William P. Clark: The Quiet Catholic Who Changed the World

Paul Kengor is a professor at Grove City College and the executive director of the College's The Center for Vision and Values. He is also a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University.… Read More

Seeing (Code) Red: Answering The Da Vinci Code Bullies

The Façade is Crumbling
That’s the impression given by some in the media as they react to a bevy of new books that seek to debunk Dan Brown’s hugely successful novel (seven million copies sold and 57 weeks on or… Read More

The Left Behind Books: Harmless Fiction or Anti-Catholic Propaganda?

The recent release of a statement by the Illinois Conference of Catholic Bishops on the mega-selling Left Behind books was a mildly surprising, but welcome event.
The Heart of the Matter
Surprising, because such an official statement, directed at Fundamentalist… Read More

Prophets of Doom Profit from Gloom

Is Saddam Hussein and his violent regime predicted in the book of Revelation? Is the war in Iraq part of the “end times” events revealed, albeit in mysterious and puzzling ways, in the last book of the Bible? Does St.… Read More

Why Vatican II? Ten Reasons for the Second Vatican Council

Over the past few months the Second Vatican Council has been the subject of several spirited debates at Envoy Encore, the weblog that I edit for Envoy magazine. Generally speaking, there are two strongly differing opinions about the Council.
The… Read More

The Great Apologists, Pt. 6

Here are the previous five installments of Carl Olson's “The Great Apologists” series:
Part 5: C.S. Lewis
Part 4: Frank J. Sheed
Part 3: Ronald Knox
Part 2: G.K. Chesterton
Part 1: John Henry Cardinal Newman

Like her friends C.S.… Read More

The Great Apologists, Pt. 5

Like G.K. Chesterton, whom Lewis admired greatly, he was a writer with tremendous range, authoring the best-selling children’s series Chronicles of Narnia, plus numerous books and essays about medieval literature, contemporary education, literary criticism and apologetics. Although Lewis never became… Read More

The Great Apologists, Pt. 4

(This article was originally published in a different form in the November/December 1999 This Rock, a publication of Catholic Answers: www.catholic.com.)
Part 3: Ronald Knox
Part 2: G.K. Chesterton
Part 1: John Henry Cardinal Newman

Along with his wife Maisie… Read More

The Great Apologists, Pt. 3

(This article was originally published in a different form in the November/December 1999 This Rock, a publication of Catholic Answers: www.catholic.com.)

He was particularly drawn to ritual and ceremony, writing years later that “long before I had ever seen a… Read More

The Great Apologists, Pt. 2

Chesterton’s trademark — which his admirers marvel at and his detractors mock — is his use of paradox. He had uncanny ability to turn the opponent’s argument or premise upside down and inside out, often resulting in startling clarity. This… Read More

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