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George Weigel to Youth: Defend Religious Freedom Says Pro-Life Cause Is Successor to Civil Rights Movement MERRIMACK, New Hampshire, MAY 28, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Catholic theologian and author George Weigel is urging college graduates to base themselves firmly in natural law in order to make a good defense of religious freedom in society today.    The author of Pope John Paul II's biography "Witness to Hope" made this appeal at the May 16 graduation ceremony of the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, in which he was awarded an honorary doctorate and gave the commencement address. "One of the great challenges of the younger generation of Catholics will be to rise to the defense of religious freedom in full," Weigel said. "This defense must be both cultural, in the sense of arguments winsomely and persuasively made, and political, in that young Catholics must drive the sharp edge of truth into the sometimes hard soil of public policy," he assert...

Church Examines Its Use of Internet What's To Be Learned From Evangelicals? By Jesús Colina ROME, NOV. 12, 2009 (Zenit.org).- The Church in Europe is asking itself how well its taking advantage of the Internet to proclaim Christ, and being aded in this evaluation by representatives of projects such as Wikipedia, Facebook and YouTube. This analysis is taking place at a four-day conference that began today in the Vatican. Benedict XVI is the first to encourage such a self-examination, as affirmed in his message to the participants delivered by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, his secretary of state. The Holy Father urges an analysis of "this new culture and its implications for the Church's mission." "Just as the first generations of Christians took pains to understand the pagan milieu of the Greek and Roman world so that the truth of the Gospel might touch the hearts and minds of their hearers, so too the proclamation of Christ requires a profound knowledge of...