I have a friend, a husband and father of three, a Catholic who lives in Karachi, Pakistan. Since 2005, he has been harrassed, threatened, and physically assaulted by Muslim extremists. [...]
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New Study Records Islamization Process in Ancient Christian Lands
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When Academia Adopts Corporate Production Metrics
A little more often than now and then, some ruse, hoax, or stratagem upends academe. Recently, a small pod of researchers scandalized “cultural studies” by publishing, in prestigious journals, a [...]
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Why Traditional Hymns are Superior to Modern Ones
I’m sometimes accused, when I write about bad hymns, of wanting to impose a single style upon everyone. That’s strange. It’s like saying that all classical music sounds the same; [...]
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Honoring Two Intellectual Giants of the 20th Century
Before 2018 concludes, we should remember two men born a century ago this year who profoundly shaped public discourse in the twentieth century: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. Dec. 11, 1918) and [...]
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France: A Tale of Two Faiths
Last March, an Islamist terrorist stormed a supermarket in Trèbes, France, shot two people dead and took others hostage. In negotiations with police, the terrorist agreed to accept a police [...]
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Are Moral Absolutes Unfair to Individuals in Difficult Cases?
Adultery is sinful, marriage is indissoluble, and divorce is forbidden. Let us assume that we accept the validity of these precepts in principle—but is it possible to apply them in [...]
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The Ugliness of Catholic #MeToo
We are told repeatedly that we must believe “the woman” whenever she makes a claim of sexual assault. Disbelieving her or even asking for evidence other than just her word [...]
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A story is told of some strangers who went to the home of Heraclitus, an ancient Greek philosopher well known even in his own day for his teachings on the nature of change and reality. The strangers arrived only to find Heraclitus in the kitchen warming himself by the furnace. Realizing that his visitors were […]
