Kathryn Lopez -- Beacons in the Dark

From an article on Townhall, Kathryn Lopez writes about the killing of Steven Sotloff,
in the light of a talk given by Fr. Paul Murray, an Irish Dominican.

A sample:

Fr. Murray talked, among other things, about the dangers of relativism. While it appears "apparently sane and humane," and "identified in the popular mind with such fine and necessary things as tolerance and affirmation, openness and freedom," Fr. Murray said, relativism, despite its quiet air of inevitable reason, leaves us "disarmed just at the moment when we should be armed," unable to successfully respond to challenges to faith.

"Surely, now is the time for us to hold fast to our Catholic faith and joyfully proclaim it," he said, adding that that is exactly what Catholic studies programs exist to help people do.


You will probably want to read the whole column.