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Would a World Without Truth Be Less Prone to Violence?
BY Gregory R. Beaubout
November 04-11, 2001 Issue 
So you're standing near the water cooler, on a break at work, and your co-workers are discussing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
You hear someone comment: “The problem is not that the attackers were Muslim; many Muslims are peaceful and tolerant of others. The problem is that the terrorists are... READ MORE
‘Hell is Other People’
The dead end of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism
November 04-11, 2001 Issue
Concerning the early separation Jean Paul Sartre experienced from both his parents—his father died, his mother doted on him before remarrying, which he experienced as a betrayal—the influential French philosopher and author wrote that he had “benefited from the situation.” With regard to his... READ MORE
A Mother's Work—Love—Is Never Done
BY J.R. Morse
November 04-11, 2001 Issue
In general it is a bad idea to give space to bad ideas.
But some bad ideas receive so much attention that a response is necessary. Ann Crittenden's new book is in this category.
The problem begins with the TITLE: The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least... READ MORE
God Bless Americans’ Real Civil Liberties
November 04-11, 2001 Issue
Regarding “’God Bless America’ Jangles ACLU Nerve,” Oct. 21-28: The person of faith must now do without his freedom—his American civil liberties, as it were—in public school.
Faith is a gift from God. Religion is how people respond to faith, the gift of God. Religion is how people respond to God.... READ MORE
Generation X Rediscovers ‘Militant’ Catholic Action
BY Pia de Solenni
October 28 - November 3, 2001 Issue
“I come not to bring peace, but the sword.” Could these really be the words of the Jesus we Generation X-ers grew up with?
What happened to the Jesus we learned about in our second-grade catechism, the one dominated by pictures of butterflies? Where was the Jesus we talked about in our tender... READ MORE
The Roots of Their Rage
October 28 - November 3, 2001 Issue
“Why do they hate us?” What deeply held resentments could have led the 19 hijackers to work a catastrophic wave of terrorism against the United States Sept. 11? Why is there such bitterness in the Muslim world toward the United States? Why, on learning of the collapse of the World Trade Center,... READ MORE
Ireland Shares America’s Hurt, But Offers Little
BY David Quinn
October 28 - November 3, 2001 Issue
Many would think: If there is one country in the world America can be sure of in its hour of need, that country is Ireland.
After all, America has provided a refuge for millions of Irish people who have migrated there over more than 200 years.
This makes the bond between the two countries strong... READ MORE
Mao as Important as Mohammed to Terrorists
BY Gabriel Meyer
October 21-27, 2001 Issue
We have all, in a sense, been sifting through the rubble of lower Manhattan in the weeks since Sept. 11.
The hijackers — who were they? What would motivate young men from comfortable Middle Eastern families to commit such horrors, knowing that the destruction they unleashed would destroy themselves... READ MORE
America Discovers It Has Enemies
BY Father James V. Schall
October 21-27, 2001 Issue
Many are, no doubt, surprised that the Vatican took the stance that it did on the right and duty of a nation under direct attack to defend itself and to remove a present and abiding threat to repeat the attack. This is a return of the classic just-war doctrine, a return made simpler because no... READ MORE
Philosophy After Sept. 11: Now More Than Ever
BY Donald DeMarco What does a college professor say on “the day after” to his class in practical ethics?
October 21-27, 2001 Issue
This was my lot and my challenge Sept. 12, before a morning class of 40 or so students, many of whom are not yet convinced that philosophy has anything to do with life — let alone life-and-death situations.
Having tried my hand at teaching philosophy for longer than I want to remember, the most... READ MORE
The Obligations of War, the Preference for Peace
October 7-13, 2001 Issue
In its explication of the commandment “You should love your neighbor as yourself,” the Catechism teaches about the conditions for just war — and the Church's preference for peace. The Catechism's text follows.
Peace
2302 By recalling the commandment, “You shall not kill,” our Lord asked for peace... READ MORE
Know the Rosary And You’ll Find You Know Christ
BY Andrew Mcnair Lc
October 7-13, 2001 Issue
Like many evangelical protestants, Jeffrey Johnson found it difficult to stomach the Catholic Church's devotion to Mary.
Born and Raised in Fayetteville, N.C., Jeff believed that the Catholic Church's devotion to Mary was misguided, to say the least. His main objection was that Catholics venerate... READ MORE
Growing Up and Starting a Family in the Shadow of the Towers
BY Brian Caulfield
September 30 - October 6, 2001 Issue
With a thundering crash that my wife thought at first was a fallen crane, my lower Manhattan home became a war zone.
I was at work in New Haven, Conn., when the attack came that infamous morning, and was on the phone with my wife as the second plane crashed into the south tower of the World Trade... READ MORE
How to Fight Back
September 30 - October 6, 2001 Issue
A decade ago, at Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, I found myself on the receiving end of suspicious looks from dour-faced security guards. Their metal detector kept squealing and squawking, even after I had already emptied my pockets of loose change, keys and other possible culprits.
It was the eve of... READ MORE
The Economics Of Human Suffering
BY J. R. Morse
September 30 - October 6, 2001 Issue
One thing we economists always teach is that smart people snap up undervalued resources, fix them up, and resell them at a profit.
Investors mean much the same thing when they say “buy low, sell high.” Suppose I told you that you had ready access to a very common but deeply undervalued resource,... READ MORE
Only Supernatural Hope Can Dispel Despair on a Day This Dark
BY Donald DeMarco
September 23-29, 2001 Issue
Sometimes it takes a tragedy so terrible that it leaves us staggering in shock and disbelief to remind us that hope is not a natural virtue.
It is, rather, a supernatural virtue — and one that has nothing to do with probability or expectation. Hope's true meaning eludes us and is understood only to... READ MORE
It’s Morning in a Whole New America
BY James V. Schall
September 23-29, 2001 Issue
Aristotle says that if something is a “plot,” it is closer to reason, that is, closer to something that has passed through a mind. He means, in other words, that when four planes take off with relatively the same mission, from different airports with different targets, that there is a mind behind... READ MORE
After Sept. 11, What Is A Just War?
BY Michael Orsi
September 23-29, 2001 Issue
As President Bush tries to determine an appropriate response to the “acts of war” perpetrated on the United States, religion will play an important role in building consensus.
The morality of waging war is a moral issue with which Christians have long struggled.
Throughout the Church's 2,000-year... READ MORE
Only Catholics Can Tell You Why Cloning Is Wrong
September 16-22, 2001 Issue
There's nothing like a bout with moral chaos to clarify the mind.
This dawned on me while participating in an Internet chat room populated by scientists, mathematicians, theologians and philosophers, almost all of whom have PhDs in their respective fields, and all of whom are interested in... READ MORE
The Grandparent Trap
What rights do grandparents have when parents divorce?
September 16-22, 2001 Issue
Grandma and Grandpa: sweet old folks who spoil their grandchildren rotten—or the latest scourges in America's litigation boom? That's the question that arises in the wake of the July 6 West Virginia Supreme Court's 3-2 ruling upholding that state's law guaranteeing grandparents the right to visit... READ MORE
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