A few lines of poetry, the selected aphorisms of a retired man of letters, may liberate the demon of a charismatic political leader. The whole imaginative and intellectual life of a culture is one interacting field of force.
—Conor Cruise O’Brien...
Charles Darwin claimed that all terrestrial life shares a common ancestry and that the wide array of living species can be accounted for by a process he called "natural selection." By sheer accident, the members of any generation of a given...
"I'm as much a missionary of science to Catholics as I am a missionary of religion to science," says Br. Consolmagno, SJ. Listen to the interview here or click on the player below.
The idea that we must be as good as we can be to this damaged world is essential, as is the idea that it is damaged and that until it is restored in God's time, we can't think of it in any other way.
For what can be known about God is perfectly plain...since God himself has made it plain. Ever since God created the world, his everlasting power and deity-however invisible-have been there for the mind to see in the things he has made” (Rom 1:19–20...
The spiritual classic The Practice of the Presence of God begins this way: “The first time I saw Brother Lawrence he told me...[that] one winter day he noticed a tree stripped of its leaves and reflected that before long leaves would appear...
Gaudium et spes, the Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (1965), is revolutionary for many reasons, not least for making the following two statements: “The human race has p
Strictly speaking, there was no summing up of the Scopes case. What the judge said to the jury was confined to that aspect of the trial, which was, of course, the reason why there was a trial, and a judge and jury to try it-the fact that young Mr...
In every flap about evolution, it seems, there is a new Scopes Trial struggling to be born. Why else so much fuss over the Kansas Board of Education’s promulgation of guidelines that, if followed, would eliminate any teaching about the...
Charles Darwin has never been more popular than today," writes John Durant in the July 11 New York Times Book Review. "His theory of natural selection is all but universally accepted as the correct explanation for the diversity of life on earth."...
For what seemed like a generation, the late Carl Sagan was the voice of science on public television. With an exuberant confidence in the empirical method, he showed viewers of the edifying PBS series Cosmos how the procedures of science had...
