
Canonization: The Rational Judgment of a Miraculous Cure
My goal is to show how the Catholic Church made the rational judgment, after serious investigation, that one man received a miracle of healing through

My goal is to show how the Catholic Church made the rational judgment, after serious investigation, that one man received a miracle of healing through

“The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.” Galileo Galilei “Certain it is that a conviction, akin

\”What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower

Little is known about the time between our LORD’s birth in Bethlehem and the Wedding at Cana where he began his public mission. So the question of when Jesus in his

Time in physics is a linear mathematical variable used to express the measurement of one motion as the comparison of it to another motion. Time

“Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more

The physicist, Stephen M. Barr, has addressed the question of whether quantum physics makes it easier to believe in God. He has answered that it

“Be not afraid of faith: some are born with faith, some achieve faith, and some have faith thrust upon them.” (with apologies to William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.)

Stacy Trasancos entitles one of her recent posts \”Do you See Miracles?\” An excellent read. It prompts my response. To answer Stacy\’s question \”Do you

It could have been a sun spot, an air lens, some turbulent clouds, or maybe even eye tricks. The skeptic Benjamin Radford, deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine

Global warming and Catholicism do not mix. If you do not agree with this, you could be right. In either case, however, there is nothing

One of my favorite clichés to refer to when talking about atheism has been that human cliché Richard Dawkins. Nobody just reads his books, we

What do an evolutionary biologist, the International Theological Commission and St. Thomas Aquinas have in common? They use words like contingent and contingency, but with

Tantum ergo Sacramentum Down in adoration falling veneremur cernui;

In my August 5th post, I claimed that the foundation of all human knowledge is one’s own personal experience. Further I noted that no one

\”Happy those who feast on wisdom and savor her knowledge, She will nourish and refresh them.\” Happy Those Who Feast on Wisdom, Hymn for the

The Catechism of the Catholic Church drops this bombshell: Christians of the first centuries said, “The world was created for the sake of the Church.” God created

This is a commentary on a fine article by Adam Drozdek (Associate Professor of Computer Science at Duquesne University), an article that has great insights

Chana Messinger posted a lucid essay challenging the contention that science and theology, as forms of human knowledge, address different subject matter and therefore cannot

Are you English? Richard Dawkins gave the correct answer: It’s a matter of degree. You’re as English as the fractional concentration of Englishmen among your ancestors.

Uniformed Boy Scouts marched front and center this past weekend, leading the Utah \”gay pride parade\” in Salt Lake City. No matter that officials from the

So did I. Stay with me to the end, I argue that we reject any use or further testing of the morning after pill (MAP) completely.