The illusion of neutrality
The secular state cannot be neutral in matters of religion.
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Articles tagged Religion
The Arabic writing on the wall: Europe learns the hard way
It takes courage to speak out against the threatening presence of Islam in today’s world. And it takes courage to defend those who have the courage to speak out. Eight years ago, after Benedict XVI gave his controversial Regensburg address, most European commentators were shamefully timid in their response. Most refused to raise their heads above the parapet, preferring the coward’s option of not making any response at all. In the light of this continuing cowardly silence, it is timely to remind ourselves of the ugly face of Islamic fundamentalism. At the darkened heart of radical Islam is what Bishop […]
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Liberals’ most hated company has won praise for paying a decent wage
How is it that a company that treats its workers with dignity and pays them well has become liberalism’s “public enemy number 1”?
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Most Americans still pray, believe in God
Even among those who claim no particular religious affiliation in an earlier Pew Forum survey, roughly 80 percent still believe in God or a universal spirit, and a majority describe themselves as “religious” or “spiritual.”
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Families strengthen religious practice, and religion strengthens families: data
Mary Eberstadt's research shows that, likewise, religious practice strengthen the family.
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‘Fetus in a jar,’ part of human skull found in a trash bag in New York
The Daily News reported that the objects inside the bag “appeared to be the result of a bizarre religious ceremony.”
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European convention defining gender as social construct condemned as “rape” of Polish society
It suggests that violence against women is systemic, and its source is religion, tradition and culture," the bishops wrote
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Pope: Church must preach what God says not what people want to hear
In North America today, the Christian Church is challenged in the most extreme way in this regard by the issue of homosexuality.
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Is persecution around the corner?
Catholic Insight editor shows that, for the time being, the enemies of Christian civilization appear to have won in Canada.
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NewsBytes – Religion: Catholic
Jesuit: Jesus’ birth “myth”; Michael Voris castigated by National Catholic Reporter; DNC chair believes Catholic teaching extreme, dangerous; Cardinal George on gay parade organizers and Ku Klux Klan; Cardinal Down Under
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