Written articles from a range of online sources on a variety of topics.
Source: Deacon Lawrence via thewayofbeauty.org Reprinted with permission. I often think that one of the most overlooked periods of sacred art is the early 1900s. Christian artists of that period had a deep respect for tradition but were nit afraid to adapt traditional forms to contemporary needs. If anything their […]
Source: Katarina Carranco via pop.org Over geological time, the earth’s climate has varied from tropical (think dinosaurs) to ice age (think woolly mammoths) and back again. We’re currently living in an interglacial period, and if another ice age descends upon us, as it well may, there is nothing we can […]
Source: Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Reprinted with permission. A Vancouver doctor who operates a euthanasia clinic has killed more than 400 people since legalization. A recent article promoting euthanasia for mental illness alone states that Dr Ellen Wiebe has killed more than 400 people by euthanasia for physical reasons […]
Source: Elayne Allen via thepublicdiscourse.com Reprinted with permission In modern societies, wealth is not tied to land or long-lasting material things, nor is it transmitted across generations; it is fluid, shapeshifting, and usually doesn’t extend beyond the horizon of our own lives and personal needs. This series attempts to offer fresh […]
Source: Margarita Mooney Clayton via thewayofbeauty.org Reprinted with permission. The present time of crisis in higher education may tempt us away from pondering fundamental questions about the human person that are essential to understanding what education is all about. But educators should not fall prey to cultural or societal pessimism—it […]
Source: Christopher Szabo via mercatornet.com. Reprinted with permission. Despite its tormented history, Hungary is not an ‘elected autocracy’ Recently I returned from a trip to Hungary. My main aim was to see the country up close and help my family to decide whether to return there or to remain in […]
Source: Michael Cook via mercatornet.com Reprinted with permission. A biopic about Marilyn Monroe shows how devastating abortion can be Blonde is a controversial recent film about Marilyn Monroe. It’s a dark and queasy film about sexual exploitation – the story of how a stunningly beautiful woman was chewed up and spat […]
Source: Kurt Mahlburg via mercatornet.com Reprinted with permission. Cancel culture is so out of control that its worst purveyors are now cancelling themselves. Proving that irony can indeed be delicious, this week thousands of PayPal customers closed their accounts after the payment platform threatened to fine users thousands of dollars […]
Source: Wilfred M. McClay via thepublicdiscourse.comReprinted with permission. “We shall not cease from exploration,” wrote T. S. Eliot in “Little Gidding,” “And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time.” Such is the task of […]
Source: Justine Nolan, UNSW SydneyReprinted with permission under a Creative Commons Licence via theconversation.com. The Chinese regime’s treatment of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim groups in the province of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, says a long-awaited report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human […]
Source: Michael Hichborn, President, via Lepanto Institute. Reprinted with permission. While the Church and her faithful Catholics honor Our Lady and her most Holy Rosary throughout the month of October, the world prepares to celebrate a day dedicated to terrifying and demonic visages donned by children in the hopes of […]
Source: John F. Doherty via thepublicdiscourse.com. Printed with permission.Originally appeared in The Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ. Reason cannot become right reason unless the will is in love with the Truth; intellectual formation requires moral formation. And yet, as my previous essay argued, the […]