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The Right Tools for Proving God’s Existence
Throughout the two thousand year history of Christianity, many arguments have come about surrounding the content of the Christian faith. A number of these are of doctrinal issue and others still on the entirety of the faith as a whole stemming from an outright rejection of the Christian God. We see this total repudiation of the Faith increasingly brought up in many […]
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
“Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence.” (Blessed Teresa of Calcutta; No Greater Love) Print this entry
These Thy Atoms
Thorough Materialism “The Catholic should be the most thorough materialist.” —Fr. Stanley L. Jaki[1] True to the late Fr. Jaki’s dictum, I am a thorough materialist. I see nature as a system of interacting matter and forces. My four-year-old son has apparently acquired my enthusiasm. He heard me say that everything is made of atoms, and he took that idea […]
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
“Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence.” (Blessed Teresa of Calcutta; No Greater Love) Print this entry
The Three Views of the Human Person
There are two ways to view the world. We either attempt to see the world rightly as it was intended by the divine author, or we fancy ourselves the arbiters of truth and pronounce the nature of things by our own lights. When it comes to the human person there are at least three distinct ways to see and understand […]
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
“Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence.” (Blessed Teresa of Calcutta; No Greater Love) Print this entry
The Need for Universals
“Wonder and the passion for philosophy, let us explore all aspects of life and understand all that it has to offer. “I had claimed to have learned little to nothing in regards to valuable life lessons in the past four years. For that much, I was correct. But in the past five months, philosophy has taught me not to ‘know’ […]
The Eclipse of Reason
Pope Benedict’s 2010 Christmas Greeting to the Roman Curia, a Catholic version of the American “State of the Union Address,” was notable for the emphasis placed upon human reason. His Holiness did not so much focus on the loss of Faith occurring in Western Democracies as he did the loss of Reason. At one point in his address he stated: […]
From Faith Came Science: Condemnations of 1277
In 1277, Étienne Tempier, the Bishop of Paris, issued a list of 219 condemned propositions relating to details of Aristotelian texts that were irreconcilable with the Christian worldview. These propositions were not binding on Christians, but served as a guide for the scholars at the University of Paris. The decree largely dealt with the eternity of the world and creation. […]