Christian Sahner explains how strife in Syria is leading to the destruction of Syria’s major historical sites: Among the at-risk monuments is the Unesco World Heritage site Crac des Chevaliers, a Crusader fortress of the 12th to 13th centuries, which stands on a hilltop overlooking the plains . . . . Continue Reading »
Early this year , in a course in cross-cultural psychology at the University of Central Florida, some Christian students bore witness to their faith in a way to which the professor objected. I doubt that their expressions were mature and winsome, but I also doubt that I would have reacted in the . . . . Continue Reading »
“All Have Sinned”: The US-Dakota War of 1862 Chris Gehrz, The Pietist Schoolman The Heart of the Matter Bishop Edward M. Rice, Homiletic & Pastoral Review Archaeology and the Bible Eric Metaxas, Christian Post Cosmopolitan Magazine’s “Wholesome . . . . Continue Reading »
From Douglas Kmiec’s 2008 book Can a Catholic Support Him? : So what does the ‘Born Alive’ Act do? Largely, it redefines what it means to be ‘born alive.’ From the time of ancient common law, ‘born alive’ has meant live birth at or near the end of a full . . . . Continue Reading »
The causes of hostility among nations are innumerable. Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #6 Words to ponder as Chinese protesters , and then Japanese protestors occupy the various rocks that make up the Senkaku Islands. The second of those links is to a Telegraph story that shows why this latest . . . . Continue Reading »
Texas has an awful futile care law. It permits hospital bioethics committees to impose members/doctors’ values that a patient’s life is not worth living based on quality of life. A story just out shows the injustice of the process—a terrible law about which I write here in . . . . Continue Reading »
On the blog of Georgetown’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Mark Gray comments on the Economist report about the Catholic Church’s finances in the U.S. (Matthew Schmitz highlighted the story earlier today .) Gray argues that the piece shows a “lack of . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times ran a column in this weekend’s Sunday Review by John G. Turner arguing that Mormons need to make a “fuller confrontation” with their church’s history of racism. It’s an important question, but one has to wonder at the usefulness of raising it in . . . . Continue Reading »
A look at the new adultery, which is the old adultery seen through the wink and nod. You or I, if conservative, might think that such a thing undermines marriage, but, author Catherine Hakim insists not, that adultery should be retitled something like a “playfair” or an . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s young, orthodox Catholics aren’t ecclesial revanchists motivated a desire to turn back that clock we’re always informed can never stop ticking. In general, they’re very much engaged with the world around them, and not inclined to shut themselves off in . . . . Continue Reading »
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