As stated in Part I, I will now show you how I saw the Resurrection as not just possible but probable, so probable that I
There used to be a time when many of the world’s Catholic Christians submitted to the Church’s vision of faith and morals. The teaching authority
If anyone reading has ever driven down Interstate 70 from Wichita, Kansas to Denver, Colorado, then you will know how completely uninteresting the drive can
Plato realized that the intelligible is immaterial by identifying a fundamental difference between the intelligible and the material. The intelligible is universal, while the
Last month I presented the First Way St. Thomas Aquinas explained the logical existence of God. Here is the Second Way. While this is a
The historicity of God—God’s presence in history—should never be taken for granted, yet we do have a tendency to forget that God is active in
Thomas Aquinas’ Ways But on one particular day, she grabbed my full, locked-on attention. She was talking about St. Thomas Aquinas’ famous Five Logical Proofs
There are any number of reasons to believe that a God exists. But actually proving that God exists is much harder. And once you prove
“Always be ready,” Scripture tells us, “to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you”
Do we really need to believe in certain miracles to be Christians? That is the question Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times asked Evangelical
With the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation coming up later this year, it’s sad to note that while great strides have been made in ecumenical
I first began to understand certain mystical truths as I prayed at the place where Jesus was crucified on the first Good Friday. I have
As a cradle Catholic, I spent every Sunday morning in church, every Wednesday night in Faith Formation Classes and then as I got older, every
I was working in a Youth Summer Conference job (they were very similar to Steubenville conferences) when I had the most uncomfortable experience in my
As a child I thought that being a Catholic was simple. One must say grace during meals, attend Mass on Sundays and other days when
Sharing the Catholic faith with our separated brothers and sisters can be a challenge, especially when there isn’t a shared understanding of early Church history.
A Love-Hate Relationship with Sexual Freedom Our culture has a love-hate relationship with the ideas of sexual liberation that spewed out of the sixties and
Today’s secular society operates on an array of levels when it comes to belief, truth, and moral relativism. For this reason, it becomes necessary to
As a Catholic, I am often challenged about our use and reverence for the crucifix. The most common charge has been that the crucifix
I was involved in an online discussion last week on Facebook and the points raised in the discussion illustrate many erroneous ideas many people, including
Almost 70 years ago a famous but now somewhat forgotten debate took place on BBC radio between Bertrand Russell and Rev. C. J. Copleston,
Amoris Laetitia. Regrettably, both Catholic and secular media seem to be dancing to a cadence of increasing hysteria. These bold-print emotional barrages are spreading undue
