A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church
Topic: New Atheists
How Dawkins got the wrong end of the stick about Aquinas
Posted on Tuesday, 3 April 2012
St Thomas Aquinas was not proving the existence of God as you would a piece of furniture. He was testing whether the concept of God made philosophical sense
Christopher Hitchens set a challenge for Catholics
Posted on Thursday, 5 January 2012
We must answer the charges that the late polemicist brought against religion
The papal visit gave a boost to Humanism
Posted on Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Catholics were thrilled by Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Britain. A leading Humanist journalist tells Ed West that secularists were too
Morning Catholic must-reads: 02/11/10
Posted on Tuesday, 2 November 2010
A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church
I disagree with George Weigel – you don’t kick an atheist while he’s down
Posted on Wednesday, 6 October 2010
If our bishops put the boot in to the New Atheists now, wouldn’t that rebound on us?
Distressed by the atheist onslaught? Get a grip of yourself
Posted on Wednesday, 8 September 2010
This is how things are meant to be: get used to it
Dawkins has all the vitriol of Trevor-Roper – and none of the panache
Posted on Wednesday, 28 July 2010
The elegant Oxford scholar paved the way for Richard Dawkins
The tragedy at the heart of New Atheism
Belief in an ordered universe is hard to reconcile with a tragic view of life