christianity

Post-Comfortable Christianity and the Election of 2012

by Fr. George W. Rutler August 6, 2012

Shortly before he died in Oxford in 1988, the Jesuit retreat master and raconteur, Bernard Bassett, in good spirits after a double leg amputation, told me that the great lights of his theological formation had been Ignatius Loyola and John…

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Atheists Don’t Own Reason

by Tom Gilson March 30, 2012

The new atheists–participants in the contemporary anti-religion movement led by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, the late Christopher Hitchens, among others–are working overtime to tell the world that reason favors atheism, and atheism alone. Richard Dawkins leads his Foundation for Reason…

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U.K. Muslim Minister: Protect Christianity!

by Sayeeda Warsi February 28, 2012

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi is the co-chairman of the British Conservative Party and the first female Muslim to serve as a minister in a UK cabinet. This week she gave a controversial speech about the role of faith in public life…

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Christian Unity and Evangelization: The Boat and the Net

by Fr. Thomas Ryan, CSP January 17, 2012

Church leaders from across the denominational spectrum in the United States met recently–prior to the January 18-25 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity–in what might justifiably be called an ecumenical summit meeting.
They met to look at whether the various…

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