Gandhi, Jesus and the Vatican
Excerpts from an interesting article published in Italian weekly newspaper supplement “Domenicale del Sole24Ore” (“A Hindu Saint at the Vatican“, by Gianfranco Zizola, February 3, 2008), about the...
View ArticleSt. Paul Against the Christian Churches’ Secular Activities
2 Corinthians 9, 7: “Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.” It is a pity that so many Christian religious...
View ArticleFitna: Anti-Koranic Freedom of Expression It Ain’t
What to say about Fitna, the anti-Koran movie by far-rightist Dutch MP Gert Wilders who’s enjoying his spot in the limelight in these days? First of all, the fact that it has had a difficult time...
View ArticleMuslims vs the West: History Is Not As We Have Been Told
History is never pure chronicles, rather always an interpretation. And so with double skepticism we should confront all “Arguments from History” that elicit hatred and separation: because they are...
View ArticleOn Abortion, A Perfectly Reasonable Christian Stance
Personally I find the following statements bordering on the obvious. For some reason, many people think otherwise, in one sense or another…and unbelievably, abortion is still somehow an issue in US...
View ArticleThe Christian Roots of Marxism (and Secular Thought)
It turns out, Pope Benedict was not so wrong after all. Excerpts from “A Rescue of Religion” by John Gray, The New York Review of Books, Volume 55, Number 15 · October 9, 2008 – reviewing “Why Is There...
View ArticleFor Christmas, A Little Respect
Merry Christmas to everybody. With the full notion that there’s still a lot to do before Christmas becomes Christian enough to be Christmas… A little respect by Abubakar N. Kasim Monday, December 22,...
View ArticleWhat Makes A Roman Catholic?
I have enough experience in debating with non-Catholics to be surprised not at all when people start dictating what makes and doesn’t make a Roman Catholic. Most of the time, especially avowed atheists...
View ArticleThe Mind That Is Catholic
A truly extraordinary interview to Jesuit Father James Schall on the Vatican’s Zenit, about his book “The Mind That Is Catholic: Philosophical and Political Essays“, that “explores the habits of being...
View ArticleMoral Behaviour Vs. Religious People
In the London Review of Books, reader Anthony Buckley (“God and Human Behaviour”, Letters, LRB, 30 June 2011) wonders what “would constitute evidence” for or against the statement that “religious...
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