Islam, Realism, and the Church
In comments last year, Marcello Pera [1], a prominent Italian intellectual and non-believer, criticized Pope Francis for “openly going against tradition, doctrine, and introducing inexplicable innovations, behaviors and gestures.” A philosopher of science, former...
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Francis says “rigid” Catholics need to change. How about rigid Muslims?
The New York Times reported that Mohammed al-Shamrani, the Pensacola jihad murderer had become more religious after a trip home to Saudi Arabia in February. That shouldn’t be surprising. In fact, increased religiosity—more frequent prayer and mosque attendance,...
The Triple Threat to Christians and the Church
The watered-down religion of human fraternity which some Catholics hope to bring about will be no match for either militant secularism or militant Islam. Jesus assured us that the gates of hell will not prevail against his Church. But we’re not told how much damage...
Let Nothing You Dismay
One of the perpetual complaints against Christianity is that it is a life-denying, puritanical system. In the Victorian era, poet Algernon Swinburne referred to Christ as the “pale Galilean” from whose breath “the world has grown grey.” In our own time, films such as...
Pius XII, Francis, and the Media
John Cornwell’s 1999 smear of Pius XII, Hitler’s Pope, became a best-seller, lauded by reviewers and excerpted in major magazines. Cornwell portrayed Pope Pius as an anti-Semite, a supporter of Hitler, and an enabler of the Holocaust. None of this is true, of course....
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