Leon J. Podles :: DIALOGUE

After the Revolution France developed a militant secularism, la laïcité, which insisted that the state was lay, that is clerics and religion had no role in any state activity or public life. In part this was a reaction to integrisme, the strain of Catholic thought that insisted that the state must be Catholic and that [...]

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My wife was telling her garden club friends about our fall trip to Rome. She told them how moving it was to be under the Arch of Titus, and to see the relief that shows the Menorah and the only altar of the true God being carried in a pagan triumph,

 
and to see the [...]

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