HOW SCIENCE AND FAITH WERE ALWAYS RECONCILED & EXAMINING WHEN SCIENCE BECOMES LOST TO MATH1/29/2019
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Is Specialization Killing Culture?
By Michael De Sapio on Jan 25, 2019 10:00 pm If culture is simply a matter of private enthusiasms and hobbies, of small details and specialties, then what of a common culture? Read in browser » Lord Acton, Confederate Sympathizer Jerry D. Salyer
“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Among Catholic students of political thought, few figures are more liable to provoke vigorous debate than does that famous dictum’s author, Cambridge history lecturer John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, a.k.a., the First Lord Acton, Catholic godfather of classical liberalism. Where Acton’s critics identify classical liberalism as a theory […] Squandering moral capital By George Weigel on Jan 23, 2019 03:30 am The morality of tyrannicide is not much discussed in today’s kinder, gentler Catholic Church. Yet that difficult subject once engaged some of Catholicism’s finest minds, including Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Suárez, and it was passionately [...] Read in browser » No Reciprocity: On the Papal Visit to UAE Marek Jan Chodakiewicz Pope Francis plans a pilgrimage to Arabia, a land of no reciprocity. Unlike in the West, no religious equality obtains there, and, for the most part, in practice, no religious freedom. It is doubtful that the Pontiff will be able to remedy the situation. Aside from Iraq and Yemen, which are largely outside the scope […] Philippines: Christians Slaughtered, Churches Bombed by Raymond Ibrahim Pope Francis Leading His Flock to the Slaughter? by Raymond Ibrahim Birol Baskan writes: Through his visit, Pope Francis not only continued previous papal efforts to build inter-faith trust and tolerance, but also reached out to hundreds of thousands of Catholic expatriates living in the UAE. However, much more was at stake for his hosts. For the Emirati government, the pope’s visit served to highlight its efforts to promote the UAE as a land of tolerance and to bolster the UAE’s geopolitical objective of discrediting and, if possible, criminalizing the Muslim Brotherhood in the international community. – Middle East Institute
Abuse Crisis Answer: Stricter Seminary Entrance Standards Fr. Regis Scanlon, O.F.M. Cap In late February, Pope Francis will meet with the heads of bishops’ conferences from around the world to address the clergy sexual abuse crisis which began about 50 years ago and continues to afflict the Church to this day. In a previously published article in Crisis Magazine, I pointed out the futility of this three […] Will Bishops Coodle, Foodle, and Noodle Address the Crisis? Peter Maurice
A Remarkable History of Christian Self-Understanding By Gil Bailie on Jan 15, 2019 07:44 pm Last year, the five-hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation was celebrated by some and noted with remorse by others. Though the reformers sought to rebuild Christianity on the principle of sola scriptura, without either papal [...] Read in browser » Abortion: The Mark of Dystopia
By Jerry Salyer on Jan 14, 2019 03:32 pm “As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase.” — Aldous Huxley, Foreword to Brave New World Many liberals seem to think that dystopian cautionary tales can only be directed against the [...] Read in browser » Newman’s Message for Those Leaving the Church Casey Chalk Lay collaboration and episcopal authority
By George Weigel on Jan 09, 2019 03:01 am The Vatican is a hotbed of rumor, gossip, and speculation at the best of times — and these times are not those times. The Roman atmosphere at the beginning of 2019 is typically fetid and [...] Read in browser » Ten Weimar Lessons Harold James urges all democracies to learn from the political, economic, and social conditions of the early 1930s. Why Marx Was Wrong
Carl Bildt pours cold water on the fawning treatment the co-founder of communism has received for his 200th birthday. What does it mean to be a conservative in the age of Trump?Donald Trump won the 2016 Republican presidential nomination over objections that he wasn’t conservative enough. Then he won the presidency despite Democrats’ attempts to portray him as the embodiment of conservatism taken to its extremes. Debate over Trump’s relationship with the institutions and personalities of American conservatism is no more settled today than it was on Election Day 2016, so we asked nine of the right’s leading thinkers the question: What does it mean to be a conservative in the Age of Trump? Here are their answers. The Two Sides of American Exceptionalism
Joseph Nye considers the challenges facing US foreign policy after the Trump administration is gone. The 20 most popular Catholic World Report stories and articles of 2018 By Carl E. Olson on Dec 31, 2018 03:51 pm Introducing last year’s list of most read CWR articles, I expressed my surprise about the fact that Sandra Meisel’s article February 7, 2017 article on Freemasons was the most read CWR article of the year. Lo and [...] Read in browser » Why is the Vatican farming out portions of its prosecution to NY archdiocese?
By Christopher R. Altieri on Dec 29, 2018 07:33 pm The Vatican’s prosecution of the disgraced former Archbishop of Washington, DC, Theodore McCarrick is proceeding and has expanded to include at least one witness who came forward after the Archdiocese of New York’s independent review [...] Read in browser » |
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