atheist – NZ Catholic Newspaper https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Thu, 27 Apr 2017 03:34:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 The complex truth about Hitchens’ faith explored https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2016/09/23/complex-truth-hitchens-faith-explored/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2016/09/23/complex-truth-hitchens-faith-explored/#respond Thu, 22 Sep 2016 23:42:51 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=13724 by NANCY ROBERTS When Christopher Hitchens died of esophageal cancer at the age of 62 in 2011, he was famous as a left-wing polemicist who argued passionately for atheism. Author of the best-selling 2007 book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and many other books as well as numerous essays . . .

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]]> https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2016/09/23/complex-truth-hitchens-faith-explored/feed/ 0 Integrity leads atheist to Catholicism https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2012/06/20/integrity-leads-atheist-to-catholicism/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2012/06/20/integrity-leads-atheist-to-catholicism/#respond Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:56:36 +0000 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=4350 WASHINGTON (CWN) — The Patheos website provides for expressions of all sorts of religious sentiments, and even accommodates atheists. Leah Libresco had been an engaging writer for the “Atheist” channel on the Patheos site, trying to demonstrate that moral laws can be discerned without reference to God. Then one day she caught herself saying: “I

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Leah Libresco had been an engaging writer for the “Atheist” channel on the Patheos site, trying to demonstrate that moral laws can be discerned without reference to God. Then one day she caught herself saying: “I guess Morality just loves me or something.”
Showing enough integrity to follow the logic of her own thoughts, Libresco realised: “I believed that the moral law wasn’t just a platonic truth, abstract and distant. It turns out I actually believed it was some kind of Person, as well as Truth.”
If that Person sounds like someone you know, you won’t be surprised by the announcement that Libresco has switched to the “Catholic” channel on Patheos. She has since reported her own interesting conversion story.
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]]> https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2012/06/20/integrity-leads-atheist-to-catholicism/feed/ 0 Christ’s mercy a turning point for former atheist https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2011/10/03/christs-mercy-a-turning-point-for-former-atheist/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2011/10/03/christs-mercy-a-turning-point-for-former-atheist/#respond Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:11:23 +0000 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=3500 by KATHLEEN CASEY CHRISTCHURCH — Realising the mercy of Christ when he was a teenaged atheist was a turning point for French priest Fr Patrice Chocholski,who was keynote speaker at the Divine Mercy Congress held in Christchurch from August 26-28. In a very secular environment, Patrice Chocholski’s non-Catholic parents were dismayed by his turnaround and

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]]> https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2011/10/03/christs-mercy-a-turning-point-for-former-atheist/feed/ 0 Spain’s atheists continue other countries’ ad campaigns on buses https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2009/01/22/spains-atheists-continue-other-countries-ad-campaigns-on-buses/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2009/01/22/spains-atheists-continue-other-countries-ad-campaigns-on-buses/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0000 http://nzcatholic.iconmedia.co.nz/?p=2822 MADRID, Spain (CNS) Catholic and religious leaders have denounced slogans questioning the existence of God planned for buses in Barcelona and other Spanish cities. The message, "Probably, God does not exist. Stop worrying and enjoy life," were to be placed on buses in Barcelona by Jan. 12. The advertisement campaign, organized by the Madrid Association

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