem in a lot of bad
catechesis is ultimately not ignorance, but pride.
The cure for the sin of pride, as with all sin, ishese questions are, by the way, real ones taken from a
recent poll by Dorling-Kindersley. They are as ancient as humanity and as
current as... READ MORE
Myth 1: Atheists Are Smarter
BY Legionary Father Thomas D. Williams Part of a Series
March 23-29, 2008 Issue
It is a common myth of our day, not surprisingly propagated
by atheists, that religious believers are undereducated folk who have abandoned
the use of reason in favor of blind faith.
So in his book Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris
writes that because of the religious belief of its... READ MORE
Baby Brits Challenge Law
BY Cathy Ruse
March 16-22, 2008 Issue
The pro-life movement in the United States is young and
getting younger.
This is an inconvenient fact for media types who’d prefer a
different image and an especially bitter pill for the aging abortion lobby to
swallow.
But now there’s a group of very young pro-lifers making big
headlines in... READ MORE
Planned Parenthood Files on YouTube
BY Paul Kengor
March 16-22, 2008 Issue
There is a shocking series of videos and related articles
soaring around cyberspace right now.
They stem from a jaw-dropping research project displayed on
the website, YouTube, by pro-life students at UCLA, led by a student named Lila
Rose.
The students caught on tape representatives of... READ MORE
Beyond Tribal Faith
BY Mark Shea
March 16-22, 2008 Issue
Recently, Newsweek ran a piece by Kathleen Deveny in
which she lamented the fact that she didn’t know how to talk to her daughter
about God.
Several things struck me about the piece.
First, and most arresting, was her opening remark:
“Sometimes I think it is easier to talk to my daughter... READ MORE
Can McCain Take Up the ‘Catholic’ Mantle?
BY Brian Burch
March 9-15, 2008 Issue
After Toni Morrison infamously declared Bill Clinton,
“America’s first black president,” some Catholics, most notably former
Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, took to calling George W. Bush America’s
“first Catholic president.”
The title was an affront to the legacy of JFK, but... READ MORE
Your Spiritual Workout
BY FATHER DWIGHT LONGENECKER
March 9-15, 2008 Issue
I have to admit, one of my favorite verses from the Bible is
1 Timothy 4:8, which says, “Bodily exercise is of little value.”
Going to the gym and taking physical exercise simply doesn’t
interest me. I’m not really a couch potato; I just get bored running on a
treadmill or lifting weights... READ MORE
Engaging Paganism
BY Mark Shea Connecting the Dots
March 9-15, 2008 Issue
Whether we are talking about pre-Christian or post-Christian
paganism, the task of the Catholic is always the same: to bear witness to Jesus
Christ.
The question is: How?
In the New Testament, different approaches to pre-Christian
paganism are evident. Paganism is a search, but it is a search... READ MORE
A Theologian Answers the Atheists
BY Father Thomas D. Williams, LC
March 2-8, 2008 Issue
Unless you’ve spent the last few years in a mountain
hermitage, you have almost certainly run into the latest rash of anti-God
books.
And a rash it is, since the very mention of a Supreme Being
makes these professional atheists break out in hives. But they are scratching
all the way to the bank,... READ MORE
License Plates Put Money Where Motto Is
BY MARYBETH T. HAGAN
March 2-8, 2008 Issue
The beauty of a “Choose Life” license plate lies in its
beneficiaries.
All proceeds from these automobile accessories support women
with unplanned pregnancies who choose adoption plans, rather than abortions,
for their unborn babies.
A Florida grassroots group with an all-volunteer... READ MORE
Return To Paganism
BY Mark Shea Part of a series
March 2-8, 2008 Issue
I used to be a pagan. Not a neo-pagan with phony stilted
semi-Tolkienesque speech (“Bright blessings! Merry meet!” “An it harme noone do
as thou wilt”). Nor was I an adherent of some recently minted group of Gaia-worshippers
playing dress-up in their Society for Creative Anachronism... READ MORE
Why the Rudy Rejection Matters
BY Paul Kengor
February 24-March 1, 2008 Issue
With little fanfare, something politically, historically,
and even morally significant quickly passed on Jan. 30, 2008, when New York
Mayor Rudy Giuliani withdrew from the Republican presidential race.
Such is the superficiality of our media that within a span
of minutes the news cycle had already... READ MORE
Miracles Happen
BY Susan E. Wills Lenten Pro-Life To Do List
February 24-March 1, 2008 Issue
Between cursing the darkness and lighting a candle, we all
know which is the right choice.
Yet every year on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, one hears
grumbling about the lack of progress in overturning that decision in its
entirety.
True, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1992 decision in... READ MORE
What Is A Pagan?
BY Mark Shea
February 24-March 1, 2008 Issue
“Paganism” is a term fraught with all sorts of connotations.
It originally meant something like “country dweller,”
“rustic” or even “hick.” That’s because (contrary to popular myth) Christianity
did not spread among the Hee Haw-watchers of antiquity, but among the city
dwellers... READ MORE
Apocalyptic Fooferah
BY Mark Shea
February 17-23, 2008 Issue
Recently, I mentioned some of the kooky apocalyptic theories
that swirl around evangelicalism and involve various interpretations of
Ezekiel, Daniel, Revelation and some of Jesus’ more obscure sayings, all
coupled with various predictions about Russia, Israel, the European Union, red
heifers,... READ MORE
Now What?
BY Melinda Selmys The Cluelessness Crisis, Part 4
February 17-23, 2008 Issue
Over the past three weeks, I’ve painted a rather grim view
of modern education in America, suggesting that children emerge from school
with only a small fraction of the training necessary to be complete, fulfilled
human beings, and that they are generally being molded in accord with the needs
of... READ MORE
When Tolerance Trumps Truth
BY DONALD DEMARCO
February 17-23, 2008 Issue
When Christ told his disciples that his teaching provided
them with a liberating truth (“You will know the truth and the truth will set
you free”), he was, at the same time, offering a blueprint for a liberal
education.
In today’s post-modern world, the notion that truth leads to
freedom is... READ MORE
The History of Cluelessness
BY Melinda Selmys The Cluelessness Crisis, Part 3
February 10-16, 2008 Issue
About 2,500 years ago, Plato came up with the idea that
class systems could be imposed through education; that people could be taught
that some are “copper,” others “silver” and a small elite are “gold.”
The idea didn’t catch on until the 1700s, when the Prussians
realized that... READ MORE
The Tale of 2 Churches
BY Father Dwight Longenecker
February 10-16, 2008 Issue
I have been a Catholic now for 13 years. Like most converts,
I described my reception into the Catholic Church as “coming home.” However,
the homecoming was not all that the sentimental phrase implies.
It is true that in coming home we received a warm welcome
from many Catholics. It is also... READ MORE
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