Have you ever wondered why a snake entwined on a staff is a symbol of medicine? Or why doctors take an oath to practice medicine?
Christopher Kaczor
Christopher Kaczor is a professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and the author of many books, including The Seven Big Myths About the Catholic Church.
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Protecting the vulnerable
In a new book, Helen Alvaré argues that a just society defends and protects its children from harms of all kinds.
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How do you nudge a religious ‘none’ into a Catholic? Here’s one possible way.
In this book, part autobiography and part explanation of his Catholic faith, Vogt proposes the truth, the goodness and the beauty of Catholicism.
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What the church could learn from the psychology of persuasion
In his work On Christian Doctrine, St. Augustine argued that Christians should make use of rhetorical insights offered by pagan writers, like Cicero. If Augustine were writing today about how parents, ministers and teachers communicate with their children, parishioners and students, what secular wis