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March 2025

March 16, 2025

Does God Intervene in Human Affairs?

As anyone who knows me or has read my work is aware, I have no...

March 09, 2025

Can Philosophy Enhance Our Understanding of Catholicism?

Can philosophy improve religion and help us to understand God, or should philosophy and religion...

March 02, 2025

Bridging the Gap Between Spirit and Christ

If theology is the systematic study of God, it is only natural that Catholic theology...

November 2024

November 03, 2024

The Idea Of God

Did God create human beings, or did human beings create God? Is God an actual...

October 2024

October 20, 2024

The End And The Beginning

Nothing ends that does not begin, and nothing begins without an ordained end. Applied to...

October 06, 2024

Catholic Church And The Development Of Western Law

One aspect (Immanuel Kant would argue the only aspect of value) of religion on society...

September 2024

September 29, 2024

Do All Religions Lead to God? Examining Pope Francis’ Claim

Pope Francis is well acquainted with controversy. Most recently, he raised some eyebrows with his...

September 15, 2024

A Conversion Story

It is said that the third child is affectionate and uncomplicated. However, I can make...

August 2024

August 04, 2024

The Idolatry Of Politics

A strong case can be made that politics has replaced baseball as America’s pastime. Regardless...

July 2024

July 28, 2024

The God Delusion Is A Mess

One of the most persistent fallacies of our time is the genetic fallacy. More specifically,...

July 07, 2024

A Beginner’s Guide to Classical Apologetics

As Catholics, we should "be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you...

June 2024

June 23, 2024

God Or Science?

I want to open this article on the compatibility of faith and science by quoting...

April 2024

April 21, 2024

The Primacy Of The Cross

“We are an Easter People, and Alleluia is our song!” - Pope John Paul II....

March 2024

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...

January 2024

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...

December 2023

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 03, 2023

Does God Suffer?

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

November 2023

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 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...

August 2023

August 27, 2023

Do We Really Want God?

In his prologue to metaphysics, Aristotle wrote that all men, by nature, seek to know....

August 20, 2023

The Attitude Of Trust

“The graces of My mercy are drawn by means of one vessel only, and that...

August 13, 2023

On Suffering, Meaning, And Virtue

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

July 2023

July 16, 2023

The Heart Of Catholicism

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

July 09, 2023

On The Dignity Of The Human Person

“Man alone is called to share, by knowledge and love, in God’s own life ....

July 02, 2023

Is Forgiveness Possible?

“God forgives somehow; we have yet to learn the same.” - Mary Chapin Carpenter. A...

June 2023

June 25, 2023

The Mystical Body

When one considers or refers to the Catholic Church, one often intends to connote the...

June 11, 2023

Is Existentialism Compatible With Catholicism?

Philosophy is one of mankind’s oldest pursuits, dating some six hundred years before the birth...