There is a meme which is beginning to make its rounds on facebook stating simply that President Obama is an enemy of the Church. Given his tyrannical HHS mandate, which seems to be specifically targeted at Catholics…
“In my time, I have heard two quite different arguments against my religion put forth in the name of science. When I was a youngster,
During this fortnight for freedom, it is worth reflecting on some words of wisdom by Blessed Pope John Paul the Great: “Freedom consists not in
Concerning dogma there are, as Chesterton observed, two kinds of people: those who recognize that they rely on it, and those who don’t. It is
The late Russell Kirk may be numbered among my favorite political philosophers. Not everything which he wrote was good, but much of what he did
Claims by prominent and not-so-prominent physicists that the universe can create itself from nothing are not exactly new. Indeed, such claims have been made since
Two months ago when the topic of a symposium on Catholic education was first mentioned, I had a brief com-box discussion with my colleague Miss
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat (or drink), or about your body, what you will wear. Is
The scientific method, as does much learning in general, begins with observation. Father Stanley Jaki likened this process to the first step in the march
The idea that we have faith in everyday matters is not new. This secular faith is practiced by, well, everybody, since we rely on a
Beauty is mentioned alongside goodness and truth as something for which all men yearn; yet of the three, beauty itself is most enigmatic. We want
It is almost inevitably the first question I am asked in any gathering with more than four of my relatives: “So, what is it that
“I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are
In his book The Total Money Makeover, finance adviser Mr Dave Ramsey describes a method for not only getting out of debt, but also then
“A small error at the outset can lead to great errors in the final conclusion” (Saint Thomas Aquinas, Being and Essence, quoting Aristotle). There has
I concluded my last post by noting that there is a right way to engage in spiritualism, and a right way to develop a “personal
Yesterday, my fabulous co-blogger Ms Fabiola Garza published a post about the necessity of religion (as opposed to simply spirituality). To be a good Christian
It is frightening to think of the extent to which people are now being encouraged to banish from the minds of their children great questions
Is faith a type of knowledge? This question gets asked often in modern time, and has quite probably been asked time and again since time
There is a claim which runs essentially like this: “Quantum mechanics says that the universe can create itself from nothing.” I have previously addressed the
Today I want to briefly introduce a heresy against which I have had to contend. I do not mean necessarily that I am myself tempted
