True Freedom: On Protecting Human Dignity and Religious Freedom Cardinal Timothy Dolan It’s easy to take religious freedom for granted. It’s enshrined in our Constitution and praised by the Church, and most of us have grown up without questioning it. However when this liberty is threatened, when it’s not respected as a fundamental right, we’re …
Mark Shea likes to describe blogger Leah Libresco as “my favorite atheist,” and I’m with him. Leah is a fresh respite from the angry, fundamentalist, rhetoric-laced New Atheists like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens. In contrast to them, Leah is calm and charitable. She’s intimidatingly bright and extremely well-read. And she’s not …
“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.” – St. Augustine Because I’ve built up a large collection of extra books and resources, each week I give some away absolutely free, no strings attached. Each giveaway lasts seven days, with a …
For the last few months I’ve been working with the incredibly talented John Flynn at Kickstart Media to create a new website. My old blog, The Thin Veil (ThinVeil.net), was hosted through Google’s Blogger service. I still like Blogger, and still think it’s the easiest blogging service to get up-and-running with, but my new site is self-hosted on …
Below is the entire story of The Hobbit in just one picture. You start in the lower right, following the path, and end in the upper right at the Lonely Mountain. Click below to enlarge or download this as desktop wallpaper on the creator’s DeviantArt website, madbatter. (HT: 101 Books)
