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April 2024

April 14, 2024

The Atonement Theories

“The Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to...

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...

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...

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...

November 2023

November 26, 2023

Away From Anthropocentrism

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

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 22, 2023

Why Was Jesus Baptized?

It has been said that humor is the coming together of two incongruous things. In...

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 01, 2023

Fear Of God

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

September 2023

September 10, 2023

The Transfiguration; Significance and Meaning

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

August 2023

August 13, 2023

On Suffering, Meaning, And Virtue

Benjamin Franklin once observed that death and taxes are the only two certainties in this...

August 06, 2023

Does The Bible Contain Contradictions?

The Bible contradicts itself. So is the claim of many atheists and agnostics. While most...

July 2023

July 23, 2023

Of Crutches And Opioids

Is religion the refuge of the weak? Friedrich Nietzsche thought so. Is faith a crutch...

July 16, 2023

The Heart Of Catholicism

“The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Heart of Jesus just as it...

June 2023

June 18, 2023

The War Within

It can be tempting to think of saints as people with such an intimate relationship...

May 2023

May 14, 2023

How Does Sin Affect The Soul?

Terms like sin and the soul are both old and familiar to most people of...

April 2023

April 09, 2023

Dying To Oneself.

We are at war with ourselves. Within every person, a conflict exists between the spirit...

March 2023

March 05, 2023

Notes On Doctrine

Is Catholicism a living thing? The idea (analogous though it may be) of the Catholic...

January 2023

January 08, 2023

The Indwelling Of God

"I will put my spirit within you so that you walk in my statutes, observe...