Volume 20 Number 3

Issue Date: 
March, 2009

Features

The Courage to Do What Herod Didn’t Do
By: 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 culture insists that we imitate Herod. If we put God first, we find it easier to do just the opposite. One man who listened to the Good News describes his journey of grace.
Who’s Deluded?
By: Christopher Kaczor
Richard Dawkins, the ubiquitous atheist, likes to take shots at religion—with a special animus for Catholicism. His popular bestseller The God Delusion tries to torpedo faith by attacking respected arguments for God’s existence. In taking on perhaps the greatest theologian in history, however, he’s woefully outmatched.
Aquinas Proves Atheists Are Closer to God Than They Think
By: 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 like everything else that exists. He is existence itself.
Dawkins’ Debunkers
By: 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 by paper-thin arguments wrapped in bombast. Not to worry: Believers of many faiths—using those quaint tools of reason, logic, and evidence—are mounting an able defense.
The Cost of Discipleship
By: 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 long endured persecution, even martyrdom. Though their situation has improved slightly, the faithful of Communist China continue to transform struggle into prayer.

Departments

Reasons for Hope
Flat-Souled
By: Cherie Peacock
Letters
Where Is It Written, Exactly?
Damascus Road
The Splendor of Truth Brings an Episcopalian Minister and His Flock Home
By: Fr. Eric Bergman
By the Book
"Are You Saved?" If Only!
By: Tim Staples
Eyes to See
The Artist’s Intention
By: Michael Schrauzer
Truth be Told
In the Name of Science
By: Robert P. Lockwood
Last Writes
Taste Test
By: Karl Keating

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