I couldn’t help but post one more blog entry before I went on vacation. I’m reading The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, a novel loved by the late Catholic intellectual Fr. John J. Neuhauser and many others (Archbishop Fulton Sheen also mentioned this novel on an episode of Life is Worth Living, if I’m not [...]
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Dostoevsky and Food for Thought for Catholics
Posted in Atheism and the Catholic Church, tagged Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Christian, Dmitri Karamazov, Fr. John J. Neuhauser, Fyodor Dostoevsky, God, Lenin, Life is Worth Living, Russia, Stalin, The Brothers Karamazov on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Catholic Challenge to Atheists
Posted in Atheism and the Catholic Church, tagged atheism, Catholics Challenge Atheists, Gothic cathedrals, grace, Roman Empire, sanctity of life, St. Thomas Aquinas, unborn on December 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Atheism is about opposition, negation and rebelliousness. The Catholic faith, in contrast, affirms truth, beauty, goodness and our free allegiance to Christ the King. Atheists appear to have the upper hand in the PR campaign lately, but they cannot hold their own next to the cultural, spiritual and intellectual living tradition of the Catholic Church.
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The Catholic Church and Atheists
Posted in Atheism and the Catholic Church, tagged atheism, atheistic humanism, Communism, faith, God, Hitler, Mao, Nazi, Pol Pot, practical materialism, Stalin on December 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Faith is a gift. Catholics and Christians with this gift should cherish it like a delicate heirloom. We must have compassion for atheists who – often through no fault of their own – do not know God.
Yet many atheists today are not simply satisfied with registering their disbelief, they seek to attack and undermine those [...]




