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September 2022

September 18, 2022

Lex Talionis

“An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” - Hammurabi’s Code. A...

September 14, 2022

What Is A Soul?

If materialism and secularism are true, human beings are essentially accidents of biology. They are,...

September 11, 2022

The Incarnate God

The central tenet of Catholicism - and the foundation of the New Testament - is...

September 07, 2022

Made For God?

The German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz is known for, among other ideas, the principle of sufficient...

September 04, 2022

The Memory Of Original Justice

What does it mean to be "good"? Are the concepts of good and evil an...

August 2022

August 31, 2022

Of Angels

“The name angel belongs to his office, not to his nature. You ask what is...

August 28, 2022

Kenosis

“Though he was in the form of God, he did not regard equality with God...

August 24, 2022

Coming To Know God

The foundation of the Catholic faith is the belief in God. Yet it seems belief...

August 21, 2022

Communication Of Idioms

Every art and science has its own unique set of terms and language. This is...

August 17, 2022

On Miracles

Is there anything more symbolic of religion than miracles? The concept of God intervening in...

August 14, 2022

Christology

Catholicism is not about doctrine or philosophy or even about the Bible. At its core,...

August 10, 2022

Spiritual Desolation

One of the most common traits shared by the saints and by religious people, in...

August 07, 2022

The Strangest Words In The Bible

"This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?" Such was the response of many...

August 03, 2022

The Theological And Cardinal Virtues

The philosopher Immanuel Kant thought that religion could be and should be reduced to ethics....

July 2022

July 31, 2022

The Seven Lively Virtues

Not without reason, religion - including Catholicism - is often seen as a set...

July 27, 2022

The Seven Deadly Sins

Sin and virtue are, of course, of great importance to Catholicism. In this work, I...

July 24, 2022

In God We Trust

“Do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall...

July 20, 2022

Do Not Go Quietly Into That Night

"Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed." - Gordon...

July 17, 2022

The Synoptic Gospels

Like the books of the Old Testament, which can be categorized according to various criteria...

July 13, 2022

Holy Wisdom

In the famous prologue to John’s Gospel, we read, “And the Word became flesh and...

July 10, 2022

Sacred Mountains

A simple conjuring up of God often entails the sense that God is above. Our...

July 06, 2022

The Place Of Tradition In Catholicism

“Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught,...

July 03, 2022

In The Fullness Of Time

Theology is replete with questions that may never be answered on this side of the...

June 2022

June 29, 2022

What Do Catholics Believe?

Everyone has beliefs. The atheist or skeptic might prefer to call them presuppositions or axioms,...

June 26, 2022

The Works of Mercy

"If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry,...

June 22, 2022

The Myth That Happened

Is Christianity built upon a myth? One of the enduring claims of atheists and skeptics...

June 19, 2022

I Believe (The Athanasian Creed)

This paper is the third and final in a series on the Creeds of the...

June 15, 2022

I Believe (The Nicene Creed)

In my previous paper, I commenced a series on the Creeds of the Catholic Church....

June 12, 2022

I Believe (The Apostles Creed)

“Our profession of faith begins with God, for God is the First and the Last,...

June 08, 2022

The Holy Trinity

"There is but one unbegotten Being, God, even the Father; and one only-begotten Son, God,...