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April 2024

April 07, 2024

Thoughts On Intelligent Design

We live in a secular, reductionist, and cynical time that views anything related to the...

March 2024

March 31, 2024

Salvation, Suffering, And Death

“Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.” -...

March 24, 2024

A Personal God?

Two propositions must be considered foundational for Catholic theology: the existence of God and the...

March 17, 2024

On The Transcendence And Immanence Of God

God is immanent, and God is transcendent. That is, God is everywhere, and God is...

March 10, 2024

ACTS of Prayer

Is there anything more quintessential to religious faith than prayer? Regardless of the faith tradition,...

March 03, 2024

The Four Fathers

Plato once observed that beginnings are the most critical aspect of any endeavor. This principle...

February 2024

February 25, 2024

The Perennial Logos

It has been said that humans are rational beings whose nature it is to know...

February 18, 2024

Thoughts on Ashes, Lent, and The Number Forty

“Remember man, thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return.” It is the...

February 11, 2024

Tropes, Schemes, And Scripture

A close reading of Scripture quickly reveals the use of various literary devices such as...

February 04, 2024

The Liturgy As Ritual

It is no exaggeration to claim that human beings are religious animals. Any exhaustive study...

January 2024

January 28, 2024

The Trilemma of C.S. Lewis

Perhaps after the question of the existence of God, no more significant issue faces Catholicism...

January 21, 2024

What Is Open Theism?

If it is true that theology is the study of the nature of God, that...

January 14, 2024

The Devil And Free Will

Perhaps the most famous work of the English artist John Martin is Satan Expelled from...

January 07, 2024

The Abandonment Of God

Did God abandon Jesus on the Cross? For those who profess that Jesus is God,...

December 2023

December 31, 2023

Atheism’s Psychological Fallacy

One need not spend much time in discourse with atheists before one encounters the claim...

December 24, 2023

A Pagan Christmas?

Tis the season when atheists and secularists of every stripe break out the not-so-time-honored claim...

December 17, 2023

As We Pray, So We Believe, So We Live

The Church Fathers recognized a unique connection among prayer, faith, and how one lived. One...

December 10, 2023

Why Two Judgments?

For most people, the idea of being judged, whether by our boss, strangers, or even...

December 03, 2023

Does God Suffer?

From its earliest formulations, Catholic theology has attributed the traits of immutability and impassibility to...

November 2023

November 26, 2023

Away From Anthropocentrism

The words of the Greek philosopher Protagoras can sum up the biblical and Catholic perspectives...

November 19, 2023

The Dilemma Of Temptation

I do not think it an understatement to argue that temptation is a necessary (though...

November 12, 2023

Why Resurrection?

Among the world’s religions, Catholicism is unique for its profession in that God became a...

November 05, 2023

The Threefold Significance Of The Eucharist

Among the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church, the Eucharist stands as “The fount and...

October 2023

October 29, 2023

Did Mary Have A Choice?

The Immaculate Conception is one of the most controversial doctrines of the Church. Rejected by...

October 15, 2023

Religious Orders Within Catholicism

Within the Catholic Church, there are some two-thousand-five hundred religious orders. The existence of these...

October 08, 2023

Be At Peace

"In His will, our peace." - Dante Alighieri. Perhaps one of life's most paradoxical aspects...

October 01, 2023

Fear Of God

It is estimated that the word fear appears over five hundred times in the Bible....

September 2023

September 24, 2023

Free Will And The Content Of Faith

Theological virtues are those virtues that are infused into the soul by God. Among the...

September 17, 2023

The Seeds Of The Church

“The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church,” Tertullian famously remarked. Tertullian recognized...

September 10, 2023

The Transfiguration; Significance and Meaning

One of the consequences of the Enlightenment was an effort to reduce religion to a...