Every year since 1988 the joyful tidings of Christmas have been preceded by the increasingly upbeat message of World AIDS Day, December 1. ...

Patricia Fresen is not a Roman Catholic bishop, but another vagante. Fresen was excommunicated in March 2008 for “the crime of schism” for “...

This is the final in a series of posts from a chapter of Rocco Buttiglione's book Exiting a Dead End Road: a GPS for Christians in Publi...

This is Part IV in a series from a chapter of Rocco Buttiglione's book  Exiting a Dead End Road: a GPS for Christians in Public Discours...

The following is Part III from a chapter of Rocco Buttiglione's book  Exiting a Dead End Road: a GPS for Christians in Public Discourse,...

The following is a Part II of a series from Rocco Buttiglione's book  Exiting a Dead End Road: a GPS for Christians in Public Discourse,...

This is Part 1 in a 5-part series from a chapter of Rocco Buttiglione's book  Exiting a Dead End Road: a GPS for Christians in Public Di...

Once upon a time, I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President. I am a respected businessman, with a factory tha...

“You can’t legislate morality” has become a common turn of phrase. The truth, however, is that every law and regulation that is proposed, pa...

Rawls is widely recognized as one of the leading political philosophers of the 20th century. He was born in Baltimore in 1921 and went to Pr...

There are numerous marks of a good society: justice, equity, rule of law, economic opportunity, reciprocity, prosperity, critical thinking...

Humans are unique among living creatures in that we attribute meaning to events and to objects.  Attributing meaning involves complex functi...

Alice C. Linsley The English political philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) wrote Leviathan , a book which influenced John Locke and t...

Alice C. Linsley The Renaissance began in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe, reaching England by the 16th century and northern Eur...

In 1693 William Penn published his Essay on the Present and Future Peace of Europe. In this pamphlet Penn called for the establishment of a ...

Alice C. Linsley The term “original sin” was unknown in both the Eastern and Western Church until Augustine (c. 354-430). Prior to this, t...

According to Socrates, the ultimate object of human activity is happiness, and the necessary means to reach it, virtue. Since everybody nece...

Plato studied in Egypt for 13 years under the Horite priest Sechnuphis. Many Greek philosophers had studied at Egyptian schools. Iamblich...