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July 2013

July 31, 2013

A Christian Rite for Same-Sex Union

Once upon a time a heavily biased scholar published a work on the (scandalous) existence...

July 22, 2013

Why Sola Scriptura Honestly Scares Me

Being raised in a Protestant home, the Scriptures were (and in many ways still are)...

July 19, 2013

Upholding the Sabbath

We’re all aware of the commandment to “remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” ...

July 08, 2013

“I AM” is not “Is”: Problems in Scholasticism

In consideration of ontotheology, it is important to look into the history of it. Heidegger...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

“I AM” is Not “Is”: An Introduction to Ontotheology

I would be hard pressed to find someone who wouldn’t agree that there is something...

June 17, 2013

A Desperate Plea

"Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy have each become comfortable (may God forgive them!) with the...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Subjectivity, Truth-Relation, and Learning to Be Charitable

There is a problem I have found within the climate of American Catholics (I'm sure...

May 10, 2013

Why St. Josemaria Escriva Might Just Be the Ubermensch

There is an unfortunate tendency both within the Church and within society in general to...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

Stealing Paradise

On this most solemn and sacred of days, the day in which the Church remembers...

March 24, 2013

The Entrance: or Why One Should Care That a Man Came to Jerusalem

Today is Entrance Sunday (or Palm Sunday, as it is more commonly known in the...

February 2013

February 08, 2013

The Disservice We Do Our Saints

Along with Papal infallibility, priestly celibacy, and Marian Dogmas, the veneration of saints is probably...

January 2013

January 09, 2013

Revising a Revaluation

After being bombarded in the wake of my earlier post on Hell, I decided that...

January 06, 2013

Merry Christmas!

I know what you're all thinking, "Is he joking, or just a moron who doesn't...

January 06, 2013

A Revaluation of Hell

Hell is one of those topics that makes people uncomfortable, like the female reproductive system,...

January 02, 2013

The Miracle of St. Paul

The Scriptures are filled with miracles, stories of great deeds being done for Israel and...

December 2012

December 26, 2012

Kierkegaard, Chrysostom and Christmas Boredom

In the technological age, we have a horrendous tendency towards boredom. This is unfortunately true...

December 22, 2012

What Friedrich Nietzsche Can Tell Us About Heaven

Nineteenth Century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is renowned by atheists everywhere for his (usually taken...

December 18, 2012

A Case for Camus

In times of great tragedy there are so many questions. The greatest of these questions...

December 11, 2012

Ecce Homo

Pontius Pilate is perhaps the least talked about figure in the New Testament. It's strange...

October 2012

October 21, 2012

Why We Have Secular Humanism

Among the ruins of the old, theocratic, feudal order lives a most peculiar creature, modern...

October 16, 2012

Being and Nothingness: and Their Relation to Christianity

There are many differences between the Hebrew God and the gods of other ancient Near...

September 2012

September 18, 2012

Can Christianity Answer the Modern Question?

Christianity is often criticized for not understanding the struggle of the modern man. Many of...

June 2012

June 19, 2012

Angels, Jews and the Fear of the Lord.

Any one who has been properly Catechized (and even those who haven't) should be able...

June 05, 2012

Salvation and Swimming the English Channel

Anyone who has ever had any exposure to Protestantism is probably fairly well acquainted with...

May 2012

May 27, 2012

The “Cultured” Man

It has, for some time, been the hobby of the wealthy to go on lengthy...

May 22, 2012

The Blasphemy of Iconoclasm

One of the oldest questions of Christianity has to be "Is Christ truly God?" Now,...

May 17, 2012

What to do About the Old Testament

If you were to gather a group of average American Christians (leaving Theologians, Priests and...

May 15, 2012

The Importance (and Legitimacy) of Tradition

For those of you who don't know (which I'm assuming is most of you) I...

February 2012

February 09, 2012

A Dire Need

As much as we don't like to admit it, as much as it is painful...

January 2012

January 25, 2012

Atheistic De-Secularization?

I was confused by the thought too, but while pursuing the internet I ran into this...