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The Artist’s Intention
Michael Schrauzer
The Church at Varengeville (1882) by Claude Monet. Located in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, England.
In the Name of Science
Robert P. Lockwood
A while back a science professor in Minnesota desecrated what he claimed to be a consecrated host—a gruesome business. This avowed atheist...
The Courage to Do What Herod Didn’t Do : He Left the Gay Lifestyle for the Church
Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.
Though Herod knew John the Baptist to be a righteous man, the lure of pleasure prompted him to silence the voice calling him to repent. Our...
Who’s Deluded? : An Atheist Just Doesn’t Get Aquinas
Christopher Kaczor
Richard Dawkins, the ubiquitous atheist, likes to take shots at religion—with a special animus for Catholicism. His popular bestseller The God...
Aquinas Proves Atheists Are Closer to God Than They Think
Mark Brumley
Atheists contend that God cannot exist because no such Being could exist. But the being whose existence they deny is not who God is. God isn’t...
Dawkins’ Debunkers : A Reading List
Andrew M. Seddon
The list of anti-religion screeds by atheists is growing. And too many people, including Christians ignorant of their faith, are led to doubt...
The Cost of Discipleship : Catholicism in China
Anthony E. Clark
Catholics in the West often take the freedom to practice their faith for granted. That would be unthinkable for Catholics in China, who have...
Taste Test
Karl Keating
I once had sent to me a scurrilous attack on one of my favorite writers, Msgr. Ronald Knox (1888-1957). The attack was written by two Catholics...
By Our Love
Cherie Peacock
Telling the truth is one of our most serious moral obligations. One of the great things about working for This Rock is that we get to talk...
Aquinas vs. ID: Round Three . . .
I was taken aback by Michael Tkacz’s reply to Andrew J. McCauley in Letters, February 2009. Dr. Tkacz states, "If one conceives God as a...

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"The [secular] sense of right and wrong is so delicate, so fitful, so easily puzzled, obscured, perverted, so subtle in its argumentative methods, so impressionable by education, so biased by pride and passion, so unsteady in its course, that in the struggle for existence amid the various exercises and triumphs of the human intellect, the sense is at once the highest of all teachers yet the least luminous."

~ John Henry Newman, "Letter to the Duke of Norfolk", from the article on Morality by G. H. Joyce.