Karl Stern, AI & the Vocabulary of the Soul* Every day we encounter articles warning of AI’s future dangers—but is machine learning really the threat?
As a cradle Catholic, I used to take the sacraments for granted until I was asked to teach others about them. As I began reading
By Michael Vance One has to wonder what’s wrong with some of our Catholic prelates these days. Instead of trying to save souls they seem
There is a quote attributed to G.K. Chesterton: “When a man stops believing in God, he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes in anything”.
Most of us wonder from time to time what the future has in store for us. But as Doris Day first sang way back in
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
“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
The denial of the concept of sin yields freedom without order because it is based on the denial of the rationality of human nature, particularly
The denial of the concept of sin is the denial of one facet of intelligibility, yielding freedom without order, which is inanity. A sin is
INTRODUCTION Scientism, the belief that science can explain everything about the world and ourselves, is a religion, although not formally expressed as such. When
In last month’s column I set the stage for a series of columns analyzing and explaining the constitution of human nature from a Catholic philosophical
I propose to give the New Atheists, and specifically Richard Dawkins, a fair shake by elucidating the innovative philosophy implicit in the New Atheism and
Moses set before the people Life and Death; from another aspect, Intelligibility and Inanity. He urged them to choose life (Deuteronomy 30:19). The Transcendentals Life
The Freedom of Moral Law Many years ago in a local branch of the Chicago Public Library, I came across Cautionary Tales for Children by
This is the first of two essays on the philosophy of the atheist cosmologist, Sean Carroll. The main idea carried over to the second essay
