A Catholic Tribute to Lord Sacks
by Sohrab AhmariDespite rejecting almost in toto the Church’s account of faith and reason, Sacks nevertheless credited it for the fundamental humaneness of Western civilization. Continue Reading »
Believe, That You May Understand
by Charles J. ChaputIn 1970, Michael Polanyi wrote an essay called “Why Did We Destroy Europe?” In it, he reflected on the cancerous spread of ideologies and war in the twentieth century. He argued that scientific rationalism had initially “been a major influence towards intellectual, moral and social . . . . Continue Reading »
Harvard's First Light
by Timothy GeorgeSince its founding, Harvard has been the “first light” to dispel the myth that faith and reason are antithetical. Continue Reading »
Way beyond the New Atheist Nonsense
by George WeigelSome of the great fathers of modern science were Catholic priests—proof that faith and reason can exist in harmony, as they still do today. Continue Reading »
The Beastly Paradox
by Francesca Aran MurphyBlaise Pascal spoke of the contradiction in every human heart. Man is an animal at once godlike and depraved. It is not that our dreams are great and our behavior base, but that our dreams are simultaneously wonderful and vile. Perhaps nowhere is this more obvious than in our treatment of other . . . . Continue Reading »
The Double-Edged Sword of Sentimentalism
by Fr. Dominic BouckAt the March for Life this past January, I saw a teenage girl holding a sign that read, “She could be the next Beyoncé!” the “she” referring, of course, to the baby inside the womb. Her sign reminded me of the quirky movie, Juno, in which the protagonist, a young teenager, decides not to . . . . Continue Reading »
Reason's Faith
by David Bentley HartI learned in these pages not long ago that it is perilous to express doubts regarding the persuasive power of most natural-law theory in today’s world. Not that I would dream of rehearsing the controversy again; but I will note that, at the time, I took my general point to be not that natural-law . . . . Continue Reading »
Of Faith and Doubt
by Douglas FarrowA theologian’s comment on a sociologist’s theological category mistake. Continue Reading »
Uneasy Grace
by Meghan SullivanWe need not see doubt as an impediment to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Pious Infidel
by Steven WaldmanThough the most Deistic of the Founding Fathers, even Jefferson was not a full-fledged Deist if we accept that philosophy as having had two fundamental tenets: a rejection of biblical revelation and a conviction that God, having created the laws of the universe, had receded from day-to-day control . . . . Continue Reading »
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