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The Christian Code: Ancient Christian Symbols Speak to the Here and Now
Mike Aquilina
The Christians in the first centuries after Christ, secretly practicing their faith in catacombs, left their descendants a rich spiritual...
The Sad History of the Knights Templar
Christopher Check
The concept seems peculiar to the modern mind: a religious order whose members fight in battle, often to the death. But at a time when all...
Seven Deadly Fallacies: The Illogic of Pro-Abortion Arguments
Donald DeMarco
It’s said, often ad nauseum, that nobody is pro-abortion. Even so, the arguments for choice are flimsy at best, and proponents of the "right to...
Nicene Credence
Matthew E. Bunson
Catholics and non-Catholics alike were served up a mountain of lies and untruths in Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code. Of particular interest...
The Name Game
Karl Keating
My sister Karen says I’m wrong, but my recollection is that she had an elementary school classmate whose name was Belle. It was a fine Southern...
Why Attack ID?
The title of your article, "Aquinas v. Intelligent Design," (November 2008) may be misleading. The case presented is that of neo-Thomists vs....
Flat-Souled
Cherie Peacock
Irreverence is quite cool at the moment. A film or theater critic who wants to praise a work will say it is "an irreverent look at [some...
Where Is It Written, Exactly?
I very much enjoy reading every edition of This Rock. Jim Blackburn’s explanations about the Old Testament laws, and whether Christians are...
The Splendor of Truth Brings an Episcopalian Minister and His Flock Home
Fr. Eric Bergman
I didn’t know it then, but my conversion to Catholicism began even before my Episcopal bishop sent me off to seminary. A lifelong Episcopalian...
"Are You Saved?" If Only!
Tim Staples
"Do you know you’re saved so that if you were to die right now, heaven would be absolutely certain for you?" This "all-important" question is...

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