Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 11:14AM The historical events described in Joyeux Noël could only have happened in a civilization marked by Christianity. One wonders it anything like that could happen in today's Europe.
Thursday, March 2, 2006 at 11:34PM The African-American children in Minneapolis are migrating to the charter schools.
Thursday, March 2, 2006 at 11:06PM You are changing the history of the world by having children.
Thursday, March 2, 2006 at 10:28PM A column on the explosive growth of Christianity in Asia.
Monday, February 27, 2006 at 1:13PM Would you live in Ave Maria, the first town in America to be run according to strict Catholic principles? Tom Monaghan, the founder of the Domino's Pizza chain, is creating the town 90 miles northwest of Miami.
Friday, February 24, 2006 at 10:54PM Spengler remarks:
It is a striking difference between Islam on one hand, and Judaism and Christianity on the other, that Islam offers the promise of success as the reward for submission to God, while the older religions offer no greater consolation than God's own presence. It is God's presence itself before Job that provides the answer to Job's question... By the same token, Muslim unhappiness is not "about" the Israeli presence on the West Bank, or even the intrusion of Western secular values. It is about the Muslim perception that Islam's promise of success against its enemies has eluded them. It is a crisis of faith.
Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 10:08PM New attacks against Egyptian Copts. The Vatican is losing its patience. On the relationship between Christianity and Islam, a 2005 column by Fr. Samir Khalil Samir.
It is as if priests and bishops did not understand that Christianity is the fullness of every religion's path. But it is only respect for a person and love for his struggle to live his faith in the modern world that urges me to announce the Gospel to him.
Thursday, February 23, 2006 at 1:37PM Intelligent atheist Theodore Dalrymple observes:
the correspondent’s premise that the legality of an act was the sole criterion by which one could or should judge it chilled me. It is a sinister premise. It makes the legislature the complete arbiter of manners and morals, and thus accords to the state quasi-totalitarian powers without the state’s ever having claimed them. The state alone decides what we have or lack permission to do: we have to make no moral decisions for ourselves, for what we have legal permission to do is also, by definition, morally acceptable.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 9:55PM It is always impressive to what crazy extremes bad ideas can develop by the sheer force of logic separated from elementary experience.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 9:26PM The striking thing about this interview is how the "expert" consciously avoids any attempt at assessing "good and bad," which would detract from her "scientific" expertise. Thus dies rationality, in the name of "science."
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 1:07PM The stage is ready at the Supreme Court for "its most significant ruling on abortion rights in almost 15 years."
Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 10:09PM Leon Wieseltier skewers scientism, "one of the dominant superstitions of our day." As a symbol, he chooses our friend, Daniel Dennett.
Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 4:48PM Famous economist Amartya Sen defends secular universalism against the encroaching waves of religious/ethnic tribalism. It may worth remembering, however, that historically the ideal of a universal human community goes back to the religious experience of one particular middle eastern tribe. And when that universal ideal became detached from that religious experience, it also degenerated in violence.
Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 11:33PM The NYTimes reviews the new movie on Sophie Scholl
Thursday, February 16, 2006 at 12:08AM Another great scourge of our time are the fanatic 1968-produced ideologues that run the bureaucracy of the European Union.