And last, the rending pain of re-enactment Of all that you have done, and been; the shame Of things ill done and done to others’ harm Which once you took for exercise of virtue. ∼ T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding, in Four Quartets Author and culture critic par excellence, Mary Eberstadt, has chronicled the shift among …
Source: The New Darling of the Abortion Rights Movement – Crisis Magazine
If you have not read C.S. Lewis’ “Screwtape Letters” please do so. Re-read it if you read it in the past. C. S. Lewis was a great Christian writer and this little book was one of his most prophetic. First published in 1942 it is as relevant today as it was then, maybe more so.
I have encountered serious Catholics who have invoked the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate (Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions) as seemingly discouraging or even reproving any kind of searching public examination and criticism of Islam. What exactly does this short statement of the Vatican II Fathers have to say about …
Source: Nostra Aetate and the Catholic Response to Islam – Crisis Magazine
It was June 6, 1987. Ronald Reagan was on his way to Rome to meet with Pope John Paul II. Their first meeting at the Vatican had taken place five years earlier, June 7, 1982, whereupon the two men shared their mutual convictions that they believed God had spared their lives from assassination attempts the …
Source: Ronald Reagan, John Paul II, and Fatima – Crisis Magazine
