I enjoy it when conventional wisdom gets turned upside down. A good example appeared in The Federalist last week: David Breitenbeck’s Why Our Day Is Far More Religious Than The Middle Ages Was. As someone who has studied Medieval philosophy and read St. Thomas Aquinas, I can
God is a different kind of being than what we are. That should be obvious. But some people today want to be God, to the point of demanding to have the attributes of God. Those who are “pro-choice,” for example–that is, pro-abortion–are not content to
The Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh is in jeopardy after accusations that when he was a 17-year-old high school student, 36 years ago, he committed sexual assault at a drunken party by jumping on top of a 15-year-old girl and trying to take
The priest sex-abuse scandal is the biggest crisis to hit the Roman Catholic church since the Reformation. I’ve heard that thought expressed by a number of people. It contains a lot of truth, but it also has some misconceptions. Far from being bad for the
Saul Alinsky was a left-wing activist in the 1960s and 1970s whose “community organizing” was influential to subsequent political agitators, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. His book Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals gives his tactics for dealing with opponents and seizing
Pew Research has come up with a different way of classifying American religion. Instead of looking at broad categories (evangelicals, Catholics, mainline Protestants), or affiliations (denominations, religions), it has drawn up a “typology” based on how religious a person is, along with some other descriptors.
The young adults of the Millennial generation are showing a higher rate of mental problems than previous generations. A study says that the problem is perfectionism and their inability to attain it. As Rachel Genevieve Chia reports, “A study on the topic shows this phenomenon is unique
The Democrats think they have a good chance to pick up the House of Representatives and maybe the Senate in the midterm elections in November and the White House in 2020. And with the left wing of the party gaining more and more grass roots
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind,” said Jesus. And “you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets” (Matthew 22:37, 39-40). Thus, the first
How extensive is the problem of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests? Cases have been coming from around the world. Some have said that the percentage of abusive priests is no worse than the percentage of men who abuse children in the general public.
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