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Pope, During Visit to France, Will Try To Bridge Gap Between Faith, Reason |
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PARIS -- Since his election three years ago, Pope Benedict XVI has devoted considerable time and intellectual effort arguing that religious faith and reason can coexist in modern society.
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T.S. Eliot on Religion without Humanism |
By Edward T. Oakes, S.J.
Thursday, September 18, 2008, 10:09 AM
I recently needed to track down a reference in a long out-of-print anthology called Humanism and America: Essays on the Outlook of Modern Civilization, published back in 1930. Having got my citation, I was going to return the book when I caught sight, in the table of contents, of a contribution from T.S. Eliot called “Religion Without Humanism.”
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By Stephen Barr
Thursday, September 11, 2008, 8:05 AM
As many of you know, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) turned on yesterday in Geneva. So maybe I should say a little about it, since this is the kind of physics I do for a living. The LHC is a very big deal for physics. It is likely to make the first major breakthrough in particle physics in over thirty years.
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What is the Crisis of Modernity? |
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By Sheila Liaugminas
Pope Benedict XVI raised the role of philosophy in the modern world at a summer gathering of university professors in
Rome that received little attention, but asked big questions. The symposium, titled “Broadening the Horizons of Reason. Prospects for Philosophy,” provided the pope the opportunity to re-launch philosophy into the academic world as an answer to cultural angst. |
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