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If all agree to a lie – a new ‘truth’ has suddenly been discovered. Without the questioning of such ‘truths’, individuals, societies, and generations of men and women, can base their lives on illusions, – writes Dr. Andrew Thomas Kania in Church ...

Many years ago I can recall sitting in my classroom having just completed teaching for the week. In Perth, during February, summers are hot and trying. During that particular summer the ceiling fans struggled to cycle the oppressive air. The ...

A number of years ago a country student studying at a Catholic boarding school, informed his Housemaster that he had decided not to attend Mass as he felt that compulsory attendance at Mass was an imposition on his basic human ...

The Easter drama contains within it many passionate themes, not the least how the greatest and most honourable man who ever lived, died the death of a base criminal; and how His life was made forfeit in order for a ...

Once upon a time in London there was a middle-aged businessman. One morning as he was walking through Westminster, just near Big Ben, he stopped to hear the clock chime eight, but after looking down from consulting the famed clock-face ...

Few images in world literature have the ability to burn themselves as indelibly on the psyche of the reader as the crater scene in Erich Maria Remarque’s, Im Westen nichts Neues (1929, Eng. All Quiet on the Western Front), where ...

Without a direct appeal to Divine authority, religion becomes mere speculation, a journey through a vast and dark forest of hypotheses, – writes Dr. Andrew Thomas Kania in Church and Life. In 1967, the Ideal Toy Company marketed a game that ...

Jacques Maritain (1882 – 1973), known as one of the greatest Thomistic philosophers of the twentieth century, was so famed during his lifetime, that even Pope Paul VI chose a work by Maritain to close Vatican II. Yet Maritain had ...

Byzantine Christianity with its elaborate liturgical life uses an array of majestic symbols in order to elevate the human Spirit and Mind to a place beyond the daily living of life, and all the routines and cares of this world. ...

A tale is told set in nineteenth century France of two men, strangers to one another, traveling on a train from Lille to Paris. The first man, a university student, had seated himself beside a peasant of seemingly good means. ...

By Dr. Andrew Thomas Kania In the Academy Award winning motion picture, Sophie Scholl (2005), the title character, Sophie (1922 – 1943), is a young woman born into pre-war Nazi Germany. A member of institutions created by the NAZI party, ...