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Why a Self-Indulgent Age Needs a Rough Religion

VITAL WORKS RECONSIDERED, #53 & #54

Kenneth Colston

Penance is man’s pitiful part in cooperation with grace, an extreme method necessary to combat the difficulties posed by the passion and the pride of man.

Halving & Having the Truth

NEWMAN ON LIBERALISM & ITS LIBERALLY EDUCATED DISCONTENTS

Joshua Hren

Through the joys and perils of liberal learning we must ever recollect that only faith seeking understanding properly disposes the intellect toward conformity to Christ.

The Thomistic Critique of Theistic Evolution

John Lyon

Thomism is an integral part of the millennial flow of Western thought and cannot simply be consigned to the dustbin of misguided and superseded systems of philosophy.

Another Side of John Henry Newman

GUEST COLUMN

Warren R. Johnson

The Two Worlds of John Henry Newman

THE SEEN & THE UNSEEN

Robert A. O'Donnell

Newman rejects the notion that the "other" world does not exist at this present moment, but begins after death: "No: it exists now, though we see it not."

Cardinal Newman: The Urban Legend

One particularly scurrilous urban legend of the day involves Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and the particularities of his burial.

Newman's Call to Authentic Discipleship

GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY

Mitchell Kalpakgian

The earnest Christian acts from the noblest motives and with the purest intentions, never trying to live the double life of serving both God and mammon.

A Permanent Scandal to the World

BAD PRESS AS AN ARGUMENT FOR THE CHURCH

Chene Richard Heady

Because the Church, like Christ, is a sign of contradiction, she must remain a permanent scandal to the world. As long as she stays true to her identity, she will be under attack.

Do You Despair Over the Current Crisis in the Church?

TEN POINTS TO REMEMBER

John Beaumont

If the Church were merely a human institution, she would have collapsed long ago, as one earthly empire after another has collapsed during her history.

Two Theologians on the Development of Doctrine

LOISY & NEWMAN

David J. Harrison

For Newman, the truth exists in perpetuity; doctrine springs forth in reaction to the culture, that the culture might better understand the truths of Christianity.

The Achievements of Father Stanley L. Jaki

'ONLY ONE CHOICE: TO FIGHT'

Anne Barbeau Gardiner

As a historian of science and a philosopher he fought against the encroachments of scientism; as a theologian he fought to defend the supernatural.

Newman & Evangelization

Richard Geraghty

Just as Christ made no apologies or compromises in His preaching to the Apostles, so the Apostles make no apologies or compromises with their listeners.

The Malines Conversations & What Was Malign There

A CHAPTER IN THE ILLUSION OF REUNITING CANTERBURY WITH ROME

Stanley L. Jaki

Keep in mind St. Paul’s dire warning that heresies would of necessity come so that the genuine faith of the elect may come to light all the more strongly.

The Atheist, the Cardinal & The Liberals

John Henry Newman and Friedrich Nietzsche had something in common.

Not Just a Misunderstanding

Richard Geraghty

Men must approach the propagation of truth by seeing it as the Gospel sees it: war between the children of light and the children of darkness.

A Look at Dave Hunt, Leading Anti-Catholic Fundamentalist

THE WHORE OF BABYLON, THE RAPTURE & THE END TIMES

W. Robert Aufill

Catholic minds left uninstructed by dissenting catechizers are offered sharp lessons by zealots such as Hunt.

A Voice Crying in the Bewilderedness

J. A. Gray

Mankind exhibits a passion for knowledge and freedom, and an inveterate tendency to be seduced by counterfeits of knowledge and freedom.

Breaking Trust With Cardinal Newman

LETTER FROM ENGLAND

John Warwick Montgomery

Not Love in the Shallows

David Hartman

Newman was a good man before he became a Roman Catholic; his goodness motivated his conversion, and the conversion inspirited his goodness.

Newman's Prophetic Challenge to Clericalism

ACTIVATING THE LAITY

Anthony Anderson

Newman challenged laymen to sanctify the world and the Church; he challenged clergy to co-operate with and utilize lay energy and wisdom.

The Danger of Riches

ON THE CONNECTION BETWEEN TRUSTING IN RICHES & HAVING THEM

John Henry Newman

That our Lord meant to speak of riches as being in some sense a calamity to the Christian is plain from His praises and recommendation of poverty.

On Ecumenism & the Amazing Unity of Catholics

GUEST COLUMN

Paul van K. Thomson

The Church uses theological disputes to teach her doctrine, as controversy raises fundamental issues.

Mariology: The Essence of Rome's "Errors"?

GUEST COLUMN

Paul van K. Thomson