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Patrick G. D. Riley
Dr. Patrick G. D. Riley is a columnist for StAR, and a member of its Advisory Editorial Board. A journalist by trade, he is former editor of the National Catholic Register and has reported and broadcast from two dozen countries of Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. He holds a doctorate in political philosophy from the Angelicum in Rome, and has taught at the Catholic University of America, Marquette University, and Concordia University, Wisconsin. His latest book is Civilizing Sex: On Chastity and the Common Good.
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Lest We Forget: Remembering the Realities of Communismby Joseph Pearce
In these days in which the Obama administration is flexing its big government muscles in the service of secular fundamentalism, it is as well to remember where such a line of reasoning often leads. With this in mind, I'm posting a thought-provoking e-mail from Kirk Kramer.
Monarch of All I Surveyby Sophia Mason
Reading over a writer’s account of her brief acquaintance with the late Christopher Hitchens, it struck me that the first problem of an atheist is that he is bound to be a lonely person. Hitchens, of course, was temperamentally lonely: so irascible by nature, so little prone to give his fellow men credit for virtue, that he was bound to isolation. Those whom he got along best with seem to have shared his critical personality and, even more tellingly, seem to have spent little time with him. A dedicated iconoclast is a dangerous person to befriend.
C.S. Lewis and Friendsby Joseph Pearce
Further to my post about Shadowlands, I thought I'd share this e-mail just received from the organisers of an annual conference on C. S. Lewis and Friends, at which I've been privileged to speak in the past. Admirers of Lewis and Tolkien might want to consider attending.