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“The Culture of Death,”
The Suicide of the West*:
Abortion, Infanticide, Euthanasia

Bob Kurland February 13, AD2019 3 Comments

We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Human life is

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resurrected body, prophecy

Resurrection of the Dead; Last Days:
Quantum Logic, Cosmology

Bob Kurland January 22, AD2019 1 Comment

Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But

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home schooling

Science for Catholic Home Schoolers: a Historical Approach

Bob Kurland January 12, AD2019 2 Comments

It is also necessary—may God grant it!—that in providing others with books to read I myself should make progress, and that in trying to answer

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Thees and Thous:
Anglican Usage’s Familiar God

Bob Kurland December 23, AD2018 3 Comments

Our mission is particularly experienced in our celebration of liturgy, which features Anglican traditions of worship while conforming to Catholic doctrinal, sacramental and liturgical standards.

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order, design, creation, intelligibility

Deus Caritas Est;
The Attributes of Love

Bob Kurland November 25, AD2018 1 Comment

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 Jn 4:16). These words from the First Letter of

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The Quantum Catholic:
Do Quantum and Religious Mysteries Intersect?

Bob Kurland November 7, AD2018 6 Comments

The one thing worse than a theology that attempts to draw connections between physics and God is a theology that believes it has no need

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Abortion target

Science and Catholic Teaching:
Human Life, Sacred from Conception to Birth

Bob Kurland October 24, AD2018 5 Comments

“Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it remains for ever in a special relationship with

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growing old, dog

Memento Mori, Thoughts on Growing Old

Bob Kurland October 17, AD2018 1 Comment

Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day;  Rage, rage against the dying of the

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Why Doesn’t God Make it Easy to Believe?

Bob Kurland September 30, AD2018 1 Comment

Jesus said unto him, “Thomas, because thou hast seen Me, thou hast believed. Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed. —John

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Yom Kippur, scape goat

More Catholic Thoughts on Yom Kippur: Step 9 of 12; the Yom Kippur Scapegoat

Bob Kurland September 19, AD2018 1 Comment

  For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A

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dice, probability

Faith, Decision Making and Probability III:
Bayes’ Theorem and the Anthropic Principle

Bob Kurland September 8, AD2018 2 Comments

  But is it possible that probability brings certainty? —Blaise Pascal, “Pensees,” 496 This is the third article in a series on faith, probability and

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dice, probability

Faith, Probability and Decision Making II:
How Do We Interpret Probability?

Bob Kurland September 7, AD2018 5 Comments

  The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. —Proverbs 16:33 How do we interpret probability? This article

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doubting thomas, probability

Faith, Decision Making and Probability I;
How and Why We Believe

Bob Kurland August 25, AD2018 3 Comments

INTRODUCTION: MY APPROACH TO PROBABILITY This article is a response (of a sort) to Bob Drury’s excellent piece, “Prudence, Prejudice and Probability.”  That article in

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Pentecost, Holy Ghost, Catholic Action

The Holy Ghost versus the Holy Spirit, Redux;
Thoughts on the Anglican Usage Liturgy

Bob Kurland August 15, AD2018 6 Comments

    Your soul is the ship, the Holy Spirit is the wind; he blows into your will and your soul goes forward… —Fr. Francis Libermann,

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genetic modification

What Does it Take to Be Human?
On the Genetic Modifications of Embryos

Bob Kurland August 7, AD2018 1 Comment

  I did not know yet how far they were from the human heritage I ascribed to them.   —H.G. Welles, The Island of Dr. Moreau

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Anthropic

Why and How Catholics Should Learn about Science

Bob Kurland July 20, AD2018 No Comments

  ‘It looks full of hard words and signs and numbers, not very entertaining or understandable looking, and I wonder whether it will make people

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Creatio ex Nihilo, invisible, Divine Providence

Creatio ex Nihilo: Why We Believe*

Bob Kurland July 8, AD2018 1 Comment

    In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of

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deism, probability, risk, advice, lessons, choice, change, morality

The Limits of Science: What Science Can’t Do

Bob Kurland June 29, AD2018 1 Comment

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth

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How We Believe* I: Faith and Revelation

Bob Kurland June 23, AD2018 No Comments

  Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. —St. Augustine Faith is

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nebula, creation, universe, wonder, unknown

Scientism: Faith in Science and Non-Belief in God; Sean Carroll’s “The Big Picture”

Bob Kurland June 9, AD2018 6 Comments

  INTRODUCTION Scientism, the belief that science can explain everything about the world and ourselves, is a religion, although not formally expressed as such. When

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Loneliness, repentance

“Last Things:” C. P. Snow Revisited

Bob Kurland June 2, AD2018 1 Comment

  For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the

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Anthropic

Is There a Probability for the Universe? New Thoughts about the Anthropic Coincidences

Bob Kurland May 7, AD2018 28 Comments

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There

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prayer

The Easter Vigil: Christ Be Our Light!*

Bob Kurland March 31, AD2018 No Comments

  The rubrics of the Missale Romanum remind us that this “mother of all vigils” is the “greatest and most noble of all solemnities and it is

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Lent: Join Our Suffering to That of Christ

Bob Kurland March 9, AD2018 3 Comments

  The witnesses of the Cross and Resurrection of Christ have handed on to the Church and to mankind a specific Gospel of suffering. The

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