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Just like half the population of the world (I’m not sure that’s an exaggeration), I went to see Iron Man 3 this past week. You can find out what I thought over at Aleteia. You know, it’s hard to believe…

Okay, so this is actually a scene from The Simpsons television show and not the movie, but hey, blogger’s privilege or something like that. Anyway, I don’t know about all of you out there who probably have perfect families, but…

Until 2008, the curriculum of Montreal’s (private) Catholic Loyola High School included a course called “Morals and World Religions” (MWR). MWR taught students the basic history and tenets of other major religions from the Catholic perspective, which is presumably what…

An Adoption Story

by CE Editor on November 28, 2012 · 0 comments

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Religion and Anxiety

by Harold G. Koenig, MD October 3, 2012

Anxiety is an unpleasant emotional (and physiological) state that occurs when a person anticipates a potentially threatening event, or even when there is no threatening event but the temperament of the person is worry-prone (due to heredity or early life…

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Christian Rage vs. Muslim Rage

by Dr. Paul Kengor September 28, 2012

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On the morning of September 11, 2012, I pored over various websites where I typically get my morning news. At one of them, I read about the latest so-called artistic expression given to this culture by the…

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Religion and the Election of 2012

by Gary S. Smith September 13, 2012

Religious issues have played a significant role in numerous presidential elections, as they are in 2012. In 1800, his opponents accused Thomas Jefferson of atheism and trying to undermine the republic’s Christian foundation. In 1928 and 1960, many Americans were…

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Searching For God at Boston College

by Trent Beattie September 12, 2012

Students at Boston College who learn solid proofs for the existence of God have an atheist professor to thank.
A little over 20 years ago, a history professor at the Jesuit college was advocating atheism in one of his classes.…

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Is Man by Nature in Relation to the Infinite?

by Robert R. Reilly September 5, 2012

The headline above has been posed as a question. However, at the Rimini Meeting in Italy, from which I have just returned, it was put forth in a statement as the main theme of a week-long event (August 19-25) that…

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St John of the Cross and the Artistic Portrayal of the Joyful Pilgrimage

by David Clayton August 28, 2012

Office of Readings, Friday, Wk 18 the reading is from the Spiritual Canticle of St John of the Cross. In it he indicates that the saints in heaven are in union with God through love.

He tells us that, ‘they…

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