The time has come,’ the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and
Last month, I concluded an article by asking how we can know for sure that Catholicism, in particular, is God introducing Himself to the human
Who would have a death wish? Stuntmen, firefighters, and perhaps some customer service representatives (like the guy I was on the phone with for an
Yes, he did it. In a majority legal opinion issued in May, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas put a stick in the middle of
Introduction Last Trinity Sunday our priest talked about trying to understand the Trinity, the fundamental mystery of our Catholic faith. He solicited analogies from the
Off the Shelf 123 – Mark McNeil Another conversion story coming at you this week. Listen in as Mark McNeil and I discuss his journey
Prayer is easy if we take the time to do it and focus on the act itself. However, let’s face it, life is tough. We
“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.)
We are all on a quest. A journey to find what we are ultimately meant to be. A journey to discover how to fill the
Human experimentation is being widely conducted today both in the narrow, scientific sense, such as in the CRISPR gene editing program, and in the broader,
Is the existence of God probabilistic? It is if human intellectual knowledge is the inference of probability. This essay is intended (1) to acknowledge that
Upon first recognizing the allusions to the Book of Genesis in Alex Garland’s film Ex Machina, one might be inclined to roll one’s eyes. The
“What you seem to be implying, however, is a hitherto undiscovered mechanism whereby the genome takes control of its own evolution, somehow sensing the right
Emmanuel Carrère’s lately controversial The Kingdom takes on a project of demystification: it is an imagining of how St. Luke might have joined the early
Saint Paul writes a message of hope in time of great trial in his Second Letter to the Corinthians. He calls the body a tent,
“Daddy, what’s an abortion?” my seven year old son asked me one day. “An abortion is when a mother kills the child she is carrying
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
Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear,
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
The Ayer Legend The life of British philosopher Sir Alfred Jules Ayer (1910-1989 A.D.) has become not only the stuff of academic, but of popular
Richard Morgan’s novel Altered Carbon might have been more interesting if it had known what to do with its Catholic characters. It takes place in
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the
