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What beer drinking can teach Richard Dawkins and Tom Holland about ‘Cultural Christianity’

April 17, 2024

The news that Richard Dawkins has declared for “cultural Christianity” has excited many Christians. One wonders why. Like other cultural Christians such as historian Tom Holland and activist and erstwhile New Atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the professor is warm in his praise of Christian values. He says that Christianity is the best religion, though he

Why Catholicism outlives its critics

September 09, 2022

The clarity and coherence of the Catholic moral code and road to redemption will always bring people to the faith

Does science disprove God? A great philosopher-priest showed that it couldn’t

April 20, 2016

Fr Stanley Jaki argued that science is about quantities. Anything immeasurable, including God, it can neither prove nor disprove

How Benedict XVI vanquished the New Atheists

April 19, 2015

Ten years ago today Benedict began his transformative papacy

The day I shoulder-barged Christopher Hitchens

December 23, 2014

Taki on how he took on the late Christopher Hitchens in the name of Catholicism

The tragedy at the heart of New Atheism

August 03, 2012

Belief in an ordered universe is hard to reconcile with a tragic view of life

Morning Catholic must-reads: 03/08/12

August 03, 2012

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Five ways to lose the argument with atheists

May 17, 2012

Next time you find yourself sucked into a debate with secularists be careful not to make these five classic mistakes, says Peter D Williams

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