What makes a school Catholic is another issue the COVID pandemic can prompt us to reexamine, just as the pause in attending Mass during the
God is love. He operates on love. He advises us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves and warns us that whatever we do
Jesus, the Light of the World, was perfect man and perfect God. It is one of those mysteries that drive some people wild. How can
God is the knowledgeable initiator of serial probabilities, according to a recent essay. In consideration of the contingency of existence and the corresponding probability of
I suppose by now everybody knows I’m a big critic of the Theory of Evolution. I had the audacity on the second essay I ever
Off the Shelf 183 – John DeRosa This week John DeRosa joins me to discuss his book One Less God Than You: How to Answer
A long time ago, when scientists first began to understand nature, they classified all living things into two basic kingdoms: plant and animal. I don’t
We do not live in space and time because we do not live in a world created by human thought. We live in a world
INTRODUCTiON I am an agnostic Jewish scientist who became a Catholic in his senior years, to the horror of many colleagues, the amazement of his
As humans we can only concentrate on one thing at a time, so we divide our search for truth into separate disciplines. Philosophy is the
I’ve wondered, since my conversion, why some found it so much harder to believe in God than in Science. When I was younger in college,
“Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider
In my youth, I wasted much of my time on science fiction, flying saucers, and aliens. I finally lost interest in those subjects, but today
The Black Plague in the Middle Ages was during medieval times. You know, before modern medicine and the industrial revolution and technology. Even the Spanish
With my recent article, “A Christian Rebuttal to Darwinian Evolution”, garnering so much feedback and debate, I have decided to post a second edition. After
I’ve often wondered why it is that most sculptures and paintings of the crucified Christ inaccurately depict His physical appearance after He was scourged, carried
At the Easter Vigil, the journey along the paths of sacred Scripture begins with the account of creation. This is the liturgy’s way of telling
We have all been told to look on the bright side at some point in our lives. Or maybe you were told to view the
“A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there
I came across a very interesting book recently, Evolution: The Human Story, by Dr. Alice Roberts. It is similar to several other recent books explaining
More than twenty years ago I encouraged my Irish mother-in-law to find a Bible Study group and to “get into the Word.” Because we lived
God has revealed the purpose of human sexuality. We find God’s Revelation about sexuality most clearly in Catholic doctrine. It is good and important to
