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Bodley Head £20 May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart make Dawkins and Hitchens burn in Hell, O Lord my Rock and my Redeemer. Amen. Much of what we say about God these days is facile. The concept of God is meant to be hard. Too often we get lost in what Greeks called logos (reason) rather than interpreting him through mythoi - those things we know to be eternally true but ...
Moral clarity is something that everyone claims to admire, so it is always useful to find out what they mean by it. In the case of Susan Neiman, one need not look very far. In the first chapter of her "guide for grown-up idealists", discussing the crimes of the last century, she writes: "Arbitrary imprisonment, famine, and murder were not new, though the scale seen in the 20th century was. What ...
The subversive potential of homosexuality has been the theme of endless sermons from the pulpit and countless drawing-room tittle-tattle. But few expressions of mirth and righteous indignation can match the intriguing hypothesis proffered by The Times in an editorial on the occasion of the formal unmasking of Sir Anthony Blunt as a lapsed Soviet spy in November 1979.
The title of Pope Benedict’s third encyclical is in itself striking. It is not the more familiar term “truth in charity”, but its inverse “Charity in Truth”, “Caritas in Veritate”.
Parents who want to pull their children out of public school but don't have the capacity to homeschool or access to private education have a new alternative.
“The Ascent of Money,” which begins Wednesday on PBS, explores various monetary crises and financial instruments that altered history for better or worse.
TORONTO, JULY 7, 2009 ( Zenit.org ).- Today at noon Rome time, Benedict XVI released the third encyclical letter of his pontificate. "Caritas in Veritate" (Charity in Truth) is a major document on the social teaching of the Church.
Analysis The University of Notre Dame’s decision to award President Obama an honorary degree pried open much-needed space in the American public square for a more robust view of Catholic reason.
VATICAN CITY, JULY 7, 2009 ( Zenit.org ).- Here is the synthesis the Vatican press office compiled of Benedict XVI's third encyclical titled "Caritas in Veritate" (Charity in Truth), which was published today. The synthesis highlights the main themes of the encyclical.
Last week, the Internet advertising industry announced what it described as tough new standards for how it collects and uses data about the behavior of Internet users.
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